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 | - | - | ✓ |
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)