Midnight Quickie
Midnight Quickie adalah sebuah grup musik bergenre "electronic dance pop" asal Jakarta, Indonesia. Grup musik ini beranggotakan seorang disjoki yaitu Irsan Ramadhan serta seorang vokalis bernama Charita Utami. Grup musik ini tergabung dalam label Seven Music. Grup musik ini telah memiliki satu album studio berjudul "Being Bad Feels Good" yang rilis tahun 2012 lalu.
Midnight Quickie is an electronic group music/ DJ Producer (Irsan Ramadhan) with a female lead singer (Charita Utami). They mix pop and dance music genre and bring a musical performance concept with vocal and mash up live.
Called as the “Rising Star” by many seniors and artist managers, clearly they are on their way to stardom year. They performed in Djakarta Warehouse Project 2012 alongside Calvin Harris, avicii, Paul Van Dyke, Knife Party, Porter Robinson, A-Trak, Late Night Alumni.
As closing in 2014, Midnight Quickie for the second time successfully led the craziness of the audience at Djakarta Warehouse Project 2014 (Garuda Main Stage, played alongside Above & Beyond, DVBBS, Martin Garix, Nervo, Nicky Romero, Showtek, skrillex, Steve Angelo, Steve Aoki, Laidback Luke) and also their single with Devarra & Jamie Aditya “On Time” became the After Movie Anthem for Djakarta Warehouse Project 2014.
In order to celebrate Hari Pahlawan on November 10th, 2015, Midnight Quickie cooperated together with LINE Indonesia and Mix Radio for “A Tribute to Izmail Marzuki“, they covered a national song called “Selendang Sutra“ which was made in their own EDM/ future music style.
In September 2016, they released another single titled "Begitu Indah" with 5 different versions which was remixed by their fellow producers, such as Bleu Clair, Calvin Aziszam, Osvaldorio, Bimski, in conjunction with Charita Utami's birthday.
At the end of December 2016, they released a single titled "Be Free" under Clutch Records UK and was supported by Thomas Hayden.
In February 2017, Midnight Quickie released "Ingin Hilang Ingatan", a single by one of Indonesian most famous punk rock bands, Rocket Rockers, which they remixed into their own electronic pop style.
Along with their musical and live performance style, Midnight Quickie is heading for the commercial direction and is starting a new trend in the youth. Not so long ago, they have released their single “City Lights” which is now topping radio charts, and is now #1 in Trax FM Jakarta and Semarang.
Their single entitled “City Lights” has brought their own sound, which has made Indonesians proud and successfully gained international recognition. It has reached #75 on the NME MaxxYou World Widechart, being one of the Indonesian artists to pass International artists such as FloRida and Train.
On top of that, their single “Bebas Lepas” which was released in February 2013, the record reached #1 on the 98.7 GEN FM & Ardan Radio Bandung, and played all over the radio in Indonesia.
Gaining attention from the international music scene, Midnight Quickie became Brand Ambassador for Lenovo Indonesia campaign for “Digital Touch Turntable” and Brand Ambassador for Bratpack Indonesia.
In 2014 Midnight Quickie remixed Steve Aoki & Rune RK & Race – Bring You To Life and became #1 in the remix competition which was held by Dance astronaut. In the first quarter in 2014 Midnight Quickie was nominated as Breakthrough Artist of the year – Net One “Indonesia Choice Awards 2014“.
On September 30th, 2014 Midnight Quickie successfully released their debut album titled “Being Bad Feels Good” and reached number 4 rank in iTunes Indonesia. Furthermore, their single “Derap Langkah” was released and had captured the number 1 in Ardan Radio Bandung, also top 20 in 98.7 GEN FM Jakarta, KISS FM, Trax FM Semarang.
In October 2014, Midnight Quickie was chosen to be the cover magazine of Hai Magazine and also as Raja Pensi in Info Pensi & Hai Magazine version.
In June 2015 Midnight Quickie released their forth single “Cerita Diantara Kita“ and became #1 at Ardan Radio Bandung.
As closing in 2015, Midnight Quickie was nominated for HAI – Reader’s Poll Music Award 2015, The Best Album, The Best EDM, The Best Single. and also Paranoia Awards 2015 for Track of the Year (Dancing in the rain – yacko & Midnight Quickie) & Group of the Year Paranoia Awards 2015.
In the beginning of the year 2017, they got nominated as EDM Terdahsyat at Dahsyatnya Awards 2017.
OZ Radio Bandung also nominated them as Penyanyi Duo/Group Terfriendly, Di bulan februari 2017 Midnight Quickie berkolaborasi dengan band punk rock asal bandung Rocket Rockers, Midnight Quickie & Rocket Rockers merilis ulang lagu "Ingin Hilang Ingatan". di pertengahan tahun 2017 Midnight Quickie & Osvaldorio meluncurkan single mereka berjudul "Bersamamu Bahagia" dan juga tidak lama Midnight Quickie & Bleu Clair berhasil merilis single Getaway.