STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION

STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION is the solo music project of RON (R・O・N), a Japanese guitarist, singer-songwriter, composer, arranger and producer born February 19, 1982, in Tokyo. He spent part of his childhood in Germany and the United States, returned to Japan and began his music activity in earnest in 2003, while studying at Waseda University. Before starting STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION, he composed and arranged 新谷良子's solo debut song, 「ピンクのバンビ」. In 2006 he joined Pink Bambi BAND as bandmaster, handling guitar and keyboards. In 2008 he formed ROSARYHILL under the name 飯田龍太, and in 2009 he released the vocal soundtrack album 『promise』 for 『SoltyRei』. He also handled sound production and guitar for OLDCODEX until his departure in 2012. Later, songs he provided for Coming Century and NEWS reached No. 1 on the Oricon charts. An offer to create theme music for 『境界の彼方』 led him to start STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION under Lantis in 2013. The project debuted with the ending theme "Daisy", which reached No. 4 on Billboard Japan. Its catalog brings together pop rock, electronic textures, guitar-driven rock, synthetic layers and melodic pop arrangements, with anison-oriented songwriting. After the Gangsta. opening, "Renegade", and the Dimension W opening, "Genesis", RON concentrated on soundtrack work and music production. He joined TOHO animation's project (K)NoW_NAME for 『灰と幻想のグリムガル』 and in 2016 released "Knew day" and "Harvest". Then, in 2018, he supervised the complete music production of 『働くお兄さん!』. In 2019 he reactivated STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION. He released the albums 『STEREO DIVE』 in 2020 and 『STEREO DIVE 02』 in 2022, and gave solo concerts at 渋谷WWW and in New York. His later anime themes included the Yuukoku no Moriarty endings, "ALPHA" and "OMEGA", as well as "PEACEKEEPER" for Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken. "OMEGA" reached No. 22 on the Oricon Singles Chart.