Thom Yorke Plays Low End Theory + New Podcast Release
After the latest video of Thom Yorke’s DJ set surfaced yesterday, I thought I would write a little post about the L.A. phenomenon that is The Low End Theory. I, like many of you out there am an avid subscriber to the Low End Theory’s podcast, and have been pawing at my iTunes of … Read more
Round-up of Last Month’s Serato Releases
Last month Serato released a selection of brand new pro DJ devices that are pushing the skills of the selector to the limits. With two new controllers and an interface, the guys at Serato, Pioneer, Rane and Numark have been very busy recently. The new products are the; Rane SL 4 for Scratch Live, … Read more
Danny Rampling Presents An Industry Materclass
I am hugely excited to announce, legendary DJ Danny Rampling will be holding a masterclass session at Point Blank Music School on Wednesday 16th March. Along with the likes of Paul Oakenfold and Nicky Holloway, Danny is credited as one of the group of DJs who brought the Balearic rave scene back to … Read more
New DJ Tech: Pioneer’s Nexus
DJ giants Pioneer are set to unveil their latest development in technology over the next few days. To get eveyones hype-o-meters working overload, Pioneer have released a teaser trailer, with a demonstration from James Zabiela. What the new product actually does seems, as of yet to be something of a mystery (…even to Zabiela), but … Read more
Performing With Ableton Live Free Tutorial Series
Below you can watch 5 exclusive videos from Point Blank Online. These are just a small sample of the 80+ tutorial videos made available to Point Blank students over the 4 week DJ/Performance with Ableton Live course. The course guides you, step-by-step, through the revolutionary software package: Ableton Live, this includes both popular software and … Read more
DJ Craze Performs With Traktor Scratch Pro and a Kontrol X1
Just a quick post today… Simply to show you this amazing video of scratch DJ extraordinaire DJ Craze absolutley killing it with Traktor Scratch Pro and a Kontrol X1. It’s hard to know where to even start with this, this display of new-age turtableism is so advanced and complex that it’s pretty impossible to exactly … Read more
Minimal Tech Podcast
Point Blank Music School have been training DJs, music producers, songwriters and sound engineers for over 15 years, they have won awards for thier efforts and as a result the work their students produce is consistently of a very high calibre. When studying a course at Point Blank student’s work culminates in the submission of … Read more
The MIDIPad
Regular readers of the blog may remember a post from a while back about the release of the Apple iPad and the potential possibilities for it’s application to music production, at that time all we could do was speculate and wait. But now the wait may be over. I just stumbled across this site which … Read more
Vestax VCM-600
With the current direction in which the world of DJing seems to be going, we are consistently seeing a blurring of the distinctions between producing and DJing. Software like Ableton Live has made it possible for DJs to produce, remix and edit tracks on the fly and during a performance. So now we’re also seeing … Read more
Melodyne DNA Used As A Tool For DJs
The guys over at DJ Tech Tools have come out with another great post, this one features Melodyne Editor’s DNA which we at Point Blank were lucky enough to get a first look at and play around with when the beta version came into our hands around six months or so ago. You can check … Read more
