the hideousness of contemporary record artwork

version

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I appreciate these aren’t modern, but perhaps some of the sleeves posted ain’t so bad after all

Still prefer this to most of the new ones, tbh. There's some imagination there at least and I like the lines and colours. There's obviously a nostalgia factor too as it looks very 90s, like the Wipeout games.
 

version

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One of the trends for a while's been nonchalant stuff pulled from your phone/laptop. Blurred selfies, screenshots, pictures of bits of cars, sunsets, etc. You see it on Bandcamp a lot because it's obviously a quick, personal way to stick an image to your music. It doesn't look bad, certainly not in comparison to the stuff posted so far, but it can feel a bit affected now it's a thing.
 

vvvwwwv

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One of the trends for a while's been nonchalant stuff pulled from your phone/laptop. Blurred selfies, screenshots, pictures of bits of cars, sunsets, etc. You see it on Bandcamp a lot because it's obviously a quick, personal way to stick an image to your music. It doesn't look bad, certainly not in comparison to the stuff posted so far, but it can feel a bit affected now it's a thing.
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This from Jim Legxacy has this vibe
 

shakahislop

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obviously one thing that's going on is that there's a lot less money about, especially for selling music, so no label is paying for a full photoshoot and so on. always mad reading about how considered that was in the 90s for example. in fact there's much less attention paid to the visual identity of musicians now in general. it's moved with the times, the persona is created through social media, ie insta stories. a totally different form of mediation with it's own capacities and potentials - a lot of things persona-wise are no longer possible i think. the surroundings of the music, the other parts of the assemblage, are a lot less controllable
 

mixed_biscuits

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One of the trends for a while's been nonchalant stuff pulled from your phone/laptop. Blurred selfies, screenshots, pictures of bits of cars, sunsets, etc. You see it on Bandcamp a lot because it's obviously a quick, personal way to stick an image to your music. It doesn't look bad, certainly not in comparison to the stuff posted so far, but it can feel a bit affected now it's a thing.
In the old days you'd get 30 of the blighters, not just one.

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wektor

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Doing some fieldwork tonight with the Nyege Nyege event in Rotterdam.
Had no idea bubbling originated in den Haag, still shook by how many influences (which are still very much relevant contemporarily) this release ties together.
More so, not as means do pastiche as has often been the case since the 2010s or so, but in a coherent manner of a rich and dance floor heavy genre

Looking fwd to seeing Shaun-D rip it
Posting here since the cover is more than relevant
 
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