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Sat 27 Sept > Rebel Up! Soundclash @ Salle Rogier Bxl, w/ special guests Capitol K & Rafael Aragon

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From september onwards, we will have new Rebel Up! Soundclash resident night every 2 months at Salle Rogier hosted by SebCat & LeBlanc. Every time with special international guests to make it even more special for all of you, bringing new global sounds to Brussels!


To kick off our first party night at Salle Rogier, we invite two special international guests for a night of cumbiatronics, global bass & digital global folk pop > Capitol K and Rafael Aragon!

 

Capitol K (UK – live)
The wizard producer of the Total Refreshment Studios and band member of Archie Bronson Outfit (Domino Records) will be performing his latest release “Andean Dub”. A collection of Cumbia Psych and Lofi, born of K’s wanderings through South America. An inspirational, original mix of deep Andean cumbia bass, analogue synth textures, sparkling percussion and spaced out live charango playing. Just check his amazing electronic cumbia sound below!

 

Rafael Aragon (FR – dj/live)
Rafael Aragón aka Rafiralfiro has latin and arabic roots but was born and raised between downtown Paris and its multicultural suburbs. Rafael’s eclectic taste and versatile take on music production, got him obsessed with the idea of mixing traditional folk music with contemporary electronic club music, looking for the perfect balance between the organic and synthetic, the past and the future. Rafael Aragon’s music is mainly club oriented, with heavy basses, infectuous rhythms, yet delicate, well balanced and highly psychedelic. You better be warned!

 

Rebel Up! dj’s SebCat & Leblanc
As residents and hosts of the night, Sebcat & LeBlanc will warm up the night and keep it going till late. Expect as always a diverse and eclectic mix of tunes from around the world. Global bass, digital folk pop, any good beats from the global south, rooted in local traditions… Select global, play local!

 

Visuals all night by VJ Alerta (CL/NL)
Latin inspired visuals by this Chilean wonder girl, who colourfully mashes traditional and modern latin spheres together into a warm digital psychedelic experience for the eye.
http://cargocollective.com/alerta

Spread the word, bring all your global friends and lets make this a crazy global party all together!

also see Facebook event.

Doors: 23:00
Damage: 5 neuros before midnight, 7 after
@ Salle Rogier
Passage Rogier (Metro Rogier) BXL

Timetable >
Rebel Up!: 23:00 – 01:00
Capitol K: 01:00 – 02:00
Rafael Aragon: 02:00 – 04:00
Rebel Up! 04:00 – end

 

Thu 14 Aug > Rebel Up! Soundclash w/ MC Killo Killo (Serbia) @ Bonnefooi, BXL

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Rebel Up! dj’s + Mc Killo Killo (Serbia)
A night with global beats, balkan mashups, dancehall bass & live opera ragga MC-ing!

Mc Killo Killo is a dj/mc specialized for making amazing parties (balkan, tropical, world-beats) full of drunken dances and genial singing and toasting skills during his dj performance…

DJ/MC KILLO KILLO – Pussies and Potatoes (promo mixtape) by Dj/Mc Killo Killo on Mixcloud

as always ~FREE IN~!
22:00 til very late…
Steenstraat 9 Rue des Pierres, 1000, BXL

FB event here, or check Bonnefooi site

Thu 24 / Fri 25 July > Rebel Up! SebCat in Espana > Valencia & Cartagena (La Mar de Musicas festival)

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The next few days, Rebel Up! SebCat will be touring the eastern coast of Spain, yay!
Shoudl you be around there the next days, do come!

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Tomorrow night, Thu 24 July, SebCat will be playing global/tropical beats in Valencia together with Biano (member of Orxata Sound System) @ Desfas Tropical party in Juanita Club. Doors open at 23:00, Facebook event here.

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Then on Friday 25 july, Sebcat will be playing at the big La Mar de Musicas festival in Cartagena city centre as part of Cassette Connection, which is the international cassette playing project between Awesome Tapes From Africa, DJ K-Sets & SebCat (aka Maj Tahal). After Belgium/Holland this is only our 2nd tour, so lucky Spain!

We’ll be playing at the old Moorish castle overlooking the city & harbour of Cartagena, after the shows of global bands Les Ambassadeurs, the reunited Malian 70’s band of Salif Keita, Amadou Bogayoko & Cheik Tidiane! And also La Yegros (Argentina), a great honour.  In the deep of night between 2:30 – 4:00 we will be playing a fine selection of cassettes from Africa, Middle East and Indian subcontinent.  It sounds something like this!

Cassette Connection tape mixtape by Rebel Up! on Mixcloud

Hope to see you around!

Sat 5 July > Rebel Up! & Lowup present; Frikstailers (AR) cumbia from outer space party @ Salle Rogier, Bxl

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Rebel Up!  has teamed up with the Lowup crew to organize a Brussels show for the Frikstailers 2014 European tour at Salle Rogier.

We kick off early at 18:00 with BBQ (veg + meat) and cold drinks on the terrace out front and showing the world cup quarter final between Belgium – Argentina,  just the perfect game for our Belgian-Argentinian party!!!
At 23:00 we move inside for a concert by the “indisputable galactic emperors of tropical futurism” followed by a steaming global bass party with all the local heroes. Have a peek at our FACEBOOK event for details and more music.

The rhythms and textures of traditional Latin American music infused with hip hop and dancehall beats, dramatic synth leads and krauty electro noodlings: Argentinian duo the Frikstailers boldly go where no band has gone before and they do it with verve and gusto.


With one album, two ep’s and some sizzling hot remixes to their name this Mexico City based duo have established themselves as a first class electronic live act at festivals on both sides of the Atlantic and are now bathing in the favourable attention of reputable institutions such as XLR8R, The Fader, Boiler Room and Modeselektor.

The dj’s of the Rebel Up! & Lowup crew will surround their live set with cumbia bass, dancehall, urban electronic and many other spicy tropical dance styles.

18:00 outdoor on terrace: FOOT (BEL-ARG) + BBQ + APERO > free in
Come round early for food & drinks, enjoy one of DJ Mellow’s big kefta & Leblanc’s chickpea sandwiches (5€) with homemade dressing and salad out on our rainproof terrace. Join us for the pre-party quarter final BBQ and hang outside for a relaxed summer feel.

23:00 Party!
timings >
23:00 – 0:00 Rebel Up! cumbia set
0:00 – 1:00 Mr Orange
1:00 – 2:00 Frikstailers live set
2:00 – 3:00 Rebel Up! bass set
3:00 – 4:00 Max le Daron
4:00 – 5:00 Excyta
5:00 – 6:00 DJ Mellow

@ Salle Rogier (Passage Rogier, metro Rogier)
5€ in < 00h > 8€

 

 

Sat 24 May > Rebel Up! @ Fantastica, Pakhuis Wilhelmina, A’dam

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24 mei fantastica

CUMBIA is back in Amsterdam 😉

LA BANDA FANTASTICA – LIVE!!!
live cumbia band full of tropical explosion!
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REBEL UP! SOUNDCLASH > >

SEBCAT
Šeb Baššleer is an experienced Dj, who does lots of interesting projects connected to world music.
After his fresh trip to Peru, he will be performing an fresh peruvian cumbia including chicha, cumbia digital and Andino carnaval folk music.

LEBLANC
Another great Dj he will make us all dance with his SONIDERA! style… so happy somebody is focusing on Mexican cumbia
http://www.mixcloud.com/Rebel_Uppa/cumbia-sonidera-mix-con-sabor-vol-2/

MAKINA (AR)
[https://soundcloud.com/makinamakinamakina/]
Our tigre will do what he usually does… Get a bit wasted, say stupid things on the mic, and play amazing cumbia tracks!

Dj RENGO ESTAR (AR)
Just another fantastic Dj from the Fantastica family… He KNOWS what Cumbia is about!

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FOOD
[La Fritanguita de la LLECA] Presente!
The LLECA team will be making delicious toasted quesadillas for only €2,50! Cheese, black beans, and/or smoked chicken, with of course guacamole, crema & pico de gallo!
The whole quesadilla-sale goes directly to LLECA Theater in Prison, Nicaragua. More info: www.lleca.org – enjoy!
http://www.lleca.org/by LLECA
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join & share the FB event!

@ Pakhuis Wilhelmina
Veemkade 576, A’dam
doors: 22:00
10€

 

Fri 16 May Rebel Up! Sebcat @ Pantropical party, WORM R’dam with Yan Koy & Color Rumba (RDC/BE)

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This coming friday 16 May, Pantropical organises a super special Congolese night in Worm are totally psyched to finally be able to host a rare LIVE show by Color Rumba! They are masters at playing classic Congolese rumba soukous from the sixties to the eighties; super infectious and dancable music! Some of their bandmembers performed with famous Congolese bands such as Franco’s Orchestre T.P.O.K. Jazz, Zaiko Langa Langa and Demba. Don’t miss out on this one!

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• Yan Koy & COLOR RUMBA (RDC/BE)
This band’s mastery of the Congolese soukous from the 1960s to 1980s will bring you to dance! Rumba is a genre of dance music that originated from Cuban Rumba in the Belgian and French Congo during the 1940s and later garnered popularity throughout Africa, followed by the Soukous style with a more modern upbeat sound from the late 70’s onwards. Led by singer Yan Koy, Color Rumba is a band with a revolving cast of members such as luminaries Petit Poisson (guitar), Pappy Muntu (bass), Alonzo Baba (drums) and others who played in famous Congolese bands like Franco’s TPOK Jazz and Zaiko Langa Langa. In their two hour live set, Color Rumba will take you to the Congolese nirvana of tropical rock with beautifully cascading, sparkling guitar melodies, a super tight and hypnotic rhythm section and polyphonic vocals. Absolutely essential!

• ALEX FIGUEIRA (VE – Vintage Voudou, Music with Soul)
Venezolan/Portugese Alex Figueira is a pleasantly obsessed vinyl junkie, label man, musician and dj. He is a true music specialist on afro-venezuelan culture and runs the Vintage Voudou vinyl shop in the midst of Amsterdam’s red light district; a treasure trove of obscure 2nd hand tropical gems. Alex also puts out 45’s on his label Music With Soul and plays in the bands Papa Upa and Fumaça Preta. At Pantropical, Alex will spin the dopest African and Caribbean music. Raw but dancable stuff, vinyl only!
http://www.vintagevoudou.com/
http://musicwithsoulrecords.com/

• SEBCAT (BE – Rebel Up!)
This boss man selector operates from Bruxelles; unearthing, filtering and mixing the best diasporic & rougher sounds from the global underground. He’s the motor behind many great party and concert nights in wellknown clubs like the Recyclart and Bonnefooi. Sebcat also writes for Gonzo magazine and recently honoured the seminal Sublime Frequencies label with the ‘Rajasthan Street Music’ 2lp compilation.
http://www.mixcloud.com/Rebel_Uppa/
http://www.rebelup.org/

• LA PANTHЀRE NOIRE (CIV/NL)
Upbeat local kid Dani who once twiddled knobs and rearranged cable salads at Worm as part of the technical team. Using the same moniker for his paintings, he will do the buildup of this night, with a mix of soukous and afrohouse. More of the latter.

+ live images VJ Alerta (CL/NL)

@ Worm
Boomgaardsstraat 71, 3012 XA Rotterdam, Netherlands
22:00 – 05:00
presale: 7 euro / door: 8 euro

Full info about the party on the WORM website or the FB event page.

Thu 24 April > Rebel Up! @ Contrabanda w/ DJ Cucurucho (PT), Bonnefooi, Bxl

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Another fun Contrabanda night coming up in Bonnefooi for all sounds latino, afro & global!
After our last fully packed night with Uproot Andy, we like to present > > >

DJ Cucurucho (ES/PT) (Groovalizacion Radio)
DJ Cucurucho, co-founder and selector of international Groovalizacion Radio, designs a DJ SET blending contemporary ethnic music all over the world from the vintage sounds to the tropical bass. Best contemporary and classic dance music together from wildly different times and places, connecting “East” and “West”, acoustic and electronic, traditional and hyper-modern, Dj Cucurucho creates hybrid sets, making “Ancient-Futurist” groove collages!


http://www.mixcloud.com/musicasmigratorias
https://www.facebook.com/djcucurucho?fref=ts
http://www.groovalizacion.com/

Support by the Rebel Up! dj’s.
what Bonnefooi says about us: These guys are some of Brussels’ most underestimated Global Groove Dj’s, with a musical network from Rajasthan to New Yorkistan and a musical selection that goes even farther and deeper into tropicalism and obscure global dance music. Sebcat is also a fulltime musical nexus, the way he blends his global grooves together in a party he also re-arranges, feeds and stimulates musical culture: as a re-distributor of records (importing Sahel Sounds records of Sublime Frequencies), in writings and research (check his writings for Gonzo Circus or his compilation on Sublime Frequencies titled *Rajasthan Street Music*) or as a curator of countless parties and concerts. Leblanc is an experienced dj & collector for the more rougher contemporary street dance music from around & below the equator. Also a distributor of African field recording records, curator of global music documentaries and a darn great cook of global dishes. Whatever you will get from him, in sound or food, it will be filled with specials spices and hotness. Caliente!

check our latest mixtape, Panama stylee! >

Panama city street beats by Rebel Up! on Mixcloud

Free in as always….from 22:00 til very late….
 See FB event here

@ Bonnefooi
Steenstraat 9 / Rue des Pierres
1000, Bxl