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Tracksploitation Deejays Take Pittsburgh Chamber Music To New, And Different, Heights

90.5 WESA | By Bob Studebaker

Published September 24, 2015 at 8:19 AM EDT

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Jct45 and Professor A.S.A.P. of Tracksploitation are playing a live show with a classical string quartet at Boom Concepts in Garfield on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015.

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Jct45 and Professor A.S.A.P. of Tracksploitation are playing a live show with a classical string quartet at Boom Concepts in Garfield on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015.

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Jct45 and Professor A.S.A.P. of Tracksploitation are playing a live show with a classical string quartet at Boom Concepts in Garfield on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015.

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An event Thursday at Boom Concepts on Penn Avenue in Garfield combines a contemporary approach to music with a style that has been performed, pretty much unchanged, for centuries.

Chamber Music Pittsburgh’s Kristen Linfante explains that this experiment -- placing a classical string quartet on stage with Jct45 and Professor A.S.A.P., deejays for Pittsburgh's Tracksploitation -- requires artists willing to “step out of the box.”