Por lo pronto, descubrimos a sus protagonistas, Tito y Marcos, durante el primer día de grabación. El director testea algunos ángulos de cámara para una escena con Marcos en su dormitorio; mientras Tito escucha atentamente las consignas del equipo de producción.
Un día más tarde, Marcos y Tito tuvieron una cita íntima, pero esta vez no se trataba de ninguna de las bellísimas mujeres que habitualmente los rodean; sino más bien de un no tan sensual cocodrilo.
Al menos el reptil no pide zapatos ni carteras y le basta con su propia piel!

Visita ya la página de “DETOUR” en Cyloop, para disfrutar webisodes exlcusivos de consagrados como Beto Cuevas, Belanova, Bullet For My Valentines, o Motion City Soundtrack, entre muchos más!

El nos visitó recientemente, y pasamos un buen rato entrevistandolo y creando su pagina en Cyloop.

The Miami Cyloop team (almost all of us, anyway) participated in this year’s event. We joined other volunteers at a local school, where we built patio furniture and landscaped a portion of the school grounds.

Here we are, being all kinds of hard-working do-gooders:

Burnie, the Miami Heat’s mascot, took a special liking to us. But can you blame him?

Here’s the article in its entirety.

Social streaming: music’s new business model?
BY BRIDGET CAREY
The music industry loses billions each year on pirated music, so labels are constantly looking for new ways to hold on to their business — even offering music for free.

Soon, you’ll be able to hear the entire music catalogs of labels like Warner and EMI for free, without commercial interruptions, on a social networking site called Cyloop.com.

Cyloop.com, headed by Argentine-born Demian Bellumio, began life as ElHood.com, a social network website geared toward Hispanic musicians. The company changed its name to Cyloop in August with goals to expand globally, including English-language offerings. On Monday, Cyloop.com announced it had signed deals with heavyweights like Warner and The Orchard, which distributes the music of about 6,000 independent labels.

Members can stream as much music as they want and create playlists to save and share with other members. The catch: You have to be logged in to Cyloop.com to play the music. And, forget about downloading the songs to your computer.

The partnership is a new chapter in the evolution of the music industry, as labels are experimenting with new technologies to make up for money lost on in-store album sales and from illegal downloads.

”We want Cyloop to not only be a site but be a platform that powers the music labels,” Bellumio said.

Bellumio, 31, said he expects to close a deal with Sony and Universal before the end of the year.

Cyloop allows users to create custom playlists based on the music the site features, and it allows artists to upload and promote their own music.

Cyloop is home to many independent Latin artists; English-speaking artists include Wilco and comedian George Lopez. With a staff of about 70, the company builds profile pages for artists and expects to have 100,000 artist profiles by the end of the year.

DOWNSIDE, UPSIDE

Unlike other sites such as MySpace.com, Cyloop users cannot create their own content. That makes Cyloop more attractive to advertisers, who don’t want their ads next to potentially risqué content, Bellumio said.

The site is supported by on-screen advertisements, but there are no audio commercials interrupting the music. Billboard now sells the ads for Cyloop in the United States. The record labels split the ad revenue with the site, a new business model for the labels, Bellumio said. Major sponsors include Microsoft and Ford.

Monday’s announcement included the news that Cyloop.com will now run the music channel of Terra.es, Spain’s leading Internet portal. With roughly 17 million unique visitors a month, according to Bellumio, Terra’s traffic can bring a nice boost in advertising revenue to the 1-year-old site.

Bellumio wouldn’t reveal Cyloop’s traffic numbers, but said the target is at least 5 million registered users by next year. As of now, 40 percent of Cyloop’s traffic is from the United States.

Music downloads and subscriptions are a $1 billion industry, said David Card, an analyst with JupiterResearch. The biggest successes in the digital music business, he says, “are the 99-cent singles that you can play on your iPod.”

But downloading isn’t growing fast enough to keep up with declining CD sales. Global piracy of recorded music has cost the United States $12.5 billion in economic output and 71,060 jobs annually, according to an August report by the Institute for Policy Innovation.

”If you are a record label or publisher, you need to tap into multiple revenue streams,” said Card.

But Card said it is too early to guess if this new model will save the industry or match the revenue from digital downloads. And he is skeptical about Cyloop’s plans to profit off advertisements.

”Right now no one is spending any money on digital audio ads,” Card said. “There’s no guarantee that anyone will see those ads whatsoever.”

Bellumio, a former vice president of corporate finance for Terremark, said he doesn’t expect the company to be profitable until next year. The company has so far raised more than $11 million in venture capital financing.

THE NEXT STEP

The next step for Cyloop is to explore how to get involved in the mobile phone market, Bellumio said. It already started filming webisodes in its new video studio in Miami Beach.

He said he plans to use the studio for filming music videos and eventually create a live-audience Latin music show, similar to MTV’s TRL.

For artists themselves, social networking sites have become critical to promoting themselves, even if they don’t make any money.

Jason Calleiro, 27, who toured for years with the band Glasseater, said he depended on online message boards for marketing and communicating with fans.

His new Miami-based social networking site, OurScene.com, which launches in a few weeks, will offer artists the chance not only to give away free music downloads, but also to communicate tour dates with fans and sell merchandise — the real moneymaking paths.

”I definitely think the industry needs to rethink ways of getting income,” Calleiro said.

Jesse & Joy

Ricky Martin

Calle 13

Laura Pausini

Aterciopelados

Panasuyo

Of course, the pictures are super secret and we can’t post them up yet, but we can give you a sneak peek – just so you have an idea.

Enjoy!

Aquí están, de izquierda a derecha, Gustavo, Carlos y Gabi, y Toro y Javi (atrás):

Armando su página:

But! The new official blog on Cyloop allows for comments, which is something we’re really excited about.

Right now, you can still read us here on WordPress, but we are open for business over at Cyloop.

Take a look and leave a comment!

At Audio Therapy Miami!

Guys, this is going to be so cool: local DJ’s Mike Vasquez, Ivano Bellini, Marc Vane and Austin Leeds will be spinning the Pawn Shop tomorrow night. Their performances will lead to the night’s feature artist: BT!

A bunch of us at Cyloop are big BT fans, so we’re thrilled that we’re going to be there. Even better – we’ve been given all access and will soon bring you exclusive video from the event!

W00t!

Anyway, we’ve had a number of artists stopping by our new studio (pictures soon!). Wondering who exactly has been by?

Origen

So South

Intocable

We’re at a point where it’s hard to keep track of the artists who come in for visits, meetings and recording sessions. As we get back to regular speed, we’ll be sure to get all the latest pictures up for you all to enjoy.

The night we launched, most of us were at a networking event hosted by Next in Line, and we were the featured guest. As our developers and IT department were making the final adjustment to upgrade elHood to Cyloop, our CEO spoke alongside Monte*Rosa, one of the artists on our site, about the music industry and anti-piracy. After that we all got to enjoy an amazing performance by Monte*Rosa. The coolest part was that when I got into work the following morning, I was able to hear more of Monte*Rosa’s music at his new Cyloop page.

Can’t wait to see what we’ll come up with next!

What???

So here’s the deal: elHood.com started out as a site mainly for Latin Americans and Hispanics to enjoy their favorite artists. But over the course of the last year, we’ve grown so much, we’ve been a hit in such unexpected places, that we realized we had to take our site to a new level – and Cyloop was born!

Why Cyloop?

The name “Cyloop” highlights one of the most distinctive features about our site – the interactive Loop. Unlike other music web portals, Cyloop allows users to create music playlists with a simple drag-and-drop interface just like a desktop application. These customized, networked playlists, or Loops, can be accessed from anywhere on the Internet. The ability to create interactive, streaming playlists is a very powerful feature that allows you to engage with the artists’ music on our site actively and continually.

In addition to our new name, we’re also unveiling a new look and feel to the site. We now have a radio player, where you can create your own custom radio stations and have access to our preset Loops; plus newer, cooler music and video players that include artist and album info; better search tools; and tab navigation that’s easier to use.

Sounds pretty cool, huh?

We are still a Hispanic community at heart, but our reach – as well as the variety of artists we offer – is expanding at an incredible rate. With Cyloop, we hope to bring you a wide variety of music catalogs, videos, pictures and interactive features, as well as top-notch, exclusive content that will, basically, knock your socks off.

You can learn more about Cyloop here.

p.s. For the next couple of weeks, this will still be our official blog. We’ll soon have a new one up and running, where you’ll be able to comment and share with your friends. Stay tuned for details on that!