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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. 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 courses in electronic music for their BA (Hons) degree programmes. He has also made over a hundred tutorial videos for the school's YouTube channel which have racked up over nine million views, and has recently become an Ableton Certified Trainer. Please have a look around this site, and feel free to leave a message.

Interview in Incognito December 2021 Newsletter

I'm very honoured and grateful to be featured in the latest December edition of the Incognito newsletter. Thanks so much to Bluey for asking the questions 🙏
Read it here: https://www.incognito.london/so/6fNroWqCT#/main

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 16 December, 2021 - 08:50.

BBC Radio 4 Soul Music - Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy

This was broadcast on Saturday 27th Nov at 10.30 am. I was very honoured to contribute an audio deconstruction to this episode of BBC Radio 4's Soul Music series which focuses on Massive Attack's epic Unfinished Sympathy
Check it below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00120hq
The uncut version is also on Soundcloud here: https://soundcloud.com/skioakenfull/radio-4-soul-music-ski-oakenfull-unf...
You can also watch back my live deconstruction at Ableton's Loop festival here:
https://youtu.be/e4Nyo2jc7_g

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 29 November, 2021 - 07:53.

Deconstruction: Lil Louis - 'French Kiss' w/ Ski Oakenfull Live at BMC '21

For this Deconstructiuon, I broke down Lil Louis’ classic house track, ‘French Kiss’ in Ableton Live 11. Filmed at Brighton Music Conference 2021.
You can watch how I originally put it together in this live stream here: https://youtu.be/8-nit-tT-jQ

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 13 October, 2021 - 22:25.

Terms and Conditions

This track was commissioned by Chris Read at WhoSampled.com as part of a collaboration project with KPM records where I was able to use samples from any on the KPM library albums. The compilation album is called 'Digging in the KPM Vaults'. This list of track I sampled from are as follows (Track / LP)

"Birth Rise (b)" - Breath Of Life
"Synthesizer Bass (a)" - Bass Patterns
"Communication Centre" - The Age Of Discovery
"Hot Cargo" - Vivid underscores
"Low Profile" - Visual Impact
"Four O'Clock Earthquake" - Jazzrock
"Asafo Dance" - Native Africa 1
"Hot Cake" - Time Signals
"Voodoo!" - Breath Of Danger

Here's a description from the APM Music website:
Fired-up trip hop cue with driving bass, sampled choir, cold metallic percussion, slick drums, effected piano, glitchy synths and sweeping strings (samples: 'A New Shade of Blue' by Johnny Pearson, KPMLP1008-8)

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Digging the KPM Vaults
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1 December, 2020
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Ski Sunday #026 - Remixing the Ski Sunday theme tune ‘Pop Looks Bach’

In this live stream I remixed the classic Ski Sunday theme tune ‘Pop Looks Bach’ by Sam Fonteyn in Ableton Live 11. I’m going to be taking a break from streaming over the summer, so it will be the last one until I start back in Autumn.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 18 July, 2021 - 22:57.

Ski Sunday #025 - Making beats with UVI’s Super-7 analog toolbox

In this live stream, I explored the fantastic #UVI #super7 analog toolbox. It’s inspired by the #Roland #MKS7 #superquartet which was an 8-voice rackmount synth combining a #tr707 and #juno106. I’ll be checking out the functions and making some beats!
You can buy it here: https://www.uvi.net/super-7

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 4 July, 2021 - 16:50.

Otocare - Scene 1：Soft Haze - Cassette now available

This project that I worked on in 2020 has now been released in limited edition cassette. You can purchase it here: https://otocare.bandcamp.com/album/otocare-scene-1-soft-haze

This album features a blend of environmental sounds recorded in and around Memu. Hokkaido by Nick Luscombe and James Greer. Electronic music producer Ski Oakenfull created the musical pieces in response to the field recordings.

このカセットテープは、北海道、芽武周辺でNick LuscombeとJames Greer が集めたフィールドレコーディングにより構成されています。これらの環境音に応答する楽曲を、アンビエント・電子音楽プロデューサーのSki Oakenfullが作りました。

Context:
https://memuearthlab.jp/2020/11/10/otocare-scene-1/

At the Hospital:
https://memuearthlab.jp/2021/06/22/otocare-saiseikai-kanagawaken-hospital/

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 30 June, 2021 - 23:12.

Ski Sunday #024 - Ski Oakenfull ‘Eyelashes’ - Track Breakdown

In this live stream I broke down my track 'Eyelashes', demonstrating the beat, bassline, chords and synths in @ableton #live11

Ski's brand new album ‘Short Circuits’ is out now!
You can buy it on Bandcamp here: https://bit.ly/3jdZ0IJ
And listen on streaming platforms here: https://bit.ly/3jcrMJZ

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 27 June, 2021 - 00:00.

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