MUMBAI:  With the end of the summer fast approaching, this year’s festival season is slowly coming to an end. Fortunately, it’s not too late to spot the acts participating in the European Talent Exchange Programme (ETEP) at festivals near you such as, Festival Number Six, What’s Next in Music, Lollapalooza Berlin, Mercat de Musica Viva de Vic, Reeperbahn Festival, Waves Vienna, MaMA Event, Bizkaia International Music Experience, Budapest Showcase Hub, Iceland Airwaves, Rolling Stone Weekender, Linecheck and Les Rencontres Trans Musicales de Rennes.

Although the ETEP season has not yet come to an end, we’d like to share some of this year’s highlights with you. First and foremost, with 457 shows and counting ETEP has already set a new record. Due to an ever-growing pool of festivals, as well as expansions within festivals outside of Europe such as South-African Oppi Koppi and Canadian Music Week (CMW). The European Talent Exchange Programme offers participating artists even better support and opportunities.

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Local heat waves occurred at festivals that featured ETEP record breaker Super organism on the bill. With 20 shows, Super organism broke the record of 17 ETEP bookings that SHAME set last year. Super organism was not the only successful ETEP act this year after playing ESNS, Zeal and Ardor, Yonaka, Sigrid and Tamino all managed to be booked by ten or more ETEP festivals.  If you're not convinced yet, last year, 14 acts were booked for six or more ETEP shows, this year 22 acts got to play six or more festivals.

"With the new record we aim to conquer the world. Eurosonic was a great way to introduce our Turkish psychedelic sounds to a broader audience," said Altin Gun

Super excited to have had the chance to perform so many great festivals for Tshegue’s first tour! Can’t wait to keep on playing new festivals and great scenes, coveyed Dakou, Tshegue’s co-founder, drummer and producer

 "Having had the chance to play so many festivals is unbelievable. It goes to show how many people are passionate about music and the lengths they will go to make it happen," said  Manuel, Zeal and Ardor .