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.

Ghostbusters – Ableton Live Deconstruction (Halloween Special FFL!)

Happy Halloween!

This went out as a live stream at Point Blank on Friday 28th October 2016.

You can download the project here: http://www.pointblankmusicschool.com/download/content/downloads/free-sou...
And the acapella is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRhWVW-fFVg

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 28 October, 2016 - 16:28.

Recording Tabla in Ableton Live (FFL!)

This went out as a live FFL stream at Point Blank on Friday 30th September 2016.

Thanks for Sirish Kumar Manji for the fantastic Tabla playing.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 30 September, 2016 - 19:55.

Prince - Sign O' The Times Deconstruction Live

Prince - Sign O' The Times Ableton Live Deconstruction

This went out as a live stream at Point Blank's open house event on Friday 9th September 2016

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 9 September, 2016 - 21:55.

Ski Oakenfull Radio Show #1 with Tomokazu Hayashi - YMO Special Vol. 1 - Haruomi Hosono in the 70's

Welcome to my first radio show!

Inspired by two podcasts which accompany my walk to work every morning, namely The Adam Buxton Podcast and Song Exploder, I've decided to make my own radio show.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 8 September, 2016 - 23:29.

Duke Dumont – Ocean Drive Ableton Live Deconstruction @ IMS Malta

Ableton Live Deconstruction: Duke Dumont – Ocean Drive @ IMS College Malta 2016

I really enjoyed heading out to Malta this summer for IMS where I presented this deconstruction of Duke Dumont's Ocean drive.

Check back for downloadable parts from the track...

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 26 August, 2016 - 08:48.

New Order – Blue Monday Ableton Live Deconstruction @ Sonar +D

New Order – Blue Monday Ableton Live Deconstruction @ Sonar +D 2016

I was lucky enough to be invited by Point Blank to do a presentation at the world famous Sonar Electronic music festival in Barcelona last month.

In honour of New Order who were one of the headliners, I chose to dissect their classic track 'Blue Monday'.

Feel free to download the Ableton project here so you can play along!
http://bit.ly/29MNmyH

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 21 July, 2016 - 15:58.

Plugin of the Week: TAL-U-NO-LX

TAL-U-NO-LX: Plugin of the Week

Taken from a Facebook Live stream, Ski Oakenfull and Declan McGlynn discuss TAL's impressive U-NO-LX Juno-60 emulation along with the Sound Force SFC-60 controller. Make sure you head over to our Facebook page for more live streams:

You can download the Yazoo presets mentioned in the video here:
https://www.skioakenfull.com/sounds/yazoo_dont_go_tal_u_no_lx_presets

I'm also attaching the pad sound preset after someone asked for it :)

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 11 July, 2016 - 21:38.