Future Bass
Future bass is a melodic style of electronic dance music that mixes elements of dubstep and trap with bright, wobbling synth chords and a warmer, less abrasive sound.
Scottish producers Rustie and Hudson Mohawke pioneered it around 2010, and artists such as Flume, from Australia, brought it to a wide audience by the middle of the decade, with 2016 seen as its breakout year. The trademark is a synth sound whose volume or filter is modulated so the chords seem to wobble, often with chopped vocal snippets, arpeggios and rising build-ups on top. It keeps some of the weight of dubstep and trap but is much sweeter in tone.
Artists it is known for: Flume, San Holo, Marshmello.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- United Kingdom, Australia and United States, early 2010s
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 3%
About 2,400 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have future bass among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Future Bass artists
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Flume
Gryffin
RomancePlanet
Seven Lions
Alohaii
Ark Patrol
Dabin
SLANDERThe future bass artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
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The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.