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Gli Underworld, alias Karl Hyde, Rick Smith e Darren Emerson, sono il gruppo che più di tutti, nell'ultimo decennio del secolo appena trascorso, ha rivoluzionato il concetto di "club culture", segnando profondamente l'evoluzione delle moderne sonorità elettroniche "da ballo".
Già membri del gruppo synth-pop dei Freur, Hyde e Smith adottano, nella prima metà degli anni '90, il giovanissimo DJ londinese Darren Emerson, dando vita al progetto Underworld.
In un Inghilterra sconvolta dal fenomeno dei rave, i tre pubblicano, a distanza di soli due anni, "Dubnobasswithmyheadman" e "Second Toughest In The Infants", due album straordinari che li proiettano nell'olimpo della techno e dell'elettronica da club. L'epica "Born Slippy", contenuta nella colonna sonora del cult-movie "Trainspotting", rafforza ulteriormente la loro fama, oltre ad essere, tutt'ora, il loro brano più conosciuto e ballato. Ma il meglio doveva ancora venire: bastava attendere, infatti, il 1998, e l'uscita di "Beaucoup Fish", unanimamente riconosciuto come il loro più grande capolavoro, una vera Bibbia per il moderno raver, un album affascinante che non finisce di sorprendere ad ogni ascolto.
Nelle undici tracce di "Beaucoup Fish" gli Underworld definiscono ulteriormente il loro sound, realizzando un monolite di settantaquattro minuti di grande musica, dove Techno, Hardcore e Trance si fondono in un unicum pregevole e dalle mille sfaccettature.
L'iniziale "Cups" apre le danze, e ci si trova quasi catapultati in un fumoso locale della Londra più underground, tra atmosfere soffuse e acidi deliri tastieristici. La successiva e famosissima "Push Upstairs" comincia a scaldare le casse, lo scarno loop di pianoforte e la voce lisergica e distante di Karl Hyde vanno di pari passo, fino a sfociare nell'Acid-Techno più ossessiva. Da applausi. I suoni morbidi ed ambientali della splendida "Jumbo" fanno quasi sollevare in volo l'ascoltatore sulle mille luci notturne della metropoli, ma l'Hardcore-Trance di "Shudder/King Of Snake" è lì dietro l'angolo, pronta a sconvolgerlo e a proiettarlo, lentamente, nel baratro.
Si potrebbe menzionare ogni minimo sussulto del disco, ogni fruscio impercettibile, dalla malinconica ballata "Skym" al funk sghembo di "Bruce Lee", passando per la disarmante calma di "Push Downstairs" e la bellezza di "Something Like A Mama", con i suoi battiti sincopati, fino ai ritmi frenetici di "Kittens" e della conclusiva "Moaner", manifesto di una tribù che balla (jovanottianamente parlando) e per nulla intenzionata a smettere.
Gli Underworld, in definitiva, colpiscono a segno, e danno l'addio al ventesimo secolo con un album incredibile e dall'intensità unica, un'intensità che il successivo "A Hunderd Days Off" non riuscirà per nulla a ripetere, sancendo, invece, l'inizio del declino del gruppo inglese, ridotto a duo dopo l'addio di Darren Emerson. Tuttavia, "Beaucoup Fish" restà lì, intoccabile, superbo manifesto di una generazione che, forse, già non c'è più, nonchè sintesi perfetta di una decade di elettronica che molti faticheranno a dimenticare. Impareggiabile.
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01 Cups (11:45)
Bubble girl you feel like a movie
Bubble blow bleed faster liquid
Bubble fish take fast slow fast slow
Bubble fast slow down big slow up
Blue... blue
Blue... blue
Little girl you chew gum then I'll come to you
Bubble blow bigfastup bigfastup fishtank
Bubble fast slow down big slow groove
Bigfastup heavy wings gone
Dripsadly into liquid
Dripsudden think of something quick
Drips faster sometimes into my hand
Falls apart
Fools imagine to slow bank
Slow....slow...fans
Sneak up lights across the horizon
Sneak up last light in moonlight
Party crashers over the ocean
Left to right
Bubble blue you comeback you slowdown
Bubble blow bigfastup bigfastdown
Bubble fish take fast slow fast slow
A bubbli - ng and bubbl-ing and bubbling
Dripslowdown
02 Push Upstairs (04:34)
Tina lives in Berlin
her voice so seldom
on my machine
is here tonight
and I'm on the market
and when I'm on the market
words move faster
wire
clouds move
thin between us
like a skin
like a salty skin
for a seed
a fat circles
a smilling smilling
her voice so intentionally
smilling
and a cloud between us
and these are my intentions
Pushing...
The blonde
is carrying something
is carrying me
and someone I used to be
great plastic someone
blue plastic girl
your cream is
Pushing...
Pushed away your body is
Coffee for the unbelieve
carry on song
lipstick for the
the boyfriend blond
between the holes of seeds
is professionally poised
faces watching her
she's watching the faces
watching her
Pushin...
03 Jumbo (06:57)
-brother there's a little sale on, uh, vests at, uh, Walmart? ...nine dollar.
Oh yeah?
- eight some, yeah...nice little vest, light.
(hammer pounding or sound of someone hitting the stop button on cassette recorder looped)
click...
I need sugar
I need a little watersugar
I get thoughts about you
and the night it wants me like a little lost child
locked in a safe place
lookin out the window
the dark move fast past the window
the dark on the other side of the locked door
click...
click...
click...
my thumb's on a tetris keyring
moving in brilliant timing
you pick up the phone
and i'm imagining
click...
click...
click...
click...
tiny wires in her ears
slide into the city
tiny wires in her ears
slide into the city
click...
click...
click...
click...
click...
click...
- expected early in the mornin'
- expected early in the mornin'
rising in the morning stopped to you
beneath the feet of the city
click
you disconnect from me
click
when you're gone you take your century
telephone breath between us
the whole world is between us
only these wires
dust between the wires
and the green grass
in the distance
i am your tourist
- expected early in the mornin'
- expected early in the mornin'
moving in brilliant timing...
- i search for this spot then find you fellas hangin around at the same
stump...and you're right there with 'em
- well, i've never fished here, but i caught beaucoup fish in reverend
burton.
- i never did catch fish here
- beaucoup fish in reverend burton
*in the background*
sugar...
i need sugar...
*in the background*
click...
- expected early in the mornin'
you disconnect from me...
05 Winjer (04:29)
stay there....
i'm having a whinge
a winjer
today
today
I could be a diamond
I brought anything
on a winjer
having a whinge
everything
everything looks miserable
when you're the winjer
opinion in the house a flame
when you're the winjer
I'm having a laugh
I'm having a laugh
with the roof off and the sunlit
take your top off
take your
take your top off
you look happy now
you look happy now
no spikes
having a laugh
warm grass around you
warm grass around you
warm grass around you
on a winjer
today could be a diamond
I could be a diamond
about anything
everything looks miserable
when you're the winjer
i'm i'm i'm
I'm having a laugh
with the roof off
and the sunlit
take your top off
take your top off
bird in the hall moonlight
follows the road
warm grass around you
warm grass around you
stay there...
06 Skym (04:08)
Do you still feed the animal
Animal finger
Finger on the phone
Curve around corners
Do you still feed the animal
Your muffled voices
Up this ideal head
And the wires come in
Open us
Close us
( slide beneath the city )
Slide beneath the city
And the feet in the streets above us
( and your voice again )
And your voice again
( and your voice again )
( and your voice again )
I don’t want you to call again
Do you still feed the animal
Muffled madness
Quiet calm pervade her
I couldn’t go trought this again
You said you love her
You know you love her
You never want to be without her
You said you never want hurt her
You know you hurt her
I
How many lives you lives
How many hurt you done
How many times you come to this place
How much you want it
You said you love her
07 Bruce Lee (04:42)
( bullet got the wrong bloke )
Life kid suck
Drink from the box
The juice kicks up
Life give suck the box drink
Yeah
Life kid drink from the box
The juice kicks up
Life kids sucker
Box drink
Yeah
Bruce lee
Life kid seen from the box
Seen from the box
The juice from the box
Kids suck life
Kid get suck from the box
Drink
Bruce lee
Life kid suck from the box
Drink from the box
The juice kicks up
Life kid suck from the box
Drink
Yeah
Bruce lee
Life gets in from the box
Seen from the box
The juice from the box
Kids suck life
Kid get suck from the box
Drink
Bruce lee
Life kid suck from the box
Drink from the box
The juice kicks up
Life kid suck from the box
Drink
Yeah
Bruce lee
( yeah yeah yeah yeah )
Life kid suck from the box
Drink from the box
The juice kicks up
Life kid suck from the box
Yeah
Bruce lee
Life kid ? ? from the box
Seen from the box
Drink from the box
The juice kid suck
Life kid suck the box
Drink
Yeah
Bruce lee
Tanglon
Life kid suck the box [x8]
From the box
( skin hard sails in jail )
( hair always cut with a blunt tool )
( muscular but thin like springs )
( but not steel )
( for ford men )
( four ford men )
( they sell it into vaporizing rulers )
( each way up in his own head )
( hold up in it's fly flicking markses )
( piggy little piggy little eyes )
( holds and scape )
( hole in skin )
( just enough to let in light )
( bullet got the wrong bloke )
( but he don't die anyway )
( it's nothing mortal if you don't move )
( you still have slot the wall in a blanket )
( I have been this way for days )
Stiff stiff stiff stiff stiff...
( bullet got the wrong bloke )
( it's happenned mortuary, you die it means )
( skin has it off the wall and it goes like this )
( I have been this way for days )
(oh no, there's a gun )
( over there under the bed )
( turn, let's see what's in the other room )
( he grew up faster )
( just the disco with the one get my rope )
( pull through again )
( a third rat a fourth to his head is calm the sheets of calm )
( bullet got the wrong bloke )
( he's out of the eyes now )
( strained gas on his head )
( it's dark, he comes up with his darkness...)
Life kid suck from the box
Drink from the box
The juice kid suck
Life kid suck the box
Yeah
Bruce lee
Tanglon
10 Something Like a Mama (06:37)
Something like a mama the bull
Something salty
Something like a mama the bull
Something blue
Mama
Something like a mama the bull
Something salty
Something like a mama the bull
Something blue
Mama
Something like a mama
The bull
Something salty
Something like a mama the bull
Something blue
Mama
Something like a mama
The blue the bull
Something salty
Something like a mama the bull
Salt and smoke salty
Something like a mama the bull
Mama
Something like a mama the bull
( you got me )
( nice )
( quiver shudder )
( quiver )
( shudder slither )
( quiver shudder )
( quiver shudder )
( quiver )
( shudder slither )
( quiver )
( quiver shudder )
( quiver shudder )
Believer believer
Believer believer
Believer believer
Believer
Fuck
Nice nice
Ahh fuck ahh
Something like a mama the bull
Something salty
Something like a mama the bull
Something blue
Mama
Something like a mama the bull
Something salty
Something like a mama the bull
Something blue
11 Moaner (07:37)
hey
kiss me (i kiss you)
kiss me (i kiss you)
i know about you i've been told about you
i've been waiting for you in the air's thin
tiny holes
and everybody wants to know you
it's wrapped up moon river
then beyond the blinds and the new white slacks
a light
sliding into the city
tunnel beneath the feet of the people in the city
roamin' roamin' roamin' in the city and
crossway boy
crossway boy
downtownwaterfront boy
in the shadows where the envy and the motor meet and the
she's on the phone again
surfin'
she's on the phone again
she's calling from america
she's calling from america
she's surfing
she's moshing
and the girls are diving
and the girls are up to something
animal boything
upontheroofagain boything
to've been down there
where there's every kinda lack
make it down to the delaware and
i'm in your head and
moaner
moanermoanermoaner
rudy,
getthe
getthe
getthe
getthe
getthe
night
the city loves you
city loves a boyfriend
love walks with the boyfriend
the city loves a boyfriend
friends walking with the boyfriend
and the night's with the boyfriend
and the city loves you
loves you
loves you
loves everyone
everyone is smiling
the smiling is pushing it around
is pushing it around like the shadows
in the evolution in the dark
and the
super boys
where
time is old
when
time is everything
when
time of all this started
as we turn to earth
earth wind and fire
get the sun in your head
black metal walls are falling
i am the hunger above your town
(a little sound in a little amp)
i am dubious
(i am metal)
i am stainless
i am milk in your plastic
i am wrapped in ribs and left alone
on a full moon
where the only thing i could do
lying awake on the floor
at night
the boys who cough
a-cough awake
a-cough awake
ah ah ah
AH AH AH
water into you to me
constantly
constantly
without
without
without
without again
without again
your telephone numbers move across the water
the ocean between us opens
the silence is indifferent
and love
love
love
love
love walks with the boyfriend
the city loves a boyfriend
friends walking
friends walking with the boyfriend
the city loves a boyfriend
everybody loves a boyfriend
you left me alone
you left me alone
with a full moon
full moon
full moon
full moon
boys
boys
boys
boys
white crosswaycrossway boys
down on the waterfront
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