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.

• ARTE GEIE
• Flair Productions
• Olivier Monssens
• Dwayne Holt
• Fancy
• Evelyn Thomas
• Bobby Viteritti
• Denyse LePage
• Pete Waterman
• Dan Lacksman