Saturday 19th March; *INDIAN HOLI NIGHT!* with Latrama & Tapiador (ES/Madrid) live + Indian dance workshops & dj’s @ OCCII, A’dam

Rebel Up! is neither bass nor acoustic, but always searches the tight in-between space where fusion is unheard. Here is what’s happening next :

In due respect to the Holi celebration night, the Indian festival of light and colours or what Westerners would call Spring Fest. We’ll entwine forces of Shanti and Meera who will both perform Indian dance rituals and even surprise you in the intent to give you some knowledge of their art. There will be 2 dance workshop on the way for the brave and the mighty to learn traditional Indian dance and the Garba folk dance from Gujarat. here some Garba moves!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWYa8MlRiVM

This night we’ll be opening early at 21:30 for those who want to participate in the Indian dance workshops!

Musical support for the dancefloor rolls like this:

Latrama & Tapiador (ES/Madrid) DJ / Live set: global beats freestyle dj set including world music influenced sounds from all over the globe from India (mainly) to Cuba through Balkan, Middle-East and African regions together with the funniest and avant-garde indian and global broken beats, electro, breakbeat, deep-bass grooves + live including:
– Live indian tabla (Latrama)
– Darbouka and/or dhol (Tapiador)
– Laptop/electronics – Latrama – Wiimote + first augmented reality CD application available through Latrama’s new album “Love & Projects”, also available at the party!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RMLm7eMZ2k
www.latrama.com
soundcloud.com/chandrasound
www.myspace.com/tapiador

The Rebel Up! dj’s will play their most obscure Indian tunes, taken from the jungles of Orissa, the deserts of Rajasthan, the Telegu region and other local folkpop styles. DJ Satish will join us for a more special vintage taste of Bollywood. www.mixcloud.com/Rebel_Uppa

guest dj Selekta Trecid (from Tilburg) > Jurgen connects people in the global music field and good friends with the people from Asian Dub Foundation, Watcha Clan and Shazalakazoo, a real sound enthousiast of fusion, Eastern European and Indian sounds, he’ll play along with the public mood for he knows the rules of the arena.
http://soundcloud.com/trcd

India shall also meet Africa for the best of both.
All Included/Caravane Bamako will be here for a second night to raise funds and attention over the situations of deportees and refugees from the Native Continent. Around midnight, they’ll present a video over the actual context to clarify before you their actions. With them djembe players will guaranty the link between party movements and commitment in motion.
www.allincluded.nl/index.php/actie/caravane-bamako-dakar-11

So you see this night, you won’t find time to sit. You may want too but hips and legs will do otherwise. It’s the way it is and for that matter, we’ll start earlier to leave you time to warm up.

So be it,

Saturday 19th of March @ OCCII

LATRAMA & TAPIADOr live/dj (ES/Madrid)
SELEKTA TRECID (NL)
REBEL UP DJs & VJ (BE/NL/FR)
DJ SATISH (IN?)
SHANTI / MEERA (Dance support)
5 EURO / PROFITS GO TO CHARITY!
doors: 21.30 – 04.00 – Amstelveenseweg 134 (Tram 1 or 2)
www.occii.org

Fri 18-02 > Rebel Up! Soundclash #3 in Brussels @ Bar Recyclart


*sounds from the global underground*
FREE IN – GRATUIT – GRATIS

Fri 18 february @ Bar Recyclart
from 22:00 till 3:00
Ursulinenstraat 25 Rue des Ursulines, Bxl

It’s about time for a steamy third Rebel Up! Soundclash night to give this Brussels winter some deserved sunshine! Expect a fully packed world trip in music where all borders are strictly taboo and in which the spirit of the global diaspora lives. A bit of acoustic ethnographics, a dose of innovative lo-fi & hi-fi electronics and a heavy dash of worldly kitsch. Or for the purists; Soukous, Afro funk, Soca, Roots, Balkan, Mestizo, Chaabi, Funana, Asiatic funk, Indian folkpop, Arabian techofolk, Global Bass & much more.

DJ Sebcat & Palm M of the nomadic Rebel Up! collective will serve up a tasty mishmash of sunny sound, while guest dj’s Brian Hainaut & Jean Mikili (Bal du Canal/BXL) will bring tropical tunes from the Brussels brousse that will make you shake, chouffé chouffé!

Rebel Up! is a not-for-profit collective that organises fundraiser nights for small charity organisations. Tonight’s funds will go to the Belgian/Rwandese humanitarian organisation Igitego Inyange ASBL who support education and healthcare projects in Rwandese villages.

During the night they will be selling specially prepared Rwandese snacks, yum yum! Come dance, taste & donate!

Download here the special promotional Rebel Up! Brussels warm-up set.
25 songs in a roundtripping mix of 80 minutes. Enjoy!

www.inyange.org
www.recyclart.be
www.mixcloud.com/Rebel_Uppa

Saturday 29th of January: Rebel Up! Soundclash with DJ BUSHDOOF, DJ POLYESTA & Rebel Up! DJs/VJs @ OCCII

Still feelin’ stuffy, hey ?

You’re not quite finished with your chocolate box and your waistline resembled a creamy croissant with an invisible belly button. It’s normal, it’s global. Happy faces for a happy new year plenty of crisis and resistance against it. Most of us ate plenty for this end of 2010, the snow didn’t prevent us from reaching the turkey’s butt. Wilders gets his own licked more than ever by the local parliament and there’s anarchy in Belgium. The salmon flies above the homeless and the shit of a banker does not want to produce gold yet. On this “divide and rule” game, indignation taken into action remains the best arm.  In order to connect and talk about real good common resolutions for the future, the OCCII and its Rebel Up! Soundclash is a perfect venue for that. We will bring you the atmosphere necessary to redeem your stomach and cruise the world’s perspective. Through what means of transportation ?

HOBO DREAMS OF CINEMATIC SALVATION (Los Angeles/US)
Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr have been touring the world for the past 20 years as musicians, filmmakers and ambassadors of cinematic goodwill. When they are not running the Echo Park Film Center in Los Angeles, they tour the world singing folks songs to accompany silent Super 8 films they have shot on their travels. From the Mongolian Steppe to the Streets of Mexico City, sit back and relax as these images and sounds are presented as a lullaby of memory and dreams. We’re lucky to have them as they’re just a few days in Europe by the invitation of the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Be on time, they’ll play around midnight!
old clip; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_0dBwOE0Hk

DJ POLYESTA (NL) has gained the rank and right to travel in a magic carpet, swifter, smoother, that fits her attitude to music. On the outskirt of all-lands, she seems to have create her own place where her guests are invited to float in an elegant compound of styles. Like a druid, she’ll combined each force into a musical entanglement and vaporized it as a BalkanAfricarribeoceAsiatic trail. Bring your carpet and maybe one or two cushions if you want to follow her.
http://www.polyesta.net/

DJ BUSHDOOF (Melbourne/AU/A’dam) will use his rickshaw to stroll within the small streets of Laos, filled with charismatic songs and fumes of grilled pork. He’ll bargain his ride for a green 125cc Suzuki and jump into the Favelas of Rio and deal some gems for Baile funk sake. Suddenly reappearing in an electrified tram on Brooklyn Ave. Seeking the right cap, electro hip-hop, electro / pure / hip hop. Within these choices, our local DJ will use the Jamdown decision “Take ’em all, leave none behind”.
http://www.bushdoof.eu/

The REBEL UP! CREW will take a viral pleasure to ensure sound attraction and visual prospection. We are coming back with more intriguing sounds than ever. With us a Chaabi singer meets easily with a Dubsteppa MC, fresh 2010 tecnocumbia from the Andes collides with South Indian folkpop down to the dance circles of Soweto. We keep it on a no-ground level!

With the knowledge of these eclectic sounds and the temperature it’s going to bring you should also be aware that you coming represents a good step in the means of helping others and enjoying it. By leaving a 5 euro fee at the entrance and maybe a little more, you’ll support an organisation that develops goodwill projects especially in Africa. The name of the organization is Warriors Without Weapons. So here’s one mutual resolution that works !
Seek for more info :
warriorswithoutweapons.wordpress.com

Saturday 29th of January @ OCCII
DJ POLYESTA (NL)
DJ BUSHDOOF (NL)
REBEL UP DJs & VJ (BE/NL/FR)
5 EURO / PROFITS GO TO CHARITY!
doors: 22.30 – 04.00 – Amstelveenseweg 134 (Tram 1 or 2)

www.occii.org

Rebel Up! goes Brussels on fri 22nd of jan.> Nightshop Climate Jockey party @ Recyclart

Hey all,

Happy new 2010!
and yes, after A’dam & Utrecht, we’re also gonna start focussing on Brussels in 2010, and what more may come from it in Belgium or beyond!

This night will moreless be the start of our bimonthly nights in Brussels (Sat. 16th of april will be our first Rebel Up! party @ Recyclart)

Perhaps slightly different than our not-so-average Rebel Up! nights, this Climate Jockey night will be very heavy on global bass spheres. As we are starting the night with first sounds, we’ll do our best to heat up the floor with some tropical, sensual, tickling tunes from allover the globe.

We’re really proud to again play with our friend Hugo Douster from Lyon, who played with us in Utrecht last year. He sure will butter & fire up the dancefloor with his special style of tropical-rootsical bass selections, electronic body music with a tropical virus! His good friend Baxter Beez will play a similar crash course in bassheavy styles from the tropics. Further into the night, locally famed Brussels partycrasher DJ Lowdjo will spin his eclectic selections from everywhere.

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Peruvian folkpop glory

This post is a warm-up for our soon-to-be activated Rebel Up bloggie. Keep your fingers clicking and eyes staring here for time to come.

The modern Peruvian cumbia is of a amazingly sweet sounding and peculiar kind, mixing the indigina Andean folk styles with digitalised pop sounds, harps, electric guitars and keyboards. Cumbia has always enjoyed popularity in the worker & lower classes of Peru and is regarded as tacky or unsophisticated by middle class snobs and rich folks. Here a selection of artists that enjoy a fair amount of cult popularity in today’s Peru.

La Tigresa del Oriente, the Tina Turner of the Peruvian cumbia. She’s said to be from the Amazonian part of Peru and her video clips are all set there. Old indigina traditions get enfused with a modern day sound; digitalised panflute melodies screech and the melody she sings is of classic indigina nature. All while leopardly clad women dance with anaconda’s, booty shaking inbetween locals who are holding up posters of Señorita La Tigresa. You got to love this song though with the tiger/panther screams. file under: folkpop galore kitsch. Thanks to Julio Pinchado for showing us this hidden gem!

Wendy Sulca is a child prodigy from Lima who is regarded as a young diva over there. Don’t expect her to sing about lighthearted fluffy nonsense like kid stars do in the West, as life is rough enough in poor Peru. She sings about social hardships in life that are common in Peru. This happy rhythmical song titled ‘Cerveza, Cerveza’ is actually a song against alcohol abuse among the indigine population. Nope, she ain’t asking for beer if that was your first thought.

Anita Santivañes, she’s the #1 harp-cumbia diva right now. We got to know this sweetly seducing tune trough Jace/Rupture’s excellent blog. *Bebi la miel de tus labios*; I drink the honey from your lips.
Classic song.

zaterdag 19 september; Rebel Up! Soundclash @ Vechtclub, Utrecht *Argentina cumbia night* met DJ Pinchado (AR), Rebel Up! DJ’s & VJ’s, DJ Tommi & Tiki Klazien

19 september, vechtclub

*English version below*

Omdat de herfst stilaan nadert, organiseert Rebel Up! Soundclash een heuse tropische dansavond in Utrecht!  Het warme karakter van het ecologisch geknutselde Vechtclub theater zal perfect passen voor de sfeer van deze avond.

DJ Pinchado (Julio Lozano) komt uit Buenos Aires en is geboren en getogen in de ruige havenwijk La Boca, de thuishaven van lokale voetbalclub Boca Juniors en ook geboorteplaats van de elegante Tango. Op deze avond niks van dat, maar wel vette cumbia. De sensuele cumbia is nu superpopulair in Zuid Amerika door een lichting van jonge artiesten die knutselen met deze oude volksstijl. In Argentinië specialiseren artiesten zich met experimentele geluiden, waaraan hiphop, dub en electronica wordt toegevoegd. Pinchado’s geluid hangt tussen dubby sferen en electronische kitsch in als een zeer dansbare cocktail! Verwacht een speciale live/dj set met de allernieuwste dansmuziek uit Buenos Aires. !QUE CALOR!

De internationale crew van Rebel Up! DJ’s & VJ’s zullen door de avond heen zorgen voor speelse tropische geluiden en visuele kunsten die naar Argentijnse en Zuid Amerikaanse sferen zullen knipogen. De Utregse global dj DJ Tommi (Fuerza/Balkan Beatz) zal de avond openen waarbij hij zijn cumbia hart zal laten bonzen met flinke danskrakers. Tiki Klazien zal volgen met een lekker speciale set van tiki cocktail sounds in tropicalia sferen.

Zoals altijd op onze avonden vinden wij het belangrijk om mensen globaal bewust te maken en het ondersteunen van ontwikkelingsprojecten. Er zal een donatie box staan voor Stichting Ombú, een Argentijns georienteerde organisatie die lokale Argentijnse organisaties helpt met het verbeteren van levensomstandigheden in de armste sloppenwijken. Meer info @ www.stichtingombu.nl

Verpreid het woord, nodig al je vrienden, collega’s en medestudenten uit en kom meefeesten!

Zaterdag 19th of september @ Vechtclub
http://www.vechtclub.nl
Brailledreef 9
deur open: 22:00 tot laat,
entree 5€

The Rebel Up! Soundclash crew will hit Utrecht with a global dance night @ Vechtclub in the barrio of Overvecht, *Utrecht northside*. As autumn is looming,  we present a special Argentinian cumbia night filled with global tropical sounds! The warm character of the ecologically and self-built Vechtclub theatre fits perfectly for the atmosphere of this night.

DJ Pinchado (Julio Lozano) hails from Buenos Aires and is born and raised in the old harbour area of La Boca, home to local footie club Boca Juniors and birthplace of the elegant tango. None of that tango twisting tonight, but some seriously heavy cumbia! The sensual cumbia has become popular once again throughout all of South America and reason for this is a fresh wave of young artists who experiment with this old afro-influenced folk style. In Argentina a lot of artists have started creating experimental cumbia sounds, where dub, hiphop and electronica is added to this hefty stew. Pinchado’s special sound floats inbetween dubby spheres and electronic Boca beats as a very danceable cocktail! Excpect a live/dj set with the freshest dance music from Buenos Aires. !QUE CALOR!

The international Rebel Up! DJ & VJ crew (BE/FR/NL/AR) will add their crafty tropical sounds and colourful visuals to this  South American adventure throughout the night. The night will be  kicked off by local Utrecht spinner DJ Tommi (Fuerza/Balkan Beatz) who will let his cumbia heart beat for you and play some jumping tunes. Tiki Klazien will follow up with a tasty set of tiki cocktail sounds that take you into pure tropicalia spheres.  yay yay!

On our nights, we always find it important to create global awareness and so we support development projects and charities. There will be a donation box for Stichting Ombú, a Dutch organisation forcussed on Argentina which helps local Argentinian organisations to improve conditions in the poorest shantytowns. More info @ www.stichtingombu.nl

Come along, spread the message, invite all your friends, bring fellow students and more!

Saturday 19th of september @ Vechtclub
http://www.vechtclub.nl
Brailledreef 9
doors open: 22:00 till late…
fee: 5€

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Saturday 29th of august; Rebel Up! Soundclash with Process Rebel (US) live @ OCCII

Rebel Up 29 august 2009 OCCII
While the summer finally starts to get better, it’s time to kick off a new Rebel Up! season! 😀
and more new things; have you already checked our fresh myspace?

This night we’ll have a special live guest from America, Process Rebel! Though resident in A’dam since this year, Process Rebel is Chad Jones from Seattle and has made a name for himself in San Francisco during the early days of the global mashup movement around 2002. First with Hypnomadic in 2002 (alongside San Francisco dj Soulsalaam), live cinematic dubs and sweaty drum machines mashed with jungle, drum&bass, ragga, hip-hop and “world” music frequently and beautifully destroyed SF warehouses and venues. He has since remixed/released for and played with the likes of DJ Spooky, Mick Harris (Scorn) Kid Beyond, MC Zulu, Sub Swara, Dub Gabriel, MC Coppa, to name a good few. That Maga Bo and Filastine are his spiritual brothers is no coincidence. Chad has had many creative global producing going on (just see his site for an EARFULL!) and is currently recording as Other Weapons, which leans to a mashup of dancehall, dubstep, breaks & baile funk! Expect a live dj set where he will leave no global roostical border untouched, mash up da place! Check here for his latest mix!

We will also be joined by A’dam underground dj Marcelle, a truly eclectic dj by heart! She presents the real tasty weekly radio show Another Nice Mess @ internet radio station DFM.nu and strongly has the spiritual teachings of John Peel in her. A mashup nonetheless of all things crunchy!

And ofcourse all around this we’ll play our global Rebel Up! sounds and visuals to put you either in powersoca, rebajada, zouglou, lok geet, molam, kaseko, funana or you-name-it spheres!

The charity of this night will again be the good people of Telluris India. This Belgian organisation that provides aid to the Munda tribes in the forest state of Jharkhand in Northern India. For more information, look back to our previous night @ OCCII or click here for a 15 minute video about the work Telluris does for tribal people in India.
http://www.telluris.org

Rebel Up! Soundclash (#30!) ~damn, is that the end of our youth? nah!~
Eclectic sounds from the global underground…..
a global culture mashup of rougher/sweeter world music and visuals

Saturday 29th of august @ OCCII
(http://www.occii.org/)
Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (stop Overtoomsesluis) or #2)
doors open 22:30 till late,
5 Euro fee. ~Profit goes to charity~!