mixrats.com – DIY. Or Die Trying

Mixrats

Hey, PROJECT-FILE HOARDER. Are you sitting on 50 half-finished tracks? Do you feel isolated, like no one understands your process? Mixrats is the Creative Accountability System that forces you to finish.

We are a low-stakes, high-growth community that ends the hard drive graveyard. Our podcast provides the deadlines, the challenges, and the collective ears—you provide the raw talent.

THE CHALLENGE BOARD IS THE MISSION.
Every episode, we throw down the gauntlet. You submit your best (or worst) efforts, and we'll debate, worship, and ruthlessly critique them with the goal of crafting Number Ones (and Number Twos) as the Mixrat Army.

The Side Benefit: STOP HOARDING! In addition to the weekly grind, this is the place to safely share the finished bangers currently clogging your hard drive.

If you want to give the middle finger to corporate control and AI, join the movement where our power comes from each other. D.I.Y. Or Die Trying.

Mixrats episodes

Music Mixrats Like

Music Mixrats Made

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Mixrats is a living D.I.Y. sonic experiment.

Every episode kicks off with a new Theme or Challenge—a production constraint designed to snap you out of analysis paralysis. Challenges change with every episode, and you could find yourself composing....

- A gothtastic national anthem celebrating mountains and cheese!

- A Gregorian chant inspired metal song about labradoodles for an animal hospital call centre!

- A theme song for a shit podcast about bedroom musicians!

-The next global Number 1, or perhaps local Number 2!
The Gauntlet is Thrown: This is Your New Deadline. Respond as creatively as you can, and send in your tracks.

We play them raw, on the spot. We'll roast, celebrate, and critique your submissions, and work with each other to build collective sonic perfection by allowing the Mixrat Army (this community) to decide what lives on. It's messy, it's fun, and it’s the fastest way to drag your forgotten music off hard drives and into the wild.

THE REWARD: Beyond the challenges, every episode showcases the best unsigned music and talent we uncover from within the community. For us, there is no higher praise than respect from your fellow Mixrats.

(Ga)Rage Against the Machine

AI does not do your laundry or pick up your dog crap. Instead, it, and big tech are conspiring to steal something that makes us human – our creativity.
Mixrats is the antidote. Think of our community as the collective, human mobilizer of creativity. We build on our shared inputs to make real music with real impact. Your contributions are not just valued—they are the engine of our movement. The recognition for your insightful ideas and finished tracks will always belong to you. Let’s uplift each other, tackle exciting challenges, and achieve exceptional results that machines can never replicate. Join the community now. No spam, no dog crap, just a commitment to keeping creativity human.

The Team

They’ve Been Where You Are. The Mixrats team isn’t here to cheerlead; they’re here to hold you accountable. Lord Cheesus of Hamburger (Hamburg, Germany), your host Dr Mixrat (Noosa, Australia), and Andrew Lloyd Weber (Cape Town, South Africa) know the difference between a passion project and a professional habit. They’ve spent decades grinding out tracks in damp bedroom studios, landed record deals, produced and performed on albums, and graced national and international stages with their presence (Listen to the podcast to get to know the team). This ratpack will take your best (and worst) efforts and apply the pressure needed to compress those turds into diamonds. We are your production partner and your deadline coach.