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Fat Freddy's Drop is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Alice Russell, The Bamboos, The Nextmen and Trinity Roots. Those roots explain a lot about how Fat Freddy's Drop arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Black Seeds, Blundetto, Katchafire, Ladi6 and Lord Echo, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into DJ Vadim, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around Fat Freddy's Drop, reaching back through Alice Russell and forward to DJ Vadim. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Fat Freddy's Drop are a New Zealand seven-piece band formed in Wellington in 1999. Their 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 20-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.
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Fat Freddy's Drop grew out of Alice Russell, The Bamboos, The Nextmen and Trinity Roots, shares an orbit with The Black Seeds, Blundetto, Katchafire and Ladi6, went on to shape DJ Vadim. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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