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They hosted a whole range of track breakdowns from proficient and innovative artists like English tropical-house producer Jonas Blue, Melbourne’s DJ Boring and Jersey club royalty UNIIQU3, who shared deep insights on their creative process and how they approach making music.
Their Masterclasses featured some of music’s most influential names, like British super-producer Trevor Horn and techno-house DJ Sama Abdulhadi, who sat down to give the students advice on the best practices to follow as creatives and how to make the most of opportunities presented to you early in your career.
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Point Blank’s conference events took them all over the globe with a visit to Ibiza’s IMS Summit, where they ran three days of programming in collaboration with Microsoft and Beatport, including Arthur Baker’s production breakdown of Afrika Bambaataa and The Soulsonic Force’s iconic track, ‘Planet Rock’. Point Blank Head of Curriculum and Education and Ableton Certified Trainer Ski Oakenfull also graced the stage at Amsterdam Dance Event with a live track breakdown of Beyonce’s Break My Soul. In May, the Music Futures event enthused the whole room as Point Blank CEO Rob Cowan led a thought-provoking masterclass with Keith Harris – a British music industry consultant and artist manager who worked with Stevie Wonder for much of his career.
Beyond that, Point Blank has welcomed an array of talent to their very own label, Point Blank Recordings, including singer/songwriter Talia Roux, soul-pop singer Caitlyn Scarlett and South London visionary Amani.
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Will Vance is a professional music producer who has been involved in the industry for the better part of a decade and has been the managing editor at Magnetic Magazine since mid-2022. In that time period, he has published thousands of articles on music production, industry think pieces and educational articles about the music industry. Over the last decade as a professional music producer, Will Vance has also ran multiple successful and highly respected record labels in the industry, including Where The Heart Is Records as well as having launched a new label with a focus on community through Magnetic Magazine. When not running these labels or producing his own music, Vance is likely writing for other top industry sites like Waves or the Hyperbits Masterclass or working on his upcoming book on mindfulness in music production. On the rare chance he's not thinking about music production, he's probably running a game of Dungeons and Dragons with his friends which he has been the dungeon master for for many years.
