Floral Shoppe (Japanese: フローラルの専門店, Hepburn: Furōraru no Senmon-ten) is the ninth studio album by the American electronic musician Ramona Andra Langley under the alias Macintosh Plus, released on December 9, 2011, by the independent record label Beer on the Rug.
Floral Shoppe by Ramona Andra Langley, under the pseudonym Macintosh Plus, is frequently cited as the first proper example of the then-emerging genre, along with works from other artists released by the record label Beer on the Rug.
[2][3] Prior to Floral Shoppe, Macintosh Plus had previously produced other releases under multiple pseudonyms, including Vektroid, Laserdisc Visions, and New Dreams Ltd.[3] 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.
[4] Macintosh Plus takes an unorthodox 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.
"[5] The album's second track, "Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing" which is a slowed down, chopped and screwed remix of "It's Your Move" by Diana Ross, has been noted as a model for vaporwave songs.
With heavy implication on retro computer imagery, it depicts a sculpture of the Greek god Helios and the Japanese title in bright pink, tiled surroundings with a background of the Twin Towers.
[18] In a retrospective review, Adam Downer of Sputnikmusic characterized the album as "constantly—and delightfully—unsettling" and "a beautiful record that's both warm and strange, nostalgic and futuristic, bizarre and totally simple.