Rebel Up! Soundclash

http://www.rebelup.org/

“Diasporic Sounds from the Global Underground”

A night of global and political culture mash of European mestiza beats, gypsy funk, straight-up old skool roots, Arabic roughness, amplified African rhythms, Latino cuts, Asian psychedelica and gritty electronics.

The cultural diaspora does not need to be defined by borders and our music is free, varied and up to date in one roundtripping global sound!

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Started in the beginning 2007 by Seb Bassleer aka SebCatLitter, the idea of RebelUp! Soundclash was to bring more diversity and potentially more raw and organic sounds to the dance floor out of the big accoustic biotope, our world has to offer. Instead of dancing to the same well known tunes over and over we at RebelUp! offer a podium to discover unsuspected sounds, feelings and expressions.

The core team consists of dj’s Seb Bassleer, Pascal Milard and Rik Adriaans, vj’s Maarten van der Glas aka VJ M and Tatiana aka Normal Con Alas VJ and the designers Jet van Zwieten and Vanessa Verbeiren, bringing you the utopia of musical & visual diversity and cultural expressivity.

We invite artist from all over the world to play with us and bring our audience to new heights.

The OCCII in Amsterdam, with programmer Sjoerd Stolk in particular but also all the volunteers, has been very supportive right from the beginning and is RebelUp’s base in A’dam to bring a fresh evening of global new music every month, attached to the idea of raising funds for independent charities.

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So far we have had a lot of happy people on our memorable nights, freely dancing in ways we could not have imagined, with top artist from around the world from the world of experimental global music.

* Diaspora: the dispersion or spreading of something that was originally localized (as a people or language or culture), any group outside it’s traditional homeland.