Étienne de Crécy


Étienne Bernard Marie de Crécy is a French DJ and producer who composes electronic music, primarily house. He has also produced as EDC, Superdiscount, Minos Pour Main Basse and Mooloodjee.

Biography

Crécy was born in Lyon, but moved to Versailles from Marseille in the mid-1980s, attending the same Jules Ferry college as Air and Alex Gopher, with whom he later created the Solid label. He then worked in Paris as a sound engineer at studio +XXX where he met Philippe Zdar of Cassius, with whom he worked as Motorbass for the album Pansoul, a preview of what would be his first solo album, Super Discount, released in 1996, with Air, Alex Gopher and other French artists on Solid. Étienne de Crécy has been involved in various music projects where he worked as a producer.

Releases

Super Discount was Étienne de Crécy's first release, including the singles "Tout doit disparaître" and "Prix Choc".
Four years after Super Discount, Étienne de Crécy released Tempovision. Unlike Super Discount, Tempovision is a mature album. In Étienne de Crécy's opinion it was a blues album, differing from some of his earlier and more recent work.
The Tempovision track "Am I Wrong" used a sample of Millie Jackson's voice singing "Am I wrong to hunger...", from the song " I Don't Want to Be Right". "Am I Wrong" peaked at No. 44 in the UK Singles Chart in January 2001.
The three 3D animated videos to accompany singles from the Tempovision album were directed by Étienne's brother, Geoffroy de Crécy.
Eight years after the first Super Discount album, came Super Discount 2 with the original team, and the addition of Cassius. For this album, he used only old analog instruments, for example a TB-303, and produced twelve electro-house-pop-new wave songs designed for clubs, in the continuity of the first Super Discount. Pursuing the 'discount' concept of the first album, all the tracks are named after peer-to-peer clients: "Overnet", "Limewire", and so on.
Étienne de Crécy's more recent tracks have focused more on an electronic sound. They have also begun to be released on the Pixadelic label.

Selected discography

The discography of Étienne de Crécy consists of four studio albums, one live album, three compilation albums, eighteen extended plays and fifteen singles.

Studio albums

  • Super Discount
  • Tempovision FR No. 57
  • Super Discount 2 FR No. 72, BE No. 70
  • Super Discount 3 FR No. 40, BE No. 56, BE No. 103, SWI No. 99
  • B.E.D FR No. 153, BE No. 108
  • ''Warm Up''

    Live albums

  • Live on Neptune
  • ''Space Echo ''

    Compilation albums

  • Tempovision Remixes
  • Beats'n'Cubes Vol.1
  • ''My Contribution to the Global Warming''

    Extended plays and singles