I started my musical journey when I was 6 years old with violin. Back then I really didn't like it, cause my teacher made me play etudes after another. 4 yeas later I grabbed my dads guitar and started to play Kiss, Wasp and AC/DC. After that I've tried to learn as much as possible from every instrument and aspect of music. Genres I'm somehow fluent at the moment are rock, pop and heavy (not black-/death metal). I've also done some folk music and I'm kinda falling in love with RnB. Strange.
Past years I've worked on a Finnish folk/rock -project called Ronja. Currently I'm looking for a new projects or singer/artist to produce and make music. Never mind the genre as long as people I work with got passion to make good music.
Ilkka Engström
Musical skills:
- Guitar
- Electric bass
- Midi programming
- Percussion
- Composing/songwriting
- Recorder/mixing/mastering
- Producing
Work related songs:
Find Me - This is a song I produced at work to one high school class as an extra course. The idea was to allow students to make a song which has all the qualities of a possible radiohit. The song was mixed mastered by Miitri Aaltonen (check wikipedia for more info).
Find Me in Remix Same song in german house/tecno style
Love&Metal:
This my project with Mikko Ristiseppä. There's couple of songs which we're working on at the moment. We got few good riffs and some really nice melodies, so I guess we'll see what happens in a few months.:
Third song can be heard at Kompoz.com
Other songs:
HotCoffee - Funk/Rock in RHCP style
New Day Pop/rock piano song.
Swing and sorrow mellow pop/jazz song
Violet Skies Rock/Funk
You just dance Funk
Rosegarden Hip-Hop/RnB
My gear:
I've always tried to keep my setup small, efficient and mobile. I can grab my instrument and studio and take it to where I want. There's always possibility to use "bigger guns" afterwards and bring recorded tracks to a professional studio, if needed.
- Several guitars (nylon, 12-string, electric...)
- Some ethnic instruments (lots of different small percussions, djembe, kantele and small harp)
- Ibanez soundgear electric bass with some bling bling and nice laser carved flowers on pick-up guard
- Edirol UR-80 DAW controller
- Laptop
- Some good condensator and dynamic microphones
- Headphone amp
- Midi keyboard
- Headphones, miles and miles of different cables, stands....
If YOU have an idea and/or would like to do work with me, contact:
ilkkaengstrom (don't write this) @gmail.com