Étienne Bernard Marie de Crécy (, born 25 February 1969,

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, France), also known as Superdiscount, EDC, Minos Pour Main Basse and Mooloodjee, is a French DJ and producer who composes

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, primarily

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Biography

Crécy was born in Lyon, but moved to

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from

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in the mid-1980s, attending the same Jules Ferry college as

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and

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, with whom he later created the Solid label. He then worked in

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as a sound engineer at studio +XXX ("plus thirty") where he met

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of Cassius, with whom he worked as

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for the album ''

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'', 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 ''Super Discount'' is the debut album by French DJ and producer Étienne de Crécy. Although the track listing lists several artists, the majority of the credited artists are aliases for de Crécy alone or in collaboration. The album was followed ...

'' was Étienne de Crécy's first release, including the well known singles "Tout doit disparaître" (Everything must go) and "Prix Choc" (Shock Price). ''Super Discount'' is considered by many as the first album of what is called the

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. ''Super Discount'' received very favourable reviews and sold over 200,000 copies. Four years after ''Super Discount'', Étienne de Crécy released ''Tempovision''. Unlike ''Super Discount'', which was perfectly adapted for the radio, ''Tempovision'' is a mature album, a deep reflection on the electronic music of this time. 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

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's voice singing "Am I wrong to hunger...", from the song " (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right". "Am I Wrong" peaked at No. 44 in the

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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

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, 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", "Napster", and so on. Étienne de Crécy, talking about the concept for the third album, said: "you have to be autistic in working in the music industry not to realize that something happens through the MP3 exchanges. It’s not discount anymore! It’s free!” and added "what the music industry doesn’t understand, is that young people will not build their own music culture if they don’t have free access to the music". 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

* ''

'' (1996, Different) * ''Tempovision'' (2000, Solid) FR No. 57 * '' Super Discount 2'' (2004, Solid) FR No. 72, BE (FL) No. 70 * ''Super Discount 3'' (2015, Pixadelic/A+LSO/Sony Music) FR No. 40, BE (FL) No. 56, BE (WA) No. 103, SWI No. 99 * ''B.E.D'' (2018, PIAS, collaboration with

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and Delilah Holliday) FR No. 153, BE (WA) No. 108

Live albums

* ''Live on Neptune'' (2007, Pixadelic) (digital only)

Compilation albums

* ''Tempovision Remixes'' (2002, Solid) * ''Beats'n'Cubes Vol.1'' (2011,

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) * ''My Contribution to the Global Warming'' (2012, Pixadelic)

Extended plays and singles

References

External links

Booking – Pi-Pole
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Watch the video-clip of the single "Someone like You"Site of the ''Super Discount 2'' album
{{DEFAULTSORT:Crecy, Etienne De 1969 births Living people French electronic musicians French house musicians French record producers French DJs Trip hop musicians Electronic dance music DJs