Maozon

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Maozon

Maozon

Artist Information

Profile

Maozon is a Japanese music producer who specializes in trance, drum'n'bass and drumstep genres. A contributor to the Diverse System label, where he also released his albums Hello and Again and FLY INTO THE SKY. He was hired by the music production company Digz (which also hired C-Show) after winning a remix contest and since then he produced doujin songs under the mysterious Scarfaith alias until late 2016, where Maozon revealed it was him after all. Maozon composed J Soul Brothers's R.Y.U.S.E.I., which won in 2014 the 56th Japan Record Award.

Maozon has contributed to CAPCOM's music game series CROSSxBEATS/crossbeats REV. and to SEGA's CHUNITHM series. In doujin releases, he continues to appear on Diverse System and occasionally pops up in some other labels such as HARDCORE TANO*C. He's a member of a newly formed drum'n'bass oriented label named Subdued Records.

Trivia

  • Maozon is one of the very few commissioned artists who debuted with more than one song in a beatmania IIDX style, and to keep contributing twice in successive styles.
  • According to Maozon, Sota Fujimori's music is what impulsed him to start composing songs.

Aliases

  • Maozon

BEMANI Songs

Song Artist Game Genre Composition Arrangement
Arcana Maozon beatmania IIDX 23 copula UPLIFTING TRANCE
Damage Per Second Maozon beatmania IIDX 23 copula CYBER DRUMSTEP
Steel Edge Maozon beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ DRUM&BASS
Umbral Maozon beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ UPLIFTING TRANCE
pandora (Maozon Remix) Maozon SOUND VOLTEX BOOTH - -

Discography

Albums

  • Hello and Again (2013)
  • FLY INTO THE SKY (2016, as Scarfaith)