Snowflake's Biography
Snowflake is a singer, songwriter, pianist & producer who joined ccMixter in early 2006, in conjunction with her membership in breakbeat/alternative band 2012AM (San Diego). Snowflake, DJ Quenique, spinningmerkaba and Wooton were remixing one another on the fly in their 2012AM live performances, so diving into collaboration at ccMixter was natural, and freed Snowflake (the artist formerly known as Emily Richards) from her pop/rock roots.
Some of Snowflake's first tracks on ccMixter include pellas from her 2012AM collaboration (2012, Pool of Love) and other early poems and song sketches (Freedom, Blessed are the Greedy). But in April of 2009, Snowflake and ccMixter created the Earth Day with Snowflake Apologize Remix Project and everything has changed since (and quickly!). Snowflake's pella and other stems were returned with over 40 remixes from the ccMixter community, with hopes to share awareness about the North Pacific Garbage Patch.
In August, Snowflake & more than 30 other artists at ccMixter created the Peace of Winter holiday music project. And in the midst of production on Peace of Winter, on October 28 2009 (the 5th birthday of ccMixter), Creative Commons transferred operations of ccMixter to Snowflake's Next Gen Music Label (ArtisTech Media). Without a hitch, just a month later Snowflake & ccMixter released Peace of Winter on iTunes, Jamendo, TuneTrack, AmazonMP3, LaLa -- as an album and all new art influenced digital-LP.
Snowflake's stems and pellas are available (free in MP3 format) under Creative Commons license at ccMixter.org. Join Snowflake's Blue Room to get access to lossless stems and mixes.
Perhaps as important as her music and art, are her causes. Peace of Winter makes a wonderful holiday gift, and half of proceeds go to the Dalai Lama Foundation.
