oh now i remember what it was that me think of funky
was just in Lisbon where there's a lot of Afro influenced dance music (post-colonial legacy of the Portuguese empire, which was substantial - did you know that the Luosophone sphere is extensive enough that Portuguese is actually the 7th widest spoken language in the world? Yes i read the Wiki entry on the plane)
kept hearing this beat and realised that variants of it or similar things to it inform a lot of dance music of the last 10 to 15 years - not the exact same beat, but a kind of approach to drums and the beat-structure that is the opposite of anything that involves the 808 bass boom - in other words, it's very much NOT working in a funk way, or a Timbaland way (extension / complication of funk), but nor is it a reggae feel either
this is a "calling Barty!" moment innit
partly it's just down to the production, how big, thick, wide you can make a drum with today's sound design capacities
but it's also the pattern
the result = a massive, imposing beat that slashes stridently across the soundfield, juddering your body with each giant thwack of rhythm
the clattery bombast of it makes me think of i dunno Maori warrior chants or spears being bashed against shields
it does seem "Afro" or tribal, in some way but also it's not dissimilar to reggaeton
funky had a beat edging towards to this, what at the time I thought of in terms of "soca" (and thus a turn-off).
But then there's things that are rather different in vibe but similar - Jam City's 'Classical Curves' is an arty IDM variant of it (there's a crashing, smashing-glass, sado-bondage flagellatory edge to it ) and that has been super-influential in a lot of experimental electronic stuff of recent years, your Sophies and all that lot)
anyway, it seems like the Rhythm of Our Time - but it doesn't do a lot for me.