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DESCRIPTION The name "Hi-NRG" comes from the Evelyn Thomas 's Disco hit, "High Energy", produced by Ian Levine . Hi-NRG is typified by an energetic Staccato Sequenced Synthesizer sound where the bass often takes the place of the Hi-hat . There is often heavy use of the clap sound found on Drum Machines . During 1984 the music began to crossover into the mainstream pop charts in the United Kingdom , largely due to the success of the Record Shack Record Label . Record Shack also enjoyed chart success with tracks by Break Machine and an unlikely comeback single by Eartha Kitt ("Where Is My Man", 1984). Stock Aitken Waterman were Hi-NRG producers at the start of their career, working with Divine and Hazell Dean, and producing the most successful Hi-NRG track, Dead Or Alive 's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)", which reached number one in the UK. Hi-NRG was largely superseded by House Music but still enjoys an underground following, usually in the form of Hi-NRG versions of mainstream pop hits. Many of the Hi-NRG tracks produced in Europe at the time qualify doubly as examples of Italo Disco (''i''.''e''., Bobby Orlando , Taffy , Magazine 60 , Divine , Roni Griffith, The Flirts , Lime , ''etc''.) and Discofox (''i''.''e''. Linda Jo Rizzo , Lian Ross , Modern Talking , Fancy , Lift Up , Blue System , Bad Boys Blue .) ASSOCIATION The style is often associated with Gay Promiscuity , thus Miquel Brown 's " So Many Men, So Little Time " and Hazell Dean 's "Searchin' (I Gotta Find a Man)", whilst typically sung by women, are actually aimed at gay men. It is also associated with Camp excess and Gender Bending by artists such as Divine and Pete Burns . ARTISTS
RECORDS All of these records reached the Hi-NRG charts in the late 1980s:
Number Ones These records reached Number One in the Hi-NRG charts compiled by James Hamilton and Alan Jones in Record Mirror
Cover Versions in the Hi-NRG style
RECORD LABELS Record labels that most frequently appeared in Record Mirror 's Hi-NRG chart are as follows:
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