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.

Amsterdam ADE pics

Here are a couple of pics taken in Cafe Cox at the Amsterdam Dance Event last weekend by James Humby from Point Blank.

James & Ski are currently editing the videos of the 3 seminars, and will let you know as soon as they are up on YouTube..

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By skioakenfull at 24 October, 2012 - 00:16

Maschine Update 1.8 (pt.2) Article in DJ Mag Weekly 123

The Maschine 1.8 (pt2) Vocal Timestretching Tutorial video I made for Point Blank Online College was published recently in the DJ Mag Free online edition.

You can check it out here: https://www.djmag.com/djweekly/. It's DJ Weekly 123.

I'm also attaching the offline version for you to download. You'll find the attachment underneath the picture..

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DJW123.zip	11.69 MB

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By skioakenfull at 24 October, 2012 - 00:03

Maschine Update 1.8 (pt.1) Article in DJ Mag Weekly 122

The Maschine 1.8 (pt1) Conga Loop Timestretch Tutorial video I made for Point Blank Online College was published recently in the DJ Mag Free online edition.

You can check it out here: https://www.djmag.com/djweekly/. It's DJ Weekly 122.

I'm also attaching the offline version for you to download. You'll find the attachment underneath the picture..

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DJ122.zip	11.83 MB

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By skioakenfull at 23 October, 2012 - 23:54

Ski at the Amsterdam Dance Event 18th-20th October

Ski will be hosting 4 EMC based seminars at this year's Amsterdam Dance Event. They will take place at Cafe COX as part of the Akai Professional and Numark Playground. The dates are 18/19/20th October (Thursday to Saturday).

Hope to see you there!

UPDATE: Here's my schedule and topics for the seminars..

Thursday 18th
2-3pm : SBTRKT - Wildfire

Friday 19th
2-3pm : Mr Fingers - Can U Feel It

Saturday 20th
1:15-1:45pm : Mr Fingers - Can U Feel It (Revisit)
6-7pm : Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends

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By skioakenfull at 10 October, 2012 - 01:29

NI Maschine 1.8 Software Update (pt 2) Time Stretching a Vocal Acapella

Maschine 1.8 Update (pt 2) Time Stretching a Vocal Acapella

Ahead of the imminent release of the new range of Akai MPC hardware, Native Instruments have introduced MK2 of their hugely popular Maschine, and also updated the associated software to 1.8. It boasts many new useful features that not only exploit the colourful second incarnation of their Rhythm Machine, but breathe new life into MK1.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 10 October, 2012 - 01:16.

NI Maschine 1.8 Software Update (pt 1) - Time Stretching a Conga Loop

Maschine 1.8 Update (pt 1) - Time Stretching a Conga Loop

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 10 October, 2012 - 01:09.

EMC Tutorial #6 - Deconstructing Orbital's 'Chime'

Ableton Tutorial - Deconstructing Orbital 'Chime' - EMC (pt6)

This is the sixth in a series of tutorials from Ski Oakenfull covering a variety of aspects of electronic music composition. Point Blank want you to get involved in this series, so if you can think of well known track for Ski to deconstruct musically in the next tutorial then hit us up on twitter with:

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 10 October, 2012 - 01:01.

Friday Forum Live! - Working with an Acapella in Ableton - 7th September 2012

Friday Forum Live! 7th Sept - 1pm (BST)

This was my second Point Blank Friday Forum Live! session in which I demonstrated how to get an Acapella in time, and then start writing some chords to go underneath it. It is a taster of the Electronic Music Composition course that I have recently developed.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 10 October, 2012 - 00:54.