Étienne de Crécy, France

Etienne also known as Superdiscount, EDC, Minos Pour Main Basse and Mooloodjee) is a French DJ and producer who composes house and electronic music.

He worked in Paris as a sound engineer at studio +XXX (plus thirty) where he met Philippe Zdar of Cassius, with whom he worked on the Motorbass 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. Étienne de Crécy has been involved in various music projects where he worked as a producer.

Super Discount was Étienne de Crécy’s first release, including the well known singles «Tout doit disparaître» (Everything must go) and «Prix Choc» (Price shock). Super Discount is considered by many as the first album of what is called the French touch. Six years after Super Discount, Étienne de Crécy released Tempovision. Finally, 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 produced twelve electro-house-pop-new wave songs designed for clubs. 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!”

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