Music News - Fat Freddy's Drop release 'Special Edition' video taken from new album 'Special Edition Part 1'
21 November 2019 - 0 Comments
Fat Freddy's Drop, today, release a video for the summer anthem of 2019/2020 Special Edition taken from their new album Special Edition Part 1 - streaming/download out now.
No worries in the party! The Special Edition music video features the return of Fat Freddy's Drop marionette band vs Baby Dorge & a furry puppet posse grooving to the new single.
Mark Williams aka M.C. Slave of FFD and the video Director says: "The Special Edition video is a collaboration with puppet master Jon Coddington. We first worked together with Jon on the 2013 Freddy’s Clean the House video. Jon made the marionettes especially for that".
When asked to get the band back together Jon was all for it! Stating “It was super cool to dust off the Freddy's marionettes, they were literally sitting in a box in a garage…”
This time however Fat Freddy's Drop thought they'd add another dimension with the hand puppets and gathered 14 puppeteers from the extended Woah! puppeteering family to take part and help out. “I’ve never been in a room with so many puppeteers - it was so much fun” Jon says.
"Jon is an amazing talent! Gathering that many puppeteers in one room is a rare thing and it was an absolute joy to work with them on this. The puppeteers employ many skills form acting, singing, dance and art. A great bunch of people.” - Mark Williams
Everybody wants it, everybody needs it Special Edition. #swaylikethis
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Fat Freddy’s Drop means different things to different people. Hundreds of thousands of fans have seen this internationally renowned live and recorded band play over the last two decades and four acclaimed studio albums. Be it swaying and sun-squinting into the afternoon haze at one of their summer European performances, or hugging a bassbin at an underground rave in Aotearoa. Everyone has their own unique and unforgettable Freddy’s tale to tell.
2019 brings a fresh musical foundation to unite a new generation of Fat Freddy’s Drop evangelists with the original rockers: Special Edition Part 1 - new album streaming/download out now.
Part 1 of a long envisaged double album, Special Edition Part 1’ consists of a combination of stress-tested concert detonations alongside studio bullets crafted at their Wellington command centre BAYS studio. The Detroit techno-influenced musings of Trickle Down, the Steely Dan swagger of Raleigh Twenty and the sunset Balearic bliss of Six Eight Instrumental come from the latter, while Special Edition, Kamo Kamo and OneFourteen are the hard-won results of that magical live-in-concert FFD alchemy.
As with all Fat Freddy’s Drop records there is a finely crafted sonic progression born of a constant hunger for the new, though always tempered by an unshakable faith in the bass music of Jamaica and the importance of real songs with real soul.
Second single and future live classic Kamo Kamo is instantly recognisable as Fat Freddy’s Drop, the discordant Korg and Casio intro giving way to a cascade of descending bass, those iconic horns and Dallas’s rocksteady songwriting. It’s a vitamin D tonic to first single Trickle Down, with it’s Big Fun meets Burial Mix sound: the serious but euphoric collision between the sounds of an interstellar Detroit and Berlin’s wide-eyed 24 hour party palaces.
The making of Part 1 was a brave new frontier: each member of the band was wired into DJ Fitchie’s production software at a specific tempo, while being tasked with using electronic instruments other than those more readily associated with the band. After long jamming sessions the heaviest grooves were targeted and so the real recording began.
This very special record, the band’s fifth studio album, released digitally on the 15th of November with the CD and double vinyl LP being released early December and includes a deluxe vinyl housed in gatefold with die-cut cover and full colour printed inner sleeves. Part 2 can be eagerly awaited in the latter part of 2020.
FAT FREDDY'S DROP
Summer Record Tour 2020
Every show is different - ten shows from Kerikeri to Queenstown!
Featuring an international line up of DJs Jazzy Jeff, David 'Jam Ram' Rodigan and Dub FX
Plus an amazing local cast including L.A.B, Avantdale Bowling Club, JessB, Bailey Wiley, Tunes of I, Chaii and Silva MC
Tickets On Sale now. Go to fatfreddysdrop.com/nztour to check out the line up in your city.
Fat Freddy’s Drop
Summer Record Tour
2020 Dates
Saturday 28 Dec: Thames Racecourse, Thames - Coromandel
Special Guests; DJ JAZZY JEFF, JESSB, TUNES OF I
Tickets on sale from ticketmaster.co.nz / fatfreddysdrop.com/nztour for more info
Monday 30 Dec: Kainui Road Vineyard - Kerikeri
Special Guests; DJ JAZZY JEFF, SILVA MC, BAILEY WILEY, TUNES OF I
Tickets on sale from ticketmaster.co.nz / fatfreddysdrop.com/nztour for more info
Tuesday 31 Dec: Northern Bass - Mangawhai
New Years Eve Festival
Tickets on sale from fatfreddysdrop.com/nztour for more info
Saturday 4 Jan: Wharepai Domain - Tauranga
Special Guests; DJ JAZZY JEFF, L.A.B., AVANTDALE BOWLING CLUB, JESSB, TUNES OF I
Tickets on sale from ticketmaster.co.nz / fatfreddysdrop.com/nztour for more info
Saturday 18 Jan: The Outer Fields at Western Springs - Auckland
Special Guests; DJ DAVID RODIGAN, L.A.B., AVANTDALE BOWLING CLUB, JESSB, CHAII, BAILEY WILEY
Tickets on sale from ticketmaster.co.nz / fatfreddysdrop.com/nztour for more info
Monday 20 Jan: Williams Park, Days Bay - Lower Hutt Wellington
Special Guests; DJ DAVID RODIGAN, SILVA MC, TUNES OF I
Tickets on sale from ticketmaster.co.nz / fatfreddysdrop.com/nztour for more info
Friday 31 Jan + Saturday 1 Feb: Black Barn Vineyards - Havelock North
Special Guests; BAILEY WILEY, SILVA MC
Tickets on sale from ticketmaster.co.nz / fatfreddysdrop.com/nztour for more info
Thursday 6 Feb: Hagley Park - Christchurch
Special Guests: DUB FX, L.A.B., AVANTDALE BOWLING CLUB, JESSB,
CHAII, BAILEY WILEY
Tickets on sale from fatfreddysdrop.com/nztour for more info
Saturday 8 Feb: John Davies Oval - Queenstown
Special Guests; DUB FX, L.A.B., AVANTDALE BOWLING CLUB, BAILEY WILEY
Tickets on sale from fatfreddysdrop.com/nztour for more info
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