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.

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... later a Mini Disk recorder, but this year I was lucky enough to have a brand new Tascam DR-07 MkII.

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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 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 15 July, 2012 - 04:57.

Friday Forum Live! - Deep House Chords in Ableton - 6th July 2012

Friday Forum Live! - 6th July - Deep House Chords in Ableton

This was my first Point Blank Friday Forum Live! session in which I expanded on my previous Ableton Arpeggiated Chord Pattern Generator tutorial, by exploring more of the musical theory behind it, and talking about the Electronic Music Composition course that I have recently developed.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 8 July, 2012 - 00:43.

Primary School Year 3 Sound Composition Workshop

Ski Oakenfull · Grasmere Primary School Year 3 Sound Composition Workshop

This is a project I was asked to do at my son's school in Hackney.
I asked the children in his class (7-8 year olds) to bring in a sound made either with an object or their body.
I recorded each sound individually in groups of 5 or 6 children, and then composed a short piece of music using these sounds.
I used examples such as John Cage and The KLF to explain how music can be thought of in lots of different ways, and also to how we should appreciate the sounds around us.
While we were recording in a separate room, the rest of the class listened to Holst's 'The Planets' and drew amazing coloured pictures in response to the music. They also drew a picture to represent each of their individual sounds.

Please check out the Facebook page to find out more: http://www.facebook.com/GrasmereSounds

Also check out this great John Cage resource at Artsy.net

You can have a listen to the five short pieces of music here:

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By skioakenfull at 22 June, 2012 - 13:38

Ski's Deep Jazz Mix #1

Here are a few favourite deep jazz tracks that I've managed to search out over the years..

Check out the amazing Jewish Prayer Ceremony lead by Herbie Hancock, alongside Bobby Hutcherson's beautiful piece performed on a balcony overlooking the Californian hills..

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 15 June, 2012 - 00:14.

EMC Tutorial #3 - Deconstructing Faithless 'Insomnia'

Electronic Music Composition (pt 3) - Faithless 'Insomnia'

This is the third 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 14 June, 2012 - 23:59.

Release Update - Remix of 'Voice Within' by Akio Dobashi

Voice Within (Ski Oakenfull remix) / AKIO DOBASHI

The remix for I did for Akio Dobashi was released this week in Japan.

Here is a link to iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/id522322228

For those that don't know, Akio used to be in a famous band called Rebecca. I met him whilst DJing in Tokyo with my friend Terry Washizu a few years ago, and Akio recently did a great remix of my Thousand Knives track.

The song I've remixed is from his new album entitled 'Best of All Time' and features the great vocals of Juline. The legendary Bluey from Incognito also plays guitar on it!

You can check Akio's website for more info about him and his projects. He has made a promo video to go with my remix which you can see below!

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By skioakenfull at 11 May, 2012 - 00:10