He saw Csaba Walkó in an American Idol type talent show[1] and asked him to sing the vocals for the cover.

But it was not until the summer of 2008, when Lotfi pitched the idea of a band playing electronic vocal pop music to Walkó, who asked his keyboardist, Pál to join them.

Their first video for the song I'm in Love gained considerable popularity, and it reached at least top ten position in various Hungarian dance charts.

Shortly after the Stereoid's release, Compact Disco has been nominated to the 2010 Fonogram Awards in the category "Best Performance in Electronic Music"[2] In May 2010, the group shot its second video to the second single "Without You" again with Studio X behind the scenes.

Although "I'm in Love"'s video gained popularity over time, the Hungarian audience failed to recognize the fresh faces believing it was the work of a foreign band.

The session was recorded before live audience in Magyar Rádió's Studio 8 and was aired in September creating demand for more "Akusztik-type" shows.

[7] For these, they asked Pál and Walkó's former bandmate from Brownfield, bassist Attila Sándor to join the band on stage, and in November 2010 he became the fourth member of Compact Disco.

[10] Acclaimed DJs all around the world including Tiësto, Ferry Corsten, Alex Gaudino, Oliver Lang, Mischa Daniels, Henry John Morgan, Chris Finan, Ant Nichols, and Paul Ughes incorporated the track in their acts and shows.

[11] The band was also asked to remix songs for several Hungarian artist, including folk-pop band, Holdviola's "Erdő, erdő" and their hit "Bánat utca" which became a club sensation, and for popular Hungarian solo artist, Ákos's second single, "A fénybe nézz" from his 2010 album.

In January 2011 Compact Disco was nominated in three categories ("Best Performance in Electronic Music", "Best New Artist", "Best Song") for the 2011 Fonogram Awards.

On April 24 Compact Disco won the 2011 Antropos.hu Award for "Album of the Year 2010" after a four-month-long popular voting period.

As a bonus, they rearranged their second single from Stereoid, Without You into a classical orchestration, and this was recorded as well upon MR2 Petőfi Rádió's request to be played on air, and this song received heavy airplay.

This song was co-produced by Krisztián Szakos, acclaimed Hungarian, music producer, composer and multi-instrumentalist and was recorded in his Baraka Studio.

Compact Disco invited guest musicians for A Dal and subsequently to ESC 2012 to fill the 6 member quota: Krisztián Szakos, the co-producer of the song and singer Helga Wéber, former lead singer of popular Hungarian pop band, Unisex for primary backing vocals.

Winning the national competition boosted their popularity immensely resulting in the song reaching numerous two on the Hungarian Top 40 chart– where it stayed for 45 weeks – and a significant rise in demand for live performances.

During this intensive summer period, tensions arose between Attila Sándor and the three founding members regarding the future of the band and each individuals role in it.

In December 2012, Compact Disco was invited to Tirana, Albania to perform as a special guest in one of the semi-finals of the national selection show for Eurovision Song Contest 2013.

In sync with their previous musical gags, its instrumental wamp plays an homage to the sound of Depeche Mode.

[30] Since this tour, Compact Disco performs almost exclusively with two additional session musicians, Emese Török on drums and Krisztina Lahucsky on guitars.

[32] In March 2014, Compact Disco performed a one-off, two-hour acoustic show in Budapest's famous concert hall, Palace of Arts as the third guest in the monthly acoustic concert series "MR2 Akusztik+ a MüPából", jointly organized by Palace Of Arts and Petőfi Rádió, recorded and later broadcast by Hungarian Public Television.

The band totally rearranged 20 songs into different genres and had a guest session musicians on double bass, András Csizmás, and had multiple special guests including world famous tuba master, Roland Szentpáli, popular Hungarian singers Magdi Rúzsa, MC Columbo; acclaimed jazz musicians, singer Zita Gereben and guitarist Bálint Gyémánt; and the choir of the Hungarian Army.