In 2010, Toru Hidaka confirmed that Beat Crusaders would break-up, but promised to release one more album. Titled Rest Crusaders , it was released on October 6, 2010, with 22 tracks of both new songs, old singles like “Windom”, and previously released but recent singles like “Let It Go” and…
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A full-length CD EPopMaking , was released on May 30, 2007, with 19 tracks, followed by Popdod on June 4, 2008.
Later on, their song ” Hit in the USA ” was used for the opening of the BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad anime , which moved the band into the Japanese mainstream. Since then they released several more albums, including a cover album of American and British songs entitled “Music Crusaders.”…
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In August 2003, three of the four original members of Beat Crusaders left the band, to eventually go on to form the band Anita Chili Peppers. This left behind only Tōru Hidaka who later recruited four new members. It is not known why the original members left, but it doesn’t…
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Beat Crusaders, commonly abbreviated BECR, was founded at the end of 1997 by Tōru Hidaka, as an experimental U.S. Lo-Fi Indie Rock unit. The rest of the band later joined as a result of continual experimental gigs performed around the Shimokitazawa area of Tokyo. Their creative use of analog synthesizers…
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