This Classic Rock Record Is Made Completely of Concrete

For the hipster who is too cool for vinyl.

By Jay Bennett

To demonstrate the precision of ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC), Ricardo Kocadag crafted a record of (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction out of the material, and it’s good enough that it works on an ordinary turntable.

Kocadag claims this is the first concrete record, but as Steve Dent of Engadget points out, cruder concrete records were made before. UHPC, meanwhile, is a steel fiber-reinforced cement composite used in skyscrapers and large bridges that require a material with high load-bearing properties. The sound quality is pretty good as you can see in this video from German radio station BLN.FM

Look out, vinyl.