Mark Landon (born 1 February 1983), better known by his

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M-Phazes, is an Australian-born producer based in LA. He has produced records for

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, Kehlani,

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, Noah Cyrus, and

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. M-Phazes developed and produced Kimbra, KYLE, Amy Shark, and Ruel before they broke. He put his energy into Ruel beginning at age 13 and guided him to RCA. M-Phazes produced Amy Shark’s successful songs including “Love Songs Ain't for Us,” co-written by

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. He worked extensively with KYLE before he broke and remains one of his main producers. In 2017, M-Phazes was nominated for Producer of the Year at the APRA Awards alongside Flume. In 2018 he won 5 ARIA Awards including Producer of the Year. His recent releases are with

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, and

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, Keith Urban,

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, Teyana Taylor, and Wale have all featured on tracks M-Phazes produced.

Early life

M-Phazes was born on 1 February 1983. He went to Miami High School on the Gold Coast and lived in

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Career

2008: One Stop Shop

In 2008, Mark Landon was the winner of

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's 'One Stop Shop' beat battle in

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. The competition was judged by producers such as

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) and Denaun Porter (

, D12). His win at One Stop would lead to producing for

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superstar Amerie.

2009: ''Flying Colors'' and ''Running On Air''

M-Phazes reached gold sales for the first time in 2009 with

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's album '' Flying Colours'', of which he produced seven songs, and reached his first platinum sales in 2010 with Bliss n Eso's album ''

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''.

2010: Signing to Mushroom Music/Obese Records and ''Good Gracious''

In 2010, M-Phazes signed a publishing deal with

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and record deal with

Obese Records Obese Records was a record label that released music from the Australian hip hop genre. It was the largest Australian independent hip hop label, including performers Pegz, Thundamentals and Dialectrix. Obese Records also operated two retai ...

, later releasing his debut album ''

Good Gracious ''Good Gracious'' is the first album by Australian hip hop producer M-Phazes. Released in February 2010 on Obese Records, each track features different artists, including Drapht, Bliss n Eso, Illy and Forthwrite (360 and Pez). At the J Awards ...

'' featuring Bliss n Eso, Drapht, Illy, Phrase and many other Australian hip hop artists. ''Good Gracious'' won an

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Award for Best Urban Release, beating Bliss n Eso's ''Running On Air'' of which he produced seven songs.

2011: Kimbra's ''Vows''

M-Phazes was enlisted by Kimbra in 2011 to co-produce her platinum debut album ''

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''. ''Vows'' won Best Pop Album and Album of the Year in the New Zealand Music Awards.

2013: Universal Music Publishing and "Bad Guy"

2013 saw M-Phazes sign a worldwide deal with

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and land his first major placement with "Bad Guy", which was the intro track on

's eighth album '' The Marshall Mathers LP 2''.

2014: Illy's "Tightrope" and ''Cinematic''

In 2014 M-Phazes produced his first platinum selling single with Illy's " Tightrope" taken from the gold-selling album ''

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'', which was executive produced by M-Phazes. M-Phazes then worked with Keyshia Cole, 2 Chainz, Daniel Johns, Luke Steele, Kimbra, Illy,

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, Thelma Plum, Meg Mac and Hopium. He also produced the 2014 song "Don't Wanna Fall in Love" by singer/rapper Kyle.

2015: Grammy and APRA Awards

M-Phazes received a Grammy award for his co-production work on the track "Bad Guy" from Eminem's album ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2''. The album received the 2015 Grammy award for Best Rap Album. He also received the 2015 Urban Work of the Year APRA award for his co-production on the track "Tightrope" taken from Illy's album ''Cinematic''.

Awards and nominations

AIR Awards

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, ''Good Gracious'' , Best Independent Hip Hop/Urban Album , , -

ARIA Music Awards

The

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is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of

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. M-Phazes has won two awards from six nominations. , - ,

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, rowspan="2", " Papercuts" by Illy (featuring Vera Blue) , Producer of the Year , , - , Engineer of the Year , , - , rowspan="2",

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I Said Hi "I Said Hi" is a song recorded by Australian singer-songwriter Amy Shark. It was released on 13 April 2018 as the lead single from her studio album '' Love Monster'' (July 2018). At the ARIA Music Awards of 2018, Dann Hume and M-Phazes won Produc ...

" by Amy Shark (with

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) , Producer of the Year , , - , Engineer of the Year , , - , 2020 , ''

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'' by Ruel , Producer of the Year , , - ,

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, ''Cry Forever'' by Amy Shark, 'The Space Between'' by Illy and ''T.R.U.T.H.'' by Guy Sebastian , Producer of the Year , , -

National Live Music Awards

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Discography

Solo albums

Writing and production credits

References

External links

M-Phazes Official website
{{Authority control 1983 births APRA Award winners Australian hip hop musicians Australian male rappers Australian record producers Australian hip hop DJs Place of birth missing (living people) Hip hop record producers Living people Musicians from Gold Coast, Queensland Obese Records artists Rappers from Melbourne