Masaharu Kubota

Masaharu Kubota

Masaharu Kubota

Artist Information

• Name: Masaharu Kubota (久保田正晴)
• Birthdate: September 26th, 1987
• Website: http://usao926.blog.fc2.com/
• X: https://x.com/USAO926
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@USAO926
• SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/usao926
• Bandcamp: https://usao.bandcamp.com

Profile

Masaharu Kubota, also known as USAO, is a Japanese music producer who first appeared in the doujin scene in 2006. He started producing songs under the frenchcore genre, to then becoming one of the main hardstyle acts from Japan. In the last few years, Masaharu has expanded his music production to other genres, specializing in dubstep/drumstep, hardtek, trap, twerk, EDM, several variants of house, and occasionally stepping out for genres he is not known for such as psytrance and glitch hop.

In releases, Masaharu sometimes uses two aliases: Shandy Kubota (for dubstep tracks, and as a vocalist) and DJ Nanashi (for upbeat and handz up tracks). With DJ WILDPARTY, he forms the Shot Bass Idiots group where he releases megamixed compilations and trap and jungle terror tracks as well.

Masaharu is a member of the HARDCORE TANO*C circle and owns the UOM RECORDS label. He makes appearances in labels such as SKETCH UP! Recordings and Massive CircleZ.

Trivia

• Masaharu has also made contributions to BANDAI NAMCO's 太鼓の達人 series, Bushiroad's D4DJ Groovy Mix, lowiro's Arcaea, and SEGA's CHUNITHM, maimai and オンゲキ series.

Aliases

• USAO
• Caladborg
• DJ Nanashi

BEMANI Songs

Song	Artist	Game	Genre	Composition	Arrangement
ZED	USAO	beatmania IIDX 20 tricoro	DUB STEP	✓	✓
invoker	Caladborg	beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA	TRIBE CORE	✓	✓
Miracle 5ympho X	USAO	beatmania IIDX 21 SPADA	FRENCHCORE	✓	✓
Night sky	USAO	beatmania IIDX 22 PENDUAL	PUMPCORE	✓	✓
Dynamite	USAO	beatmania IIDX 23 copula	HYBRID TWERK	✓	✓
Outbreak	USAO	beatmania IIDX 23 copula	FRENCHCORE	✓	✓
BroGamer	USAO	beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ	SUPER ULTIMATE HYPER CORE	✓	✓
The Commanders	USAO	beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ	HARDSTYLE	✓	✓
FREEDOM	USAO	beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS	HYPER DUBSTEP	✓	✓
Rampage	USAO	beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS	HARDCORE	✓	✓
Wing of Hearts	USAO & DJ Nanashi	beatmania IIDX 26 Rootage	HYPER HANDS UP	✓	✓
Avenger	USAO	DanceDanceRevolution A20	-	✓	✓
Boss Rush	USAO	jubeat Qubell	-	✓	✓
Hastur	USAO	REFLEC BEAT VOLZZA	-	✓	✓
B.B.K.K.B.K.K. (USAO Remix)	nora2r Remixed by USAO	SOUND VOLTEX EXCEED GEAR / SOUND VOLTEX EXCEED GEAR コナステ	-	-	✓

Discography

Albums

• Un Encuentro (2008, with Nadeco)
• Kick's For Liberation (2009)
• Kick's For Liberation 2 (2010)
• Kick's For Liberation 3 (2011)
• Kick's For Liberation 4 (2012)
• Aftershock (2013, with aran)
• BREAK OUT WHITE (2014)
• Kick's For Liberation 5 (2015)
• USAO BEST (2015)
• Aftershock pt.2 (2016, with aran)
• Kick's For Liberation 6 (2017)
• USAO ULTIMATE HYPER BEST (2018)
• BREAK OUT Uprising (2018, with Massive New Krew)
• Kick's For Liberation 7 (2019)
• XTREME (2021)
• BREAK OUT -The Final- (2023, with Massive New Krew)

Shandy Kubota

• ShandyBass (2012)
• ShandyBass 2 (2014)
• ShandyBass 3 (2017)

EPs

• Shot Bass EP (2016, with DJ WILDPARTY)
• Revenge EP (2020, with Massive New Krew)

Singles

• Shiny Memory (2018, with DJ Genki and Yukacco)
• TAPIOCA (2019)
• You & DIE (2020)
• You Got Me (2021)
• KEEP ON FIGHTING (2024, as いなり寿司 with JAVELIN)