Ski Oakenfull Official Website

Welcome to the official Ski Oakenfull Website.
Ski is an Artist, Keyboard player, Producer, Remixer and Composer living in London. Having started his career with The K-Creative who were signed to Gilles Peterson's Talkin' Loud label in 1991, he has gone on to release three solo albums, Life Changes, Rising Son, and Short Circuits, play keyboards with bands such as Galliano, Raw Stylus & Two Banks of Four, remix over 50 tracks, and work at Xenomania. He currently releases music on his own label, Primaudial Records, writes & produces with artists such as Incognito, Dave Lee, Valerie Etienne, and Duke Dumont. He has an Ambient Electronic project called Ayota, and also makes regular radio shows. Alongside his production work, Ski holds the position of Head of Education & Curriculum at Point Blank Music School where he manages their degree programmes. He has also made over a hundred tutorial videos for the school's YouTube channel which have racked up over ten million views, and is an Ableton Certified Trainer. Please have a look around this site, and feel free to leave a message.

Mitski - Nobody Deconstruction

Mitski - Nobody | Ski's Quickfire Deconstruction

This video shows you how to play the chords to "Nobody" by Mitski

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 4 August, 2018 - 12:52.

IMS College Malta 2018 Masterclass

I'm looking forward to visiting IMS Malta again this year where I'll be deconstructing Calvin Harris feat. Dua Lipa's 'One Kiss' with a few added twists!

https://www.facebook.com/IMSCollegeOfficial - @IMSCollegeOfficial
https://www.instagram.com/imscollege - @imscollege
https://twitter.com/imscollege - @imscollege

Date:

Friday, September 14, 2018

Artist:

Ski Oakenfull

Venue:

Malta

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By skioakenfull at 27 July, 2018 - 20:32

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Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. Deconstruction @ Sonar+D 2018

Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. Track Deconstruction at Sonar +D, Barcelona

Here's my deconstruction of the classic Gorillaz track 'Feel Good Inc', performed live at Sonar+D in Barcelona.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 7 July, 2018 - 22:18.

Ski Oakenfull Radio Show #9 with Tomokazu Hayashi - Haruomi Hosono & Gen Hoshino

This show was recorded on the 8th April 2018 with my good friend Tomo in Gifu, Japan. Hot on the heals of Tomo's fantastic YMO article in 'The Wire' magazine entitled 'A User's Guide to Yellow Magic Orchestra' (https://www.thewire.co.uk/issues/404), this radio show expands the YMO family to look at the work of Gen Hoshino.

Hoshino san is a true polymath, who is often seen as continuing Hosono's legacy.

Check out this recent book (in Japanese) written about both of them by Hoshino here: http://tinyurl.com/y73ms92s

The cover artwork is by Tomo

The show is divided into three sections:

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 21 May, 2018 - 20:44.

Sister Sledge - Thinking of You FFL Deconstruction

Sister Sledge - 'Thinking of You' Deconstruction in Ableton (FFL!)

Really great to deconstruct this seminal track by Sister Sledge, written & produced by the legendary team, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 18 May, 2018 - 22:05.

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Andata (Piano Transcription)

After watching the recent NHK documentary on Ryuichi Sakamoto, I've been a bit obsessed with the beautiful piano intro on the first track of his 'Async' album 'Andata'. I thought I'd transcribe it - I'm sure it's not perfect, but I made a video anyway..

I'm attaching the score to this post.
I used Logic Pro X's factory Bosendorfer for the piano sound.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 18 March, 2018 - 23:28.

Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy Deconstruction @ Ableton Loop, Berlin 2017

Track Deconstruction: Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy @ Ableton Loop, Berlin

I was lucky enough to be invited out to Berlin last November (2017) to give two presentations at Ableton's annual 'Loop' event.
https://loop.ableton.com/2017/participants/ski-oakenfull/

This was my main presentation which was a deconstruction of Massive Attack's seminal track from 1991, 'Unfinished Sympathy'.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 20 February, 2018 - 22:16.