Boston Phoenix on Mashit

RIDDIM SCIENCE By Susanna Bolle Boston Phoenix November 14, 2007 For more than a decade, JAKE TRUSSELL (a/k/a DJ C) was a central figure in Boston’s electronic-music underground, first as a founding member of the influential avant-junglist Toneburst collective and then as one of the resident “riddim scientists” at Beat Research every Monday at Enormous Room. And though he left…

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DJ C; “Sonic Weapons” – MP3 Release

-> Sonic Weapons MP3 Download <- We’re excited to bring you the exclusive MP3 download release of DJ C’s Sonic Weapons album, which was released on CD this past summer to critical acclaim. Sonic Weapons features guest appearances by Chicago-based bad-man ragga vocalist Zulu, world renowned Viennise thereminist Pamelia Kurstin, wicked wicked Boston riddim scholar Wayne&Wax, Jamaican vocalists Wasp and…

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Mashit Shop Launch

We’re launching the brand-new Mashit download shop with the exclusive MP3 release of DJ C’s Sonic Weapons album, which was released on CD this summer to critical acclaim. That’ll be followed by releases from the likes of Bong Ra, Chrissy Murderbot, DJ Flack, Sosolimited, DuoTone and many more. You’ll be able to preview tracks and then buy them as high-quality,…

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Welcomining

It’s been a long time coming but finally, we unveil the new Mashit.com!Over the next few months we’ll be rolling out a series of mind-blowing features like free mashup and DJ mix downloads, interviews with and exclusive tracks by some of our favorite artists, music and DJ gear reviews, a download store, and lots more. Stay tuned…

Mashit Hype Archive

There’s been quite a bit written about Mashit and a bunch of it is archived over at the old Mashit site. If you’re wondering what slander the press has published about us in the past you can go read for yourself.

Mashit DJ Mix Archive

Over the years we’ve posted quite a few DJ mixes on the Mashit site. We’re not going to re-post all those mixes on the new site but here’s the archive page where you can find many hours of great music from DJ C, Aaron Spectre, Kid Kameleon, Ironside, Foundation Stepper, Murderbot, DJ Wrongspeed, Kano and more.

Mashit 12-inch Release Archive

The Mashit record label was founded in the spring of 2003 by DJ C to fill a need for raggabreaks, dubcore, speedbeats, genreblends, wreckstep, soundclashes, beatresearch, mashups, rewinds, basshits, and boomsounds. The first 12-inch vinyl record featured one of C’s rough-and-rugged-ragga tracks along-side an Aaron Spectre remix. It sold out within weeks of it’s release. The next 7 Mashit 12-inches…

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