QTM

QTM is a 23 year old graduate student originally from New Jersey. Growing up he spent summers in Holgate, the southernmost town on Long Beach Island. His debut EP Holgate is to some extent the document of a life anchored by those summers, all 23 of them spent in Holgate at the vacation home his grandfather built in the '70s; the same house decorates the cover that QTM helped design for the release. He calls the town "a primary source of both continuity and musical inspiration". A drummer since 13, QTM turned to making mashups and sample music when his living situations prevented having drums. Over the course of subsequent years he expanded the range of those first experiments, changing his focus to making truly original compositions, for which Holgate is first and best testimony. Though the mood in the photograph is somber, QTM's music is colorful, animated in large part by catchy sample arrangements and cinematic juxtapositions of vocals and effects.