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| Neurofunk | |
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| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | Late 1990s, United Kingdom |
| Derivative forms | Glitch hop |
| Fusion genres | |
| Neurohop | |
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Neurofunk (also known informally asneuro) is a subgenre ofdrum and bass which emerged fromEngland in the mid-to-late 1990s as a stylistic diversion fromtechstep.
Music criticSimon Reynolds coined the term Neurofunk in his 1998 bookEnergy 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, includeEd Rush andOptical'sFunktion (1997) single forV Recordings,[2] as well as on their first albumWormhole (1998) for Virus Recordings.[3]. 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.