C. G. Brown has been involved with music since childhood, as a listener, player, composer, selector, tastemaker and DJ. A life-long love of jazz led him to follow its descendants of fusion, hip-hop, broken beat, and electronic music, and eventually to step behind the turntables in 2001, and behind the production boards a few years later.  As a former resident of P’cheen and of the landmark W Hotel in downtown Atlanta, he has constructed a style that gives a nod to the trendy pop energy of today’s music while still leaving its heart in soulful, globally influenced broken beat and electronic sounds. 

As of 2020, Brown is primarily exploring live music, songwriting, and composition, working with musicians to produce genre-defying sounds rooted in 80s baby influences and futuristic ideas.

Bassist and percussionist who dabbles in guitar, drum kit, and keyboard.

Christina Springer has used text, dance, theatre, film and other visual expressions for over 25 years.  My artwork has slowly revealed my many layered identity.  Thematically or by blending genres, a consistent theme has emerged.   How and why do we perform ourselves on a daily basis?  In any situation a person can be a: worker, color, parent, gender, artist, class, friend, educational level, lover.  At all times, the layers of our identity overlap.  In any human encounter, our identity intersects and/or bounces off the other people’s. In any given context, whether consciously or unconsciously, everyone makes assumptions, acts on opinions or performs behavior scripted by their personal narrative.  

Ricardo iamuuri Robinson, aka La'Vender Freddy is a conceptual sound artist. Their works attend to patterns and forms of sound and space, using deep listening techniques and reproduction technologies as creative methods for engaging sonic influences and reforming social self awareness. They call this artistic practice “Sonarcheology.” 
“A mystical study of the ancestry of sound.” 
 
Robinson's work has been funded by The Pittsburgh Foundation and the Lyman Fund, and was featured in the Emmy Award-winning documentaries In Country: Vietnam and Jim Crow Pennsylvania.  He was named the 2013 RAW Artist of the Year, and was a 2014 Flight School Fellow.  

Before dedicating his energy to audio visual art, Robinson had a vibrant career as a musician, recording and releasing two full albums: Conversations with Shepherds, Sheep, Guinea Pigs and Monkeys: Nursery Rhymes for the Underfed Minds, Vol. 1 and Conversations w/ Aliens, Automatons, Paper Kings and Plastic Dreams: Nursery Rhymes for the Unfettered Minds, Vol. 2.  He has performed with bands and as a solo act in scores of venues around the country.

Live life beautifully. Life life harmoniously.  
Live life inquisitively. Live life spiritually.  (Whatever that means to you. ) Explore. Learn. Share.

Begining as a party kid in the 90's DJ Alaska(Jay Chitty), fell in love with the heavy bass sounds of Djs Sensio and Tiga while going to raves in the Rochester NY area.  With easy access to Toronto Canada he was able to see djs like DJ HYPE and Grooverider easily and was completely convinced that this was something he was born to do.  Upon moving to the Pittsburgh are for school Jay began learning to DJ with his friend and future roommate Eli and from there he began hustling mixtapes to everyone who was interested in his unique style of long mixes and his infusion of hip hop and jungle music. 
 
After a nice stint as a professional underground DJ, Jay became interested in working on throwing events in the area.  He began working with a group of DJs and music lovers on the SCJ Steel City Jungle Tuesday night weekly.  Working along side local Drum and Bass Djs, Sine, Saint, and Dj2, Jay was a resident and promoter for the night as well as working with Nick BulletProof, of tellubproof recordings, to design and implement a floating turntable support for the stage that kept dancers from skipping records through out the night.

After SCJ stopped happening there was a void left in the Drum and bass community in 1999.  Jay and Nick decided to start a Wednesday night Drum and bass weekly called Balance in the South Side.  After a short run they decided to team up with another group doing a night also on Wednesday in Oakland at the now gone Beehive in Oakland.  This was nice but it did not quite fit what they were trying to accomplish as a goal of providing awesome DnB headliners and locals at an affordable price in a relaxing kind of Dive like atmosphere.  That's when Nick started a relationship with the Bloomfield Bridge Tavern (BBT), the current home of Fuzz.  At the BBT they began as Balance, then after a series of unfortunate events they stopped the night.  But with out skipping a beat some of the locals picked it up and Jay got back involved and the music has not stopped since.  That was 1999, now in 2012 Fuzz is 13 years strong and has evolved into a venue that Djs around the world enjoy playing in.  

After the loss of SCJ Drum and Bass in Pittsburgh lost some of it's forward momentum but with the rise of Balance/Fuze/Fuzz, the scene was reborn and Jay had an idea that if the players worked together rather than against each other the DnB scene would be stronger and we could have bigger fun.  He contacted some of the Drum and bass DJ's from a variety of crews that he had played with in the past that, "represent", and proposed that they work together to throw events and promote good times and great talent, in our City and beyond, under the name 412DNB.  Thus the 412DNB crew was born.  Along with numerous contacts and friendships, 412DNB Dj's continue to throw events and play shows all over the country and beyond. Jay now only participates in Fuzz as a guest Dj.  Jay continues the legacy of Pittsburgh Drum and Bass as DJ Alaska and producer RadMax. Trying to do his part in keeping Pittsburgh at the forefront of Dnb.

Jay began Producing with partner in crime and roomate DJ Midas of 412dnb in 2005, under the moniker RNDMTSK (RandomTask).  Having Been released on Core Recordings with a remix of another Pittsburgh producer GPKs tune "Saw is Family" and recently on Mechanical Advantage Digital recordings with a tune called "Reason Why". RNDMTSK went on to produce about 12 tunes before splitting up when Midas moved to Philadelphia.  Jay continued to produce as Alaska412, not to be confused with the already popular ALASKA, responsible for some of Drum and bass's most ground breaking intelligent fare.  Alaska412 had a release on a local label, Milk recordings along with local liquid and dubstep producer ABZ of Savory Audio in 2007.  In 2008 Jay changed his production moniker to RadMax, concentrating on his love of technical drum patterns and standard bass sounds.  To date Radmax has released a collaboration project with GPK to Mechanical Advantage Digital Recordings called "Steel City" ( or Steel Chitty to some).  combining the technical drum programming with GPK's wicked and nasty bass lines.

With the love of performing and drum and bass music RadMax will be cranking out tunes for some time to come.  Keep watch on his Soundcloud page for Free downloads: http://soundcloud.com/radmax412dnb

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