Jack White To Release World’s First 3RPM Vinyl

Jack White has announced plans to release the world’s first 3 RPM vinyl.

Now, if you don’t really understand what that means, let’s just say that most vinyl works at 78 RPM, making 3 RPM almost impossible to listen to for an extended length of time.

The release will be a 12’ vinyl using the format, and will feature songs from every ‘Blue Series’ the label has ever recorded, including First Aid Kit, Laura Marling, Wanda Jackson, Tom Jones, as well as White’s collaboration Insane Clown Posse.

A post on the Third Man Records website has given an insight into the project: ‘The world’s first 3 RPM record is a study in contradictions— it’s cut at the slowest speed yet it plays faster than anything you’ve ever heard. It’s a compilation of 7 inch records but it’s packaged like a 12 inch. But the 12 inch sleeve is made like our 7 inch sleeve (as it is one continues piece of paper folded in half and put into an acetate sleeve). It’s easy to play but impossible to hear. You put your finger on it to slow it down and we estimate it would take 333 days of 33 hours training per day for your finger, hand, and arm muscles to spin at a continuous speed of 3 rpm for X hours and X minutes.’

Jack White will be releasing his debut solo album on the 23rd April via Third Man Records / XL Recordings.

He will also be making two UK appearances in June.

JUNE
21 Brixton Academy, London
22 Hammersmith Apollo, London