Maarcos

Mark Kwong, better known under his stage name Maarcos, is an Australian DJ, remixer, record producer and record label owner. He was formerly a founding member of the group Those Usual Suspects.

Maarcos was born in Malaysia and moved to Australia when he was a child. He studied at Melbourne private school Scotch College before attending Swinburne University of Technology.^[1] He played his first club show at 19^[2] and currently resides in New York.^[3]

In 2004, Maarcos released his first work, a remix for Inaya Day’s track Nasty Girl. The track went on to become #1 in the ARIA Club Charts and #18 in the overall ARIA Charts.^[4]

He then formed the group Those Usual Suspects with fellow band-members Wei-Shen Mak and Atridge D’Costa. Their first single ‘Dakka’ was released on Bob Sinclars Yellow Productions and the group became a member of the Africanism All Stars. Their following single ‘Shadows’ peaked at #17 on the Billboard Dance Airplay charts.^[5]

As part of Those Usual Suspects, Maarcos also released ‘Walking Alone’, a collaboration with fellow Australian Dirty South on Phazing Records. This track was made ‘Essential New Tune’ by the Swedish House Mafia on their BBC Radio 1 takeover.^[6]

As of June 2013, Maarcos had left the group Those Usual Suspects^[7] to produce and perform solo. His first single was ‘Blaze’, again on Phazing Records.^[8]

On Friday, 11 July 2014 Maarcos announced his new record label Fuze Records. This is a joint venture between Maarcos and Sony Music Australia EDM Director Jon Hanlon.^[9] The first single was called ‘Pyro’ and the label will have Maarcos’ releases as well as other artists.

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• Blaze (Phazing Records / Sony Music Australia)
• Pyro (Fuze Records)

• Twenty One Pilots - Guns for Hands (Atlantic Records/Warner Music - Fueled By Ramen)
• Style of Eye ft. Soso - Kids (Sony Music / Ultra Music / Basik)
• Helena feat. Shawnee Taylor - Levity (Sony Music / Ultra Music)
• Ellroy Clerk & Russian Nick - Hands Up (Maarcos Edit)(Fuze Records)

• Greece 2000 (Ministry of Sound / Hussle)
• Shadows ft. Abigail Bailey (Ministry of Sound / Nervous Records)
• Dakka (Yellow Productions / Africanism)
• Palazzo (Ministry of Sound / Hussle
• Animalia (Ministry of Sound / Asterix)
• In This Life ft. Chappell (Ministry of Sound / Asterix)
• Feel The Need (Ministry of Sound / Asterix)
• My Star ft. Yota (Computerscience)
• Walking Alone w/ Dirty South ft. Erik Hecht (Phazing Records)
• Can't Hold On ft. Erik Hecht (Onelove)
• Give It To Me ft. Jay Sebag (Onelove)
• Burn Forever w/ Nordean ft. Erik Hecht (Phazing Records)
• Prophet w/ Nordean (Phazing Records)

• Morgan Page & Andy Caldwell ft. Jon Mendelsohn - Where Did You Go (Nettwerk)
• Topher Jones & Amada feat. Ido vs. The World - Hello Chicago (Ultra Music)
• Digital LAB - Frequency (Vicious)
• Bob Sinclar ft. Steve Edwards - Together (Defected Records)
• Kings of Tomorrow feat. Julie McKnight - Finally Defected Records)
• Sgt Slick - Sax Addict (Vicious Vinyl)
• Mark James feat. Hamish - Come With Me (Ministry of Sound)
• The Similou - All This Love (Ministry of Sound)
• GusGus - David (Ministry of Sound)
• Stafford Brothers - Wasted (Ministry of Sound)
• Ou Est Le Swimming Pool - Jacksons Last Stand (Ministry of Sound)
• Inaya Day - Nasty Girl (Wei-Shen and Maarcos Remix) (Vinyl Pusher)