Neurofunk (also known informally as neuro) is a subgenre of drum and bass which emerged from England in the mid-to-late 1990s as a stylistic diversion from techstep.
History
Music critic Simon Reynolds coined the term Neurofunk in his 1998 book Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture.[1] He described it as a stylistic shift from techstep and as “the fun-free culmination of jungle’s strategy of cultural resistance: the eroticization of anxiety”.[1]
Early examples of such music diverging from Techstep, leading to Reynold coining the term Neurofunk, include Ed Rush and Optical‘s Funktion (1997) single for V Recordings, as well as on their first album Wormhole (1998) for Virus Recordings. As with any musical subgenre, there is no clearly defined and agreed explanation as to how Neurofunk might have evolved since Reynolds first coined the term.
References
- ^ a b Reynolds, Simon (1998). Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture. (Picador, ISBN 0-330-35056-0) (“excerpt”. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2021.)