The Reykjavik Grapevine

Beatmakin Troopa – Peaceful Thinking

Blending accessible, what feels like French jazz, (also indicated by an opening track labeled Paris 81), Troopa comes up with some outstanding, surprisingly grown-up mixes. Of course, there are no vocals, and Troopa is really just making good jazz mixes with slightly more dominant drums, but he’s known as a hip hop act, so we’ll call it great hip hop.