In June 2013, amid the bloom of Based on a True Story—the album that crowned Fat Freddy's Drop as New Zealand's jam virtuosi, fusing soul-funk with reggae-dub in 10-minute expansions—the band staged a rare European gig in Italy, part of a tour that launched them into fusion festivals like Rototom Sunsplash but honed on Milan's local pulse. Their two-hour immersion at Alcatraz club, with Cedric Mason's improvisational horns and bass lines, spun the venue into a tropical cyclone, where island groove gained a Mediterranean tint before a sold-out throng. As a scarce artifact of their early export, this show illuminated how Fat Freddy's Drop revived reggae for European ears.