Punch Records is a Birmingham-based music and arts agency which offers tours, festivals, international projects and educational and outreach programs for young people.
[1] The organization began as an urban music record store, as well as a place where underground DJs from the West Midlands could demonstrate and grow their mixing and rapping abilities.
In 2002, the success of the record shop led Ammo to relocate to Birmingham's Creative Quarter, the Custard Factory complex in Digbeth where the company now runs rhythm, song writing, music production, poetry, lyrics, dance, street art, photography and percussion lessons for the local community, schools and youth centers.
"[2] Punch Records now collaborates with companies such as Artfest, the BBC, BMG, OOM Gallery, Sony, Urban Music Seminar and Warners.
Ammo Talwar was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours for his contribution to music and young people in the West Midlands.