“Make no mistake, ccMixter is the complete package. No other remix site commands the same level of respect amongst musicians, producers and content creators.”
Dave’s Imaginary Sound Space


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.

Artist Spotlight: Gurdonark

From his earliest remixes here at ccMixter over three years ago Gurdonark (aka Robert Nunnally) made it obvious he was a special talent. His music seemed especially suited to film and video soundtracks and sure enough, since we’ve started keeping track of ccMixter music as it was being used in videos, Gurdonark became the overwhelming choice of film and video makers across the web. He has gone on to found the well-respected net-label Negative Sound Institute which specializes in Creative Commons licensed ambient music.

Read more about our resident non-musician-musician Gurdonark is out latest

Artist Spotlight: Robert Nunnally

Sample Pool: AudioCookbook.org

The latest Sample Pool we’ve enabled on the site is Audio Cookbook which specializes in sound design and releases it samples under a Creative Commons Attribution license. In fact, Audio Cookbook releases a new sound design each day. Peter Kirn from Create Digital Music says: “Sound design secrets have traditionally been closely-guarded secret sauce. But in the age of the Web, the opposite is happening: people can actually enjoy sharing what they’re doing, just as passionate cooks chat about recipes on food blogs.”

By agreeing to implement the Sample Pool API (a cinch with any Wordpress music blog) Audio Cookbook is allowing remixers here to easily incorporate their samples and attribute the site in their credits.

Previously...

Previous Spotlights, Contests and Sample Pools…

Shannon Hurley
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