BIOGRAPHY
Knowsum is the recording name of Nelson Brandt, a singer and producer based in Berlin whose music moves fluidly between indie dreampop, lofi beats, and jazz funk. He began as a hip-hop producer before shifting his focus to the samples themselves, which led him toward songwriting inspired by 1970s sounds; his interest in music-making dates back to receiving the Music 2000 game for Playstation at age ten. He has a long-standing creative partnership with the rapper Nepumuk, producing beats built around the shared love of funky basslines. His track "foreplay perfume" appears on the album midnight special.