Neurofunk can have a tendency to blur into an overwhelming clusterfuck at times.
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I just wanted to write music that I liked, but not go by the typical conventions of neurofunk.
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His first release with the label came in 2012, shortly after his 18th birthday, but he's been allowed time and space to develop both his sound and the mental fortitude it requires to last a lifetime blasting the aneurysm-inducing sonics associated with the neurofunk style.
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I had to learn to love aggrotech, dubstep and neurofunk because to shun raggacore or handbag house or cybergrind would be like a restaurant reviewer not being into aubergines or star anise, or an art critic 'not quite getting the fuss' about oil paintings or sculpture.
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Over on the heavier side of things, Enei, Mefjus, and precocious young talent Emperor have been leading the charge for neurofunk—a newfangled take on peak-time banger drum and bass that blitzes at breakneck pace, often rushing forward at around 170bpm, with the roaring bassline chuggery of dubstep, the cold tones of techno, lightning production techniques, and sharp sound design.
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Why has 2015 been such a strong year for neurofunk? , UKF, 22 December 2015. Retrieved on 16 March 2016.DnB Portal.
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Kécskefalvi, László. Eatbrain Premier Neurofunk, DJ Mag Volume I. issue 9, page 29-31., 52., Budapest, 2013 November. Retrieved 15 March 2016.
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Eatbrain – Premier Neurofunk, Impulse Creator25 November 2013. Retrieved on 17 March 2016.Preyer, György. Jade the brain-eater – interview, SoundHead, Budapest, 12 August 2013.
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Billain (born Adis Kutkut) is a Bosnian drum and bass producer, DJ and sound designer from Sarajevo. He is mostly known for his distinctive style within the neurofunk genre and his collaborations with Frenkie and Edo Maajka.
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Some of the original techstep producers eventually developed the neurofunk style. Early pioneers include Trace, Ed Rush & Optical, Teebee, Dom & Roland and Doc Scott. Moving Shadow and Metalheadz were important labels in the development of the style.
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EBK has performed all over the United Kingdom and Europe, Thailand and India among other countries. In London, EBK is resident at club night Renegade Hardware. His DJ sets cover a broad spectrum of styles often embracing elements including neurofunk, minimal, rolling and techno.
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Genghis Danger is an extended play by British dubstep and drum and bass producer Rusko. It was released by Canadian record label Deadbeats on 18 November 2019. It contains four songs, including dubstep tracks "Go Up", "One Family", and "Bumbaclat" as well as the neurofunk song "Oh My God".
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Since 2004, the radio station began broadcasting via satellite to the European territory of Russia. In 2018 more genres has been added to the station including Neurofunk, Techtonik, 2-Step, Trance Hits, Pop Hits, Euro Dance, Liquid Funk, House Classics, Progressive, Electro, Synthwave, Moombahton, Jungle, Hypnotic, Technopop, Disco/Funk, Drum 'n' Bass Hits.
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Throughout the decade, Reynolds also contributed a series of essays on post-rave trends in UK dance music, covering jungle, drum 'n' bass, hardstep, neurofunk and 2-step garage. These essays culminated in his theorizing of the "hardcore continuum": a diverse, ever-evolving tradition of electronic dance music that had diverged from American-born house and techno to become a distinctly British style.; . The magazine launched its website, , in October 1997.
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Simon Reynolds Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture. (Picador, ) (excerpt) This is where the English music critic coined the name as a result of his personal perception of stylistic shifts in techstep – backbeats replacing breakbeats, funk harmonies replacing industrial timbres and lack of emphasis on the drop – by referring to them as, "(Neurofunk) is the fun-free culmination of jungle's strategy of cultural resistance: the eroticization of anxiety".
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Seal provides backing vocals in the song, which according to Jon Caramanica of The New York Times were "impossible-to-notice". In the song, Beyoncé sings about having "so many scars" and "taking this whole thing to the stars." Jeff Weiss of The Hollywood Reporter found an "old NASA movie sample and Kanye showing off his tattoos and inflexible singing voice." Simon Price of The Independent found neurofunk influences on "Lift Off".
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Ed Rush is the stage name used by the drum and bass producer and DJ, Ben Settle (born 1973). Rush has been releasing records since 1992 and primarily with his musical partner Optical (Matt Quinn), since 1997. Along with Optical he is also the co-founder of the record label Virus Recordings which releases his records along with other drum and bass acts. He is most associated with the aggressive styles of drum and bass music known as techstep, darkcore and neurofunk.
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Since a teknival can last a week or longer, many musical styles will be represented. The music which grew in tandem with teknivals was free tekno, which is characterised by heavy, repetitive kick drums and is normally about 180 bpm. The DJs and party goers are unconcerned by musical boundaries, so a lot of different, mostly electronic, music is played and performed. Most sound systems play styles such as acid techno, hardcore, frenchcore, electro, techno, jungle music, raggacore, skullstep, neurofunk, breakcore, schranz and speedcore.
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The group is commonly seen as neurofunk, and have also been called techstep, drum and bass, and dubstep in the past. Rene Verdult has mentioned that programs such as Cubase 6.5, Vember Audio Surge, and u-He Zebra have been used by the group to produce tracks in the past. Typically, individual members of the group experiment and produce their own tracks, and collaboration between group members usually only occur to give and receive advice. Milan Heyboer described the group's way of production as improvisation.
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Their music has been cited as being heavily influential in the development of the neurofunk subgenre, which can be recognised in releases later that decade. Artists such as Phace have statedFrancesco Caccamo (ATM) – Interview with Phace, 2007, archived on dnbmovement.it that Konflict had a great influence on their sound, as Florian from Phace puts it; "I have to point out Optical and Konflict as my favourite producers of all the time. They practically paved the way for the sound we love and try to continue nowadays.".
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Teebee's music is characterised by a strong dark and futuristic science fiction influence. TeeBee material could be classed as neurofunk or techstep, although possessing a deeper ambient and atmospheric quality than much of this subgenre. His early work in particular owes an acknowledged stylistic debt to Photek, and he was initially mostly associated with the Certificate 18 record label, alongside Photek, Klute and fellow Norwegian Polar. Following the folding of Cert 18 to enable the owner to release other genres of music, he, along with Polar, created the label Subtitles.
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Billain was influenced as a pre-teen by the Bosnian War. During the four-year lasting Siege of Sarajevo he began to draw and later discovered graffiti and created his first hip hop productions. In search of new possibilities to express his feelings originating in the siege, at first Billain taught himself how to produce techno music and later neurofunk. Before he released his first music, Billain joined the drum and bass collective Kontra which organised many drum and bass events in Sarajevo with Djs like Matrix & Optical, Teebee, Stakka & Skynet and Konflict.
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After his first release at Black Sun Empire Recordings, his career has started to take off and since then, 50 different tracks of his have been published by 15 different record labels and have been pressed on vinyl as well. It was through his early releases that Jade pioneered the emerging sound known as neurofunk.Steven, Colin.Eatbrain Interview, Kmag, 2 May 2014. Retrieved on 17 March 2016. In 2009, Jade released his debut album, Venom, on Citrus Recordings while his tracks like "No Cure" and the eponymous "Venom" featuring RymeTyme helped define the neurofunk genre.
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Konflict, also known under their separate artist names Kemal and Rob Data, were a musical duo that composed drum and bass music, consisting of Kemal Okan and Robert Rodgers. Their music had a strong techno influence, and it was influential in the shaping of the neurofunk subgenre. The majority of their material was released between 1999 and 2002; a period which carried the Anthem status in the Drum and Bass music scene. They released their first work in 1998 under the name Konflict, but after abandoning the name in 2000, they continued to release music as Kemal and Rob Data.
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The first sounds of neurofunk emerged from techstep within the larger musical genre of drum and bass and jungle during the late nineties. Techstep garnered a name for itself during the mid-nineties when rave (especially in the UK) was dying out, and amassed popularity quickly. Neurofunk's early evolution – when diverging from techstep – can be heard on Ed Rush and Optical's Funktion single for V Recordings in 1997 and on their first album Wormhole for Virus Recordings in 1998. The first mention of the term was in the book Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture by Simon Reynolds.
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Maztek aka Matteo Cavo is a drum and bass neurofunk producer born in Rome, Italy. He began his career in 2004, after several releases on various independent record labels he was featured in 2012 on Renegade Hardware with his Single "Galactica/Odyssey". In 2011, he became one of the official producers of Dope D.O.D., a hip hop crew based in the Netherlands, for which produces some beats one of which featuring Redman. In that same year he made a remix for an Italian band called Subsonica. The track was called “Il Diluvio (Maztek remix)” and was released by EMI.
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As a lighter sound of drum and bass began to win over the musical mainstream, many Producers continued to work on the other end of the spectrum, resulting in a series of releases which highlighted a dark, techy sound which drew more influence from Techno and the soundscapes of science fiction and films. This style was championed by the labels Emotif and No U-Turn, and by artists like Trace, Ed Rush, Optical, and Dom & Roland. It is commonly referred to as techstep, which in turn gave birth to the neurofunk subgenre. Techstep focused intensely on studio production and applied new techniques of sound generation and processing to older Jungle approaches.
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EBK cut his teeth as a teenager in the 1990s DJing Jungle on pirate and internet radio stations including Flex FM and interFACE (www.Pirate-Radio.org) before becoming the co-founder of Composite Records a label that at the turn of the millennium was an integral part of drum and bass's movement towards the rolling techno influenced subgenre now known as Neurofunk. Following a number of releases on Renegade Hardware including 'Soma' and 'Blackboard Jungle' EBK came to prominence in 2007 with the release of '1000 Years' on Renegade Hardware's album 'Above The Game' along with his remix work for Sudden Def Records. His tracks are played by DJs across the board and have got national radio support in the UK from broadcasters including Mary Anne Hobbs and the late John Peel.
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Wormhole is also considered to be the first neurofunk (a subgenre of drum and bass) album recorded. The recordings were produced and mixed in Optical's custom built studio, based in Rob Playford's Moving Shadow offices, St Anne's Court, SOHO, London between 1997 and '98. The final mastering was done by Stuart Hawkes at Metropolis Studios in Chiswick, London. Studio Equipment: Mackie 32/8 32 channel, 2 x Emu E6400 Ultra (1x8 outs, 1x16 outs), Alesis Quadraverb, Focusrite Green Eq x2, Focusrite Green Compressor, Focusrite ISA430 Producer Pack, Lexicon Alex, Lexicon MPX1, Alesis MidiVerb4, TC Electronics Fireworx, TC Electronics Finalizer, Joe Meek VC1, Drawmer MX40, CryBaby Wah Pedal, Boss Pedals - (Too many to list but all the popular ones), Novation Basstation, OSCar, Sequential Circuits Pro1, Prophet 5, Wurlitzer, PPG Wave 2.1, Neumann TLM 103 mic, Fender Strat 1972, Oberheim/Viscount GM1000, Korg Z1, Kawai K1r, BSS DPR-402 Compressor, Unitor8 Midi output, Kenton Midi to CV box, Yamaha NS-10M monitors, Dynaudio BM15 monitors.
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In 1995 Rush met Matt Quinn, who worked under the stage name Optical. They met at the Music House, a dubplate mastering company in Islington, London where dubplates would be made for their DJ sets. Rob Playford the owner of the label Moving Shadow gave them space in his Soho office building to allow them to build their own studio. They released their debut single Funktion in 1997, and followed it up in 1998 with their debut album,Wormhole which has been described as the greatest drum and bass album of all time and introduced the style of drum and bass known as Neurofunk. In 2000, DJ Craze used their track "Watermelon" in his beat-juggling routine which helped him win his 3rd DMC World Championship. They released their second album in 2000, The Creeps (Invisible And Deadly!) which broadened their palette by introducing vocals to the mix and won best album and best producers at the Knowledge DnB awards.
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