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Mondays at the Enormous Room with residents DJ Flack and Wayne and Wax
567 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
9pm to 1am, 21 plus, Free
617.491.5550

July 6th
DJ N-Ron (Brooklyn)
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Daniel Perlin , aka DJ N-RON, is an artist and producer based in Brooklyn, NY. His work includes production for David Byrne's label Luaka Bop records, mixes for Sound-Ink Records, and as a recording artist for Tax records, Broklyn Beats, Apple Core and Giant Corporate Records. Recent releases include collaborations with Dj/Rupture, Dj Small Change and Vito Acconci. In 2007, N-RON's The Collaborator was voted a best mixtape of 2007 by Kid Kameleon in XLR8R magazine.

His sound has been heard at the The New Museum, Guggenheim Museum NY, Centre Georges Pomediou, Temporary Contemporary Gallery, London, TN Probe, Tokyo and at festivals such as Pireneos Sur, Spain, Berlin Film festival, Cannes and CMJ.

July 13th
Nth Synthesis (France)
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Nth sysnthesis is Pierce Warneckle a multimedia artist on tour from his home base in Lyon, France. He makes electronic music and electronic visuals and puts out music on France's famous experimental label BEE Records. His music ranges from funky 8-Bit glitch-hop to soothing layered ambience. He lists his influences as such...

audio:
autechre, steve reich, brian eno, plaid, luke vibert, '70's soundtracks, fela, magma, soft machine, gong, telefon telaviv, talking heads, midlake, tortoise, jega, white noise

video:
david lynch, stan brakhage, chris cunningham, bill viola, XX + XY

AV:
semiconductor, ryochi ikeda, dennis miller, robert seidel looks like:

July 20th
DJ Gregzinho
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DJ Gregzinho is just off another trip to Brazil, where he crisscrossed the favelas of Rio to meet up with DJs and MCs on the Flamin Hotz Records fair trade funk carioca releases Funkeiros e Progresso EP and Pancadão do Morro: O Funk do Flamin Hotz, Já É? They pushed plenty of fresh funk CD-Rs into his hands, and he also scoured São Paulo, Recife, and Salvador for some crate digging samba rock/rap, maracutu, guitarrada, Brazilian hip-hop, and MPB.

Expect a wide range of Brazilian beats, as well as the usual pan-American sabores from Hudson Bay to the Tierra del Fuego. Gregzinho blogs about cities, beats, urban space, and landscapes at Beat Diaspora.

July 27th
Cathy Cathodic
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Cathy Cathodic is the latest emcee of substance to come out of Boston,
MA. Her rapid fire delivery will leave a staccato of unresolved feelings,
keeping you tossing and turning in your bed, wringing your hands
and asking yourself, “why?” Her soulful voice coupled w/ layers of dub style delay and psychedelic dissonance will reflect the
gastric variations left dancing in your guts.

In 2008 Ms. Cathodic
toured with New Orleans based psych-rap veteran, MC Trachiotomy, opening for The Butthole Surfers. She’s currently working on her first full-length CD to be released on VAC-UME -PACT records.

August 3rd = DJ Verb 9 (Tel Aviv, Israel)

Images From Past Beat Research Parties

Photos
October, 9, '06
Edu K and Daniel Haaksman
Photos by David Day

Photos
Oct, 11, '05
Vex'd, Plasticman, and DJ C
Photos by Christopher Kontoes and DJ C

Photos
Haloween, '05
Al-Haca Soundsystem feat. RQM, DJ RNDM, Bootleg Billly, and DJ YMCA
Photos by DJ C and Al-Haca

Bouncement
w. Ghislain Poirier, DJ C, DJ Flack
Zebbler & Sean Stevens - Friday, March 30, 2007.

Videos
of Filastine performing at Beat Research's
5 year anniversary show on March 23rd, 2009

Guest Performers at Beat Research Have Included