| Coins | |
| Birth Name: | Peter Chapman |
| Alias: | Peter Project |
| Birth Date: | August 27, 1980 |
| Birth Place: | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Origin: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Genre: | Underground hip hop Canadian hip hop Electronic Garage rock |
| Occupation: | Producer, keyboardist Composer |
| Years Active: | 2000-present |
| Label: | Fuzzy Logic Recordings Urbnet Records Drinkbox Studios Ship to Shore Phonograph Co. Screaming Apple Music for Cats |
| Associated Acts: | Backburner |
| Website: | Official website |
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.[1] [2] He is a member of the Canadian hip hop crew Backburner and played keyboards in the garage rock band The Midways.
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. 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."[4]
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[5] He was also presented with a SOCAN Award for his score for HGTV's Leave It to Bryan,[6] and an ASCAP award for his score for HGTV's Renovation Island.[7] 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.