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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.

NI Maschine 1.8 Software Update (pt 2) Time Stretching a Vocal Acapella

Ahead of the imminent release of the new range of Akai MPC hardware, Native Instruments have introduced MK2 of their hugely popular Maschine, and also updated the associated software to 1.8. It boasts many new useful features that not only exploit the colourful second incarnation of their Rhythm Machine, but breathe new life into MK1.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 10 October, 2012 - 01:16.

NI Maschine 1.8 Software Update (pt 1) - Time Stretching a Conga Loop

Ahead of the imminent release of the new range of Akai MPC hardware, Native Instruments have introduced MK2 of their hugely popular Maschine, and also updated the associated software to 1.8. It boasts many new useful features that not only exploit the colourful second incarnation of their Rhythm Machine, but breath new life into MK1.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 10 October, 2012 - 01:09.

EMC Tutorial #6 - Deconstructing Orbital's 'Chime'

This is the sixth 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 10 October, 2012 - 01:01.

Friday Forum Live! - Working with an Acapella in Ableton - 7th September 2012

This was my second Point Blank Friday Forum Live! session in which I demonstrated how to get an Acapella in time, and then start writing some chords to go underneath it. It is a taster of the Electronic Music Composition course that I have recently developed.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 10 October, 2012 - 00:54.

Daft Punk's 'Around The World' Bass Line Article in DJ Mag Weekly 120

DJ Mag Weekly 120

The Ableton Daft Punk's 'Around The World' Bass Line 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: https://www.djmag.com/djweekly/. It's DJ Weekly 120.

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

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 10 October, 2012 - 00:45.

Japanese Found Sound Article in DJ Mag Weekly 114

DJ Mag Weekly 114

The Ableton Japanese Found Sound Article 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: https://www.djmag.com/djweekly/. It's DJ Weekly 114.

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

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 10 October, 2012 - 00:39.

Seminar at BPM Birmingham Saturday 6th October

BPM Flyer

Ski will be delivering an EMC based seminar for Point Blank at the BPM DJ and Electronic music event in Birmingham on Saturday 6th October. He'll also be at the Point Blank stall all day jamming with DJ Ben Bristow.. Hope to see you there!

BPM is the world's largest event dedicated to DJing and electronic music production. Visitors include DJs, producers, performers, promoters, venue owners/managers, equipment retailers/installers, record label representatives, students and many others who simply have an interest in DJing or electronic music.

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Submitted by skioakenfull on 13 September, 2012 - 00:18.

EMC Tutorial #5 - Bassline in Daft Punk's 'Around the World'

This is the fifth 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 31 August, 2012 - 13:54.

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