Kenny Sabir

Kenneth Spencer Sabir (born ca. 1975), is an Australian musician, computer programmer, record label founder and event organiser. In 1998 Sabir co-founded an independent record label, Elefant Traks. In 2001, he founded the hip-hop collective The Herd along with fellow Elefant Traks manager Urthboy, Australian MCs Ozi Batla and Berzerkatron, fellow producers Sulo, Unkle Ho, guitarist Toe-Fu and bassist Rok Poshyta. As of August 2011, The Herd have released five studio albums including Summerland which peaked at No. 7 on the ARIA Albums Chart and Future Shade (2011) which reached the top 30.

Sabir is a co-founder and former manager of the Sound Summit, an independent electronic record labels conference in Newcastle, as part of the annual This Is Not Art Festival. He was involved in the development and founding of the annual Freeplay Independent Games Festival. Sabir is a computer programmer, in 2000 he developed the DASE (Distributed Audio SEquencer) which allowed musicians to jam in near real time over the internet. He was a contributor to the development of the Open Source OGRE Engine (Object-Oriented Graphics Rendering Engine).

Biography Kenneth Spencer Sabir was born in about 1975 and grew up in Sydney. Sabir started music lessons at the age of four, initially on a quarter-sized violin, followed by piano at six years old. Later he learned various instruments including accordion, clarinet, drums and guitar. He enlisted friends to help with running the label including Tim Levinson (a.k.a. Urthboy). In 2000 he co-founded, with Sebastian Chan and Marcus Westbury, the Sound Summit, an independent electronic record labels conference in Newcastle, as part of the annual This Is Not Art Festival. With a collective, Dase Team 5000, he demonstrated the software at the Australasian Computer Music Conference. Kenny wrote the music and produced four songs from Future Shade including one of the singles 'A Thousand Lives' that was a finalist in the International Songwriting Competition 2011, where it received an honourable mention.