News

Recently, we managed to catch up with top session drummer Richard Mark Angelo , and heard what he had to say about Point Blank’s Sound Engineering course, and working with Brit Award nominated artist Rumer , on her debut album. read more

We recently held an in-depth workshop with Soundcloud ’s David Adams, who shared his expertise and debated the best ways to optimize the marketing of your music and broaden your net appeal via the groundbreaking social media platform that has now engulfed previous sites such as Myspace. read more

Have you just started a new course at Point Blank and need to invest in some new equipment or looking to upgrade your old gear? As part of our ongoing partnership with Pioneer , the cutting edge music production and DJ equipment developer, we can announce that students, who purchase any Pioneer products from West End DJ , will qualify for a 5% discount! Get in touch with us via our contact details to find out more. read more

We are very proud to report that one of our students, Bassem Ayoub has recently won an award for his excellent Hip-Hop Radio show on Free Radio 95. 7fm . Bassem, better known as Mr. B presents the three hour long Hip-Hop show on the number one radio station broadcasting in Sierra Leone, and for that, he has been rewarded by Lake Heroes as ‘The Best Hip-Hop DJ of 2011’ at a ceremony hosted at the National Stadium in Freetown. read more

As always, here at Point Blank we are always more than happy to boast about our former students and their current musical exploits to no end. This time we have really got something to rave on at you about. read more

We are hugely excited to announce that world famous DJ and producer; Ashley Beedle will be presenting an exclusive masterclass for Point Blank students on Wednesday 13 th April . The session will be hosted by our very own Danny Lewis at 1pm (GMT) , and will focus on exploring Beedle’s extraordinary career in the music business, and will no doubt shine light upon the plethora of influential projects he has been involved in over the last three decades. read more

In exciting news, former Point Blank student Gareth Wynwas recently invited to host one of BBC Radio 1's legendary essentialmixes. The mix included some true bangers including; Afrojack vTocadisco - Tequila Sunrise, Chris Schweizer - Vitality (SergioMaldonado Remix), and Boys Don't Dance - Monsetta and can be heardbelow: Addedto his production credentials - he has remixed two Beyonce singles‘Broken Hearted Girl’ and ‘Video Phone’ for Sony, a Leona Lewis single,BT’s ‘Flaming June’ (signed to Tiesto’s Blackhole label), as well asremixes for The Gossip, Junkie XL and Duffy - and we are talking abouta serious new talent. read more

Legendary DJ Danny Rampling rolled up on Point Blankyesterday to deliver not one but TWOFREE masterclasses, both of whichwent down a storm and were thoroughly inspiring! Danny focused on talking about how tosucceed in the music industry to celebrate the launch of his great new booktitled ‘Everythingyou Need to Know About DJing and Success’ . read more

We were hounored to be one of the schools featured in the 'EducationExplained' feature in the latest issue of Music Tech Magazine. Go graba copy to read the full article or if you are a student, pop into theoffice where you can browse our selection of all the major musicindustry mags. read more

Original Music have approached us with a huge package of free samples and loops for our students. They are giving away their Offbeats & Accents sample pack worth £19. 95 !Included in the 800MB pack is 64x Wav Loops, 64x REX2 Loops, 64x SD2Slices, 64x Aiff Slices, 64x Apple Loops, 64x MIDI files, 64x sets of 6multi track files & 'Battery Drum Kit'. read more