DJ Vadim and Creative Commons are celebrating ccMixter‘s fifth anniversary with Secret Mixter October ’09. In this event, the 6th of its kind on ccMixter, starting today, musicians and singers sign up to have their name put into a virtual hat. After the two week sign-up period, everyone is notified, in secret, with a remix … Read More “DJ Vadim Remixes U in Secret ccMixter Event”
The Creative Commons’ sponsored music community, ccMixter, has had a busy week. Imaginashun Remixes DJ Vadim, featured and interviewed last week, put out a Call for Remixes for his new album U Can’t Lurn Imaginashun and the remixes are the community has responded in kind and some amazing remixes are starting to come in. CC0 … Read More “ccMixter: Using our Imaginashun with CC0, an Upgrade and Podcast”
Creative Commons and Snowflake are proud to announce a call for remixes in honor of Earth Day 2009. Singer, musician and poet Snowflake has put all the stems, including the a cappella for her song Apologize into the Commons under an Attribution NonCommercial license, hosted on ccMixter, and is looking for remixes to be featured … Read More “Call for Remixes: Snowflake's Earth Day Challenge”
Over a year and a half ago the ccMixter community decided to stop having formal remix contests in part because in a CC context, the traditional format seemed outdated. In a typical remix contest an artist would post the stems to one song, retaining all the rights to the samples as well as the remixes … Read More “State Shirt Call for Remixes/Samples and Shannon Plays Live”
Creative Commons and the makers of the independent film currently in production RIP: A Remixer’s Manifesto a co-production between Montreal-based production house Eye Steel Film and the National Film Board of Canada are making a Call for Soundtracks. The film itself is released under a CC license and has been produced collaboratively through hundreds of … Read More “Call for Soundtrack: RIP A Remixer's Manifesto”
After finishing at USC music department and working with electronic superstar BT, Brian Trifon joined his brother Laurence to enter ccMixter‘s first remix contest with a one-off band they called Trifonic. Their entry Bored on Your Backside went on to be the top vote getter in the contest and album opener for the WIRED remix … Read More “ccMixter's Trifonic Releases Tracks into Commons”
Bucky Jonson is the name of the band that drives the funky soul behind the multi-platinum Grammy winning band the Black Eyed Peas. The band is actually made up of Printz Board, George Pajon Jr., Tim Izo and Keith Harris. A few months ago they stepped out from the shadows with their oh-so-appropriately named solo … Read More “Which one is Bucky?”
As promised BBE Music and Creative Commons have taken the first step in our new relationship. And what a step: DJ Vadim has released all the original solo instrumental and a cappella tracks for his latest album “The Sound Catcher.” No contest, no prizes, just the tracks out there in the Commons through a Attribution-NonCommercial … Read More “DJ Vadim Releases Album Tracks under CC”
Salman Ahmad is the founder of one of the world’s most popular bands Junoon. A household name in South Asia, the band has sold over 25 million albums, played at the United Nations by special invitation and Salman and the band have been the subject of several BBC documentaries. Salman has now decided that his … Read More “Superstars on ccMixter”
The (©urve)™* remix contest is well under way over at ccMixter with a steady of flow of entries. We are all very grateful to (©urve)™ artists from some of the best a cappellas ever put into the Commons in any language. This morning’s hot entry is Madrugada(rmx) by savoyard. This contest ends next week so … Read More “More ((c)urve)tm Music in the Commons”