Search - Mr. Chop :: For Pete's Sake

Mr. Chop, the multi-talented producer, engineer, guitar-reared
multi-instrumentalist behind a host of releases on Now-Again and
Jazzman Records, couldn t have foretold that the legendary
rapper MF Doom would call him "the illest to grace the boards"
after tapping into his otherworldly skills as co-producer/co-writer
on a series of tracks on the recently released Born Like This
album on Lex Records. Nor could he have foretold that Doom's
praise would lead to an offer to rework psych funk, jazz and rock
covers of producer Pete Rock's greatest beats.
Nor could he have called that Pete Rock s long time collaborator,
upon hearing the versions of "T.R.O.Y." and "Straighten It Out"
would beg to record an album with him.
But here he is, standing proudly behind 17 tracks that he
recorded at his Cheshire, England-based Ape Studios with the
likes of The Heliocentric's Malcolm Catto, Jake Ferguson and
Mike Burnham that offer up a futuristic mixture of fuzzy
psychedelia, funk, jazz and musique concrete informed by years
of record collecting and Hip Hop studies.
His is a unique take and has lead to an album that "the heads"
will recognize by, say, the Tom Scott sax-line Pete Rock poached for "T.R.O.Y.," or a host of other sample-based calls and
response that Chop has deconstructed into their component
parts and reassembled again. But his is an album that will
appeal to music lovers, regardless of their musical leaning, as
a master-class in fuzzy, funky grooves.