What up all you crazee cats and kittens! Welcome to the world of electro-lounge hop. I became sick and tired of watching Hip-Hop stagnate, as well as the music industry in general. After playing in a Hard Core Hip-Hop group aka Rap-Core, 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. When I started sampling and making tracks, I was digging for Funk, Soul, R&B, Jazz, Disco, just like all the other 'real' DJ's and Producers. Well when you live in Belleville 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. Anyways thats the story and I'm stickin' to it. Peep the tracks and I hope you dig 'em like honey smacks. Lounge, Yo...

Yeah, as EngLebuRt I've played at Mississippi Nights, Hi-Pointe, Atomic Cowboy, and Red Sea. Best show to me was at Atomic Cowboy, I brought out the miniKorg for that one.

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, 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. Since I have been doing my own tracks, I constantly reached the top 10 on the Breakbeat charts, and Downtempo charts on MP3, 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 olive lounge, I am currently working on tracks for Boris of The Frozen Food Section, iLL Syntax and NapStarr. I'm also scoring an indie film called Dark Garden.

Let me just list who I'm diggin' on right now. Beatmakers: DJ Shadow, RJD2, Dan the Automator, Prince Paul, Cut Chemist, MF Doom, El-P, PUTS, Jay Dee, Madlib, Peanut Butter Wolf, PEP. In the realm of downtempo: Bjork, Portishead, Tricky, Massive Attack, Goldfrapp. Favorite groups of all time: Beastie Boys, Jamiroquai, The Roots, Beck. I listen to so much music I could write about it all day. How about I do current favorite albums to round everything out: Pigeon John 'is dating your sister', The Procussions '...as iron sharpens iron', Mr. Lif 'I, Phantom', Atmosphere 'GLU', John Forte 'I, Forte', Asheru and Blueblack 'Soon Come', Q-Tip 'Kamaal the Abstract'

London, England and Sydney, Australia

Acid Pro 4, Sound Forge 6, M Audio 2496 sound card, miniKORG synth, Stanton STR8-60, 520 SK Needle, DM1002X MK2 Scratch Mixer, 2 Boss SP-202 samplers, Zoom 505 efx pedal, Digitech RP200 efx pedal, Digitech Vocal 300 Vocal Effects Processor, multiple Yamaha and Casio keyboards, Speak and Spell, Speak and Read, Speak and Math, and other disected electrical sound gadgets.