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Now That's What I Call Music NOW Eighties Dancefloor Hi-NRG & Pop - Green & Blue Vinyl - Sealed UK 2-LP vinyl set

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NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL MUSIC NOW Eighties Dancefloor Hi-NRG & Pop (2023 UK/EU limited edition 30-track double album 2-LP pressed on Green & Blue Vinyl, an essential collection of tracks representing the best in HI-NRG and POP, from the incredible diversity that was all part of the 1980s Dance music scene. Single pocket picture sleeve, factory sealed. Recommended)

TRACKLISTING AND EXTRA INFORMATION
Originating in U.S. gay clubs in the late 1970s and early 1980s, this up-tempo Disco, often with synth-driven electronic instrumentation and characterised by a pulsating rhythm and it’s unrelenting beat became hugely popular in the charts of the mid-80s. The then new production and writing team of Stock, Aitken and Waterman, produced their first #1 - for Dead Or Alive with ‘You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)’, a huge hit for Hazell Dean with ‘Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go)’, and crucially ‘You Think You’re A Man’ for Divine – which, courtesy of a truly fabulous ‘Top Of The Pops’ appearance, brought this underground genre in to the living-rooms of ‘80s Britain. DJ and producer Ian Levine created a huge anthem with Evelyn Thomas’ ‘High Energy’ and popularised hot U.S. club tracks through his Record Shack label, and Jimmy Somerville enjoyed massive chart success as part of Bronski Beat, who with Marc Almond covered ‘I Feel Love’, the 1977 Donna Summer classic, often cited as the influence and basis for ‘Hi-NRG’, and as the lead singer of The Communards, who had the best-selling single in 1986 with their energised cover of the Disco standard ‘Don’t Leave Me This Way’.

Essential Hi-NRG club tracks are included from Barbara Pennington, Miquel Brown, and Sheryl Lee Ralph. Established club hitmakers Boys Town Gang, Man 2 Man and The Weather Girls all enjoyed huge crossover chart hits. By the late ‘80s, Stock, Aitken & Waterman produced classics of the genre for Bananarama and Donna Summer, whilst using components of Hi-NRG to create pure Pop smashes for Kylie Minogue and Mel & Kim.

Hi-NRG influenced Pop consistently produced some of the decades’ biggest Dance tracks including ‘Relax’ from Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Bananarama’s ‘Venus’, the sublime ‘Voyage Voyage’ from Desireless, London Boys’ ‘Requiem’, ‘Tell It To My Heart’ by Taylor Dayne, and Sinitta’s ‘So Macho’ – plus established artists enjoyed huge floor-filling hits including ‘Jump (For My Love)’ from The Pointer Sisters, Kim Wilde with ‘You Keep Me Hangin On’, and the incredible Pet Shop Boys produced ‘Losing My Mind’ by Liza Minnelli, whilst a fusion of styles created irrepressible Pop-Dance smashes from Malcolm McLaren, Laura Branigan, Sabrina and Maria Vidal.

The influence of Disco was pervasive across many genres during the 1980s – but Disco itself was far from over. It evolved throughout the decade, often in conjunction with other genres, in particular Electronic Dance Music. So stay tuned, as the next journey back to the 80s Dancefloor is all about Disco and Electro!

Artist - Now That's What I Call Music (click link for complete listing)
Title - NOW Eighties Dancefloor Hi-NRG & Pop (click link for more of the same title)
Year of Release - 2023
Format - 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album)
Record Label - Sony Music EMI
Catalogue No - LPDF01 (click link for more)
Country of Origin - United Kingdom (UK)
Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info - Sealed, Picture Sleeve
Barcode - 196588270611
Condition - Factory sealed from new. This item is unplayed. Click here for more info.
RareVinyl.com Ref No - N.W2LNO821604
Alternative Names - Now 50,Now 51,Now 52,Now 53.
Related Artists - The History Of Rock, The Secret Policeman's Ball, Various-Opera.

GENRES
POP.

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