Artist
Fat Freddy's Drop
Fat Freddy's Drop is a reggae artist from New Zeland formed in 1999. 44 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Reggae · New Zeland · Best reggae albums
- 44
- Releases
- 2001–2024
- Active years
- 1999
- Formed
Artist
Fat Freddy's Drop is a reggae artist from New Zeland formed in 1999. 44 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Reggae · New Zeland · Best reggae albums
Most popular
Wairunga
2021 · 7 tracks
Special Edition Part 1
EP · 2019
Slo Mo
Single · 2024
Next Stop
Single · 2024
Silver & Gold
Single · 2023
Russia
Single · 2023
Marauders
Single · 2023
Shady
Single · 2021
Bones
Single · 2021
Soldier
Single · 2020
Hope (Lock-In)
Single · 2020
Kamo Kamo
Single · 2019
Special Edition, Pt. 1
EP · 2019
Trickle Down
Single · 2018
Little One
Single · 2015
Razor
Single · 2015
Seconds
Single · 2015
Grounded
Single · 2015
Mother Mother / Never Moving Remixes
Single · 2014
Slings and Arrows
Single · 2014
Clean the House
Single · 2013
Blackbird
Single · 2013
Mother Mother
Single · 2013
Silver and Gold
Single · 2012
This Room / Ernie
EP · 2010
Hope
Single · 2010
Cay's Crays
Single · 2010
The Raft
EP · 2010
Pull the Catch
Single · 2008
The Camel
Single · 2008
Del Fuego
Single · 2007
Flashback (Jazzanova Mixes)
Single · 2006
Wandering Eye
Single · 2005
Fat Freddy's Drop are a New Zealand seven-piece band from Wellington, whose musical style has been characterised as any combination of dub, reggae, soul, jazz, rhythm and blues, and techno. Originally a jam band formed in the late 1990s by musicians from other bands in Wellington, Fat Freddy's Drop gradually became its members' sole focus. Band members continued playing with their other respective groups--The Black Seeds, TrinityRoots, Bongmaster, and others--for much of their 13-year career. Fat Freddy's Drop are known for their improvised live performances; songs on their studio albums are versions refined over years of playing them live in New Zealand, and on tour abroad. The group gained international recognition in 2003 after their single "Midnight Marauders" was re-distributed by record labels and DJs in Germany. The group has toured Europe nearly every year since then. The first studio album by Fat Freddy's Drop, Based on a True Story, was the first independently distributed album to reach first place in New Zealand record sales directly after release in 2005, and is the highest-selling album by a national artist in the country's history. Based on a True Story won Best Albu…
