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Jack White’s record label built a turntable that works in outer space
by Tyler Munro
July 26, 2016
The ominously named Icarus Craft will attempt to play a gold plated record in space later this month.
Never one to pass on an insane idea, Jack “Vinyls” White hinted last week that his Third Man Records were up to something out of this world with their next gimmick. Immediately, rumours flooded the internet: “He’s going to play a record in space,” said people like us, half smirked, half curious. But Jack White was fully chubbed the entire time — today, it became official.
On July 30th, to celebrate their 7th birthday, Third Man Records will live every little boy’s dream – they’re blasting off into outer space.
The label has announced The Icarus Craft, a custom built “space-proof” turntable that will float up in a high-altitude balloon, where it will drop the needle on a gold plated copy of Carl Sagan’s A Glorious Dawn.
Full details on how The Icarus Craft will work are sparse and, we assume, being withheld until its launch later this month, but pictures shared by the label show that the device is… hefty.
Expect an update on how this went when everything happens on the 30th. If we’re lucky, it will work, and Jack White can move onto his next gimmick, which we hope will be somewhere in the realm of an album better than Blunderbuss.
