Mr. Chop - For Pete's Sake, CD

Psychedelic funk, jazz and rock covers of Pete Rock's Greatest Tracks from MF Doom's go-to instrumentalist.   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, J