From language to culinary, everything in Brazil is a remix. Result of multiple influence crossing, our culture delights senses with its incomparable fruits – amazing taste for international communities.

And, if a work's richness can be directly linked to freedom of creation, Overmixter explains why ideas don't get (or at least, shouldn’t be) barred in the customs service. Overmundo ´s new tool is a website for samples and remixes, an open and collaborative channel in which everyone can send their own music, loops and samples so that others can download and remix them.

The Overmixter website sponsors its first remix contest -- Overmix BraSA -- which will take the winner to play in festivals here in Brazil and in South Africa. The contest is open to everyone and extends itself until the end of February.

Developed in partnership with South African ccMixter , Overmixter brings music, samples, remixes and vocals licensed under Creative Commons , what enables users to listen, create and recreate music in a totally legal way. It's a collaborative production that makes it possible to artists from different parts of Brazil and abrouad to compose together and publicize their work, making available in the website their samples, vocals and remixes as starting point for new remixes by other users – who will, in their turn, make their remix available and, like this, gather an infinite web of creation and recreation on the internet.

Overmixter, such as the Overmundo, is sponsored by Petrobras through the Rouanet Law/Ministry of Culture and is supported by Creative Commons Brasil , Ford Foundation and Center for Technology and Society from Getulio Vargas Foundation.

Many well-known artists have already licensed parts or entire music on Overmixter, such as Gilberto Gil , Lucas Santtana , Mombojó , Apollo 9, DJ Dolores , Cibelle and BNegão .