Born
in 1986 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, Jesse has been exposed to music
and the arts throughout his childhood. He has always experimented with
various instruments including guitar, piano and percussion. He was
exposed to music at an early age, his parents enjoyed listening to the
music of Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Kitaro, Enigma
and other new age composers. Jesse enjoyed the new sounds, melodies and
rhythms he was hearing. This combination of early musical
experimentation and exposure to emotional music rooted itself in
Jesse's mind and would later appear as he found electronic dance music.
Jesse discovered electronic
dance music in the mid 1990's listening to the radio. Although this was
commercial dance, it was a beginning which would eventually lead Jesse
to DJing and production. Jesse began experimenting with electronic
production in the late 1990s. Although it was nothing serious, it did
help feed his sense of rhythm which would continue to grow. He also
took piano lessons for approximately half of a year but later quit
because he felt he needed to learn on his own.
In 2000, Jesse gained his
first set of turntables and began buying records he had heard on online
radio shows in the late 1990's. He played hard techno for a couple of
years but his earlier musical preferences lead him to produce and play
more progressive and emotive music. With these many years of
experimentation, Jesse's music has caught the ears of many with his
emotional, psychedelic, progressive and moving tracks and long, epic DJ
sets full of energy and emotion. He is always being inspired by new and
old music and constantly broadening his horizons with the focus
constantly on emotion.
Jesse is dedicated to creating
a moving experience where tracks are not just heard, but are felt. This
is also how he feels about producing. He wants his music to dig deep
into the listeners' emotions and create a sensual experience. Jesse
does this by creating epic, layered tracks full of well crafted rhythm
woven with finely knit melody.
