Oomix - Web-Based Music Collaboration

Sure there are already social music communities and marketplaces for independent artists, but Oomix offers users a major twist.

Oomix, currently in a beta pre-launch stage, is aiming to spur some musical creativity by connecting artists around the world and bringing them together on one site to collaborate.

This service allows anyone to post their own instrumental or vocal tracks on the site as well as listen to the uploaded tracks of others. Once joining as a musician, band, or record label, users can upload and master songs, but the real social qualities come into play when users interact with one another and combine tracks. Through this process a new song is created, which can then be sold in the Oomix marketplace. Each party chooses the ownership percentages of all tracks and production, and then each musician receives their pre-agreed percentage of revenue from each sale.

The Oomix Demo video does a great job of explaining some of the benefits of the service.

“A musician from the UK posts a drum track on the Oomix site. It gets picked up by a guitarist from Finland, who gets a bass part from a girl in Holland. Vocals courtesy of an L.A singer and the end result is an original song. They agree a split in royalties via the site’s messaging facility and put the song up for sale.”

• Upload audio tracks (song components that can be mastered into a song) (1 credit)
• Upload a song (4 credits)
• Master a song (12 credits)

An interesting addition to keep the music flowing is the 'Roundabout Songs' feature, where a group of songs are provided for users to edit, and each night at midnight (GMT), they move on to another musician for further development. Each musician has 24 hours to edit the song and save it before it moves on to another user.

Oomix has actually created a service that can appeal to both independent musicians (for its new collaboration and revenue opportunities), as well as avid indie music fans (for its growing library of independent songs). In the Oomix store, songs sell for $1.99 each, which may seem somewhat overpriced considering the fact that commercial tracks on iTunes sell for just 99 cents each (DRM-free included).

As part of the pre-launch effort, Oomix is running the `Juicy Apples’ competition, which has users voting for their favorite song created via the site. Prizes for first, second, and third place winners are an iPod, an iPod mini, and an iPod Shuffle, respectively.

Also, as a special incentive, Oomix is offering 20 extra credits (50 total) to Profy readers simply by entering the code PROFY upon sign up (on the 2nd page of registration).

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