Future Funk—post-vaporwave japanese-oriented filter-disco for a new generation

couple from last year:

Future Society Singles comp: https://futuresocietycollective.bandcamp.com/album/single-series-volume-i
pretty consistent comp of tracks from this internet future funk label.

悲しい ANDROID - APARTMENT¶ https://android-apartment.bandcamp.com/album/with-me-without-you
Seems to come from filter disco end of spectrum, but well done

As a "genre", seems destined to fizzle out, but as long as people are nostalgic for the 80s, this kind of thing can never completely go away

the 4chan/reddit teens obsessed with this stuff have stuck much around longer than i expected already

Search: supersex 420

destroy: weak haters itt

Also, Dan Mason has a good new one
https://danmason.bandcamp.com/album/lovers

awesome, thanks!

i'll have to remember this next time someone posts about rock music being creatively moribund and obsessed w/stale retro gestures

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, January 25, 2017 9:49 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ehh it depends this stuff has a contemporary aspect & all it takes is one kid raised on it who thinks to take it a new way & it's suddenly no longer so retro

i mean....french touch / daft punk were already ripping off chicago house that sampled disco etc.

As a "genre", seems destined to fizzle out, but as long as people are nostalgic for the 80s, this kind of thing can never completely go away

― Dominique, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 9:57 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the 4chan/reddit teens obsessed with this stuff have stuck much around longer than i expected already

― ufo, Wednesday, January 25, 2017 10:23 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i was halfway like, either i'm just super late to it bc i opted out of the idea of vaporwave and this is just another tributary of mining the past, or im early on it becoming something new & having renewed steam. It does seem like its still generating attention online & the view counts are trending upward on a lot of the videos

either way, its more enjoyable to me than vaporwave & seems built for short attention span internet listening

obv i this is a minority viewpoint but 10-15 years on i find french touch / daft punk an increasingly embarrassing proposition and the existence of "future funk" just cements that feeling

but whatever maybe the music is the same as it has always been and i am just 10-15 years older ... i'm too old for anything but diet soda so no surprise i guess that i'm too old for sugar rush music

im about ready for a cheaper cheesier version personally.... but is it already dead? idk

http://i64.tinypic.com/359mii8.png

I really really love "Koi"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wSy487hJ-Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gMZpEexvpg

Make Believe Melodies is an excellent blog for those with an interest in Japanese pop & electronic outside of the idol system.

http://makebelievemelodies.com

like them links up top, keep em coming
a lot of it reminds me of the latter half of daft punks discovery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2E_ATx_53M&feature=youtu.be

I like this guy Abelard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPCsqKL2sd0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkZtffjC1xo

no real updates here, the artzie channel still churns out videos that regularly settle in the 50k-100k range on plays, and the biggest future funk song has surpassed 3 million views:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET6657PH9gQ

kind of curious if anything is gonna happen w/ this or its just gonna die out or its gonna go on forever unchanged

there's been some nice releases this year
i posted it on the vw page but not here sorry but my fav of which is probably this
https://desired.bandcamp.com/album/the-sweetest-dream

future funk died when they started adding shit vocals to everything

but it was a ripoff of french touch to begin with so

French touch was a ripoff of Chicago house to begin with so

have you heard any??

yes

french touch was a ripoff of chicago house

this is not correct

[thinker emoji] how not

ripoff is much too strong of a word, i think. early french touch music has a warmth and pronounced downtempo / lounge influence that chicago house doesn't. early 90s chicago filter house has a jacking trackiness to the drums that french touch doesn't. they just sound different, and listening to something like daft punk's 95 essential mix you wouldn't confuse one for the other (even though the sounds are sympathetic and compatible and mix well). i will grant that toward the late 90s as the styles evolved they began to converge more and more, and chicago house was obvously a big influence on french touch. but a ripoff, no. not even what i would call an imitation.

this future funk stuff on the other hand ... i'm not sure if i'd even call it french touch influenced so much as daft punk influenced, and specifically "discovery" influenced ... i think lots of stuff on this thread would fit seamlessly on "discovery" and maybe that's the point?

they are both big genres though so you can find exceptions to the rule ... thinking of the very ruffest french tracks, stuff like bangalter's "what to do". that track in particular i guess i could see a case for it being a ripoff of the chicago track style. but i don't think "what to do" is what people have in mind when they're talking about french touch. i also have a much harder time thinking of chicago tracks that sound like french tracks.

i meant daft punk 97 essential mix, not 95

maybe though the extent to which you perceive french touch to be a ripoff of chicago or future funk to be a ripoff of french touch is one of those things that has as mucb to do with the listener as the text

idk ask any chicago house producer & they dont seem to see that much of a gulf between the styles lol

i also think its a bit reductive to say all this stuff would fit in on discovery ... theres way more use of japanese music & lyrics in this stuff

(much of which was of course rip-offs of american music itself but )

"any" chicago house producer? you've asked them all, i take it?

sorry, just being snarky

well, i find it hard to believe anybody could fail to distinguish between a french house track and a chicago house track, but like i said, maybe that has to do more with me than the music itself

and i admit i don't really know future funk well enough to make pronouncements on it ... my knowledge of it is strictly from skimming the tracks on this thread

on a somewhat unrelated note you should check out this comp

http://www.forcedexposure.com/Catalog/va-light-wave-today-tomorrow-cd/EM.1137CD.html

i think a lot of ppl here are just bitter about daft punk getting all this acclaim & the grammies & all that shit while they're still back in chicago communities playing for locals if they're lucky

Ugggh I hate this music. It's mostly just the choice of name since years back we started a little music forum on a site that shall go unnamed (starts with R, full of haters) that we called Future Funk Airlines. It was mostly meant as a cheeky allusion to Beats In Space etc. So now we have these kids popping in dropping their vaporwave future funk turds on us, idk I'm honestly having a hard time not taking it personally that this otherwise easily forgettable subgenre took our name.

My internet REALLY sucks so it would be a massive effort to dig thru all the rec's here to find anything passable, anyone who generally has good taste in music feel up to highlighting anything in particular for me? Cheers. (By good taste I basically mean whatever Fact/Resident Advisor rates. Yeah that's how I roll.)

I also had a quick dread today, seeing some 'future funk' crap in another forum, that this would be the next big thing and totally come to dominate popular EDM this year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h31I2mumtZk

pure sugar rush, i don't care, i love it right now. the cheap/disposable discovery rip offs anyway.

this stuff doesn't sound like it was built for club systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao8hgHSkqRY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIXnrfzbYG8

(By good taste I basically mean whatever Fact/Resident Advisor rates. Yeah that's how I roll.)

― viborg, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 00:49 (two hours ago) Permalink

lol

Ugggh I hate this music. It's mostly just the choice of name since years back we started a little music forum on a site that shall go unnamed (starts with R, full of haters) that we called Future Funk Airlines. It was mostly meant as a cheeky allusion to Beats In Space etc. So now we have these kids popping in dropping their vaporwave future funk turds on us, idk I'm honestly having a hard time not taking it personally that this otherwise easily forgettable subgenre took our name.

lol who cares?

Future Funk will not dominate over EDM because it's just a rehash of French House and that wasn't that big in the mainstream to begin with.

Is EDM even making the charts anymore? Last time I checked they were dominated by dancehall pop and tropical house and moomba and trap and reggaeton. No EDM. There's Bruno Mars doing his Chromeo thing... it's funky sort of but not future funky.

I thought EDM just meant 'bad electronic music'.

lol who cares?

Jordan S, the guy who's single handedly done more to shit up ILM than any other, weighs in with his valuable contribution to discussion.

it's cool that Parrot Jungle 95 looped my favorite Rene & Angela song

Who said anything about future funk dominating edm lol it is edm

Jordan S, the guy who's single handedly done more to shit up ILM than any other, weighs in with his valuable contribution to discussion.

― viborg, Tuesday, May 23, 2017 1:22 AM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah because "i don't like this subgenre because now kids post music i don't like to my subreddit" is really bringing a lot to the table

lol crut otm

i actually hope this dumb subgenre goes more mainstream so that tatsuro yamashita can get some fucking royalties finally

xp it's Ian Pooley undone

future funk more like future junk amirite

I like Fibre, been jamming his stuff lately

Yeah it's pretty junky but it's fun.

yeah it's been pushed extremely hard by the YouTube recommended videos algorithm for some reason, very strange

It’s a cool song though. It’s oddly labeled on spotify as:

Miki J - playing games

posted it on another thread but the new pop up! album is a delight
as is 'promise world' by 3D blast, also released recently

the most hipstery of hipstery bars in town is hosting a future funk night ... advertising vapor wave, future funk and ... "anime groove"? what is "anime groove"?

https://www.facebook.com/events/203097067206159/

Pocari Sweat is my favourite sports drink, sounds more fitting as a club night, would probably work best as the name of a gym of course

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├ 📺 Rees Withrow [Pocari Resident DJ]
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VISUALS :
13 beat-activated CRT TV's illuminate the dance-floor
w/ vapor-inspired projections + 90's hi-fi commercials

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Body Request ~ P. Sweat, White Rum, Soda Water, Lime
The Longboi ~ AZ Green Tea, Gin, Lemonade, Sour

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this music is only good when it's played at japanese strip clubs btw

should i get a body request or a longboi

ladyboy

sounds great!
gotta be longboi - arizona green tea all the way

<3 this

https://desired.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-whatever

it may be october but it's party time

https://neoncityrecords.bandcamp.com/album/forget

who is Yung Bae? what can anyone tell me about Yung Bae?

he seems medium-big-ish. how did he get that way?

He was def one of the biggest names when I first started this thread

Btw,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bNITQR4Uso

So weird this song has 7 million views in eight months

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 12 March 2018 17:14 (one year ago) link

Now at 27.5 million views

I read a thing recently where he was like "I put my first mix up on Bandcamp and it blew up. I still don't have any idea why."

I guess I can't comprehend how that's possible?

I mean, I live in the age of the internet ... I get it. I'm just trying to figure out if there was some vaporwave Reddit thread where this guy took off or something.

Maybe there's no answer.

just caught up with Dan Mason, looks like he's starting to make original music that's very much in the George Clanton vein, with his newest album coming out on the 100% Electronica label

this is kinda like when DFA would sign various bands who would inevitably come out sounding like LCD Soundsystem

anyway, dig the new sound Dan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVfxZ0W2-5I

this is a nice album
reminds me of chad valley at times

His voice doe

St Pepsi’s stuff on late night delight is pretty great, especially “enjoy yourself.” I’m a late convert

well i'm still not entirely convinced but these two nuback tracks are getting a side each on a forthcoming growing bin 12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjbnTVDyKrI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U0uEWEL_hI

i'm not sure this even fits the remit of the thread, it's basically just balearic-tinged chillout city pop and not the daft-punk-circa-discovery-era sounds the thread starts with ... but idk where else to put it sooooo ...

this stuff really went nowhere as fuck