High Energy: Disco on Amphetamines

Directed by Olivier Monssens

With Olivier Monssens, Dwayne Holt, Fancy, Evelyn Thomas and Bobby Viteritti

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.