YUNG BAE - Bae 2 LP

Label: Self-released

Born in 1994 as Dallas Cotton, Yung Bae, began as a music producer based out of Portland, Oregon. He attended the Oregon State University for four months before turning to music full time. Yung Bae is the alias of Dallas Cotton, a Los Angeles-based producer with influences that include disco, r&b and Japanese City Pop. Yung Bae works in the future funk and vaporwave subgenres, releasing tracks online through sites like Bandcamp—he released eight in total on that site. These received several million streams on Spotify.

Rerelease of the second LP by US Future Funk producer Yung Bae from 2016, which was previously only released in mini-edition self-distribution. Yung Bae is considered a representative of the vaporwave subgenre Future Funk, which combines electro-funk sounds with Japanese 1980s city pop samples to create a playful disco-pop. Bae has played at Coachella, collaborated with Method Man, Mike Posner and Jon Batiste, and released a total of eight albums to date.