Etienne de Crécy

i stumbled upon this piece just recently. perfect timing for the spring, no doubt. as the title states, the sound and lay out is fresh, clean, and suave. the tracks get more upbeat when one needs to move a little ('relax' 'am i wrong'). it also cools down when you just want to lounge by the pool ('when jack met jill' '3 day week end')

this record really seems to display the french sound perfectly. a great find.

I went through a strong French house music phase, Cassius/Daft Punk/ Air etc. This is the one that still sounds freshest. The entire album is worthwhile, it's chilled out without being cheesy and features some great vocals.

No other album can come close to this!It got all the ingredients
for spring,summer, autumn and winter. No matter how often you listen to this cd, the music sound better and fresher compared to those one hit wonders outthere.Perfect chill-out evening n travelling :)

Etienne De Crezy is another good frenchman who knows how to make good dance music. This album is full of good tracks, i first heard "Am i wrong" a couple of years ago and decided to take a closer look at what he had to offer and i was prety impressed. "Am i wrong" is funky with tough beats and had one really cool animated video. Many of the songs here however are slow, more like Royksopp then Daft Punk. Pretty good relax cd, one of a few faster songs are " 3 Day weekend" which is funky too. "Tempovision" is a classic example of a good relax dance tune. "Scrathned" is no scratch song actually, one of a few that inluded a singer on. Slow one too but good. This album is defenitely a nice one, it's amazing how many good dance artists that come out of france.

cool vibes a whole fusion of styles mixed in together sounds like soul to soul tripping on some acid and they invited robin s, prince and sade to try some party drugs with them. This is tight features belita woods, and clip payne from the p-funk all stars but without them this is still a good cd if you are open minded that is.

To say the French have a way with music is an understatement. Artist such as AIR, Daft Punk, Cassius, Stephane Pompugnac, Alex Gopher, Dimitri From Paris and even St. Germain have made profound and significant contributions to the word of electronica...But I would be foolish to dismiss the works of underdog Etienne de Crecy, whose awesome Tempovision is a true testament that the French know their stuff. With just the right blend of synth-techno-house-funk-and ambient elements, de Crecy has created one of the most satisfying and magnificent pieces on the V2 record label, or any label, for that matter. Tempovision opens with a fax machine dial-tone on "Intronection" and oozes into the thumpin' "Relax"...next is the infectiously groovey, "Out of My Hands"--Is that Etta James on vocals...next is the Daft Punkish "Am I Wrong?" that has strong dancefloor appeal..."Noname" is a hot downtempo number that lifts you up then drops you back down to earth without you even leaving your chair. "When Jack Met Jill" is a cute-cut with a pulsing synth hook throughout and some really weird distorted vocals. The classic "Tempovision" is a funkfest of bluesy vocals and odd samples that speaks of the world today..."Scratched", the best track on Tempovision, has strong cross-over appeal without loosing its edge--dig those vocals and the scratching--hence, the song title, no doubt. "3 Day Week-End" is just a fun song meant for those summer days, with vocals from who sounds like Gladys Knight (??) and a killer rhythm guitar hook..."Rhythm and Beat" with its simple, yet catchy bassline sounds like one of those quiet storm cuts from back in the day. "Hold the Line" finishes Tempovision much like it started with what sounds like a radio playing through a telephone, finally changing into a nice sub-house number in its duration of 14:10. All in all, Tempovision is an amazing CD from Etienne de Crecy, one of France's Finest!!!

If you don't know about "Super Discount" then you might need to look for some professional help. Etienne De Crecy is the prince of French house and his "Super Discount" is the project that curved the path for the whole genre. Three years later he returns with "Tempovision". Now that every one is a DJ and dance music is over hyped it is hard to come up with something new so Etienne De Crecy just slowed down a little and tried to create a musical piece that will live up to the expectations. And he succeeded. It's brilliant.

One of the best electronic albums of the year, and as such and otherwise not unlike daft punk's "discovery", though it suffers from the same ailment most etienne de crecy material does, which is that etienne knows how to make great hooks but is pretty bad at structuring them in to songs. So for instance where you'd hope a song would further and progress on the theme, it needlessly ends only to continue building later. However, the album's many merits substantially outshadow it's failures.

It is also worth noting that the blips, gaps, and glitches in the first track "poisoned" are meant to be there since it's, as a part of the file sharing theme of the album, envisioned to portray the music files deliberately broken and damaged by the record industry.

Nearly 10 years after it launched an entire generation of French music, the first Super Discount compilation has justifiably become legendary. So now that Etienne de Crecy - the original album's compiler - has issued a second volume in the series, you may wonder how it compares to the first.

It's a much more high-tech collection: the soul and funk-disco of the original have been replaced by electro and techno, and the French sale slogans used for the first volume's song titles have been updated to reflect more advanced ways of obtaining cheap stuff - they all refer to P2P filesharing systems. So there's no way this album could have had room for a track by Air, as the first one did. In fact, the 80s slant of the sounds on Super Discount 2 has the initial disadvantage of making the album a bit too modish for its own good. Everyone seems to be producing 80s-influenced music at the moment, and you can bet that much of that music will be as dated in 2010 as the original stuff was in 1990.

Indeed, there's nothing revolutionary about any of these tracks, and most of them feature sounds that have long been clichés of dance music: acid squeals, extreme filter resonances and sweeps, breakdowns, and drum or bass dropouts. It's a indication then of the talents at work here that none of this music sounds in the least bit hackneyed. If it's not too pretentious to speak of "classical" electronic music, then this is exactly what the tracks on Super Discount 2 are. They refine to perfection techniques that have been used countless times before, and wring new meaning out of even the most basic material - two repeated chords, or an arpeggio, or those 808 kick and clap sounds you're heard a thousand times before, but never in quite this way. The final track, Overnet, is the ne plus ultra of this method. Although it's nearly nine minutes of a simple three-note riff repeated over and over by many different synths in unison, it's never static, and seems to build ceaselessly to crescendo after crescendo.

This is not the organic music of the first Super Discount, but its mechanistic rhythms have their own type of soul. And though it's undeniably retro sounding, it's also virtually flawless. Of how many albums of this or any other era could that be said?

quite possibly the worst peice of house in my collection - an unispired collection of french house easily eclipsed by any other "various artists" u care to mention. boring, repetitive. no usable beats, and at times completely unmixable.

I wouldn't reccomend it to anyone dj or other.

etienne, bob sinclar at their worst.

buy "my house in montramiane" or "discoteca" youll be better off.

Interesting cuts, most tracks are remix by Etienne de Crecy, Alex Gopher. If you are interested in collecting all great things french.....buy it. If you are interested in all great things from Etienne & Alex.........buy it.

I've you are looking for great house, move on, if you are into acid-jazz, you might enjoy it.

C'est ca.

Don't listen to what has been told by in the only negative review this record had here in AMZ (it was written by an English and they usually don't like whatever come from Europe or US..even if it's really good). SuperDiscount has already deserved its place as one of the best compilations about the new French sound, and you can listen to it in the trendiest clubs of the planet from Ibiza to NYC, from Tokio to Milan. The best track,imho, is Etienne De Crecy's one but all are funny and it's impossible not to dance at....

With relatively few French artists following the international success of Etienne de Crecy and Alex Gopher, it seems "Super Discount" will remain a stand-alone classic. Released in '97, the album was instantly a standard bearer for the times, and was such a class act it was regularly named one of the top - if not *the* top - compilations of the year by all the dance mags. Just one listen to de Crecy's "Prix Choc" (he also mixed and produced the album) will convince you that he - along with Daft Punk - reinvented house music. If you like your music funky and soulful this album is essential.

Well, "Vive la France". This eclectic techno-funk compilation is profoundly sure to spawn at least a couple late night classics with its funk flare. I'm pleased to say we are actually hearing the rebirth the groove, circa 1978. Whether you're into something trance like, trip-hop or just plain sophisticated groove-jazz this compilation will take you on journey through the most elegant and stylish hotel lounge experience. Enjoy!

The bonus disc track listing is:

1. Prix Choc (Ultra Dark Mix By Etienne De Crecy) by Etienne De Crecy (6:27).

2. Prix Choc (Ultra Bright Mix By La Funk Mob) by Etienne De Crecy (7:49).

3. Le Patron Est Devenu Fou (Peace From Chicago Mix By Harisson Crump) by Minos Pour Main Basse (Sur La Ville) (9:16).

4. Visible, Solution Pour Verres De Contacts by Mr Learn and Fisherman (4:24)

This album is amazing. Not as "fun-loving" as Super Discount, but altogether fantastic. The sound is as usual very different from contemporary house ... much more enigmatic and mesmerizing. The fact is that that you can buy all Etienne De Crecys albums (Super Discount and Motorbass "Pansoul") and you can be sure they will be some of the best albums you will ever buy. They are certaintly the best I have ever bought. Buy it, buy it, buy it ........

What I like most about Tempovision is that it's full of great and distinctive songs; they are true compositions, which share elements of disco, deep house and jazzy house with a classic soulful groove. The albums Stevie Wonder made at the height of his career, Songs in the Key of Life or Innervision, are so amazing because each song feeds off and compliments its predecessor. And each song has such a strong personality of its own. Stevie Wonder's music floored me when I was a young boy, and most of it continues to do so. Like the 1970s Stevie Wonder at his peak, Etienne de Crecy's Tempovision is a thoughtful collection of slow and grooving songs, which work off of each other perfectly, like few albums do nowadays.

The album's first two tracks, "Intronection" and "Relax", merge to create an atmosphere of technological sounds and flight that glide right into track three, plopping things back down to earth, right down to the soul with the gem, "Out Of My Hands". Next is Tempovision's first dance track, "Am I Wrong", which helps you realize why Etienne is so well respected as a producer. Next, "No Name" takes things back to a calm, living room ambience, then slowly the beats come in like horses galloping across the plains fading into the next song, "When Jack Met Jill". This song keeps up the soul vibe with a ping-pong keyboard and again the lush vocals of Belita Woods.

"Tempovision", the album's title track, is another voyage up and over hills, through valleys and open soundscapes- it's a sweeping, majestic song, but still it's got a groovy urban feel to it. This is followed by Scratched, a slow ballad which steadily builds to a pumping beat-to me it's the best track on the album, because it catches the listener off guard while at the same time fitting perfectly after everything preceding it. By not trying to be gimmicky or catchy, this song is genuine soul. Next comes "Three Day Weekend", which is seemingly another dance track but its stuttering, stop and go beat actually makes it a difficult song to follow on a club floor. It's a dancer's tease, more than a delight. "Rhythm And Beat" brings the music down again with a loopy, floating groove, and a ringing telephone introduces the last song, "Hold The Line", which meanders through a spacy haze for most of its fourteen minutes. A grooving beat is imbedded in the song, but it only briefly breaks out of its cocoon mid-song, before being submerged again, just as everything seems to really be getting started. The overall effect is that you've just got to play the whole album again, and marvel at it, over and over...

If you don't know about "Super Discount" then you might need to look for some professional help. Etienne De Crecy is the prince of French house and his "Super Discount" is the project that curved the path for the whole genre. Three years later he returns with "Tempovision". Now that every one is a DJ and dance music is over hyped it is hard to come up with something new so Etienne De Crecy just slowed down a little and tried to create a musical piece that will live up to the expectations. And he succeeded. It's brilliant.