KID KENOBI
Since his early beginnings behind the decks in 1996, Sydney based Kid Kenobi has steadily risen to his current place as the busiest DJ on Australian shores, now widely regarded as the home of the most booming breaks scene in the world.
2002 & 2001 saw him take the award for the Australian DJ of the Year, and in 2001 he also took home the award for People's Choice NSW DJ of the Year at the Australian Dance Music Awards.
It's often surprising to both peers and punters that such a profile has stemmed from the art of dj-ing alone. This has provided the inspiration for Kid Kenobi to undertake production work, his first being the double mix CD for Ministry of Sound Australia aptly titled "A Clubbers Guide to Breaks". Outselling prominent international releases in the same genre, a second Clubbers Guide to Breaks release was released October 2002. His debut remix of Green Velvet's "La La Land", a collaboration between Kid Kenobi and Poxy Music (Pocket and Ken Cloud) is also out now on Hussle Recordings, receiving great reactions from both international and local djs as well as trainspotters from around the globe.
Kid Kenobi alongside MC Sureshock are without doubt Australias’ No.1 DJ/MC combo, and continue to blaze a trail across the globe with Break Beat being the winner on the day.
DJ DEETRON
Born in Bern, Switzerland, Music was a constant in the Geiser family home. Sam's father's activities as a jazz musician ensured that he was surrounded by music from a very early age, sewing the seeds of his own musical interests. But it was Hip-Hop that encouraged this to flourish into an active involvement in music, during his teens. Sam soaked-up the music of Gangstarr, A Tribe Called Quest, and Prince Paul like a sponge, and was quick to realise the role of the turntable within this context, taking up DJing in 1992.
Early Hip-House producers, such as Todd Terry, also captured his attention, and Sam began to make the transition to more 4/4 orientated sounds - picking up on the now classic output of Chicago and Detroit-based electronic musicians and introducing this into the sets he was, by now, playing around his home town, and further afield in Switzerland.
This led, in 1994, to his first big break - securing a residency at Zurich's reputed club, Trax at the Rohstofflager. Once reaching this position, Sam felt it was time to make his own forays into music production and began building a studio, drawing on his experience as a DJ to create his own tracks. A meeting with Stefan Reisen, head of the fledgling Phont music, led to the release of Deetron's first single - as Soulmate, in 1997.
Things snowballed from there. Geiser's production activity put him on the map, which in turn assisted the growth of his DJ profile. A trip to Japan led to a collaboration with DJ Shufflemaster (again, for Phont), and pretty soon the requests from other labels began to come in. During the late nineties, his work for other labels saw Deetron finding his audience (including a string of International club jocks) and developing his own sound. In later years, Sam's production touch has graced labels including Cosmic (as Karakter), Ongaku (the 'Lorraine EP') and SLS. In addition, he received a deluge of remix requests ' resulting in work for Samuel L. Session, Ben Sims, Damon Wild, Steve Bicknell (as Karakter), K-Alexy Shelby, Orlando Voorn, Paul Mac and others.
Possibly one the most fruitful partnerships of his career so far is that with Belgium's Music Man label. Beginning with the 'Dolls For a Diva' 12" in 2001, and including several more 12"s and a superb mix CD that acts as ample testament to Sam's skills behind the turntables. Music Man are also the label that Sam has chosen to release his debut full length release.
With high profile remixes for Ennio Morricone, Victor Simonelli, Gary Martin, and Mark Broom, and have taken his DJ-schedule to yet another level and he released the massive "Miss Suave EP" on Intec in 2004 as well as "The floor jackin' theory" on Music Man in 2005. Furthermore he remixed Funk D'Void, Joris Voorn, Smith & Selway and Detroit Grand Pubahs to name but a few. In 2006 a new single called "Isotope EP" wias released on Music Man and his long awaited debut longplayer "Twisted" hit the stores in late 2006 to huge critical acclaim.
Since then Deetron has stamped his mark amongst the techno elite.
This is one DJ that just don’t Tech No for an answer!
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