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Medway

medwaystudios - Mixing, Mastering, and Training

About Me

Hailing from Massachusetts, Jesse Skeens moved to Orlando, Florida in the summer of 1980 at the age of seven. It was during his upbringing in Florida that Jesse's first influences, HipHop, Miami Bass and early electronic bands like New Order, 808 State, and the proto-acid house Happy Mondays and Stone Roses came to define his concept of sound.

At age 16 he began to create his own house music based on the UK's Stateside influx of what would come to be known as the sound of the Summer of Love. Eventually his music would be sought after by the most reputable DJs in the world.

It was Medway's first release, a white label, produced in 1997 called Fluid Intelligence that caught the interest of a certain Nick Warren (Way Out West). Played heavily that year by Warren, Jesse handed Nick his next track, Resurrection, which due to Warren's enthusiasm, caught the attention of Hooj Choon's Red Jerry. Jerry then signed Jesse on the spot, and the Resurrection EP soon followed.

Medway went on to create the Elements EP, which brought great success to Hooj, and featured the hits The Baseline Track and Solace, originally a remix concept for Lustral, then incorporated as an original track for the EP. Jesse's third outing on Hooj, 2000's The Fat Bastard EP, continued Medway's successful run for the label, and contained the standout collaboration with Sam Mollison, My Release. Also on the EP, Flanker, championed by the likes of Paul Oakenfold and Gatecrasher resident Matt Hardwick.

Jesse has performed DJ gigs at such well-renowned venues as New York's Limelight, San Francisco's Nikita/Spundae, LA's Spundae at the Circus, BUZZ in Washington, D.C., Boston's Axis, System Sound Bar in Toronto, Canada, Living in Montreal, Canada, Guadalajara, Mexico and the Womb in Tokyo, Japan. On the remix front, Medway's rework of Pete Lazonby's seminal Sacred Cycles garnered great success for Hooj, and successive treatments for LSG Into Deep, Jimmy Van M Ec-Ips, Astro and Glyde Chunky Humper, Pako and Frederik 45 Minutes, Rockwell Somebody’s Watching Me (bootleg) and UNKLE Invasion and Panik Attack have brought recognition and status to Jesse and the respective labels he's worked for.

Medway's original tracks, remixes and remix projects have been licensed to over thirty CD compilations, including the esteemed Global Underground Series in which no less than six appearances were made including two each from the likes of both Sasha and John Digweed.

After a taking a break from producing full-time, Jesse moved to Holland in 2007 in order to get involved with music as he once had. Successful releases on local Dutch label Groove Collection and Miami based Dutchie, signal things to come from the studio output driven by Medway’s new direction.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/26/2005
Band Website: medwaystudios.com
Band Members:Jesse Skeens aka Medway Pro Tools 7.3, Cubase SX3.1, Akai MPC-1000, Wavelab 5.0, Creamware, Roland MKS80, Daking 52270, ART ProVLA, Alesis 3630. Visit www.buyDSTT.com to buy a DSTT adapter cheap
Influences: soul, funk, hiphop, electro, house, indie. new order/joy division, man parish, manzel, roy ayers, radiohead, slowdive, stone roses, shades of rhythm, 808 state, public enemy, ultra magnetic mcs, black sheep, orbital, herbie hancock, patrick cowely, jungle brothers, the stills, kool and the gang, paris, MBV, eric b and rakim, laurent garnier.....
Record Label: TBA
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Ableton Live Workshop At Sugar Factory/Amsterdam

Thanks for everyone who came out, good meeting you all, was a great nite.
Posted by Medway on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:29:00 PST

New look to medwaystudios.com in addition to a forum for producers:

My site has been freshened up and now includes a forum for dance music producers.You can share tips on general production techniques, ask questions about technical support issues, and submit demo clip...
Posted by Medway on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:45:00 PST

Olivier Berger - It All Comes Back (Medway Remix)

Out now on www.beatport.com/Medway
Posted by Medway on Thu, 03 May 2007 02:08:00 PST

Tracklist for Medway on Oslo Nights March 2007

medway and sven hauck - weiter so (dutchie music)medway and sven hauck - heliopuase "add2basket remix" (groovecollection black)Medway and Glen L presents EVA - builder (work it baby)jaunt - travelling...
Posted by Medway on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:40:00 PST

Tracklist for Medway at Twisted-Amsterdam

[part 1]loco dice - "A Chico A Rhytmico"Isolee - "Forever Forever LOST By The Glimmers"Idjut Boys - "A Place Called Tarot" Idjut Boys Re-edit16b -  talk talk "its my life" remixpatrick turner &am...
Posted by Medway on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:39:00 PST

Medway Oslo Nights 2007 Mix

Now available for download from my site:Medway Studios
Posted by Medway on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:34:00 PST

Listen to Medway Live Mix from Chop Suey in Seattle

Live at Chop Suey Seattle
Posted by Medway on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:29:00 PST

Medway at The Edge in Columbia SC May 12th


Posted by Medway on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 01:01:00 PST

Proton Mix available for download

If you haven't already check out my site and grab my Proton Radio mix.www.medwaystudios.com
Posted by Medway on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 10:37:00 PST

New track up on the site, Forme remix...

new remix I did of Forme on Bedrock Breaks up on the track lists, check it out
Posted by Medway on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST