Kid Kenobi uses the following Shure products:

   1.   KSM 44 (in studio)

   2.   WHITELABEL CARTRIDGES
   3.   BETA 58 A
   4.   BETA 87

Kid Kenobi Official Website

Biography

“Kid Kenobi has spread his wings to prove himself as the everyman’s DJ, no longer pigeonholed into the world of breaks, but proving himself as the quintessential all rounder, drying boundaries and flexing his skills as the4 country’s #1 party maestro, all the while maintaining his solid rep as one of Australia’s most talented young DJs and producers” – Inthemix 24.07.07

Astonishingly few new artists will endured beyond a debut release or a faddish genre-shift in the dance music environment. Whether they’re a slap-dash-pop-star, a band, or a DJ, a flash in the pan is the closest most of them will ever get to a lifelong career in music. You can hurl the  hammer of blame at whatever or whoever takes your fancy, but the point remains; in the dance music world at large there is no new Carl Cox, no other Roger Sanchez, Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk, or back-up Armand Van Buren; and in Australia there is no other Kid Kenobi.

These musicians emerged through a specific era in our not too-distant past where a new music emerged and a new history was written. These are the authors. Artists with a lived knowledge, refined tastes, intricate understandings, and talents dialled high. Ten years and more kicking it around the globe earns you not only the technical experiences you need, but an intimate insight into the relationship between music, her audiences and her makers.

“Kid Kenobi is widely regarded as one of the most respected DJ’s in the world, regularly playing around the globe” DMC Update Magazine 24.01.07

“I think travelling gives you an amazing perspective.” Says Kenobi with trademark humility about his consistent touring through Brazil, China, Canada, Cornwall, right out to his backyard, Australia. “You just become far more open-minded, far less judgemental.”

If that open-mindedness is proportional to the amount of touring accomplished, then Kenobi is understandably one chilled-out mofo, a dead-set legend and a top bloke rolled into one. Save for Africa, Kenobi has played every inhabited continent of earth, representing in well over 80 destinations across the globe, and playing to an assortment of crowds, and alongside an array of international DJs on a monthly basis.

It seems to have started about ten years ago when he kept getting nominated for all these ‘Australian DJ of The Year/Favourite DJ/Number 1 DJ/Sydney DJ of the Year’ type gongs, and then he kept winning them, and winning them… and winning them. So they changed the rule and instigated the Kenobi Bi-Pass Rulings of 2006 so some other punks might stand a chance.

It didn’t matter too much cos he was also brandishing the Remix of the Year award for his and Poxymusic’s remix of La La land – not bad for a DJ who’d never produced before. By the turn of the millennium he’d become so well loved, so adored, so respected and so accomplished, that some of us wanted to kill him. Just straight up smack him in the head.

But that was only some us us, the ‘jealously outraged’ malcontents. The rest of us wanted to befriend him, or sign him, like Ministry of Sound, who’ve so far inked him for 7 compilation deals, upping the ante by selecting him to the both only Australian artist to be honoured with a Sessions series named after him, as in Ked Kenobi Sessions; hang on, strike that, he’s now done two of these illustrious Sessions CDs. Bastard. But the thing that really gets us, the thing that really drives us nuts, is that Kid Kenobi himself, Jesse is such a nice guy, such a top shelf export, and such a natural, that even the envious are rendered admirers. I mean really, who has seven thousand MySpace friends when you’ve never actually invited anyone to your site. The guy’s a kook.

“It has a lot to do with having a deep concern and appreciation for my audience and being in tune with where they are at, what they want. I think as I get older I’m realising that it is also about a duty to evolve artistically as many of my greatest heroes in the arts always have. It’s a humbling realisation”

It wasn’t any one tune that hooked Kenobi into DJing back in the early 90s and it won’t be any one thing that keeps him going. The Kid’s an all rounder with a personal style as affable as his music is killer. From a start that bounced out of rave and into Acid Jazz and Funk through Trip Hop, House, Breaks and through to a deeper exploration of all of them and more, he’s made the round trip back to where it all began. With the music.