Vienna-based electronic wizard Patrick Pulsinger’s new album, Impassive Skies, is an interplanetary crime story in hi-fi.
After experiments in jazz and ambient music, Red Bull Music Academy favourite Patrick Pulsinger turns his attention back to the dancefloor. This time his approach is to combine programmed electronics with live performances: so as well as synthesizers, there are drumboxes played by hand.
The idea behind Impassive Skies is to mix digital perfection with human error to create a journey through the history of dance music using state of the art production techniques. In this Red Bull Music Academy session, he explains his modular synthesizer which he uses on almost all of his productions.
A fanatical collector of 70s and 80s BMWs, Pulsinger is a self-styled über nerd. Born in East Germany in 1970, he moved to New York to avoid national service. There he found a like-minded collaborator in fellow German DJ Hell.
Switching Manhattan for Vienna, they became a fixture on the city’s underground music scene. While Kruder & Dorfmeister were Vienna’s ambassadors of trip hop, Pulsinger & Tunakan were the dirty, uptempo party rockers, releasing a string of 12” singles, Sluts'n'Strings and 909, on their label, Cheap Records, and promoting them through their party platform Cheap Entertainment.
Since going their separate ways Pulsinger has dabbled in numerous projects; in demand as a DJ, he also writes scores for theatre and has remixed artists like Pet Shop Boys, Ken Ishii, Tosca and Chicks On Speed. He also is a popular host on the Red Bull Music Academy couch.
Impassive Skies features guests like G.Rizo, Theresa Rotschopf, Abe Duque, Fennesz, Franz Hautzinger and many more. Currently Patrick is co-producing the second Hercules and Love Affair album in his studio in Vienna which will be released in 2010.
Impassive Skies is out on Disko B on June 18. Meanwhile, you can hear a mix chosen by Patrick for Red Bull Music Academy Radio.
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