Underworld Share Unheard Gem From 'Beaucoup Fish' Sessions

Following the announcement of the super deluxe reissue of their 1999 classic Beaucoup Fish, Underworld have streamed a taster of three of the boxset's newly-remastered tracks. Included are perennial live favourite and album highlight ‘Jumbo’, Claudio Coccoluto's pounding, piano-driven disco rework of ‘King Of Snake’ and a previously unreleased deep electronic outtake, ‘Ramajama’. The album comes as a single CD, a 4 CD super deluxe box set and a double vinyl album. The album will also be available on all streaming and download platforms.

Hugely anticipated on release in the spring of 1999, Beaucoup Fish continued Underworld’s singular vision. From the opening Windy City meets Motor City meets Thames Estuary swoop of ‘Cups’ through to the flickering low light coda of closing track ‘Moaner’, the eleven tracks on Beaucoup Fish collectively served to highlight just how different the wiring of Underworld’s internal logic is.

Whilst some of their peers had spawned lesser imitators, Underworld’s sound on Beaucoup Fish remained resolutely theirs. While many of the prevalent fragmented electronic styles of the day would be assimilated, the end result remained unique. If there had been a mould created when Rick Smith, Darren Emerson and Karl Hyde first made music together in the spare bedroom of a terrace house in Romford, it had long since been broken. There were no imitators. There never have been.

Beaucoup Fish features the singles ‘Moaner’, ‘Push Upstairs’, ‘Jumbo’, ‘King of Snake’ and ‘Bruce Lee’. The deluxe edition’s second disc features eleven previously unreleased outtakes from the recording sessions. The third and fourth disc feature remixes of album tracks by the likes of Fatboy Slim, Slam, Salt City Orchestra and Adam Beyer.

The Beaucoup Fish super deluxe edition comes packaged in a hard case 12”x12” box that complements the acclaimed expanded reappraisals of dubnobasswithmyheadman (2014) and Second Toughest In The Infants (2015). This edition also includes a 60-page booklet with a new essay on the album. As with its predecessors, audio remastering was undertaken by the band’s Rick Smith at Abbey Road Studios. All packaging and artwork has been created by long time Underworld collaborators tomato.

Underworld – aka Karl Hyde and Rick Smith - recently presented an installation piece - Manchester Street Poem - as part of Manchester International Festival 2017. The project spotlighted the stories of those who’ve found themselves homeless in the city. Their last gig – a sold out show London’s Alexandra Palace – was the band’s biggest UK headline show to date.

Beaucoup Fish super deluxe tracklisting:

Disc One 

Cups

Push Upstairs

Jumbo

Shudder / King Of Snake

Winjer

Skym

Bruce Lee

Kittens

Push Downstairs

Something Like A Mama

Moaner

Disc Two

Nifter - 5 A1317 Nov 97

Bruce Lee - Ricks 1st Dobro Mix

UW Orange Bed - Sept97

Skym - A A1317 Nov 97

Jumbo - Diff Bass 2 A1317 Nov 97

Push Upstairs - Alt 1 A1336 July 98

King Of Snake - Garage Mix A1313 Set 97b

Something Like A Mama - Alt Mix A1340 July 98 A Upstairs)

Please Help Me

Yeah Plan - From A1385

Ramajama

Disc Three 

Cups - Salt City Orchestra Remix

Jumbo - Jedi's Sugar Hit Mix

Jumbo - Futureshock Vocal Mix

Push Upstairs - Darren Price Remix

King Of Snake - Slam Remix

King Of Snake - Fatboy Slim Remix

King Of Snake - Dave Clarke Remix

Bruce Lee - Micronauts Remix

Bruce Lee - Buffalo Daughter Remix

Disc Four

Bruce Lee - DJ Hype & DJ Zinc Vocal Mix

Bruce Lee - DJ Hype & DJ Zinc Instrumental Mix

Bruce Lee - Futureshock Remix

King Of Snake - Claudio Coccoluto Remix

King Of Snake - Martinez Remix

King Of Snake - Dave Angel Remix

Jumbo - Rob Rives & Francois Kevorkian Dub

Push Upstairs - Roger S Narcotic Haze Dub 

Push Upstairs - Adam Beyer Rmx 2