For this album, he used only old analog instruments, for example a TB303, and produced twelve electro-house-pop-new wave songs designed for clubs, in the continuity of the first Super Discount.
The three 3D animated videos to accompany singles from the Tempovision album were directed by Étienne's brother, Geoffroy de Crécy.Įight years after the first Super Discount album, came Super Discount 2 with the original team, and the addition of Cassius. "Am I Wrong" peaked at #44 in the UK Singles Chart in January 2001. The Tempovision track "Am I Wrong" used a sample of Millie Jackson's voice singing "Am I wrong to hunger.", from the song "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right". In Étienne de Crécy's opinion it was a blues album, differing from some of his earlier and more recent work. 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. Super Discount received very favourable reviews and sold over 200,000 copies.įour years after Super Discount, Étienne de Crécy released Tempovision. Super Discount is considered by many as the first album of what is called the French touch.
Super Discount was Étienne de Crécy's first release, including the well known singles "Tout doit disparaître" (Everything must go) and "Prix Choc" (Shock Price). Étienne de Crécy has been involved in various music projects where he worked as a producer.
He then worked in Paris as a sound engineer at studio +XXX ("plus thirty") where he met Philippe Zdar of Cassius, with whom he worked as Motorbass for the album Pansoul album, a preview of what would be his second album: Super Discount, released in 1996, with Air, Alex Gopher and other French artists on Solid. 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.
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