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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.

In 2020 during lockdown in the UK, I composed some ambient music for a project commissioned by my good friend Nick Luscombe. He subsequently used the music to create a sound collage of field recordings made around Japan which was broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 2nd May 2021
You can listen back to the show here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vqjq(link is external)
And the audio is available below as well.

Here is a description:

Tokyo based DJ, producer and broadcaster Nick Luscombe explores the sound of spring in suburban Tokyo through field recordings and music.

This soundscape is inspired by Nick’s work with the Tokyo University Otocare project. Oto is the Japanese word meaning sound and the research project works with hospitals and other high-stress environments to bring sounds of nature and specially composed music to positively impact lives.

Kids energetically playing baseball, the chanting of monks and the prayers of local people, rain falling during a thunderstorm and the arrival of the cherry blossom and the accompanying spring birdsong are just some of the many elements on this intoxicating Japanese audio adventure - all linked with its very own specially commissioned musical score by ambient musician Ski Oakenfull.

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Back in April 2020 at the start of the UK lockdown, Bluey called me and asked me if I'd like to play keyboards on some instrumentals that he'd been working on. At the time I had no idea what particular project these were for, but I knew they sounded great, so I jumped at the chance. Over the course of a month, I started experimenting with synths and ended up playing and writing on four tracks, three of which found their way onto what later became 'Aspects' by Str4ta.
The tracks I played on were 'Steppers Crusade', 'After the Rain', and 'Kinshasa FC'
In case you missed it, I recently did a live stream on Twitch where I opened up a couple of the Ableton Live projects and talked through the keyboard parts. You can watch it back here(link is external).

Artist: 
Str4ta
Release Date: 
26 March, 2021
Record Label: 
Brownswood
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Audio Description: 
Steppers Crusade (Preview edit)

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