Whitearmor

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 has also worked with musicians such as Gud, Mechatok, Xavier Wulf, Uli K, and Working on Dying.

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 2022 Whitearmor released his debut studio album In the Abyss: Music for Weddings. The album was composed, produced, performed, and mixed entirely by Rosenberg. 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. The music has been described as soothing, uplifting and accessible, being likened to mid-80s Haruomi Hosono.

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.

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))

Remixes

 * Finding People - White Armor Remix (Croatian Armor) (2017)