Tutorials

Back for another Point Blank deconstruction! It’s the seminal Gypsy Woman by Crystal Waters

I’m very excited to share a new video featuring Ableton's incredible new Push Standalone. I worked with Point Blank Music School degree student David Kaho to create a house mix of Chris Brown's track Under The Influence, sampling tracks by Yukihiro Takahashi, Akiko Yano and the Sadistic Mika Band

You can watch par 2 of this video with Milton Jackson here: https://fb.watch/iY6y08xLiw/
You can stream and purchase the EP using the following links:
Bandcamp // https://lazydaysrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/integration-ep
Traxsource // https://www.traxsource.com/title/1951448/integration

Here's another deconstruction tutorial of the Beyoncé classic house groove, Break My Soul, filmed live from the Amsterdam Dance Event on October 19th 2022
Get the MIDI files here: https://www.pointblankmusicschool.com/free-stuff/free-sounds/

I'm really loving Ableton's new Note app which currently runs on iOS devices. It's essentially like having Ableton Live's session view in your pocket, and with Live's latest 11.2.5 update, also allows you to seamlessly transfer your Note projects to the desktop version.

For more info about the Note app please click here

In this video, Ski breaks down Eric Prydz’s hit track, ‘Pjanoo’ at Brighton Music Conference 2022 and blends it with Kings of Tomorrow and Julie McKnight's track, 'Finally' in Ableton Live 11.

This is a demo video that I found in the archives which I made for an event held at Point Blank Music School on 19th March 2017 called ‘Creative Sampling and Production Sessions’. I was challenged to sample a whole bunch of vinyl releases from Brownswood Records, and then use Ableton Live and Push to create a track.
The resulting track actually ended up as a remix of A Tribe Called Quest’s 1996 track ‘Ince again’ as I happened to have the acapella hanging about.
I also inadvertently created a nice chorus hook using the vocal from Anushka’s 2014 track ‘Never Can Decide’

"Back for his first Deconstruction of 2022, our Head of Education and Curriculum and master of Track Deconstructions Ski Oakenfull breaks down the biggest track of 2020, the Weeknd's, Blinding Lights. He shows how it was influenced by Rod Stewart track, Young Turks from the 80s as well as a-ha's, Take on Me for the melody. Join us as Ski brings the track to life, piece by piece."

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

I was very honoured to be invited as a guest on Simon Lyon's weekly webcast on the 2nd June 2021. We talked about a range of things including my new album, Short Circuits (due for release on 25th June 2021), my Ayota project and deconstructions.