High Energy: Disco on Amphetamines

By the end of the seventies, disco music, considered too mainstream, was dead. But DJs and dance floors still needed new records and faster rhythms. Built on synthesizer sounds, the hi-nrg (high energy) style swept the gay clubs before hitting the charts during the eighties.

• Olivier MonssensDirector
• Olivier MonssensWriter
• Benjamin SchoosOriginal Music Composer

• Olivier MonssensSelf - Narrator (voice)
• Dwayne HoltSelf - DJ
• FancySelf - Musician
• Evelyn ThomasSelf - Singer
• Bobby ViterittiSelf - DJ
• Denyse LePageSelf - Singer
• Pete WatermanSelf - DJ
• Dan LacksmanSelf - Sound Engineer
• Carmelo La BiondaSelf - Musician
• Michelangelo La BiondaSelf - Musician
• Ivana SpagnaSelf - Musician
• Michael CretuSelf - Musician (archive footage)