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What is crashroots?
crashroots is a community for collaborative music production and distribution. We create open source music (OSM) and encourage sharing ideas at a early stage. Contribute a song, sample or mashup to one of our ongoing collaborations. Visit the blog for daily news curated by the crashroots community and browse the ever growing list of releases. Keep your eyes open for exclusive content from our label partners and check out crashroots artists live on stage.

crashroots initiators: Samim & Miguel

What is a release?

A crashroots release can be: full songs / beats / musical sequences / a unfinished songs / samples / mashups / a dj mixes

Crashroots releases can be many things, here is a selection of release ideas:
song ideas / full songs / unfinished songs / samples / beats / musical sequences / snippets / mashups / dj mixes

What is a theme?

Every release is part of a topic, defining the theme of the collaboration. Imagine topics as collaborative songs which grows over time. To contribute to a topic, tag your post with its name.

Every release is related to a theme, setting the mood of the collaboration. Imagine themes as collaborative songs which grows over time. To contribute to a theme, tag your post with its name.

What is a theme mash?

Theme mash´s are songs made out of all the contributions to a them

Theme mash´s are songs made out of all the contributions to a theme.