FAT FREDDY'S DROP: Based on a True Story

Fat Freddy's Drop

Based on a True Story

© 2008 Kartel

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The debut studio alum from the original purveyors of hi tek reggae soul originating from Wellington New Zealand. This album has hit 7X platinum in NZ and won numerous awards including the coveted BBC World Wide awards.

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Fat Freddy’s Drop are Fitchie, MPC technician, Joe Dukie, lyricist & vocalist, Fulla Flash, tenor and alto sax, Tony Chang, trumpet, Ho Pepa, trombone, Jetlag Johnson, guitar Dobie Blaze keyboards.

Freddy’s hi-tek soul delivery is a specific flavor that trips through and fuses skanking urban Pacific roots, soul, dub, jazz and electronica, hypnotic and thunderous grooves.

Reggae is one of the most popular music genres in New Zealand. The 1979 Bob Marley concert at Western Springs Stadium in Auckland is credited with having a huge influence of the growth of reggae in the country. “The three-strong horn section builds on these solid foundations, with Dobie Blaze playing an array of vintage keyboards, before the annoyingly good-looking Joe Dukie adds his silky-voiced lyrics. They have the feel of a genuine spiritual collective, and the audience fed off the band’s intimacy with each other.

From the underground to the higher-ground, Fat Freddy’s Drop is the seven-headed soul monster doing it for the love of music and food!

Driven by the power of hypnotic live performance, sheer hard work and savvy independent CD and vinyl releases, the Freddy’s voodoo is heading for worldwide domination.

The watershed year for the purveyors of hi-tek soul was 2005 as the band stepped out of the rush to release their debut studio album Based On A True Story on CD and double gatefold vinyl.

Envisaged as a ‘slow burn release’ Based On A True Story has exceeded all expectations. Officially released in Aotearoa, NZ in May 05, B.O.A.T.S shipped Gold on its first day, and made history as the first independently distributed album to strike #1 on the NZ Album Charts.

In October 2005 B.O.A.T.S garnered a stash of Tui Awards at the NZ Music Awards: official Freddy’s loot; Album of the Year, Best Aotearoa Roots Album, Best Group and direct from the peeps – the People’s Choice Award. The Freddy’s then travelled to London in December to be 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

The album was declared the second top selling album in NZ for 2005, and one year on from its release had spent 42 out of 52 weeks in the Top Ten NZ Album charts, 11 of those at #1. By May 2006 B.O.A.T.S hit x7 Platinum sales in Aotearoa NZ, reaching over 100,000 album sales, and is independently now available in Australia, UK, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Holland and Japan, with the US on the horizon…


Dukie’s cartoon sketches bring the Freddy’s alter egos to life and links them closer to the bands namesake, Fat Freddy’s Cat, a character from US cult comic strip The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Too much Freddy’s.

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  • author: K.M.K

    first class all the way! You like jazz, dub, soul, electro? even if the answear is yes to only one of those you will love this album.

  • Outstanding album
    author: sam horn

    The first time I listened to this album I was hooked, one of my all-time favorite cds, a slendid combinatoin of dub, soul anf funk with an incredible lead vocalist make this album special!

  • author: CHRIS POWELL

    This band is so awesome. They're big in New Zealand, and Europe, but no so much in America...yet. Joe Dukie's vocals are so smooth. Definitly check this one out

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