REBELLO MUSIC
Bringing my brother’s Goa and Lisbon inspired electronic to life with spray paint and vibes.
📍 LONDON, UK
PROECT: MUSIC BRANDING
Rebello Music is the electronic music production and DJ name of my brother, Julio. From his most recent releases to his MySpace-era artwork, I have been his lifelong collaborating graphic designer.
CREATIVE DIRECTOR
A lifelong collaboration between me and my brother. He creates culturally rich electronic music inspired by our family heritage, Goa, and London’s electronic and grime scenes. I listen to the music, understand his vision, and translate it into visual artwork for his public releases.
From Lisbon with Love
His most recent release, Lisbon Syndrome, was inspired by a trip to Lisbon, following the footsteps of Brazilian producers like Baile Funk artists who travelled to Europe. The EP explores the clash and blending of cultures that also exists within his own identity, sitting between Europe and India.
Like most personal projects, I only take them on if it means getting off the computer and getting my hands messy. I created typography using an old drippy paint marker, built bespoke gradients with spray paint, and brought everything together in Photoshop and After Effects to create animated front covers.
Air force ones
Releasing his Air Force Ones track, I listened to a loud, eclectic soundscape and wanted to create artwork that felt unique and handmade, using paint, drips, and blended textures. It was heavily inspired by my time in East London and Shoreditch, surrounded by rave flyers and dubstep record covers.
Review the situation,
Take part, Take over
These two artworks later became iconic tropicool t-shirts, both inspired by UK grime lyrics from Dizzee Rascal to Skepta. At this point, I was a professional designer using typography and photography experimentally to create artwork.
Stretch your mind to the limit,
YOU CAN DO IT
This piece began as a Christmas present for him. I asked for his favourite song lyric and he chose Do It by Dizzee Rascal. I took the more optimistic line, “stretch your mind to the limit, you can do it,” and created this artwork on textured paper using hand-drawn markers. It later became another tropical t-shirt, and was even bought by someone else as a Christmas gift for their own brother.
A life-long collaboration
This was closer to my MySpace era, when I wanted a way to create quick but still distinctive artwork for his SoundCloud releases. Using my Sony camera, I photographed our local area and places we went to uni, then combined those images with found and handwritten fonts to create short, fast, and unique artworks.
Juliooooooo
I also really love experimenting with hand-drawn typography. I was inspired by Kate Moross at the time for creating flowing, bubbly typography, rave flyers, and I wanted to create the same out of my brother's name, Julio.
Shout out my brother
My family will always be special to me. During a difficult period in my life, when I was losing vision in one of my eyes and waiting for surgery, my mum took me to an art shop and encouraged me to paint. Even though I could only see properly out of one eye, I spent my time off work painting a photo of my brother at a DJ set, inspired by an artist I was following on Instagram at the time, Funny Tummy Art. This piece is a shout out to my brother and my family for always supporting me, and a reminder that I’m more than happy creating art alongside them.
