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!

Image by ChodHound lic. CC-BY-SA

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.

ccMixter Creates Free Music for Video, Film

Tubed By You Compositions Expand ccMixter's Music for Film Catalog

ccMixter is recognized as one of the best sites providing music for film and video, under CC license. The demand for free, quality music for video is high, and at ccMixter, any track with a CC BY license may be used for YouTube, Vimeo, Hulu, etc. -- as long as all contributing artists are Attributed.

Tubed BY You is a remix event where Mixters create and record original samples and pells to be remixed, recombined, rearranged and shared at ccMixter, and beyond. Participate and help increase 'music for film' catalog under CC BY license.

Read more about it here!

Image by Tomas Fano licencse CC-BY-SA

Snowflake, Loveshadow Release Album 'Open In The Garden'

ccMixter Artists Demonstrate Power of CC Collaboration

ccMixter is pleased to share Open In The Garden by ccMixter artists Snowflake & Loveshadow. The album also includes contributions from Abstract Audio, Alex Beroza, airtone, Jeris, Ivan Chew, and library owl.

To listen, click the album cover. To dive into the songs, click 'Lyrics' by each song title for lyrics, credits and stems. Be sure to view the artbook that features artwork by various artists, under Creative Commons license.

To download Open In The Garden in CD-quality, with the high-res artbook, support Snowflake's music and become a Green Room member.

• Open In The Garden Press Release
• Open In The Garden Note from Producer

We're honored ccMixter helped make this release possible. Peace.