Ludwig Rosenberg (born 17 May 1993), professionally known as Whitearmor (often stylized in lowercase or as White Armor), is a Swedish music producer, multi-instrumentalist, audio engineer and songwriter. He is best known for being a member of the Swedish music group and artist collective Drain Gang (along with Bladee, Ecco2k, Thaiboy Digital and Yung Sherman). His musical style has been described as softly textured, fluid and terminally online.[1][2]
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Aside from producing a lot of Drain Gang's and adjacent artist Yung Lean's music he has released several solo singles and a full-length instrumental album in 2022, called In The Abyss: Music for Weddings.
He is also one half of music duo VilloVilduVeta together with Swedish musician Joakim Benon, a member of the Swedish band JJ.[3]
Early life edit
Ludwig Tomas Walther Rosenberg was born on 17 May 1993 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He grew up listening to a wide range of artists including Bob Marley, Slipknot, and various Atlanta trap artists like Waka Flocka Flame.[1]
As a teenager he began playing drums in an indie-rock band before becoming interested in and producing electronic and hip-hop music.
Music career edit
Rosenberg began uploading music to the Internet in 2011 under different aliases before adopting the name Whitearmor in 2012. Most of his music from this time has been removed from the internet.
In 2013, Whitearmor co-founded the Swedish music collective Drain Gang along with fellow Swedish musicians Bladee, Ecco2k, Thaiboy Digital and Yung Sherman. Whitearmor's earliest publicly available collaboration with a fellow Drain Gang member was the 2012 single Oxygen, which he produced for Bladee. On August 12th, 2013 the group released their debut compilation GTBSG, with Whitearmor working on 10 of the 12 songs featured. In addition to his work with the rest of Drain Gang, Whitearmor is also a close collaborator of the Swedish music collective Sad Boys (who are close collaborators of Drain Gang), a group that consists of rapper and singer Yung Lean and producers Gud and Drain Gang member Yung Sherman.
Whitearmor has worked on most of Drain Gang and Yung Leans albums over the years. He is credited as executive producer on the projects Tiger (Thaiboy Digital), Eversince (Bladee), AvP (Drain Gang), D&G (Drain Gang), Red Light (Bladee), Poison Ivy (Yung Lean), Trash Island (Drain Gang), Starz (Yung Lean), 333 (Bladee), Crest (Bladee & Ecco2k) and Spiderr (Bladee).
In 2018 he worked with Yung Lean on Lean's side project Jonatan Leandoer96 (stylized in lowercase), contributing guitar, synthesizer and additional vocals to Leandoer96's single Evil and the album Blodhundar + Lullabies.
In 2019, he formed the music duo VilloVilduVeta with Swedish musician Joakim Benon, with their debut song "Nästan" being used in the 2019 Sad Boys/Converse "One Wish" campaign. They released their debut album Längtan får vingar on 2 July 2021 and also released the single "Nikita" in October of 2021. Whitearmor co-produced and wrote the entire album with Benon and also served as the project's mixing engineer.
In addition to his work with and/or as a member of Drain Gang, Sad Boys, and VilloVilduVeta, Whitearmor has worked with musicians like Mechatok (Turkish-German producer and DJ), Xavier Wulf (American rapper and singer), Uli K (British rapper and singer), and Working on Dying (American producer collective).
In 2022 Whitearmor released his debut studio album In the Abyss: Music for Weddings. The album was composed, produced, performed, and mixed entirely by Whitearmor. Mastering of the album was handled by German mastering engineer Robin Schmidt, who often provides the mastering of Whitearmor and the rest of Drain Gang's music.
He also took part in the 2022 Drain Gang tour that spanned 23 performances in North America and Europe, which included an additional performance at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, Spain.[4]
Discography edit
Albums edit
- In The Abyss: Music for Weddings (2022)
Singles edit
Production Credits edit
- Yung Lean - Unknown Death 2002 (2013)
- 09. "Emails"
- 10. "Deathstar // Getting Benjamins"
- 11. "Heal You // Bladerunner"
- Drain Gang - GTBSG (2013)
Entire Album produced by Whitearmor except for:
- 02. "Bladeecity" (produced by Josh Diamond)
- 06. "Hold Me Down Like Gravity" (co-produced with Yung Sherman)
- 08. "Diamondz" (produced by Curtis Heron & DJ Smokey)
- Bladee - Gluee (2014)
- 02. "Safehouse" (co-produced with Yung Sherman)
- 03. "Ebay"
- 04. "Shadowface"
- 05. "Spellbound"
- 09. "Unreal"
- Yung Lean - Unknown Memory (2014)
- 03. "Sunrise Angel"
- 10. "Volt" (co-produced with Gud)
- 11. "Leanworld"
- Thaiboy Digital - Tiger (stylized as ส) (2014)
Entire album produced by Whitearmor except for:
- 01. "Haters Broke" (co-produced with Gud)
- 08. "Yr So Beautiful" (produced by Yung Sherman)
- 09. "Vän" (co-produced with Gud)
- 04. "Afghanistan" (co-produced with Gud)
- 06. "Fire"
- 08. "Eye Contact"
- 12. "Shawty U Know What It Do" (co-produced with Yung Sherman)
Entire album produced by Whitearmor except for:
- 09. "Sugar" (co-produced with Rip)
- 10. "Wrist Cry" (co-produced with Hitkidd)
- Bladee & Thaiboy Digital - AvP (2016)
Entire album produced by Whitearmor.
- 04. "Cashin"
- 06. "Kirby" (co-produced with Acea)
- 07. "Head 2 Toe" (co-produced with Acea)
- Drain Gang - D&G (2017)
Entire album produced by Whitearmor except for:
- 02. "Black Boy" (co-produced with Rip)
- 07. "Can't Trust" (co-produced with Woesum)
- 13. "Scarecrows" (co-produced with Yung Sherman)
- 17. "Climbing" (co-produced with Gud)
- 04. "Silver Arrows" (co-produced with Gud)
- 08. "Drop It/Scooter" (co-produced with Gud)
- 09. "Hunting My Own Skin" (co-produced with Gud)
- 10. "Iceman"
Entire album produced by Whitearmor except for:
- 02. "Golden Boy" (co-produced with Yung Sherman)
- 03. "Westfield" (co-produced with Rip)
- 04. "Fake News" (co-produced with Rip)
- 12. "College Boy" (co-produced with Gud)
- Yung Lean - Poison Ivy (2018)
Entire album produced by Whitearmor.
- Bladee - Icedancer (2018)
- 07. "Close" (co-produced with PJ Pipe It Up and Rip)
- Drain Gang - Trash Island (2019)
Entire album produced by Whitearmor except for:
- 07. "Acid Rain" (co-produced with Mechatok)
- 08. "You Lose" (co-produced with Lusi)
- Thaiboy Digital - Legendary Member (2019)
- 05. "IDGAF" (co-produced with Gud)
- 09. "Beijing" (co-produced with Gud)
- 10. "Spinnin" (co-produced with Gud)
- 11. "Baby (Legendary Member)" (co-produced with Gud & Woesum)
- 06. "Cc" (co-produced with Gud)
- 07. "Calcium"
- 08. "Sugar & Diesel"
- 09. "Don’t Ask"
Entire album produced by Whitearmor except for:
- 06. "Dance In The Dark" (co-produced with Yung Sherman)
- 09. "Hellraiser" (co-produced with Yung Sherman)
- 12. "Iceheart" (co-produced with Yung Sherman)
Entire album produced by Whitearmor except for:
- 04. "Hero of My Story 3style3" (co-produced with Lusi)
- 08. "Reality Surf" (co-produced with Gud)
- 09. "Noblest Strive" (co-produced with Mechatok)
- 11. "Oh Well" (co-produced with Lusi)
- 15. "Only One" (co-produced with Joakim Benon)
Entire album produced by Whitearmor.
- Yung Lean - Stardust (2022)
- 03. "Gold" (co-produced with Fredrik Okazaki & Woesum)
- 05. "All the things" (co-produced with Woesum, Jack Donoghue & Fredrik Okazaki)
- Thaiboy Digital - Back 2 Life (2022)
- 12. "Never Change"
Entire album produced by Whitearmor except for:
- 07. "Disaster Prelude" (co-produced with Gud)
- 12. "She's Always Dancing" (co-produced with Joakim Benon)
- Bladee, Ecco2k, Thaiboy Digital - TL;DR (2024)
- Bladee - Cold Visions (2024)
- 10. "I Don't Like People"
- 18. "Terrible Excellence" (co-produced with F1lthy, 100yrd and Gabriel Schuman)
- 30. "Cold Visions (Outro 2)" (co-produced with Yung Sherman)
References edit
- ^ a b Yalcinkaya, Günseli (13 June 2022). "Whitearmor: 'Everything I've ever wanted to say has been in the melodies'". Dazed Digital. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ Smith, Nadine (23 March 2022). "Crest". Pitchfork. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
- ^ "Längtan Får Vingar". Bandcamp. 2 July 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ Maicki, Salvatore (5 October 2021). "Bladee, Ecco2k, Thaiboy Digital and Whitearmor announce Drain Gang world tour". The Fader. Retrieved 25 January 2024.