Peter Chapman (born August 27, 1980), also known by his
stage names
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Coins and Peter Project, is a Canadian music producer and composer from Toronto, Ontario, best known for his record ''Daft Science'', a free EP of
Beastie Boys
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remixes using only
Daft Punk
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samples, released on July 1, 2014. He is a member of the Canadian hip hop crew Backburner and played keyboards in the
garage rock
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band The Midways.
''Daft Science''
''Daft Science'' is an eight-track
remix
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album that combines Beastie Boys vocal tracks with Daft Punk music samples. The album was created in March 2014 while Chapman was on a layover in Chicago on his way to
South by Southwest
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. On July 1, 2014, the album was released on Bandcamp, where it was downloaded roughly 400 times over two-and-a-half years. A music blog shared the album two and a half years later, inciting the dormant remix to be streamed 1.4-million times in a week. On May 4, 2017,
Billboard
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named ''Daft Science'' one of the "Best 8 Beastie Boys Remixes."
Original scores
Peter Chapman is a composer (alongside Rob Carli) for
Syfy
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's ''
Wynonna Earp
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Plot summary
Wynonna is a present-day descendant of the famous ...
'', for which he was awarded a Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Music Score for a Series He was also presented with a SOCAN Award for his score for HGTV's '' Leave It to Bryan,'' and an ASCAP award for his score for HGTV's Renovation Island. He is also known for is score (Alongside Maylee Todd) for the CBC/Netflix series
Workin' Moms
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