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Macross 82-99

Future funk is the French-house-inspired offshoot that samples Japanese city pop and pairs it with 1980s and 1990s anime imagery. Its origin point is commonly given as two Macross 82-99 albums from 2013: ネオ東京 and SAILORWAVE.

He is an electronic producer and DJ from Mexico City — which places the beginning of the genre's most danceable branch a long way from either the Japanese records it samples or the American boards it was posted to.

The reach is scene-wide rather than solitary: Luxury Elite counts him among her collaborators.

Sources
  1. 01 Macross 82-99 — Wikipedia →
  2. 02 List of vaporwave subgenres — Wikipedia →
  3. 03 Luxury Elite — Wikipedia →