EMPC 2023 Ready To Be Held, Winky Wiryawan And SIHK Looking For New Seeds Of Electronic Music

SIHK (Photo: EMPC)

JAKARTA - The contestation of Indonesian electronic music producers or Electronic Music Producer Contest (EMPC) will resume this year. Since its premiere in 2019, EMPC has consistently become a medium for Indonesian electronic music producer talents to further develop and then release their work to the world music market.

In this fifth season of EMPC, ICEPERIENCE.ID as the organizer in collaboration with STMPD RCRDS, a Dutch-class music label company founded by Martin Garrix. STMPD RCRDS has been widely known on world electronic music scene and also houses a number of international musicians ranging from Julian Jordan, Justin Mylo, Mattise & Sadko, Dubvision, KVSH to Bleu Clair.

This collaboration with STMPD RCRDS adds to the long list of world music labels that have been involved in EMPC. Previously, there was collaboration with other international labels, namely SPINNIN Records, Barong Family, 88rising, to Astrakwerks. With this collaboration with STMPD RCRDS, the winner of EMPC 2023 will certainly win millions of rupiah rewards as well as a valuable opportunity to release his music work globally.

"The return of EMPC in the fifth season is proof of consistency in accommodated the talents of electronic music producers in Indonesia. EMPC is not just a competition and talent scouting event, but also provides various education and inspiration to participants to show their best abilities and produce quality music," said ICEPERIENCE.ID Representative Sigit Diapsoputra.

"EMPC is still the most consistent medium for Indonesian electronic musicians' talents and strives for them to release their work with international labels. In EMPC, the participants not only compete to show their talents and works, but we also provide education and various experiences needed so that in the future they can stand out in the Indonesian music industry and the world," continued Sigit.

In order to realize the potential and find quality music works from the participants during the scoring and judging process, EMPC 2023 appointed a number of famous names on Indonesian electronic music scene as judges. They are Winky Wiryawan and SIHK. In addition, to increase the quality weight of the judging and curation of musical works, STMPD RCRDS also deployed their cold-handed figures, namely Steven Hiemstra and Quirijn Smits to enter the judges line-up.

"With the collaboration with STMPD RCRDS as the world's big label and the stages of competition with the judges who are very competent, we believe that the music works of the winners will have world-class music quality and be glimpsed by the international music market," Sigit added.

At this year's event, EMPC is optimistic that the submission track will increase compared to previous years where the number of submissions was never less than 1,000 tracks. Sigit explained that the 2023 EMPC will begin with the registration stage for the participants which will be opened from August 14 to September 9, 2023.

Each participant must upload their original work on the website www.iceperience.id Then the curation stage of the judges gradually starts from Top 100, Top 20, Top 5, to final.

Meanwhile, STMPD RCRDS through its official statement said it was always looking for talented musical talents regardless of who and where they came from. In this era, quality electronic music can come from any part of the world, and collaboration with EMPC is the right example of how to find and support talented musicians, especially from Indonesia.

Indonesia is a big country and electronic music has become part of the culture of today's young generation. We see talents from Indonesia continue to emerge and even worldwide. We have also collaborated with many talents from Indonesia, and now together with EMPC we want to find them again. Our goal is to help them step up and give them a stage on world electronic music scene, "said Steven Hiemstra, Director of STMPD RCRDS.

The same thing was revealed by SIHK who was lined up to be one of the judges. As a practitioner, he underlined the important role of EMPC in finding new talents in the world of electronic music and orbiting them to the wider public. The DJ, whose real name is Ricky Tjong, said that EMPC managed to become a bridge connecting talented producers with music record labels, both domestically and internationally.

'Following EMPC is one way so that your track music can be heard by many people. This is a very good opportunity for you young producers to start a career. Keep in mind that every effort that is currently being made can bring great success in the future," said SIHK.