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 at the World Finals in Dublin, receives the prize of a Record Deal with Blastspace Records.

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.

The winning MMCs are decided on by a panel of judges with the winner receiving a trip to the World Finals which will take place in a different territory each year. The inaugural World Finals took place in Dublin in January 2008 with the Irish Band 'Hotstop' claiming top spot and earning the prize of a 'World Tour' after beating off stiff competition from bands from LA, New York, South Africa and Belgium.

South African team Musikaap walked away victorious at the World Finals, led by CEO Buyelwa Xundu.