OQ is Liam O’Brien and Cole Quamme in collaboration with an array of contributors based in Milwaukee, WI. Quamme (The Fatty Acids) started making beats influenced by the definitive sound of the late Janka Nabay and decided to reach out to local folk and bluegrass musicians to see what they could do with them. Quamme eventully recruited O’Brien (Holy Sheboygan!, Liam O'Brien's Faithless Followers) who developed the interlocking rhythms into songs based on Celtic melodies. By the time they’d gotten around to producing their first EP, Paradice 1, the project had taken on surprising new forms. Paradice 1 exemplifies this evolution. Melodic ruminations on humanity dance over sustained grooves and complex polyrhythms. It’s a sound that hearkens a distant past and in the same stroke, heralds in the coming of a not-so-distant future.