Today marks the 20-year anniversary of Massive Attack’s beloved album Mezzanine. To celebrate, the band has announced they’re putting it on a new format: DNA. According to a press release, this marks the first time an entire album has been encoded into DNA and it’s “an acknowledgement that it could be an answer to the problem of archiving the increasing amount of information that the world is creating.”

Massive Attack are accomplishing this feat using technology developed by STEM university ETH Zurich, in Switzerland. According to the university, the album’s digital audio files will be converted into “920,000 short DNA strands,” which will then be stored in “5,000 tiny (nanometre-sized) glass spheres.” Mezzaninewill be the second-largest file ever stored using DNA. Last year, it was announced Miles Davis’ “Tutu” would be one of the first songs to be encoded in DNA.

Originally posted on Pitchfork.com