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Ramona Andra Xavier (born August 19, 1992), better known as Vektroid, is a Portland based musician and visual artist. She has released over 40 albums since 2005 under a myriad of producer handles, spanning such disparate electronic genres as synthwave, IDM, musique concrète, ambient and breakcore. She is best known for being the TropeCodifier of {{Vaporwave}} as Macintosh Plus and that alias' album, ''Floral Shoppe''. She has also conceptualized and produced all of the artwork and packaging for all of her releases.

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Ramona Andra Xavier Langley (born August 19, 1992), better known as Vektroid, is a Portland based musician and visual artist. She has released over 40 albums since 2005 under a myriad of producer handles, spanning such disparate electronic genres as synthwave, IDM, musique concrète, ambient and breakcore. She is best known for being the TropeCodifier of {{Vaporwave}} as Macintosh Plus and that alias' album, ''Floral Shoppe''. She has also conceptualized and produced all of the artwork and packaging for all of her releases.
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* LongTitle: "WELCOME 2 SHOP@HOME NETW☯RK LLC #WEEDBREAK #ROLL_UP_THEM_BLUNTS_FOR_2K12"[[note]]Later shortened to just "SHOP@HOME NETW☯RK LLC"[[/note]] by 情報デスクVIRTUAL and "リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュ" by MACINTOSH PLUS, among others.
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* ''Fuji Grid TV II: EMX'' (2022)
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* {{Mondegreen}}: In "リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュ", the final line in the chorus of the sampled song (Diana Ross' "It's Your Move") has been commonly misheard as "It's all in your head" even though it's really "It's all in your hands".
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Ramona Andra Xavier (born August 19, 1992), better known as Vektroid, is a Portland based musician and visual artist. She has released over 40 albums since 2005 under a myriad of producer handles, spanning such disparate electronic genres as synthwave, IDM, musique concrète, ambient and breakcore. She best known for being the TropeCodifier of {{Vaporwave}} as Macintosh Plus and that alias' album, ''Floral Shoppe''. She has also conceptualized and produced all of the artwork and packaging for all of her releases.

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Ramona Andra Xavier (born August 19, 1992), better known as Vektroid, is a Portland based musician and visual artist. She has released over 40 albums since 2005 under a myriad of producer handles, spanning such disparate electronic genres as synthwave, IDM, musique concrète, ambient and breakcore. She is best known for being the TropeCodifier of {{Vaporwave}} as Macintosh Plus and that alias' album, ''Floral Shoppe''. She has also conceptualized and produced all of the artwork and packaging for all of her releases.

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* EpicRocking[=/=]MinisculeRocking: "Liquid Air" by Laserdisc Visions is three seconds shy of a minute long, while Macintosh Plus' "リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュ" is over seven minutes.

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* EpicRocking[=/=]MinisculeRocking: "Liquid Air" by Laserdisc Visions is three seconds shy of a minute long, while EpicRocking: Macintosh Plus' "リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュ" is over seven minutes.


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* MinisculeRocking: "Liquid Air" by Laserdisc Visions is three seconds shy of a minute long.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Well... let's just say that the sounds of Macintosh Plus '''''[[HellIsThatNoise changed]] [[SensoryAbuse considerably]]''''' during the eight year-long gap that seperated ''Floral Shoppe'' and ''Sick & Panic'''.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Well... let's just say that the sounds of Macintosh Plus '''''[[HellIsThatNoise changed]] [[SensoryAbuse considerably]]''''' during the eight year-long gap that seperated ''Floral Shoppe'' and from ''Sick & Panic'''.Panic''.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Well... let's just say that the sounds of Macintosh Plus '''''[[HellIsThatNoise changed]] [[SensoryAbuse considerably]]''''' during the eight year-long gap that seperated ''Floral Shoppe'' and ''Sick & Panic'''.



* DarkerAndEdgier: The eight year gap between the Macintosh Plus releases ''Floral Shoppe'' and ''Sick & Panic'' has made '''''quite the considerable difference'''''

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* Macintosh Plus - ''Sick & Panic'' (2019)[[note]]Released as a single, 12-minute long track[[/note]]



* EpicRocking[=/=]MinisculeRocking: "Liquid Air" by Laserdisc Visions is three seconds shy of a minute long, while Mac Plus' "リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュ" is over seven minutes.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: The eight year gap between the Macintosh Plus releases ''Floral Shoppe'' and ''Sick & Panic'' has made '''''quite the considerable difference'''''
* EpicRocking[=/=]MinisculeRocking: "Liquid Air" by Laserdisc Visions is three seconds shy of a minute long, while Mac Macintosh Plus' "リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュ" is over seven minutes.


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** ''Sick & Panic'' is twelve and a half minutes long.
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Her [[http://vektroid.bandcamp.com/ Bandcamp]], [[http://vektroid.net/ tumblr]], [[https://twitter.com/waterfallvoyeur Twitter]] and [[https://soundcloud.com/vektroid Soundcloud]] can be found here.

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Her [[http://vektroid.bandcamp.com/ Bandcamp]], [[http://vektroid.net/ tumblr]], [[https://twitter.com/waterfallvoyeur com/Vektroid Twitter]] and [[https://soundcloud.com/vektroid Soundcloud]] can be found here.
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** Macintosh Plus' ''Floral Shoppe'' got a similar treatment to New Dreams Ltd. On cassette and vinyl, the two untitled tracks were swapped out for two new songs, a couple tracks are pitched downward and slower, and one track also fades into the next.
** Vektroid's ''Color Ocean Road'' had five bonus songs added onto the end shortly after its initial release.

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** Macintosh Plus' ''Floral Shoppe'' got a similar treatment to New Dreams Ltd. On cassette and vinyl, the two untitled tracks final songs were swapped out for two new songs, a couple tracks are pitched downward and slower, and one track also fades into the next.
next. The 2017 vinyl reissue is a remastered version of the cassette but removes the segue on side A. A bonus song is also included.
** Vektroid's ''Color Ocean Road'' had five bonus songs added onto the end shortly after its initial release. In 2017, the final bonus song was moved up in the track position, appearing as the final song of the EP proper before the bonus tracks.

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* {{Title 1}}: ''Initiation Tape - Part 1''.

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* StylisticSuck: Implied with 情報デスクVIRTUAL's album ''札幌コンテンポラリー'', in which song snippets were simply slowed down and looped with zero added effects.
* {{Title 1}}: ''Omegaalpha (Disc One)'' and ''Initiation Tape - Part 1''.
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* InsultBackfire: The New Dreams Ltd. series of albums, which encompasses all of her work in vaporwave, was created as a StealthParody of undiscerning internet hipsters pretending to like things for ironic reasons. She ended up codifying vaporwave into the household name that it is by doing so, creating countless imitators alongside genuine musicians who pushed the genre forward.

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* InsultBackfire: The [[https://www.discogs.com/label/486068-New-Dreams-Ltd New Dreams Ltd. series of albums, albums]][[note]]Not to be confused with the albums released under the artist name of New Dreams Ltd.[[/note]], which encompasses all of her work in vaporwave, was created as a StealthParody of undiscerning internet hipsters pretending to like things for ironic reasons. She ended up codifying vaporwave into the household name that it is by doing so, creating countless imitators alongside genuine musicians who pushed the genre forward.
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* InsultBackfire: The New Dreams Ltd. series of albums, which encompasses all of her work in vaporwave, was created as a StealthParody of undiscerning internet hipsters pretending to like things for ironic reasons. She ended up codifying vaporwave into the household name that it is by doing so, creating countless imitators alongside genuine musicians who pushed the genre forward.

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Ramona Andra Xavier (born August 19, 1992), better known as Vektroid, is a Portland based artist, best known for being the TropeCodifier of {{Vaporwave}} as Macintosh Plus.

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Ramona Andra Xavier (born August 19, 1992), better known as Vektroid, is a Portland based artist, musician and visual artist. She has released over 40 albums since 2005 under a myriad of producer handles, spanning such disparate electronic genres as synthwave, IDM, musique concrète, ambient and breakcore. She best known for being the TropeCodifier of {{Vaporwave}} as Macintosh Plus.
Plus and that alias' album, ''Floral Shoppe''. She has also conceptualized and produced all of the artwork and packaging for all of her releases.



** Several of her ambient pieces stretch up to twenty minutes.
** Nearly the entirety of the dstnt alias does not go under nine minutes, with the four songs on ''NSII'' being longer than thirty.



* IHaveManyNames: Vektroid, Vektordrum, Vktrfry, Tanning Salon and many many others.
* GratuitousJapanese: Used in her vaporwave works.

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* IHaveManyNames: Vektroid, Vektordrum, Vktrfry, Tanning Salon and many many others.
* GratuitousJapanese: Used in her vaporwave works. Some of it includes redundancies (such as listing the English translation directly after the Japanese text) or mistranslations caused by inputting text into Google Translate.
* IHaveManyNames: Vectorfray, Vktrfry, Vektordrum, dstnt, VEKTROID, Laserdisc Visions, Fuji Grid TV, New Dreams Ltd., esc 不在, Tanning Salon, Macintosh Plus, 情報デスクVIRTUAL, Sacred Tapestry, [=PrismCorp=] Virtual Enterprises, CTO and Peace Forever Eternal are all her. Every name in that list past VEKTROID are all one-off aliases.

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** Vektroid's ''Neo Cali'' was originally a 10 song album. It was quickly turned into a 15 song album while removing "Wild Wave", but as of 2018 is a 14 song album, having removed "Untitled" as well.

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** Vektroid's ''Neo Cali'' was originally a 10 song album. It was quickly turned into a 15 song album while also removing "Wild Wave", but as of 2018 is a 14 song album, having removed "Untitled" as well.


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** Vektroid's ''Color Ocean Road'' had five bonus songs added onto the end shortly after its initial release.

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* UpdatedRerelease:
** The Isle of Avalon album is this to the New Dreams Ltd Initiation Tape, and the esc不在 albums.
** The cassette version of ''New Dreams Ltd.'' adds two extra songs, Japanese commercial soundbytes in the background and FadingIntoTheNextSong.
** The cassette version of ''Floral Shoppe'' got a similar treatment; both of the untitled tracks are swapped out for two new tracks, a couple tracks are slower, and one track also fades into the next.
** The 2010 EP ''Telnet Erotika'' was updated to ''Telnet Complete'' in 2017, adding 12 new tracks and (sometimes drastically) remixing the originals.

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UpdatedRerelease: Xavier has a habit of re-evaluating and re-packaging older works:
** Vektordrum's two 2009 ''Hello Skypedals'' [=EPs=] would be reconfigured into ''[=Hello1&2=]'' in 2016. The Isle of Avalon new album is this to re-ordered the songs and ditched the remixes by Nonima.
** Vektordrum's 161-minute 2009 album ''I, Banished'' was re-cut into the 79-minute ''Geese'' in 2010, with the title track pitched down, another song entirely rebuilt into a new song, and all included songs gaining new segues. A later digital re-issue in 2016 gave it different cover art.
**Vektroid's 2010 EP ''TELNET EROTIKA'' would be reissued as ''Telnet Complete'' in 2017 with 12 bonus songs, an entirely different running order, and reworkings of the original 5 songs.
**Vektroid's ''Starcalc'' was a 12 song album that came with a bonus 11 song package consisting of ''Polymind EP'', ''Sphinx Caverns'' and ''Windows Safari''. The latter two [=EPs=] were quickly repackaged as ''Polytravellers'', while all but one song from ''Polymind EP'' were added to ''Starcalc'' alongside 4 other bonus songs.
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New Dreams Ltd Initiation Tape, and Ltd.'s ''Initiation Tape'' would receive a remastering in 2014, adding several songs from the esc不在 albums.
** The cassette version of Laserdisc Visions' ''New Dreams Ltd.'' adds has 3 versions: A 21-track digital release; a 22-track cassette version with two additional songs and "Zik Zak" and "Liquid Air" merged; and a 27-track digital re-issue one year later, retaining the order of the first release but adding five different extra songs, songs and one extra song from the cassette version. The cassette version also added Japanese commercial soundbytes in as an ambient haze to the background full length of the album.
** Fuji Grid TV's ''Prism Genesis'' would be expanded
and FadingIntoTheNextSong.
reissued in 2016 under the artist name of New Dreams Ltd. and the album name of ''Fuji Grid TV EX''.
** The cassette version Vektroid's ''Neo Cali'' was originally a 10 song album. It was quickly turned into a 15 song album while removing "Wild Wave", but as of 2018 is a 14 song album, having removed "Untitled" as well.
** Macintosh Plus'
''Floral Shoppe'' got a similar treatment; both of treatment to New Dreams Ltd. On cassette and vinyl, the two untitled tracks are were swapped out for two new tracks, songs, a couple tracks are pitched downward and slower, and one track also fades into the next.
** The 2010 EP ''Telnet Erotika'' was updated to ''Telnet Sacred Tapestry's ''Shader'' got a reissue as ''Shader Complete'' in 2017, adding 12 2016, with a revised track order and new tracks music.
** [=PrismCorp=] Virtual Enterprises' two albums from 2013 were issued with expanded tracklists on cassette. Both albums received "Complete Edition" reissues in 2016. All three versions of ''Home™''
and (sometimes drastically) remixing ''[=ClearSkies™=]'' have different trackorders and bonus songs, with one song from ''[=ClearSkies™=]'' remaining exclusive to the originals.cassette version.

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