Hi-NRG

alternative hi-NRG

1. uncountableentertainmentA style of uptempo disco or electronic dance music that originated in the United States and United Kingdom in the late 1970s.

   During the late 1980s Italo began fading away and some groups moved into the Hi-NRG genre, which combined high-paced Italo and house.

   2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, Dance Music

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   As a regular visitor to New York's Saint and resident at the newly opened Heaven in London, Levine also pioneered hi-NRG – the sound of gay dancefloors worldwide that was later co-opted by Stock, Aitken & Waterman and sold on as pre-teen pop.

   2010, Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, The Record Players: DJ Revolutionaries, Black Cat, →ISBN, page 81

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of Hi-NRG.