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Also known as high energy, High NRG

Hi-NRG (pronounced "high energy") is a genre of uptempo disco or electronic dance music that originated during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Key facts

Music genre.name
Hi-NRG
Music genre.stylistic_origins
Electronic disco
Music genre.cultural_origins
The late 1970s and the early 1980s in the United Kingdom and the United States
Music genre.instruments
Synthesizer drum machine electronic keyboards music sequencer electronic drums
Music genre.derivatives
Eurobeat Eurodance Italo disco techno hard house trance hard NRG new beat
Music genre.regional_scenes
London Montreal New York San Francisco
Music genre.other_topics
List of artists and songs

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Hi-NRG (pronounced "high energy") is a genre of uptempo disco or electronic dance music that originated during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

As a music genre, typified by its 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.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hi-NRG” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.