I totally agree with all those people here, who say that a new wave of neuro is funk less. And it all sounds the same, great, banging, clean, but sooo similar.
It is great in the club, when you're drunk or high it is even better. But I was recently fed up with it.
When I started to listen to dnb back in 2000, It was an era of classic techstep and neurofunk sound, it was funky as hell.
Than around 2005 there was a second wave, for example Spor, Noisia, they redefined a bit a sound of neurofunk, at least in my opinion. It was more synthetic, but it was fresh and it was funky.
Now something went wrong, it is too clean and steril to be truly funky.
Maybe it is because of the influences of harder dnb.
Hard hard dnb since few years is in a big stagnation in my opinion.
After a phase of very interesting darkstep and technoid vibes (around 2007/8/9) and then The Outside Agency's crossbreed and hardcoreXdnb a la PRSPCT period, which also was something interesting and new, hard dnb started to sound the same and boring.
Some hard dnb producers moved back into techy and neuro directions, to have a rest from hardcore and crossbreed, which is obviously more close to the European hardcore culture that to UK's hardcore/jungle/dnb culture.
In the same time some labels and producers considered as neurofunk went harder.
And we have a combination of both. Modern neuro. Harder, cleaner, but less funky.
Hmm. Maybe saying it went wrong is unfair, it just has changed.
Probably in few years oldskul neuro vibe will inspire producers again, music always goes in circles