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.

- Violet R!ver released on brumtone, DK

Further, he delivered tracks for a number of compilations on various record-labels among others: Kitty Yo (berlin, DE), Cheap (Vienna, AUS), Air France (France) and ~Scape (Berlin, DE).

As a sound designer he made Tool records for the record-label and production group Musicsystem, which he founded together with the art-group Superflex. August as well made the music for the 8 hour long art movie “The Wake” by Christian Lemmerz and Mikael Kvium, in collaboration with the composer Dror Feiler and Dj “Wunderbaum”.

August is educated at the “New School of Contemporary Music” in New York and in Cuba by the “Buena Vista Social Club” bass-player Cachaito Orlando Lopez and the percussion-player José Alfonso.

At the moment August is involved in following live projects: “Violet R!ver”, “Global Units“, “Ljiljana Petkovic Orchestra”, “the TAP trio” and “Høgh/Engkilde/Raagard” and August Engkilde Solo.