But what even is future funk? Let’s begin with what future funk is on a technical level. Future funk is a subgenre of vaporwave that takes 70s and 80s songs, typically disco or Japanese city pop, increases their tempo, and adds some drums and kicks. Usually, future funk producers take what’s referred to as the “butter notes,” the best portions of a song, and loop them for a stretch of usually two minutes, with some songs also splicing in the vocals of the sample. To accompany the music, the artist will pair the track with either a GIF of an anime girl or with commercials from the 80s, and if they’re in Japanese, then even better. And that’s it. That is future funk on a technical level at its most simplistic.