“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.

Call for Soundtracks "RIP: A Remixer's Manifesto"

Creative Commons and Open Source Cinema are proud to announce a Call for Soundtracks for the film RIP: A Remixer’s Manifesto a co-production of EyeSteelFilm and the National Film Board of Canada.

Remixers are encouraged to download one or more of four scenes made available by the producers and mix together samples under a Creative Commons Attribution license to create a soundtrack for the scene(s).

Read more about Call for Soundtracks RIP

Artist Spotlight: Brad Sucks

The popular and successful Open Music artist, Brad Sucks is also one of the most remixed. His first album “ I Don’t Know What I’m Doing” is one of the best selling albums on Jamendo, Magnatune and just about every Creative Commons friendly place where music is sold. The release of his second album (five years in the making) “ Out of It” is a landmark event that is being watched closely by activists and music fans alike.

Brad has just released all of the stems for the album here at ccMixter including all the a cappellas under a Creative Commons license.

We are proud to feature Brad in our newest Artist Spotlight with an interview conducted for ccMixter by Randy Cherktow and Jason Freehan, authors of the Indie Band’s Survival Guide:

Artist Spotlight: Brad Sucks

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