Monday, 17 November 2008

Rebel Up! Soundclash #18 , Saturday 29th of november

Hi all,

(for dutch version, scroll further down)

Already feeling in the mood for another session at the OCCII? We sure do!

Our next Rebel Up night will be linked to the India festival and to the Indian cultural project as done by 2 of own Rebel Up people! (remember the ek-do-tin-accha blog!?)
On the programme, a real special thing; a *live Rajasthani music cinema*, in which filmed footage and music will be performed together on screen and through the loudspeakers! A story without words, but with music as a narrative and your own experience to grasp.

More special performances should be expected too, keep a close eye on our website!
All night long, we'll play you loads of famous and unheard cinematic pop, tribal folk and folkpop tunes from allover India's vast continent to make everyone jump and jive on the dancefloor!

Back to our charity motivation as always....
The charity of the night is Telluris India, a Belgian help organisation which gives aid to the Munda tribes in the forest state of Jharkhand in Northern India. These tribes are part of the Adivasi caste and are the native inhabitants of this region. Their culture and way of life dates back to before the creation of Hinduism, 5000 years ago. Nature means all to these tribes; they have a natural religion and worship the nature around them.

Surrounded by dominant cultures of the Hindustan caste system and the ever modernising world, they are on the verge to lose their land and culture forever. By the hands of corrupted authorities that favour industrialisation, mining and lumberjacking, the forests have already robbed of 70% of their original size. As a result, their land is plagued by erosion, droughts and the decline of flora, wildlife and trees!

The forest offers ecological diversity, life, medicinal quailities and protection from erosion and because the Munda are small time farmers and therefore need the forest in order to survive. Telluris helps the tribes with planting of new crops and medicinal plants, the digging of water wells, spreading knowledge about organic farming and other projects linked to their direct environment. The tribes can decide for themselves in which facilities they would like to receive aid in by Telluris, instead of such choices being made for them like most NGO's do. The villagers gather to discuss, unite and motivate each other for achieving their prime goals and Telluris helps them fullfilling these wishes. Nearly all the local employees at Telluris who work with the Munda, are Munda themselves en educated by Telluris. At Telluris, the most important thing is to actively let people take part in the process where at every interaction, knowledge is exchanged!

More info:
http://telluris.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munda_people

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

Rebel Up! Soundclash (#18)
Diasporic sounds from the global underground.....
a global culture mashup of rougher world music and visuals,
www.rebelup.org
www.ek-do-tin-accha.blogspot.com


NEDERLANDS

Ahoi!

Ook al zin in de volgende wereldse avond in de OCCII? Wij echt wel!

Deze Rebel Up avond zal in het teken staan van het India festival en ook het Indiase cultuurproject van 2 creatieve persoontjes uit onze eigen organisatie! (denk aan het ek-do-tin-accha blog!) Met op het programma een heuse live *Rajasthani music cinema*, waarin beeld en muziek ter plekke zullen worden opgevoerd voor uw ogen en oren. Een verhaal zonder woorden, maar met muziek als narratief en uw eigen ervaring daarbij. Extra optredens kunnen nog verwacht worden, houdt daarom onze website goed in de gaten. De hele avond worden er herkenbare en onbekende
cinema pop, tribale folk en folkpop tonen uit de verschillende Indiase staten gespeeld om iedereen op de dansvloer goed te doen stuiteren!

Zoals altijd, onze motivatie voor een oprecht goede hulporganisatie.

Het goede doel van deze avond is Telluris India, een Belgische organistatie die de inheemse Munda stammen helpt in de deelstaat Jharkhand in Noord India. Deze stammen vallen binnen de Adivasi kaste en zijn de oorspronkelijke bewoners van deze regio. Hun cultuur en leefwijze dateert van voordat het Hinduisme in India ontstond, ca. 5000 jaar geleden. De natuur is alles voor deze stammen; ze hebben een natuurreligie en daarbij vereren ze de natuur rondom hun.

Omgeven door dominante culturen van het Hindoestaanse kastensysteem enerzijds en de voortdenderende modernisering en industrialisering anderzijds, dreigen zij hun leefgebied en manier van leven te verliezen. Lokale corruptie heeft industrialisering, mijnbouw en houtkap vrij spel gegeven en de bossen zijn al voor 70% verdwenen. Met alle gevolgen van dien: erosie (waterproblemen en verarming van de grond), droogte en het verdwijnen van planten- en diersoorten en houtschaarste!

Het bos biedt ecologische diversiteit, levens- en geneesmiddelen en bescherming voor erosie. De Munda zijn kleinschalige landbouwers en hebben het bos daarom hard nodig.
Telluris helpt de stammen bij het planten van nieuwe gewassen en medicinale planten, het graven van waterputten, kennis over bio farming en andere projecten die te maken hebben met hun leefomgeving. De Munda stammen kunnen zelf bepalen in welke natuurlijke voorzieningen ze geholpen willen worden ipv dat er voor ze gekozen wordt zoals dat bij vele NGO's gaat. Dorpsbewoners komen bij elkaar om te overleggen, zich te verenigen en elkaar te motiveren om de gestelde doelen te halen en Telluris helpt hun bij het verwezenlijken hiervan. Bijna alle medewerkers van Telluris die met de Munda werken zijn zelf Munda, opgeleid door Telluris. Bij Telluris draait het om mensen deel uit te laten maken van een uitwisseling waar bij iedere interactie kennis overgedragen kan worden.

Onze Rebel Up VJ Maarten; Ik heb als filmmaker in 2008 contact gezocht met Telluris om mij meer te verdiepen in de oorspronkelijke bewoners van India. Met Telluris heb ik een film gemaakt over hun en hun leefomgeving gedurende 2 weken. De Munda kennen electriciteit nauwelijks, kabels lopen niet door het dorp heen. 's Nachts is het er pikkedonker en is men alleen met elkaar, de sterren en de silouetten van de bomen. Olielampjes bieden de nodige verlichting om een weg door de lemen huisjes te vinden. De Munda doen alles met de hand. Men maakt uit hout en ijzer eigen gereedschap, gebruikt een houten ploeg om het land te bewerken en weeft met de hand.

Iedereen in het dorp is constant druk bezig en toch zijn de Munda de meest ontspannen, vriendelijke en vrolijke mensen die ik ben tegengekomen op mijn reis door India. De Munda zijn zo hartelijk en goedlachs dat men er intens vrolijk van wordt.. En toch hebben de Munda het zwaar. Ze worden in hun manier van leven bedreigt. Niet omdat hun manier van leven niet rendabel is maar doordat de bossen van Jharkhand vliegensvlug verdwijnen -of liever: al verdwenen zijn- en er in India een lage sociale gerechtigheid heerst. De economsiche vooruitgang wordt gestuwd door het grote arsenaal aan goedkope arbeiders die ontheemding oplevert.

Wat mij bij Telluris aansprak was hun insteek in ontwikkelingssamenwerking. Ze leggen geen hulp op zoals vele andere NGO's, maar ze helpen mensen met de juiste hulp die de mensen zelf willen. Ze verlenen hulp vanuit een visie zoals hulp naar mijn idee geboden dient te worden. Bij Telluris draait het om mensen deel uit te laten maken van een uitwisseling die bij iedere interactie een extra waarde toevoegd.

Meer info:
http://telluris.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munda_people

Zaterdag 29 november @ OCCII
(http://www.occii.org/)
Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (halte Overtoomsesluis) or #2)
deur: 22:30 tot laat,
4 Euro entree. -> Winst gaat naar het goede doel!

Rebel Up! Soundclash (#18)
Diasporic sounds from the global underground.....
a global culture mashup of rougher world music and visuals,
www.rebelup.org
www.ek-do-tin-accha.blogspot.com

Wednesday, 12 November 2008

Sat. 15th of November; Rebel Up plays sounds and visuals at India Festival @ De Balie

Hi there,

At the end of the month we will ofcourse have another Rebel Up! party -(rumours say it might be an Indian Special on the 29th, ssssshhhhht!)-, but untill that coming date, we will be playing on a night at the India Festival this saturday, 15th of november! The venue is cultural cafe De Balie, which is the big cafe right next to Paradiso. We've no clue what to expect; to play for filling up a dancefloor or rather for a relaxed cafe atmosphere with seated folks, hmmm. Either way, we'll bring the listening people a mashed stew of special folkpop, known and unknown cinematic tunes from Bollywood and other Indian states and some straight-up raw folk. The VJ will show a interesting divide between the Bollywood image of India and the *real* streetwise India as filmed by our VJ during our travels last year.

Come along! We're not sure if our musical part is free, but the cinema/political debate things before aren't...
The programme in the Balie on saturday rolls like this:

10.00-17.00 uur | By-Pass. Everyday life and Contemporary Urbanism in India and China (symposium)
19.00-21.00 uur | Voices from the Fringe: Community Videos
21.00-23.00 uur | Debate 2: Stories from beyond the digital divide
21.30-23.30 uur | Voices from the Fringe: Seven Islands and a Metro
23.00 uur - 01.30 | End of evening with music (Rebel Up! Soundclash DJ + VJ)

ps. More info soon about our Rebel Up! night in the occii on 29th, promise!

The India festival kicked off last week, so take a peek at their programme filled website: www.indiafestival.nl. There's quite a lot to do and see during the next 3 weeks, like famous Indian raga and folk artists at the Concertgebouw and Tropentheater, many exhibitions at Van Gogh and Foam and also some great classic movie trilogy in the Film Museum by the master director Satyajit Ray. And much more.

Also another friendly spin plug: there's an Indian interaction project going on at the Waag every satuday till the 30th, the City Raga's project by the Waag Society. This creative interactive game enables you to have direct contact with people in Delhi and following your own trail! Info below ->

Curious about India?
Interested in the Indian culture?
Participate in a photo exchange game with people from Delhi?

Together with 3 people in Amsterdam and 3 people in Delhi you create a visual story.

City Ragas is a mobile game played in India and the Netherlands.
Every team, consisting of people from Amsterdam and Delhi, has the mission to create a storyline by exchanging pictures. The collection of pictures will be an artwork on changing city identities, which will be interpreted by Hans Plomp, a poet, writer and who sees India as his motherland on the 18th of November in the Waag.

For more information see: www.cityragas.com
You can easily register yourself and invite friends to join the cultural exchange.
You can participate on the following days at the Waag, Nieuwmarkt 4 at 9.30 or 12.00

8 november
15 november
22 november
30 november
See you there!
Love, Lipika

Sunday, 12 October 2008

Rebel Up! Soundclash #17 , saturday 18th of october, special guest Malorix (NL)

Dear individuals of the freed society,

You who know better than wasting your time and money on the global bank failing system. You who heard the sounds crash from oh so many parties. Can’t you hear the horns of a fanfare passing by your doorsteps? Or maybe the volume of your Mesopotamian LP is already too high. You would definitely like to cheer it a bit with a Nigerian high-life.

Well, if you have a minute or five full hours to spare, you might have a chance to meet that kind of stuff and plenty more this saturday at the OCCII, on the next Rebel Up night! Starting as usual : get your first drink at 22.30 and start to dance at 23.00 or break the rule, you fool. Some of the survivors of the last september clash still feel the rumbles of the African Guinean drums played live by those cool Polish guys and backed by Selecta Vega.

This time we'll have special guest Malorix from the multicultural port of Rotterdam. He'll treat you to a live laptop set and meet me in the White Lodge if he can’t play enough rough shake-it-shake-it rarities and beat ratatats! Expect not just live electronics but also his finest selection of Northern African Raï and Arab-Asian sounds
www.myspace.com/malorix






Also the nomadic Nohmada guys from Ghent will join us again with refreshed sprinkles of Southern and Eastern European delights. Sure you'll hop and bounce to their playfull tunes till your ankles hurt! www.nohmada.com

And here another good reason to come.......

As you may well know, things are not going for the best in Zimbabwe, due to the perpetual thirst of power by nasty characters over an overwhelmed population.

The British association Garden Africa develops agricultural methods for resource and land management. In other words; to teach local people how they can plant, grow and harvest their crops under the best possible conditions to have enough food. The Rusapa project is a fine step in the right direction and with your help by a simple contribution at the entrance and at free will during the night, you can make a difference too! Hope to meet you there for the good of your legs and for the health of those in needs. See more at: http://www.gardenafrica.org.uk/garden_africa_charity_zimbabwe.htm






See y’all,
Your RebelUppites

Sunday, 21 September 2008

RebelUp! #16 - Warm and Roasty - 27th Septembre

Hi basement partygoers,

The last edition of Rebel Up went on a Cumbia session in order to make the transition from stretching your toes in the sand of a paradise island to your shoes clapping the concrete dancefloor of the OCCII. Now that you're up for it, we gonna bring you in even hotter spaces. The psychedelic sound of Western Africa mingling with surprises from Ethiopian romance. Once you'll be warm enough, we'll cook you with unexpected sounds from the Carribean and maybe surf up with some Turkish bands. In the end, you'll be roasted in a Punjabi Indian fashion. Hope you're ready for the mixture, cause we will be trumpets all out on Saturday, the 27th of September, at the usual place, meaning the Untouchable OCCII. We'll start at 22.30 and finish the dessert at 4.00. 4 is also the price in euro to get in which will be redistributed to a humatarian association that's not yet determined. We'll keep you posted.

The Rebel Up crew






Saturday, 27th of September @ OCCII, Amsterdam
( http://www.occii.org/)
Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (stop Overtoomsesluis) or #2)
doors open 22:30 till late, 4 Euro fee. Profit goes to charity!

Monday, 11 August 2008

Rebel Up! Soundclash Nueva Cumbia special, with DJ Pinchado (AR), saturday 23rd of august!

Hi all,

The holidays are almost at an end, bah....but we're back!

Feel like hearing tunes from the freshest South American style and get into a summer mood?
Now's the time, Rebel Up! Soundclash finally presents a Nueva Cumbia special!
and a special guest too; DJ Pinchado from Buenos Aires!
His tropicalist cut ups of crunchy cumbia's and slow rebajadas will make the dancefloor shake and swoon into a tropical sizzle! Hear snippets below...
http://www.myspace.com/djpinchado

This special night will be in aid of a Colombian foundation, named Juconi (www.juconi.nl). Since Colombia is the cradle of the cumbia, why not give it a proper context? So it gets.

We would like to support the Micro Empresas project, where poor single working mothers receive support in setting up their own little business through practical education. This way they can start working from home instead of leaving their children behind every day for a far away and mostly underpaid job. This will prevent their children from ending up on the street and gives them and their family a chance for a better future.

some classic little warm ups...

70's style Cumbia, way back...
Los Mirlos - Cumbia de los Pajaritos
The master.... Alejandro Duran - Atardecer Sinuano
Vallenato a gogo! Conjunto Tipico Vallenato - Cymbia Cienaguera
Cumbia Mestizo! Amandititita - Viernes de Quincena

& last not least... Argentinian dubstep. It's out there, hiding.
Daleduro - Villa Crespo

-remember, one week online, after that no more pet peeves for thieves..-

We hope to see you at OCCII for some lush latino action!! Better not miss it, it's gonna be the best tropical underground party of this stormy summer...

Saturday, 23rd of August @ OCCII, Amsterdam
( http://www.occii.org/)
Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (stop Overtoomsesluis) or #2)
doors open 22:30 till late, 4 Euro fee. Profit goes to charity!

Rebel Up! Soundclash (#15) *Nueva Cumbia special*
Diasporic sounds from the global underground.....
a global culture mashup of rougher world music and visuals, without borders!
(mestizo, gypsy, old skool roots, roughness from Africa, latino cuts, rhythms from Arabia, Asian pop and gritty electronics. Everything!, and worldy mashed)
with various dj's, armed with a musical manifesto.....

Please bring your friends, family, pets and network buddies etc, through word of mouth, digitally and so on. we hope to see you there! :)

Saturday, 21 June 2008

soundbitez

here some warm up sounds for tonight and beyond, buckload em now!

piece from Myanmar, as taken from the sold-out Sublime Frequencies release 'Princess Nicotine: Folk and Pop Music of Myanmar'
Unknown Artist - My Darling's Love Arrow

classic Prince Buster tune, sing'n'hop along!
Prince Buster - Madness

and a slow moment, taken from a countryside wedding in southern Hungary. That voice, those violins...
Magyarpalatka - Szokos dance

Wednesday, 11 June 2008

Rebel Up! Soundclash #14, Saturday 21st of June: another helping hand for Myanmar, >Part 2!<

Hi all,

Thanks again to all the people who came out at last month's busy night for Myanmar, with your help we raised 250 euro's!! We are damn proud of this and want to thank you all for your partying support.

In this month's Rebel Up! Soundclash we again want to raise funds for Myanmar, as there still is a lot of help needed for the 100.000 homeless cyclone victims and a doubled donation would give more families a new start.
Hopefully we can add extra loot to the proceedings of last month and make a firm donation. Look at the previous #13 message for info on the Myanmar Charity Group.

What about the music, maestro?.... we have a special guest!
MARK GERGIS (USA) (of SUBLIME FREQUENCIES & POREST) will be bringing a killer (laptop) dj set filled with exotic cut-ups, asian chopchops and middle eastern collages, if not more. Expect some raw field recorded disco extravanganza! As we always play a lot of stuff from the Sublime Frequencies label, we feel very honoured that one of its contributors pays us a visit to play.

And what else, our second traveller, VJ M, returns from his trip allover the Indian subcontinent! Through Pakistan and Iran our VJ man will find his way back to Occii to take control of the visuals again and morph his road recordings at culture shock speed for your eyes only.
One of our other faithful Rebel Up! dj's will be missing in action this time, being in Armenia for a full month of research and trekking in the Carpatian mountains. Since our Polish guest Vega Selecta couldn't make it last time, he will step in to get some playtime alonside the usual Rebel Up! crew.

We hope to see you on this all too special Saturday!
all info on Mark Gergis and the night below.....

SUBLIME FREQUENCIES
Sublime Frequencies is a collective of explorers dedicated to acquiring
and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban
and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short
wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies,
and other forms of human and natural expression not documented
sufficiently through all channels of academic research, the modern
recording industry, media, or corporate foundations. SUBLIME FREQUENCIES
is focused on an aesthetic of extra-geography and soulful experience
inspired by music and culture, world travel, research, and the pioneering recording labels of the past.
http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/
http://www.myspace.com/sublimefrequencies2

POREST
For hundreds of years, Oakland, California's POREST has exploited
reckless composition, performance and worldwide documentation via
multi-instrumentation, field recordings, perverse cut-uppers, dirty bomb
audio downers and whatever else gets in the way. On full-length albums
released by Seeland, Resipiscent and Abduction records, Porest has issued
a confounding collection of music and audio works ranging from mangled
pop and surrealist radio-dramas to diabolical protean ear-wash. Gergis is
a contributor to the Sublime Frequencies label, producing collections of
rare music, film, field and regional radio recordings from the Middle East, Asia and beyond. He is also a founding member of the shape-shifting
Bay Area group MONO PAUSE and its Southeast Asian permutation, NEUNG PHAK, among others.
http://www.porestsound.net/
http://www.myspace.com/myspaceporest
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OERcllkHWA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkZGQ4JznQU

Saturday, 21st of June @ OCCII, Amsterdam
( http://www.occii.org/)
Amstelveenseweg 134 (tram #1 (stop Overtoomsesluis) or #2)
doors open 22:30 till late, (probably) 4 Euro fee. Profit goes to charity!


Rebel Up! Soundclash (#14)
Diasporic sounds from the global underground.....
a global culture mashup of rougher world music and visuals,
(in ways of Mestiza and Gypsy beats, old skool Roots, roughness from Africa, Arabia & Asia, Latino funk and gritty electronics. Everything worldy mashed)
Rebel Up! is played by various Dj's.... all armed with a musical manifesto.

Please forward this to your interested friends, family, and network buddies, through word of mouth, digitally and so on. we hope to see you there! :)