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(link is external) who were signed to Gilles Peterson's(link is external) Talkin' Loud(link is external) label in 1991, he has gone on to release three solo albums, Life Changes, Rising Son, and Short Circuits(link is external), play keyboards with bands such as Galliano(link is external), Raw Stylus(link is external) & Two Banks of Four(link is external), remix over 50 tracks, and work at Xenomania(link is external). He currently releases music on his own label, Primaudial Records(link is external), writes & produces with artists such as Incognito(link is external), Dave Lee(link is external), Valerie Etienne(link is external), and Duke Dumont(link is external). 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(link is external) where he manages their degree programmes(link is external). He has also made over a hundred tutorial videos for the school's YouTube channel(link is external) which have racked up over ten million views, and is an Ableton Certified Trainer(link is external). Please have a look around this site, and feel free to leave a message.

Japanese Found Sound Article in DJ Mag Weekly 114

The Ableton Japanese Found Sound Article 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/(link is external). It's DJ Weekly 114.

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

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DJW114.zip	12.41 MB

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By skioakenfull at 10 October, 2012 - 00:39

Seminar at BPM Birmingham Saturday 6th October

Ski will be delivering an EMC(link is external) based seminar for Point Blank(link is external) at the BPM DJ and Electronic music event(link is external) in Birmingham on Saturday 6th October. He'll also be at the Point Blank(link is external) stall all day jamming with DJ Ben Bristow(link is external).. Hope to see you there!

BPM is the world's largest event dedicated to DJing and electronic music production. Visitors include DJs, producers, performers, promoters, venue owners/managers, equipment retailers/installers, record label representatives, students and many others who simply have an interest in DJing or electronic music.

http://www.facebook.com/bpmshow(link is external)

https://twitter.com/visitbpm(link is external)

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By skioakenfull at 13 September, 2012 - 00:18

EMC Tutorial #5 - Bassline in Daft Punk's 'Around the World'

Ableton Tutorial - Bassline in Daft Punk's 'Around the World' - EMC (pt.5)

This is the fifth in a series of tutorials from Ski Oakenfull(link is external) 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(link is external) with:

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 31 August, 2012 - 13:54.

All The Way (Bluey & Ski's Incognito Remix)

Artist:

Julee Karan

Release Date:

25 July, 2012

Record Label:

NAYUTAWAVE RECORDS

Buy / Stream:

iTunes (Japan)(link is external)

Listen to a preview:

Audio Description:

Sample Audio : All The Way (Bluey & Ski's Incognito Remix)

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This was sent to me by Chihiro Butterfly(link is external) who sung on this Ayota track of mine.
It was released last year and can be purchased here.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 16 August, 2012 - 06:10.

Ableton Live Tutorial - Creating a Beat with Found Sounds from Japan

Ableton Live Tutorial - Creating a Beat with Found Sounds

I've been coming to Japan quite regularly for over 20 years, and one of the things I love doing while I'm here is collecting sounds to take back with me to London. In the old days I would take a portable DAT recorder(link is external)... later a Mini Disk recorder(link is external), but this year I was lucky enough to have a brand new Tascam DR-07 MkII(link is external).

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 7 August, 2012 - 01:29.

EMC Tutorial #4 - Deconstructing Michael Jackson's 'I Can't Help It'

Ableton Tutorial - Music Theory Behind MJ's I Can't Help It - EMC (pt.4)

This is the fourth in a series of tutorials from Ski Oakenfull(link is external) 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(link is external) with:

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 15 July, 2012 - 04:57.