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Brainfeeder 2dopeboyz RCRD LBL | Free MP3 Downloads ONE O'CLOCK 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. Oh, and if you're interested in a little more info, check out this thing I wrote for the Mashit blog a couple years ago, on the 25th anniversary of Hi-NRG legend Patrick Cowley's death. Chrissy Murderbot's Year of Mixtapes Week 23: Hi-NRG Evelyn Thomas; High Energy (Record Shack Record)Romance f.