After a busy few months, Pandora's Music Boxxx finally managed to get around to that thing that has been on our to-do list for months: start uploading sets from the gallery up onto Soundcloud.
I'm happy to finally upload some of the sets from the 'Open the Box' event on the 1st December. 'Open the Box' was an early evening event to celebrate the launch of 'Pandora's Boxxxmas Advent Calendar 2023' (more detailed info on this in the 'Projects' section).
In short, like a traditional advent calendar, subscribers wake up to something nice every morning from 1st-24th December. But this time, that something nice is a new piece of music sent directly to your inbox to download and keep. A way to challenge the current capitalistic and consumerist traditions of Christmas, by choosing to spend our money supporting artists instead!
To celebrate the beginning of the advent calendar, we invited some of the participating artists + friends of Pandora to play some tunes. Plus this was also the only chance to see the one-of-a-kind commissioned IRL calendar from Sturmzx2. (We also drew the raffle for the winner. One of the artists on the line-up plus a very long-tie friend of mine was the winner. Which looked like it was rigged, but I swear it wasn't..)
I was really happy with the event. A lot of people turned up on their own, and it was a joy to see a lot of strangers become friends over a shared interest in music. There were new connections being made and nice conversations going on everywhere, it was amazing to see the whole concept of the calendar play out in real life.
There will be a final chance to listen to the calendar tracks this weekend at two events at Pandora. On the 2nd of Feb, there is a Pandora's Music BoxXx event. And the 3rd of Feb, 'Urban Mycelium: Reclaim the Underground' (I'll do a separate post on that later.) Both events are part of CTM's Vorspiel programme.
Finally, a big shout out to Danni (Andi A.) and Dim (Sterioa) for their help with the event. <3
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