No Bah Humbug with ccMixter's New Holiday Album "Season of "Gratitude"

The newest ccMixter release, Season of Gratitude, is now available on iTunes, Amazon and TuneTrack. This winter-holiday double-album is anything but traditional and has been called "a breath of fresh winter air for listeners weary of the same holiday tunes year after year."

The Season of Gratitude double album is a curation of the tracks from the ccMixter Gift of Song remix event of winter 2012, re-mastered by ccMixter artist Copperhead for optimum sound quality. The double album genre hops into pop, rock, electronica, funk, reggae, punk, and everything in between, and yet the collection is one enjoyable, cohesive listen.

Season of Gratitude A Sides and B Sides are both available on iTunes and Amazon.

• iTunes Season of Gratitude A Sides
• iTunes Season of Gratitude B Sides
• Amazon Season of Gratitude A Sides
• Amazon Season of Gratitude B Sides

For Green Room supporters of ccMixter on TuneTrack, Season of Gratitude A Sides and B Sides, and their accompanying artbooks, are available for download in the highest quality form. Blue Room Supporters will receive a double-album physical CD printed with soy-inks on 100% recycled cardstock with biodegradable shrink-wrap.

The Season of Gratitude double CD is also available at select locations in the Los Angeles area.

Mad Summer Nights Secret Mixter

Sign-up to Mix and Be Remixed

"Press close, bare-bosomed Night! Press close, magnetic, nourishing Night! Night of south winds! Night of the large, few stars! Still, nodding Night! Mad, naked, Summer Night!" 

~Walt Whitman

Sign-up! Experience the sweet musical madness of this summer's secret mixter. Just remember to keep your remix assignment a secret until upload day.

Night Carnival by 4:13Studios CC-BY

ccMixter & Jamendo Release Double Holiday Album

Check out The Best Time of the Year - A & B Sides!

ccMixter & Jamendo artists teamed up in 2011 to create holiday music together via internet remix culture with the 'Tis the Season Remix Project. With more than 100 original tracks in created in a couple of weeks, ccMixter & Jamendo paired songs together with two common themes -- the joy of the Christmas holiday season, and songs that take a different approach to the holidays.

The Best Time of the Year -  a special double release holiday album - was co-produced by Snowflake, Copperhead, Kara Square, Sackjo22 and go1dfish, artists on the ccMixter remix community, in cooperation with Nicole Maroutsos of Jamendo.

The A Sides on The Best Time of the Year are more straight-forward Christmas tracks, though most are originals. The B Sides are for those that may celebrate something different during the holidays, or perhaps don't really celebrate at all. Either way, there are songs everyone will love on these albums!
The Best Time of the Year albums are offered as free downloads in a variety of formats (including lossless).

The project began in the ccMixter & Jamendo remix project, Tis The Season. Check out all of the great mixes from the project HERE!
Don't forget to check out the official press release!

Support ccMixter and get cool ccMixter Schwag by joining the Green, Blue or Purple Room. We hope you enjoy The Best Time of the Year double album.

Agent Blues Secret Mixter

Mix, and get Remixed, in Secret!

"Forget me not with September blues
Hide my face but play the truth."

With September comes the blue of Forget-me-not flowers and the blues of summer fading into fall. Secret agents don Anonymous masks and speak their beliefs. The equinox represents equality -- and balance of day and night, dark and light. Music touches all of these emotions, especially the blues! So tune your guitar, warm your vocal chords, sharpen your composition pen and get ready to cut and re-create!

You have through Sept 2 to sign up! Assignments will go out Sept 3 and upload day will be Sept 16.

Image "Agent Blues" by Admiral Bob licensed CC-BY.

Listen to the Flying Time Secret Mixter playlist for inspiration!

Free Music & Free Beer Remix Project

Freedom & Free Beer Show solidarity for Musikpirate as he faces GEMA by creating remixes that emphasize our commitment to our rights as artists to share, promote, publish and distribute our work as we elect — including under Creative Commons licenses. The Freedom & Free Beer event accepts submissions through July 31, 2012. Learn more here. Listen to the Freedom to Share playlist to get inspired!

Leap of the Heart Secret Mixter

This Valentine's & Leap Year Mix - and get Remixed - in Secret

"Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is." Mason Cooley

Take the leap in a leap year. Join in the secret mixter and remix to your heart's content. Just remember to keep it a secret until upload day.

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience." ~Henry Miller

Sign up!

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Strike the Root: Lessig & ccMixter Release New Concept Album

Artists Remix 'Get Money Out of Politics' Message under Creative Commons License

In support of Rootstrikers everywhere getting money out of politics, today Professor Lawrence Lessig releases his new ccMixter album, Strike the Root.

The album features remixes of Lessig's spoken word and the community's original songs, poetry, and samples -- over 100 remixes of open source music were contributed to the Strike the Root Remix Project.

Rootstrikers has just joined forces with MSNBC’s host Dylan Ratigan’s “Get Money Out” campaign with a new organization called United Republic.To enjoy Strike the Root as a CD-quality download, join the ccMixter Green Room. To obtain a physical copy of the Strike the Root CD-Artbook, join the ccMixter Blue Room. For a signed copy of Lessig's new book Republic Lost along with the he Strike the Root download and physical CD-artbook, join the ccMixter Purple Room. All contributions are shared with the artists and nonprofits United Republic and ccMixter.org.

Read the Strike the Root press release.