nq aka Nils Quak is young guy who is 26 years old and lives in dortmund,Germany and he used to play drums in some punk/hard core bands before he had started making electronic music. As for influence to make music, he notes labels like Warp, Reflex and Mille Plateaux, Sonic Youth, Jim O'Rourke, Morton Feldman, every works of Brian Eno, the sound he hears while he is walking town and at last, every bleep and glitch sound.
The eagle eyed will have observed NQ's quiet appearance on the last Progressive Form sampler "Forma". Recording Syntax lives up to its name, dismantling the very processes of music making. Nils Quak is operating at the forefront of the Progressive Form credo – 'Panel' has a glorious, vulnerable melody line, swathed in the rhythmic dissembling, crackles and syncopated pops. Nils teases out from the miasma a gentle progression, there's the giant bass presence of "Nhls", almost a signature tune we imagine, which enters a central section of distortion before building again into a bright melody heard from askance, an absolute killer modulation. "Disthant" and "PlEhR" both allow Nils to show further rhythm chops, while "Juri" allows him to retreat inside a luminescent shell, waves of sound lapping against your ears. You all know the story with Progressive Form by now – pretty well all essential stuff and NQ is no different.