AROB / SOOTTYB

They Sent Me Into Space Today b/w Cicadas Birds + Gtr

(Greatdividing - DD011) split 7-inch $10.00

Arob and Soottyb’s collaboration “They Sent Me Into Space Today” mixes and dweedles electronics “until they slip over your head like a soft mosquito blanket,” according to Byron Coley, who also pegs the instrumentation (drums and “flapper”) as the tools for accessing a “wormhole into some strange rock universe.” Arob’s “Cicadas Birds + Gtr,” as the title suggests, combines field recordings from the countryside with a home recording made in a bedroom in the city. Plays well on either 45 or 33 rpm, which is rarely a bad sign.

EXILES FROM CLOWNTOWN

Around the Corner b/w Whistling Assassin

(Greatdividing - DD014) 7-inch $10.00

The second seven-inch by this Australian trio, recorded the first time in the fourteen months following the recording of the first seven-inch that they were all in the same room together. Two tracks recorded live and spontaneous in one take using four microphones, one chord and half an idea. Hand-stamped labels and hole-punched sleeves. Edition of 200.

EXILES FROM CLOWNTOWN

Fast One b/w Something

(Greatdividing - DD012) 7-inch $10.00 (Out-of-stock)

Recorded January 2009, edited down from a single two-hour-long session where no overdubs or mixing were permitted, resulting in what Byron Coley calls “scabby elegance.” Hand-stamped labels and hole-punched sleeves. Edition of 100