Punani presents United We Rise Podcast Nr. 031

Punani (https://soundcloud.com/punanipunani) presents United We Rise Podcast Nr. 031 🗯🗯 How Did Corona change your artist life? 🗯🗯 Obviously, similar to all my fellow artist friends or event industries colleagues, this summer went quite different than we all originally planned. That long break was quite difficult for me personally, as I was used to a fast and busy life before the lockdown came. But also, it forced me to reflect, to connect in new ways with the people and culture around me and establish new networks through the internet. Musically, it brought to me many new gems, as I had time to dig even deeper than before and I finally found the time to start my own radio show, a dream I had for ages now. (Shoutout to Bandcamp: bandcamp friday was and is such a great invention in these times without a proper week structure and to support artists financially !) With more time on my hands, I was reading a lot about music culture and racist power structures and found some time to reflect on my own attitude towards the music that I am playing, as it is heavily inspired by music that is rooted in Black and queer communities, like Hip Hop and House. I feel that this pandemic made everything more visible, the good things and the bad things. The situation we as DJs, promoters, venues, artists and technicians are facing right now seems very scary and I think we all nearly lost hope in some moments. This is why projects like United We Stream and United We Talk are not only precious because of the important content and message they broadcast to a big international audience but also because the music and club culture community was able to stand in solidarity with each other as well as with people that were even more affected by the crisis during this pandemic. 🗯🗯 Where did you record the mix and how did you feel? 🗯🗯 I recorded it in my second home: the main floor at Mensch Meier in Berlin. It was such a good experience, feeling the bass in my body and the music played on a proper sound system again after months of list