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 Monssens
Director
Olivier Monssens
Writer
Casts & Crew
Olivier Monssens
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Dwayne Holt
Himself - DJ
Fancy
Himself - Musician
Evelyn Thomas
Herself - Singer
Bobby Viteritti
Himself - DJ
Denyse LePage
Herself - Singer
Pete Waterman
Himself - DJ
Ian Levine
Himself - DJ
Dan Lacksman
Himself - Sound Engineer
Carmelo La Bionda
Himself - Musician
Michelangelo La Bionda
Himself - Musician
Ivana Spagna
Herself - Musician
Michael Cretu
Himself - Musician (archive footage)
Donna Summer
Herself - Singer (archive footage)
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Despite its Afro-American origins, the history of disco music, the soundtrack of the seventies, would be inconceivable without a handful of legendary European music producers who conjured up some of the biggest world-wide hits in the anonymity of their studios…
