Floral Shoppe
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| Studio album by Macintosh Plus | ||||
| Released | December 9, 2011 | |||
| Genre | Vaporwave | |||
| Length | 47:47 | |||
| Label | Beer on the Rug | |||
| Producer | Ramona Andra Xavier | |||
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2012 reissue cover
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| Sputnikmusic |  |
| Sunbleach Media |  |
Floral Shoppe (Japanese: フローラルの専門店 Hepburn: Furōraru no Senmon-ten?) is the seventh studio album by the American electronic musician Vektroid, (under the one-time alias Macintosh Plus), released on December 9, 2011 by the independent record label Beer on the Rug. It was one of the first releases of the vaporwave subgenre to gain popular recognition on the Internet. Since then, Floral Shoppe has been considered by many to be an essential or defining album of the vaporwave genre.
Vektroid's alias for Floral Shoppe was Macintosh Plus, named after the computer of the same name. The album is frequently cited as an example of the then emerging Internet-based vaporwave subgenre, along with works from other artists released by the record label Beer on the Rug. Prior to Floral Shoppe, she had previously produced other chillwave and vaporwave releases under multiple pseudonyms, including Vektroid, Laserdisc Visions, dstnt, and New Dreams Ltd. Adam Harper of Dummy, in an article about the vaporwave culture, described the album's content as "chopped, glitching and screwed adult contemporary soul alongside twinkling spa promotional tunes." Other tracks "take new wave music to a Stepford Wives extreme, repeating each of the previously-silly synth loops to an unsettling extent with no shortage of filters and EQ passes," according to Dylan Kilby of Sunbleach Media.
Xavier's production on the album is characterized by her use of looped and time-stretched samples of adult contemporary soul music, and its overall stylistic quality has been described as "chopped and screwed meets AOR, synth funk, contemporary R&B and new-age". Xavier takes a rather unsettling approach to sampling throughout Floral Shoppe, with "voices slowed to wordless drawls, tempos abused at whim, [and] snippets mashed over each other at clashing time signatures." Material sampled throughout the album includes several songs from new-age group Dancing Fantasy's 1993 studio album Worldwide, various funk and R&B songs from the 1980s, and the soundtrack for the 1997 video game Turok: Dinosaur Hunter.
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