maybe a little pique, but i do think funky has been smothered and swamped by it to some degree. The post dubstep lot are all very quick to jump on emerging styles (easier to pick up on em now too because of the internet etc) and they did so very quickly with funky. With garage and jungle the the hardcore audience had pretty much already moved onto something else by the time outsiders latched onto it but funky hasn't had that chance.
I'm guessing a lot of people found funky most interesting in its early days when it was seen as a pendulum swing reaction to grime, but that distinct position didn't last very long at all once everybody decided to start making house. Those early days of a substantial swing from grime to funky may well be the last time we see such a sea-change, as everything has levelled off and cancelled each other out.
First post, so here goes.
I'm going to throw in mr. reynolds, as even now, he is still the most accurate barometer of the london music's you are talking about, if not in detail, then in general zeitgeist. The other reason I raise him, is because gumdrops, benny b etc. are basically sub-reynoldsian, post-finney bots rehearsing, reiterating and applying their model of authenticity to funky etc.
We all know that Reynolds never liked dubstep, but I remember it surprised me that he was never really that into funky at all. He never really expressed much enthusiasm for it - I think this is quite telling really, as its the first development of the proper hcc that he didn't emotionally invest in. Why I think this is telling is that, it seems to me at least, this notion that 'post-dubstep' or whatever is somehow, even in small part to blame for funky not building up momentum is pretty bizarre. What about the idea that perhaps funky has just not been as important a sonic development as jungle and garage and grime were. Coupled to the overexposure of the internet, perhaps it just isnt as musically significant as those earlier musics. It also seems to me that some of its most vocal proponents in trying to support it and help it grow have been dj's and promoters coming out of dubstep - well they've done more than a bunch of forum trainspotters dictating to each other what is and isn't proper funky - and this is the answer to gumdrops question above - the reason hardcore street scenes are not complaining, is because they have actually being assisted by the people umbrella'd under the post dubstep thing.
Or then again maybe the internet has taught these sacred members of these hardcore street scenes to see a more attractive alternative to that glamorous romford-watford-wolverhampton circuit
