Our Instructors:

Mantas Jankauskas

Mantas is the founder of BAD Studios and has been DJ’ing since the age of 11. He currently teaches both DJ’ing and electronic music production on a full-time basis. Mantas has used his long history of experience to design the DJ course, refining and perfecting content over the years to ensure students are equipped with the knowledge, understanding and skills they need to pursue their dreams. He is a big believer in DJ’ing as an art form if approached in the right way.

When he’s not immersed in lessons in the studio, Mantas is managing On the 5th Day, a techno project involving monthly parties at London’s Corsica Studios, a podcast series and a label. Prior to On the 5th Day, he was organising music events both in London and back in his hometown, Vilnius, Lithuania.

His most recent music project is Abstract Man.

Katie Arnold

Katie has been teaching at BAD Studios for the last 5 years, drawing on her musical skills, experience, and love for electronic music to guide clients through our DJ course and towards achieving their goals. She believes that the music we love is an extension of who we are and that if approached in the right way, and with the right mindset, DJ'ing can be an amazing means of self-discovery and creative self-expression.

Katie first got decks at the age of 18 and spent her first few years as a self-taught bedroom DJ, before deciding to take things to the next level, brush up on her skills and bring the music she loves to bars and clubs. It is in the last 8 years that her DJ'ing journey has really taken a step up, playing at venues across Europe as a solo DJ, and also as one half of techno duo, Abstract Man, together with BAD Studios founder, Mantas.

Katie is also co-owner of the much-loved electronic music platform, On the Day, running for the last 7 years and formed of events, a podcast series, and label.

When she's not guiding clients through our DJ course, Katie is running her Reiki healing practice, Wholeheartedly You, supporting people to heal deeply and get to know, and learn to love, who they really are.

Matt Gough

Matt has been teaching DJ'ing and production at BAD Studios for roughly four years. Starting his journey doing a Digital Music degree in Southampton, gaining a first-class honours grade. He's a firm believer that the craft behind a great DJ or producer is learnable for any creative brain. The feel, the phrasing and the decisions that make music work can be unpacked and taught, whatever level a student is starting at.

He first got into DJ'ing as a teenager and that took him to gigs across the UK and Europe. His music tastes run right across the electronic music spectrum, though his own sound sits firmly in the deep, organic and downtempo end of things.

Alongside his teaching, Matt has run a string of musical projects over the years. His current project, Balance Beta, fuses electronic production with organic, live-sounding textures and has quietly passed two million streams along the way.

He's also an author. His debut novel, Inside the Mindset of a Shit Music Producer, is a semi-autobiographical take on the highs, lows and self-doubt that come with a life in dance music, drawn in no small part from his years behind the decks and in the studio.