“…releasing music is communication. Nowadays, that means participation and that is what ccMixter offers. It is a combination of the two, letting fans and music people participate and communicate together, with you, with me and create new music and ideas.”
DJ Vadim


ccMixter is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.

Remixers If you’re into sampling, remixing and mash-ups grab the sample packs and a cappellas for download and you can upload your version back into ccMixter, for others to enjoy and re-sample. All legal.

Video makers, podcasters and music lovers If you’re into music, browse this site to hear some of the great remixes people have built from sampling music on this site, all licensed for use under Creative Commons license.

U Can’t Lurn Imaginashun

He’s back… And he’s bringing the power to the people.

DJ Vadim (aka Vadim Peare) and ccMixter were such a good mix last time, we’re doing it all again. This time it’s a global collaboration based around his new album - U Can’t Lurn Imaginashun.

DJ Vadim’s new album will be released on May 25th 2009. We’re starting off putting up two tracks, with more to follow…

Lurn more here

Previously...

Previous Spotlights, Contests and Sample Pools…

Earth Day with Snowflake
State Shirt
Shannon Hurley
RIP: A Remixer’s Manifesto
Trifonic’s “Emergence”
The freesound Project
One Laptop Per Child / Berklee School of Music
Bucky Jonson
DJ Vadim
Salman Ahmad
Vieux Farka Toure
(©urve)™
Christopher Willits
Fort Minor
Crammed Discs Cibelle, DJ Dolores, Apollo Nove
Copyright Criminals
Magnatune Lisa Debendictis
WIRED CD Beastie Boys, Chuck D….

Even though these contests and call for remixes are no longer officially accepting entries, all the samples remain available for sharing and remixing under Creative Commons licenses.

As Seen on the Web

Video makers, podcasters, open labels and websites have been showing a lot of love to ccMixter remixes. They have discovered the new axiom in the music industry that just because it’s free doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice anything in quality.

If you use one of our tracks make sure to let us know using the ‘I Saw or Used this’ trackback feature.

To check out the latest ways people have used ccMixter music see our section called:

As Seen on the Web