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Toxic Records
Alibaba Music created an album featuring ten up-and-coming]Chinese musicians, and worked with two Shanghai-based artists to create a limited-edition run of record pressings, handmade from pollution particles.
Client: Alibaba / Xiami
Agency: Fred and Farid Shanghai
Cinematographer: Laura Imkamp
Editor: Laura Imkamp and JB le Bivelec (Fred and Farid)
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Client: Alibaba Music / Agency: Fred and Farid / Director: JB Le Bivelec (FF) / Director of Photography & Editor: Laura Imkamp
Alibaba Music worked together with 10 Chinese musicians and two Shanghai-based artists to create a limited-edition run of record pressings, handmade from pollution particles.
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![The album, The Undiscovered, highlighted up-and-coming Chinese artists, and raised awareness about pollution and climate change issues facing China.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b489e27da02bca27be50f14/1534005497624-DTOYDCCVPCFCCQKA2BA3/Toxic+Records_Still008.jpg)
The album, The Undiscovered, highlighted up-and-coming Chinese artists, and raised awareness about pollution and climate change issues facing China.
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Case study edited by JB Le Bivelec (Fred & Farid) and Laura Imkamp
It was launched on Alibaba’s music streaming app, Xiami, and reached 130 million online listens in the first 24 hours.
![The video was run with the album launch campaign, online and on Xiami. All pressings were put to auction, with proceeds going to a tree-planting initiative lead by Alibaba.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b489e27da02bca27be50f14/1533994052884-6F5F4JDMNZU3N3WGSOF2/Xiami_Screenshots.jpg)
The video was run with the album launch campaign, online and on Xiami.
All pressings were put to auction, with proceeds going to a tree-planting initiative lead by Alibaba.