By Erwin Oliva
INQUIRER.net
I RECENTLY got this e-mail message that says Odysseylive.net is live. Labeled as a “social music network.” So I went to check it out. First impressions: Odysseylive.net seems to have covered all bases. It has streaming music, featured blogs, news about gigs, and classified ads. For artists (or those who want to be a rock star), you can register and upload some of your music. You can also invite friends to join this social music network. It was also quite easy to set up a profile.
The service is still in “super beta.” I am not sure what that means. But I did notice some bugs as I went in to check out the service. You don’t have to register though to listen to the streaming music of featured Pinoy artists on the homepage. What’s interesting here is that you can also upload up to 10 megabytes of data (photos, music, etc.) to your own profile. Personally, I don’t think that’s enough. But this is still the super beta version, hehe.
As I went in to check some of the streaming music available, I found this interesting collection of Filipino bands compiled in an album called Bandtrip2. You can listen to at least 12 of the songs in the album. I thought, “What if you want to download the music you’re listening to?” Hmmm. Currently, you can only listen to the music available online but there are no indications if the music is for sale or available for download.
Here’s another discovery: Beach Head with their chillout (with a mix of hip hop) song called “Freestyle.” According to the group’s profile, “Beach Head is a project band that writes, records and shoots video’s during the songs composition. ” A quick check reveals that Beach Head is apparently a side project of Urbandub’s Gabbie Alipe together with the Kerplunk boys. Beach Head also has a nice video available on YouTube.
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Ben Alegre
Hi, my name is Ben Alegre. I’m from the core team of OdysseyLive.net. First of all I’d like to thank you for blogging about our site, odysseylive.net. We hope that our website will be the online brand that people associate with hottest in the Philippine music scene. We acknowledge the bugs of the site, thus we’d really appreciate it if you can send them to dev [at] odysseylive [dot] net. Now about the download, although we have a ready engine for that however, we feel that the Philippine market might not yet be ready / mature to purchase digital music. What are you thoughts on this?
Erwin Oliva
Hi Ben, thanks for dropping by. Yes you’re right about the downloads and the local market. But there is really a huge demand for pinoy music here and abroad, especially rare and indie music. But keep up the good work. Galing!
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