High Energy: Disco on Amphetamines

Overview

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.

Details

Cast

Olivier Monssens

Self - Narrator (voice)

Dwayne Holt

Self - DJ

Fancy

Self - Musician

Evelyn Thomas

Self - Singer

Bobby Viteritti

Self - DJ

Denyse LePage

Self - Singer

Pete Waterman

Self - DJ

Dan Lacksman

Self - Sound Engineer

Carmelo La Bionda

Self - Musician

Michelangelo La Bionda

Self - Musician

Ivana Spagna

Self - Musician

Michael Cretu

Self - Musician (archive footage)

Donna Summer

Self - Singer (archive footage)

Ian Levine

Self - DJ

Patrick Cowley

Self (archive footage)