My year of mixtapes. This week I've got a mixtape of one of my personal fave genres: Hi-NRG. This was a style of disco that developed in the late 1970s-early 1980s in San Francisco, New York City, Fire Island, and London. Primarily a gay white thing, Hi-NRG predicted rave culture in a lot of ways: it was a faster, harder, more synth-driven form of disco, tailor-made to the club drugs in fashion at the gay discos where it developed: cocaine, LSD, amphetamines, poppers, quaaludes, ecstasy, and really just about anything else (but those were the biggies). As San Fran New York Hi-NRG DJ / remixer Casey Jones said in David Diebold's book Tribal Rites, “It was a druggy sound. It was an ‘up’ sound. The whole scene in San Francisco at the time pretty much revolved around ‘up’ drugs. The entire gay disco scene has in fact, since the mid to late seventies, been influenced by music which would complement their drug highs.”
Chrissy Murderbot's Year of Mixtapes Week 23: Hi-NRG. BOULE à FACETTES. ONE O'CLOCK. Youtube to MP3. Google² 18 with a chance of reign. IllRoots. PMA | Pretty Much Amazing: Music Blog, New Music, MP3s, Album Reviews, Videos, Contests. RCRD LBL | Free MP3 Downloads. EARMILK.COM.