
Hi-NRG
Genre of uptempo disco or electronic dance music
Hi-NRG (pronounced "high energy")[1] is a genre of uptempo disco or electronic dance music (EDM) that originated in the United States during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
As a music genre, typified by a fast tempo, staccato hi-hat rhythms (and the four-on-the-floor pattern), reverberated "intense" vocals and "pulsating" octave basslines, it was particularly influential on the disco scene. Its earliest association was with Italo disco.
Characteristics[edit]
Rock-oriented,[2] heavily synthesized and, compared to regular disco music, devoid of "funkiness."[2] Tempo ranges between 120 and 140 beats per minute[3] although typically it is around 127.[4] Lyrics tend to be overtly campy, tongue-in-cheek, sexually suggestive with double entendres[5] but also occasionally sentimental or maudlin.[6] Rhythm is characterized by an energetic, staccato, sequenced synthesizer sound of octavebasslines or/and 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.[7][8] There is also often heavy use of the clap sound found on drum machines.
One form of hi-NRG, as performed by Megatone Records artists and Ian Levine, is any uptempo disco and dance music, whether containing octave basslines or not, that often features covers of "classic" Motown hits (Boys Town Gang) and torch songs, is often "theatrical" in performance, featuring female (and male) musicians with facetious diva[9] personas and male musicians sometimes in "drag" (Sylvester, Divine), cabarets/musical theater (Vicki Sue Robinson, Sharon Redd). This style, that Stock Aitken Waterman were influenced by,[10] had a large cult following among LGBT club-goers in the 1980s, especially San Franciscan black and white gay men.[9]
A second form, a precursor of Italian/Japanese "Eurobeat", with influences on techno[11] and early Chicago house, primarily focuses on its characteristic sequenced "octave-jumping basslines" above anything else and in this form hi-NRG managed to surge into mainstream with Stacey Q, Kim Wilde, and Laura Branigan. The octave basslines are also found in electroclash and in both cases may be traced to synthpop[12] and even further back to Giorgio Moroder ("I Feel Love").[13]
Terminology[edit]
Donna Summer was interviewed about her single "I Feel Love", which was a mostly electronic, relatively high-tempo Euro disco song without a strong funk component. In the interview, she said "this song became a hit because it has a high-energy vibe".[14] Following that interview, the description "high-energy" was increasingly applied to high-tempo disco music, especially songs dominated by electronic timbres.[14] The tempo threshold for high-energy disco was around 130 to 140 BPM. In the 1980s, the term "high-energy" was stylized as "hi-NRG". Eurobeat, dance-pop and freestyle artists such as Shannon, Stock Aitken & Waterman, Taylor Dayne, Freeez or Michael Sembello were also labeled as "hi-NRG" when sold in the United States.
In the 1980s, "hi-NRG" referred not just to any high-tempo disco/dance music, but to a specific genre, only somewhat disco-like.
Ian Levine, a hi-NRG DJ, the in-house DJ at Heaven Nightclub in its early years and subsequently a record producer, defines hi-NRG as "melodic, straightforward dance music that's not too funky."[15] Music journalist Simon Reynolds adds "The nonfunkiness was crucial. Slamming rather than swinging, hi-NRG's white European feel was accentuated by butt-bumping bass twangs at the end of each bar."[15]
History[edit]
High-tempo disco music dates back to the mid-1970s. Early examples include several British disco songs by Biddu and Tina Charles in 1976 and Patrick Hernandez ("Born to Be Alive") in 1979.[16][17]
Examples of high energy disco acts include Claudja Barry, Miquel Brown, Amanda Lear, France Joli, Sylvester, Divine, Amii Stewart, The Pointer Sisters, Lime, Lisa, and The Weather Girls. San Francisco-based Patrick Cowley and New York producer and composer Bobby Orlando were behind a number of high energy hits in this period. Orlando acts include Divine, The Flirts, and Claudja Barry.
In the early 1980s, high energy music found moderate mainstream popularity in Europe, while opposing both Euro disco and electro on the dance scene and it became mainstream in the gay community in the United States. Hi-NRG was totally reliant on technology and was all about "unfeasibly athletic dancing, bionic sex, and superhuman stamina".[18] Freedom seemed to be embodied by a literal escape from human embodiment and synchrony with technology. However, this was generally limited to the bodies of men as evidenced by songs titled, "Menergy", and "So Many Men, So Little Time". Producers such as Bobby Orlando and Patrick Cowley created "an aural fantasy of a futuristic club populated entirely by Tom of Finland studs."[18]
During the same period, a genre of music styled as "hi-NRG" (EDM) became popular in Canada and the UK. The most popular groups of this style are Trans-X and Lime. The genre is closely related to space disco. Bands include Koto, Laserdance, and Cerrone. The hi-NRG sound also influenced techno and house music.
Commercial success[edit]
In 1983 in the UK, music magazine Record Mirror began publishing a weekly hi-NRG Chart. Hi-NRG entered the mainstream with hits in the UK pop and dance charts (and the US dance charts), such as Hazell Dean's "Searchin' (I Gotta Find a Man)" and Evelyn Thomas's "High Energy".[19][20]
In the mid-1980s, hi-NRG producers in the dance and pop charts included Levine and SAW, both of whom worked with many different artists. Stock Aitken Waterman had two of the most successful hi-NRG singles ever with their productions of Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" (UK #1, CAN #1, & US #11 in 1985) and Bananarama's "Venus" (US #1, CAN #1, & UK #8 in 1986).[21] They also brought the genre full circle, in a sense, by writing and producing Donna Summer's 1989 hit "This Time I Know It's for Real" (UK #3, CAN #7 and US #7).
American music magazine Dance Music Report published hi-NRG charts and related industry news in the mid to late 1980s as the genre reached its peak.[22] By 1990, however, techno and rave had superseded hi-NRG in popularity in many danceclubs. Despite this, hi-NRG music is still being produced and played in various forms, including many remixed versions of mainstream pop hits, some with re-recorded vocals. Later in the 1990s, nu-NRG music, a fusion of hi-NRG and trance, was born.[23]
Artists[edit]
Main article: List of hi-NRG artists and songs
References[edit]
- ^"Explore music...Genre: Hi-NRG". AllMusic. Retrieved July 20, 2009.
- ^ abGreene, Doyle (March 10, 2014). [books.google.com/books?id=FCQXAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA106 The Rock Cover Song: Culture, History, Politics]. McFarland. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
- ^Depta, Klaus (December 10, 2015). Rock- und Popmusik als Chance: Impulse für die praktische Theologie. p.284. Springer-Verlag. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
- ^Buckland, Fiona (June 1, 2010). Impossible Dance: Club Culture and Queer World-Making. p.139. Wesleyan University Press. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
- ^e.g. lyrics of Stacey Q "We Connect" (W. Wilcox), Atlantic Records, 1986. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
- ^Loza, Susana Ilma (2004). Global Rhetoric, Transnational Markets: The (post)modern Trajectories of Electronic Dance Music. Page ix. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
- ^Top 10 Electronic Music Genres you probably haven't heard of. | Boy in a Band. Retrieved July 2, 2010
- ^Fritz, Jimi (1999). Rave Culture: An Insider's Overview: "Hi-NRG is an early evolution of new-style disco. Simple, fast, danceable early house where the bass often takes the place of the high hat". Publisher: SmallFry Press, p. 94. ISBN 0-9685721-0-3
- ^ abButler, Mark J. Electronica, Dance and Club Music p.156. Routledge, July 5, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
- ^Brewster, Bill & Broughton, Frank (April 12, 2011). The Record Players: DJ Revolutionaries. Page 81. Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
- ^AllMusic about Hi-NRG influence on techno music: "techno expanded with the mechanical beats of Hi-NRG."
- ^Nick Collins, Nicholas Collins, Margaret Schedel, Scott Wilson (May 9, 2013). Electronic Music. Page 95. Cambridge University Press. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
- ^Ahlers, Michael; Jacke, Christoph (2017). Perspectives on German Popular Music. London & New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Ltd. p. 81. ISBN .
- ^ abJones, Alan and Kantonen, Jussi (1999) Saturday Night Forever: The Story of Disco. Chicago, Illinois: A Cappella Books. ISBN 1-55652-411-0.
- ^ abReynolds, Simon (2006). Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984. p. 380. ISBN .
- ^I Love to Love: Tina Charles at AllMusic
- ^Dance Little Lady: Tina Charles at AllMusic
- ^ abShapiro, Peter, and Iara Lee. Modulations: a History of Electronic Music: Throbbing Words on Sound. Caipirinha Productions, 2000.
- ^"Hazell Dean – Full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Official Charts Company. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
- ^"Evelyn Thomas – Full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Official Charts Company. Retrieved January 19, 2016.
- ^AllMusic – Stock Aitken Waterman
- ^"USA Hi-NRG chart, December 1986 *20 years ago*". DiscoMusic.com. Archived from the original on July 3, 2012.
- ^Electronic Music Styles – NU NRG TRANCEArchived March 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. July 2, 2010.
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(The Best Part Of) Breakin' Up
Roni Griffith
1981
(They Call Me) The Queen Of Fools
Jessica Williams
1983
A Desert Place
Twins
1982
A Little Love (What's Going On)
Ceejay
1988
Addicted To The Night
Lipps, Inc.
1983
Agent 406
Lime
1981
Alive With Love
Cut Glass
1980
Always Doesn't Mean Forever
Hazell Dean
1987
Always On My Mind
Pet Shop Boys
1987
Always Something There To Remind Me
Viola Wills
1980
And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going
Koffie
1983
Angel Eyes
Lime
1983
Babe, We're Gonna Love Tonight
Lime
1982
Back In My Arms (Once Again)
Hazell Dean
1984
Baila Bolero
Fun Fun
1987
Band Of Gold
Sylvester
1983
Believe In The Beat
Carol Lynn Townes
1984
Bit By Bit
Stephanie Mills
1985
Blue Monday
New Order
1983
Body Rock
Maria Vidal
1984
Boom Boom (Let's Go Back To My Room)
Paul Lekakis
1987
Brand New Lover
Dead Or Alive
1986
Break Me
Charade featuring Norma Lewis
1984
Can We Try Again
Technique
1983
Can't Live Without Your Love
Suzy
1986
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Boystown Gang
1982
Catch Me (I'm Falling In Love)
Marsha Raven
1983
Caught In The Act
Earlene Bentley
1984
Cherchez Pas
Madleen Kane
1980
Chains Of Love
Erasure
1988
Choir Practice
Lipps, Inc.
1983
Color My Love
Fun Fun
1984
Come And Get Your Love
Lime
1982
Dance, It's My Life
Midnight Powers
1981
Dance Your Love Away
Michael Prince
1986
Dance
Night Force
1981
Dancin' The Night Away
Voggue
1981
Dangerous
Natalie Cole
1985
Die Hard Lover
Loverde
1982
Disco Kicks
Boystown Gang
1981
Do Ya Wanna Funk
Patrick Cowley featuring Sylvester
1982
Doctor's Orders
Meagan
1984
Don't Leave Me This Way
Communards
1986
Don't Leave Me This Way
Jeanie Tracy
1985
Don't Stop The Train
Phyllis Nelson
1981
Don't Stop
Sylvester
1982
Down, Down Romeo
Meccano
1986
Earth Can Be Just Like Heaven
Two Tons O' Fun
1980
Earthquake
The Flirtations
1983
Eat You Up
Angie Gold
1985
Ending Up On A High
Seventh Avenue
1985
Evergreen
Hazell Dean
1984
Feels Like I'm In Love
Kelly Marie
1980
Fire In My Heart
Madleen Kane
1981
Flashdance… What A Feeling
Irene Cara
1983
Give Me A Break
Vivien Vee
1980
Give Me Your Love
Fun Fun
1985
Gloria
Laura Branigan
1982
Good-Bye Bad Times
Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder
1985
Got To Get To You
Charade
1983
Gotcha Where I Want Ya
Stereo Fun Inc.
1983
Guilty
Lime
1983
Heartache
Pepsi and Shirlie
1987
Heartbeat
Vivien Vee
1987
Hearts On Fire
Hush
1983
Hearts On Fire
Sam Harris
1985
Heatstroke
Man Parrish
1982
Heaven Above Me
Frankie Valli
1980
Helpless
Jackie Moore
1980
High Energy
Evelyn Thomas
1984
High On Your Love
Debbie Jacobs
1980
Hit N' Run Lover
Carol Jiani
1981
Hit That Perfect Beat
Bronski Beat
1986
Hold On To My Love
Jimmy Ruffin
1981
Hot Hot (Give It All You Got)
Debbie Jacobs
1980
Hot Leather
Passengers
1980
I Am What I Am
Gloria Gaynor
1983
I Believe In Dreams
Jackie Rawe
1984
I Can Fly
Rainey
1985
I Can Hear Your Heartbeat
Chris Rea
1983
I Cry For You
Shy Rose
1987
I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That
Elton John
1988
I Don't Want To Talk About It
Pamala Stanley
1983
I Got The Feeling
Two Tons O' Fun
1980
I Hear Thunder
Seventh Avenue
1984
I Love Men
Eartha Kitt
1984
I Love My Radio (Midnight Radio)
Taffy
1986
I Need A Man In My Life
Katie Kissoon
1984
I Only Wanna Be With You
Samantha Fox
1989
I Wanna Take You Home
Patrick Cowley
1981
I Want You
Rofo
1984
I'm Alive (Let's Move On)
American Fade
1983
I'm Living My Own Life
Earlene Bentley
1984
I'm Not In Love/Girl You're In Love
Scherrie Payne
1982
I'm On Fire
Kelly Marie
1984
If You Could Read My Mind
Viola Wills
1980
In The Evening
Sheryl Lee Ralph
1984
In The Name Of Love
Sharon Redd
1982
Inside Out
Peter Griffin
1981
Invitation
Life Force
1984
It's A Sin
Pet Shop Boys
1987
It's Raining Men
The Weather Girls
1982
Jackie
Blue Zone U.K.
1988
Jive Into The Night
Green Olives
1988
Jump Shout
Lisa
1981
Jump (For My Love)
Pointer Sisters
1984
Just A Mirage
Jellybean featuring Adele Bertei
1987
Just Be Yourself
Nightlife Unlimited
1980
Keep On Talkin'
Carrie LaPorte
1980
Lay All Your Love On Me
ABBA
1980
Left To My Own Devices
Pet Shop Boys
1988
Let It Loose
Chris Rea
1983
Let Me Feel It
Samantha Gilles
1984
Let's Hang On
Salazar
1980
Lift Off
Patrick Cowley
1981
Living On Video
Trans-X
1983
Love & Devotion
Michael Bow
1986
Love Pains (Remix)
Yvonne Elliman
1982
Love Taker
Stefano Pulga
1983
Love Trap
Astaire
1984
Love Is In You
Nightlife Unlimited
1980
Lover Come Back To Me
Dead Or Alive
1985
Lover To Lover
Joe Yellow
1983
Lovin' Is Really My Game
Sylvester
1984
Magnifique
Magnifique
1981
Male Stripper
Man 2 Man meet Man Parrish
1986
Manhattan Shuffle
Area Code (212)
1980
Masterpiece
Gazebo
1982
Maybe This Time
Norma Lewis
1983
Megatron Man
Patrick Cowley
1981
Memory
Menage
1983
Menergy
Patrick Cowley
1981
Mercy
Carol Jiani
1981
Mind Over Matter
E.G. Daily
1987
My Forbidden Lover
Tapps
1983
My Heart Goes Bang
Dead Or Alive
1985
Native Love (Step By Step)
Divine
1982
Never Can Say Goodbye
Communards
1987
Never Gonna Give You Up
Rick Astley
1987
Never Ending Story
Limahl
1985
New Attitude
Pattie LaBelle
1985
No Regrets
Quartzlock
1988
Nobody's Stopping You
Peter Batah
1981
On And On And On
ABBA
1980
One Two Three (Counting On Love)
Peter Jacques Band
1980
Only The Strong Survive
Precious Wilson
1987
Only You
Virgin
1989
Over And Over And Over
Michelle Goulet
1988
Over My Head
Toni Basil
1983
Party Boy
Sean Heyden
1985
Party
Julius Brown
1983
Passion
The Flirts
1982
Pistol In My Pocket
Lana Pellay
1986
Playing For Time
Madleen Kane
1982
Que Sera Mi Vida
Gibson Brothers
1980
Rain
Goombay Dance Band
1980
Reach Out
Dynamic 7
1983
Reflex Action
Louise Thomas
1986
Remember Me/Ain't No Mountain High Enough Suite
Boystown Gang
1981
Remember
Gino Soccio
1982
Right On Target
Paul Parker
1982
Rocket To Your Heart
Lisa
1983
Roll
Macho
1980
Run To Me
Tracie Spencer
1986
Runaway
Tapps
1984
Safe In The Arms Of Love
Shooting Party
1988
Save The Last Dance For Me
Free Expression
1981
Savin' Myself
Eria Fachin
1987
Say It Again
Santana
1985
Searchin' (I Gotta Find A Man)
Hazell Dean
1983
Seclusion
Shawn Benson
1986
Send Me An Angel '89
Real Life
1989
Set Me Free
The Three Degrees
1980
Sex
Sylvester
1985
She Has A Way
Bobby "O"
1982
She Works Hard For The Money
Donna Summer
1983
Shoot Your Best Shot
Linda Clifford
1980
Shot In The Night
Paul Parker
1983
Sinderella
Betty Wright
1985
Solitaire
Laura Branigan
1983
So Many Men, So Little Time
Miquel Brown
1983
Something In My House
Dead Or Alive
1987
Soul
Frankie Valli
1980
Stay With Me
India
1983
Step By Step
Peter Griffin
1981
Stormy Weather
Viola Wills
1982
Take A Chance (On Me)
Waterfront Home
1983
Take It Slowly
Nancy Martinez
1983
Take Me To Heaven
Sylvester
1985
Take Off (Satisfaction Guaranteed)
Harlow
1980
Tears Run Rings
Marc Almond
1988
That's Love, That It Is
Blancmange
1984
The Beach
New Order
1983
The Big Hurt
Bear Essence starring Marianna
1984
The Boys Come To Town
Earlene Bentley
1983
The Dream (Hold On To Your Dream)
Irene Cara
1983
The Girls Are Back In Town
Risque
1982
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter
Bonnie Bianco
1987
The Heart To Break The Heart
France Joli
1980
The Hills Of Katmandu
Tantra
1980
The Love I Lost
Seventh Avenue
1988
The Night
Azul Y Negro
1982
The Power Of Love
Astaire
1984
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
Quantize
1988
The Two Of Us
Claudja Barry & Ronnie Jones
1982
The Visitors
ABBA
1981
These Memories
Oh Romeo
1983
Thief Of Hearts
Melissa Manchester
1984
This Time I Know It's For Real
Donna Summer
1989
To Sir With Love
Vicki Sue Robinson
1983
Together Forever
Rick Astley
1988
Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Koffie
1985
Touch Me In The Morning
Marlena Shaw
1985
Together In Electric Dream
Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder
1984
Trippin' On The Moon
Cerrone
1981
Two Of Hearts
Stacey Q
1986
Two Tribes
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
1984
Underwater
Harry Thumann
1980
Unexpected Lovers
Lime
1985
Up On The Roof
Viola Wills
1980
Venus
Bananarama
1986
Vertigo/Relight My Fire
Dan Hartman
1979
We Connect
Stacey Q
1986
What A Night
Terry Iten
1986
Whatever I Do
Hazell Dean
1984
When The Rain Begins To Fall
Jermaine Jackson/Pia Zadora
1985
When Will I See You Again
Magda Layna
1983
When You Walk In The Room
Ramming Speed
1984
Where Is My Man
Eartha Kitt
1983
Who's Leaving Who
Hazell Dean
1988
Who's Your Boyfriend?
Eric
1984
Why Is It So Hard?
Talk Talk
1983
Why?
Bronski Beat
1984
Wind Beneath My Wings
Menage
1985
Wishbone
Tantra
1980
Without Your Love
Cut Glass
1980
Work Me Over
Claudja Barry
1982
You Can
Madleen Kane
1981
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Kim Wilde
1986
You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
Dead Or Alive
1985
You Turned My Bitter Into Sweet
Linda Lewis
1984
You're Lookin' Hot Tonight
Barry Manilow
1984
You're My Magician
Lime
1981
You're The One
Boystown Gang
1981
You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling
Quantize
1989
Your Love
Lime
1981
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