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█▌ TEAM OZM PRESENTS ▀█▓█▒░██
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█ ARTiST :. Fat Freddy's Drop ██░
█ ALBUM .: Live at the Wireless ██░
█ YEAR :. 2006 ▐█░
█ TYPE .: Album ▐█░
█ GENRE :. Reggae ██
█ TRACKS .: 06 ██
█ LABEL :. n/a ██
█ SOURCE .: Radio ▐█
█ CATALOG :. n/a ▐█
█ RiP.DATE .: 09-05-2006 ▐█
█ AiR.DATE :. 09-04-2006 █
█ GRABBER :. Cdex █
█ ENCODER .: LAME 3.90.3 █
█ BiTRATE :. VBR.kbps.44.1kHz █
▓ MODE .: HQ Joint-Stereo █
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░ --──.────────────────────────────────────────────.___________.──────-· █
-##.┬[CD/Title]─ ──────────────────────── ─── ─ ─.___________.[Length] █
░ │ │ █
01.├ Intro │ 01:02 █
02.├ Cay's Cray's │ 06:26 █
03.├ Flashback │ 10:12 █
04.├ Wandering Eye │ 12:15 █
05.├ This Room │ 13:54 █
06.├ Outro │ 01:04 █
│ .──────────┴─────--· █
-- ─┴─ ─ ───────────── ─ ────────────────────────' 44:53 █
░ 50,4 mB ▓
░ iNFO ▒
░ & URLs: ░
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░ http://www.fatfreddysdrop.com ░
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░ From the underground to the higher-ground, Fat Freddy's Drop do it ░
░ for the love of music, and food! ░
░ ░
░ Driven by the power of live performance, sheer hard work and savvy ░
░ independent vinyl releases, Freddy's debut studio album Based On A ░
░ True Story has wrecked local NZ chart records and garnered Five Star ░
░ reviews since its release in May 2005. ░
░ ░
░ Shipping Gold on the first day the album dropped, Based On A True ░
░ Story made history as the first independently distributed album to ░
░ hit Number One on the NZ Album Charts. Within two weeks, the long ░
░ player album reached Platinum. ░
░ ░
░ The Pacific purveyors of hi-tek soul are first and foremost a live ░
░ band. Awarded Best Live Act at the b-Net NZ Music Awards in 2004, ░
░ the seven-piece family of musicians emerged through a multitude of ░
░ incarnations, from funk jam bands to reggae soundsystems, jazz ░
░ improvisation and live techno, to become one of the country's most ░
░ loved and respected groups. ░
░ ░
░ Their hypnotic hi-tek soul groove fuses skanking urban Pacific ░
░ roots, soul, dub and electronica. No two Freddy's gigs are the same ░
░ as the midnight marauders improvise and jam each song into mystic ░
░ supernovas of future funk, fakes and freaky sidesteps. ░
░ ░
░ They've toured nationwide, to Australia and completed critically ░
░ acclaimed tours of the UK and Europe in 2003 and 2004, building on ░
░ international partnerships with London's Kartel Records and Berlin's ░
░ Sonar Kollektiv. The band's original CD Live at the Matterhorn, went ░
░ Gold with over 11,000 copies sold purely through word of mouth. ░
░ ░
░ Fitchie AKA Mu is the Freddy's band-leader, awarded Best Producer ░
░ and Most Outstanding Musician at the b-Net NZ Music Awards 2005, and ░
░ Best Producer at the b-Net's in 2003. His MPC 2000 sampler is the ░
░ core of the Freddy's sound, as he mashes up bouncing beats and ░
░ bottom heavy bass lines for each Freddy's tune. ░
░ ░
░ Joe Dukie AKA Dallas Tamaira, is the Freddy's lyricist and singing ░
░ sensation, awarded Best Vocalist at the b-Net NZ Music Awards 2005. ░
░ His stage name/alter ego is drawn from his father Joe, also a ░
░ singer, and his grandfather, a musician nicknamed Dukie after Duke ░
░ Ellington. Heavily influenced by Bill Withers, Joe Dukie's lyrics ░
░ and sweet vocals are resonant and uplifting. ░
░ ░
░ The bootae shaking three-piece horn section bring the jazz and jive ░
░ flavor to Fat Freddy's Drop. Meeting at Wellington's acclaimed Jazz ░
░ School in the mid nineties they have been at the core of a new ░
░ musical movement in New Zealand via popular NZ bands such as The ░
░ Blacks Seeds, Trinity Roots and of course Fat Freddy's Drop. ░
░ ░
░ The intricate licks of Fulla Flash AKA Warryn Maxwell's tenor and ░
░ alto sax intertwined with stabs from Tony Chang AKA Toby Laing's ░
░ trumpet come together with the wall of sound of Ho Pepa AKA Joe ░
░ Lindsay's apocalyptic trombone. ░
░ ░
░ Jetlag Johnson aka Tehimana Kerr holds down the roots and mind ░
░ bending riffs for Freddy's with his old school reggae guitar skank ░
░ while Dobie Blaze AKA Iain Gordon is a keyboard collector who serves ░
░ up funkadelic analogue keys juxtaposed with baby grand piano and ░
░ Casio. Meals are a sacred pastime for Freddy's, and Dobie Blaze ░
░ doubles as the family chef. His culinary feasts keep the family from ░
░ going hungry. Skinny bunch of punks they're certainly not! As ░
░ Fitchie says 'the band that eats together stays together!' ░
░ ░
░ Freddy's HQ is affectionately referred to as 'the beach', home to Mu ░
░ and Nicole, who drive the band's NZ label The Drop. Literally 6 feet ░
░ from the beach, The Drop studio is situated in the basement of their ░
░ home, a 19th Century Bath House on Lyall Bay and one of the oldest ░
░ buildings in Wellington; New Zealand's capital city. ░
░ ░
░ Life at The Drop exists on 'Island Time' as the bros work at their ░
░ own tempo, under few pressures from the outside world. The result, ░
░ Based On A True Story, is an album unlike anything else you've ░
░ heard. ░
░ ░
░ The album was recorded, engineered and mixed by Fitchie at the beach ░
░ over 18 months with breaks for live gigs around the nation and ░
░ summer tours to the UK and Europe. The production process was ░
░ organic, with the ten tunes evolving almost entirely live on stage ░
░ and the arrangements were then fine tuned by the seven players in ░
░ the studio. Fitchie escorted the final mix to San Francisco to ░
░ master with George Horn at Fantasy Studio. ░
░ ░
░ One of the first singles from the album, the Flashback, 12" vinyl ░
░ debuted at #1 on the New Zealand alt charts in early 2005. The tune ░
░ spent weeks in the b-Net Top 10 charts as well as sitting on Kiwi ░
░ FM's 'A' rotate for more than a month. ░
░ ░
░ The 12" b-side featured a stripped back version of Midnight ░
░ Marauders recorded live by the Freddy's at the BBC Maida Vale ░
░ studios in 2004. The session that also featured Hope and Willow Tree ░
░ was nominated Best Session on Gilles Petersons 2004 Worldwide ░
░ Awards. ░
░ ░
░ Fat Freddy's Drop first grabbed attention on the international dance ░
░ circuit in 2002 when Midnight Marauders, released under the guise of ░
░ Joe Dukie and Fitchie by Sonar Kollektiv's imprint Best Seven, was ░
░ canned on decks and floors from London to Berlin. ░
░ ░
░ In 2003 Freddy's dropped their official band debut on wax with a 10" ░
░ release with London's Kartel, featuring Hope a song that Dukie ░
░ scribed to inspire positivity, spirituality and creativity' and ░
░ b-side dub trip Bluey. ░
░ ░
░ Midnight Marauders and HOPE both scaled to the number one spot on ░
░ Gilles Peterson's top twenty World Wide picks in 2002 and 2003 ░
░ respectively. ░
░ ░
░ Dukie's cartoon sketches bring the alter egos to life and link them ░
░ closer to the bands namesake, Fat Freddy's Cat, a character from US ░
░ cult comic strip The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. ░
░ ░
░ Australian music kicks arse. Always has, always will. We're just glad ░
▒ that you're all on board for the ride. We here at OZM will continue ░
░ to shove Australian music right in your face proving that it's ░
░ equal to, and usually better, than any other international act ░
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