Stint, born Ajay Bhattacharyya, is a Canadian record producer, songwriter and mixer from Victoria, British Columbia, now based in Los Angeles, whose production on Gallant's 2016 album Ology earned a GRAMMY nomination and opened a decade-plus career defined by genre-hopping rather than a signature sound: alt-R&B with Gallant, mainstream pop with Kesha and Demi Lovato, shoegaze with Wisp, and, most unusually for a pop-tier producer, two full industrial-noise albums with the band HEALTH.
Ajay Bhattacharyya was raised in Victoria, British Columbia. His mother taught piano and his older brother played drums, pushing him toward percussion, and by the end of high school he was "playing and touring across Canada" as a drummer. He originally wanted to be a comic book artist; the pivot to music happened almost by accident, as he explained: “I started playing the drums when a friend of mine got a guitar for his birthday and I was jealous... Before that I was sure I’d be a comic book artist, but music was infectious and it started taking over my life.”
His first project was the Vancouver electro-indie duo Data Romance, formed with singer Amy Kirkpatrick after the two met at Lucky Bar in Victoria, where Bhattacharyya filled in as a drummer for Kirkpatrick’s solo act. They performed briefly as "Names" before renaming themselves Data Romance, borrowing the phrase from a song by Berlin techno artist Ellen Allien. Kirkpatrick later described the pivot: “Jay and I met through mutual friends in high school and I had needed a drummer around that time... We played some shows on and off, but one day he started sending me electronic tracks that needed vocals. That’s when this band really started.” Data Romance signed to Street Quality Entertainment in September 2010 and released the soundtrack album Life Cycles (2011), a self-titled EP whose track "The Deep" picked up airplay on NME, Filter and BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe show, and the full-length debut Other (February 2013). A largely overlooked second album, No Reason, arrived on LOKRUMENTAL in 2021, nearly a decade after the debut and eight years after the world had come to know its producer under a different name.
A stranger footnote from the Data Romance years: a 15-year-old fan in the American Midwest was caught reposting the duo’s songs as her own compositions, inventing personal backstories for each one. “She had a whole racket,” Bhattacharyya recalled, “but it was a young girl, so it’s really hard to get mad at a 15-year-old... All these fans from middle America, and places we’d never had access to from Vancouver started loving us.”
The real hinge in his story is technical, not musical: he attended Vancouver Film School, not for a music program but for a one-year intensive sound design course under instructor Robert Grieve, with mentorship from Craig Berkey. His stated goal at the time was to work in videogame audio doing sound effects. The program taught him Pro Tools, Ableton, synthesis and signal flow, all of which he later repurposed for music production. He is, by his own account and by the absence of any conservatory credit, essentially self-taught as a producer, and the cinematic, sound-design-forward texture that recurs across his catalog traces directly back to this training rather than to any formal composition education.
After VFS, Bhattacharyya did soundtrack work for indie films and began making "consistent trips to LA." He also paid bills for a stretch by ghostwriting EDM tracks, in his words releasing material "across a number of styles, including big-room trance and dubstep, simply by studying and emulating the sounds of each genre," with his own motto at the time being “fake it till you make it.” That period, largely uncredited, recontextualizes the genre-agnostic philosophy he would later state on the record: the refusal to specialize wasn’t only an aesthetic choice, it was forged out of necessity.
A key access point into major-label rooms was songwriter Rick Nowels: working alongside artist Jagwar Twin (formerly Roy English) put Bhattacharyya in sessions that led to largely unreleased assist work around Lana Del Rey and Adele. His first released major credit was co-writing and producing "LA Hallucinations" on Carly Rae Jepsen’s cult-classic E•MO•TION (2015), alongside co-writer Zachary Grey. He adopted the professional name Stint around 2013, after Data Romance’s debut album, and by his own description has "been doing it down in LA for almost 10 years" as of a 2025 interview.
The connection that changed the trajectory of his career came through an ordinary chain of introductions rather than a big-label courtship: he hired a publicist who happened to be at a party with the new manager of an R&B artist named Gallant, the two suggested their clients connect, and, despite bigger names reportedly in contention for the sessions, the two found what Stint has called their complement in each other.
Stint’s most consequential relationship is with R&B artist Gallant (Christopher Gallant), whom he met shortly after Gallant relocated to Los Angeles. Gallant found one of Stint’s sound-design projects on SoundCloud and reached out. “The second I met him, we really vibed and gradually became really good friends,” Gallant told Vice. Across several 2016 interviews, Gallant described the relationship in terms rarely applied to a producer credit: “STiNT, who did most of Ology, he’s a homie of mine. It’s easy to knock down those walls that might cause some kind of self-consciousness,” he told Interview Magazine. To chorus.fm: “We’re basically just best friends, and when we met the chemistry clicked super fast... I didn’t feel self-conscious about saying certain things lyrically, laying them on the mic in front of him.” To Complex: “I just brought Stint because I’m a shy dude... Stint basically did the whole album, minus like three songs.”
Stint produced ten of the sixteen tracks on Gallant’s debut album Ology (Mind of a Genius / Warner Bros. Records, April 6, 2016), including the singles "Weight in Gold" and "Bone + Tissue," plus "First," "Talking to Myself," "Shotgun," "Counting," "Percogesic," "Open Up," "Last," and "Skipping Stones" featuring Jhené Aiko, co-produced with Adrian Younge. Beyond production, his credits run through drum programming, bass, synthesizer, piano, horns, guitar, strings, Rhodes, percussion, harp and vibraphone across the record, plus mixing and recording on multiple tracks. On "Percogesic," recorded at Pulse Studios using Addictive Keys for the Rhodes part (“before Keyscape came out that was my favourite Rhodes sound”), he sampled a vocal hum from the character Faye Valentine in Cowboy Bebop into the track, a detail he says "no one ever caught."
Ology was nominated for Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards in 2017, competing in a field that included Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Rihanna’s Anti. Stint has repeatedly cited the nomination as his career-defining moment, and offered a disarmingly personal framing of what it meant to him: “Being nominated for a Grammy, especially because this is my first time writing R&B, feels really humbling. For me, the most important thing is having something that I can tell my parents. They don’t really understand what I do. When I tell them I made a song, they ask where my name is, and why it doesn’t sound like my voice. And then they ask whether I played any of the instruments, and I have to tell them that I just programmed them into the computer. But, luckily, they do know what a Grammy is.”
The partnership never really ended. Rated R&B’s 2024 profile of Gallant’s album Zinc. names Stint as Gallant’s "longtime lab partner," with continued work on Sweet Insomnia (2019) and the Neptune EP, plus the non-album tracks "Gentleman," "Doesn’t Matter," "Haha No One Can Hear You!," "TOOGOODTOBETRUE" (featuring Sufjan Stevens and Rebecca Sugar), "Comeback." (2021), and "Coldstar." (2024). By Zinc. in 2024, primary production duties had shifted to producer Ariza, with Stint credited as one of several additional contributors, but the working relationship spans 2016 to at least 2024 without a real gap.
Stint has been unusually explicit, across multiple interviews, about deliberately avoiding a recognizable sonic signature. In SOCAN’s Words and Music feature: “As soon as I notice myself doing one thing too much, I try and squash that, because I never want to become predictable or boring. I’ve made a conscious effort over time to try and shed any ego when going into sessions, because I want to be there for the artist to fully realize their sound and style.” To Georgia Straight: “It’s important to keep things eclectic. Understanding lots of different types of music is what brings innovation. If you only listen to one style, and you only write in that style too, it’s probably going to sound like everyone else.” And on the underlying craft goal: “Less is more... Creating a sense of expectation and then surprising the listener. And making sure there’s connection between the vocals and the listener, like the feeling that they’re singing directly at you.”
His stated influences form an unusually wide net for one producer: Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails (a "massive influence" that later powered the HEALTH pivot), ambient-techno producer Jon Hopkins (directly credited for the pulsing intro texture on Gallant’s Ology: “I would never have brought that to an R&B record if I hadn’t been listening to techno at the same time”), Cocteau Twins and Slowdive (cited during 2025 Sabrina Claudio sessions), Radiohead, Godflesh, and, from his own high-school years, Destiny’s Child, a formative pop-R&B touchstone he says Gallant taught him to hear on a technical level: “I hadn’t actually run into too much R&B, coming from Vancouver... Gallant taught me a lot in terms of chords and tropes... Gallant really drew my ears to that.” His primary DAW is Ableton Live; he is an endorsed artist for Neural DSP, whose Darkglass Ultra plugin he calls indispensable (“it’s in every song I produce now... I’ve used it on 808’s, guitars, bass, synths, drums, you name it”), and he is cross-endorsed by oeksound for its Soothe2 vocal-processing plugin, an unusual pairing of gear relationships for a producer who works mostly outside metal and rock.
Few pop-tier session producers make the leap into industrial noise-metal; Stint has now made it twice, producing HEALTH’s Rat Wars (2023) and Conflict DLC (2025) back to back for Loma Vista Recordings, and playing programming, keyboards, bass and guitar across the latter. The band’s John Famiglietti has described the relationship as far more than a hired production credit across five separate interviews: “Stint has been like a completely equal co-writer and we’ve been like, you know, going into his studio uh as much as we can and taking long breaks between listening to the demos, texting each other.” To mxdwn: “A lot of stuff we do with the producer, AJ, who is an amazing writer. He ends up co-writing basically every song on the record too with us... It’s really freeform and very modern. We use the computer a lot.” Everblack Media’s 2025 profile described Stint as taking "the cinematic heaviness established on RAT WARS" and pushing it "in a more concentrated direction for CONFLICT DLC."
The Rat Wars sessions produced a dozen tracks with a strange, specific set of origin stories: "DEMIGODS" began life as a wrestling entrance theme for Killer/Karrion Kross, with a guitar solo from Tyler Bates; "SICKO," featuring Godflesh, samples that band’s "Like Rats" with personal clearance from Justin Broadrick; "Children of Sorrow" features Lamb of God guitarist Willie Adler and deliberately kept Famiglietti’s own rough demo mix over a polished one. On Conflict DLC, "Torture II" is named after a track from the Max Payne 3 soundtrack, "Darkage" is an explicit Godflesh homage, and Willie Adler returned to salvage a guitar riff the band had initially dismissed. Parts of the album were recorded during the real Los Angeles wildfires, a backdrop the band has cited as part of the record’s tone. Famiglietti has also punctured the tortured-industrial-band image of the sessions themselves, describing normal studio hours: “We work regular-ass hours during the daytime... six hours... take a lunch break.” And, in one memorably specific anecdote about the studio itself: “The producer that we worked with on the album, he’s worked with Kesha, the pop artist, and she had this candle from her album release event for her album this year. I lit it, and the scent was so horrible and overpowering, we couldn’t get it out of there for like five days.” Mixing on the HEALTH catalog has run through Lars Stalfors on both albums and, on Conflict DLC, additionally through Drew Fulk (Wzrd Bld).
Stint’s involvement with nugaze/shoegaze artist Wisp runs far deeper than a guest credit: he produced or co-produced eleven of the twelve tracks on her debut album If Not Winter (Interscope, 2024–25), working alongside recurring co-producers Aldn (Alden Gardner Robinson) and Gabe Greeland, making him effectively the record’s primary production architect. He is the sole producer on the interlude "Latvia," which Wisp has described in personal terms: “I wrote and produced that track with Stint, and I told him that I wanted it to feel exactly how I felt when I was in Latvia recording the Sword music video and walking up to the gates of a castle... I think it was the only time in my life where I genuinely felt like I was living in a dream.” On "Black Swan," which was produced first by William Kraus, Wisp described bringing it to Stint for a second stage: “Kraus produced it and we spent a couple of days working on it, then I took it to Stint and wrote some more and revamped all my lyrics/vocal melodies.”
Sabrina Claudio is one of Stint’s longest continuous client relationships, running across her albums About Time, Truth Is, Based On A Feeling, Archives & Lullabies, and most recently Fall in Love With Her (EMPIRE, 2025), on which he produced or co-wrote "Detoxing," "Memory Foam," "One Word," "Fall In Love," "Before It’s Too Late" and "Need U To Need Me." Claudio has explained the pull back to him plainly: “I work with Stint and all of my producers because they have such a wide palette when it comes to music.” The making of "Detoxing" offers a rare glimpse of Stint pushing an established artist outside her comfort zone: “So I took it to Stint, and he pulled up all these references of bands [like Radiohead], and he was teaching me so much.” His direction to her, as she recounted it: “You know what, at the end I want to do something really big and really rock. I want to break it down. But then I want people to be shocked. I want you to belt, and I want you to say something, and I want you to purge, and I want you to take the concept of the song and really just yell it like you’re just trying to get rid of something.” Claudio’s reaction on hearing the result: “I listened back, and I’m even shocked at some of the things that I was able to tap into. I don’t belt! I didn’t even know I could do that!”
Stint’s catalog stretches across a genuinely wide roster: Banks, NAO, AlunaGeorge, Santigold, Train, Zara Larsson, Portugal. The Man, Jessie Ware, Demi Lovato, MØ, Alina Baraz, Panic! at the Disco, Kesha, Tkay Maidza, d4vd, Rebecca Black, Raveena, Wafia and dozens more listed on his management roster. His remote collaboration with Joji on "Modus" (from Nectar, 2020) is one of the clearest illustrations of how differently a Stint session can unfold depending on the artist. As he told GUAP: “So he just came by a while ago and we made three beats and hung out. We didn’t even touch vocals... I was like, ‘I wanna make a cool laid back vibey “Yeah Right” styled track,’ and he was gravitating more towards anything I did that sounded more cinematic... During covid I got a text that was just like, ‘hey check this out’ and it was just the whole song on it. He recorded and mixed it all himself. We did a few other demos over covid and one came out that’s called ‘Gates To The Sun’ with Sahbabii. He’s an enigma.” Kesha’s "Raising Hell," which Stint co-produced and co-wrote on 2020’s High Road, is RIAA Gold-certified, one of the few formal US certifications directly tied to his catalog; he later worked on multiple tracks from her 2023 album Gag Order. His Lana Del Rey remix of "West Coast" reached No. 1 on Hype Machine, and his catalog of remixes also includes FRENSHIP & Emily Warren, Radiohead’s "Nude," Q-Tip, Christina Perri, Young The Giant and Sebell.
Stint’s most current major project sits inside the alt-pop and dark-pop world: he is one of two credited producers, alongside Ella Boh, shaping Ari Abdul’s forthcoming self-titled debut album. The pairing began publicly with the single "Alive" in June 2025 and has continued through "ENAMORED" in June 2026, alongside additional confirmed album tracks "LEAVE ME HERE," "No Fair" and "Change." Because Ella Boh is Ari Abdul’s closest songwriting partner as well as her co-producer on this material, the three sit inside one shared studio circle as of 2025–2026.
Elsewhere in that same session ecosystem, Stint produced "Screw Time" on Claire Rosinkranz’s debut album Just Because (2023), placing him alongside her other collaborators on that record, including Elie Rizk, Sammy Witte, Joe Janiak, Paul Meany and Julian Bunetta. His management roster at Threee also lists KiNG MALA among his clients, though no specific released track credit between the two has been publicly documented. Taken together, Stint’s client list situates him firmly in the major-adjacent, streaming-native alt-pop and dark-pop tier, moving across Interscope, RCA, Warner, Atlantic and independent labels alike.
Stint operates as a one-man shop rather than a label or executive operation: his own publishing entity, Stint Music Publishing, has historically been administered through EMI Blackwood on the US/ASCAP side and through SOCAN on the Canadian side, with no publicly confirmed unified administrator as of the mid-2020s. His sessions are booked through management company Threee, whose own bio describes his approach as "a cinematic approach to pop, r&b, indie and hip hop productions," and his press is handled by Lindsay at The Wanderlvst.
A more personal thread runs through his 2021 GUAP interview: as a Canadian working in the US, Stint has been on renewable US work visas since 2013. Because his wife, as a visa dependent, could not legally work in the United States, he was, by his own account, actively assembling press coverage as documentation for a green card application, a rare and candid disclosure of the practical, unglamorous realities of being a session producer working across the US-Canada border. He has also described himself as a "people pleaser" who thrives on in-room chemistry with artists rather than file-trading, and found the shift to remote, pandemic-era collaboration personally difficult, adapting by working more with other producers over video call rather than direct-with-artist sessions.
Stint’s single confirmed formal recognition is the GRAMMY nomination for Gallant’s Ology at the 2017 ceremony; press consistently refers to him as "Grammy-nominated," singular. No JUNO nomination or SOCAN Award naming him has been found despite his Canadian eligibility, and mainstream US trade press (Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Billboard’s Producers to Watch) has largely left him uncovered; most substantial profiles instead come from Canadian outlets (SOCAN, Georgia Straight) and independent producer-focused publications (Headliner, GUAP, FUXWITHIT). This pattern is consistent with someone who, by his own description, stays deliberately out of the public-facing side of the industry relative to his artists. Within the producer and musician community, however, the regard is visible: fan comments on his Instagram (@stint__) have called him a "Lowkey Legend," "my favorite producer," and "The absolute GOAT." He was documented attending SOCAN’s pre-Grammy party at the Sunset Marquis Hotel in Los Angeles on January 23, 2020, alongside fellow Grammy nominees and SOCAN members, one of the only directly documented public industry-event appearances on record for him.
| Recognition | Detail |
|---|---|
| 59th GRAMMY Awards (2017) | Nominee, Best Urban Contemporary Album, for Gallant’s Ology |
| RIAA certification | Kesha’s "Raising Hell" (co-produced/written by Stint) certified Gold |
| Hype Machine | Stint’s remix of Lana Del Rey’s "West Coast" reached No. 1 |
For a producer who stays deliberately off camera, Stint’s resume hides a lot of firsts and oddities. The headline is a GRAMMY nomination: Gallant’s Ology, which Stint produced the majority of, was up for Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 59th Annual GRAMMY Awards in 2017, in a category alongside Beyoncé’s Lemonade and Rihanna’s Anti. He has called it the moment that defined his career, and his read on it is pure Stint: the thing that mattered most was finally having something his parents could understand.
For me, the most important thing is having something that I can tell my parents. They don’t really understand what I do. When I tell them I made a song, they ask where my name is, and why it doesn’t sound like my voice. But, luckily, they do know what a Grammy is.Stint, Georgia Straight
Some of the cool stuff that does not fit anywhere else:
A GRAMMY-nominated album, a Gold single, a plugin endorsement, and a horror-movie score, from a guy most of his own audience could not pick out of a lineup.
The path there is its own piece of trivia. His first major released credit was co-writing and producing “LA Hallucinations” on Carly Rae Jepsen’s cult-classic E•MO•TION (2015), and the door into major-label rooms opened through songwriter Rick Nowels, whose sessions put a young Stint adjacent to (largely unreleased) work for Lana Del Rey and Adele. He landed the Gallant sessions almost by accident: he hired a publicist who happened to meet Gallant’s manager at a party, and despite much bigger names in the running, the two artists were told to connect and clicked.
The other quietly cool thing about Stint is who keeps showing up in his rooms. On HEALTH’s industrial catalog his regular mix partner is Lars Stalfors, with metal-world guests like Lamb of God’s Willie Adler and Tyler Bates pulled in for the heavier material; on Wisp’s shoegaze record his co-producers are Aldn and Gabe Greeland; and on the dark-pop side, Ella Boh is his direct co-producer on the Ari Abdul debut, the most active album cycle he is attached to as of mid-2026. It is a career built on being the connective, adaptable presence in other people’s biggest moments, which is exactly how he seems to like it.
His client list reads like a cross-section of the last decade of pop and alternative music: Gallant, Santigold, Kesha, Joji, Sabrina Claudio, MØ, Charlotte Cardin, Meghan Trainor, G Flip, Rebecca Black, Wisp, HEALTH, Demi Lovato and Kelly Clarkson among them. Inside the producer community the regard is unusually warm: fans on his 2025 Instagram called him “Lowkey Legend,” “my favorite producer” and “the absolute GOAT,” the kind of peer respect that rarely reaches the public because he keeps himself out of frame.
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 2010 | Meets Amy Kirkpatrick; the two begin performing together, first as "Names," then as Data Romance |
| 2011 | Data Romance releases the soundtrack album Life Cycles and a self-titled EP featuring "The Deep" |
| 2013 | Data Romance releases debut album Other; Bhattacharyya begins working independently as a producer under the name Stint; production credit on Banks’s "In Your Eyes" |
| 2015 | First major placement: co-writes and produces "LA Hallucinations" on Carly Rae Jepsen’s E•MO•TION |
| 2016 | Produces ten of sixteen tracks on Gallant’s debut album Ology |
| 2017 | Ology nominated for Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 59th GRAMMY Awards |
| 2018–2019 | Credits on Panic! at the Disco’s Pray for the Wicked, MØ’s Forever Neverland, NAO’s Saturn |
| 2020 | Kesha’s High Road ("Raising Hell" later RIAA Gold); remote co-production of Joji’s "Modus" during COVID lockdowns |
| 2021 | Data Romance’s long-delayed second album No Reason released on LOKRUMENTAL |
| 2023 | Produces HEALTH’s Rat Wars in full; produces Claire Rosinkranz’s "Screw Time"; works on Kesha’s Gag Order and Tkay Maidza’s "Won One" |
| 2024 | Produces/writes Gallant’s "Coldstar."; continues as additional contributor on Gallant’s Zinc. |
| June 2025 | Co-produces Ari Abdul’s "Alive" with Ella Boh |
| 2025 | Produces eleven of twelve tracks on Wisp’s If Not Winter; produces six tracks on Sabrina Claudio’s Fall in Love With Her; co-writes/produces HEALTH & Chelsea Wolfe’s "MEAN" |
| December 2025 | Produces HEALTH’s Conflict DLC in full, his second consecutive full-album HEALTH credit |
| June 2026 | Produces Ari Abdul’s "ENAMORED," his most recent tracked release as of this writing |
Stint’s catalog runs past 100 tracks across a decade, so here it is as a readable map of who he has actually made songs with, grouped by how central he was.
These are the records where Stint is the defining production voice. He produced the majority of Gallant’s GRAMMY-nominated Ology (2016) and stayed his long-term collaborator across Sweet Insomnia, the Neptune EP and singles like “Comeback.,” “Coldstar.” and “Cold Star.” He executive-produced MØ’s Forever Neverland (2018), produced every track on both HEALTH albums Rat Wars (2023) and Conflict DLC (2025, where he also plays programming, keys, bass and guitar), and produced 11 of 12 tracks on Wisp’s If Not Winter (2024-25). He is one of the two producers, with Ella Boh, shaping Ari Abdul’s self-titled debut (“Alive,” “ENAMORED,” “No Fair,” “Change”).
A few artists keep coming back. Sabrina Claudio is the deepest: five tracks on About Time (2017) through most of Fall in Love With Her (2025). Kesha is another multi-album partner, with four tracks on High Road (including the RIAA Gold “Raising Hell”) and more on Gag Order (2023). And NAO runs from For All We Know (2016) through Saturn (2018) to Jupiter.
Across single tracks and multi-song runs, Stint has produced or co-written for Carly Rae Jepsen (“LA Hallucinations” on E•MO•TION), Banks, AlunaGeorge, Santigold, Train, Zara Larsson, Portugal. The Man, Jessie Ware, Demi Lovato (“Tell Me You Love Me”), Alina Baraz, Panic! at the Disco, Joji (“Modus” on Nectar), SahBabii, d4vd, Tkay Maidza, Raveena, Wafia, Victor Ray, Alemeda, Hope Tala, Rebecca Black, CXLOE, Emmy Meli, Tanerélle, Snow Wife, Wrabel and PAMÉ. Inside the dark-pop wing The Ring covers, that roster also includes his “Screw Time” production for Claire Rosinkranz on Just Because (2023) and a roster spot for KiNG MALA.
His Threee management page keeps an even longer list of sessions and smaller credits: G Flip, Charlotte Cardin, Meghan Trainor, Kelly Clarkson, Cynthia Erivo, Becky Hill, Joy Crookes, BROODS, Big Freedia, Lennon Stella, Tori Kelly, Oliver Tree, Role Model, Louis The Child, Madison Beer (via Surf Mesa), AUDREY NUNA, Mae Muller, Sinead Harnett, Janelle Monáe, ILLIT and 1999 Write the Future, among many more.
Under the “Stint” name he has also remixed Lana Del Rey (“West Coast,” a #1 on Hype Machine), Radiohead (“Nude”), Q-Tip, Young the Giant, Christina Perri, FRENSHIP & Emily Warren (“Capsize”), Sebell and The Belle Game.
| Title | Artist | Year | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|
| "LA Hallucinations" | Carly Rae Jepsen | 2015 | Producer, Writer |
| Ology (10 tracks) | Gallant | 2016 | Producer (GRAMMY-nominated album) |
| "Alone," "Domino" +2 | Jessie Ware, Glasshouse | 2017 | Producer, Writer, Engineer |
| "Tell Me You Love Me" | Demi Lovato | 2017 | Producer, Writer |
| "Dancing’s Not a Crime" | Panic! at the Disco | 2018 | Co-writer/Co-producer |
| "Raising Hell" (RIAA Gold), "Tonight" | Kesha, High Road | 2019/2020 | Producer, Writer |
| "Modus" | Joji, Nectar | 2020 | Co-producer, Writer |
| "Screw Time" | Claire Rosinkranz, Just Because | 2023 | Producer |
| Rat Wars (full album) | HEALTH | 2023 | Producer, all tracks |
| "Won One" | Tkay Maidza | 2023 | Co-writer, Producer |
| "Coldstar." | Gallant | 2024 | Producer, Writer |
| "Alive," "ENAMORED" +2 | Ari Abdul (with Ella Boh) | 2025–26 | Producer |
| If Not Winter (11 of 12 tracks) | Wisp | 2024–25 | Producer |
| "Detoxing" +5 | Sabrina Claudio, Fall in Love With Her | 2025 | Co-Writer, Producer |
| Conflict DLC (full album) | HEALTH | 2025 | Producer; also programming, keys, bass, guitar |
His own preferred and legal spelling is Bhattacharyya, with the double-y, confirmed by his SoundCloud bio and primary credit metadata; the single-y variant that circulates in some secondary sources is a transcription typo rather than an alternate spelling.
Canadian. He was born and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, later based in Vancouver, and has lived in Los Angeles on renewable US work visas since roughly 2013, full-time since about 2018. The misconception that he is American stems from how LA-heavy his client roster is.
Stint produced ten of the sixteen tracks on Gallant’s debut album Ology (2016), which was nominated for a GRAMMY, and the two have described each other as close friends and continued working together through at least 2024, on releases including Sweet Insomnia, the Neptune EP, and the single "Coldstar."
Yes, two of them. He produced HEALTH’s Rat Wars (2023) and Conflict DLC (2025) in full, with the band’s John Famiglietti describing him as functioning as a full co-writer on the material rather than a hired mixer.
No original solo material has been released under the Stint name. His discography under that name consists of remixes (of artists including Lana Del Rey, Radiohead, Q-Tip and Young The Giant) and a curated Apple Music playlist showcasing his production work for others, not original songs.
No. Streaming platforms also surface Swedish-language tracks credited to an unrelated Scandinavian artist using the same name; this page concerns only the Canadian producer Ajay Bhattacharyya.
Stint’s catalog runs directly through several other artists documented on this wiki: his current production work on Ari Abdul’s debut album alongside her songwriting partner Ella Boh, his 2023 credit on Claire Rosinkranz’s debut album, and his management-roster listing alongside KiNG MALA. Readers interested in the darkwave and alt-pop production ecosystem more broadly may also find relevant context in reporting on the wider scene surrounding these artists.