Mariya Takeuchi is a Japanese singer and songwriter. She is from Taisha, Shimane, now the city of Izumo. She has had a successful career in Japanese pop music spanning decades, having sold over 16 million records in Japan. Her early work during the late 1970s to 1980s is largely associated with the Japanese city pop genre, along with that of her husband and collaborator Tatsuro Yamashita. Outside of Japan, she is best known for the 1984 song "Plastic Love".
"Makin' Whoopee" is a jazz/blues song, first popularized by Eddie Cantor in the 1928 musical Whoopee!. Gus Kahn wrote the lyrics and Walter Donaldson composed the music for the song as well as for the entire musical.
Alela Diane Menig, known as Alela Diane, is an American singer-songwriter from Nevada City, California.
Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music and an Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s. The style is defined by its borrowing of 1980s and 1990s mood music styles such as smooth jazz, elevator music, R&B, and lounge music, typically sampling or manipulating tracks via chopped and screwed techniques and other effects. Its surrounding subculture is sometimes associated with an ambiguous or satirical take on consumer capitalism and pop culture, and tends to be characterized by a nostalgic or surrealist engagement with the popular entertainment, technology and advertising of previous decades. It also incorporates early Internet imagery, late 1990s web design, glitch art, anime, 3D-rendered objects, and cyberpunk tropes in its cover artwork and music videos.
Ramona Andra Xavier is an American electronic musician from Portland, Oregon. She has released music under her primary Vektroid alias, as well as others, such as dstnt, Laserdisc Visions, New Dreams Ltd., Virtual Information Desk, and PrismCorp Virtual Enterprises. Xavier played a prominent role in the popularization of the vaporwave subgenre with the release of her only studio album under her Macintosh Plus alias, Floral Shoppe (2011). The album helped popularize the vaporwave genre throughout the Internet. Since then, she has continued to release music through Bandcamp and other online platforms.
Floral Shoppe is the ninth 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 is her ninth full-length album and was one of the first releases of the 2010s microgenre known as vaporwave to gain popular recognition on the Internet. Since then, Floral Shoppe has been considered by some critics to be the defining album of the style.
Home™ is the thirteenth studio album by American electronic musician Vektroid, released on April 20, 2013 by Beer on the Rug. Released simultaneously alongside ClearSkies™ under her PrismCorp alias, both albums contrast her previous releases, which had a primary focus on samples. The two albums consist primarily of original MIDI-styled compositions, much akin to computer and video game music released during the 1990s and 2000s; Home™ additionally incorporates original MIDI covers of obscure music into its release, and it has been the first Vektroid release to use the PrismCorp Virtual Enterprises alias.
Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 is an album by American electronic musician Daniel Lopatin, released under the one-time pseudonym Chuck Person. It was released on August 8, 2010 via The Curatorial Club as a limited edition cassette. The album is often credited with pioneering the musical genre and aesthetic style known as vaporwave.
New Dreams Ltd. is the third studio album by American electronic musician Vektroid under the alias Laserdisc Visions released on July 1, 2011. The album is an early example of the genre vaporwave. The album was released through the independent label Beer on the Rug and Vektroid's own label PrismCorp. The album has good reviews and is one of Vektroid's more popular releases. A digital reissue of the album in 2012 included six bonus tracks, but removed the reverberated Japanese commercials that played for the length of the original release, leaving only the original and sample-based compositions.
Shader is the twelfth album by electronic musician Vektroid. The album's musical style incorporates more drone and ambient influences compared to previous Vektroid vaporwave releases, and also includes elements of progressive electronic and new-age music.
Birth of a New Day is the second studio album by British-American electronic music duo 2814. It was released on 21 January 2015 by the duo's own label Dream Catalogue, made available for download and as a limited edition batch of CD-Rs. The album was later released on cassette format by the label Not Not Fun on 14 August 2015. Following a successful Indiegogo campaign, Dream Catalogue also issued a double vinyl edition.
札幌コンテンポラリー is the tenth studio album by the American electronic musician Vektroid under the alias 情報デスクVIRTUAL, released on April 20, 2012 by the independent record label Beer on the Rug. It is her tenth album. The music is part of the vaporwave genre. Contemporary Sapporo is one of Vektroid's most popular albums. The album was uploaded to both Beer on the Rug and Vektroid's Bandcamp pages, however, it has since been removed from Vektroid's.
Dream Castle is the eighth studio album by the artist Vektroid under the one time alias Tanning Salon released on December 3, 2011. The album is an example of both lo-fi and ambient music genres. Although it is not one of Vektroid's most popular works, it still has good reviews. The album has had releases on vinyl, however some of the releases have been unofficial.
Seed & Synthetic Earth is a studio album by American electronic musician Vektroid, released on November 10, 2017. Vektroid stated the album is the second prelude to her upcoming album No Earth, and promoted it through her Twitter page. Before its release, she uploaded the opening track "We Need To Talk" on her YouTube page, and the ending track "Moebius Blue" on her SoundCloud page. The album has a feature from SoundCloud rapper Siddiq.
Nextcentury is a studio album by electronic musician Vektroid under the alias Peace Forever Eternal. The album was released on May 24, 2017 on Vektroid's Bandcamp page. Vektroid used her Twitter and Instagram pages to promote the album's release. The album's description on Bandcamp states "Volume 1", hinting there may be a sequel to the album. Nextcentury has good reviews from critics.
Initiation Tape - Part One is the fourth studio album by American electronic musician Vektroid under her New Dreams Ltd. alias. The album has mixed reviews but is still popular among Vektroid fans. The album was reissued in 2014 as Initiation Tape: Isle of Avalon Edition, featuring a different tracklist as well as new artwork. This version was uploaded to Vektroid's Bandcamp page, however it has since been removed. The album samples music from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Telnet Erotika is an extended play by electronic artist Vektroid released in November 2010. Due to Vektroid's use of samples taken from the 1980s and 1990s, the EP is considered to be an early example of the vaporwave genre. On the original Bandcamp page for release, Vektroid described the EP as "ms-dos wave," her own take on the chillwave genre. The EP is dedicated to Oneohtrix Point Never, Vektroid's inspiration for making the EP, with a remix of his own song "Nobody Here" appearing here. Music videos for the tracks Virgin Pegasus, Surfin Geocities, and Video Update were uploaded to her YouTube account. Vektroid re-released the EP as Telnet Complete on April 13, 2017, adding 12 new tracks and an edited version of the first track in the original EP. This version is on her Bandcamp page.
Black Horse and MIDI Dungeon are studio albums by electronic musician Vektroid under the alias esc不在, released on August 2, 2011. The albums' genre is recognized as vaporwave. These albums are some of Vektroid's more obscure work as they have never been uploaded to her Bandcamp or SoundCloud pages in their original forms. Select tracks on the albums would later be reused for Initiation Tape: Isle of Avalon Edition, a rework of the original Initiation Tape, released on the same day as the original esc不在 albums. The albums are not as popular as others, such as Floral Shoppe.
Prism Genesis is an extended play by American electronic and vaporwave artist Vektroid under the alias Fuji Grid TV released on August 2, 2011. The EP was re-released as Fuji Grid TV EX in 2016 under the alias New Dreams Ltd. instead of Fuji Grid TV. This version is available on Vektroid's Bandcamp.
Polytravellers is the debut studio album by American electronic musician Vektroid released on May 12, 2011. The album was released as a prelude to the album Starcalc, which was released the next day. The album has good reviews.
