Blastbeat is an award winning, fun & exciting, new Teen Music & Multimedia Business project offered to high schools around the world to teach entrepreneurial business skills, promote young musicians, and support youth communities on a local and global level.

Teenagers organize themselves into Music & Multimedia Companies (MMCs), with each member of the company taking on a different job description such as CEO, Sales & Marketing Manager, Talent scout, Web Manager, Video Crew, Photographer, Journalist etc ultimately producing a Battle of the Bands concert in order to identify the best musical talent in their areas. There are 2 competitions in 1, an enterprise competition for the MMCs and a Battle of the Bands for the musicians.

Winning Bands are selected from the school concerts by a panel of industry professionals and progress to Regional/National finals. The winning band receives the prize of a Record Deal with Blastspace Records.

The Blastbeat program is dedicated to educating & empowering young people to become entrepreneurial and to help shape the face of their local music scene and to live it whilst learning to be more socially conscious

Recent winners from Ireland include 'Nightbox' from Dublin and 'The Impressionists' from Cork. These bands are now signed to BlastSpace Records and will be soon be recording their debut albums. Other bands now signed to BlastSpace Records include Blastbeat Finalists Steer Clear & Homestar Runner, who both recorded and released albums in 2007. MMCs in each territory carry out a variety of specific tasks throughout a 3 Month Module and are graded on a continuous assessment bases. 20% of the marks are allocated to their end of year presentation at the MMC Exhibition on the day of the National Final.