Étienne de Crécy

Étienne Bernard Marie de Crécy (; born 25 February 1969) is a French DJ and producer who produces electronic music, primarily house. He has also produced under the names EDC, Superdiscount, Minos Pour Main Basse (Sur La Ville) 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 ("plus thirty") 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. De Crécy has been involved in various music projects where he worked as a producer.

Releases Super Discount was de Crécy's first release, including the singles "Tout doit disparaître" ("Everything Must Go") and "Prix Choc" ("Shock Price").

Four years after Super Discount, de Crécy released Tempovision. Unlike Super Discount, Tempovision is a mature album. In 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 "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right". "Am I Wrong" peaked at No. 44 on 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.

De Crécy's more recent tracks have focused more on an electronic sound. They had 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 (1997, Different) Tempovision (2000, Solid) - FR No. 57 Super Discount 2 (2004, Solid) - FR No. 72, Super Discount 3 (2015, Pixadelic/A+LSO/Sony Music) - FR No. 40, SWI No. 99 B.E.D (2018, PIAS, collaboration with Baxter Dury and Delilah Holliday) - FR No. 153,

Live albums Live on Neptune (2007, Pixadelic) (digital only) Space Echo (Live) (2019)

Compilation albums Beats'n'Cubes Vol. 1 (2011, Dim Mak) My Contribution to the Global Warming (2012, Pixadelic)

Remix albums Tempovision Remixes (2002, Solid) Warm Up Remixes (2026, Pixadelic)

Singles and EPs Year Title Chart positions Album FR UK 1997 "Le Patron Est Devenu Fou!" — — — 118 Super Discount 1998 Super Discount – ¥ — — — — Super Discount – F — — — — Super Discount – $ — — — — Super Discount – £ — — — — 1998 "Prix Choc (Remixes)" — — — 60 2000 "Am I Wrong" — 15 (WA) — 44 Tempovision "3 Day Week-End" — — — — 2001 "Scratched" — — 96 80 "Tempovision" — — — — 2004 Super Discount 2 – ¥ — — — — Super Discount 2 Super Discount 2 – € — — — — Super Discount 2 – $ — — — — Super Discount 2 – £ — — — — 2005 "Someone Like You" (Fast Track Vocal Mix) — 8 (FL) — 140 2006 Commercial E.P.1 — — — — 2007 Commercial E.P.2 — — — — 2009 "Hannukah" (with Monsieur Jo) — — — — 2010 Welcome EP — — — — Hope EP 94 — — — Binary EP 84 — — — No Brain EP — — — — 2011 "All Right" (digital only) — — — — 2013 "Beatcrush" — — — — 2014 "Hashtag My Ass" (digital only) 181 — — — Super Discount 3 "Night (Cut the Crap)" (digital only) — — — — "You" (featuring Madeline Follin) 121 40 (FL) — — 2015 "Smile" (with Alex Gopher) 96 — — — "New Wave" (with Jason Glasser – digital only) — — — — 2017 After EP 1 — — — — After EP 2 — — — — After EP 3 — — — — 2018 After EP 4 — — — — 2021 Commercial E.P.3 — — — —