Radio Record Neurofunk streams dark, heavy drum and bass live from Saint Petersburg, Russia, a dedicated channel from the Radio Record network. Press play on Radio Shuffle and it streams instantly, free, with no account or app download required.
Russia's self-declared first dance station
Radio Record has broadcast from Saint Petersburg since 22 August 1995, when it went on air and built its identity around a claim it still makes today, that it was the first dance radio station in Russia. The network has since grown into dozens of genre-specific digital channels covering everything from trap and dubstep to trance and chillout, with Neurofunk carved out as its own dedicated feed for listeners who want nothing but the darkest, heaviest end of drum and bass.
Where neurofunk's dark sound came from
Neurofunk itself emerged in London in the late 1990s as a harder, more technical offshoot of techstep, which had already been pushing drum and bass toward darker, more industrial territory. Critic Simon Reynolds is credited with coining the term "neurofunk," and Ed Rush and Optical's 1997 track "Funktion," followed by their 1998 album Wormhole, are widely cited as the records that first drew a clear line between the new style and techstep, according to Wikipedia's entry on the genre. The sound traded techstep's industrial harshness for tighter, funk-inflected rhythms and heavier, more deliberately sound-designed basslines, a template producers worldwide, including Russia's own scene, have built on ever since.
Listen free on Radio Shuffle
Radio Record Neurofunk streams around the clock, and Radio Shuffle carries the feed live with nothing to install and no subscription required. Press play for the darkest end of drum and bass, streaming out of one of Russia's longest-running dance radio networks.