Floral Shoppe was composed by American producer and graphic designer Ramona Xavier, also known by the stage name Vektroid; it is credited under her alias Macintosh Plus, titled after the computer of the same name. The album is frequently cited as an example of the then-emerging Internet-based vaporwave genre, 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 the pseudonym Vektroid. Jonathan Dean 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."
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 an unsettling approach to sampling throughout Floral Shoppe, with "voices slowed to wordless drawls, tempos abused at whim, snippets mashed over each other at clashing time signatures." Its first two tracks are based on elements of Sade's "Tar Baby" and Diana Ross' "It's Your Move", and other material sampled throughout the album includes Zapp's "I Only Have Eyes for You", Jamie Foxx's "Sleeping Pill", several songs from new age/smooth jazz group Dancing Fantasy's 1993 album "Worldwide", Pages' "You Need a Hero", and the Turok soundtrack.
Floral Shoppe was composed by American producer and graphic designer Ramona Xavier, also known by the stage name Vektroid; it is credited under her alias Macintosh Plus, titled after the computer of the same name. The album is frequently cited as an example of the then-emerging Internet-based vaporwave genre, 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 the pseudonym Vektroid. Jonathan Dean 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."
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 an unsettling approach to sampling throughout Floral Shoppe, with "voices slowed to wordless drawls, tempos abused at whim, snippets mashed over each other at clashing time signatures." Its first two tracks are based on elements of Sade's "Tar Baby" and Diana Ross' "It's Your Move", and other material sampled throughout the album includes Zapp's "I Only Have Eyes for You", Jamie Foxx's "Sleeping Pill", several songs from new age/smooth jazz group Dancing Fantasy's 1993 album "Worldwide", Pages' "You Need a Hero", and the Turok soundtrack.
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