Future Funk, Vaporwave, City Pop Rabbit Hole

[Pyrrho Epoche]

Just made some cold sesame, peanut butter, ginger noodles--my favorite. Post your favorite Asian snack or meal and share your funky knowledge of Future Funk, DJ Edits, Vaporwave and City Pop etc .
Here is a 24+ hour playlist if you need some info:
Future Funk

 

[Pyrrho Epoche]

Cold noodles

 

[Pyrrho Epoche]

 

[Tom Bomb]

I'm gonna go out on a ledge and say I'm really not much good with the word genre. Stumped, I am. Funk's future's sometimes found in the strangest places. I'm not paying attention, just absorbing. Tru Thoughts, the exception to the rule — you'll find some goodness there (And elsewhere).
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Food-wise, you could give a prawn cocktail a go. In some parts of Asia, it's a delicacy. Sauce is: tomato sauce, mayo, lemon juice and not much else Cook the prawns before refreshing them. Chill and chill
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[JimmyM]

I like Kobe and Benihana white sauce and onion volcanos, but I know zip about that music.

 

[HolmeBass]

Future Funk, huh?

Sounds like disco to me.

 

[Pyrrho Epoche]

Future funk is a subgenre of vaporwave that combines elements of funk, disco, and Japanese music with nostalgic influences. It's usually upbeat, funky, and associated with the aesthetic of '90s anime or consumer culture. Future funk is also known as Vaporboogie or Japanese Disco.

Future funk takes funk and soul from the 70s and 80s and slaps a disco beat on it in the range of 115 - 130 BPM. It typically involves sampling and reimagining retro tracks from the '70s and '80s, infusing them with upbeat rhythms, funky basslines, and chopped vocals. Most of these samples are drawn from Japanese city pop records from the 1980s


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[SteC]

Cold ramen is really good, Mazemen or something I think? I've never tried making it myself.

I gotta listen to more city pop!

 

[ardgedee]

Just made some cold sesame, peanut butter, ginger noodles--my favorite. Post your favorite Asian snack or meal and share your funky knowledge of Future Funk, DJ Edits, Vaporwave and City Pop etc .
Here is a 24+ hour playlist if you need some info:
Future Funk

I'm old enough to remember the source material as, back in the day, being stuff I was fighting against, through punk music, noise, weirdo obscure underground jazz, art music and so on. So while I sincerely admire Vektroid, Ohneotrix Point Never and other weirdos for vaporwave, a genre founded on leaning SO HARD into the banalities of 1980s music that it kind of gets forced through heat and pressure into a whole new style of music, I kind of struggle to enjoy it because it still feels to me mostly like an unwanted nostalgia trip.

I mean, there's a lot of genuinely brilliant stuff there, I just wish I could get into it.

 

[IPA]

Been really into slowerpace lately

 

[sonojono]

Probably not within the realm of future funk but this group kicks ass!

 

[nyre]

Yasuko Agawa's L.A. Night has been my city pop go to song for a while. Such a nice vibe and bassline.



In regards to vaporwave I think telepath is probably one of the best in the field. I really like the vibe of this one:



Also the side project 2814 that telepath did with HKE is really great, even though it is much more ambient than vaporwave.



Blank Banshee is of course worth mentioning, but I think Blank Banshee is at his best when he is least vaporwave-ish. The Metamorphosis EP is my favorite thing that he has done.

 

[Pyrrho Epoche]

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[jimmydean]

My favorite Asian food is from the Sea Palace in Amsterdam . Beijing Duck and Dim Sum Dumplings , and throw in a Cantonese shrimp dish . The music is well produced.....that's all I got.....back to food .

 

[Thumpin6string]

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Sade? This is Sade.

 

[Pyrrho Epoche]

Sade? This is Sade.

Sade....Also the title of a song by, Kenny G.

 

[Winslow]

 

[poochiecheeks]

This album was hugely important to my younger impressionable mind when it was released


as was this



and these two

i used to walk around shopping malls at night listening to all this when vaporwave was a big thing


not so much vaporwave but in the same vein. along with the entire unreal tournament 99 soundtrack

 

[Tom Bomb]

I don't know where this fits in — I've had it for years — it's a bargain bin discovery.
Has that anim8 ed vibe. That's all I got. Going to town on the art​

Trippy tucker footage accompanying. Lady's a tiger

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[ardgedee]

Just made some cold sesame, peanut butter, ginger noodles--my favorite. Post your favorite Asian snack or meal and share your funky knowledge of Future Funk, DJ Edits, Vaporwave and City Pop etc .
Here is a 24+ hour playlist if you need some info:
Future Funk

Oh dang, I definitely owe you some opinions about food after what I'd already said about music.

Tonkotsu pork ramen at a small ramen shop in Vancouver that I visited about a dozen years ago. Real estate was completely unhinged at the time and have only gotten worse since, so I hope they're still in business somehow. They close a couple days each week to make their noodles, and the interior was completely steamed up by huge pots of pork broth that are continuously on boil. My wife and I sat at the counter opposite the pots of broth so we got to see the staff in action serving up meals. One of the sides on offer is a small bowl of the pork that had fallen off the bone while boiling, and I still remember how garlicky and infused with fat they were. That was one of my most memorable meals.