Music - Just relax, nothing is under control! - UK-based DJ and producer Adam Freeland teams up with vocalist Kurt Baumann, and drummer Hayden Scott (Pop Levi) for the second Freeland album Cope (TM) which will be released in June.



Adam Freeland intends the new full-length Cope(TM), to be more than just another electronica album. Asked about the new album he explains: 'I wanted to make more than just another artist project. I always saw Cope(TM) as a band album more than just another DJ slapping together a bunch of random club grooves. I wanted to create songs I could play live, not just spin.'

Cope(TM) definitely has its share of boldfaced guests - everyone from the Pixies' Joey Santiago and Spinnerette's Brody Dalle to Jerry Casale of DEVO and Tommy Lee - not to mention Freeland's own trademark banging electro beats come passed.

However, at the album's core are the songs Adam wrote and performed with new vocalist Kurt Baumann, also the frontman in his eponymous new group who make their UK concert debut this month.

Check out the video for Great new track Under Control:



'The new songs combine electronic grooves with shoegaze guitars, real drums, and songwriting, so they begged to be performed live,' Freeland says.

To that end, he put together the touring unit of Baumann on bass, guitar and vocals and Hayden Scott (Pop Levi) on drums, with Freeland himself triggering samples, playing rude Korg MS-20 synth lines, and taking lead vocals on the band's thundering, take-no-prisoners cover of Grinderman's 'No Pussy Blues'; together, they transform classic Freeland club bangers like 'We Want Your Soul' into smart bombs that detonate the dancefloor but defy genre.

'I've always mixed rock into my sets anyway, so having a band is just a natural progression from that,' he clarifies. 'Freeland has all the hard-hitting grooves of my DJ sets, but played live they're even more raw, personal and in your face. This is the sound I've always heard in my head, so now I want to hear it as loud as possible!'

Under Control, the first single from Freeland's new artist album brings you soldering club-friendly grooves with raw musical interplay, announced immediately in the martial drums/bass stomp that opens the song. Filled with paranoiac, satirical wordplay and skewed political commentary that complements the futuristic yet dissident sonics, Under Control ultimately proves that rarity in club music: an anti-anthem with a brain, yet with beats ballsy enough to crush dance floors in a neighborhood disco near you.

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Check out the band on one (or more) of their North American tourdates:

Fri May 1 - Rock and Roll Hotel, Washington, DC
Sat May 2 - LPR, New York
Mon May 4 - Cabaret Juste Pour Rire, Montreal
Tue May 5 - Wrongbar, Toronto
Wed May 6 - Sonotheque, Chicago
Fri May 22 - The Echo, Los Angeles
Sat May 23 - Cow Palace, Daly City (San Francisco)

New single Under Control featuring remixes by Alex Metric, Zombie Nation, Golden Bug and Evil Nine will be released April 20th.

The new Freeland album Cope (TM), the follow up to the successful debut Now & Them, will be available from June 2009. Check www.freeland.fm for more info.