Some of the most notable neurofunk labels of modern times Bad Taste, Ammunition, Close 2 Death, Metalheadz, Mindtech, Nocid Business and Renegade Hardware. Other notable early neurofunk pioneers include Gridlok, Phace and Noisia. Ed Rush and Optical are two of the most notable pioneers of neurofunk in with many releases around 1998. Neurofunk is mainly characterized by heavily distorted mid-range synthesizer sounds intertwined with an opening and closing filter on a funk influenced bassline, hard stabs over the basslines, sharp, precise backbeats (playing the snare on the 2 and the 4 of a bar) often using samples of drum hits instead of breakbeats and the use of dissonance and minimalism. Neurofunk combined that techstep sound with heavier funk elements, techno, house and jazz. It was a progression of another drum & bass subgenre called techstep. Neurofunk is a drum & bass subgenre which emerged between 19 in London (UK). Glitch hop is hip hop based EDM with a big emphasis on bass, chopped up samples and combinations of ancient drum beats and futuristic sounds. Glitch hop started to take shape a few years later. Glitch is taking what most people would consider an error or a mistake and working it into something great sounding. It was around 2001 where the glitch sound really started to take shape with artists on Warp Records. Glitch had been around a good while before Glitch Hop started to appear. Glitch hop is often played live (using controllers and manipulating sounds on the fly) and can incorporate glitchy effects like beat repeaters and sweeps, and is a combination of glitch and hip hop. Let’s take a quick look at what defines glitch hop and neurofunk. Its main influences are hip hop, glitch hop and neurofunk drum & bass. It can range (just as hip-hop does), typically from anywhere between 80 and 120 BPM. But what defines a track as neurohop?Ĭontradictory to many popular beliefs, neurohop isn’t restricted to the 100 BPM tempo that many people say it is. I don’t think there’s a right answer to this question – there isn’t a right answer for any musical genre really music is just music. Both of these incredible labels are seen by many as the leaders of the neurohop genre, putting out many quality releases since around early 2012. Many of the tracks featured in the mix had recentlybeen released on labels Caliber Music (USA) and Adapted Records (Australia). This was the start for the world of neurohop. The mix was titled Let’s call it Neurohop. One of the first people to start using this new word was one of the scene’s pioneers, Kursa from the UK. Kursa put together a mix of 9 tracks and released it on Soundcloud. Some of you may be wondering, “What is neurohop?” In early 2012, a new term started getting thrown around in the EDM world – that word was neurohop.

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