| Louie Austen

His first stage-appearances in Vienna during the 60's, singing small parts in musicals like Hello Dolly, defined his love for jazz, blues and the real big entrance for the years to come.

After studying classical singing and the wonderful sound of The Ratpack, he was off to the States and saw a couple of their legendary shows in Frisco and Vegas in the early 70's. By then he had some cool things going himself, like the collaboration with the Harlem Blues and Jazz Band in N.Y.C., where he was living that days. They mainly played Amstrong tunes and some jazz and blues standards at the Ginger Bread Club on 64th Street . It was a time of playing with some great dudes and learning from them every night they performed together. After several engagements in various resort hotels and his own show called Jokers Wild Show in Pittsburgh, he returned to Vienna end of the 70's.

Back on hometurf he did what he did best, singing all the classic jazz and blues. From 1980 to 1985 at the Hilton hotel and from 1986 till today at the Mariott. He likes the atmosphere of a hotelbar, the people who come every weekend to hear him sing, or the folkes that are just passing through. Besides he did a record in 1985 together with the legendary Ginger Davis, which became a rare collectible since there where only 2000 copies pressed. Unfortunately there was never a recording of the occasional livejams with great collegues who were in town like Al Green, Art Farmer or even Engelbert Humperding.

But when he met the 26 year old Mario Neugebauer at a recording session in a viennese studio and again two years later at his local boxingclub, the time was right to join forces. Being a studioengineer for years and knowing how to twist those knobs, Mario Neugebauer was an electronic music-junkie ever since. After he rented a small room in the Cheap studio complex where he spent several months of recording, programming and arranging, the first songs where sending shivers up and down our spines. After the first album Patrick Pulsinger joined them envisioning disco for the new millenium.