21 Secret Mixter Celebration
ccMixter Turns 21! The “21” Secret Mixter Celebration
ccMixter is officially turning 21 — and that means it’s time to raise a glass (or a track!) to two decades + one year of remix culture, collaboration, and community.
Turning 21 holds cultural weight: it’s the milestone of adulthood, independence, and new freedoms. For ccMixter, our 21st birthday is about celebrating the freedom that has always been at our core — the freedom to create, remix, reuse, and reimagine music without walls.
That’s why our 21st Birthday celebration is happening the ccMixter way: with a Secret Mixter.
For those new to the tradition, a Secret Mixter is when members sign up to remix each other — in secret! You’ll be randomly assigned another artist’s uploads to reimagine, mash-up, sample, and remix. On upload day, the veil is lifted and we all discover who remixed whom in a global exchange of creativity.
Since our founding in 2004 as a Creative Commons project, ccMixter has been a home for musical produsage — where listeners become creators, samplers become composers, and remixers become collaborators. Over the past 21 years, we’ve built a catalog of over 10,000 samples shared openly for creative reuse, featuring everyone from grassroots bedroom producers to the Beastie Boys and David Byrne.
Unlike most platforms, ccMixter has always stood apart: you keep your rights, you share your art, and you empower others to remix it into something new. Our community embodies resilience, independence, and generosity — values that align perfectly with the cultural meaning of turning 21.
So let’s celebrate this milestone together. Let’s make music that honors where we’ve been and where we’re going. Let’s remix with the boldness of youth and the wisdom of experience.
🎂 The “21” Secret Mixter Event Timeline
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Sign-up: September 28 - October 11
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Remixing: October 12 - 25
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Upload Day: October 25 & 26
Join us as we step into this new chapter with the same mission that started it all: to create a living, open, global library of music that belongs to everyone.
Because at 21, ccMixter isn’t just coming of age — it’s coming into its power.
🔗 Sign up now at ccMixter.org