“The whole reason I was excited about breaks was the fact that it had brought diversity to club music,” Freeland says. Freeland released a second edition of Coastal Breaks in 1998, but soon bristled under being so closely linked to a genre. With Coastal Breaks, Freeland was hailed as a key originator of the breakbeat genre – bringing syncopated funk and groove to the expected 4/4 thump of electronic club sounds of the day. Since he released his renowned debut mix CD, Coastal Breaks, in 1996, Adam Freeland has represented change, innovation and irreverence in electronic music.

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. 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 Secret Garden Party to Symbiosis to a prestigious live appearance on the “Morning Becomes Eclectic” show on influential radio station KCRW. 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.

Adam Freeland climaxed the first decade of the 2000s with a convention-shattering subsonic boom.

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