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Fat Freddy's Drop is 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. [1]

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Aaron Tokona

Aaron Tokana is a New Zealand musician.

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Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash is a deprecated multimedia software platform used for production of animations, rich Internet applications, desktop applications, mobile applications, mobile games and embedded web browser video players.

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Akai MPC

The Akai MPC (originally MIDI Production Center, now Music Production Controller) is an integrated digital sampling drum machine and MIDI sequencer designed by Roger Linn and produced by Akai from 1988 onwards.

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Alice Russell (singer)

Alice Russell (born 1 March 1975 in Suffolk, England) is a British soul singer.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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ARIA Charts

The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association.

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Audio mastering

Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master); the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication).

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Audio mixing (recorded music)

In sound recording and reproduction, audio mixing is the process of combining multitrack recordings into a final mono, stereo or surround sound product.

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Based on a True Story (Fat Freddy's Drop album)

Based on a True Story was the first studio produced album by New Zealand group Fat Freddy's Drop.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bhangra (music)

Bhaṅgṛā (بھنگڑ(Shahmukhi), ਭੰਗੜਾ (Gurmukhi)) is a type of upbeat popular music associated with India and the diaspora of southeast Asia into the North America and Europe.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Blackbird (Fat Freddy's Drop album)

Blackbird is the third studio album by the New Zealand group Fat Freddy's Drop, released on 21 June 2013 on their own record label, The Drop.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press (CUP) is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge.

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Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes Festival (Festival de Cannes), named until 2002 as the International Film Festival (Festival international du film) and known in English as the Cannes Film Festival, is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres, including documentaries from all around the world.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, either previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers.

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Dallas Tamaira

Dallas Tamaira or as he is better known, Joe Dukie, is the vocalist for the New Zealand group Fat Freddy's Drop.

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Delta blues

Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues music.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Dr Boondigga and the Big BW

Dr Boondigga and the Big BW is the second studio album by the New Zealand group Fat Freddy's Drop, released on 2 June 2009 on The Drop.

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Drummer

A drummer is a percussionist who creates and accompanies music using drums.

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Dub music

Dub is a genre of music that grew out of reggae in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre,Dub: soundscapes and shattered songs in Jamaican reggae, p.2 though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae.

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DVD

DVD (an abbreviation of "digital video disc" or "digital versatile disc") is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips and Sony in 1995.

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Electronic Beats

Electronic Beats is a Deutsche Telekom funded online platform which is composed of four projects.

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Extended play

An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.

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Fairfax Media

Fairfax Media Limited (formerly John Fairfax and Sons) is one of the largest media companies in Australia and New Zealand, with investments in newspaper, magazines, radio and digital properties.

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Fantastic Voyages Vol. 1

Fantastic Voyages Vol.

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Fat Freddy's Cat

Fat Freddy's Cat is a fictional orange tomcat nominally belonging to Fat Freddy Freekowtski, one of the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, a trio featured in Gilbert Shelton's underground comix.

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Fat Freddy's Drop discography

Fat Freddy's Drop have released four studio albums, two live albums, and several singles.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Gilbert Shelton

Gilbert Shelton (born May 31, 1940), Lambiek Comiclopedia.

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Gilles Peterson

Gilles Peterson (born 28 September 1964 in Caen, France) is a French-born English disc jockey and record label owner in England.

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Guardian Media Group

Guardian Media Group plc (GMG) is a British mass media company owning various media operations including The Guardian and The Observer.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Here, There & Everywhere (company)

Here, There & Everywhere (HT&E), formerly known as APN News & Media, is an Australian media company.

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Hollie Smith

Hollie Smith (born 17 November 1982) is a New Zealand soul singer-songwriter based in Wellington.

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Intellect

Intellect is a term used in studies of the human mind, and refers to the ability of the mind to come to correct conclusions about what is true or real, and about how to solve problems.

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Jam band

A jam band is a musical group whose live albums and concerts relate to a fan culture that began in the 1960s with the Grateful Dead, and continued with The Allman Brothers Band, which had lengthy jams at concerts.

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Jam session

A jam session is a relatively informal musical event, process, or activity where musicians, typically instrumentalists, play improvised solos and vamp on tunes, songs and chord progressions.

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JamBase

JamBase is an online database and news portal of live music and festivals with a focus on jam bands.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazzanova

Alexander Barck, Zelt Musik Festival 2015 in Freiburg, Germany Jazzanova is a German Berlin-based DJ/producer collective consisting of Alexander Barck, Claas Brieler, Jürgen von Knoblauch, Roskow Kretschmann, Stefan Leisering, and Axel Reinemer.

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Kaikoura

Kaikoura ("Kaikōura", from "Te Ahi Kaikōura a Tama ki te Rangi") is a town on the east coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Kartel Records

Kartel Records Sdn Bhd is a Malaysian hip-hop record label, dealing predominantly in Hip-Hop/R&B music, founded by rapper/entrepreneur Joe Flizzow in 2005.

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Ladi6

Ladi6 (born Karoline Tamati, 7 November 1982 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a recording artist of Samoan descent.

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Live at the Matterhorn

Live at the Matterhorn is the first album by reggae band Fat Freddy's Drop.

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Lysergic acid diethylamide

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known as acid, is a psychedelic drug known for its psychological effects, which may include altered awareness of one's surroundings, perceptions, and feelings as well as sensations and images that seem real though they are not.

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Māori culture

Māori culture is the culture of the Māori of New Zealand (an Eastern Polynesian people) and forms a distinctive part of New Zealand culture.

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MediaWorks New Zealand

MediaWorks New Zealand is a New Zealand-based television, radio and interactive media company entirely owned by Oaktree Capital Management.

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Ministry for Culture and Heritage

The Ministry for Culture and Heritage (MCH) (Māori: Manatū Taonga) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with advising the government on policies and issues involving the arts, culture, heritage, sport and recreation, and broadcasting sectors, and participating in functions that advance or promote those sectors.

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MP3

MP3 (formally MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III) is an audio coding format for digital audio.

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Music of Germany

Germany claims some of the most renowned composers, singers, producers and performers of the world.

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Music of Portugal

Portuguese music includes many different styles and genres, as a result of its history.

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Musical keyboard

A musical keyboard is the set of adjacent depressible levers or keys on a musical instrument.

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New Zealand Listener

The New Zealand Listener is a New Zealand magazine which covers a variety of general topics, including current affairs, politics and entertainment.

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New Zealand Music Awards

The New Zealand Music Awards are conferred annually by Recorded Music NZ, for outstanding artistic and technical achievements in the recording field.

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Nielsen Holdings

Nielsen Holdings PLC (formerly known as Nielsen N.V.) is a global information, data and measurement company with headquarters in the U.K..

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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NZ on Air

NZ on Air (or the Broadcasting Commission) (in Maori: Irirangi te Motu) is an independent New Zealand broadcast funding agency.

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NZ On Screen

NZ On Screen is a state-funded online promotional showcase of New Zealand television and film.

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Penton (company)

Penton is an information services and marketing company.

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Postmedia News

Postmedia News is a national news agency with correspondents in Canada, Europe, and the United States and is part of the Canadian newspaper chain owned by Postmedia Network Inc.

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Radio New Zealand

Radio New Zealand (Te Reo Irirangi o Aotearoa), commonly known as RNZ, is a New Zealand public service radio broadcaster and Crown entity established under the Radio New Zealand Act 1995.

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Recorded Music NZ

Recorded Music NZ (formerly Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ)) is a non-profit trade association of record producers, distributors and recording artists who sell music in New Zealand.

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Red Bull Music Academy

The Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) is a world-traveling series of music workshops and festivals, founded in 1998 by Red Bull.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Remix (magazine)

Remix was a monthly magazine for DJs, audio engineers, record producers, and performers of electronic and hip-hop music.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Salmonella Dub

Salmonella Dub is a dub/drum n bass/reggae/roots band from New Zealand.

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Sampling (music)

In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Single (music)

In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.

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Sonar Kollektiv

Sonar Kollektiv is a German record label founded in the late 1990s by the DJ and producer team Jazzanova(Claas Brieler, Roskow Kretschmann, Stefan Leisering, Axel Reinemer).

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Splendour in the Grass

Splendour in the Grass is an Australian music festival that has been held annually since 2001.

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Stylus Magazine

Stylus Magazine was an online music and film magazine launched in 2002.

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T-Mobile

T-Mobile is the brand name used by the mobile communications subsidiaries of the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom AG.

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Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980s.

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The Bamboos (funk band)

The Bamboos are an Australian funk and soul band from Melbourne.

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The Black Seeds

The Black Seeds are a musical group rooted in reggae from Wellington, New Zealand.

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The Clean

The Clean are an indie rock band that formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1978, and have been described as the most influential band to come from the Flying Nun label, whose repertoire included many major components of the "Dunedin sound".

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The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers

The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers is an underground comic about a fictional trio of stoner characters, created by the American artist Gilbert Shelton.

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The New Zealand Herald

The New Zealand Herald is a daily newspaper published in Auckland, New Zealand, owned by New Zealand Media and Entertainment.

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The Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily compact newspaper published by Fairfax Media in Sydney, Australia.

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TheGuardian.com

TheGuardian.com, formerly known as Guardian.co.uk and Guardian Unlimited, is a British news and media website owned by the Guardian Media Group.

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Three (TV channel)

Three (stylized as +HR.

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TiVo Corporation

TiVo Corporation (formerly Rovi Corporation and Macrovision Solutions Corporation) is an American technology company.

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TrinityRoots

TrinityRoots (1998–2005, 2011–present) are a band based in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Trombone

The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.

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True Vine

The True Vine (hē ampelos hē alēthinē) is an allegory or parable given by Jesus in the New Testament.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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University of Canterbury

The University of Canterbury (Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation Cantuar. or Cant. for Cantuariensis, the Latin name for Canterbury) is New Zealand's second oldest university.

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Wairarapa Times-Age

The Wairarapa Times-Age is the regional daily paper for the Wairarapa in New Zealand, including Masterton.

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Wandering Eye

"Wandering Eye" is a single released from the band Fat Freddy's Drop in 2005.

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Wellington

Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-Tara) is the capital city and second most populous urban area of New Zealand, with residents.

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2005 New Zealand Music Awards

The 2005 New Zealand Music Awards took place on 5 October 2005 at the Aotea Centre in Auckland.

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2006 New Zealand Music Awards

The 2006 New Zealand Music Awards took place on 18 October 2006 at the Aotea Centre in Auckland.

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2009 New Zealand Music Awards

The 2009 New Zealand Music Awards was the 44th holding of the annual ceremony featuring awards for musical artists based in or originating from New Zealand.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Freddy's_Drop

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