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I've recently completed a new remix of a track from the forthcoming album by Italian band Cinemavolta. You can check it out here and discover more about the band with the links below.

http://www.cinemavolta.it/
https://www.facebook.com/cinemavolta
https://twitter.com/thecinemavolta

Announcing... A track I collaborated on with Kris Holiday who was one of my Point Blank students, has recently seen a release on Big Mamas House Records. You can check out the track here:

You can purchase it from iTunes or Beatport.

It also features on a forthcoming compilation album entitled 'Ibiza 2013 - The Official Compilation which you can check out here:
iTunes

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2012 has been a great year, and I've especially enjoyed the fact that my tutoring at Point Blank has spawned two collaborations with students of mine, both leading to releases in 2013.
Firstly this is a track I worked on with Kris Holiday from Saint Paul in the US. It's due out early 2013 on Big Mama's House Records.

Secondly here's the track I worked on with Faraj Alkuwari otherwise known as Youngs2ar from Doha in Qatar. It's also due out early 2013 on Endemic Digital.
You can get a sneak preview here...

The Azealia Banks '212' 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: http://www.djmag.com/djweekly/ Its DJ Weekly 127.
I'm also attaching the offline version for you to download. You'll find the attachment underneath the picture..
You can also download the Native Instruments Massive Patch I created in the tutorial here.

Here's the accompanying text:

This article was written by Ski for the Point Blank Blog and published on 29th October 2012

Live users have been anticipating the announcement of version 9 for over 3 years now, causing some intense speculation about what new features might be added.  So when it was finally announced last week, you can imagine the frenzy of excited tweeting and status updating that took place. Ableton’s biggest surprise however, was the announcement of a brand new hardware controller entitled ‘Push‘. On reflection it seems like natural move for Ableton to introduce their own controller, especially when you consider other companies such as Native Instruments andAkai who have been doing this for a quite a while now. Both NI’s Maschine and Akai’s new MPC Renaissance come with their own standalone DAW software, providing some real competition for Ableton. Push however, raises the bar, and by benefiting from it’s predecessors, the APC40 and Launchpad, has combined all the best features to create what seems to be a unique new controller. Let’s have a look at what it has to offer..

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..

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: http://www.djmag.com/djweekly/ Its DJ Weekly 123.
I'm also attaching the offline version for you to download. You'll find the attachment underneath the picture..

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: http://www.djmag.com/djweekly/ Its DJ Weekly 122.
I'm also attaching the offline version for you to download. You'll find the attachment underneath the picture..

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