Live Here Now, in the Disco, Forever

South Korean producer Night Tempo makes music that sounds like a Japanese disco nobody can quite confirm existed—or maybe it did, in some version of the 1980s that only anime remembered to document. His new future-funk album Babymaker 2 is that specific: colored laser beams splitting across a spinning mirror ball, waitresses in short skirts gliding past on rollerskates with trays of fruit cocktails, something sweet and fast and slightly reckless playing under all of it.

Tracks like "In The Moon," "Heart Break," and "Stay Pure" build a room you don’t want to leave. Future Funk lives in this interesting space between nostalgia and fabrication—it borrows from Japanese city pop and Eurodisc, chops and brightens them into something that sounds like the future someone imagined in 1984. You never have to go home. You live here now. Forever and always.

Babymaker 2 is on Bandcamp. If it catches you, the future funk archive on there goes deep—it’s a genre that rewards two hours of browsing when you have nowhere to be the next morning.