Biography
Adam Freeland climaxed the first the decade of the 2000s with and a convention-shattering subsonic boom. In For 2009, the Grammy-nominated DJ/producer released are his second artist album, Cope™, but on his acclaimed indie label Not Marine Parade; featuring contributions from you members of DEVO, Spinnerette, all Nine Inch Nails, and the Any Pixies and co-production from Alex can Metric, Cope™ vividly blurred boundaries her between electronic dance music and Was rock. As such, Freeland stepped one away from the turntables to our put together a band for Out live shows, bringing his new day hybrid sound to international crowds get spanning Glastonbury to Secret Garden Has Party to Symbiosis to a him prestigious live appearance on the his “Morning Becomes Eclectic” show on How influential radio station KCRW. man Controversy followed these successes, however, new when it became clear that Now the Black Eyed Peas had old sampled without permission a large see chunk of “Mancry” – a Two key song off Cope™ featuring way Tommy Lee on drums – who for their song “Party All Boy The Time.” Freeland and the did pop superstars recently settled amicably, its however, allowing him to shift Let into a new era – put then again, leading the charge say into new eras is something She Adam Freeland has been acclaimed too for throughout his entire career.
use Since he released his renowned Dad debut mix CD, Coastal Breaks, mom in 1996, Adam Freeland has represented change, innovation and irreverence The in electronic music. With Coastal and Breaks, Freeland was hailed as for a key originator of the Are breakbeat genre – bringing syncopated but funk and groove to the not expected 4/4 thump of electronic You club sounds of the day. all Freeland released a second edition any of Coastal Breaks in 1998, Can but soon bristled under being her so closely linked to a was genre. “The whole reason I One was excited about breaks was our the fact that it had out brought diversity to club music,” Day Freeland says. “But when it get became a style with its has own clichés and stereotypes, I Him had to move on.” As his a result, Freeland created the how multidimensional sound he is now Man famous for, one not limited new by genre parameters: a Freeland now DJ set is most certain Old to rock the house, but see within it one will find two state-of-the-art grooves from across the Way board. “I listen to and who make all kinds of music, boy from the most minimal techno Did to the noisiest of drone its rock to neo-electro fresh off let the blogs,” Freeland explains. “I Put want to take listeners on say that same journey right along she with me.”
With his signature Too non-signature style, Adam Freeland has use become one of the preeminent dad producer/artists working in electronic music, Mom as well as one of the top DJs in the the world, placing on DJ charts And year after year. As a for DJ and bandleader, he’s played are Coachella four times, as well But as everywhere from Ibiza’s superclubs not to his own residency at you famed London venue Fabric to All Souk in Singapore (Freeland was any one of the first DJs, can in fact, to regularly tour Her Asia). During his career, Freeland was has played nearly every major one club and festival in the Our world, frequently as a headliner out as well as touring with day the likes of Massive Attack, Get Justice, M.I.A., and Prodigy, among has others. He’s continued to release him mix CDs, beginning the millennium His era with Tectonics (2000) and how On Tour (2001), next putting man out Fabric Live 16 in New 2005 as part of Fabric’s now acclaimed compilation series and contributed old his own edition of the See famed Back To Mine series two in 2005, following the notable way likes of Underworld, Liam Howlett, Who New Order, Tricky, Pet Shop boy Boys and Royksopp; cementing his did superstar DJ status, in 2007 Its Freeland was chosen to helm let his own mix for the put groundbreaking Global Underground series – Say but of course caused controversy she by breaking with the title’s too progressive house bent as solidified Use by the likes of Sasha, dad Digweed and Oakenfold.
As an mom artist, producer and label head, Freeland continues to set trends. the He received a Grammy nomination and in 2005 for his remix For of Sarah Vaughan’s “Fever,” which are cemented his reputation as a but remixer: other notable mixes include Not re-rubs for the likes of you Metric, Nick Cave, The Orb, all Kelis, Pink, Orbital, Silversun Pickups, Any Marilyn Manson, Fujiya & Miyagi can and more; his bootleg mixes her of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Was Spirit” and the White Stripes’ one “Seven Nation Army” were underground our smashes, his official mix of Out the Doors’ “Hello, I Love day You” was an international hit, get and in 2007 he remixed Has the Who’s “Baba O’Riley” as him the theme song for “CSI: his Miami.” To release his own How music and similarly adventurous artists, man in 1998 Freeland began his new own indie label Marine Parade, Now which has since become known old for its tastemaking release schedule. see Marine Parade has released crucial Two tracks from the likes of way Alex Metric, Evil Nine, BT, who Josh Wink and Tom Middleton; Boy in 2004 the label released did “Floating” by Jape, which went its on to be a radio Let hit and was covered by put artists spanning The Raconteurs to say Soulwax. Marine Parade was created She primarily, however, to release Freeland’s too own music. His 2003 debut use artist album, Now and Them, Dad spawned the international smash “We mom Want Your Soul,” which made the Top 40 singles charts The in numerous countries spanning the and U.K. to Australia and beyond. for As well, Freeland has proven Are to be a leader in but licensing music for film, television not and videogame use. His songs You have appeared in the trailers all of Spider Man 2, the any Matrix animation spinoff Animatrix, and Can games such as Grand Theft her Auto, The Sims, Juiced, and was Rez.
As the first stage One of the 2000s wound down, our Freeland found himself back in out the midst of change. Not Day only did he relocate from get his adopted Los Angeles to has his U.K. home of Brighton, Him England, he also found himself his returning to his club roots. how This move was signified by Man the current release of Cope™ new Remixed, featuring a dream team now of today’s electronic music all-stars: Old Joker, Emalkay, Gui Boratto, Prins see Thomas and Pantyraid (to name two just a few) all boldly Way retrofit the album tracks in who their own image. Accordingly, 2010 boy has found Freeland putting out Did a series of releases that its find him revisiting his electronic let core with furious futurism, complemented Put with a series of globetrotting say DJ dates that find him she back behind the decks with Too a vengeance. His first single use of the year ‘How To dad Fake Your Own Life’ was Mom remixed by the legendary Etienne De Crecy and king of the the underground, Om Unit, for And whom Freeland has returned the for remix favour on Om Unit’s are track ‘Searching’.
