Looking like guys you would meet at a bar, dressed in Hawaiian print shirts, baseball hats and jeans-the Serial Carpens performed their unusual blend of ska, punk and hip-hop for Sacramento State students in the Hinde Auditorium Wednesday, Oct. 18.

You won’t find a mix like these guys anywhere else. With Latin guitar riffs and record-scratching among the elite sounds of a trombone, trumpet and drums, Serial Carpens is a musical cornucopia.

Daisuke brings the unique element of turntables into the flow, providing a hip-hop sound not usually combined with blues-style trumpet and trombone, but that somehow sounds completely natural.

Experimenting with tempos, mixing slow beats with sudden blasts of hard sound and powerful vocals are what this band’s all about. They have a spontaneous style that lends itself to improvisation.

Besides spontaneity, Serial Carpens have another trick up their sleeve for wowing audiences. They have a couple of songs that have a style of sound similar to that of a movie plot.

The music starts out slow, getting faster and faster, building toward crescendo until you’re left realizing you were holding your breath in anticipation.

The band is based out of Davis and arrived on the scene just a little more than a year ago. However, they perform with the professional, seasoned flow of band mates that have been together a long time.

Bojangles will feature Serial Carpens on Nov. 3. And if that isn’t enough, catch them again at Harlows on Nov. 12.