Hi-NRG is uptempo disco or electronic dance music usually featuring synthetic bassline octaves . This list contains some examples of hi-NRG artists and songs. Hi-NRG songs by non-hi NRG artists are also included.
^ MacDonald, Ian (2003). The People's Music . Pimlico . p. 151. ISBN 978-1-8441-3093-1 . Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love', a vocal topline ad-libbed over a simple chord-shifted sequence, inaugurated Hi-NRG, anticipating the galloping bass line of much post-House software-sequenced music
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^ Walters, Barry (6 July 1999). "Enter Planet Love" . The Village Voice . Retrieved 31 March 2015 . Divine's "Native Love," a rowdy hi-NRG anthem previously pillaged by Nitzer Ebb, the Prodigy, even New Order.
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^ Reynolds, Simon (2009). Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984 . New York: Faber & Faber . p. 504. ISBN 978-0-571-21570-6 . 'Relax' tapped into Hi-NRG's remorseless, metronomic precision and orgiastic vibe – the spasming drum roll at the end of the single feels like an amyl nitrite rush.
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^ a b Walters, Barry (20 June 2000). "His beat goes on" . The Advocate . p. 115. ISSN 0001-8996 . As Bronski Beat's falsetto leader, Somerville made gay politics a hot pop topic with such hi-NRG dance floor staples as "Why?" and "Smalltown Boy"
^ Olsen, Eric (15 August 2003). "Bronski Beat: The Age of Consent" . Blogcritics . Retrieved 31 March 2015 .
^ Andrews, Isaac & Nichols 2011 , p. 39.
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^ Knight, Aimee (12 May 2014). "You Think You're a Man: Why Drag Rocks" . Rip It Up . Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2015 .
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^ Rees, Thomas (15 September 2009). "Sugar & Gold "Slice Me Nice" " . XLR8R . Retrieved 31 March 2015 .
^ "Reviews > Dance/Disco > Picks > Flirts – Dancin' Madly Backwards" . Billboard . Vol. 97, no. 20. 18 May 1985. p. 67. ISSN 0006-2510 .
^ Lester, Paul . "Revolutions per minute – The Power of Love" . Uncut . ZTT . Retrieved 31 March 2015 .
^ "Reviews > Dance/Disco > Picks > Fun Fun – Give Me Your Love" . Billboard . Vol. 97, no. 21. 25 May 1985. p. 75. ISSN 0006-2510 .
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^ LeRoy, Dan. "Bronski Beat – Truthdare Doubledare" . AllMusic. Retrieved 25 October 2013 .
^ "Reviews > Dance > Picks > Bronski Beat – Hit That Perfect Beat" . Billboard . Vol. 98, no. 8. 22 February 1986. p. 71. ISSN 0006-2510 .
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^ Chin, Brian (16 November 1985). "Dance Trax" . Billboard . Vol. 97, no. 46. p. 55. ISSN 0006-2510 .
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^ "People Like Us: Passion – PASH 12 46 – Reincarnation (Coming Back For Love)". Blues & Soul . No. 438. 1985. p. 13. This band originally hails from Africa so it's a bit of a surprise to find them performing a commercial slice of Hi-NRG which, compared to other tracks of this ilk, currently doing the rounds, lacks the necessary sparkle.
^ "Let he who is without Sinitta!" . Western Mail . 29 October 2006. Retrieved 31 March 2014 .
^ Smith, Richard (1995). Seduced and Abandoned: Essays on Gay Men and Popular Music . London and New York: Cassell . p. 166. ISBN 0-3043-3343-3 .
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^ "Reviews > Dance/Disco > Recommended > Betty Wright – Sinderella" . Billboard . Vol. 97, no. 8. 23 February 1985. p. 67. ISSN 0006-2510 .
^ Henderson, Alex. "Stock, Aitken & Waterman – Artist Biography" . AllMusic. Retrieved 31 March 2015 . It was in 1986 that Stock, Aitken & Waterman produced Bananarama's smash Hi-NRG remake of Shocking Blue's "Venus."
^ "Bananarama: Pop in the First Degree" . M Magazine . 4 November 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2015 .
^ a b Henderson, Alex. "Claudja Barry – I, Claudja" . AllMusic. Retrieved 31 March 2015 .
^ "Series: 1000 songs everyone must hear – Part two: Heartbreak" . The Observer . The Guardian . 15 March 2009. Retrieved 25 October 2013 . The Communards' hi-NRG version makes it clear that the song is as concerned with sexual satisfaction as it is with romance; perhaps more so.
^ "Reviews > Dance > Picks > Communards – Don't Leave Me This Way" . Billboard . Vol. 98, no. 38. 20 September 1986. p. 73. ISSN 0006-2510 .
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^ Moore, John (20 November 2008). "How I nearly made a gay disco anthem" . The Guardian . Retrieved 31 March 2015 .
^ "100 Greatest Dance Songs" . Slant Magazine . 30 January 2006. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014.
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^ "I Survived The '80s" . The Music . 18 May 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2015 .
^ Watson, Graeme (12 September 2013). "Kim Wilde Talks Pop, Parenthood and PVC" . OutInPerth . Retrieved 31 March 2015 .
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^ Lim, Dennis (26 February 2002). "Your Disco Needs Her" . The Village Voice . Retrieved 31 March 2015 .
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^ Oliver, Nic (23 February 2009). "Erasure – Total Pop! The First 40 Hits" . musicOMH . Retrieved 31 March 2015 .
^ Lee, Darren (27 February 2009). "Erasure – Total Pop! Erasure's First 40 Hits" . The Quietus . Retrieved 31 March 2015 .
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^ Reighley, Kurt B. "Percentages". 10 Percent . No. March–April 1995. Browning Grace Communications. p. 104. a version of R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" that infuses the soul that Abigail's 1992 Hi-NRG version lacked.
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^ Flick, Larry (4 October 1997). "Reviews & Previews > Pop > France Joli – Breakaway" . Billboard . Vol. 109, no. 40. p. 90. ISSN 0006-2510 .
^ Flick, Larry (26 April 1997). "Mary J. Blige Shares Her Soulful, Praiseworthy World" . Billboard . Vol. 109, no. 17. p. 35. ISSN 0006-2510 .
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^ Day, Elizabeth (7 October 2007). "Can anyone save the little girl lost?" . The Observer. The Guardian . Retrieved 2 April 2015 . 'Heaven on Earth', crafted by 'Gimme More' producer Danja, is a hi-NRG Moroder-esque dance track whose lyrics veer more into the territory of generic love song fluff
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^ Empire, Kitty (28 March 2011). "Britney Spears Britney Spears: Femme Fatale – review" . The Observer. The Guardian . Retrieved 26 October 2013 . "I Wanna Go" is all hi-NRG booty calling, with a possible reference to New Order's "Blue Monday" thrown in.
^ Mackay, Emily (3 November 2010). "Rihanna, 'Loud' – Album First Listen" . NME . Retrieved 4 April 2015 .
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^ James, Matt (21 May 2013). "Club 8 : Above the City" . PopMatters . Retrieved 31 March 2015 . "Stop Taking My Time" is a Hi-NRG disco romp à la Nordic neighbour Annie Strand and features, amusingly, a rapping infant.
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^ Haider, Arwa (17 December 2007). "The Best Albums of 2007" . Metro . Retrieved 31 March 2015 . Overpowered (EMI) was funky in all senses – skittering from glacial electro to hi-NRG disco
^ O'Brien, Jon. "Bananarama – Viva" . AllMusic. Retrieved 31 March 2015 . Viva's 11 infectious hi-NRG tracks
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^ Henderson, Alex. "ATC – Planet Pop" . AllMusic. Retrieved 2 April 2015 .
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^ Buskin, Richard (December 2011). "The Buggles 'Video Killed The Radio Star' " . Sound on Sound . Retrieved 31 March 2014 . [Tina Charles]'s Indian-British producer, Biddu, hired both men as session musicians, and his work in the fields of Hi-NRG and electronic disco had a profound influence on [Trevor Horn]'s own production aspirations.
^ "Bronski Beat – Rainbow Nation" . AllMusic. Retrieved 31 March 2015 .
^ a b c d Graham, Bill (14 December 1984). "Critics Roundup 1984" . Hot Press . Retrieved 31 March 2015 . HI-NRG was the club sound that boosted both Evelyn Thomas and the trash dementis of Divine but it also propelled both the Bronski and Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
^ Loftus, Johnny. "Cappella – Best of Cappella [ZYX]" . AllMusic. Retrieved 31 March 2015 .
^ Potts, Diana. "Patrick Cowley – Artist Biography" . AllMusic. Retrieved 31 March 2015 .
^ O'Brien, Jon. "Hazell Dean – Artist Biography" . AllMusic. Retrieved 31 March 2014 .
^ Watson, Graeme (21 December 2012). "Catching Up with Hazel Dean" . OutInPerth . Retrieved 31 March 2015 .
^ Pareles, Jon (21 February 1990). "Reviews/Pop; Of Broken Hearts and a Broken World" . The New York Times . Retrieved 31 March 2015 . Many of Erasure's songs exemplify the post-disco style called hi-N.R.G. -fast and openly artificial, with synthesized riffs bouncing and ticking in every register.
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^ Larkin, Colin (2011). "Nomi, Klaus". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press . ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8 . [Klaus Nomi] worked with Man Parrish, the New York electro and hi-NRG producer, on his self-titled debut album.
^ Zuberi, Nabeel (2001). Sounds English: Transnational Popular Music . Urbana and Chicago : University of Illinois Press . p. 74 . ISBN 0-252-02620-9 . Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe use electronic instruments and work within and across dance-floor genres such as house, Hi-NRG, techno, and many other subgenres.
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