Riton - Record covers

Riton Record covers

Series of two record covers for Riton's "Never new love" and the "My house, my rules" Mixtape.

Commissioned by Atlantic Records UK

Photography by Megan Winstone

Original, intermediate image (retouched and composited), final cover with bespoke typography.

Original and final cover. (a kind of "spot the difference" game 😉)

A few elements are composited from 3D objects (Substance 3D)

Collateral design for the single "My Bills"

Riton is London-based DJ and producer

Henry Smithson's career in dance music began in 1990s dance culture and the long trips to the Renaissance raves prompting him to launch his own promotions closer to his home in Newcastle. The success of the club spawned the Switch record label, whose releases eventually made the record bag of Manchester hip-hop patriarch Mark Rae, who subsequently offered Smithson a job at his Fat City record shop in Manchester and an outlet for his solo material as Riton (French slang for Henry) to Rae's accomplished Grand Central imprint. Although at first glance the brew of soul, R&B, and house of the resultant debut long-player Beats du Jour seemed some distant from his contemporaries at the label, Smithson's consistently growling low end and Funkadelic keys provided the all-important link to hip-hop. Source: Resident Advisor