Kid Kenobi
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- DJ
- sound mixer
- music journalist
- dance music artist
Kid Kenobi | |
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 Kid Kenobi, SugarBeat Club, July 2006 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | Jesse Thomas Desenberg |
| Origin | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Occupations |
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| Instrument | Vocals |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Label | Ministry of Sound Australia/EMI |
Kid Kenobi or Jesse Thomas Desenberg is an Australian DJ, sound mixer, music journalist and dance music artist.[1] Together with Hook N Sling (a.k.a. Anthony Maniscalco), he was nominated for the 2007 ARIA Award for Best Dance Release for their single, "The Bump".[2][3]
Jesse Thomas Desenberg started working as a DJ, Kid Kenobi, in 1996 in Sydney playing the clubs and festivals circuit.[4] Kenobi later recalled, "after the rave culture had sort of died in the early '90s and the scene had gone back to the clubs. So it was a mix of stuff: house, techno, the tail end of big beat and trip hop and drum'n'bass obviously."[4] By the year 2000 the local scene was still insular, one of his contemporaries was Ajax (a.k.a. Adrian Thomas), "you tended to be state-focused, or even city-focused because dance music wasn't really that big outside of the bigger cities. So in Sydney there was Sugar Ray, Phil Smart; they were the two top dogs back then. And it was me and Ajax who were kind of like the protégées I guess…"[4] From 2003 to 2005 Kenobi was listed as No. 1 DJ by InTheMix magazine's editorial staff.[5] The staff writers later described his era, "Breaks was big business in the first few years of the awards ... [he] was arguably the genre's king, proudly flying the breakbeat flag for Australia at home and abroad."[5]
