A few days ago I stumbled across thesixtynine.com, a website that bills itself as ‘a musical adventure’ and is a place to go to discover some great new music.

When you sign up for an account they give you a number of points that you can use to ‘bump’ or ‘discover’ music on the site. Bumping a track moves it to the top of the genre lists and costs a point, but discovering music costs a large number of points but if people bump a track that you’ve discovered you win points back. I’ve only been playing with this site for the past day or two, and it seems pretty interesting. Each user gets their own profile page from which they can share music and playlists. Here’s ours.

I’ve been listening thru the dance, electronic and hip-hop genres and I’m pretty impressed at the quality of mp3s that I’ve found. I also like the way that the music continues playing as you click thru the site uninterrupted.

While the site’s got a ways to go to match Pandora and Last.fm, which I’ll be covering in more detail in the future, I think thesixtynine is worthy enough to share with you now.

I’ll be working with some of my musician friends to get stuff up online on this site.  If you’re reading this and need some help getting your stuff up let me know.