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Beat Research is a weekly event, and a record label promoting experimental party music.


DJ C and DJ Flack at Beat Research 7/04.

The Beat Research party is free every Monday
at the Enormous Room in Cambridge, MA
from 9pm to 1am (21 plus)
567 Massachusetts Avenue
617.491.5550

The party features excursions into the depths of ragga, hiphop, dubstep, bhangra, grime, jungle, bashment, and just about everything else that'll make ya move. Residents DJ Flack and DJ C have been rocking parties together for almost 10 years. They’ve performed at clubs, museums, theaters, and house parties from New York City to Prague. From time to time they perform live as DuoTone — sometimes with laptops, turntables, and video projection, and sometimes with just their mouths, a-capella hip-hop style. In March, 2004 they started Beat Research to present weekly, eclectic DJ sets and live performances.

Now Beat Research is branching out into a record label — a spin-off from DJ C's Mashit imprint. Mashit began in 2003 to release hard-hitting ragga-junglistic material, and since has released many quality 12" records which are being rocked hard at parties around the world, and have been caned by the likes of the late John Peel, and Ninjatune's Solid Steel DJs. The Beat Research label is an outlet for the release of a broad range of experimental party music, from blunted beats, to dub-hall, to breakment, to Boston bounce...