Paul Daniel Bourn is a highly multi-talented individual within the music industry. Firstly as a self taught producer and more importantly as an war veteran turned business man Paul aims to provide services for those looking to build a career in music. His epiphany of changing career came whilst in battle as he narrowly missed stepping on a landmine. From that moment, he decided to forward his interest into the likes of making music instead of the likelihood of him ending up in the papers under the headline 'British Soldier Dead'. His company PDB which took flight in early 2008 aims to provide budding musicians with transferable skills in mixing, music production as well as video handling and photography. I thought I'd catch up with Mr Bourn himself to find out a little more about his company and where it all started.
So Paul, what do you do ?
Primarily I am a music producer, however I run a record label "PDB Productions & Entice Records" and run my own production company PDB Productions. The production company provides many services involving the music industry such as, Recording Studio Hire, Music Production Training, Mixing, Mastering, Instrumental leasing and Exclusive Rights Purchasing, CD-DVD Duplication, Web Design Services, Full Printing Services, Garment Printing, Video Production and Photography.
When and where did your career start?
PDB started in January 2008 in Beckenham, although its roots go back to 2004 when I was an infantry soldier in the British Armed Forces. It was in 2004 where I introduced myself to the digital music world by learning some PC sampling software called Magix Music Maker. Over the course of that year I ended up owning and mastering all 4 versions that were out at that time. Although I had already 80% of my mind made up to leave the British Armed Forces the actual 100% change of heart came in 2005, when I was in Iraq for the second time, and came close to stepping on a landmine “I thought to myself what would have happened if I had? I would have died or lost a limb, got a rubbish payout of a few grand, A medal which I already have from the Gulf War II and the story would have been published on page 30 odd of the sun as another British soldier dead or blown up, be the talk of the battalion for a few weeks and then forgotten! Let’s just say that I found a new appreciation for life. With the Introduction to the music Industry I quickly found it to be very expensive and so I devised a business plan to enable me to provide myself the services that my new found producers career needed to develop and progress, not long after that was accomplished I began to offer these same services out to the general public, there came the birth of PDB Productions.
Primarily I am a music producer, however I run a record label "PDB Productions & Entice Records" and run my own production company PDB Productions. The production company provides many services involving the music industry such as, Recording Studio Hire, Music Production Training, Mixing, Mastering, Instrumental leasing and Exclusive Rights Purchasing, CD-DVD Duplication, Web Design Services, Full Printing Services, Garment Printing, Video Production and Photography.
When and where did your career start?
PDB started in January 2008 in Beckenham, although its roots go back to 2004 when I was an infantry soldier in the British Armed Forces. It was in 2004 where I introduced myself to the digital music world by learning some PC sampling software called Magix Music Maker. Over the course of that year I ended up owning and mastering all 4 versions that were out at that time. Although I had already 80% of my mind made up to leave the British Armed Forces the actual 100% change of heart came in 2005, when I was in Iraq for the second time, and came close to stepping on a landmine “I thought to myself what would have happened if I had? I would have died or lost a limb, got a rubbish payout of a few grand, A medal which I already have from the Gulf War II and the story would have been published on page 30 odd of the sun as another British soldier dead or blown up, be the talk of the battalion for a few weeks and then forgotten! Let’s just say that I found a new appreciation for life. With the Introduction to the music Industry I quickly found it to be very expensive and so I devised a business plan to enable me to provide myself the services that my new found producers career needed to develop and progress, not long after that was accomplished I began to offer these same services out to the general public, there came the birth of PDB Productions.
Who have been your inspirations and why?
Dr. Dre, Eminem, Cypress Hill, Enya, MT Eden, JME and Enigma to name a few, there are many more but these I believe have been the strongest referenced, all of their music in one way or another has influenced physical emotions and I think that when you can say your music has accomplished that then you are on the path to success. Since the launch of PDB Productions the business entity I find inspiration from programs such as Dragons Den, Secret Millionaire, The Business Inspector and Undercover Boss, the information, suggestions and general guidance of these programs amongst other resources have helped build the foundation of PDB Productions.
What or who are you competition and what makes you different?
>I guess anybody that offers the services I do are my competition, because I specialize across a wide range of fields I could list over a hundred competitors, however I can generally split my competitors into two categories, the first is corporate (high-end companies) With that comes prices that reflect overly on that basis and so what makes PDB Productions different is the fact we operate the same service at a fraction of the cost! We can do this because we don’t pay for flash company cars or Sauvé London offices and the savings go to our customers. The second category I would describe as startup companies, generally I assumed that this would be a huge threat to PDB Productions, however over time this has not proven to be the case what so ever, and I put that all down to professionalism. I run my business by the same methods and principles that the co-operate businesses do, with that in mind PDB Productions customers/clients entrust not only in the reliability but also in the integrity of a business providing services at amazingly affordable prices.
Who have you worked with in the past?
There are lots of people I have worked with over the years being that many have been customers or affiliates through organizations of some kind, however here are some to name a few: Esstar, Entice, MadSabre, Itch, Repertoire Recordings, CM, Class School of Dance, SDI, Music Space, Trooper, Messy Dangerous, Combo, Klone, NRS, Youngsta, Dubz, Cream Cartel, Buster Manston (Filthy Herbet), MC Kropz, DJ Mista, DJ Itchy, INK, Flox, Typah, Supar Novar (Flip Records), Lorena Upton, Silhouette, Fraya (B4 Dark), Darques, Waivee Wides, Mitchell, Carnage, Mark Dixon, Dymz, Fia, Marcel, Fusegotbox, Lush . . . . . the list seriously is quite endless, apologies in advance to anyone who I may of not mentioned.
What is your most memorable moment and why?
My most memorable moment . . . . . Well there are so many and all very amusing but if we’re going to keep this music related then it’s got to be the time when I had an artist who was hiring the studio and he stood the wrong side of the microphone (bare in mind that on the other side is an SE Reflexion filter)!!! Very amusing, there isn’t much I haven’t seen in the studio trust me.
What can we expect from you in the future?
Well I have just released PDB Productions first Annual Compilation CD “PDB Productions The Annual 2010” available now at the Official PDB Productions Reverbnation Store, iTunes and across all major online retailers. We have Esstar’s second EP “lights Out” release for the second week in January 2011, and other releases that are in early production stages from Entice and MadSabre. PDB Productions (business) the Production House has some amazing things scheduled for 2011, competitions, huge savings and some highly secretive entertainment soon to be released!
To get in touch with Mr Bourn for any of his service you can contact him via his Website or Facebook.
Dr. Dre, Eminem, Cypress Hill, Enya, MT Eden, JME and Enigma to name a few, there are many more but these I believe have been the strongest referenced, all of their music in one way or another has influenced physical emotions and I think that when you can say your music has accomplished that then you are on the path to success. Since the launch of PDB Productions the business entity I find inspiration from programs such as Dragons Den, Secret Millionaire, The Business Inspector and Undercover Boss, the information, suggestions and general guidance of these programs amongst other resources have helped build the foundation of PDB Productions.
What or who are you competition and what makes you different?
>I guess anybody that offers the services I do are my competition, because I specialize across a wide range of fields I could list over a hundred competitors, however I can generally split my competitors into two categories, the first is corporate (high-end companies) With that comes prices that reflect overly on that basis and so what makes PDB Productions different is the fact we operate the same service at a fraction of the cost! We can do this because we don’t pay for flash company cars or Sauvé London offices and the savings go to our customers. The second category I would describe as startup companies, generally I assumed that this would be a huge threat to PDB Productions, however over time this has not proven to be the case what so ever, and I put that all down to professionalism. I run my business by the same methods and principles that the co-operate businesses do, with that in mind PDB Productions customers/clients entrust not only in the reliability but also in the integrity of a business providing services at amazingly affordable prices.
Who have you worked with in the past?
There are lots of people I have worked with over the years being that many have been customers or affiliates through organizations of some kind, however here are some to name a few: Esstar, Entice, MadSabre, Itch, Repertoire Recordings, CM, Class School of Dance, SDI, Music Space, Trooper, Messy Dangerous, Combo, Klone, NRS, Youngsta, Dubz, Cream Cartel, Buster Manston (Filthy Herbet), MC Kropz, DJ Mista, DJ Itchy, INK, Flox, Typah, Supar Novar (Flip Records), Lorena Upton, Silhouette, Fraya (B4 Dark), Darques, Waivee Wides, Mitchell, Carnage, Mark Dixon, Dymz, Fia, Marcel, Fusegotbox, Lush . . . . . the list seriously is quite endless, apologies in advance to anyone who I may of not mentioned.
What is your most memorable moment and why?
My most memorable moment . . . . . Well there are so many and all very amusing but if we’re going to keep this music related then it’s got to be the time when I had an artist who was hiring the studio and he stood the wrong side of the microphone (bare in mind that on the other side is an SE Reflexion filter)!!! Very amusing, there isn’t much I haven’t seen in the studio trust me.
What can we expect from you in the future?
Well I have just released PDB Productions first Annual Compilation CD “PDB Productions The Annual 2010” available now at the Official PDB Productions Reverbnation Store, iTunes and across all major online retailers. We have Esstar’s second EP “lights Out” release for the second week in January 2011, and other releases that are in early production stages from Entice and MadSabre. PDB Productions (business) the Production House has some amazing things scheduled for 2011, competitions, huge savings and some highly secretive entertainment soon to be released!
To get in touch with Mr Bourn for any of his service you can contact him via his Website or Facebook.
1 comments:
your the best and i will always reach 4 u!
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