Biography

Adam Freeland climaxed the first decade of the 2000s with a convention-shattering subsonic boom. In 2009, the Grammy-nominated DJ/producer released his second artist album, Cope™, on his acclaimed indie label Marine Parade; featuring contributions from members of DEVO, Spinnerette, Nine Inch Nails, and the Pixies and co-production from Alex Metric, Cope™ vividly blurred boundaries between electronic dance music and rock. As such, Freeland stepped away from the turntables to put together a band for live shows, bringing his new hybrid sound to international crowds spanning Glastonbury to Glade to Symbiosis to a prestigious live appearance on the “Morning Becomes Eclectic” show on influential radio station KCRW.

Controversy followed these successes, however, when it became clear that the Black Eyed Peas had sampled without permission a large chunk of “Mancry” – a key song off Cope™ featuring Tommy Lee on drums – for their song “Party All The Time.” Freeland and the pop superstars recently settled amicably, however, allowing him to shift into a new era – then again, leading the charge into new eras is something Adam Freeland has been acclaimed for throughout his entire career.

With his signature non-signature style, Adam Freeland has become one of the preeminent producer/artists working in electronic music, as well as one of the top DJs in the world, placing on DJ charts year after year. As a DJ and bandleader, he’s played Coachella four times, as well as everywhere from Ibiza’s superclubs to his own residency at famed London venue Fabric to Souk in Singapore (Freeland was one of the first DJs, in fact, to regularly tour Asia). During his career, Freeland has played nearly every major club and festival in the world, frequently as a headliner as well as touring with the likes of Massive Attack, Justice, M.I.A., and Prodigy, among others. He’s continued to release mix CDs, beginning the millennium era with Tectonics (2000) and On Tour (2001), next putting out Fabric Live 16 in 2005 as part of Fabric’s acclaimed compilation series and contributed his own edition of the famed Back To Mine series in 2005, following the notable likes of Underworld, Liam Howlett, New Order, Tricky, Pet Shop Boys and Royksopp; cementing his superstar DJ status, in 2007 Freeland was chosen to helm his own mix for the groundbreaking Global Underground series – but of course caused controversy by breaking with the title’s progressive house bent as solidified by the likes of Sasha, Digweed and Oakenfold.

As the first stage of the 2000s wound down, Freeland found himself back in the midst of change. Not only did he relocate from his adopted Los Angeles to his U.K. home of Brighton, England, he also found himself returning to his club roots. This move was signified by the current release of Cope™ Remixed, featuring a dream team of today’s electronic music all-stars: dubstep heroes Joker and Emalkay, glitch god Nosaj Thing, techno iconoclasts Gui Boratto and Justus Köhncke, filter freak Grum, cosmic-disco don Prins Thomas, electro heretic Siriusmo, and Marine Parade stars Alex Metric, Pantyraid and Evil Nine all boldly retrofit the album tracks in their own image. Accordingly, 2010 will find Freeland putting out a series of releases that find him revisiting his electronic core with furious futurism, complemented with a series of globetrotting DJ dates that find him back behind the decks with a vengeance. “For a spell, it seemed like rock had eclipsed dance music’s edge, and I sort of drank the Kool Aid,” Freeland says. “Now electronic music is clearly the new rock and roll again, and I couldn’t be happier.”