Rachel Hunter couldn’t wait to play her new vinyl recording of Taylor Swift’s “Communicate Now.”

After ready weeks for its arrival, Ms. Hunter positioned the orchid-colored vinyl with Ms. Swift’s face on its heart on her document participant, lifted the needle and let it play. However as a substitute of Ms. Swift’s catchy choruses, acoustic guitar and banjo strums, one other lady’s voice got here out.

“I give up seeing folks, give up wanting on the flakes of flesh and dancing organisms,” an echoing voice mentioned, with out music within the background.

Possibly there was one thing mistaken with the velocity, Ms. Hunter thought, or possibly it was one in every of Ms. Swift’s infamous Easter eggs. She flipped the document to the opposite aspect, but it surely solely bought weirder.

“The 70 billion folks of Earth, the place are they hiding?” a person’s eerie voice mentioned repeatedly.

“It was somewhat scary. I used to be on my own,” Ms. Hunter recalled. “I believed, Is that this a horror movie? As a result of it didn’t really feel like actual life, particularly if you’re anticipating Taylor Swift.”

The document wasn’t haunted. It was simply British electronica music.

Common Music Group, which represents Taylor Swift, and Above Board Distribution, a small British label, use the identical printing plant in France. However as a substitute of urgent Ms. Swift’s “Communicate Now” album, the plant unintentionally pressed “Completely satisfied Land,” a compilation of British electronica from the Nineteen Nineties, onto the purple vinyl and put it into the “Communicate Now” jacket.

The primary track Ms. Hunter heard was “True Romance,” which options greater than 11 minutes of electronica by Thunderhead, and the second was “Soul Vine,” a deep-house monitor by Cabaret Voltaire, one of the crucial influential teams of the style.

That revelation materialized solely after Ms. Hunter posted about her expertise on TikTok: “Does anybody else’s ‘Communicate Now’ vinyl not have Taylor Swift on it?” she requested. The video has been considered over 4 million instances.

Now she’s warding off affords of $250 for the document. Her video set off a prolonged dialogue on Discogs, a web based music database, amongst collectors who’re hoping to seek out one other copy. Followers of Cabaret Voltaire have reimagined the band’s vinyl sleeves with the names of Ms. Swift’s albums; one even blended Ms. Swift’s track “All Too Nicely” with Cabaret Voltaire’s “Nag Nag Nag.”

In a press release, Common mentioned it was “conscious that there are an especially restricted variety of incorrectly pressed vinyl copies in circulation and have addressed the difficulty,” including that if clients obtain a misprinted vinyl, they need to contact their retailer.

Ms. Hunter, who bought the album by way of Ms. Swift’s official retailer in Britain, requested a brand new copy however had not acquired it as of Friday.

Dan Hill, the managing director of Above Board, mentioned the label had printed a pair hundred data of “Completely satisfied Land,” and he assumed that the stamper had been unintentionally left on the machine and used for the “Communicate Now” discs.

“What’s occurred within the making of this document is sort of like making a cake — they blended up the substances,” he mentioned, including that misprints had occurred sometimes, together with with albums by Beyoncé and the Beatles, “however possibly not with this profile.”

Mr. Hill believes there is perhaps a minimum of yet another urgent out on this planet like Ms. Hunter’s. He’s wanting as arduous as the subsequent document collector.

“It is a complete Willy-Wonka-style golden ticket. If somebody has one, these might be value 1000’s,” he mentioned. “However nobody is aware of how far they’re.”

Joe Muggs, a British music author who reviewed the reissue of “Completely satisfied Land” for the net journal The Quietus earlier this spring, mentioned the tracks got here from quite a lot of genres, together with heavy dub reggae, industrial and electronica, that come collectively to make a “very narcotic sort of sound” that was emblematic of the Nineteen Nineties.

“That’s what makes the music on this album actually thrilling,” he mentioned, “its capacity to startle even now when somebody hears it out of the blue.”

The Cabaret Voltaire track is likely one of the darker tracks, he mentioned, however most of the songs had a “pop compatibility” and have been “very funky; there’s numerous melody in there.”

“The truth that TikTok will fling up these random issues does go away the window open to magic when it comes to altering folks’s tastes or sparking little fires,” Mr. Muggs mentioned.

That’s precisely what Stephen Mallinder, a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire, is hoping for. Cabaret Voltaire has all the time appealed to new audiences, he mentioned, however being jump-started by Ms. Swift’s viewers “is a unique sort of magnitude.”

“It has captured everybody’s creativeness as a result of it’s a cultural conflict of huge proportions,” Mr. Mallinder mentioned, including, “If we will convert a couple of and get them into electronica stuff, clubby stuff, that’s all proper by me.”