Vintage Austen, Mint Condition

Paris is the centre of the world at the moment as far as electronic music is concerned, prior to that it was Berlin and, for a little while in the mid-1990s, it was Vienna. The latter's Christopher Just and Patrick Pulsinger can be credited with reinvigorating the genre and laying some of the foundations for the rise of their neighbours - particularly with the classic I'm A Disco Dancer.

One of the most unusual stars of the electroclash boom was another Austrian, Louie Austen, a sixty-year old jazz crooner who appeared with Peaches on the brilliant (albeit nightmare inducing) Grab My Shaft. Although considered something of a novelty at the time, he's still going and has covered I'm A Disco Dancer in quite an interesting way - fleshing the one-line techno stomper out into a "proper song". He remains resolutely creepy though.

Louie Austen - Disco Dancer