Congrats to Colin Mutchler, whose ultra-creative thinking launched the ground-breaking album "Premixed". As noted in an accompanying press release, this album takes the remixed content concept and pushes it to the nth degree: "Before heading out on his celebrated Free Culture tour to universities and media organizations in 2005, Mutchler released free a cappella tracks of song fragments through the popular remix site ccMixter.org, explicitly 'premixed' (prepared for remixing) for producers to build on his work. With each track primed with a Creative Commons license that encouraged other musicians and artists to remix and re-release the work non-commercially (as long as credit was given), the tracks generated a tremendous response from the ccMixter community. One year and more than 50 remixes later, Mutchler is releasing a full-length album of the best remixes plus two bonus versions of previously released songs. Entitled Premixed, this groundbreaking compilation features tracks produced by global 'mixters' from North America, Europe and Japan – only one of whom Colin had ever personally met before collaborating."

Mutchler performed his Free Culture presentation on the Day Stage at the 2005 SXSW Interactive Festival.

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