Lockdown shouldn't mean pop and lock-down. That's just i takeaway from today'south free electronic dance music concert organized by The Giving Block and Multiplied to benefit charities on the front lines of the COVID-nineteen pandemic.

The concert is alive streamed on May 5th from half-dozen pm - ten pm Eastern Time (10 pm - 2 am GMT) and features some of the nearly popular EDM artists in the club globe — including blockchain advocate 3LAU, Grammy award-winner RAC, Impale Paris, and ill.Gates.

3LAU has remixed artists such as Rihanna, Katy Perry, Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande, while RAC counts U2, Bob Marley and Lady Gaga among the artists whose piece of work he has reimagined.

ill.Gates has promised to share previous collaborations with Bassnectar and the Beastie Boys, while Kill Paris may dig out his remixed version of Nelly Furtado'south "Parking Lot" or The Chainsmokers' "Paris".

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As part of Bitcoin Tuesday and the #CryptoCOVID19 initiative, a widely-adopted cryptocurrency effort that has already raised over $400,000 for multiple charities, the Trip the light fantastic toe, Donate, Decentralize (D3) concert is also supporting Giving Tuesday.

Giving Tuesday is a global generosity motion unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the globe. The event volition do good more than 17 charitable organizations including:

  • Save the Children

  • Pencils of Promise

  • Mona Foundation

  • International Medical Corps

  • The Water Project

  • No Kid Hungry

  • Team Rubicon

Ben Noble of Multiplied noted that:

"Crypto natives are used to working with distance between "employees." They know how to exist digital and decentralized. In many means, crypto felt prepared for COVID. But it'due south inspiring to see how charitable organizations can mobilize quickly with support from stiff communities. And this upshot unifies three major communities: crypto, EDM and charity."

Michael Earley of The Giving Cake explained that "mass quarantines and social distancing are sidelining many would-exist philanthropists. D3 presents an opportunity to go involved with a charitable cause virtually, while also enjoying some of the top EDM artists in the globe."

The concert is supported by a plethora of crypto companies including Cointelegraph, Gemini, Brave, and MoonPay, and will feature a surprise appearance by a popular actor who hasn't been able to nourish The Function during lockdown.

I'll give you a inkling: he'south seriously into some phat beets, also.