More than 100 people crowded into the Beta Theta Pi house Saturday night to listen to electronic disc jockey sets at a KZUU-sponsored house show.

The attendees gathered to party with a purpose at Bass Fest, a KZUU 90.7 FM event. The house show was just one of several fundraisers the radio station is hosting to bring in money for Pullman’s first Kazzuzapalousa Music Festival happening April 18.

KZUU Festival manager Sasha Gonzalez, a junior double majoring in fine arts and communication, said KZUU partners with fraternities to host dance parties with music provided by KZUU disc jockeys to raise money for the festival. They will be hosting another house show March 7 at Maiden Haven house featuring Blackwater Prophet, Static Tones and Griffey. Saturday night’s Bass Fest featured KZUU disc jockeys OVRCST (Alex Scot Siddons) and Saffron City (Izak Kam).

“All benefits go to benefit Kazzuzapalousa,” Gonzalez said.

The event Saturday made $327, compared to the two previous concerts that raised about $150.

General manager at KZUU Alex Scot Siddons, a senior communication major, disc jockeyed for part of the event. He likes to take the best parts of what’s out there in music and then mix in his own stuff in between it, he said.

“I DJ a lot of house and techno, and everything in between,” Siddons said.

This is 100 percent a grassroots project, Gonzalez said. All of the planning and funds are coming from the students at KZUU and the music is from the area too, she said.

“We’re hoping to get local Pullman and Moscow musicians on the map,” Gonzalez said.

Jennifer Chaan, an undecided freshman, said she is second in command in planning for Kazzuzapalousa. Chaan said the event is really Gonzalez’s project, but Chaan is like the Robin to Gonzalez’s Batman.

“We don’t feel like we get a lot of alternative music out here,” Siddons said.

 “Or local music,” Chaan said, chiming in.

Chaan signed the bands Childbirth and Chastity Belt to perform at Kazzuzapalousa, she said.

Chaan said she really liked the girls in Chastity Belt. The band is from Walla Walla originally and was very supportive of the college and radio station, especially when negotiating payment, she said.

“I was fortunate to get them, and I’m really excited,” Chaan said.

All these events KZUU is throwing are about exposing students to “rad” music and local musicians who are passionate, driven and have really mastered their art, she said. That’s why Chaan said she is stoked for Kazzuzapalousa.

“We just want to expose people to the awesome music that’s around them,” Chaan said.

Music makes people happy, it connects them and brings out their passion, and we just want to bring that to Pullman, she said. We also want the music available here to represent the Washington music scene, she said.

“Everyone’s invited of course,” Gonzalez said.