Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Write, Draw, Sleep, Drink Coffee. 'Cause this is my united mandala of whatever.

What if you wanted a certain Rachro record but someone else already got it?  Bummer.  It happens.

If you really loved a certain record but the original is no longer available,  don't despair - because now some of my previous designs can be printed on merchandise.
It's not a record, but it's still just as cool.

If you have a personal request for a specific record in my collection that you'd like to see in my merch store, please contact me and I'll see what I can do to help.  But check this out.  I must say, the journals and pillows look super cool with a record mandala on them.
I love the hardback blank books, too.  So many nifty doodads.
Travel coffeemug!  Now yer talkin'!

LOOK:  BOOK


Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Smackwater Jack

I knew that when I had Quincy Jones as my record muse that this one would turn out totally freaking cool. And it did.

The colors on this painted record are much richer in person.  The brown design is a reddish chocolate color and the background colors are a beautiful pale aqua, light blue, and dark blue.  The edges are an orange/rust color.

If you want to hear an incredible, mostly acoustic version of What's Goin' On (made famous by Marvin Gaye), then get yourself a copy of this record.  Unfortunately, this one was too scratched up to listen to, but there's always YouTube or your local record store.














Ce n'est pas un record

This isn't a record, but what it lacks in vinyl it more than makes up for in color saturation and psychedelic goodness.






Let's Dance to Green Onions



This groovy record has some of my favorite songs of all time on it.  Sadly, it came to me heavily scratched with some deep gauges.  But now it lives on in its next incarnation as a Rachro Mandala.

Do yourself a favor and check out this awesome old footage of "Green Onions", by the incredible Booker T and the MG's.

Click right here to see a video of ---> GREEN ONIONS

Meanwhile, back to records.  This is my painted record of The Best of Booker T and the MG's.









Rachro Records in the house...

Have you been looking at my painted records and wondering what they'd look like in your home, framed?
Here's an example, using my recent "Sparks" painted record.

If you would like a custom record painted just for you, please contact me privately through my Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/RecordsByRachro




Saturday, June 11, 2016

Badger Badger Badger Badger.....MUSHROOM MUSHROOM

The whole time I was painting this record, I kept getting stuck on the Badger Badger earworm.  If you've never heard it, well, here ya go (*also be sure to check out Weebl and Bob- "When come back bring pie...").


ANYWAY.....

I painted this far out, psychedelic Mushroom label record, which was once the Canadian band Chilliwack.
LOOK AT THIS CRAZY RECORD!
You will see colors you have never seen, much like the elusive and silently powerful mantis shrimp.  You will go on a mind journey.  You will see auras.  You will see your past lives.

Hmmm, no. None of those things are true.  You will not see those things, most likely.
Or maybe you will. Who am I to say?

All I can say is that this is a beautiful record with pretty colors that makes me happy to look at.
I hope you like it too.


UPDATE: SOLD!  AND NOW BEING DISPLAYED IN BEAUTIFUL, SUNNY CALIFORNIA.


With a Girl Like You


Hurts So Good, by John Cougar Mellencamp.  This is a 45 record - a departure from my usual LP paintings.
Seeing this song takes me back to my young teen years, back when my Gen X friends and I were the young teen generation that MTV was invented for.  We started high school right as it launched, and we went from a family with 7 local television channels with an 18-hour broadcast day that shut off at midnight to an entertainment explosion 24-hour cable family with 200 channels of never-ending insanity.
What an exciting time.  It changed us all.  The Gen Ys and Millennials that followed us were born into a time of round-the-clock global availability of just about anything and computerized everything at the speed of light.  No need to ever learn about ....w a i t i n g.....  for things.
Because now it's all just right there.
(Do you remember the MTV astronaut?)
Youth.