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Point Blank were joined by Danish DJ and Producer Faustix for another tutorial video, this time looking at how to make a punchy psytrance drop. Faustix...

From: Croydon, UKFor Fans Of: Stray, Commodo, ShlohmoThree Tunes: ‘For Sudden’, ‘Around’, ‘Scope’

Words: Ben Hunter 

Deft is the alias of Yip Wong. Born in Croydon, he has a talent for loping, sophisticated beats which, if you didn’t know otherwise, might...

From: New York City, NY, USAFor fans of: Fixate, Om Unit, Sam BingaThree tunes: ‘Vault Of Glass’, ‘Dissociate’, ‘Press F’

‘I make a bunch of different kinds of music’ reads the description on Doctor Jeep’s SoundCloud page, and that pretty much hits the nail on...

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Attilio Pugliese is one of the music industry’s leading managers, with artists such as Latmun, Detlef, Lee Foss, Carlo Lio, Nathan Barato on his roster. He’s the man behind Forward...

DJ Fresh has had a life of vertiginous highs and crushing lows — from his time in drum & bass supergroup Bad Company, to having No.1...

DJ Fresh still vividly remembers where he was the moment he knew his health was in trouble. “I was sitting in traffic on the Hammersmith flyover, driving home from the...

From: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of CongoFor Fans Of: DJ Marfox, Ibibio Sound Machine, The Mauskovic Dance BandThree Tunes: ‘Azo Toke’, ‘Malembe’, ‘Tokoliana’

WORDS: Katie Thomas

“We're like a bomb made out of different materials, ready to explode at every show.” Hailing from Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of the...

From: Manchester, UK

For fans of: Little Simz, Erykah Badu, Levelz

Three tunes: ‘Urban Jazz’, ‘Shade’, ‘Pause’

“I never looked at music as a business,” nods IAMDDB, the part-Portuguese, part-Angolan and ALL Mancunian breakthrough star. “Music is my therapy. It’s my place...

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Monstercat wonderboy Gammer joined Point Blank to breakdown his epic club track, ‘Out With The Old’. The “spiritual follow-up” to his previous hit, ‘The Drop’...

A new crop of charity record labels has sprung up in the UK and France, donating their entire profitshare to worthy causes, and fighting poverty and inequality in...

Despite austerity hitting all but the most affluent, charity giving continues to rise. According to the Charities Aid Foundation’s annualUK Giving Study, British people donated a whopping £10.3bn to charity in 2017...

One of the UK’s finest leading techno innovators, Daniel Avery, picks 10 cutting-edge tracks that have been keeping him inspired lately as part of our...

Shape-shifting DJ/producer Daniel Avery has a longstanding relationship with Erol Alkan’s Phantasy Sound; it’s home to many of his EPs, including 2012’s ‘Need Electric’ and...

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Last month, Point Blank made their way to Florida to attend the annual Miami Music Week Winter Music Conference. Now, they have unveiled exactly what...

From: Los Angeles, CA

Three tunes: ‘Hourglass’, ‘Right All Night’, ‘Like XO’

For fans of: Billy Kenny, Claude Vonstroke, Green Velvet

J. WORRA has come a long way from her small town Midwestern roots. While her blue-collar peers were busy playing sports, Jamie Sitter spent her adolescence teaching herself...

The Marcus Intalex Music Foundation aims to be a new hub for Manchester’s electronic music scene. We head to the city for its inaugural series of...

“It’s an industry that can be quite difficult to navigate,” Nik Sinha says of the music business, when we meet in the loft of Manchester’s Gorilla, tonight’s party in...

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Point Blank London were joined by rave legend, DJ Billy ‘Daniel’ Bunter, to discuss his fascinating life in the music industry and how to survive as...

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Point Blank have announced a music producer competition in partnership with next-gen audio and music technology creators, Accusonus. The first-place prize giveaway is a massive beat-making bundle...

Championed by Uganda's Nyege Nyege festival, and now breaking ground across Europe, Nairobi-born, Kampala-based Slikback blends footwork, grime and more to electrfying, unique effect...

Africa has been getting a lot of attention within the Western dance music sphere over the last few years, with the rise of reissue labels such as Awesome...

Forget Paris — or at least that’s what France’s third biggest metropolis seems to say, albeit without the arrogance, and with stacks of infectious party spirit...

Charming not grand, proud without being obnoxious, up for it yet far from rowdy, Lyon is a pretty city currently caught in an electronic music moment that places...

From: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

For fans of: Chris Liebing, Charlotte de Witte, Robert Hood

Sairen, aka Renske van Kollenburg, has immersed herself in the Dutch dance scene since her min-teens. “At 15 or 16 I started going to gabber raves for a...

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Point Blank are back with Ski Oakenfull for an extra special deconstruction of Adamski’s huge 90s hit, ‘Killer’, featuring soul-sensation, Seal. This PB deconstruction is particularly special...

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In Point Blank’s latest studio tech overview, they were joined by Dave Clark, the man behind Digital and Vinyl Expert, to explore the differences and...