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About Me

San Francisco DJ and producer Kuze has been into music since the beginning, and was raised on classical and jazz. Under the tutelage of world-renowned instructor Erna Gulabyan, he was able to explore music outside the traditional norms of American piano lessons. Upon discovery, he immediately connected with the mathematical structures of Johann Sebastian Bach, and the surreal artistic nature of Claude Debussy. He was with Gulabyan for over 10 years before it was time for a break.After hearing the Chemical Brothers on local radio one fateful night in 1993, there was no turning back. Kuze soon found out about other dance music forms and has since become known equally as both a house and drum n bass DJ. He counts LTJ Bukem as his primary DJ influence, along with San Francisco legend Jeno and international superstar Danny Tenaglia. No sub-genre is left untouched in Kuze's house sets, as he regularly fuses together deep, acid, electro, tribal, and techno sensibilities. For drum n bass, Kuze remains on the more musical side of the spectrum, focusing on deep, rolling, and atmospheric vibes.Kuze holds several residencies in San Francisco and other select cities. Every Friday at Matador he hosts SICK!, a house and techno weekly. He is a regular at the wildly popular Qool happy hour parties and performs at a variety of venues around the City, often at intimate Anu - one of San Francisco's best DJ bars. Over the course of his career, Kuze has performed headlining sets in Europe, Canada, and throughout the United States (including Ultra Music Festival at Miami WMC) alongside numerous top acts in both house and drum n bass. Additionally, he visited Burning Man for the first time this year, lodging with Vertical Camp, a 6-story condominium and the only camp to be featured on Current TV. Kuze had plenty of opportunities to play his music, highlighted by multiple nights riding deep playa on the Garage Mahal art car and pre-dinner for his camp mates.On top of gigging a few times each week, Kuze is editor and publisher of Nitewise, an online magazine distributed to over 150,000 Bay Area residents. He is active in the production studio with a few completed tracks, remixes and much more on the way.

My Interests

Snowboarding after a big lunch and shots of Jaeger, driving really fast, dancing, fine wine, fine food, and fine women, golf, playing piano, two cups of coffee and sunglasses in the morning.

I'd like to meet:

Fellow artists and lovers of life.

Music:

Deep, tech, acid, and tribal house, techno, drum n bass, jazz, rare groove

Movies:

Bullitt, Cool Hand Luke, To Kill a Mockingbird, North by Northwest, The Big Chill, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Television:

Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Mile High, Footballers Wive$, Coupling, Newsroom, Twin Peaks, Carnivale, Six Feet Under, Prison Break, Sports, Seinfeld, Mad TV

Books:

Salt, 2Do Before I Die, How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci

Heroes:

Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Anthony Bourdain, LTJ Bukem, Jeno, Danny Tenaglia

My Blog

April shenanigans..

Well boohoo I didn't post my April gigs, but many of y'alls came out and rocked out. Quite a few highlights from last month including rockin' with Layne Loomis @ Wish, Jeffrey Allen's return to dopple...
Posted by Kuze on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:36:00 PST

Live @ Still Doin’ It

Recording from last weekend's blowout show @ Anu..http://www.stilldoinit.com/audio/SDI-20080301-Kuze.mp3a h WORD UP..
Posted by Kuze on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:00:00 PST

March gigs

Confirmed so far..3/1 - Still Doin' It @ Anu w/Bachelors of Science + Method One3/3 - 4 hour set @ Swig3/7 - SICK! @ Matador3/9 - WERD vs. SICK! @ Otis3/10 - 4 hour set @ Swig3/12 - wishBONE @ Wish3/...
Posted by Kuze on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:58:00 PST

February madness..

It's been quite the last few months, both fun and not so fun in Kuze land..Fun is what we're about here on this here blog, so on to zee gigs..2/8 - SICK! @ Matador2/11 - 4 hour set @ Swig2/13 - wishBO...
Posted by Kuze on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:35:00 PST

December gigs..

Confirmed so far..12/1 - Still Doin' It 3 Year Anniversary @ Anu!12/3 - Minimal Mondays @ Vessel12/3 - 4 hour set @ Swig12/7 - SICK! @ Matador12/10 - Minimal Mondays @ Vessel12/10 - 4 hour set @ Swig1...
Posted by Kuze on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:56:00 PST

Indian Summer..

We've been having quite the Indian Summer these last few days in San Fran.. I was inspired to throw together a mix of sorts.. After "Club Veterans Day" this past Monday, there were some remaining r...
Posted by Kuze on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:02:00 PST

November gigs..

Confirmed so far..11/1 - @ Harlot w/Andrew Phelan and Sen Sei11/2 - SICK! @ Matador11/3 - Still Doin' It @ Anu w/Genome and Mr. Munk11/5 - 4 hour set @ Swig11/9 - SICK! @ Matador11/12 - 4 hour set @ S...
Posted by Kuze on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:04:00 PST

October gigs..

Confirmed so far..10/1 - 4 hour set @ Swig10/6 - LTJ Bukem in Session @ Temple10/7 - Decompression madness10/8 - 4 hour set @ Swig10/10 - wishBONE @ Wish10/15 - 4 hour set @ Swig10/17 - back to Banyan...
Posted by Kuze on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:18:00 PST

BM; September gigs

In brief, Burning Man was fantastic from beginning to end. Far too many stories to share, and thankfully I returned in one piece. Definitely headed back there some day..September gigs are as follows:9...
Posted by Kuze on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:49:00 PST

August gigs

confirmed so far..8/1 - birthday shenanigans. Satellite @ Anu w/Scott Carrelli8/3 - closeout set @ Temple8/4 - Still Doin' It @ Anu8/6 - 4 hour set @ Swig8/8 - back to Banyan!8/8 - Infuzion happy hour...
Posted by Kuze on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:11:00 PST