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Fat Freddy's Drop

Internationally regarded as one of the world’s finest live draws, Fat Freddy’s Drop may have been around since the early Noughties, but they are truly the most modern of institutions. The New Zealanders have navigated their way from the incubator of sunshine reggae through a colour-saturated field of soul psychedelia before swerving onto a desolate Detroit superhighway at night. It’s a sound that demands to be heard live, a potent mixture of jazz virtuosity and diaphragm-wrecking digital sonics.

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Fat Freddy's Drop Jamming Live & Taking Names

Fat Freddy's Drop Jamming Live & Taking Names

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Fat Freddy's Drop Captured in Their Natural State: Jamming Live and Taking Names at the Roundhouse

Fat Freddy's Drop has battled mad scientists and unleashed mad skills. An unlikely band of sons of the Pacific, they can flip on the fly from Maori reggae to sweet Yankee soul with near psychic precision. Like kungfu masters, they set their dubbed-out funk, hardcore horns, and waves of luscious bass on unsuspecting opponents and turn them into sweaty dance floor devotees.

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Fat Freddy's Drop: Live at Roundhouse London

Fat Freddy's Drop: Live at Roundhouse London

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Fat Freddy's Drop Bringin' New Zealand Funk Back to the US for Summer Tour

Fat Freddy's Drop Bringin' New Zealand Funk Back to the US for Summer Tour

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Fat Freddy's Drop is bringin' their New Zealand funk back to the US for a summer tour!

Fat Freddy's Drop 2010 Tour Details: 06/19/2010, Sat: Boonville, CA: Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, Mendocino County Fairgrounds; Tix: $145-3 Day, $55/65 Single Day; Show: 8:00 pm; Ph: 916.777.5550

06/20/2010, Sun: San Luis Obispo, CA: Avila Beach Bowl, 6464 Ana Bay Drive; Show: 6:00 pm (approx.)

06/23/2010, Wed: San Diego, CA: 4th & B, 345 “B" Street; Show: 9:00 pm

06/24/2010, ...

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Welcome Fat Freddy's Drop to the US

Welcome Fat Freddy's Drop to the US

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Rebel Soul, Renegade Cartoons, and New Zealand Funk: Fat Freddy's Drop Battles Dr. Boondigga & the Big BW

On a distant planet floating in a sea of patched-together spaceships, Dr. Boondigga and the BW, a mad scientist and his sidekick robot, have kidnapped New Zealand's high-tech soul mercenaries Fat Freddy's Drop. Actually, the true story of Dr. Boondigga is not fully known, having been created first in the mind of Freddy singer and lyricist Dallas Tamaira a.k.a. Joe Dukie and ...

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