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Psychedelic funk, jazz and rock covers of Pete Rock’s Greatest Tracks from MF Doom’s go-to instrumentalist TRACK LISTING: SIDE C SIDE A C1. Get On The Mic A1. For Pete’s Sake C2. Intermezzo 4 A2. Good Life C3. Straighten It Out A3. Intermezzo 1 C4. Intermezzo 5 A4. T.R.O.Y. SIDE D SIDE B D1. Shut Em Down B1. Intermezzo 2 D2. Intermezzo 6 B2. Main Ingredient D3. I Got A Love B3. Intermezzo 3 D4. The World Is Yours B4. Mecca And The Soul Brother D5. Intermezzo 7 Mr. Chop, the multi-talented producer, engineer, and guitar-reared multi-instrumentalist behind a host of releases on Now-Again and Jazzman Records, couldn’t have foretold KEY SELLING POINTS: that the legendary rapper MF Doom would call him “the illest • Marketed and Promoted by: to grace the boards” after tapping into his otherworldly skills Stones Throw Records as co-producer/co-writer on a series of tracks on the recently released Born Like This album on Lex Records. Nor could he • Publicity by Score Press have foretold that Doom’s praise would lead to an offer to • Packaged in a deluxe cardboard rework psych funk, jazz and rock covers of producer Pete “paste-on” jacket Rock’s greatest beats. • Album features The Heliocentrics Nor could he have called that Pete Rock’s long time collaborator, (Malcolm Catto & Mike Burnham) CL Smooth, upon hearing the versions of “T.R.O.Y.” and “Straighten It Out” would beg to record an album with him. • Two Exclusive 7" singles feat. CL Smooth being released/promoted NOW!!! 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 Includes Pete Rock and CL Smooth and response that Chop has deconstructed into their component parts and reassembled again. But his is an album classics, “T.R.O.Y.”, “Straighten It Out”, that will appeal to music lovers, regardless of their musical Public Enemy’s “Shut ‘Em Down”, leaning, as a master-class in fuzzy, funky grooves. Nas’s “The World Is Yours” and more THE ONE SHEET FOR THIS ITEM IS A RESOLICITATION Format: 2xLP Cat. No: FDW 7704 Label: Five Day Weekend / Now Again Available: FEBRUARY 23rd Now Again Records 2658 Griffith Park Blvd, #504, Los Angeles, CA, 90039 • www.nowagainrecords.com.

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