Electronic-music artists were messing about with accelerated tempos long before the rave era—really, who could resist the urge to twist a drum machine’s tempo knob as far as it could go? Hi-NRG was birthed in the late ’70s by producers such as Bobby Orlando and Patrick Cowley, and popularized by singers like Sylvester and Divine; later examples of the genre have an often-deserved reputation for pop overload. This 1983 cut from Lisa R. Fredenthal-Lee is hi-NRG at its sugar-rush giddiest.