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Label: Outlier
Release date: 20-02-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 53 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Beats, Experimental

Tracklist:
1. – Crumbs Leavers 03:13
2. – Sullen Fire River Eyes 04:34
3. – Ville 05:38
4. – Only Now 04:19
5. – Salvation 03:49

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Label: Thrill Jockey
Catalog#: Thrill 316
Release date: 19-02-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 115 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental / Vocal / IDM

Tracklist:
1. You (7:02)
2. Very Large Green Triangles (4:43)
3. Mental Radio (3:39)
4. Ross Transcript (2:37)
5. Teen Paranormal Romance (4:47)
6. Tunnel (5:40)
7. In Search Of A Lost Faculty (6:11)
8. Aetheric Vehicle (7:14)
9. E.S.P. (8:03)
10. Ganzfield (∞)

*Excerpts from the album. Now available from Experimedia.net.* *CD version in deluxe digipack with 24 page booklet.* As always, the first Matmos album in five years doesn’t begin with the music itself. It starts with an specific approach, a conceptual framework, and a bold endeavor. Each of the nine tracks that comprise “The Marriage of True Minds” began with Matmos attempting to communicate the methods of their new album to test subjects who were deprived of both sight and sound. It’s a take on the Ganzfeld experiment, of which the Baltimore duo’s last EP was named after. The inspirations proved to be wildly singular: some came in the form of a hummed vocal fragment that was looped and warped, others in a visual depiction that intimated a musical structure to follow.

In translating these sources to song, “Marriage” is often playful and exuberant, exaggerating a voice snippet into an electronic symphony (“Very Large Green Triangles”) or matching what sounds like a Latin marching band with sirens and fire engines (“Mental Radio”). So much sonic material is placed into the album that highlights abound, but “Tunnel” may be Matmos’ crowning achievement on this double LP. The track, which features fellow Baltimore mainstay Dan Deacon, begins with stray scratches of raw guitar that is soon matched by a booming techno beat worthy of a night club dancefloor. “Tunnel” expertly accelerates and slows the swarm of hyperactive sound with a unique swagger until it closes unexpectedly in a fit of coughing.

Yet, for a pop album as varied as “Marriage,” the album is entirely listenable. The styles – ranging from the skittering pulse of tap dancing to the blackened churn of doom metal – are of course eccentric, but they are layered into tight, discernible shapes that are both meticulous and adventurous in a way that electronic pop rarely is. – Ryan Potts, Experimedia

Expanding upon the ambitious premise of their recently released The Ganzfeld EP, Baltimore-based electronic duo Matmos (Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt) are now releasing their first new full-length album in five years : The Marriage of True Minds.

Matmos are known for making toe-tapping rhythmic pop out of odd and unusual sound sources. They have always worn genre loosely, but it’s safe to say that this is the first electronic album to start with tap dancing and end with doom metal, and the only album on which members of Nautical Almanac and the Arditti String Quartet rub shoulders. Comprising stomping techno, eerie synth jams, musique concrete, Latin rhythms, and Ethiopian music, at once at home in the academy, the art gallery, the nightclub and the noise warehouse, the dizzyingly diverse assemblage which is “The Marriage of True Minds” is driven by a tightly unified conceptual agenda: telepathy.

For the past four years the band have been conducting parapsychological experiments based upon the classic Ganzfeld (“total field”) experiment, but with a twist: instead of sending and receiving simple graphic patterns, test subjects were put into a state of sensory deprivation by covering their eyes and listening to white noise on headphones, and then Matmos member Drew Daniel attempted to transmit “the concept of the new Matmos record” directly into their minds. During videotaped psychic experiments conducted at home in Baltimore and at Oxford University, test subjects were asked to describe out loud anything they saw or heard within their minds as Drew attempted transmission. The resulting transcripts became poetic and conceptual scores used by Matmos to generate the nine songs on this album. If a subject hummed something, that became a melody; passing visual images suggested arrangement ideas, instruments, or raw materials for a collage; if a subject described an action, then the band members had to act out that out and make music out of the noises generated in the process of the re-enactment. “The Marriage of True Minds” boasts a promiscuous cast of guest musicians, an array of sonic tactics, and a broad swathe of musical styles, but this diversity is joined together with a common purpose: the translation of this archive of psychic experiments into a delirious hybrid of conceptual noise and electronic pop.

After opening ripples of piano and percussion, the voice of Carly Ptak (Nautical Almanac) whispers lyrics that announce the theme of the album as a whole: “Telepathy / We want to know . . .” The song is a deconstructed cover of “You”, originally written by Leslie Weiner and Holger Hiller (of post-punk legends Palais Schaumberg). A sultry and cryptic ode to the mystery of interpersonal communication, “You” exhibits the odd sound design which is a Matmos trademark: the bassline is an amplified rubber band played by Jason Willett (Half Japanese), and the spiky beats are actually the manipulated sound of a tap dancer shuffling on a stone floor. Joining chamber music to tech-house, “You” acts as a primer for the album as a whole that follows it: a promiscuous cast of musicians from incongruous backgrounds all go under the digital editing knife as they are chopped into tight, surprisingly listenable songs which—for the first time in Matmos’ work- prominently feature vocalists and voices.

Already featured on the “Ganzfeld EP”, “Very Large Green Triangles” is an attention-grabbing slice of Gothic pop that overlays a psychedelic vision of geometrical apocalypse onto a stomping Baltimore club beat. The album version is longer and stranger than the EP version, with a free improv honky tonk piano solo preceding the beat drop. The song is based upon a psychic session with the oddball crooner Ed Schrader (Ed Schrader’s Music Beat), who was convinced to re-sing snippets of his own psychic session to build the song’s lyrical and conceptual hook (the song also boasts a lavish animated video which was much celebrated on the blogosphere).

As the album progresses, each song takes a different transcript as a musical launchpad. “Mental Radio” synchs jubilant Latin percussion onto the jostling and sloshing of water in a bucket, only to collapse into near silence until the ringing of a triangle cues an eruption of boisterous free jazz horns, which are joined by fire engines and a berserk synth invasion. Mirroring the free associative switchbacks within a particularly fevered psychic session, “Ross Transcript” is an exercise in the band’s most beloved musical form, musique-concrete, complete with jarring edits of heavily manipulated voices, cut-up plunderphonic noises, and field recordings. Blowing hot and cold, “Teen Paranormal Romance” drizzles melancholic synths onto booming bass-jeep drops and a gnarled modular bassline played by longtime Matmos collaborator Jay Lesser. Spiked with groans and mutters from noise bro DJ Dog Dick and eerie backing vocals by Dominque Leone, the song is at once fast and slow, at once heart-on-sleeve and ludicrous, not unlike the genre of popular occult fiction for which it is named. (It’s based on DJ Dog Dick’s wordless psychic session.)

A patchwork from multiple sessions, “Tunnel” begins with throat singing from Dan Deacon, whose growls and groans give birth to a relentless techno stomp on which Owen Gardner (from up and coming Baltimore band Horse Lords) plays manic, scrabbling Bo Diddley-esque guitar figures. After breaking down for the whispered delivery of one of the more cryptic utterances from the psychic archive (“there a light at the end of the tunnel . . . but it isn’t daylight”), handclaps and tambourines tighten the groove, which climaxes in a vertiginous synth solo, before the whole thing falls apart in a fit of coughing (Sabbath’s “Sweet Leaf” in reverse?).

“In Search of a Lost Faculty” offers the most dramatic, even disturbing evidence for the pronounced similarity of many of the experimental sessions: over and over, whether male or female, British or American, young or old, the psychic test subjects saw, heard or imagined the presence of triangles. The song gathers every reference to triangles experienced throughout four years of experimentation into a sonic archive of collective imagination, punctuating spoken testimonies about this recurring figure with ominous organ, timpani, and violin played by Ashot Sarkissjan of the Arditti String Quartet. “Faculty” ends with a celestial cloud of vocals by Angel Deradoorian of the Dirty Projects and Clodagh Simonds of Fovea Hex, amid processed swirls of bagpipe. Is this song evidence for the reality of telepathy? Is this song evidence that triangles were kind of trendy four years ago? Listen and judge for yourself.

Based upon the transcript of the psychic session of modular guru Keith Fullerton Whitman, “Aetheric Vehicle” is the last transcript-specific song on the album, and offers a hazy, funky variant on the kind of melodies found in Ethiopian music. Over a cascade of meandering synth played by M. C. Schmidt and intricate rhythms made out of the sampled sounds of Chinese checkers and handcuffs, a kind of mutant hybrid of African music and R & B crystallizes. This heady mix is capped with the smoky, wordless wails and moans of Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak, Flock of Dimes), who ends the song in an aviary of whistling, rattles and bells.

Ending with another cover which returns us full circle to the beginning of the record, Matmos save their wildest provocation for last: a polyglot deconstruction of The Buzzcock’s “E.S.P,” which gearshifts across multiple genres over eight minutes, testing the limits of how different styles and moods can flow and fold into each other. “Do you believe in E.S.P.? / I do and I’m trying to get through to you” growls Gerry Mak of Brooklyn experimental doom metal band Bloody Panda in a withering Cookie Monster voice. Heavy doom metal riffs play punk chords at a funereal crawl, until military snare rolls pick the pace up to a black metal blur (played by members of Baltimore occult crust band Pleasure Wizard). This gives way to a shimmering, sunny interlude of cyclic guitar and synth figures that recalls the Matmos of “The Civil War” and “The West” until, audaciously, a drum roll hits and the whole band erupts into something which has always been pretty much unthinkable in Matmos’ work: full on, no apologies riff rock. Connecting the latent family resemblance between surf rock and black metal, the Buzzcocks song plays out until, for the first time in twenty years as a band, M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel sing together, harmonizing the words “If you’re picking up on me, then you’ll know just what to do . . .” Abruptly switching off this romantic closure (Daniel and Schmidt are a couple who recently celebrated their 20th anniversary), the song cuts to dead silence as Schmidt delivers the final phrase of the record: “So . . . think.” It’s an emotionally naked and risky ending to one of the strangest records you will hear this year, and a fittingly open-ended conclusion to a sonic experiment in the possibility of purely mental connection.

The album was recorded and mixed at home in Baltimore and at Snow Ghost Studio in Montana, and was mastered in San Francisco by Thomas DiMuzio. Designed by Rex Ray, the album’s packaging presents in the liner notes the complete texts of the psychic transcripts which generated each individual song, along with photographs that document the Ganzfeld sessions. The vinyl version of the release also contains a bonus locked groove of white noise so that the home listener can put on the eye-coverings and headphones which accompanied the deluxe edition of “The Ganzfeld EP” and complete the re-enactment of the experimental conditions that created the songs. The result is an artifact which is both an art object, a scientific report, a practical joke and a daring pop record.

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Label: Funckarma
Release date: 10-02-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 51 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, Experimental, Dubstep

Tracklist:
1 Metheus
2 Graines
3 Qintazm
4 Beaser
5 Hillis Sent

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Label: Stroboscopic Artefacts
Catalog#: SACD003
Release date: 18-02-2013
Source: WEB, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 155 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Dub Techno, Dub, Experimental, Electronic

Tracklist:
01. Vibration
02. Truth
03. Life
04. Path
05. Circle (feat. Edit Select)
06. Death
07. Transfer (feat. King Cannibal)
08. Arrival
09. Unbroken Continuity
10. Experience (feat. Øe)
11. Existence
12. Iridescent Fragment

“‘You Are Eternity’ is the third album to be released on Stroboscopic Artefacts and comes from two of the minds who have shaped the label since its earliest days: Dadub. Recorded over a period of two years, but containing fragments and ideas that stretch back a decade ‘You Are Eternity’ has been mixed together to form a continuous piece rather than twelve discreet tracks. The effect? An immersive journey that encompasses the descriptors brutal, ferocious, ambient and aqueous.

It would be easy to describe the album’s structure as that of two halves, but it’s not that simple. The structure that Dadub has developed is cyclical at its most compliant, and elliptical at its most oblique. Within these forms the sounds that emerge run the gamut of electronic music. ‘Existence’ and ‘Unbroken Continuity’ explore futuristic, atmospheric states. ‘Path’ swaggers with rippled dub. Embedded into ‘Truth’ is a polemic sample of Henry Waxman questioning Alan Greenspan. And the same record houses ‘Transfer’, a staunch cut that’s more than fortified to do some damage.

In the studio Dadub’s process is nothing short of alchemical. Their characteristic sound originates from entirely digital sources, but their sound treatments reanimate this raw material filling it with warmth and human emotion. The source loops and synthesised lines are run through countless channels and complex chains of effects to arrive at a destination unrecognisable from the points of origin. Dadub are true sound materialists.

Knowing that Dadub place so much emphasis on process, it’s all the more interesting to hear their collaborations with other artists and ‘You Are Eternity’ is graced by fellow SA cohort Edit Select, the sound experimenter Øe and Ninja Tunes stalwart King Cannibal. It is indeed King Cannibal who teamed up for the album’s most ferocious cut ‘Transfer’. Whereas ‘Experience’ ft. Øe is a hazy slither of atmospherica. And the only straight kick of the entire record is to be found on the track with the most elusive subject matter, ‘Death’ ft. Edit Select, a collaborative elegy on the ultimate unknown. ‘You Are Eternity’ tends towards spaces that are undefined, that are unquantifiable – this album is a foray into Jenseits.

The album title hints at the almost spiritual origins of the album, Dadub’s search for music that goes further, that spreads away from the confines of the time and place in which we find ourselves, music that seeps into the cavern of the eternal. Tucked into ‘Vibration’, the very first track, is a sample of the Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. He leans close and says: Music is a spiritual gift, and those who misuse it, die young. Sage words. ‘You Are Eternity’ is a record that refuses to take any chances, Dadub are clearly producers intent on being around for quite some time.” Clare Molloy

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Label: none
Catalog#: none
Release date: 15-02-2013
Source: WEB, Album
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 137 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Glitch Hop, Downtempo, Dubstep, Experimental

Tracklist:
1. Heavy Tickle 03:05
2. Viscosity 04:40
3. Tho Thsick 03:43
4. Terry – D 03:04
5. Pigeon Holed 04:42
6. Gold Liftah 03:53
7. Smokey the Bear 03:19
8. Wandering Eye Interlude 00:27
9. House Sitter 04:30
10. Earlee Mondee 04:49
11. Floater’s Rant 03:04
12. Fornever 03:54
13. Daydreams 04:51
14. Grass Knives ft. Russ Liquid 04:46
15. My Clothes 04:42

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Label: Outlier
Catalog#: OUT50
Release date: 15-02-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 78 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Bass, IDM, Experimental

Tracklist:
01. Left (Original Mix)
02. Left (Woulg’s Sweaty Sax Mix)
03. Left (MATAS Remix)
04. Left (Danaet ‘She Left’ Mix)
05. Left (Iller The Abstract Giraffe Remix)
06. Left (oddlogic ambient reprocess)

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Label: Alpha Pup Records
Catalog#: none
Release date: 12-02-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 79 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Bass, Trap, Experimental, Chillwave

Tracklist:
1 Close 2 Me (4:05)
2 Thinking About You (3:41)
3 Money (4:49)
4 All That Matters (4:01)
5 Home (4:11)
6 Feels (3:11)
7 Checkmate (2:26)
8 Undress U (4:38)
9 Before (4:09)

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Label: Big Dada
Catalog#: BDDNL 218
Release date: 108-02-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 38 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Bass, Experimental

Tracklist:
1. She Moans (04:49)
2. She Moans (FaltyDL remix) (04:55)
3. Time Is Running Out (04:21)
4. She’s Stopped Now (02:33)

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Label: Semantica
Catalog#: SEMANTICA27
Release date: 12-02-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 43 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Techno, Minimal, Experimental

Tracklist:
A1.Skirt-Tumulto.Semantica27 06:35
A2.Skirt-Tumulto(Yuji Kondo Remix).Semantica27 05:23
B.Skirt-Tumulto(Shifted Remix Part Two).Semantica27 06:30

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Label: Mute
Release date: feb 2013
Source: WEB, OST
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 101 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Modern Classical, Experimental, IDM

Tracklist:
01. 44
02. 44 (noise version)
03. LightOn
04. Tod
05. Blank Page
06. PV
07. K&F Thema (pizzicato)
08. K&F Thema
09. Austerlitz
10. A Violent Sky

The album is based on a theatre production of Tolstoy’s War and Peace by German director Sebastian Hartmann. Hartmann asked the producer, real name Sascha Ring, to contribute to the project commissioned by German arts festival Ruhrfestspiele in Recklinghausen. After agreeing to take on the album, Ring spent a month in an abandoned factory building rehearsing with a 30-piece ensemble. Apparat live band members Philipp Timm and Christoph Hartmann were also involved in the production. Although the music wasn’t initially intended for a proper release, Ring, Hartmann and Timm took the album into the studio after the final performance. Ring said: “In the studio the material got another twist, became a real piece of music. I took the recordings with me, wherever I was—at home, at a hotel room, in an airplane, and straightened it up.”

The most recent Apparat LP was 2011’s The Devil’s Walk, also released on Mute, the venerable UK label helmed by Daniel Miller. Ring revealed details of the new album today on his Facebook page. He said: “It’s the first record ever that didn’t hurt at some point. It’s full of imperfection because it was made by humans.” He goes on to describe the record as “a bit of a weird record with not many beats and lots of drones.”

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Label: Hidden Shoal
Catalog#: HSR101
Release date: -01-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 100 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Experimental

Tracklist:

1 Off (42:00)

Off is not only the culmination of Markus Mehr’s trilogy, but it may also be the culmination of his career’s work thus far. The single-track album begins in silence, as a thrumming loop gradually emerges. From there, a beautiful piano refrain is introduced, noise ebbs and flows, threatening to engulf the piece, while field recordings and swooningly transportive synth patterns drift into focus. During its 42-minute runtime, the piece immerses the listener in a dizzyingly beautiful soundworld that’s ever-shifting. Certain passages allude to other sequences and samples in the preceding albums, linking the three albums into a kaleidoscopic mobius strip.

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Label: Not Not Fun
Catalog#: NNF270
Release date: 05-02-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 99 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Synthwave, Space Disco, Experimental

Tracklist:
01. Night Fantasy
02. Initial Revelation
03. Confrontation
04. Dead Silent Morning
05. The Summoning
06. Final Revelation
07. The Invasion

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Label: Liquid Geometry
Catalog#: LIQUIDGEOMETRY006
Release date: 07-01-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 125 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Bass, Beats, Experimental

Tracklist:
1 8 Shots Up -04:45
2 Fucked Up -03:47
3 Let Me Hit It -03:50
4 Wander Lost -05:45
5 Sexual Healer -03:23
6 Love Lift -04:11
7 8 Shots Up (Bleep Bloop Remix) -04:01
8 Fucked Up (Sleeve↓ Remix) -03:26
9 Let Me Hit It (Austin Speed and Calculon Remix) -05:06
10 Wander Lost (East Stepper Remix) -04:36
11 Sexual Healer (Foniks Remix) -04:29
12 Love Lift (Mushroom Buttons Remix) -04:00

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Label: Blackest Ever Black
Catalog#: BLACKEST012
Release date: 23-01-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 28 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Experimental, Electronic

Tracklist:
1. You Don’t Know What You Want, Do You?
2. Success Is Her Sensuality

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Label: SUGARCANE
Catalog#: SGR018
Release date: 28-01-2013
Source: WEB
Format: AAC
Quality: 256 kbps
Size: 65 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Electronic, Experimental

Tracklist:
1 I Turn My Arm
2 Heartbeat
3 This Is My Hand
4 This Is My Hand (Clint Mansell Remix)
5 I Turn My Arm (Renaissance Man Remix)
6 I Turn My Arm (Kuedo Remix)
7 I Turn My Arm (Alixander III Remix)

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Label: Handmade Birds
Catalog#: HB-032
Release date: 22-01-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 90 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Experimental, Post-Rock

Tracklist:
1 Abandon
2 In All Your Blinding Lights
3 Rivers Flow
4 A New Language
5 Days Above The Tide

This is the final Jasper TX album. It is all new work, born from remnants of old failures, song fragments, ambitious attempts…yet after this mosaic of soundscapes has had time to age and resurface, mastermind Dag Rosenqvist has breathed new life into them, reshaping, adding, extending, building, and in the end, reconciling all of the many textures and pioneering sounds he has crafted over the seven + years he has been working as Sweden’s premiere dark multi instrumentalist, shifting from minimalist electro acoustic composition to enormous swells of gaze and layered post rock density. The final album, the final index of failures, is proof that there is indeed beauty found in our progressive ambitions.

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Label: False Profit
Release date: 29-01-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 55 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Bass, Glitch, IDM, Experimental

Tracklist:
1.Careless
2.Pouring Midway
3.Siphons in the Sky
4.Slow Burner ft. Connie Lim
5.Slow Burner (Instrumental)

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Label: Trippin’ The Rift
Catalog#: TTRR016
Source: WEB
Release date: 22-01-2013
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 46 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, Ambient, Experimental, Electronic

Tracklist:
01. Time Goes By (feat. Paola Prinzivalli)
02. Through The Mountains
03. Mermaids
04. I’ve Changed
05. Autumn Mood (feat. Paola Prinzivalli)

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