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 Tutorial - Creating the Julio Bashmore Bass Sound

Ableton Live Tutorial - Creating an 808 Kick Deep Bass Sound with Analog

This is a tutorial video demonstrating how I achieved the bass sound used in Julio Bashmore's 'Battle For Middle You' using Analog in Ableton Live.
You can download a free instrument rack of this sound by going to the 'Free Sounds' section of this site.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 17 January, 2012 - 23:54.

Gilles Peterson Worldwide BBC Radio 1 Jingle Package 1998

This is a Jingle Package Gilles & Benji B (his producer at the time) asked me to do way back in 1998 when he first started at BBC Radio 1.

If you find any recordings of his shows from back then you'll probably hear them!

Ski Oakenfull · Gilles Peterson Worldwide BBC Radio 1 Jingle Package 1998

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 11 January, 2012 - 23:21.

My Ableton Looper Tutorial in this week's DJ Mag

The Ableton Looper Tutorial video I made for Point Blank Online College has been published in this week's DJ Mag Free online edition.

You can check it out here: https://www.djmag.com/djweekly/. It's DJ Weekly 83.

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

Attachment	Size
DJ083.zip	14.82 MB

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By skioakenfull at 11 January, 2012 - 01:21

Ableton Tutorial - Looping on the fly

Ableton Live Tutorial - Looping on the fly with Looper

This is a video I made to demonstrate using the Looper device to set up loops on the fly in Ableton Live, and use a midi controller to start and stop the loop.
It came about after the live sets I have been playing recently with Palm Skin Productions.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 4 January, 2012 - 11:53.

Ableton Tutorial - Microtonic inside a Drum Rack

Ableton Tutorial - Setting up Microtonic inside a Drum Rack

I'm currently tutoring Ableton Logic at Point Blank Online Music College.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 22 December, 2011 - 02:36.

onedotzero: Musicity Live

Live music from Musicity collaborators Ski Oakenfull and Palmskin Productions plus a DJ set from Nick Luscombe (BBC Radio 3/Flomotion).
Starts 20:45

Music inspired by urban spaces is presented and discussed.

Date:

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Artist:

Musicity

Venue:

onedotzero @ BFI

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By skioakenfull at 16 November, 2011 - 18:10

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Ableton Tutorial - Roland SH-101 Rack (Free Download)

I'm currently tutoring Ableton Logic at Point Blank Online Music College. In this video I set about recreating a Roland SH-101 LFO Filter Modulation Effect on the Ableton Live 'Analog' Instrument.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 28 September, 2011 - 20:00.

Ski's Summer in Japan Tumblr Blog

I'm spending the summer in Japan. I normally come here in spring time to avoid the heat & humidity, so its quite a new experience for me this year. Its much greener, and everything seems to be moving a bit more slowly. Its also impossible to ignore the aftermath of one of Japan's biggest ever disasters, the Tōhoku earthquake & Tsunami that caused so much devastation, physically, emotionally & financially. All summer fireworks displays have been cancelled this year, with all money going to the regions affected. Air conditioning is being switched off to conserve electricity, and people seem worried about radiation which apparently might not be safe for another three years.
So I've started a blog to document my trip. You can view it here:

http://skioakenfulljapan2011.tumblr.com/

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By skioakenfull at 3 August, 2011 - 11:37