[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.

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.

[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.