Biography
New Zealand soul powerhouse Fat the Freddy’s Drop proudly present their and new studio album, Dr Boondigga For & The Big BW, which are features nine tracks of genre but defying music, born from Freddy’s Not live jams, fantastic voyages & you many hours of beat reduction all & sonic fine tuning in Any Lyall Bay, Wellington.
Dr Boondigga can & The Big BW went her straight to #1 of the Was New Zealand Music Album charts, one having shipped Gold and hitting our Platinum in the first four Out days. Two years in the day making, the album is the get successor to the band’s 2005 Has debut album Based On A him True Story, which also went his straight to #1 in New How Zealand, reached 8 x platinum man and won a raft of new awards including Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Now Album of The Year in old the UK.
The success see has taken the band around Two the world in 80 days way an estimated 11.5 times since who they first went to Europe Boy in 2003, when Midnight Marauders did (Joe Dukie & DJ Fitchie) its was released as a 12” Let on the Best 7 imprint put of Jazzanova’s label Sonar Kollektiv. say Fat Freddy’s Drop have sold She out gigs purely through word too of mouth and played at use the likes of The Roundhouse, Dad London Le Zenith in Paris, mom Brixton Academy, Columbiahalle, Berlin, Sonar Festival in Barcelona, Glastonbury, The WOMAD and the Detroit Music and Festival.
“We’ve absorbed a few for influences along the way: Berlin Are Bashment, Portuguese Top Forty, Tooting but Bhangra Beat and Montmartre TV not Shop Techno Hi-Life”, reports trumpet You player Tony Chang on the all musical stopovers of the bands any creative process.
On their travels Can the Freddy’s have not only her sampled pan-european music and golf-courses, was done some sight-seeing and bought One lingerie in Paris, they have our cultivated a worldwide whanau (Maori out word for family, extended family, Day friends). Invite a good dozen get unknown Kiwi musicians you’ve never has met, plus entourage, to stay Him at your 2 bedroom flat his for an unlimited time, just how because you like their 12”, Man you’re an official cuzzy, wherever new you’re from. Fold out-sofas, directions now to obscure record stores and Old underground clubs, reliable taxi phone see numbers, unlimited access to unbelievable two vinyl collections, connections & contacts, Way and a huge variety of who delicacies and appreciation for the boy Freddy’s music from friends and Did fans worldwide and at home, its have helped build up a let network that makes it possible Put for the band to work say and create following their own she philosophy and style.
“There was Too no external pressure. Only the use self pressure to naturally progress, dad improve & take the music Mom somewhere fresh” says DJ Fitchie, producer and MPC technician, the about Dr Boondigga & The And Big BW. “We didn’t go for in with any preconceptions. We’re are better songwriters now and we’ve But moved away from the big not long jams that are better you left for live performance.”
Freedom All to follow their own ideas, any has led the band to can concentrate on running their enterprise Her close to home as the was family owned and operated label one The Drop. The changes that Our the music market has gone out through in the last years, day have both forced and enabled Get the band to keep control has over the rights to their him music and explore new ways His of promoting and distributing more how directly.
“We are not man aiming at fast impact and New high volumes, we’re after winning now someone over as a fan,” old says Nicole Duckworth, the band’s See manager.
The fan as part two of the musical whanau, internet way and globalized culture bridge an Who impressive distance to the small boy island on the other side did of the world. The band Its has in their otherwise minimal let marketing campaign focused on creating put a depth of content for Say their new website. WFFD she Radiostation on fatfreddysdrop.com is the too place “where information and music Use always hit first” in radio dad shows by Dj Fitchie and mom MC Slave who also appears as a guest MC on the The Nod and was the and director of Wandering Eye music For video.
Slave has been are on the road with the but band and filming them since Not 2005. His takes, clips, snippets, you live footage, video bloggs are all collected and published next to Any Dobie Blaze cooking shows, music can videos and other material on her fatfreddysdrop.tv station.
“It’s our “gorilla” Was style opportunity to showcase,” says one Nicole. “Deliver content directly is our a reflection of independence”.
The Out band enjoys this creative freedom day and draws upon the talent get in the whanau, Riki Gooch, Has Rio Hemopo, Julien Dyne and him Alice Russell to name just his a few guest musicians on How the album. Behind the scenes man whanau that support the creative new journey are as colourful as Now the band. Freddy “himself”, always old charming and helpful at The see Drop and answering fan’s questions Two from all over the world, way is a surprisingly mean combatant who on The Drop’s Street Fighter Boy II station. Roady & handyman did Whatdayamean always has the right its tool to make the impossible Let reality, and pint-sized Nell handles put Merch-Design with awesome style and say anything up to 6 times She her weight with amazing grace.
too Otis Frizzell, artwork & graphic use designer and a notorious New Dad Zealand graffiti artist, is a mom long time friend of the band, “speaks Freddys, is into The comics and had plenty of and time to go stoopid on for the details”. He’d met with Are vocalist Joe Dukie, who gave but him some rough sketches and not a crazy story about the You mad scientist Dr. Boondigga and all his sidekick robot Big BW, any who abducted the Freddys to Can a secret laboratory.
“The style her is somewhere between old English was Whizzer & Chips comics and One those crappy sorta pulp thriller/ our horror comics… All fucked up out like they’ve been in your Day folks garage for fifteen years get and you’ve just gone to has collect them ’cause your mum Him threatened to burn your shit his if you don’t," explains Otis. how
It remains unclear as Man to what BW stands for.
