Louie Austen has been played on NTS in shows including From The Depths w/ Drakeford, featured first on 17 February 2013. Songs played include Grab My Shaft (Feat. Peaches), Hoping (Matthew Herbert's High Dub) and Pain In My Heart (Meridian Brothers Remix).

Louie Austen is an Austrian downtempo / jazz artist from Vienna who mixes jazz with funk using electronic beats. His songs also feature a lot of vocals, mostly sung by himself. He was discovered by Mario Neugebauer at a hotel bar in Vienna in 1998. Mario also composed and produced his first album: Consequences in 1999, which was released by cheap records Vienna. For the next two albums Mario was joined by Patrick Pulsinger. Those albums appeared in licence cooperation with Kitty-Yo in Berlin. Louie also cooperated with artists like Gonzales or Texta. Louie Austen left cheap records in 2004.

In 2006 Austin joined the Klein Records stable and recorded "Iguana" with a host of producers including Phonique and Melnyk.