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Total Freedom aka Ashland Mines (b. 1982) is an DJ, producer, artist, and a member of Fade to Mind music label and creative team. He has worked with a variety of artists, musicians, designers, and dj's, including Nguzu Nguzu, Ryan Trecartin, Kelela, Gang Gang Dance, Arca, and Jonny Mandabach. He lives and works in Los Angeles and New York City.

Early Life and Education
Mines grew up in Chicago, Illinois and attended the Chicago Art Institute.

Work
Total Freedom's musical influences range from R&B remixes, Middle Eastern pop samples, narrative spoken word soundbites, and elements of Pop, trap, Techno, House UK grime, and Kuduro. Mines was a frequent DJ at GHE20G0TH1K. Producer and electronic musician Arca has noted his ability for: "colliding and collapsing opposites in such a fertile way.”

Mines was a resident DJ at the weekly Los Angeles party Mustache Mondays, hosted by Nacho Nave. He has frequently worked of the record label Fade to Mind which was founded by Kingdom and Prince William.

With fellow collaborators Wu Tsang and Nguzu Nguzu's Asma Maroof and Daniel Pineda, Mines launched Wildness in 2008. The club night was hosted regularly in downtown Los Angeles at the The Silver Platter.

In 2014, Total Freedom created the score for Hood By Air's fall runway show. The New Yorker magazine noted the soundtrack was a twenty-four-minute mix, titled “10,000 Screaming Faggots,” and featured Beyoncé samples, poetry by Juliana Huxtable, silver-bullet drums and synths.

Mines has also exhibited and performed at numerous contemporary Art Museums including a performance at MoCA with Jacolby Satterwhite in 2014. The New Museum triennial in 2015. He was also included in the 20116 Berlin Biennale. In 2018 the Walker Art Museum commissioned a new work from Jason Moran which included Mines along with frequent collaborators Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch.