ski 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 nine million views, and is an Ableton Certified Trainer. Please have a look around this site, and feel free to leave a message.

Ayota Rehearsal for Corsica Studios Gig Part 1

This was a live rehearsal for a gig at Corsica Studios on Sat 9th Feb 2013..
I just wanted to try out the set.
It was also a celebration of the album 'Helicopter Cuts' being released on 8th Feb!
A bit scrappy, and internet kept dropping, but quite fun to do..
Here's the link to the album on itunes
https://music.apple.com/gb/album/helicopter-cuts/594733689
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Submitted by skioakenfull on 13 February, 2013 - 00:42.

EMC² - Deconstructing Todd Terje - Inspector Norse

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 13 February, 2013 - 00:35.

EMC² - Deconstructing Nuyorican Soul - Black Gold Of The Sun

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 13 February, 2013 - 00:29.

Ayota Live at Corsica Studios

Ayota Live at Corsica Studios

This is a gig I did at Corsica Studios on Saturday 9th February 2013 for Guy McCreery's Third Ear Label, who released the Ayota album 'Helicopter Cuts' the day before.

It was the first time to perform Ayota solo, as usually I get Simon Palm Skin, Jeremy Shaw, Shawn Lee and a vocalist to help me out.

My setup consisted of Laptop using Ableton Live, Novation Launchpad and a Korg NanoKontrol2.

I performed a selection of Ayota original tracks & remixes.. I will try to post a tracklisting soon!

There is a hilarious bit in the middle when a guy came up to me and asked if I took requests.. and then asked if he could plug his iPod in instead of listening to my set. I told him to go next door to where the techno was...

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 13 February, 2013 - 00:07.

EMC² - Deconstructing Disclosure ft. AlunaGeorge - White Noise

This is the second in 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 25 January, 2013 - 00:54.

Ayota album launch gig @ Use Your Third Ear #1 - Corsica Studios

Ayota album launch gig @ Use Your Third Ear #1 - Corsica Studios

To celebrate the release of the Ayota LP 'Helicopter Cuts' on Third Ear records, Ski will be peforming a one hour solo set at the first official Third Ear night on the 9th February 2013.
The gig is taking place at Corsica Studios in the Elephant & Castle, London.

For more info on Ski's Ayota project, please click here.

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Saturday, February 9, 2013
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Corsica Studios
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By skioakenfull at 23 January, 2013 - 00:38

EMC² - Deconstructing Avicii - Levels

This is the first in a new 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 23 January, 2013 - 00:22.

Exclusive Ableton Live 9 Demo - Audio to Midi Feature

I was lucky enough to be given a Beta version of Ableton's new Live 9 a couple of months ago. One of the most interesting features is the new Audio to Midi function, which sets out to give Melodyne a run for it's money. The great thing is how it is integrated into the contextual menu alongside the existing 'Slice To Midi' function, so you have a lot of audio converting power at your fingertips!

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 16 January, 2013 - 00:47.

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