Looptroop Rockers

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Looptroop Rockers
Looptroop Rockers at the 2012 Ilosaarirock festival
Looptroop Rockers at the 2012 Ilosaarirock festival
Background information
OriginVästerås, Sweden
GenresHip hop
Years active1992–present
LabelsDavid Vs Goliath
Burning Heart Records
Bad Taste Records
MembersPromoe
Supreme
Embee
Cos.M.I.C
WebsiteOfficial website

Looptroop Rockers is a

DJ/Producer Embee (Magnus Bergkvist) and CosM.I.C
(Tommy Isacsson). On their fourth album, Good Things, the group changed its name from Looptroop to Looptroop Rockers, a name used unofficially for some years prior to the change.

Biography

Looptroop was formed in 1991 by

cassette-only debut EP Superstars, which was followed in 1995 by Threesicksteez. By the time they released their third cassette, From The Wax Cabinet (1996), long-time associate and frequent collaborator Supreme had become a permanent member of the group. It was in the pre-DVSG time when Promoe and Cos.M.I.C were also part of a group of graffiti writers called the "BIF" (Babylon Is Falling) crew in Västerås
.

In 1998, Looptroop started their own

signature songs
.

In 2001, Promoe became the first member of the group to launch a solo career, with his debut

solo album
, Government Music. In 2002 Looptroop released their second album The Struggle Continues.

Embee's solo album Tellings From Solitaria was released in 2004 and featured contributions from several notable Swedish artists, including

Timbuktu and Daniel Lemma. The album was critically acclaimed and won a Swedish Grammy Award
for best hiphop/soul in 2004.

Their third full-length studio album, Fort Europa, was released in 2005. On the track "Fort Europa," the group takes a particularly critical tone towards their country's immigration policy. In the video, an image of a TV screen reading "Welcome SWE" is smashed by a golf club as the beat drops. In the first verse, Promoe compares immigration policy to the Berlin Wall.[1]

On February 9, 2007 Cos.M.I.C announced that he was leaving the group indefinitely. He stated that there had been no falling-out between him and the rest of the group and mentioned that the group's busy schedule, which prevented him from spending time with his family, prompted this decision. Cos.M.I.C then contributed to two songs on the group's 2008 album "Good Things". After Cos.M.I.C left the group, they have also officially changed the group name from

Looptroop
to Looptroop Rockers!

Looptroop Rockers released their fourth album

Timbuktu and Adam Tensta
for this album.

On 21 May 2010 Looptroop Rockers announced on their website that they were working on a new album.[2] Promoe said it to be slated for a February 2011 release at a gig in Helsinki on May 19. On the same occasion it was announced that Cos.M.I.C. rejoined the group as a full member working on the new album.

In March 2011, the group released their fifth album "Professional Dreamers".

2013 saw the release of their first album in Swedish, "Mitt hjärta är en bomb". Made available on both CD and Vinyl LP.

In late October 2014, Looptroop Rockers released their album "Naked Swedes" on CD, LP and digital formats. It features guest appearances by

Cunninglynguists, Seinabo Sey and Sabina Ddumba. Lord Finesse
produced an exclusive remix for the first single from the album, "Another Love Song".

In 2017 Looptroop Rockers was inducted into the Swedish Music Hall of Fame.

To celebrate 25 years as a band, Looptroop Rockers released 25 new songs in 25 weeks during 2017.

Discography

Main albums

Looptroop
Year Album Peak positions
SWE
[3]
1993 Superstars
1995 Threesicksteez
1996 From the Waxcabinet
1998 Punx Not Dead
2000
Modern Day City Symphony
 		43
2002 The Struggle Continues 19
2005 Fort Europa 5
Looptroop Rockers
Year Album Peak positions
SWE
[3]
2008 Good Things 5
2011
Professional Dreamers
 		8
2013 Mitt hjärta är en bomb 11
2014 Naked Swedes 24
2018 Motivation Music N/A

EPs

Singles

  • 2005: "Fort Europa"/"Looptroop Radio" (Reached number 33 in Swedish Singles Chart)
  • 2008: "Naive" (with
    Timbuktu
    )
  • 2011: "Professional Dreamers"
  • 2014: "Another Love Song" b/w "Beautiful Mistake" (with remix by Lord Finesse)
  • 2014: "Slippin´"b/w "We Got Guns"
12" vinyl
  • 1999: "Ambush in the Night"
  • 2000: "Long Arm of the Law"
  • 2002; "Fly Away"
  • 2002: "Looptroopland"
  • 2003: "Don't Hate the Player"
  • 2005: "Fort Europa"
  • 2008: "The Building"
  • 2014: "Another Love Song" b/w "Beautiful Mistake" (with remix by Lord Finesse)

Solo Albums and Side Projects

Promoe
  • 1999: Off the Record (single) b/w It's Promoe/Poor Lonesome Homeboy
  • 2001: Government Music
  • 2004: The Long Distance Runner
  • 2006: White Man's Burden
  • 2007: Standard Bearer
  • 2009: Kråksången
  • 2009: Bondfångeri
  • 2010: Never Follow [EP]
Embee
  • 1998: From the Way Beyond Mixtape
  • 2000: Embeetious Art EP
  • 2004: Tellings From Solitaria
  • 2006: Mash Hits
  • 2010: The Mellow Turning Moment
  • 2015: Mellan passion & mani
  • 2016: Fult folk
The Casual Brothers (Embee and Cos.M.I.C)

See also

References

  1. ^ YouTube - looptroop - fort europa
  2. ^ website
  3. ^ a b "Looptroop discography". swedishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 13 May 2013.

External links

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