A retro sports car in teal and blue angled toward the right, parked in front of a large circular vinyl-record scene. The record shows a striped orange-and-pink sunset at center, palm trees, flying birds, & a dark city skyline beneath a blue gradient sky with curved groove lines. Sandy dunes & bridge cables appear along the lower horizon. The car has sharp angular lines, a rear spoiler, glowing yellow headlights, & teal wheels. The artwork is "Retro Vinyl Soundtrack" by Vincent Trinidad.
The circle behaves like both sun and sound. A large vinyl record fills the upper half of the composition, its grooves visible as curved concentric lines that arc across the sky. The center label becomes a sunset — a perfect circle of orange fading into pink, divided by horizontal stripes that echo both record grooves and horizon lines. The sky above shifts from turquoise into deep blue, creating the illusion that the record itself is playing the evening.
Your eye moves outward to the silhouettes. Palm trees rise on either side of the sunset, their fronds thin and angular, framing the center like stage lights. Behind them, a dark city skyline stretches across the horizon, buildings reduced to blocky shapes that feel distant and quiet. Small birds arc across the upper sky, their silhouettes spaced lightly, reinforcing motion without clutter.
Below the skyline, the landscape turns surreal. Soft sand dunes roll across the midground, their curves simplified and warm, colored in tan and cream. Thin bridge cables cut horizontally through the scene, glowing faintly teal, adding a subtle structural rhythm that contrasts the organic dunes. The environment feels like a memory stitched together from sound, place, and motion.
Then the car takes the foreground. A low, angular retro sports car sits just outside the circle, angled forward as if ready to drive through the scene. Its body is teal and deep blue, with sharp edges, wide stance, and a pronounced rear spoiler. The headlights glow yellow, small but intentional, adding a sense of readiness rather than speed. The wheels are stylized, teal rims catching light, while thin accent lines in pink and purple run along the lower body.
A shift in feeling happens when you notice how the car overlaps the record. The vehicle breaks the boundary of the circle, grounding the dreamlike vinyl world into something tangible. It feels like the soundtrack has materialized into motion — music becoming machine.
The background remains pure black. No road, no ground, no sky beyond the record. This isolation forces the car and vinyl world into dialogue with one another. The illustration style is clean, graphic, and neon-inflected, with smooth gradients and crisp outlines that evoke 1980s poster art and synthwave aesthetics.
On stonewashed denim, the neon tones soften into nostalgia. The blues and teals diffuse into the worn twill, becoming duskier and more atmospheric. The sunset center warms into muted coral and amber, and the vinyl grooves blur gently, feeling more like memory than sound.
The car’s sharp edges soften slightly, its paint reading less glossy and more matte. Emotionally, the artwork shifts toward reflection — a late-night drive remembered rather than taken.
Stonewashed denim makes Retro Vinyl Soundtrack feel like a favorite album cover pulled from a shelf, edges worn, emotions intact.
On white denim, clarity takes control. The vinyl circle becomes crisp and graphic, grooves sharply defined. The sunset stripes pop cleanly, and the palm trees and skyline separate clearly into layers. The car’s body lines sharpen, its teal and blue paint vibrant and polished.
The headlights glow distinctly, and the accent colors read clearly. Emotionally, white denim presents the artwork as energetic and celebratory — a bold homage to motion, music, and style.
On black denim, the piece becomes cinematic and immersive. The background disappears, allowing the vinyl record to glow like a portal. The sunset burns brighter, the sky deepens, and the palm silhouettes feel suspended in night. The car’s neon accents intensify, and the headlights feel more alive.
Emotionally, black denim transforms Retro Vinyl Soundtrack into a nocturnal anthem — a visual mixtape of speed, sound, and solitude — where the road exists only in imagination, and the music carries you forward through darkness.
