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 dub-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 the bros dropped their debut full-length album, Based On A True Story. The independent release re-wrote musical history at home and unleashing the 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.
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.
Dr Boondigga shipped Gold on release in NZ, hitting Platinum in four days and securing the Number 1 spot on the NZ Music Album Charts. At the end of June, Dr Boondigga has reigned at the top for five weeks running. The success to date is a deja-voodoo repeat of BOATS - the first independent album to debut in the top spot on the NZ music album charts and shipping Gold on release four years.
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 on 24th July 2009.
Vinyl dropping soon people
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
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.
Thnx Fat Freddy for acceptin our request, we greatly appreciate it. Stop by and comment sometime and let us know what u think of our music. stay up and keep in touch!
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