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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.

New Ayota album released 7th September 2015

Ski's new 14 track Ayota album was released on 7th September 2015 on Primaudial Records. Many of the tracks feature on a short film entitled 'Verona' which you can find out more about here: www.soliloquypictures.com

Buy/Listen now:
Ski's Record Shop
iTunes UK
Amazon UK
Beatport
Traxsource
Junodownload
Google Play
Spotify

Meanwhile here are some previews!

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Ayota
By skioakenfull at 22 August, 2015 - 11:23

Clean Bandit & Jess Glynne - Real Love Deconstruction in Ableton Live

Here's another deconstruction. I chose this one as I was given it as a reference track for a writing session I did recently. I love Jess's vocals and think it's a great pop track.

In the video I look at some basic music theory, recreate the main elements, focus on production techniques and a little bit of sound design too! Hope you like it.

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Tutorials
Submitted by skioakenfull on 21 August, 2015 - 17:13.

Hold On

Hold On - Bluey
From the album "Life Between The Notes"
2015 Dome Records Ltd

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 13 June, 2015 - 21:35.

Rising Son [Double Vinyl Promo]

Artist: 
Ski Oakenfull
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BBE
Rising Son [Double Vinyl Promo]
Catalogue Nº: 
BBELP060
Released: 
18 July, 2005
Price: £12.00
Rising Son LP [Double Vinyl Promo]
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Rare Promo Double Vinyl pack - Original pressing!

Rising Son [Double Vinyl]

Artist: 
Ski Oakenfull
Company: 
BBE
Rising Son [Double Vinyl]
Catalogue Nº: 
BBELP060
Released: 
18 July, 2005
Price: £12.00
Rising Son [Double Vinyl]
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Albums
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Ski Oakenfull

Double Vinyl pack - Original pressing!
For Ski's second album 'Rising Son' in 2005, he teamed up with Bluey and DJ Venom to produce an intoxicating blend of classic Old skool house to Nu skool soul and uplifting funktronica. It features Amp Fiddler on 2 cuts, Chi Turner on 3 cuts, Tony Momrelle and Earl Zinger and Valerie Etienne. It was initially released in Japan on Pony Canyon and later worldwide on BBE. Receiving support across the board from Gilles Peterson to Jeremy Newell to Deli-G, the album managed to keep both House and Jazz heads in the Loop!...

Ableton Deconstruction: Herbie Hancock - Chameleon (FFL!)

For this FFL! on May 8th 2015, Ski Oakenfull and EMC instructor Tom O'Grady deconstruct the classic 'Chameleon' by Herbie Hancock using Ableton Live.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 10 May, 2015 - 12:58.

Shop 'n' Chop (Sampling Tutorial in Ableton Live)

I was set the challenge of creating a track entirely from hand-picked samples taken from vinyl.

Check out my sampling and beat-making process in the resulting video episode, Shop 'n' Chop!

Big thanks to Vinyl Pimp in Hackney Wick, East London :: http://www.vinylpimp.co.uk

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 10 May, 2015 - 12:50.

Bluey's new album 'Life between the notes'

I've contributed two tracks to Bluey's second solo album 'Life between the notes' which is due out soon on Dome Records (UK and the world), Shanachie (USA), P-Vine (Japan).

The track titles are "Hold On" and "I'm Only Here To Remind You".

You can find out more from the Dome website here: http://www.domerecords.co.uk/latest-releases/bluey-life-between-the-notes/

Check out a preview of the track 'Hold On' (which is going to be a single) below!

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Incognito
By skioakenfull at 14 March, 2015 - 14:10

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