Ramona Andra Langley is an American

electronic musician Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...

from

Portland, Oregon Portland ( ) is the List of cities in Oregon, most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region. Situated close to northwest Oregon at the confluence of the Willamette River, Willamette and Columbia River, ...

. 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. Langley played a prominent role in the popularization of the

vaporwave Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music, a visual art style, and an Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s and became well-known in 2015. It is defined partly by its slowed-down, chopped and screwed samples of smooth jazz, 1970 ...

subgenre with the release of her ninth

studio album An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, dig ...

, ''

Floral Shoppe 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. It was one of the first releases of the 2010s m ...

'', under the alias Macintosh Plus. Since then, she has continued to release music through

Bandcamp Bandcamp is an American online music distribution platform founded in 2008 by Oddpost co-founder Ethan Diamond and programmers Shawn Grunberger, Joe Holt and Neal Tucker, with an office and record store in Oakland, California. Acquired by Epic ...

and other online platforms.

Career

Langley began producing and releasing

electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...

in 2005. She has released music through aliases, including Macintosh Plus, PrismCorp, and Laserdisc Visions, among others. She reports that she has put out over forty releases since 2005. Paolo Scarpa characterized Langley's music as an "exposé of

late capitalism The concept of late capitalism (in German: ''Spätkapitalismus''), also known as late-stage capitalism, was first used by the German social scientist Werner Sombart (1863–1941) in 1928, to describe the new capitalist order emerging at that tim ...

". James Parker noted Vektroid's "sensuous virtuality" and "new cyber-pop unconscious". Writing for Sputnikmusic, Adam Downer called ''

'' a shift toward beauty in an age that has nearly "run the gamut of what artists and musicians can do".

Tiny Mix Tapes ''Tiny Mix Tapes'' (also ''TMT'' or ''tinymixtapes'') is an online music and film webzine that focuses primarily on new music and related news. In addition to its reviews, it is noted for its subversive, political, and sometimes surreal news, ...

ranked ''

'' and '' 札幌コンテンポラリー'', released by Langley under her Macintosh Plus and 情報デスクVIRTUAL aliases, respectively, on its list of its 50 favorite albums of 2012. ''

Fact A fact is a truth, true data, datum about one or more aspects of a circumstance. Standard reference works are often used to Fact-checking, check facts. Science, Scientific facts are verified by repeatable careful observation or measurement by ...

'' magazine called ''Floral Shoppe'' the defining album of

, the streaming service through which Vektroid releases her music. The album is the site's most user-recommended album in the

experimental music Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, ...

category. Langley stopped releasing music regularly in early 2013, only releasing two albums of that year, '' Home™'' and '' ClearSkies™''. Both albums were released under the PrismCorp Virtual Enterprises pseudonym in April. In 2014, Langley released '' Initiation Tape: Isle of Avalon Edition'', a revision of her release ''Initiation Tape - Part One'', as New Dreams Ltd. In early 2015, she collaborated with electronic duo Magic Fades to produce a remix of the song "Ecco" from their debut album, ''Push Through''. In February 2016 she released three albums, ''

Fuji Grid TV EX ''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 first released through Tumblr on the same day as '' Black Horse / MIDI Dungeon'', ...

'', ''

Shader Complete ''Shader'' is the twelfth album by electronic musician Vektroid (under the one-time alias of ''Sacred Tapestry''). The album's musical style incorporates more drone and ambient influences compared to previous Vektroid vaporwave releases, and al ...

'' and ''

Sleepline ''Sleepline'' is the fifteenth album, studio album by electronic music, electronic and vaporwave artist Vektroid under the alias New Dreams Ltd., released on February 14, 2016. Release The album was released on Valentine's Day simultaneously wit ...

''. The first two are revisions of some of her albums, while the last one was produced in 2013 but never released previously.

Impact and legacy

Under various aliases, Langley played a role in the creation of the modern electronic genre

between 2010 and 2013. Her projects, Macintosh Plus and New Dreams Ltd., are considered as the primary artists in the vaporwave genre.

Personal life

Langley resides in

. She came out as a

trans woman A trans woman or transgender woman is a woman who was assigned male at birth. Trans women have a female gender identity and may experience gender dysphoria (distress brought upon by the discrepancy between a person's gender identity and their ...

in 2011. She was diagnosed with

autism Autism, also known as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by differences or difficulties in social communication and interaction, a preference for predictability and routine, sensory processing d ...

in February 2024.

Discography

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Langley, Ramona Andra 21st-century American LGBTQ people 21st-century American women musicians American electronic musicians American experimental musicians American musicians with disabilities American transgender women American transgender musicians American women in electronic music LGBTQ musicians with disabilities LGBTQ people from Oregon Living people Autistic musicians Transgender women musicians Vaporwave musicians Year of birth missing (living people) Autistic LGBTQ people Transgender people with disabilities