Future Bass Essentials

Dance music has reached a point where new subgenres are popping up faster than they can be given proper names. Elements of trap, dubstep, and Jersey club—water droplets, bed squeaks, triplet hi-hats, stretched vocal samples—have coalesced into an intimate, bedroom-friendly sound that many have called "future bass." Artists like Cashmere Cat, What So Not, and Ryan Hemsworth are planting the seeds for tomorrow's club-music mutations.