It wouldn’t be a proper Star Wars release without a sea of accompanying merch. But as the upcoming deluxe vinyl release of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens original soundtrack shows, some of it can be truly innovative. For instance, these vinyls will feature actual floating holograms.
As the video below shows, the process of creating the vinyl grooves was tied with a process of creating the same grooves out of light. Alternating editions of the record will contain either a hologram of Han Solo’s Millennium Falcon or a hologram of the Imperial TIE Fighter. And of course, these records would be significantly underwhelming were it not for the bombastic score by John Williams.