Macintosh Plus ‎– Floral Shoppe (2011)

October 9, 2020

Floral Shoppe is the oddity that defined the genre (or shall I say movement?) of vaporwave, which is still passed off as a meme by some. But hey, it’s their loss. Floral Shoppe hosts – or birthed? – many tropes of the style; pitchshifted beats and vocals, fluttering synths, a treacle-like atmospheric consistency, and a distorted window into the realms of either the past or the future. Am I dreaming about a past that I miss or a future that never happened? Through the darkness of futures past….

Of course, the second track here is world-reknown for being a meme in of itself, but how fucking good is it? Arguably it is the definitive vaporwave track. The original may have been removed from YouTube due to dinosaur record labels (your doom awaits you) and their copyright claims, and physical copies at an affordable price may now be impossible to find, but you should endeavour to listen to this at some point in your life if you never have. A part of electronic music history.