Qtier & David August: Match Unmade

David August’s new remix of Qtier’s “Set Me On” is testament to the unsystematic collaborative efforts of global electronic artists. Beneath August’s undulating imprints lies the grippingly bare-boned, chilling single produced by Qtier just a few months prior. The original, with its transfixing lyrics set on top of low, breath-like pulsations, leaves your hair raised with each loop around. August morphs Qtier’s simplistic poetry into a musical painting, amplifying the emotive experience with heightened cusps and lulls of fragility. You can’t help but feel an unnerving excitement like that of tiptoeing around a beast on the brink of wakefulness. And this uneasiness matches well with Qtier’s lyrics which imply that someone or something is destined to be their only source of elevation.