After two years of beat reduction and sonic fine tuning, Fat Freddy's Drop present Dr Boondigga & The Big BW. Shaking loose over a solid running time of seventy minutes the soul powerhouse present nine fresh studio tracks - Big BW, Shiverman, Boondigga, The Raft, Pull The Catch, The Camel, The Nod, Wild Wind and Breakthrough.
From the underground to the higher-ground, Fat Freddy’s Drop is the South Pacific soul monster doing it for the love of music, and food!
The essence of Freddy’s hi-tek soul boil up is hypnotic live performance, savvy CD, vinyl and DVD releases, served on quality Island Time.
Freddy’s watershed year was 2005 when Freddy's dropped their debut full-length album, Based On A True Story. That release four years ago re-wrote musical history at home - shipping Gold and becoming the first independent album to debut at Number 1 on the NZ music album charts - and it unleashed Freddy's slow burning, future-funk voodoo worldwide.
The gigantic news for 2009 is Freddy's shaking loose with their second studio album Dr Boondigga & The Big BW.
The sophomore album has been worth the wait - shipping Gold on release in NZ, hitting Platinum in four days and landing the Number 1 spot on the NZ Music Album Charts for five weeks straight.
With a solid running time of seventy minutes, Dr Boondigga & The Big BW features nine tracks of indefinable music - born from Freddy’s live jams, fantastic voyages & many hours of beat reduction & sonic fine tuning.
Toby Chang enthuses that “we’ve absorbed a few influences along the way – Berlin bashment, Portuguese top forty, Tooting Bhangra Beat and Montmartre TV shop Techno Hi-Life”.
Dj MU, the band’s Master of Reality, producer and MPC technician says Freddy’s is “soul” music.
Fat Freddy’s Drop are Joe Dukie aka Dallas Tamaira (Vocals) Dobie Blaze aka Iain Gordon (Keys & Synth) Tony Chang aka Toby Laing (Trumpet) Jetlag Johnson aka Tehimana Kerr (Guitar) Hopepa aka Joe Lindsay (Trombone) Fitchie aka MU aka Chris Faiumu (MPC) and introducing Chopper Reedz aka Scott Towers (Saxophone).
Dr Boondigga & The Big BW features choice art and design by Mr Otis Frizzell, and guest players dropping in the musicial mix are MC Slave, Rio Hemopo, Julian Dyne, Riki Gooch, Alice Russell, Chip Matthews, Dan Yeabsley, Kemara Fuimaono and Wild Will Rickets.
Dr Boondigga CD and digi downloads up for grabs online direct from Freddy's www.fatfreddysdrop.com
Or track down the album in-store across Aotearoa NZ and Australia plus online via amplifier.co.nz or iTunes NZ & Australia.
Dr Boondigga & The Big BW will be officially released in Europe, UK and USA real soon.
Vinyl production is cooking
Too much Freddy’s!
Fat Freddy's Drop - Shiverman 'Lil Slilver' - Live At The Roundhouse, London 08
Printor Dr Boondigga T Shirt Movie, NZ
COOKIN WITH FAT FREDDY'S DROP- JERK CHICKEN
The Camel, Fat Freddy’s Drop Live at The Roundhouse
"Wandering Eye" version wandering thru Lisbon, Portugal
this one here: it's a little story: break through wild wind. Shiverman "Boondigga" use the raft, pull the catch, the Nod, Big BW and the Camel.
Did You Like iT? i'm going to buy it one day, i got Based on a True Story(and it is...tell me: the first time you came to Portugal, you played at Algarve, the South, in a Stadium, opening Black Eyed Peas, tell me) and i have a brown Camel T-Shirt (and i'm wearing it Proud!) i saw youS two times alive allready (and i'm so thankfull) (your my number 13!hih!ih!)
Thanks for accepting the invitation of friendship! I am fan of your work! One of the best reggae bands of today! Good vibes from Brazil! Big up Fat Freddys!! Jah bless!
Hey Freddy's! I'm a San Francisco Bay Arean in Wellington @ this very moment on vacation (aka holiday). Love your music.! Where do you suggest I go and buy your new album at? I want to show Wellington some love by patronizing their establishments.
last week your new cd arrived! fantastic!!! at the moment there..s no other sound in my player!!! hope to get a chance to see you in germany live, i can..t wait to see you! greetz
heyy FFD,I'd like a dédicasse on the cd, it's possible if I take it on your site,I know I asked too much but is your fault you are too good also, tell me yes especially, why not ?!!?, see you soon.
