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EngLebuRt

I rock the leisure suits like Larry,100% polyester

About Me

MUSIC-BIO: Been in love with hip-hop ever since I peeped the Beastie Boys back in 2nd grade. Since then I was in a funk band called Universal Grooves, an experimental acoustic band called Carefully Out of Place, and a Rap-Core band called soundadvice (www.basher.net/soundadvice). Featured several times in The Alestle, SIUE's newspaper, while in Universal Grooves. Told by a local patron at the Soulard Market that I was the next Frank Zappa, while playing a show in Carefully Out of Place. Mobbed by hundreds of adoring fans at a couple solo stints in Townsville and Sydney Australia. My band soundadvice was featured in HM magazine, a global publication, and had a track featured on the 'Best of' CD that comes with every magazine. We were offered a deal to sign with Mercy Street records, but that fell through when I left the band. After playing in soundadvice, and having to live up to this image of 'look at me I have dreads and piercings, I scream and look all scary, aren't I cool', I decided it was time to shed the fake image and show the world the nerd I really am. After finding out that several EmCees had taken the tag pHiLo, I decided to take upon a tag no 'real b-boy' would touch with a fifty foot pole coated in teflon, EngLebuRt, which came from 2 of my favorite artists to sample, Engelbert Humperdink and Burt Bacharach. Which leads me to the tracks, electro-lounge hop at its finest. I decided instead of being you typical EmCee/Frontman complaining about not having a DeeJay/Band, I would take matters into my own hands and start giving birth to beats. When I started sampling and making tracks, I was digging for Funk, Soul, R&B, Jazz, Disco, you know, just like all the other 'real' DJ's and Producers. Well when you live in Belleville, Illinois all you got is Percy Faith, Perry Como, Ferrante and Teicher, etc. Well, I decided to pick some of it up, throw it in a sampler and drop it over some nice good ol' 4/4 break beats, and wahlah, I had lounge hop. Then I throw some effects on samples and dropped some analog keyboard and filters to the mix, thus electro. Since I have been doing my own tracks, I constantly reached the top 10 on the Breakbeat charts, and Downtempo charts on MP3.com (RIP), and was the .1 Hip-Hop and Electronic artist in St. Louis according to number of downloads on MP3. Outside of my instrumental albums, and tracks for olivelounge, I am currently working on tracks for The Frozen Food Section artist roster, and NapStarR. I also finished scoring an indie film called Dark Garden, which can be peeped at www.backwardslogicproductions.com. Expect an album and live shows that will include my associates in olivelounge (Mo-Vega$), the NapStarR proGram (@lantis, Pax-iLL, sol-jah) and other friends like the robot Series 271, Gimpee the Goat, and Special Sammie. Also expect to hear kazoo, harmonica, chromonica, djembe, didgeridoo, speak and (spell, read, math), dissected electronics and whatever noise maker I can get my hands on. Anyways, Auf Wiedersehn all you crazy catz and kittens and remember its EngLebuRt 2004 till Infinity....Beware the WumpuS!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/17/2004
Band Website: soundclick.com/engleburt
Band Members: I am a member of the stoopid groop the Ar-GAY-le W-imps! With Phonee Balowney Bonee and Gaymie Jamie...They are the new stars of Butt Broccolli 3: Sister of the Iron Pig.
Influences: Hip-Hop Producers-Dan the Automator, Prince Paul, DJ Shadow, DJ Krush, RJD2, El-P, Metal Fingers, Madlib, Dust Brothers, People Under The Stairs, Jay Dee, Jazzy Jeff, Evolve, Dust, Architect, Peanut Butter Wolf, Cut Chemist, Numark, Richy Pitch, Mario C, Sam Sever, J-Swift, Dynomite D, Bomb Squad, Domino, Diamond D, Pete Rock, DJ Premier, Ali Shaheed Mohammad....EmCees: New Skool: LA Symphony(Pigeon John, Joey the Jerk, Flynn Adam Atkins, Cookbook, Uno Mas, Sharlok Poems, B-Twice), Mars iLL-ManChild, dirt, iLL Harmonics-PlayDough, The Procussions(Mr. J Medeiros, Resonant, Stro the 89th Key), Mr. Lif, Jurassic 5, Aesop Rock, Slug, El-P, Cannibal Ox(Vaste Aire, Vordal Megala), MF Doom, Quaismoto, Anti-Pop Consortium(Beans, Sayyid, Priest), Paul Barman, Blueprint, Asheru, Blue Black, J-Live, Encore, Slum Village w/ Jay DeeClassic Hip-Hop: Native Tongue(De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Jungle Brothers, Black Sheep, Bush Babees, Leaders of the New School), Beastie Boys, 3rd Bass, GangStarr, Wu-Tang(enter the 36-era), Digable Planets, The Roots, Common, Dream Warriors, Brothers Under Madness, Questionmark Asylum, Freestlye Fellowship-Aceyelone, The Nonce, Heiro(Del the Funkee Homosapian, Souls of Mischief, Casual), Pharcyde, Camp Lo, Public Enemy, EPMD, The Fugees, Arrested Development (of course props to all the classic classicsElecronic(Big Beat, House, Trip-Hop, Downtempo, D'n'B, IDM): Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, FatBoy Slim, Daft Punk, Wiseguys, DJ Punk Rock, Freestylers, Roni Size, Ming and FS, Funkstorung, Plaid, Squarepusher, Death in Vegas, Antidote, Boards of Canada, Portishead, Air, Bjork, Massive Attack, Tricky, 4 Hero, Jazzanova, Theivery Corp., Kid Loco, Towa Tei, Goldfrapp, Morcheeba, Hooverphonic, Lamb, Dot Allison, Esthero, UNKLE, Groove Armada, Moloko, Stereolab, SweetbackEclectic Stuff: Beck, Eels, Gorillaz, Junior Senior, Soul Coughing, Cake, Radiohead, Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, Soul-Junk, Danielson Family, Pirate Eye Patch, Soul Hooligan, Roadside Monument, Bloomsday, Honey, InfradigHeavier Stuff: Rage Againt the Machine, At The Drive In, Incubus, Downset, Quarashi, Chevelle, Zao, Training For Utopia, Beloved, Living Sacrifice, FrodusSlower Stuff: Jamiroquai, Groove Collective, Brand New Heavies, PM Dawn, Lauren Hill, Wyclef, Speech, D'Angelo, Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Res, Floetry, Remy Shand, Jaguar Wright, Maxwell, India Arie, Sade, Mary J. Blige, Brian McKnightFavorite Local Acts: The Conformists, Phalice Chalice, Je'sus and the Flaming Tacos, Squad Car, 5 Story FallAnd this is only scraping the surface...we start going into 80's influences (Falco, Peter Gabriel, Flock of Seagulls, Phil Collins, Joe Jackson and thats just the New Wave pop stuff...) 70's (Kool and the Gang, AWB, KC and the Sunshine Band, Parliment, Sly and the Family Stone and that's just the funky stuff...) do you really want more of this?!? I mean I love me some Bob James, Ramsey Lewis, Herbie Hancock, Deodato, Herb Albert, Grover Washington, Ron Carter, Donald Byrd. And I do dig the classic lounge sounds of 'Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Tony Bennett, Mel Torme' and the newer batch of guys like 'Tom Jones, Neil Diamond, Andy Williams, Barry Manilow'. Well I'm going to cut it, enough already stop the insanity...
Sounds Like: Electro-Lounge Hop at its finest!
Record Label: FFS
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

www.EngLebuRt.net is up and running...

Screw this My Space crap!  Anyways, my website is up, and features all my music free for downlaodable consumption.  Plus a bunch of exclusive stuff what ever the heck that means.  I hav...
Posted by EngLebuRt on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:57:00 PST

It's been awhile

Man, I haven't written anything in a long, long time and don't know if anyone even reads this stuff.  I've been in the Air Force about 2 and a half years, and what a crazy ride that has been.&nbs...
Posted by EngLebuRt on Fri, 25 May 2007 12:22:00 PST

A web phenomenon thanks to Kenn

So I caught wind, broken from Boney, that the Geezers video has been on the front page of Ebaum's world and Albino Black Sheep.  And as a result thousands of people have experienced Kenn's flash ...
Posted by EngLebuRt on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 12:45:00 PST

My wife...

So, in light of recent news, I am posting this blog to let all the members of the opposite gender know that EngLebuRt has not been in the market for 4 years. June 29, 2001 I married the most fabulous...
Posted by EngLebuRt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Guess who's back...back again...

Well people I'm out of basic and I'm in tech school. It was 7 weeks of pure unadulturated hell. More details to follow...
Posted by EngLebuRt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

USAF

Well if you haven't heard by now, March 8th I take off for Lackland AFB in Texas and begin 'boot camp' for the Air Force. I will be gone till about August as right after training is my tech school. ...
Posted by EngLebuRt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Day by Day

So I got to read my new comment, and it's Helias aka Giant saying congrats on getting picked up. So I email him like all like 'huh?'. Then I check my voicemail and its J-Toth saying that MF Grimm, i...
Posted by EngLebuRt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Instruments behind The Instruments

First off I use a computer, a hand built PC with a 80 gig hard drive, and a good ol' AMD Duron 1.3 gHz chip. I use 98 SE as an OS because I've been to lazy to upgrade to 2000 ME. Inside I got an Au...
Posted by EngLebuRt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Ramen and Monitors...

Being broke sucks!  I got my cell phone bill...$800 bucks!  Thats a little less then what I make in a month, after taxes.    Back in the day, when I was rocking the nice commision checks, it wouldn't ...
Posted by EngLebuRt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

buRt's Brain Leak Vol.1

Hey kids, buRt here! How are you doing? Swell I hope. Well Im here to tell you buRt's not so right in the head anymore. In fact I dont even think its my head. It could be your head. It could be the...
Posted by EngLebuRt on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST