Kid Kenobi or Jesse Thomas Desenberg is an Australian DJ, sound mixer, music journalist and dance music artist. Together with

Hook N Sling Anthony Maniscalco, better known by his stage name Hook n Sling, is an Australian record producer, songwriter and DJ currently residing in Los Angeles, California. Musical career In 2007, he received an ARIA Music Awards nomination, a DMC Buzz ...

(a.k.a. Anthony Maniscalco), he was nominated for the 2007 ARIA Award for Best Dance Release for their single, "The Bump".

Biography

Jesse Thomas Desenberg started working as a DJ, Kid Kenobi, in 1996 in Sydney playing the clubs and festivals circuit. 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." 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…" From 2003 to 2005 Kenobi was listed as No. 1 DJ by ''InTheMix'' magazine's editorial staff. The staff writers later described his era, "Breaks was big business in the first few years of the awards ... ewas arguably the genre's king, proudly flying the breakbeat flag for Australia at home and abroad."

Discography

Remix albums

* Various Artists: ''Breaks 04: Mixed by Kid Kenobi'' (20 September 2004):

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(MOSA040) AUS Comp: No. 7; Dan: No. 3 Note: ARIA Compilations, ARIA Dance Albums * Various Artists: ''Kid Kenobi Sessions'' (5 September 2005): Ministry of Sound Australia (MOSA049) AUS Dan: No. 6 Note: ARIA Dance Albums * Various Artists: ''Addicted to Bass'' (2012): Ministry of Sound Australia (MOSCD158)

Remix singles

* Green Velvet: "

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( PoxyMusic vs Kid Kenobi mix)" Hussle Recordings *

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: "Rock Your Body Rock (Extended/PoxyMusic vs Kid Kenobi mix) (August 2003) Hussle Recordings/

(HUS/MOS) AUS Club: No. 3 Note: ARIA Club Tracks *

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: "Drop the Pressure (Kid Kenobi vs Pocket remix)" (21 February 2005): EMI (HUSSYCD5054) *

Tonite Only Tonite Only is an electronic music group formed late 2005 in Sydney, Australia, which disbanded late 2006, only to reform a few years later. Its two members are Sam Littlemore (Sam La More) and Simon Lewicki (Groove Terminator), leading proponent ...

: "Danger! (The Bomb) (Original/Hook n Sling & Kid Kenobi mix)" (April 2006): AUS Club: No. 7 Note: ARIA Club Tracks *

and Kid Kenobi: "The Bump (Tonite Only mix)" (21 August 2006): Hussle Recordings/EMI AUS Club: No. 10 *

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: "Tell Me How You Feel (Kid Kenobi vs Rouge Element / Young Punx mix)" (28 August 2006): AUS Club: 13

Awards and nominations

ARIA Music Awards

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References

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