Somali Pirates Hijack Mr. Chop/Pete Rock vinyl; Now Released, Available

• January 27, 2010

IN THE STORE:
Mr. Chop - For Pete's Sake now on vinyl.
(Now-Again/Five Day Weekend)

Last October we announced Mr. Chop's For Pete's Sake - his cover versions of Pete Rock's best beats, released by Now-Again & Five Day Weekend - and we said the vinyl would be released in a matter of days. 

Unfortunately the vinyl went missing.  All of it.  It wasn't really hijacked by Somali pirates - we made that part up - but we're really not sure where it was.  All we know is it's here now. 

Mr. Chop is a producer, engineer and multi-instrumentalist behind several Now-Again and Jazzman Records releases.  Recent work as a co-producer & co-writer on a series of tracks on Born Like This from MF DOOM (who called him “the illest to grace the boards”) led to a chance to rework psych funk, jazz and rock covers of producer Pete Rock’s greatest beats, resulting in For Pete's Sake.

His is a unique take that has led 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 and reassembled again.  These tracks were recorded at his Cheshire, England-based Ape Studios with the likes of The Heliocentric’s Malcolm Catto, Jake Ferguson and Mike Burnham, offering up a futuristic mixture of fuzzy psychedelia, funk and jazz, informed by years of record collecting and hip hop studies.

DOWNLOAD MP3:
Mr. Chop - “T.R.O.Y.” from For Pete's Sake 128 kbps MP3

1. FOR PETE'S SAKE 6:19
2. GOOD LIFE 4:26
3. INTERMEZZO 1 1:49 
4. T.R.O.Y 4:49
5. INTERMEZZO 2 2:38 
6. MAIN INGREDIENT 4:26
7. INTERMEZZO 3 4:36 
8. MECCA AND THE SOUL BROTHER 4:51
9. GET ON THE MIC 4:11
10. INTERMEZZO 4 1:21 
11. STRAIGHTEN IT OUT 3.32
12. INTERMEZZO 5 2:13 
13. SHUT EM DOWN 3:49
14. INTERMEZZO 6 4:03 
15. I GOT A LOVE 5:19
16. THE WORLD IS YOURS 4:25
17. INTERMEZZO 7 2:14 

www.nowagainrecords.com/mr-chop