Headphone Highlights

Fat Freddy's Drop

The Drop, New Zealand

From the underground to the higher-ground, Fat Freddys Drop is an unstoppable hi-tek soul monster doing it for the love of music. First and foremost a live collective, no two Freddy's gigs are ever the same. The hypnotic live jam is the essence for Freddy's hybrid of dub and reggae, soul, funk and hip hop marinated in jazz and served on Island Time. Established in 1999, Freddys' watershed year was 2005 when the bros dropped debut full-length album, 'Based On A True Story', re-writing musical history at home and unleashing Freddys slow burning voodoo worldwide. In late 2008, following three solid years of songs being road tested in tours across the seven seas and some intense studio lockdown, Fat Freddys Drop are ready to pull the catch and release their next works. It's been a fantastic voyage so far for the midnight marauders representing Aotearoa/NZ, the land of the long white cloud, and there are plenty more jams and paua won tons to follow. In their exclusive Headphone Highlights session, DJ Fitchie and guitar hero Jetlag Johnson reveal some of their all time faves.