Louie Austen is an Austrian classically trained bar and jazz crooner

Crooner

Crooner is an American epithet given to male singers of pop standards, mostly from the Great American Songbook, either backed by a full orchestra, a big band or by a piano. Originally it was an ironic term denoting an emphatically sentimental, often emotional singing style made possible by the use...

 who has been active in the electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 scene.

Biography

Austen was born on 19 September 1946 in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

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Louie Austen is an Austrian singer & crooner who was among other cultural and musical activities part in an adaption of Nestroy's play "Höllenangst" at the Viennese Burgtheater

Burgtheater

The Burgtheater , originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the Austrian National Theatre in Vienna and one of the most important German language theatres in the world.The Burgtheater was created in 1741 and has become known as "die Burg" by the...

 and is regularly still performing every Saturday at the Cascade Bar of the Marriott hotel in Vienna.

Since 1999 Louie Austen also is a performer in electronic music & has released many albums & singles in this genre he refers to as electrocrooning. His last album Iguana has been released on Klein Records in 2006 & his new double album "Last Man Crooning / Electrotaining You!" got released in 2010 along with two singles and is his 7th studio album on his own label LA Music - Louie Austen Music
he´d found back in 2007 as a home for his musical releases.

Austen has a cameo as gambler in Stefan Ruzowitzky

Stefan Ruzowitzky

Stefan Ruzowitzky is an Academy Award-winning Austrian film director and screenwriter.-Early life:Ruzowitzky was born in Vienna...

´s The Counterfeiters

The Counterfeiters (film)

The Counterfeiters is a 2007 Austrian-German film written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. It fictionalizes Operation Bernhard, a secret plan by the Nazis during the Second World War to destabilize Great Britain by flooding its economy with forged Bank of England bank notes.The film centres on a...

movie, which won in the category best foreign movie at the 2008 Oscars

80th Academy Awards

The 80th Academy Awards ceremony honored the best films in 2007 and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on ABC beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST/8:30 p.m. EST, February 24, 2008 . During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards in 24...

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Albums

• Consequences (1999 album)
• Only Tonight (2001 album)
• Easy Love (2003 album)
• Heaven's Floor (2005 EP)
• Hear my Song: The Best Of Louie Austen (2006 album)
• Iguana (2006 album)
• Summer Love EP (2007)
• Dreams Are My Reality EP (2007)
• Too Good To Last EP (2008)
• "Myamy EP" (2009, Digital)
• "Coconut Girl Remixes" (2009, Digital)
• "Take your time" Ada Fijal feat. Louie Austen
• "Endless Love" Phonique feat. Louie Austen. Track from album "Kissing Strangers" label Dessous (2010)
• "Estate" (2010) ep track for Rodion
• "Make Your Move Ruede Hagelstein Rmx" (2010, Vinyl)
• "Paris / Make Your Move Remixes" (2010, Digital-Single)
• "Last Man Crooning / Electrotaining You!" (2010, Double album - 2CD)
• "I Wander / Now Or Never Remixes" (2010, Digital-Single)

Singles

• "Amore" (2001)
• "Hoping" (2001)
• "Grab My Shaft
  Grab My Shaft
  "Grab My Shaft" is a single by Louie Austen featuring Canadian electronic musician Peaches.-Critical reception:Charlie Amter of East Bay Express that the duet with Peaches results in a "sick triple-X South Beach dance floor anthem that manages to be both hilarious and sexual at the same time." ...
  
  " (feat. Peaches
  Peaches (musician)
  Merrill Beth Nisker , better known by her stage name Peaches, is a Canadian electronic musician and performance artist who lives in Berlin, Germany. Her songs are noted for disregarding traditional gender norms and their use of sexually explicit lyrics...
  
  ) (2003) #117 UK
• "Open Up Your Heart" (with Korsakow
  Korsakow
  The Korsakow System is open source software designed to allow users to generate database cinema. Created in 2000 by Berlin-based artist, Florian Thalhofer, Korsakow allows users with or without any programming expertise to create and interact with non-linear or database video narratives referred...
  
  ) (2005)
• "More" (2005)
• "Disco Dancer" (2006)
• "Der Kreislauf"- with Remute (2011)

External links

• Official website
• Louie Austen on Discogs
• A concert in Vienna a video of Louie