Ian Levine

High Energy: Disco on Amphetamines

Olivier Monssens

Olivier Monssens, Dwayne Holt

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.