The Aquatic Sessions — A Rumoured & Unreleased Beastie Boys Album

James Gaunt
9 min readNov 25, 2020
Beastie Boys in 1997 — Source: Anthology: The Sounds of Science on Archive.org

Beastie Boys were a hip hop group featuring Adam Horovitz (Adrock), Adam Yauch (MCA), and Michael Diamond (Mike D), the later of whom also ran their record label Grand Royal. The Aquatic Sessions are the name given to a rumoured Beastie Boys recording session which probably never existed. They were either an undersea themed album/song, the initial demos of Hello Nasty, or just…

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James Gaunt

An Australian writer with a passion for research. James edits music fanzine The Shadow Knows and writes regularly about Mo’ Wax Records. www.jamesgaunt.com