Whitearmor

Whitearmor
Born	Ludwig Tomas Walther Rosenberg (1993-05-17) 17 May 1993 Stockholm, Sweden
Occupations	Music producer musician audio engineer multi-instrumentalist songwriter
Years active	2012–present
Musical career
Genres	Ambient cloud rap synthpop progressive electronic experimental pop bubblegum bass trap experimental hip hop trance
Instrument(s)	digital audio workstation synthesizer guitar piano drums keyboard
Labels	Year0001 Trash Island

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 and fluid.

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.

Early life

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.

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

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.

Discography

Albums

• In The Abyss: Music for Weddings (2022)

Singles

• Frutta e Verdura (2020) (with Gud)
• Karma (2020)
• Sunset Beach (2021) (with Mechatok)
• Even The Score (2022) (with LUCY (Cooper B. Handy))

Production credits

Release	Year	Artist(s)	Production Credits
Unknown Death 2002	2013	Yung Lean	09. "Emails" 10. "Deathstar // Getting Benjamins" 11. "Heal You // Bladerunner"
GTBSG		Drain Gang	Entirely produced by Rosenberg except: 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)
Gluee	2014	Bladee	02. "Safehouse" (co-produced with Yung Sherman) 03. "Ebay" 04. "Shadowface" 05. "Spellbound" 09. "Unreal"
Unknown Memory		Yung Lean	03. "Sunrise Angel" 10. "Volt" (co-produced with Gud) 11. "Leanworld"
Tiger (stylized as ส)		Thaiboy Digital	01. "Haters Broke" (co-produced with Gud) 08. "Yr So Beautiful" (produced by Yung Sherman) 09. "Vän" (co-produced with Gud)
Warlord	2016	Yung Lean	04. "Afghanistan" (co-produced with Gud) 06. "Fire" 08. "Eye Contact" 12. "Shawty U Know What It Do" (co-produced with Yung Sherman)
Eversince		Bladee	Entirely produced by Rosenberg except: 09. "Sugar" (co-produced with Rip) 10. "Wrist Cry" (co-produced with Hitkidd)
AvP		Bladee & Thaiboy Digital	Entirely produced by Rosenberg.
Frost God		Yung Lean	04. "Cashin" 06. "Kirby" (co-produced with Acea) 07. "Head 2 Toe" (co-produced with Acea)
D&G	2017	Drain Gang	Entirely produced by Rosenberg except: 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)
Stranger		Yung Lean	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"
Red Light	2018	Bladee	Entirely produced by Rosenberg except: 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)
Poison Ivy		Yung Lean	Entirely produced by Rosenberg.
Icedancer		Bladee	07. "Close" (co-produced with PJ Pipe It Up and Rip)
Trash Island	2019	Drain Gang	Entirely produced by Rosenberg except: 07. "Acid Rain" (co-produced with Mechatok) 08. "You Lose" (co-produced with Lusi)
Legendary Member		Thaiboy Digital	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)
E		Ecco2k	06. "Cc" (co-produced with Gud) 07. "Calcium" 08. "Sugar & Diesel" 09. "Don’t Ask"
Starz	2020	Yung Lean	Entirely produced by Rosenberg except: 06. "Dance In The Dark" (co-produced with Yung Sherman) 09. "Hellraiser" (co-produced with Yung Sherman) 12. "Iceheart" (co-produced with Yung Sherman)
333		Bladee	Entirely produced by Rosenberg except: 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)
Crest	2022	Bladee & Ecco2k	Entirely produced by Rosenberg.
Stardust		Yung Lean	03. "Gold" (co-produced with Fredrik Okazaki & Woesum) 05. "All the things" (co-produced with Woesum, Jack Donoghue & Fredrik Okazaki)
Back 2 Life		Thaiboy Digital	12. "Never Change"
Spiderr	2023	Bladee	Entirely produced by Rosenberg except: 07. "Disaster Prelude" (co-produced with Gud) 12. "She's Always Dancing" (co-produced with Joakim Benon)
TL;DR	2024	Bladee, Ecco2k, Thaiboy Digital	Single produced by Rosenberg.
Cold Visions		Bladee	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)