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.

By Alex Villafania
INQUIRER.net

FILIPINOS overseas who long to listen to the sounds of home can access a new online music site and download an entire library of Filipino music.

PinoyTunes.net has over 3,000 all-Filipino songs ranging from the latest pop and rocks songs to classics of the 80s and 90s, as well as hard-to-find songs released during the 60s and 70s.

The songs are encoded in high-quality MP3 format and have been encoded with digital rights management security. which allows the copying of the downloaded songs up to five times.

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