Fri 17 Nov > 2x Rebel Up action in Brussels at Festival Rumba Town #2 (Au Quai) + Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Barlok)

Double Rebel Up action this friday in Au Quai and Barlok > Molenbeek canal side is the hottest multicultural place in Brussels right now 🙂

2nd edition of the Festival Rumba Town, with 3 bands & several dj’s. Noche de mucho gusto.

Programme + lineup >

Canela ‘n Drama (ES/CT, Barcelona)
Spanish Catalan duo Canela N’Drama takes you on a journey through a magical and varied latino landscape. Ever since they met in the streets of Barcelona, they entertain many audiences with passionate bossa music that dances to the sweetness of Yolanda’s voice. Carried by Alexis’ passionate guitar playing
www.canelandrama.com

Arumbo (ES/BE)
Brussels and Barcelona are bursting with music. For this band the perfect base to grow their fusion between rumba and worldgroove into something beautiful, something danceable and at the same time something fragile. Text and music straight from the heart and irresistible for your limbs. What at first sight seems soft and fragile, turns out to be a true popular party. Arumbo serves southern sounds and melodies where nobody can stand still.
www.arumbo.com

Shaman Festival (BE)
It brings more than just music. It is a belief, a lifestyle in which freedom, celebration and mysticism are central. They themselves describe their music as kermispunk or turbofestiv, even though this is actually in short supply. Their mix of ska, reggae, cumbia, gipsy beats, Eastern rhythms, South-American, mariachi music and polka-punk, supplemented by a number of graceful belly dancers, leaves nobody unmoved. All compositions are performed by a horn section, cajon and percussion, Rumba guitars, electric guitar riffs and a lot of positive energy. Shaman Festival was founded in 2006 and has played more than 150 performances ever since. Shaman festival will present their latest EP “Open” at Rumba Town.
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DJ’s between bands + afterparty in rumba, bass & global sounds >

DJ Miguel Menendez
from collective Rumba Hispano Belga
&
Rebel Up SebCat

FB event

7€ in
20h – 3am

@ Au Quai
Quai du Hainaut 23
1000 BXL

and for those more into electropical sounds, or as a perfect afterparty to Rumba Town, there is the Tiger In A Tropical Storm party in Barlok, running til 7am

Organised by the party feminist crew of Tropical Boobs, who have been doing the better wild electro & global beats parties in Bxl since 5 years now.

Embrace the tiger’s lips with blood and blow on the musical strings. What is the song of the tribal drums for this mythological night? Come as children of your games and your laughs of ivory mix hearts and souls to the crazy rhythms of the bass. Singers and musicians with a sweaty charisma perform on an attractive altar and promise a meteoric rise in temperature. Free spirits and possessed bodies, come and enjoy this tropical storm.

Lineup >>>

Dj Salinger (IT)
https://soundcloud.com/d-j-salinger

Ill Syll (NG/Bxl)
https://soundcloud.com/illsyll

Shungu (Bxl)
https://soundcloud.com/shungubeatmaker

Ikan Hyu (CH)
http://www.ikanhyu.ch/IKANHYU/index.html

Cavemen (FR)
https://www.mixcloud.com/TropicalBoobs/cavemen-tropical-boobs-jurassic/

Rebel Up Leblanc & SebCat (Bxl)
https://www.mixcloud.com/Rebel_Uppa/stream/

Frond Chaud (FR)
/https://www.mixcloud.com/DracheMusicale/

+ much more surprises!!!!

FB event

Prix libre (5€ conseillé)
22h – 7am
@ Barlok
Avenue du Port 53bis

Fri 2 Dec @ Tropical Boobs Voodoo night, Recyclart, Bxl

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Voodoo Time!
The Tropical Boobs collective is back! Recyclart will be our sacred pantheon, come join our magical dances and incantations, in the light of the occult forces! Our powerful deities will be there to bewitch you and put you in a trance !!
As headliner: Archipel, a mystical pop group with oceans of echoes tinged with deep spiritism.

ARCHIPEL / Pop mystico-romantique / FR
https://soundcloud.com/archipel_community
ILLSYLL / Afro hip hop Ă©lectro / Bxl
https://soundcloud.com/illsyll
CAVE MAN / KHNG KHAN/ high grade bass music / FR
https://soundcloud.com/khng-khan
https://www.mixcloud.com/TropicalBoobs/cavemen-tropical-boobs-jurassic/
REBEL UP/ Global Bass / Bxl
https://www.mixcloud.com/Rebel_Uppa/
FRONT CHAUD/ Dj toilette/ Drache Musicale
https://www.mixcloud.com/DracheMusicale/

LES OISEAUX SANS TĂ‹TES/ > Visuals and bits of twine

Lots of games and lots to win, and always a deco of madness!

The Spirit of love will be there to warm us by the union of the masculine and the feminine, that of fire and water, for the forces of the night will guide us for us LIBEREEEEERRRRRRTTTTTTTYYYYYYYYY !!
Youhouhouhou vooodoooo

Doors: 23h, till very late
Price: just 5 euro
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Sat 7 Feb > Rebel Up! LeBlanc @ Kiss My Paradise, Tropical Boobs party, Collectif Au Quai (1080), Bxl

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Time for another super awesome special Tropical Boobs party with our favorite Bxl girlpower collective! this yime at the alternative venue Collective Au Quai.
Expect South African house, cumbia, funk, electro, dance, mendo house and much more….

with dj’s / acts >

Charlotte Pépé
Boobsy Collins
Super Pancho ((DJ LEBLANC/REBEL UP!)
Prad Beat (CPU$$Y)

Dj LovePills

see FB event here.

from 22:00, 4€ in
@ Collectif Au Quai
23 Quai du Hainaut1080, BXL

Fri 18 Oct; Rebel Up! @ Hooray Africa! night, Poperinge (W-vl) + Tropical Boobs night @ Bouillon Kube, Bxl

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Friday night, one half of Rebel Up! will be dj-ing at the Hooray Africa! party in youth centre Den Couter in the western flanders fields of Poperinge. All night long African music will be played, live and by the dj’s, for a musical dance trip into the past and future of the mother continent.

doors at 21:00 and free in
see all info on the Facebook event.
For those in Brussels on friday night, one other half of Rebel Up! will be playing at the Tropical Boobs Mini Boom party in the fine Bouillon Kube for some wild electronic spheres, blast from the past up to now.
Expect a good full line up > >  Rebel Up! Leblanc, Darcyr, Antz’Up Girlz, DJ Redrum, Fi$her Pric€ and Bonsoir Michel.

just 3/4€ in, see Facebook event for full info.

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Sat. 29 June > Tropical Boobs Mini Boom party #2 w/ Maga Bo (BR) & MC Teba (SA) @ Bouillon Kube, Bxl (St Gilles)

hiya folks!

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Couleur CafĂ© might be on this weekend in Brussels, but it’s a not so interesting edition and already finishing around midnight. So it’s time for some rougher world colours in a global dancehall and bass style for a real tropical party till the early morning light! Hosted by the all-female Tropical Boobs crew from Brussels, known from their wild global bass nights, in collaboration with Rebel Up! and Silver Canary. Expect everything from roots dancehall to cumbia, afro styles, folkloric beats, baile funk, trap and bass by these artists & crews >

Maga Bo (BR) & MC Teba (SA); ethnic bass & global dancehall
We’re proud to announce 2 special international guests on our night. Globetrotting producer Maga Bo hails from Rio de Janeiro and is one of the godfathers of the ‘global bass’ sound before the name had even been invented, having worked with artists from all around Africa and Latin America. His recent 2012 album *Quilombo do Future* features a modern Brazilian sound where he merged regional Afro folkloric styles from the Nordeste together with modern electronic dancehall beats, a true futuristic melting pot for the global dancefloor! MC Teba from Cape Town, South Africa, will perform duties on the mic during Maga Bo’s live set. Yep, be warned; it’s gonna be hot, steamy and wild.
http://www.magabo.com/

Silver Canary crew + MC´s > straight up roots
The Silver Canary is a Brussel based Soundsystem consisting of a international crew of dj´s and singers who organise roots nights in Matongé and other venues allover the city. The Canary brings you a deadly cocktail of underground Caribbean-Jamaican music to quench you thirst to dance. Everything from rocksteady up to raggamuffin!
http://silvercanary.blogspot.be/

Rebel Up! dj´s > tropical bounce & cumbia bass
Since 2010, the Rebel Up! crew organises not-for-profit Soundclash parties in Brussels as fundraisers for small NGO´s. These rebels dive into many different local music styles from all around the world, whether it be ethnic, urban or a mash of folk, pop and contemporary electronic dance music. On this night their global sound will be all things uptempo bass & tropical.
http://www.rebelup.org/
http://www.mixcloud.com/Rebel_Uppa

Fi$h€rpric€ (FR)
French dj & organiser of the eclectic wild C pussy nights in Nantes and part of the Tropical Boobs crew. Everything from baile funk, moombahton, trap, bass and beyond.

VJ Groovebox & VJ Brian, all night *tropicalectro* visuals

Also check this article by Benjamin Tollet in the Brussels paper agenda this week. awesome! 🙂

more info > check the FB event here!
23:00 – 5:00
Fee; 3€ before midnight, 4€ after!
@ Bouillon Kube
4 Rue Vlogaert
1060, St Gilles
(metro Porte de Halle/Hallepoort)

Fri 8 March > Rebel Up dj’s @ Tropical Boobs party, Le Metro Valdi, Bxl

hiya,

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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$H€RPRIC€ & $TRAPONTIN and Brussels immigrants RICO MEDEIROS (DRACHE MUSICAL/BXL) and VJ FLANDERS. Gonna be a hot night!

just 2€ 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!