Are you stoked about ccMixter and want to help promote and serve the community that makes it all possible? If you are savvy at social networking through sites like Twitter, Soundcloud, etc. etc. we need your talent! We are currently opening up a few positions on our Editorial Team for 2017. Please post here a tweet-sized reason why you’d like to join the team and curate, post comments in the forums, and promote ccMixter to the world.

You may also contact us via e-mail

We’ll be releasing our new Editorial Team Staff List in the next few weeks!

Read the guidelines for Ed Picks Here.

Update
Applications are closed for this call. New editors will be announced on Thursday!!!

Welcome to our New Editors!

Christine Bush
Darkroom
Mana Junkie
CDK

We’re looking forward your input and your enthusiasm this year!

Hi Spinningmerkaba,

I write this reply off call. Just because I am already an “Editor”.

Not that I have used this opportunity to ed-pick the creative work here often yet - but I want to encourage everyone to apply. Music taste has many flavours and mine is different from other ccMixter participants.

Having the option to highlight a mix is very special and by my own experience it is very motivating for the mixer. It is like a giving a special gift to one you love.
If the music touches you and you get some special emotions - why not share it and give your feelings a word - highlighted for everyone.
Open minded, not common sense is often the best.

I love being a ccMixter Editor! And I also really value other editors’ picks as a way to find great music here. Reading the comments they use to describe an awesome track inspires me as a listener and as a creator. (And, there is nothing so exciting as getting an editorial pick!!)

I’m certainly stoked about ccMixter and proud to be part of the Editorial Team! Doing a listening session on ccM is one of my favorite things… and listening for that track that jumps out to be Ed Picked makes it extra fun. I enjoy crafting blurbs for the Ed Pick… trying to find the perfect descriptive words to inspire listeners to push play and share the joy of an awesome track.

I’m super-excited to add some new folks to the Editorial team to get more deserving ccM music in the spotlight. Plus, all of the Ed Picks will be nominations for the bi-monthly albums we’ll be curating this year. These albums will help us get ccMixter music out into the world even more!

Hello! I am excited by the prospect of joining the editorial team of CCmixter because I have a rich background of experience as a performer, radio host, and digital creative talent to work effectively at the intersection of music, open source culture, and language.

I’d like to throw my hat in the ring on this,

I’ve been with mixter since 2005!?!

wow.

I love mixter, and anything I can do to give back or be a part of the team is awesome. would also give me more reason to dig through the site for those rare “Gems” that most people miss.

Will there be cake?

I would be interested also. I have been with CCMixter since 2006 and have watched it grow. I also believe it to be an important site filled with all kinds of great music.

Thank you. I can’t wait to get started.

AWESOME! Welcome to the team, Christine Bush, Darkroom, Mana Junkie, & CDK! I’m looking forward to hearing your picks! :D

It is always a good idea for editors to refresh on the Ed Pick guidelines:

http://ccmixter.org/edpickg...

To flesh this out a bit - music shouldn’t just be what you personally like (though first and foremost it should be something you love.) The tracks you pick should be high-quality tracks likely to be picked up by podcasters, vloggers, and filmmakers… radio (or college/indie radio) ready music.

If you’re picking something with a detuned guitar, instrument, or vocal… was it done for style? Or did the remixer lack the skill to mix/perform things into the same key? It can be a tough call, but it is an important consideration if you’re picking atonal music. ccMixter has a lot of terrific atonal artists who expertly specialize in that, and we’d want to feature what they do, and not confuse that kind of work with mixes that are accidentally atonal, and unlikely to be picked up for podcasts.

Consider the recording quality - is it deliberately lo-fi, or accidentally low quality? Scratchy recordings are a unique ambiance, and lo-fi is often a special kind of magic. But a poor quality or saturated recording isn’t the same thing (analog saturation is a neat effect, digital clipping usually isn’t.)

Remember, ed picking is deciding what the best of the best is. Let’s be sure that is what we put front and center!