Peter Chapman (born August 27, 1980), also known by his

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Coins and Peter Project, is a Canadian music producer and composer from

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, best known for his record ''Daft Science'', a free EP of

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remixes using only

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samples, released on July 1, 2014. He is a member of the Canadian hip hop crew Backburner, played keyboards in the

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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

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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

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. On July 1, 2014, the album was released on

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, 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,

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named ''Daft Science'' one of the "Best 8 Beastie Boys Remixes."

Original scores

Peter Chapman is a composer (alongside

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) for Syfy's '' Wynonna Earp'', for which he was awarded a

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for Best Original Music Score for a Series He was also presented with a SOCAN Award for his score for HGTV's ''

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/Netflix series

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References

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