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Austrian techno experimentalist <a href="spotify:artist:3MXePESrFifdxyENQfsaid">Patrick Pulsinger</a> is one of a very few Vienna-bred electronic musicians to reach acclaim in the wider dance music world. Although <a href="spotify:artist:3MXePESrFifdxyENQfsaid">Pulsinger</a> has recorded in just about every vein of electronic dance music -- from house and techno to minimal electro and warped downbeat -- his take on each is usually one of pushing established boundaries in unexpected directions, leading to a cult-like status among DJs (and often exceeding the amount of play his records actually receive). Perhaps best known for the unlikely acid jazz hit "City Lights," a collaboration with countrymate <a href="spotify:artist:7kVSO9W0cZoyKBEG5o3E9h">Dorfmeister</a> (of the production team <a href="spotify:artist:47EuUa98YLFZ0nw2bMQKpC">Kruder</a> & <a href="spotify:artist:7kVSO9W0cZoyKBEG5o3E9h">Dorfmeister</a>), the bulk of <a href="spotify:artist:3MXePESrFifdxyENQfsaid">Pulsinger's</a> recorded work (including the Porno full-length for Disko B and a series of EPs and an album as <a href="spotify:artist:1QsjYGUo0MQbgoRp38oFcd">IO</a>) hasn't been nearly so straight-ahead. Released mostly on his own Cheap label, that work has drawn from Detroit techno and Chicago house, funk, jazz, soul, and disco, and hip-hop and electro-funk, with <a href="spotify:artist:3MXePESrFifdxyENQfsaid">Pulsinger</a> warping the years and spaces separating these elements until they seem to congeal into a logical whole. Like many of his peers, <a href="spotify:artist:3MXePESrFifdxyENQfsaid">Pulsinger</a> doesn't stick with any one brand-name too long, and his discography is rittled with aliases, including Sluts'N'Strings, <a href="spotify:artist:7qfHhPWW8vkFW2tqGc8rbF">Restaurant Tracks</a>, and Showroom Recording Series. Although the Cheap label's early discography (singles like "Summerbreeze" and the <a href="spotify:artist:5ipQlfnpRCtyOuhYqvPvQ8">Robert Hood</a> full-length Nighttime World, Vol. 1) were geared more toward a club atmosphere, that direction is being increasingly abandoned in recent releases such as "Showroom Recording Series, Vol. 2" and "Mean Clown Welcome," which display instead a brand of cheeky bedroom electronica similar to labels such as Clear and Evolution. [See Also: Private Lightning 6, <a href="spotify:artist:3MXePESrFifdxyENQfsaid">Patrick Pulsinger</a>] ~ Sean Cooper