Giorgio Moroder is freaking cool, people. He invented, like, electronica, and dance music, and disco, and techno, and everything: check out songs like Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love” for proof, yo.

And I mean, dude wrote the soundtracks to Scarface AND Midnight Express! What?!?!!

You wouldn’t think Giorgio Moroder could get any cooler. Well… Think again! The maestro recently released a book, Extraordinary Records: Any Color Except Black—The High Baroque Of Vinyl Recordings, that does for album visuals what Moroder’s synthesizers did for sound. Most album design books concentrate on record cover art, but Extraordinary Records goes one cooler than that and focuses on the visual possibilities of the actual vinyl disc itself. Spanning Mastodon to Pink Floyd, the images captured here are truly freaky deaky and surreal, reminding us how wildly creative the music biz could be in days of yore. Moroder captures vinyl graphic oddities transformed into Medusa’s heads, biomorphic shapes, and psychedelic eyeballs and stuff—really, these pictures make CDs and, gosh, especially MP3s seem totally lame. Rock on, Giorgio!