Beautiful accolades and alofa for brother Chris Taâaloga Faiumu aka MU, recipient of the Creative New Zealand Award for innovation and genre-bending music at Pacific Music Awards 2025. The event showcasing strength and unity in Pacific music acknowledged MU as one of the coolest people in New Zealand music. âWe honour and thank him â for the gift of creativity and music and his legacy of beautiful musicâ Makerita Urale, Senior Manager Pacific Arts says. Mia, MU and Nicoleâs daughter, and cousin Lale, accepted the award on his behalf. âFat Freddyâs Drop has helped pave the way for independent music here in Aotearoa. This award recognises those creating innovative, contemporary Pacific music, and Dad epitomised that in every senseâ Mia says. Malo lava Mia, faâafetai tele lava.
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Throwback Thursday, mix master MUâs Blending the Blackness 2016 drop. Crucial cuts, mixed at BAYS studio. Alofa. Tune in www.mixcloud.com/FatFreddysDrop/dj-fitchie-bays-miâŠ
Blending the Blackness Track-List
1. Frankie Paul - African Princess
2. Wailing Souls - Back Back
3. Johnny Osbourne - War Season
4. Luciano - Spread your bed Hard
5. Ron Trent - Urban Skylinez
6. Kraftwerk - Tour de France
7. LateComer - Cosmic Cart (Soulphiction Aced Out remix)
8. Champion & Four Tet - Flip Side
9. Flying Lotus - Deas
10. Terry Brookes & Aaron Soul - City Life (Deepart Mix)
11. Snoop (Muâs acid re rub) - Drop it
12. Ame - Basic track
13. Jackie Mittoo - Wall Street
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Rewind selector, kicking back with a classic MU mixtape BLACKATHANTHOU from 2017. Helping us find our smiles again. Alofa. Tune in FFD Mixcloud www.mixcloud.com/FatFreddysDrop/mu-blackathanthou-âŠ
BLACKATHANTHOU Track-List
1. Citizens - Alice Russell
2. I Found My Smile Again - DâAngelo
3. Ritual Union - Little Dragon
4. Hangover - Charlotte OC (Moodyman Remix)
5. My One Car - Blundetto
6. Mi Swing Es Tropical - Tempo
7. Put It In My Head - Lord Echo
8. Low Down - Boz Scaggs
9. Sloppy Cosmic - Moodyman
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MU In Space. Manuia lau malaga Chris. â„ïž
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Our talismanic founding member, production maestro, selector and brother, Chris Taâaloga Faiumu aka DJ MU aka Fitchie has unexpectedly passed away. This is a seismic shift in our world. Sending alofa to the Faiumu & Duckworth aiga, and to MUâs wider aiga of friends and fans worldwide. We ask please that you all respect everyoneâs privacy during this difficult time. Hold tight.
Ua maligi loimata i le maua mai o le tala ua fa i lagi lau malaga Chris Taâaloga Faiumu âŠÂ DJ MU ⊠Fitchie. O suafa uma nei na lauÄ«loa ai oe ma Ću galuega faâaofoofogia i tagata fai musika uma i Aotearoa ma le lalolagi atoa. Ua goto le fetĆ« Äo, peÄu o le vasa, ua motusia le pale sa matou tiu ai Brother ina ua e fai malaga. Alofa atu mo aiga Faiumu ma Duckworth, atoa ma aiga o loâo tagi mai i ala. Ia manuia lau malaga Chris.Â
Tears flowed on receiving word that your journey had taken you to the heavens Chris ⊠DJ MU ⊠Fitchie. These were all the titles you were famously known by for your miraculous works to all music makers of Aotearoa and the whole world. The star by which we navigated across the sea has gone and the crowns of flowers that adorned our heads are forever broken since you journeyed Brother. Much love for the Faiumu and Duckworth families, as well as those family members who can only cry from afar. May your journey be blessed Chris.
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Kia ora, whatâs your fav B.OA.T.S track? Believe it or not, this May marks the 20th anniversary of Based On A True Story, our debut album recorded at the Beach studio in Lyall Bay. Chur. watch video on watch page
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Whatâs cooking in the kitchen? Weâve been slamming handcrafted CevichĂĄn Habanero Salsa on our kai, a gift from RomĂĄn PĂ©rez who makes the salsa in Sweden using recipes from his family back in Mexico. Mil Gracias. Itâs lovely stuff. Freddys taco king, Chopper Reeds matches the hot salsa collection with a Lamb Barbacoa and pickled onions, avocado and lime crema recipe. Saludos!
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Throwback SLO MO roady, selection of analog B&W photos from our Sydney show, with special guest Louis Baker bro. Pic Chur - shot & processed by Mitchell Anderson at Filth Film. #slomo
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Thatâs a wrap on our SLO MO roady, for real. Sunday session in Freo was the finale for our Aussie, Aotearoa and EU/UK album tour scorchers. Moving in SLO MO. Arohanui. #slomo
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Welcome to Fat Freddys Drop Official YouTube TV exclusive drops & classics from the vaults. Internationally regarded as one of the worldâs finest live draws, Freddys hail from Aotearoa New Zealand, South Pacific. Hi-tek soul pirates, resolutely independent. Founded in the club scene in Wellington in 1999, Freddys sound draws inspiration from almost every part of the black music lexicon. Soul drenched vocals and jazz harmonies collide with tape delays and echo chambers, underpinned by a rhythm section as comfortable laying down a throbbing, techy soundscape as they are a swampy blues stomp. Itâs a potent mixture of virtuosity and diaphragm-wrecking digital sonics.
Fat Freddy's Drop : DJ Fitchie aka Chris Faiumu â MPC, Producer, Joe Dukie aka Dallas Tamaira - Vocals, Dobie Blaze aka Iain Gordon â Keyboard, Chopper Reeds aka Scott Towers - Saxophone, Tony Chang aka Toby Laing â Trumpet, Conway Jeune aka C-Way Green â Guitar and MC Slave aka Mark Williams.