hey folks,
We’ve just put a new mixtape online at Mixcloud, Arab Street Sounds as recorded live outside at the Arabic party we did last Friday at Recyclart (see previous post). It’s up for listening or even to download in 320 kbps! Check it out, yallah!
Salaam Brussels!
enjoying the summer so far? only will get better, like this friday…
This Friday a very special Rebel Up! concept party night @ Recyclart with popular dance music (chaabi) from Morocco, Egypt, Syria and beyond, with 2 Moroccan live bands and dj’s that play the latest ‘shabby’ beats from the casbah. As it is also Ramadan, we’ll serve sweet mint tea too! And yeah, we can tell you that this will be the wildest party of the summer š
We’ll start dj-ing outside on the square at 22:00 for 1 hour, then at 23:00 the music and concerts will be inside the venue, just 5ā¬ euro’s in.
here’s the roll down of the times & artists >
*OUTSIDE*
22:00 > 23:00 REBEL UP! dj’s (BE)
A musical tour from the Riff mountains to the hanging gardens of Babylon. A mix of Arab dance music styles like chaabi, chaoui, charki, reggada, kabyle, dabke, choubi…
*INSIDE*
23:00 > 00:00 REBEL UP! dj’s (BE)
2nd part of their set.
00:00 > 01:00 HAKIM BOUANANI TRIO (MA/BE – live)
Hakim is a Moroccan violin player, composer and arranger who worked with the Antwerp band Think Of One for their album Camping Chaabi, an exploration of Moroccan popular dance music, chaabi. Hakim will play different Moroccan styles in trio (violin, synth, voice).
01:00 > 02:30 ORCHESTRE ROUANY (MA/FR – live)
This French-Moroccan five piece band around singer/violin player Younes Rouany is a hard hitting chaabi dance machine. Their sound is based on oriental synths, darbouka, bendir, violin and electronic drums.
02:30 > 04:00 CAIRO LIBERATION FRONT (NL)
This Dutch dj duo has brought ‘electro chaabi’, the new electronic dance music from the Cairo hoods, to Europe and the rest of the world. It’s tough bass music from the rougher neighbourhoods, made by young producers on computers and based on auto-tuned vocals and frenetic oriental rhythms drenched in dancehall and rave sounds. You will sweat, as if you were on an alcohol free wedding party, high on sugar, hash and loud music!
https://soundcloud.com/cairoliberationfront
04:00 > 05:00 REBEL UP! dj’s (BE)
Arabic roughness to end the night with….
Check the facebook event here, or see the Recyclart site.
Don’t miss this one, yallah!
Hey folks,
ItĀ“s that good summertime of the year again in Brussels; RECYCLART HOLIDAYS festival is kicking off once more, a much better option than Couleur Cafe, if we must say.
This Friday the 1st party of the festival will be a CUMBIA & SOUKOUS PARTY!!!
The evening rolls like this >
(outdoor dj set, for free)
22:00 > 23:00 CHICO PARANY (AR – dj)
“gypsy cumbia bass”
(then party starts inside the venue, only 5 euros in!)
23:00 > 00:00 CHICO PARANY (AR – dj)
00:00 > 01:00 CHANCHA VIA CIRCUITO (AR – live)
“Andean digital cumbia & folk bass”
http://www.chanchaviacircuito.com/
01:00 > 03:00 YAN KOY & COLOR RUMBA (CG/BE – live)
“The real sound of Congolese rumba & soukous from MatongĆ©, with legendary players like Petit Poisson from ZaĆÆko Langa Langa. On descend!”
03:00 > 04:00 JEAN MIKILI & BRIAN HAINAUT (BE – dj)
“Vinyl selections of Congolese rumba & soukous.”
04:00 > 05:00 REBEL UP! LEBLANC (BE – dj)
“Old & new guitar & folk pop from the African continent.”
+ EXTRAS around/outside the venue:
19:00 > 01:00 Orgasmorama: exhibition of original filmposters from the Sexploitation cinema from the 50s, 60s & 70s (Vitrin 21)
21:00 > 02:00 Piz-Aziz: pizza for the people (outside)
21:00 > 02:00 BBQ Bike: Barbecue for the people (outside)
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ALL DETAILS ON WWW.RECYCLART.BE
Next Friday, experimental concert evening at Recyclart with drones, rough guitar sounds and Pan Afrabic immigrant spheres.
Rough Americana is the fertile collaboration between the couple Morgan Craft and Giulia Lolli (DJ Mutamassik) and sometimes their 9 year old son Meroe. This duo plays an array of rough improvised music styles of modern times. The āAfro-American Vikingā Craft and the Italo-Egyptian roots of Mutamassik will supply musical influences from Memphis, Tennessee to Memphis, Egypte. Mutamassik is one of the pioneers of the Saāaidi hardcore sound and expert in what she calls āPan-Afrabic Immigrant soundsā. From her speakers she will fire afro-mediterranian hiphop as well as baladi breakbeats, brotherly next to more noisy and drone-like collages. Both worked with musical personalities such as Marc Ribot, Butch Morris, Ikue Mori, Hamid Drake and Kaffe Matthews and take their own unique place within the contemporary musical landscape.
FB event here or see Recyclart page for more info
5ā¬ in, door open 20:30h
@ Recyclart,
Rue des Ursulines Ursulinenstraat 25
HUGO MENDEZ‘ dj style is a unique blend of African, Caribbean and Latin rhythms – a percussive explosion that includes heavy Afro grooves, old school mambo, tropical disco, bouncing samba, calypso funk and heavy cumbia, bringing vintage styles up to date with exclusive dubplate edits and a contemporary club slant.
After some digging trips across the Caribbean, he has put together several top albums for leading record labels, like Strut, Jazzman, Soundway and Nascente. Hugo also produces the cult Rhythmagic Orchestra project with Nostalgia 77, runs the Sofrito Specials label and makes the tropical selections for 22Tracks in Paris.
hiya,
this Friday our good female friends from Nantes-annex-Bruxelles are organising their first Tropical Boobs party @ le Metro Valdi -yes, they named it that in female self-sexist power stylee- a night filled with global bass sounds, juke, trap, dubstep, italo disco and whatnot @ Metro Valdi (15 Rue des Poissonniers) Bxl city centre near Beurs/Bourse.
Rebel Up! dj’s Sebcat & Leblanc will be spinning a heavy selection of global tunes. Leblanc will go deep into Africa with fast urban kuduro, kwaito house and some streetwise Mexican sonidero cumbia, while Sebcat will turn to Caribbean ways with the newest and roughest Karnival sounds from Haiti, Brazilian tecnomelody swing and some tecnofolk tunes from Syria & Egypt.
Joined by guest dj’s from Nantes DJ FI$Hā¬RPRICā¬ & $TRAPONTIN and Brussels immigrants RICO MEDEIROS (DRACHE MUSICAL/BXL) and VJ FLANDERS. Gonna be a hot night!
just 2ā¬ donation in. these chicas are not about profit but into good partying.
Full info > check the faecesbook event here.
Also before our party starts, our good buddy Lowdjo is organising a special free *The Trilogy Tapes* evening @ Recyclart at 20:00 which is really worth going to for some fine lo-fi global tape sounds from Mexico, Thailand, India and Japan. It finishes at 1am, so our party is an excellent after party check it here!
Time for another Rebel Up! session at Recyclart!
We are co-hosting this special African/Ethiopian night with the good Recyclart folks as part of a concert night with Ukandanz and Zea for whom we are playing support with eastern African and other modern African tunes.
Zea (Arnold de Boer, The Ex) will kick off the night with some of his eclectic African inspired punkrock songs with electronic effects and samples between Delta blues, Ghanese riffs, Ethiopian electrofolk and gabba beats.
uKanDanZ is a French-Ethiopian outfit that plays some serious electrified folky punkjazz with Asnake Guebreyes on vocals (from the late Mohammed Jimmy Mohammed band). Pure energy spiritualised with emotional drives to make the crowd go wild and shiver in Ethiopian dance stylee. Listen to their new album on Deezer and check out the video >
As always with Rebel Up! hosted nights, a part of the proceedings will go to a NGO project, in this case the Ethiopia-project of The Ex/Zea in the capital Addis Abeba where they support a music school for blind and handicapped children and other programmes. You can also make a donation at the bar if you like.
Keep in mind; it’s a concert night and not a late dance night, so do come early enough. doors 21:00, just 5ā¬ in, full info on Recyclart site.