Coins (composer)

Peter Chapman (born August 27, 1980), also known as COINS or Peter Project, is a Canadian music producer and composer from Toronto, Ontario, best known for his album, Daft Science, a free album of Beastie Boys remixes using only Daft Punk samples, released on July 1, 2014.^[1]^[2]

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.^[3] On July 1, 2014, the album was released on Bandcamp, where it was downloaded roughly 400 times over two-and-a-half years.^[1] 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.^[1] On May 4, 2017, Billboard named Daft Science one of the "Best 8 Beastie Boys Remixes."^[4]

Original scores[]

Peter Chapman is a composer (alongside Rob Carli) for Syfy's Wynonna Earp, for which he was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Original Music Score for a Series^[5] He was also presented with a SOCAN Award for his score for HGTV's Leave it to Bryan.^[6]

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Patch, Nick (1 December 2016). "Coins an overnight success — two years later". Toronto Star. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
^ "Delayed gratification in EDM scene". Metro, December 2-4, 2016. page 22
^ Small, Michael (20 November 2016). "Peter Chapman, aka Coins, is having a good week". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
^ Bein, Kat (4 May 2017). "The 8 Best Beastie Boys Remixes". Billboard. Retrieved 26 May 2017.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Robert Carli, Peter Chapman". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Archived from the original on 28 January 2017. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
^ "2017 SOCAN Awards – Toronto – Winners List" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-09. Retrieved 2018-06-05.

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[patch-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Patch, Nick (1 December 2016). "Coins an overnight success — two years later". Toronto Star. Retrieved 8 June 2017.

[2] "Delayed gratification in EDM scene". Metro, December 2-4, 2016. page 22

[3] Small, Michael (20 November 2016). "Peter Chapman, aka Coins, is having a good week". NOW Magazine. Retrieved 26 May 2017.

[4] Bein, Kat (4 May 2017). "The 8 Best Beastie Boys Remixes". Billboard. Retrieved 26 May 2017.^{[permanent dead link]}

[5] "Robert Carli, Peter Chapman". Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Archived from the original on 28 January 2017. Retrieved 26 May 2017.

[6] "2017 SOCAN Awards – Toronto – Winners List" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-08-09. Retrieved 2018-06-05.

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