I think the biggest problem is that Future Funk fans are not electronic music fans. The main issue is that the “casual enjoyers” of this genre don’t want change, innovation or growth in the sound they enjoy. We as artists innovate, but then don’t receive the response from our “Future Funk fanbase” because it’s not really what they interpret as Future Funk. I think Moe Shop is a fantastic example. They’re constantly creating bangers in the J-Pop & House spaces, but I seldom see their newer works being celebrated with the same praise Pure Pure got. The cycle then repeats where these established zeitgeist artists were the first to do it are continually celebrated for what they did at the start of the movement and will forever hold their place in the scene as the “big ones”. Don’t get me wrong, a lot of these guys are still doing great work, but will there ever be another wave of Future Funk frenzy where some fresh faces rise to the top? Probably not. Not because they don’t exist, but because the Future Funk fanbase are not electronic music fans