Macintosh Plus

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Macintosh Plus is one of the stage names of Ramona Andra Langley, an American electronic musician. She also releases music as Vektroid, dstnt, Laserdisc Visions, New Dreams Ltd., Virtual Information Desk and PrismCorp Virtual Enterprises. She began making and releasing electronic music in 2005 and has by now put out more than forty releases.

Music and breakthrough

With her ninth studio album, Floral Shoppe from 2011, she played, as Macintosh Plus, a major role in the rise of vaporwave. The album includes, among other things, リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー. Fact called Floral Shoppe the defining album of Bandcamp, the service on which Langley releases her music. It is the most recommended album in the experimental music category on that site. Tiny Mix Tapes included the album in a list of favourites in 2012. From early 2013 she released music less often.

Influence

Vaporwave is an electronic style that emerged between 2010 and 2013. Macintosh Plus and New Dreams Ltd. are regarded as the most important projects of the genre. Critics read in her work a critique of late capitalism. In this way Langley became a key figure in a musical movement that arose on the internet.

Listening

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  リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー · Macintosh Plus, 2011
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Discography

Studio albums

• 2010Night Signals II
• 2010Starflight Iguana
• 2011Neo Cali
• 2011Planet Dudette
• 2011Polytravellers
• 2011Starcalc
• 2012Color Ocean Road
• 2016Big Danger
• 2016Midnight Run
• 2016RE•SET
• 2016Vektroid Texture Maps
• 2017Seed & Synthetic Earth
• 2017Telnet Complete
• 2022Fuji Grid TV II: EMX
• 2023cRASH 1
• 2024777 PIG DANGER
• 2024cRASH 2: Mac +/-

Mentioned in other articles

• Vaporwave GenreIn December 2011, Ramona Xavier released the album Floral Shoppe as Macintosh Plus, full of slowed-down soul, lift music and advertising jingles.