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Peter Chapman (born August 27, 1980), also known by his stage names 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 remixes using only Daft Punk samples, released on July 1, 2014. He is a member of the Canadian hip hop crew Backburner, played keyboards in the garage rock band The Midways as well as MPC and guitar in the live hip hop ensemble Tongue Helmet

Daft Science

Daft Science is an eight-track remix 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. 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 named Daft Science one of the "Best 8 Beastie Boys Remixes."

Original scores

Peter Chapman is a composer (alongside Rob Carli) for Syfy's Wynonna Earp, 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 as well as Amazon Prime's The Lake.

References

1. ^ Patch, Nick (December 1, 2016). "Coins an overnight success — two years later". Toronto Star. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
2. "Delayed gratification in EDM scene". Metro, December 2-4, 2016. page 22
3. Small, Michael (November 20, 2016). "Peter Chapman, aka Coins, is having a good week". NOW Magazine. Retrieved May 26, 2017.
4. Bein, Kat (May 4, 2017). "The 8 Best Beastie Boys Remixes". Billboard. Retrieved May 26, 2022.
5. "Robert Carli, Peter Chapman". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. 15 February 2022.
6. "2017 SOCAN Awards – Toronto – Winners List" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on August 9, 2017. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
7. "ASCAP Screen Music Awards 2022".
8. Workin' Moms (TV Series 2017–2023) - IMDb, retrieved July 9, 2022

• 1980 births
• Living people
• Canadian record producers
• Canadian male composers
• Musicians from Halifax, Nova Scotia
• 21st-century Canadian composers