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A little over a year ago we first made mention of a big vinyl box set project called "Not The Space You Know, But Between Them" that we were working on as a sort of celebration of Three Lobed Recording's tenth anniversary. We spent the better part of 2010 wrapping up details on this project and we are stoked to say that in late December we delivered the entirety of the audio to our preferred mastering engineer (and we understand that this audio is getting ready to be popped into the hopper for mastering shortly). The gears are now starting to fully turn on this project and we currently hope to have it out into the world sometime around mid-year. This 4xLP box is going to be pretty intense - a nice and heavy Stoughton lid box, printed inner sleeves, a big foldover 12"x24" insert with liner notes from Marc Masters (The Wire, Pitchfork), new original artwork on the box and everything else by long-time friend/fave Casey Burns (www.caseyburns.com). Needless to say, it's far and away the singular most daunting financial undertaking we have ever taken on - that explains the delay between now and when the box will be out. In case you have forgotten, this monster collection features exclusive sides of material from the following artists (in alphabetical order) - Bardo Pond, Comets On Fire, Eternal Tapestry, Steve Gunn, Mouthus, Sonic Youth and Sun City Girls. The one side that is not being taken up in full by one of the artists listed above is being split by new material from Wooden Wand and D. Charles Speer & the Helix. Our mind is blown at just how epic this collection is - everyone participating has brought their "A" game and this set really displays a great snapshot of many of the disparate sides of the underground that we hope Three Lobed has helped to showcase over the last decade. We are just about ready to put out a lot more information on this set, pre-ordering mechanisms (copies purchased mail order from Three Lobed will have the opportunity to add a mail-order only 7" with new tracks from Hush Arbors and Key Demo as well as a new CD from a mystery artist with Three Lobed ties) and the like. We are working hard to keep this one as affordable as possible - as we really want all interested folks to be able to check it out. We will be simultaneously offering this set for pre-sale on this page as well as through a Kickstarter page with a modest goal and hope to do so within no more than the next two weeks (depending on our work schedule). Look for these details soon.