Future Funk (also known as Vaporboogie) is an aesthetic and sample-based House subgenre that developed from the Vaporwave movement. The genre usually samples 1970s and 1980s Disco and City Pop tracks and incorporates elements of Synth Funk and French House while still utilizes elements of the Vaporwave production, like altering the pitch of the samples and using high amounts of reverb.
The aesthetic of Future Funk takes strong influences from Vaporwave, Animecore and City Pop. Its characterized by its use of 80s and 90s anime imagery, pastel colors, and Retro-like effects.
Visuals[]
Visually, as popularized by the YouTube channel Artzie Music, Future Funk visual aesthetics are usually just a looped GIF of a classic anime set to the track (popular animes to utilize are Sailor Moon and Urusei Yatsura, although other classics will pop up like Dragon Ball, Lupin the 3rd, Mobile Suit Gundam, and Macross) so elements of Animecore and Kawaii to the visual aesthetics of Future Funk are extremely common, but it's also not unusual to find aesthetic cues from Vaporwave, Synthwave, and Lo-Fi either.
Music[]
What is Future Funk?
A tale as old as time: what IS Future Funk?
As stated above, Future Funk takes musical cues from Vaporwave, French House (which gives it some very subtle connections to the poppier entries into the Synthwave genre), Nu-Disco, and Synth Funk to create fun, happy tracks to dance to, taking samples of old funk tracks from the 70's and 80's (bonus points for using Japanese funk music, which is very obscure compared to its American counterparts) and repurposing them in a manner similar to Vaporwave (to the point where Future Funk will often just be lumped in with the genre despite the very clear differences in musical philosophy between Future Funk and Vaporwave.) Future Funk is also heavily influenced by City Pop, Japanese New Wave, and 80s British Synthpop (particularly the likes of Japan the band), and as Future Funk has grown as a genre, these influences have become more pronounced. GIF videos are made for these songs by YouTube channels like Neon City Nightlife.
Some popular artists in the Future Funk genre include:
- architecture in tokyo/Young Muscle
- FIBRE
- Flamingosis
- Future Girlfriend 音楽
- Mike Tenay
- Moe Shop
- Night Tempo
- Rollergirl!
- Saint Pepsi/Skylar Spence
- Starjunk 95
- Sui Uzi
- Topaz Gang
- Yung Bae
- Yuni Wa
- マクロスMACROSS 82-99
- スーパーセックス永遠にSUPERSEX420
- 悲しい ANDROID - APARTMENT¶
- LemKuuja
- What's a Future Funk?
- QB9
Resources[]
External links to help get a better understanding of this aesthetic.
Playlists[]
- Official Spotify Future Funk Playlist
- Future Funk by HXRT Network
- FUTURE FUNK GROOVIN' by SHEIKOCAT
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