Celebration of Curation 2011 has sadly drawn to a close, but wipe away those crocodile tears and rejoice in the fact that Mixcloud has been very proud to present 54 brilliant Cloudcasts from some staggeringly impressive partners, all of which can now be found on the main campaign page. And there is still plenty of time to run through the office favourites from Week Two, which saw Celebrations of Radio Shows, Promoters, Festivals, Record Labels, and Thought. We know this is what you have been waiting for.

Monday saw Celebration of Curation’s spotlight on Radio Shows, and no day celebrating their brilliance could ever be complete without the inimitable Carl Cox and his ever-present Global radio show. His Celebration of Curation Cloudcast features highlights from the second party of the season at Space Ibiza, and is packed with live sets from Jon Rundell, the man himself, and Richie Hawtin. Lock in!

Celebration of Curation rolled into Tuesday with the spotlight on Promoters. The office stayed hunkered down in Ibiza for the day with We Love‘s feature Cloudcast pounding through the speakers: ‘We Love Vitalik‘, mixed by Jozif and Ryan O’Gorman. Tidy!

Wednesday was one of our favourite days in the entire campaign — a celebration of something that Mixcloud staff hold very close to their hearts… Festivals! Though we worked with some incredible partners that day (and honourable mentions must go to Gottwood Festival and New York’s Electric Zoo Festival) the office vote narrowly went to the daddy of the music-tech circuit, SXSW, and this beautiful electronic mix.

On Thursday we celebrated one of the most important layers in musical curation: Record Labels. We were very excited to work with Gilles Peterson‘s label — home to Mercury Music Nominee, Ghostpoet — Brownswood Recordings. Do be sure to check out their stellar mix, featuring choice cuts from the Brownswood discography; selected and mixed by Alex Patchwork.

The final day of Celebration of Curation 2011 saw a focus on a side of Mixcloud that we’re really proud of — Thought. Friday featuring brilliant talk-content from the London School of Economics, the RSA, Wired UK, and the beautiful Caught by the River, but this lecture for the Institute of Art and Ideas, exploring the philosophy of cut-and-paste sound sampling, stood out.

That’s all for this year’s Celebration of Curation, then. We hope you enjoyed listening as much as we enjoyed putting the campaign together. Stay locked in to the profile pages of this year’s partners, as we happen to know that there are a few tasty bits and pieces on the horizon…

Mixcloud’s first History of Hip Hop party at the Big Chill House back in February certainly set the standard for our monthly residency, and now that we have a slick video of the night you can relive the fun and memories (or, if you weren’t there, pretend that you were…)

The club was absolutely packed out with some of the finest deejays, beautiful Mixcloud fans and agile break-dancers, all united by a love of real Hip Hop. Have a watch of the video to see footage of the mayhem, and hear Mixcloud co-founder Nikhil Shah and ‘playboy about town’ DJ Vadim, amongst others, talk about the night’s concept and success, and their mutual passion for Hip Hop.

Looking set to follow in the History of Hip Hop’s grand footsteps is our next All School Flavor bank-holiday extravaganza with Laid Back Radio at Big Chill House on the 28th May.

RSVP for the All School Flavor party on Facebook

On our travels across the information super highway, we’ve spotted Mixcloud popping up in some rather interesting spots…

The Royal Society of Arts have included links to their Mixcloud profile across all of their events pages.

Listen below to a Cloudcast of one of their more recent events, discussing the future of Wikileaks.

The Off the Post Team have been posting their weekly Wednesday Cloudcast to their website, using our lovely widget player.

We recently stumbled across this wonderful little music blog, Fresh&Noble, coming out of Ireland – via one of our category Ambassadors Tea&Cake Records.

They’ve a wonderful column on their site dedicate to all their favorite Cloudcasts discovered on Mixcloud. Listen to one of their own below.

That just about concludes our little trip around the web this time.

If you spot Mixcloud in some interesting places on your own digital journeys, do let us know in the comments below.