You need more, you want to get personal advice and discover hot new artists? 

We provide you with fully personal recommendation:

This is where Selekter becomes a great experience... Selekter is powered by music reviews written by contributors who are experts. We help you find experts who share your tastes.

All of this through comprehensive, easy and fun tools :

But we know that as a music fan, you want to express yourself :

We provide you with various features that will allow you to engage at many different levels: you will define your music ID on your profile with your best albums and favorite artists; you can comment, evaluate and share reviews, support your favorite reviewers, share artists and albums pages,... and above all, you can begin writing your own reviews and develop your reputation. 

nb: most of these "engagement features" are on our roadmap for public release. Look at the Roadmap section below for details.

When most of recommendation applications rely on anonymous advice or affinity with your peers, Selekter relies on SOCIAL EXPERTISE AND REPUTATION : Selekter is built on reviews and ratings by music fans with an expertise.

Reviews are more informative than simple comments. They can't be anonymous. You can check the author's profile and read other reviews he wrote. 

And after you have red a review, you can evaluate it. We mix your feedback with other criteria and we calculate the reputation of each contributor. We call this reputation factor the "Karma".

Each reviewer on Selekter has a personnal Karma representing his reputation and expertise. When we recommend a reviewer - we call them "Selekters" - we always consider his / her Karma as a premium factor of choice.

In fact, one can say that we are more concerned with recommendation of music experts than with music itself...

"Walk This Way"

When you register with Selekter, you can freely write reviews about albums and rate them from 1 to 10. There's no admission process and no restraint. Just do it! but we have guidelines that secure the quality and utility of reviews:

- You must give a title and write a short description of your review,

-  Your review must include a minimum of 300 signs, because we don't want to post useless comments such as “Waouh!! that's so good!" We know that nobody cares for such comments when it comes to make a decision (and finding good music is a tough one)! We ask reviewers to express an opinion and argue about it like professionnals.

here's how you can write your review and give a rating:

Your review also appears on the album page :

When your first review is online, you become a member of our editorial team: you become a Selekter (quite easy to remember...). You can then display on your profile  your bio, social links, albums you recommend and your reviews...

this is what your Profile looks like when you become a selekter:

Let's summarize it :

• Reviewers/Selekters write and post reviews in a  professional format and rate albums

• we compute ratings and generate charts by genre / style / artist
  

• You follow your favorite Selekters, and you get their reviews in real time, as well as recommendations and other posts, on your personal timeline.

• You engage in supporting your favorite Selekters, and you help them increase their reputation through the Karma Index.
  

• we take care of the reputation of the Selekters, so you as a user/reader can easily find the best ones tailor-made to your tastes !
  
  
  

Last but not least, none of the other applications combine these features in the way than we do:

• fully integrated streaming platform (powered by Deezer*, and later Google & Spotify when available)

• a database of  350,000 albums and 100,000 artists, growing everyday

• one click access to the Top albums of any genre with a cool timeline
  

• more than 170 music styles in all genre from Rock to Jazz to Classic...

• exclusive features to discover Selekters who share your tastes

• ranking of expertise and reputation of contributors through the Karma Index

All wrapped in a “state of the art” design, with all the features you need to share, participate and engage !

Streaming appears to be the smartest way to access unlimited music online, and we have integrated one of the most efficient service: french based Deezer.

Deezer is active in more than 180 different countries, with plans for the launch of the US service, and proposes a very complete API (for “Application Programming Interface”) that perfectly matches with Selekter: provided you have a freemium or premium account with Deezer, you can stream music on Selekter by connecting both accounts in one click; visit the site while you launch the player, no break, no pop-up window!

Unfortunately, US citizens may not benefit of this feature presently, but we plan to support other services like Spotify and Google Play when they will propose their own APIs. This is part of our roadmap.

"We will Rock You"

We’re just getting warmed up: we have presently developed the main features necessary to validate the “proof of concept” and begin to attract contributors. because we are social, we are depending upon content posted by voluntary contributors. We are in the process of adding thousands of reviews in the next months before going public!

We have launched our "Selekter Needs You" program to attract contributors, and we are happy to announce that most of the bloggers we approached are willing to join, or already have !

In the meantime, we look ahead: we have a roadmap full of great features, including most of the "social expertise" and engagement features we described.

Have a look below to our roadmap to discover what we plan to introduce in the near future.

We hope this campaign will help us raise money to take the next step and enhance your experience. The more funding we raise, the more features we will be able to develop:

"Harder better faster Stronger"

The present beta version, as powerful as it is, is only the backbone of the service.

Thus we had to settle priorities and concentrate for the beta version on the very core features that were mandatory : We focused so far on features that will attract contributors and Early Adopters”, who will help us get great content and evangelize the service.

Here are the main features we plan to develop within a 2 years period :

And by backing us, you will become an active member of our development, and help us imagine new features that will make Selekter an even greater experience for all !

"Get Up, Stand Up"

Selekter was founded in 2011 by Christophe Soulard, both music addict and respected professional in the french music business for more than 20 years, with successive positions as business affairs VP for Universal Music France, then independent legal advisor for some major acts and independent producers, manager and Vice President of the french arm of the International Music Manager Forum (IMMF).

Christophe Soulard also worked in the early eighties within a high tech software services company, and always kept a strong interest in the confluence of music and technology.

5 years ago, it became quite obvious that recommendation will be one of the most challenging issues of the digital era. Selekter came alive late 2010 and development began in spring 2012. Selekter is planned to open to the public beginning of 2014.