By 1997 Jungle split, its dancehall audience migrating to Speed Garage as neurofunk turned technoid

Reynolds documents Jungle bifurcating around 1997: its black, dancehall-inflected audience moved to Speed Garage (R&B vocals, designer-label ethos, sub-bass, ragga samples), while neurofunk producers pushed toward Techno abstraction. Crucially, Jungle’s sonic ‘repertoire of rude-ness’ — ragga soundbites, timestretched vocals, booming sub-bass — migrated wholesale into Speed Garage, where it was ‘revitalised’, whereas neurofunk deliberately shed those same elements as part of its realignment with Techno and Acid House. One common pool, two divergent inheritances.

Examples

Ruff Da’ Menace’s ‘Kick the Party Into Full Effect’ absorbing Jungle’s rude-ness into UK Garage; against neurofunk’s purist ‘imprint’ culture with ~2000-copy sales ceilings and concept sleeves.

Assessment

Explain how two streams emerged from Jungle in 1997 and which musical elements Speed Garage inherited that neurofunk rejected.