Short info about August Engkilde.
August Engkilde is a composer, arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, sound-designer and owner of the record label Brumtone. August plays the bass, the keyboards and twists the computer knobs on more than 32 electronic and acoustic releases. The focus is not on one particularly genre but more on a mix of various genres, such as jazz, electro, dub and house as well as more experimental unnamed genres that comes up as a result of his curiosity and passion to explore new music.
The releases includes among others:
- “Kaotic Brain | Beautiful Noise” released on Brumtone, Copehagen, DK
- "Police Beat Box" released on Cheap, Vienna, AUS
- "Mobile" released on Cheap, Vienna, AUS
- "E.P.O." released on ~Scape, Berlin, DE
- “Warum sollten wir angst vor großen Tieren haben” released on Musicsystem, DK
- "Elektrazz/Elektrouble" released on Musicsystem, Copenhagen
- "Band of Inner Urge" released on Storyville, Copenhagen, DK
- "Pole 45" released on Mute, London, U.K
- "Señor Coconut" released on Multicolor, Frankfurt a.m

At the moment August is involved in following live band projects: "Brum From Denmark", "GLOBAL UNIT", "Engkilde & Groth duo", "Ljiljana Petkovic Orchestra", "The Surface Constructors" and "Elektrazz".

The style is ambient layered analogue and electronic trio jazz. Easy listening, easy to like, but still with a complexity of layers that brings out new details every time you listen to it!

"Layers of ambient analogue and electronic sounds and rhythms blending into fine modern trio jazz."

Fans of electronic music might have come along her voice, too. In 2002 she wa featured as a singer on the album "robobrain" by elektro-jazz band ELEKTRAZZ - a project of danish bass player August Engkilde Together with scape label-chef Stefan Betke aka POLE Manuela released a coverversion of Alexandra’s “Mein Freund der Baum”, featured on the Warner compilation “Pop 2001” and as a 7inch on Monika records.