Preview of new espresso table book, Mondo: The Art of Soundtracks

Mondo is the pop-society emporium and geeky art gallery based in Austin, Texas renowned for their customized apparel, collector tribute posters, tiki mugs, toys, board games, guides, and deluxe, constrained-edition vinyl releases for iconic sci-fi, horror, and fantasy attributes.

Now, in the wake of its 2017 hardcover release titled The Artwork of Mondo, the individuals at this nerdy establishment are offering up a vivid new selection of original artwork made use of to adorn its library of motion picture and online video sport soundtracks pressed onto premium vinyl.

Arriving on June 1, Mondo: The Artwork of Soundtracks is a 216-page hardcover that spotlights the imaginative cover and gatefold art designed by an worldwide roster of acclaimed artists and featured in the company’s document products line — and SYFY WIRE has an distinctive peek to share.

The constrained-edition vinyl industry has exploded in the final decade, with millions of audiophiles reliving the glory of traditional albums and their accompanying art.

This colourful espresso desk e-book is published by Todd Gilchrist with Mo Shafeek and Spencer Hickman, Co-Artistic Administrators for Mondo Songs and Loss of life Waltz Recording Co., and is brimming with about 90 parts of impressed soundtrack interpretations in a range of mediums such as photographs, electronic paintings, collages, and abstract renderings.

“There is anything truly magical and one of a kind about a soundtrack,” co-creator Mo Shafeek tells SYFY WIRE. “It’s a person of the few varieties of new music that comes anchored with a visible association past a sq. album protect. There a 3-dimensionality and emotionality that is spawned from your connection to the film, the engage in, the television clearly show, the videogame, the assets etc. And for the reason that of that, it presents limitless option to do choice interpretations. And the vinyl format, in specific, is just the perfect sized canvas to check out all of these opportunities.” 

Mondo has extended been acknowledged as the Poster company and soon after they saw the enthusiastic response for their poster retrospective, they wanted to showcase just one of the lots of other items Mondo is renowned for.

“So we sat down and did our ideal to do a full retrospective of what Mondo and our sister label Death Waltz Recording Co., have put in ten decades bringing to the record merchants,” Shafeek adds. “Some of these information you can even now discover in suppliers, but lots of are lengthy out of push and will under no circumstances be created again, and we tried to balance that, even though offering men and women the prospect to see a celebration of the vinyl medium as a canvas, and display some appreciate to the style of soundtracks.”

Now look at out our distinctive look inside of Mondo: The Art of Soundtracks, presenting art and coloured vinyl photographs for Aliens, Back to the Foreseeable future, Fight Club, Blade Runner 2049, Liquid Sky, Halloween, and extra.