Background
Xavier was born in Washington State in 1992.
artist engineer musician graphic designer
Xavier was born in Washington State in 1992.
She has released music under various aliases, including Macintosh Plus, New Dreams Limited, PrismCorp Virtual Enterprises, Laserdisc Visions, 情報デスクVIRTUAL, and dstnt, among others Xavier had a hand in the creation of the vaporwave subgenre of electronic music and the associated health goth subculture. She began producing and releasing music in 2005.
Xavier now resides in Hawthorne, Portland, Oregon.
Xavier has released music through aliases including Macintosh Plus, PrismCorp, and Laserdisc Visions, among others She reports that she has released over forty full-length albums since 2005.
James Parker noted Vektroid"s "sensuous virtuality" and "new cyber-popular unconscious". Writing for Sputnikmusic, Adam Downer called Floral Shoppe a shift toward beauty in an age that has nearly "run the gamut of what artists and musicians can do".
Tiny Mix Tapes ranked Floral Shoppe and 札幌コンテンポラリー, released by Xavier under her Macintosh Plus and 情報デスクVIRTUAL aliases, respectively, on its list of its 50 favorite albums of 2012.
Fact magazine called Floral Shoppe the defining album of Bandcamp, the streaming service through which Vektroid releases her music The album is the site"s most user-recommended album in the experimental music category. Xavier 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, Xavier released her most recent vaporwave project, Initiation Tape: Isle of Avalon Edition, a revision of her release initiation tape (part one), as New Dreams Limited. In early 2015, she collaborated with electronic duo Magic Fades to produce a remix of the song "Ecco" from their debut album, Push Through.
Under various aliases, Xavier played a role in the creation of the modern electronic genre vaporwave between 2010 and 2013. Xavier"s heavy use of Netto art in vaporwave, in turn, helped to spawn the health goth subculture.
Paolo Scarpa characterized Xavier"s music as an "exposé of late capitalism".
