Category:Eurodance. Category:Hi-NRG albums. Category:Hi-NRG musicians. Category:Hi-NRG songs. Hi-NRG. Hi-NRG was popular from the early 1980s. By 1988, it had essentially gone out of style in favor of house music. Hi-NRG and electrofunk have influenced the evolution of house music since the late 1980s.[2] Terminology[edit] In the 1980s, "Hi-NRG" referred not just to any high-tempo disco/dance music, but to a specific genre, only somewhat disco-like. Hi-NRG is, however, typified 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.[4][5] There is also often heavy use of the clap sound found on drum machines.
Ian Levine, a Hi-NRG DJ and producer from the UK, defines Hi-NRG as "melodic, straightforward dance music that's not too funky History[edit] Commercial success[edit] References in popular culture[edit] Artists[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]