ALVIN ROW

with support from BUSCRATES, SNEEZE AWFULL, & ECLECTUS

doors 7pm

music 8pm

$10 ADMISSION

ALL AGES

Alvin Row is a Pittsburgh-based electronic project, fusing the introspection of ambient, intimate moments from found sounds and voice recordings and drum breaks, creating music that is both organic and recognizable, while surreal and interior. Philosophically indebted to DJ sets, live sets form a collage of all these sounds blurred into one cohesive piece, where the lines between songs become unclear for both artist and audience.

Buscrates is a DJ, musician, and vinyl junkie from the Steel City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Although he has a wide range of inspirations, the most influential are the drum machine and synth heavy grooves of early-mid 80s boogie and the sample laden, neck snapping MPC sequences of early 90s hip-hop. His productions can lean one way or the other, or be a mixture of both. In addition to his vast knowledge of music, he has lately become known for being an analog synthesizer aficionado. Buscrates home setup includes a Rhodes, Clavinet D6, several Moog synthesizers, and many others, a quantum leap of sorts from the minimal setup on which he began producing tracks: an Ensoniq EPS sampler, an off-brand DJ turntable, and stacks of records.

In its most stable form, Sneeze Awfull has Hunter on vocals, Ricki on the cello, and JF playing beats/samples and synthesizer. Their music has been described as walking the fine line between experimental music and bubble-gum pop, instilling the corporeal warmth and recognition associated with dance music within the chaotic shell of a noisy metropolis intersection.