Over the past 5 years, Third Man Records has brought to life many ideas that are new to the century-old vinyl format. So, when it came time for the creative hive to discuss the vision for the pressing of Jack White’s Lazaretto, we were keenly aware of what it would take to produce a piece of wax worthy of the music it would contain… No single innovation would suffice. We needed to go big. We needed to go bold. We needed to press an ULTRA LP.
- 180 gram vinyl
- 2 vinyl-only hidden tracks hidden beneath the center labels
- 1 hidden track plays at 78 RPM, one plays at 45 RPM, making this a 3-speed record
- Side A plays from the inside out
- Dual-groove technology: plays an electric or acoustic intro for “Just One Drink” depending on where needle is dropped. The grooves meet for the body of the song.
- Matte finish on Side B, giving the appearance of an un-played 78 RPM record
- Both sides end with locked grooves
- Vinyl pressed in seldom-used flat-edged format
- Dead wax area on Side A contains a hand-etched hologram by Tristan Duke of Infinity Light Science, the first of its kind on a vinyl record
- Zero compression used during mastering
- Different running order from the CD/digital version
- LP utilizes some mixes different from those used on CD and digital version
Vault members needn’t worry – the Vault version and the standard version of Lazaretto both contain all ULTRA LP features. The LP will come with an MP3 download card. Pre-order begins today. Lazaretto will be officially released June 10th.
Awesome!
was Jack singing about smoking weed and diggin’ coke on the first hidden track? or is it that just what i want to hear?
Unbelievably fantastic.
Quite simply fantastic,vault forever.
Did a little dance and then fainted. I’m OK now, thanks! Faints
Wow thanks Ben for reading my mind! Double thanks for including the digital downloads but, will still have to convert so I can listen to every version while I work! Thank you thank You tHANK yOU !!! Turning 40 this summer might not be so bad. Ohh just found out a couple of local guys here their new CD comes out in June as well. The exciting part is they have included a track recorded in the TMR record booth. Wonderful speedy guitar angelic mandolin Billy Strings and Don Julin amazing duo!
Awesome innovations!!! Keep em coming…
Oh yeah, I forgot to include the “No reason to complain about anything, ever again.” in my previous post. Another good one :)
“Of course there is no knowing unless you go through every record ever made.” “We figured an angel would be a good place to start…an angel or nothing else…since it’s also a good place to end. It is.” Hilarious.
“No reason to complain about anything, ever again.”
Gotdamn great sense of humor, right there! Taking oneself too seriously is masochistic-ego-masturbation, it’ll eat ya up. Good onya, guys. Love it.
Exciting!!!!