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Hi-NRG
Hi-NRG (High Energy) is a type of high-speed Electronic dance music which was popular in nightclubs in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Terminology, origins, past and presentHi-NRG Disco started in 1976 in the United States as an underground genre, faster and more electronic than mainstream disco. The first commercial hit of the genre was Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" which was produced in Germany by Italian pioneer of electronic music Giorgio Moroder. The initial use of the title was in 1977 when Summer was interviewed about her single "I Feel Love," she said that "this song became a hit because it has a High Energy Vibe" (the interview still shows occasionally on VH1 today). After that interview, this electronic form of American Disco took the nickname "Hi-NRG Disco". In Europe, a similar music style (with less use of vocals) took the nickname "Space Disco". From 1979 to 1983, Hi-NRG was the only music style that remained under the "disco" flag in the United States. It became popular, especially among gay males in coastal cities such as New York City and San Francisco. During this period, most Hi-NRG disco tracks were produced in Canada and France. Typical examples of artists or singers of early 1980s American Hi-NRG disco include Amanda Lear, France Joli, Sylvester James, Divine, and the Weather Girls. Bobby Orlando was behind many Hi-HRG hits around this time, either as a producer or composer. In the same period, a non-homosexual orientated Hi-NRG disco-like music style emerged in Canada, which Europeans called Canadian Disco. The most popular groups of this style are Trans-X and Lime. In Europe, Canadian Disco productions became an active part of the Italo Disco scene (later labelled Euro disco). The DJ/Producer Patrick Cowley made some later and less disco-sounding American Hi-NRG productions popular at the "The End Up" club in San Francisco in 1982. Those productions didn't have a specific name at the time, but came to form the bridge between 1970s Hi-NRG Disco and 1980s Hi-NRG music. UK music magazine Record Mirror championed the gay underground sound and published a weekly Hi-NRG Chart from 1983. By 1984, the new-style Hi-NRG was becoming increasingly popular and mainstream with hits in the UK Charts such as Hazell Dean's "Searching (I Got To Find A Man)"and Evelyn Thomas's "High Energy". This form of "Hi-NRG", is typified by an energetic staccato sequenced synthesizer sound, where the bass often takes the place of the hi-hat (alternating a more resonant note with a dampened note to signify the tempo of the record). There is also often heavy use of the clap sound found on drum machines. Hi-NRG producers popular in the charts at this time were Ian Levine and trio Stock Aitken Waterman, both of whom worked with many different artists. Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" became the most successful Hi-NRG single ever. The song reached number one on the UK Singles chart and the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S.A. Hi-NRG music was largely superseded by House music by 1990 but still enjoys an underground following, usually in the form of Hi-NRG versions of mainstream pop hits. Almighty Records is a recording label which releases many remixed versions of mainstream pop hits in Hi-NRG format, targeting a mainly gay market. During the mid to late 1990s, the French term (Nu-NRG) was used in the UK to describe a new, hard dance music style which evolved during the early 2000s, also called Hard NRG or Scouse house. Those UK Nu-NRG/Hard NRG hits, which many UK fans call simply "NRG". Many fans feel that this style has nothing to do with older Hi-NRG music styles, nor with Nu-NRG as it is used by French fans. Artists
Number OnesThese records reached Number One in the Hi-NRG charts compiled by James Hamilton and Alan Jones in Record Mirror
Cover Versions in the Hi-NRG style
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