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# This Guy Just Made a Playable Vinyl Record Out of a Tortilla. And It Sounds Terrible

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[Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/)


## Helen Regan


Jul 8, 2015 3:57 AM UTC

by 

[Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/)


## Helen Regan


Jul 8, 2015 3:57 AM UTC

After a joke video of a[ tortilla](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1SiveWVIIo) spinning on a record player to the Jarabe Tapatio (aka The Mexican Hat Dance) went viral a few months ago, YouTube user [Rapture Records](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdzCv%5F9eaoM) decided he could do one better.

So he got himself an uncooked tortilla and a laser cutter and made a playable, albeit shaky, vinyl record.

“I was already familiar with laser cutting records at 78 rpm on acrylic for use in gramophones,” he wrote in a [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/vinyl/comments/3cf6yh/remember%5Fthe%5Ftortilla%5Frecord%5Fvideo%5Fi%5Fdecided%5Fto/csux50j) post. “I decided to see if I could make it work on an actual tortilla.”

Rapture Records says uncooked tortillas work the best, “since they are the flattest” and it takes about half an hour to make a 7” record that lasts around 30 seconds.

As well as the Jarabe Tapatio, he’s made tortilla records that play other tortilla-related songs, [including](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCreRPuzj0lJX%5FnHsyIUD2RQ) the Macarena, Yakko’s World and Puttin’ on the Ritz by Taco.

And quite possible the best part about this project: “They are edible,” he says. “Just taste rather burnt.”

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