A collaboration between Beam Up and Yugo Taguchi. Otaku (オタク) is Japanese for ‘nerd’.

The Otaku Dub EP embraces a raw, manga tinged flavour of dub, running on the DTFG, 8- 7-1, Babni riddims. Guest players are Giotto – drums (Braintheft), Mathias Engstrøm – keys & melodica (Dub Across Borders / Odd Harmonics / Laomo Silk) & Mathieu Pé – keys (Dubble Dubble / Braintheft)

Available on Bandcamp from March 20th 2023!

Vocals were recorded in Berlin 2020-2021 & have been in the Beam Up studio slow cooker gaining extra flavour until now. Watch them by clicking the image below

Videos by Beaming Studios exploits “AI” Deforum animation in a ruff & tuff style! ( really, AI doesn’t exist – only fancy machine learning models do 😀 ) Pre-release video links here

A free bonus track ( combining Beam Up, Dry & Heavy & the 90s Japanese manga theme music of Yamato Takeru 砂漠に咲く一輪の花(華) ) comes with the purchase of the entire EP.

頑張って – let’s go!