Freak Power was a band founded by Norman Cook (later to become known as Fatboy Slim), Ashley Slater

Ashley Slater

Ashley Slater is a UK based trombone player and best known for his work with Norman Cook in the band Freak Power. He was born in Schefferville, Canada in 1961...

 (the trombonist with the anarchic British jazz big band Loose Tubes

Loose Tubes

Loose Tubes was a British jazz big band/orchestra active during the mid-to-late 1980s. Critically and popularly acclaimed, the band was considered to bethe focal point of a 1980s renaissance in British jazz...

), and Jesse Graham aka the Bass Cadet. Their music was a mix of acid jazz

Acid jazz

Acid jazz is a musical genre that combines elements of jazz, funk and hip-hop, particularly looped beats. It developed in the UK over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto electronic dance: jazz-funk musicians such as Roy Ayers, Donald Byrd and Grant Green are...

 with funk

Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...

 and soul, as well as trip-hop.

Discography

The single "Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out

Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out

"Turn on, Tune in, Cop out" was the biggest hit single for Norman Cook's dance-jazz group, Freak Power, released in 1993 as a single. The song features a smooth jazz sound and the baritone vocals of lead singer Ashley Slater...

" was a minor hit in UK Singles Chart

UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...

 when originally released in 1993. There was renewed interest in the track after TV exposure in the 1995 Levi's jeans television advert "Taxi" directed by Baillie Walsh. The band released two albums: Drive Thru Booty in 1994 and More Of Everything For Everybody in 1996. The debut album featured the hit single

Hit single

A hit single is a recorded song or instrumental released as a single that has become very popular. Although it is sometimes used to describe any widely-played or big-selling song, the term "hit" is usually reserved for a single that has appeared in an official music chart through repeated radio...

s "Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out" and "Rush" released on 4th and Broadway

Fourth And Broadway Records

4th & B'way Records was a US-based subsidiary of Island Records that specialized in street-oriented music such as hip-hop. Established in 1984, it was the flagship label of the Island Trading Company, the independent-distribution parent company of Island's other record labels that operated in the US...

. The title of the song is a play on Timothy Leary

Timothy Leary

Timothy Francis Leary was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. During a time when drugs like LSD and psilocybin were legal, Leary conducted experiments at Harvard University under the Harvard Psilocybin Project, resulting in the Concord Prison...

's "Turn on, tune in, drop out

Turn on, tune in, drop out

"Turn on, tune in, drop out" is a counterculture phrase popularized by Timothy Leary in 1967. Leary spoke at the Human Be-In, a gathering of 30,000 hippies in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and uttered the famous phrase, "Turn on, tune in, drop out". In a 1988 interview with Neil Strauss, Leary...

".

"Song #6" from the band's follow-up album was featured in the 2004 movie Code 46

Code 46

Code 46 is a 2003 British film directed by Michael Winterbottom, with screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It was produced by BBC Films and Revolution Films. It is a disquieting science fiction love story with themes that explore the moral impacts of advances in biotechnology. The soundtrack was...

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Singles

• "Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out
  Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out
  "Turn on, Tune in, Cop out" was the biggest hit single for Norman Cook's dance-jazz group, Freak Power, released in 1993 as a single. The song features a smooth jazz sound and the baritone vocals of lead singer Ashley Slater...
  
  " (October 1993) - UK
  UK Singles Chart
  The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...
  
   #29
• "Rush" (February 1994) - UK #62
• "Get in touch" (April 1994)
• "Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out" (January 1995 re-issue) - UK #3
• "New Direction" (June 1996) - UK #60
• "Can You Feel It?" (August 1996)
• "No Way" (May 1998) - UK #29

Albums

• Drive Thru Booty (April 1994) - UK
  UK Albums Chart
  The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...
  
   #11

1. "Moonbeam Woman"
2. "Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out
   Turn On, Tune In, Cop Out
   "Turn on, Tune in, Cop out" was the biggest hit single for Norman Cook's dance-jazz group, Freak Power, released in 1993 as a single. The song features a smooth jazz sound and the baritone vocals of lead singer Ashley Slater...
   
   "
3. "Get In Touch"
4. "Freak Power"
5. "Running Away"
6. "Change My Mind"
7. "What Is It"
8. "Waiting For The Story To End"
9. "Rush"
10. "Big Time"
11. "The Whip"

• More Of Everything For Everybody (1996)

1. "Trip Through Your Mind"
2. "New Direction"
3. "Husband"
4. "Can You Feel It"
5. "Road Thang"
6. "Giving Up Government Drugs"
7. "KK Nuns"
8. "Let It Go"
9. "Song #6"
10. "Freedom Child"
11. "One Nation One Ride"
12. "Ghettos Of The Mind"

• Turn on, Tune in, Cop Out (2000)

1. "Turn on, Tune in, Cop Out"
2. "Rush"
3. "One Nation, One Ride"
4. "Freedom Power"
5. "Moonbeam Woman"
6. "Freak Power"
7. "K.K. Nuns"
8. "New Direction"
9. "Can You Feel It"
10. "What It Is"
11. "Song #6"
12. "Waiting for the Story to End"
13. "Change My Mind"
14. "Ghettos of the Mind"
15. "Trip Through Your Mind"
16. "Let It Go"
17. "Where Your Husband Won't"