Wouldn't releasing an album during that time be quite risky because of the ongoing legal issues with Apple Corps[1]? In 1991 Apple legal was so paranoid that they even worried about the names of Mac OS system sounds[2].
This is like maximum 80's cringe... I say that as a child of the 80's... I'm half tempted to cut this up and try and build some sort of vaporwave track. Seems tailor made for vaporwave.
You have it backwards. These were filmed versions of Apple corporate presentations, done for various events. The "Apple II Forever" was used at the 1984 sales meeting to introduce the //c and persuade dealers that the Apple ][ cash cow wasn't going to die overnight with the introduction of the Macintosh.
This was the era before cheap video projectors and PowerPoint. These shows were done with huge banks of slide projectors and a bunch of clever software to sequence the slides and do interesting transitions between them. What you're seeing on YouTube is a videotaped capture. Watch those videos again and look carefully. Each frame is one slide on a projector being crossfaded or overlapped with another slide on another projector. This happened in real time.
Decades later, the Apple corporate pre-show lives on in their WWDC and product introduction events, just in MPEG and 4K form.
More here, and it's kind of a fascinating artifact for its time:
Philippe Kahn, of Borland fame, recorded several jazz albums. Pacific High came with one release of Borland dBase in the '90s, this is the song Turbo Disturbo:
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 36.1 ms ] thread[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi
Blue Busters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KOnfN-ZDrs
Apple II Forever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcjlhFVTY50
Leading the Way: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbJy0O4UFSM
I guess stuff like this is what happens when your marketing department has too little to do.
This was the era before cheap video projectors and PowerPoint. These shows were done with huge banks of slide projectors and a bunch of clever software to sequence the slides and do interesting transitions between them. What you're seeing on YouTube is a videotaped capture. Watch those videos again and look carefully. Each frame is one slide on a projector being crossfaded or overlapped with another slide on another projector. This happened in real time.
Decades later, the Apple corporate pre-show lives on in their WWDC and product introduction events, just in MPEG and 4K form.
More here, and it's kind of a fascinating artifact for its time:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/11/1077232/corporat...
The MIT Technology Review article mentions the epic 1987 SAAB show, which someone uploaded to YouTube here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQq58_nWkE
Holy crap, is that Ken Nordine narrating?!?
"If there's something strange, stinking up your desk, who you gonna call? Blue busters!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLk7G--63SA