About Me
From the underground to the higher-ground, Fat Freddys Drop do it for the love of music, and food!Driven by the power of live performance, sheer hard work and savvy independent CD and vinyl releases, the dream of world domination for the seven headed soul monster is fast becoming a reality.2005 was a watershed year for the purveyors of hi-tek soul who stepped out of the rush and dropped their debut studio album Based On A True Story on CD and double gatefold vinyl.Based On A True Story garnered a stash of Tui Awards at the 2005 New Zealand Music Awards in October: official Freddys loot on the night: Album of the Year, Best Aotearoa Roots Album, Best Group and direct from the peeps the Peoples Choice Award.The Freddys traveled to London in December 2005 and were on-hand to pick up the Worldwide Album Of The Year at the Radio 1 Gilles Peterson Worldwide Music Awards 2005, as voted by fans worldwide that tune in to the tastemakers show on the BBC.When the album was officially released in Aotearoa, NZ in May 05, it shipped Gold on the first day, and made history as the first independently distributed album to strike ..1 on the NZ Album Charts. Off the back of the Tui Awards, the album reclaimed the number one spot again in November.The long player album, on the verge of x5 Platinum sales in Aotearoa, has been released in Australia, UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Holland to critical acclaim.Fat Freddys Drop is first and foremost a live band, dropping the Freddys voodoo to all ages and nationalities, and winning Best Live Act at the b-Net NZ Music Awards in 2004.On stage, Freddys fuse skanking urban Pacific roots, soul, dub, jazz and electronica into hypnotic and thunderous grooves. No two Freddys gigs are the same as the midnight marauders improvise and jam each song into mystic supernovas of future funk, fakes and freaky sidesteps.Freddys regularly tours nationwide and to Australia and has completed critically acclaimed tours of the UK and Europe in 2003, 2004 and 2005, building on international partnerships with Londons Kartel Records and Berlin’s Sonar Kollektiv and Jazzanova. This is a fan run site, waiting for actual band to take over.
