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After completing the Online Music Business course , we spoke with Dirtybird's Label Manager, Luke Williams, to find out about his Point Blank experience and his thoughts about the course. PB: What were your overall impressions of the course? LW: I took the Music Business Course and found it very well put together. read more

To kick the competitions off in 2011 we are giving you the opportunity to win a music production course at Point Blank. To enter into the prize draw, all you have to do is subscribe to our YouTube channel here . read more

An exciting opportunity has arisen for you to gain some experience at a growing record label, Needwant . They release the excellent Future Disco compilation series and are home to artists such as Kaine, The Revenge, Kathy Diamond, Sean Brosnan, Massimiliano Pagliaria, The Project Club and Mario Basanov. read more

Late last year we announced a songwriting competition in association with SoundCloud - with some serious prizes on offer. We gave you an instrumental created by Sugababes and Amy Winehouse writer/producer Jony Rockstar and asked you to add your own vocals. read more

Point Blank student Dirt Revolver has won the Lot49 competition to remix Odissi – 'Red Headed Devil Woman'. His driving electro re-work is fantastically produced with some great build-ups and explosive drops… a peak-time bomb, sure to destroy any dancefloor that cares to get in its way! Take a listen for yourself below: It will be featured on the Lot49 Anniversary Compilation and will be released in the single package along with the two runners up March 2011! Congratulations to him, we are always proud to hear about our students making waves in the music industry. read more

Recently we were very honoured to have a certain BarclayCrenshaw take an online course at Point Blank. For those of you thinkingwho??. . . well, when the sun goes down and the bass goes up Barclay prefers to goby the name… Claude Vonstroke! That’s right,the head honcho of two of electronic music’s most celebrated labels, Dirtybirdand Mothership, as well as the production talent behind a raft of criticallyacclaimed releases including ‘Who’s Afraid of Detroit’ – one of the biggestunderground club hits of the last decade. read more

Point Blank Music School is now available on iTunes U - a dedicated area of the iTunes Store that offers free audio and video content from leading education institutions. The free content can be downloaded to a computer, iPad, iPhone or iPod and covers in depth music production and songwriting techniques as well as music business masterclasses offering career advice on various areas of the music industry. read more

Danny Rampling has been a stalwart of the UK dance music scenepretty much from day dot. Along with the likes of Paul Oakenfold and NickyHolloway, he is credited as one of the group of DJs who brought the Balearicrave scene back to these shores from Ibiza in 1987. read more

Here at Point Blank, we are committed to helping students getwork in addition to giving them the technical skills and knowledge to succeed. Throughour links with partner advertising agencies such as Blackbook, BMB, JSA and BBHour students receive regular opportunities to provide music for real clientsand get paid for it! The latest example of this was online student Stellita Kolokythaswho responded to the brief we sent out courtesy of The UK Jewish Film Festival. read more

Point Blank tutor Danny J Lewis recently offered up histrack ME2U to anyone who wanted to have a go at a remix with the best ones to bereleased on his Enzyme Black imprint. He got a healthy response from willing producersresulting in a great package of Danny’s original version plus seven hot remixes. read more