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producer, engineer, and recording artist

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Album art from my hip-hop collab album Solder.
Album art from my hip-hop collab album Solder.

SOLDER

w/ Adama · 9 tracks · 21:26

  1. Birkinglocks2:18
  2. StuttaStep (feat. Max Laz)2:06
  3. SeeThru2:00
  4. Dried Strawberries2:30
  5. Just Dirty (feat. Max Laz)2:14
  6. Obviously1:39
  7. Gladstone2:10
  8. Boom Bap2:19
  9. Poundshot / End Part4:05
Liner notes

All raps written and performed by Adama. Music composed and produced by me. Recorded 2017–2019, mastered at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam.

  • Raps — Adama Berndt
  • Production, mixing, mastering, cover art — me
  • Sax (3, 5), keys and additional production (5) — Max Lazarus
  • Saxophone samples on “Obviously” provided by James Soren

Released March 15, 2019

Album art for my EP Force Quit.
Album art for my EP Force Quit.

Force Quit

EP · 5 tracks · 13:29

  1. Colocation3:11
  2. Gladstone (feat. Adama)2:10
  3. Exacerbate3:02
  4. CPD2:12
  5. Everyday2:54
Liner notes

Music sampled, arranged, composed, mixed, and mastered by me.

  • Raps on “Gladstone” written and performed by Adama Berndt
  • Cover art photographed and designed by me
  • Mastered at Room 11 Studios, Hanna Hall, Gambier, OH

“CPD” contains samples from “Angel” by Ryan Hemsworth & Lucas; “Last Song” and “Mieke’s Melody #5” from impermanence by Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble; and “Hannah Hunt” by Vampire Weekend.

Released April 29, 2018

Cover art for my debut album.
Cover art for my debut album.

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9 tracks · 23:55

  1. Outcity (feat. Lightstone & Ale)1:41
  2. Obviously (feat. Adama)1:39
  3. Persica6:00
  4. Interlude (feat. Jonah Zitelli)1:45
  5. Port Sarim (for Zachary Dunn)3:40
  6. Unexpected Bang3:02
  7. Common Room Blues2:12
  8. End Part Though (feat. Adama)1:26
  9. Hulthemia2:30
Liner notes

Composed, mixed, and mastered by me over the course of a year and a half.

  • Guitar and keys on “Outcity” by Austin Lichtenstein and Alessandro Russo, respectively
  • Raps on “Obviously” and “End Part Though” written and performed by Adama Berndt
  • Saxophone samples on “Obviously” provided by James Soren
  • Guitar on “Interlude” by Jonah Zitelli
  • Cover art photographed and designed by me

Music samples from compositions by Meredith Monk, © Meredith Monk / Meredith Monk Music (ASCAP). “Unexpected Bang” and “Common Room Blues” sample On Behalf of Nature; “Port Sarim” samples impermanence and Songs of Ascension — all by Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble. Thank you to Meredith Monk for graciously allowing me to use parts of her works.

“Port Sarim” is dedicated to the life and memory of Zachary Dunn, 1998–2016.

Released August 18, 2017

Soundtracks

Paname in Lava

Studio Frowijn

Epic

Kenyon College

New Climate Narratives

Florida Atlantic University