This artist reimagines modern hip-hop albums as old school records

DAMN.

Mainstream hip-hop may have a love-hate relationship with vinyl these days, but that certainly wasn’t always the case.

Re-kindling some of that dollar-bin classic funk, soul and jazz feel – dog-ears and all – graphic designer and art director Patso Dimitrov has created his own mini-archive of contemporary hip-hop and RnB record sleeves, imagined in a vintage style.

#DAMN 60s

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From Kendrick Lamar and Beyoncé to Erykah Badu, Kanye and Chance The Rapper, Dimitrov’s designs add a bit of aged gravitas to the album sleeves, inspired by him own love for records like Isaac Hayes’ Black Moses.

Speaking with Crack magazine, he says:

The idea came to me very organically. I collect vinyl records myself and am a huge music fan period (not only hip-hop).

Obviously I’ve been doing alternate artworks for a while now and have always liked to put my spin on things, but for the past few months I’ve been in the creative space of listening to a lot of funk and jazz from the 70s and 80s, and trying to put a more modern, more personal, spin to the visuals from that period of time.

So when I combined that with my fondness of the record covers I recreated, that was the end result.

Never got around to posting this. 70s Life of Pablo vinyl.

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Click right below to scroll through the shots from his Instagram account and see more designs over on his website.

I've recreated some of hip-hop's biggest releases in the past couple of years to look like they came out in the 70s & 80s. You can view them in full quality on my website.

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Part 2 – had to give the ladies with beautiful voices the 70s treatment too, to complete the whole project. Full quality on my website as usual.

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