Music festival season is rapidly approaching, and you know what that means. Our Instagram feeds will soon be filled with girls in flower headbands dancing on guy’s shoulders at Ultra and videos of Disclosure getting groovy at Bonnaroo. But on a more serious note, for true EDM music lovers music festival season means more new sets to jam to.
For people who want to listen to a wide variety of sets at any given moment, there’s now a website and mobile app that lets you do just that. UF junior Jesus Najera, UF senior Johnny Sessa, UM senior John Forte and USC junior Oscar Lafarga have come together to create Stredm.
“Stredm (pronounced Stree-dee-em) is dedicated solely to the streaming of music festival and radio mix sets. The idea is simple: to serve the growing market of EDM fans by providing an organized and user-friendly, sets-only platform. You can find any set by artist, music festival, radio mix or genre and interact with that set like never before. “If it needs instructions, it’s not simple enough,” said Sessa.
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Stredm may sound too similar to Souncloud, MixCloud or even good, ol’ fashioned YouTube, but it has characteristics that set it apart and makes it better suited to serve particular EDM fans’ needs.
“While our content is absolutely available through other resources, the interaction with our product sets us apart. We are not a social media platform; we don’t require sign-ups, we will never ask for personal information and refuse to annoy our users with emails. From a product perspective, our set-oriented navigation makes it easier to find any set you want, stream it, create a playlist, interact with its track list and, temporarily, in-app download it. We are not a social media for sounds or videos; we are a music platform solely dedicated to serving the growing festival crowd,” said Sessa.
When I asked what the future holds for this new creation, Sessa gave me the deets.
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“We actually just released our Android app March 12, but the big plan is for the iOS app, which we’re releasing right before Ultra Music Festival. Right now our future plan is to have a flawless set experience across every platform.”
“I just don’t believe that this colossal and rapidly growing market of festival-goers is being properly served. We strive to create the best set experience for those trying to relive their best festival moments, or those who simply just love nonstop music playing in the background.”
So before you go to that next concert for that DJ you’ve heard of a couple times but tell everyone you “totally love,” check out his sets on Stredm (and thank these guys later.)
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