Once upon a time there were Vinyls….

…oh, it’s true, they are still alive and somebody captured its beauty and didn’t forget the fetishistic pleasure to have it (and somebody like me do have a lot of vinyls, but not yet a record player…my bad) but maybe the most dreamy sensation is to be in front of the visionary power that the big cover artwork expresses: it is like a mirror where you see imaginary worlds where you would like to live in.

Starting from the cover art of album ‘Strange Heaven’ , the incredibly talented Derrick Acosta, along with Dusty Peterman, gives life to the indie-surf-punks song ‘The Dead 80′s’ of the San Diego based band Mrs. Magician and their own city becomes a psychedelic vortex where you are passenger on drugs thrown across the fuzzy waves with no possibility to understand what surrounds you: an airplane? Palms? Wait…killer whale and a halloween pumpkin?? yeah…

The duo Acosta/Peterman perfectly blend flashy 2D animation with details modelled in 3D (like the non-sense black worm) and create a black and white world without the colours’ absence softening the psychedelic taste, quite the opposite: they filtered this fascinating world with a jammed vision and with effects that imitate the distortions of the old cathode-ray tube tv.

A kaleidoscopic trip in 80′s taste.