Tempovision [Import]

Etienne DeCrecy | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 21, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Disques Solid
• ASIN: B00004YMOZ
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #659,970 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Intronection

2. Relax

3. Out of My Hands

4. Am I Wrong

5. Noname

6. When Jack Met Jill

7. Tempovision

8. Scratched

9. 3 Day Week-End

10. Rhythm and Beat

11. Hold the Line

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant as expected!, March 8, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Tempovision (Audio CD)

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 ........

5.0 out of 5 stars French Touch, February 26, 2001

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Guga (Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tempovision (Audio CD)

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...

4.0 out of 5 stars No need for discount, January 5, 2001

By 

Gal Uchovsky "eytangal" (Tel Aviv, Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tempovision (Audio CD)

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.