Fat Freddy's Drop are Joe Dukie, DJ Fitchie, Dobie Blaze, Tony Chang, Hopepa, Jetlag Johnson & introducing Chopper Reedz. Artist operated from Aotearoa NZ by The Drop. Chur.
Seven headed soul monster Fat Freddy's Drop will be shaking loose in 2010 with gigs announced for Aotearoa NZ and Australia, and we've got our sights set on sailing back across the seven seas to Europe and USA.
Having dropped second studio album Dr Boondigga & The Big BW in 2009, the focus is on jamming new and classic tunes live and there is talk of some sneaky vinyl remixes on the horizon.
Dr Boondigga & The Big BW shipped Gold on release in NZ in 2009, 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”.
Fat Freddy Drop won Best Producer for Dr Boondigga & The Big BW in the technical award categories of this year's New Zealand Music Awards while artist Otis Frizzell was nominated for Best Album Cover and Fitchie for Best Engineer in the recently announced techies.
In October 2009, Dr Boondigga & The Big BW landed Best Aotearoa Roots Album along with nominations for Album of The Year, Best Group and People's Choice Award. Chur.
Dr Boondigga & The Big BW is available now from our Merch Tent and in-store NZ and Australia. Dr Boondigga has reached Czech, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, UK and USA.
For vinyl trainspotters - Dr Boondigga & The Big BW heavyweight double Gatefold vinyl is out of the lab and available alongside a re-press of BOATS double gatefold 21".
Happy New Years to all the Fat Freddys! I heard those US travel visas were for 12 months so please come back to the States and Drop another awesome show on us here in SF! Peace for the Love of Music! sb
Hi thereFFD, nice tae greet ye, diggin' thee excellent tuneage, treble braw indeed and a good start tae my musical explorations of the day. Good luck with all yer musical adventures. Tanx fur visitin' the STY and checkin' out my skanky psych punk blues. Good tae have ye aboard the good ship Hogbelly. Anarchy, peace, freedom and love. Check out Alienpig records at www.esnips.com/user/alienpig for free downloads (including Pig back catalogue) and also myspace.com/alienpigrecords. ALIENPIG RECORDS is a free mp3 label featuring various unsigned, underground and unheard of bands and projects from the Glasgow area and beyond (1974 - ????).
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