I cannot tell you how much I love this picture. This is everything a night without memory (for the non-Etienne de Crecy party) should be.

But anyway.

Before electro went ape-shit mental and consumed the rest of dance music, the French were still throwing it down hard in their own inimitable way. Prime offenders were Etienne de Crecy and Alex Gopher, who combined with various others to release the oft-cited Super Discount 1 and 2 albums in 1996 and 2004. The albums functioned like grand statements on the state of French House at the time, and with this current resurgence in the fortunes of French electronica, obviously expectations are high that another one must be due in the not too distant future. Rumours which were stoked no end by this video of a heretofore unreleased, and entirely unfindable track by the Super Discount boys called (we think) ‘My Mind’. It makes me a little giddy.

Unfortunately though (according to a translated excerpt from an interview with Etienne found on the Erol Alkan forums…), it seems as if there aren’t actually immediate plans for a Super Discount 3 project, so that track is going to have to live on in its badly distorted glory for a while longer yet. Sigh.

But so that this isn’t an entirely redundant post, here’s a few tracks from Etienne and Alex over the last few years to remind you of what they’re still capable of.

Coming off Super Discount 2, ‘Fast Track’ is an awesome, driving roller of a tune, used most memorably on Erol Alkan’s Bugged Out Selection with the ‘Never Be Alone’ a capella. But even in its original form, it’s pretty fucking cool.

Alex Gopher, Julien Delfaud & Etienne De Crécy – Fast Track

Etienne also did good with the simply named ‘Fuck’, off his 2006 ‘Commercial’ EP. A solid as, growling builder.

Etienne De Crécy – Fuck

And finally, we have Alex and Etienne’s 2004 cranking remix of uber-classique Kraftwerk tune ‘Aerodynamik’. French and Germany haven’t come together this explosively since 1940! Am I right? Am I right?! You there in the beret!

Kraftwerk – Aerodynamik (Alex Gopher and Etienne de Crecy Mix)

I’m totally right.

-luke