Hi-NRG (Music - Videos - History)

Hi-NRG (pronounced "high energy") 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.

Hi-NRG is rock-oriented, heavily synthesized and, compared to regular disco music, devoid of "funkiness." Tempo ranges between 120 and 140 beats per minute although typically it is around 127. Lyrics tend to be overtly campy, tongue-in-cheek, sexually suggestive with double entendres but also occasionally sentimental or maudlin.

Rhythm is characterized by an energetic, staccato, sequenced synthesizer sound of octave basslines 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. There is also often heavy use of the clap sound found on drum machines.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi-NRG

Donna Summer & Giorgio Moroder - I Feel Love 12" Extended (1977)

Evelyn Thomas - High Energy (1984)

Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (High Energy) 1984

Patrick Hernandez - Born to Be Alive (1979)

 

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Sylvester & Patrick Cowley - Do you wanna funk

Sylvester & Patrick Cowley - You Make Me Feel (Entrons Dans L'annee 01.01.1979 France)

sylvester - you make me feel (mighty real)

Patrick Joseph Cowley (1950 - 1982 ) was a U.S. disco and hi-NRG music producer.
In the same breath as Giorgio Moroder, Cowley is celebrated as one of the pioneers of electronic dance music.

 

Michael Zager Band - Let's All Chant 1977

 

Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (1984)

Bronski Beat - Why ?

 

Eartha Kitt & Bronski Beat - Cha Cha Heels (1988 Music Video)

New Baccara - Touch Me (1989)