funky house i believe now is just a loose umbrella phrase which relates more to a scene and networks of djs, clubs, labels etc than any particular form. it used to be all live bass and soft keys and saxophones and such, but now its anything from deep to electro to funky to whatever else
DJ NG has coined the term Urbance:
''Devised in the summer of 2004 by DJ NG (real name Alexander T-K Ng), URBANCE is the term used to describe the overall style of NG's performances as a DJ / Music ‘Selector’.
The name ‘UR-BANCE’ came about when the British music genre of UK House & Garage (wholly speaking) developed away from its original “Dance” media bracket of music, and more towards the “Urban” music bracket used for commercial marketing purposes. At this time, there were a lot of off-shoot styles within the UK Garage scene...
(ie, 'Dubstep/Foward', 'oldskool', '2-step', 'breakbeat', 'Grime/Eski/Sublow' etc...)
...creating a lot of confusion, and a misinterpreted face to the core culture of the music could be witnessed from those unfamiliar to the music genre –this reflected (wholly speaking) by the changes acknowledged with the dress culture, down to the crowed mentality of people attending UK Garage club nights/raves. It was at this point that NG felt tangled within the UKG sub-scenes and was trying to cater for all the sub genres spawned from garage music.
URBANCE was his answer to the problem of both 'fitting in' & ‘belonging’, not just into a music scene, but similarly into societies sub-cultures. It suitably balanced him in between all the confusion. Similarly, “Dance” and ‘Urban” styles were two of his main sources of influence and scenes that he was most involved in as a DJ, thus he used the “URB” from ‘Urban’ and the “ANCE” from the ‘Dance’ music term to create “URBANCE” -a category that best describes his identity as a DJ.''