Live set from Breakfast Of Champions-It's A New Day New Years Day 2022 on the Dusty Rhino. Hosted by the Space Cowboys and The Great Northern SF. Starts off with a couple breaks then moves into some down and dirty bass house. Lots of familiar samples, and some custom re-edits. This breakfast is bussin!

NUGZ  LIVE IAND+ BoC 2022

Live mix from Golden Gate Park San Francisco 1-23-22. Starts out with one break beat tune then moves into deep funky house. Sunday afternoon vibes for a sunny day in the park.

NUGZ  LIVE GOLDEN GATE PARK TRICYCLE SOUND SYSTEM 1 - 23 - 22

Live mix from San Francisco 8-13-2022. Funky tech house with a little disco, garage, bass heavy beats.

NUGZ Live DUSTY RHINO PREBURN 8 - 13 - 22

Live DJ set from the Dusty Rhino Friday Night into Saturday morning Burning Man 2022. First half is Drum and Bass, second half is breaks.

NUGZ  DOUBLE BARREL LIVE BURNING MAN 2022

Live Mix from the Dusty Rhino Burning Man 2022 at the Tycho Sunrise celebration near the Trash Fence Thursday morning. Chill sexy house and breaks.

NUGZ  Live At TYCHO SUNRISE On The Dusty Rhino BURNING MAN 2022

Live DJ mix recorded from the Dusty Rhino at Block Rock City on the streets of San Francisco Oct 2022. Funky bass heavy tech house

NUGZ  Live DUSTY RHINO At BLOCK ROCK SF 2022

Live set from the streets of San Francisco on Jan 1 2023, my favorite Block Party of the year. Special thanks to The Space Cowboys and The Great Northern for putting on such an epic event! Starts out with some slappin' breaks and eases into some deep groovy bass heavy tech house.

NUGZ  Live @ BoC + IAND 2023

NUGZ Butterfly Effect

Live set from Sayulita Mexico August 2023. 3 hours of funky dirty sexy jackin' acid deep tech house and an hour of funky dirty breaks.

NUGZ DUSTY FYRE FEST 2023 SAYULITA

Live at the Dusty Rhino Pre Burn Fiesta at Mighty in San Francisco August 2nd 2014.

NUGZ  - Hype Tha Funk - Dusty Rhino PreBurn Live@MightySF 2014

Opening set from the Dusty Rhino Afterburn celebration, at Public Works in San Francisco Sept. 27th, 2014.  Straight up solid house tunes even the old school heads can appreciate. Deep, techy, sexy, funky, techno, garage, disco, acid. I ease it in at 118 BPM, and finish around 125. Just wanted to put together a steady chuggin' foundation for the evening. It was a great start to a magical evening, thank you for being a part of it!

NUGZ  -Foundation- Dusty Rhino Afterburn PublicWorks SF 9 - 27 - 2014

Bouncy Dirty Bass House, UKG, Breakbeats, Breaks

NUGZ  FAM  IAND + BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS 2024

Live mix from the Dusty Rhino's Thanksgifting celebrtation at Mighty in San Francisco 11-21-2014.  Two parts gangster, one part bass, one part dirt. Starts with some grimy 2-Step and quickly moves into the dirty funky breaks the Dusty Rhino crew love some much. Elements of old school and nu skool flow together seamlessly with a little 90s rave and a hint of disco.

NUGZ - How Low - THANKSGIFTING with Dusty Rhino 2014

Live Breakbeat mix from Oakland Feb 6th, 2015 now with more hip-hop flavor.

NUGZ  FAULTLINE Live 2-6-2015

Mixed live on two Technics 1200s, Feb. 2015.

NUGZ  BOUNCE  DnB Mix

Live dirty breaks set from the Dusty Rhino at Burning Man 2015. Thursday night/Friday morning at the Own Way art installation. 

NUGZ Live  FIRE BALL  Thursday Night BRC2015 On The Dusty Rhino

Live mix from atop the Dusty Rhino at our Tuesday night party, where we teamed up with the Opulent Temple crew and ended up in a crazy whiteout with DJ Dan on the decks.  Funky dirty gangsta booty breaks.

NUGZ   OPULENT RHINO Tues Night BRC2015

Bouncy chuggin' funky disco tech gangsta house

NUGZ  Live DustyRhino AFTERBURN 2015

Live mix from Monarch in San Francisco December 12, 2015.  Gets goin' with deep, funky, sexy, edgy tech house in the first 25 minutes, then drops into some dirty breakbeats reminiscent of the early rave days coupled with some ghetto tech funk.  This was my first time playing on their impeccable Void audio system, something I have wanted to do for a long time. The end result is a seamless mix of many different genres, a perfect balance of familiar and now.

NUGZ  DUSTY THE SNOWMAN Live

Live from atop the Dusty Rhino in the Wild Kingdom of San Francisco streets June 11 2016.

NUGZ  Live WILD KINGDOM 2016

Live on the Dusty Rhino @ Man Burning 2016 Black Rock City.  This was Saturday night when the Rhino was parked at the Man while he was burning. This is all my best material from the week and some of my best work. I pulled out all the stops for this one. Since the recording sounds so good, this is a .WAV file and is 1GB so I recommend downloading it. Git It!

NUGZ  Live  DUSTY RHINO  MAN BURNING 2016

Live opening set from Wes Smith's Game On Tour with DJ ShOOey & friends at San Francisco's Monarch on Friday October 21st.
Deep, sexy, dirty bass heavy breakbeats designed for the earlier part of the evening.
The Game On Tour is Wes Smith & friends celebrating the 2016 release of the Tabletop Racing World Tour (TTRWT) video game, featuring a soundtrack of high energy, bass fueled jams he created.

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Live set from Dusty Rhino Safari at The Great Northern 6-11-2017

GREAT NORTHERN 6-11-2017

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Live NUGZ vinyl mix from a warehouse on Folsom St. in the SOMA district of San Francisco CA, 8am some Sunday morning in Oct. 2005.
Unedited on the fly. Sexy, chill, deep, funky feel good house with some incredible remixes of some beautiful classic favorites. 

Good Morning from NUGZ

NUGZ  DrumandBass Live On The Dusty Rhino Burning Man 2018

Live at the Dusty Rhino Afterburn 10-13-2018 The Great Northern SF

NUGZ  Live DUSTY RHINO  AFTERBURN2018 TheGreatNorthern

Live mix from the Pink Mammoth Block Party at the Mint Plaza San Francisco Pride Weekend June 29 2019.  Solid day time house music with the fam!

NUGZ  MY HOOD Live Pink Mammoth Block Party Mint Plaza SF

Chuggin' Funky House mix from the Dusty Rhino Afterburn 10-12-2019 at Public Works in San Francisco. 122 BPM WAV File

NUGZ Live DUSTY RHINO AFTERBURN 2019

Live mix from It's A New Day + Breakfast Of Champions Jan 1 2020 on the Dusty Rhino stage 4:30-5:30pm. Bouncy dirty funky house with a couple slappin' breaks. The vibe at the event was off the charts, and this set captures a lot of dance music history just as the event has for 20 years. It was a huge honor to help create something as epic as what went down on the streets of San Francisco on the first day of the new decade.

NUGZ  BASS IN YO FACE Live Breakfast Of Champions 2020

Live mix from our Rhino Leap event at The Great Northern in San Francisco Feb 29th 2020 2-3am slot. Bouncy Funky House with a few steel drums sprinkled in.
Photo credit: Dirk Wyse and Nitevibe

NUGZ  Steel Savannah  Live RHINO LEAP 2 - 29 - 20

Footprintsound.com NUGZ or Brian Cox, one of the first DJs to perform on a Boeing 747, began his career in music when he acquired a Fisher Price turntable at the age of 5. He started making “pause button” mix tapes from songs on the radio at the age of 10, and got on a set of Technics 1200 MK2 turntables a few years later. He now has over 24 years experience in the booth playing for millions of party people. Blodip says he’s the best he’s ever heard. His stellar sets are amazing, incredible mind blowing magic for your ear holes. His parties are a shitton of fun. His ability to not get distracted is beyond human. NUGZ is about toeing the line between light and dark, positive and negative, existence and non existence. Think yin and yang on two platters and this DJ is the bridge. He takes you on a journey, continuously comes correct with phenomenal sets and uncanny consistency. A true disc jockey in every sense of the word.
While living in Boulder, CO in the 90s, NUGZ gained two distinct achievements. He acquired residencies at Soma in Boulder (voted as one of the top ten clubs in America by BPM and several other dance music publications ), and the number one club in Colorado at the time, Vinyl (formerly 1082 Broadway in Denver). He consistently played with profound success at both of these clubs until they closed, along with numerous others in the Denver /Boulder area while still at a very early point in his career.
NUGZ moved to San Francisco in 2004, and when he isn’t traveling the world, or building art for Burning Man (DJ'd for last 16 yrs), he can be heard performing in prominent SF nightspots such as The Great Northern, Public Works, Mezzanine, Yoshi’s, and the legendary 1015 Folsom. Corporate clients include Adobe, Dianese, Wells Fargo, Facebook, and AOL. He made his mark creating late night underground soirees at a special little space know as “123”, with his production company Footprint Sound. These are still regarded by true nightlife professionals as some of the best parties in SF. He continues to produce weekly and monthly events all around the bay, and during these late nights and early mornings he shares the booth with the likes of The Stanton Warriors, Donald Glaude, Modeselektor, Tycho, Martin Buttrich, Deekline, Audiofly (a performance in his loft, 123 was their first SF show) to name a few.
He is able to blend drastically different beats from all sorts of genres, tell a story, and create a sound/vibe that are truly his own. A risk taker who owns it, works in heavy, moving, melodic basslines, with unexpected builds and drops, sometimes dirty sometimes bouncy, seamless transitions from house to slowed down breaks and back again.  Incorporating custom re-edits and remixes, the more bangin’ selections under cover of darkness revolve around House and UK Nu Skool Break Beat sounds, that range from deep, melodic, sexy, to dark, dirty, nasty, funky, grindy, techy, electro. In day light hours, you might find him spinning trip hop, down tempo, mid tempo and classic hip hop, along with sexy deep house and funk all over the bay area at places like bars, lounges, back yards, yachts, pools, rooftops, houseboat rooftops, small islands, basements, lofts/ warehouses, art galleries, Breakfast of Champions, Bay to Breakers, The SF Marathon, campouts, sidewalks, planetariums, Decompression, SF Pride Parade, the Golden State Warriors championship parade in Oakland, or Golden Gate Park. He is currently the sound engineer and resident DJ for the Dusty Rhino burning man mobile art piece where he is also a founding member.

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