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for the "pure improvisation" theme at improv Friday. Synthstation and loop pedal.
http://improvfriday.com/forum/topics/improvfriday-event-for-april-19-21-2012
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Shoegaze Attempt No.?
Tried different mixing too :)
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work in progress but i felt like sharing. vocals done on an sm58 so the clarity sucks but still catchy as fuck + my first ever key change lol
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this was hard to find something different from the original which is perfect just the way it is. but i did it anyway, so there.
the original is here.
http://alonetone.com/colingarvey/tracks/still-raining
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The internet provides a great forum to be heard, sometimes it gets a little to loud for me.
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This song features synth strings and ebow.
Written & Performed by Rog Hildreth during February 2012.
Taken from "Rog Hildreth and The Enemies Of Progress".
More of this sort of thing at www.facebook.com/roghildreth
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This is very improvised, it was recorded in one afternoon and took me about 3 goes to get the lyrics/vocals down. It features 3 bass parts and I also brought my wah wah peddle out for it. For a while, this was called "G Minor Funk".
Written…
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For when that all night rave itch comes tickling at your soul.
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I'm pretending it's still Feb. and recording the iOS electronic album I was intending to for RPM, it's February somewhere.
iPhone apps used: Argon, sir Sampleton, nLog midi synth
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I have something to say,
I hope it’s ok
This coming days I will be so far away
I won’t be around, not even a sound
I’m into brand new things I’ve found
In this town
Give me, give me a break coz
I want to stay
To the place where she comes…
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This particular song was intended to be more uplifting until the G/G# line was laid down. The tension provided by that pairing changed the nature of the song, so the vocals changed to suit, a distortion effect was added, and the low toms finished…
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The title is a pun. In case one doesn't get it, referencing to Boards of Canada. Heavy influence from their warm, vintage electronic sounds.
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A couple of the stranger sections of this song resulted from accidentally pasting multiple parts to the wrong tracks (and thus giving them entirely different effects than intended). I often try to embrace "mistakes" as just weird new directions…
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A harmonica improv, slowed down, played backwards and multi-tracked - I was thinking of something like My Bloody Valentine's "Touched". This and the next three song titles are all anagrams for the same phrase, but I'm going to be mysterious and…
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I did this one with Neil Swanson form over on Songcrafters Last night.....were working Elvis overtime at the moment but at least he can sleep all day.........Reg gets his 316 special going on this one too.....Hope you enjoy
It's never too late…
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I find it difficult to believe this is all Midi instruments.
The Midi guitars, bass & leads, I ran through amp sims.
The drums are all Midi. 7 tracks.
Kicker, snare, 2 tom tracks, high hat, tambourine, and a cowbell.
All done on the keys…
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Took a sample of a cd skipping (artist was Skip James, irony) and messed with it in Filtatron app,added some awful funk accompaniment that sounds like a soundtrack for a bad porn movie, hence the title.
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Reg is willing to try anything to sort out his relationship with Miranda ......fifteen years is a long time and he doesn't just want to throw it away.........
G, Am, G, Am, G, Am, D, C, Bb, Am,
Wonderland (Lyrics)
let's go escape again…
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Act 1 Scene 1 The Disco - this is music from my musical, the opening scene which is set in a disco (nightclub - if you are under 40!!). It explores the different perceptions of the club in a pseudo-political and economic view. Mr Evol - the…
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The first song written by General Fiction. Tim Reed: vocals, Chip Sample: drums, Daniel Fowler: guitar, Mike Giles: bass guitar.
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This is a cover of a band from Rumford, ME. Our guitar player Dan is personal friends with the band (The Aomebas if my memory serves me right) and thought we should cover it. Remember, we were just kids. Daniel Fowler: guitar, Tim Reed: vocals…
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One of Asimov's most famous stories, the music attempts to re-create the world that knows nothing but daylight. Unsettling, but bright sounds hint at the looming darkness that must come, ending with the crescending voices of fear and madness…
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I wrote this one lonely afternoon in San Anselmo, California at my friend, Eric's house. Missing Peggy.
NIGHT TIME DREAMS
It's a long way to Texas. Further to Tennessee
I'm out here in California with nobody but me
So, I'm thinkin' about…
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Her name was Rosemarie Jean and I have lost contact with her. She wrote the poem I turned into Beneath the August Moon.
I SAW ROSE AGAIN TODAY
I saw Rose again today
And I recognized the way
My heart reached out
With unturned fingers…
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FANNIN COUNTY FAIR
Fannin county fair. Red River rhymes and riddles
And the Bois d' arc spread beneath the harvest moon
There I found her, and I crowned her
Queen of the Fannin County Fair
I told her I'd be rich. I told her I'd be famous…
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ACID TEARS
As the hours turn into days and the weeks turn into years
I am happy, but I'm always close to tears
Surely as the love that we share will last forever
Our bodies will die and our love will go on
And tho the thot that love will…
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Peggy taught me an Eagles song toward the end off our life together. I think it was NEW BOY IN TOWN. (I had no idea what she was telling me.) I took the chord progression from that song and wrote this. Peggy said that was cheating.
WATERMELON…
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I sang this live few times until
it became clear that it was a joke to the
audience and less and less so for me. Actually a song expressing my deepest anguish.
LIFE GOES ON Key C
C F
When…
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Between The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is a short musical narrative telling the story of a boy, unhappy with his hard scrabble life, who runs away and joins up with a pirate crew -- only to find that it's not exactly what he dreamed it would…
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HAPPY
Happy is the anvil as the hammer strikes the blade
A fleeting spark that fades out as the memory is made
Happy is the spark when the hammer strikes the steel
Before the spit has sizzled into a vapor trail
And happy is the planner…
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Improvised/recorded on 11-12-11 in Alpharetta GA, mixed/edited on 11-13-11 in Summertown, TN.
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from the album "Que Vive!"
you’re so much like me that I’m not sure
where I begin and you end
sometimes I even see through your eyes
your shi brown eyes
still innocent
you’re so refined, that I can’t
fake any more lies
you’re clutching…
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2 minutes of fun Rock-a-billy in glorious mono !. I wrote, sang & played all instruments. Turn up the reverb & enjoy dat slidey sound !.
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Theme song for the "Occupy" movement.
From the album GIVE TOO MUCH, available for sale here: http://bit.ly/GiveTooMuch
More info here: http://bit.ly/WorldEntertainmentWar
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From the album MORE SONGS ABOUT ELVES & FLOWERS
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A song of hope...
and i apologize for the "noise"...I'll try to figure it out.
here are the lyrics.
waiting in the dark
never hearing the words
waiting for the spark
to revive a dying heart
so you think it's your fault
a buried belief…
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Drum-n-bass composition I did back in 2004 via digital-razor-blade technique with an additional fat synth line. That's it. Hear something you want to add? Go for it!
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Reg found spotty Pete on the ledge of the apartment building ......about to jump......it was all a bit bizarre really........as Pete was mumbling something about meeting the Devil and what his Mummy had told him..............
MUMMY TOLD ME…
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Composed, performed, produced by Alex Jenkins. From the "Ewee" album. BMI
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an outtake from the first album in 2005.
Joe Silence - guitar and electronics
Mark Cook - Warr Guitar, programming and electronics
Jason Spradlin - drums
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From Wikipedia:
""I Wonder as I Wander" is a Christmas carol written by John Jacob Niles. The carol has its origins in a song fragment collected on July 16, 1933 by folklorist and singer John Jacob Niles.[1][2][3][4][5]
While in the town of…
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There is more than a few side tracks on the road to health and happyness
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Written by Rog Hildreth.
Copyright 2011.
All instruments/production by Rog Hildreth.
Taken from "Fox Shoots Man", recorded for the RPM Challenge, February 2011.
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Live in the Living Room cover of Hawkwind's Master of the Universe
Done for the Songcrafters.org fest Live in the Living Room, I made this recording in one take. Which isn't how I usually work. My guitar was put through fuzz and distortion…
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Marc Lajoie Drums
Randy Bourque Bass
Rob "That Fucker" Macdonald Guitar
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10 Earwigs Invasive is an synthesizer solo
which was created for the ImprovFriday “Creatures!” event.
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Some Classical Music I made June 27th 2010 F G Bb F
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Well, I sent this simple little arrangement off to Jana to see what he thought it needed. When he suggested a uke, I said "Go for it!"
He was right... Can't thank him enough for his contribution.
HERE WE ARE TODAY
How can it be so…
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There’s a pigeon sleeping out on my deck
If it sleeps it won’t shit on my drinks or on my cigarettes
I wonder why they call it a dove
I wonder why it’s a symbol of love
Love’s a fool, and so is the pigeon that fears to tread
There’s…
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This tune came about by total chance.
I recorded the Backing track during a spare half an hour one night this week ... Just a Noodle...
Met up with Aaron today by total chance and he was up for recording a vocal on it.
He Free-styled the…
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This track was recorded live at Riley's Tavern at an open mic hosted by Glenn Allan. It's the last song I wrote before I left Texas.
THE LOSER'S BALL
Well, it's just a game and anyone can play itÂ
it's a crying shame no ending or…
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Rehearsal take from our trio. This was the first time we played through anything together, so there is a lot of cool potential with this and we'll keep trying. Hope everyone enjoys it.
http://www.facebook.com/Boris.Shpitalnik
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Hi Kids,
I've been messing around with loops and samples trying out some new sounds.
This one is pretty cool.
Enjoy!!
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Heh, I couldn't believe I forgot to share this with my friends here. Well here is the story. I'm sure you'll only listen once and probably not all the way to the end.
Year: 2008
Album:
Singles
Artist's description:
Many years ago…
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I saw discussion of Bleu tuning on the yahoo tuning groups – all of which were tempered to a pure octave. Embolden by Andrew Heathwaite’s 88 cent guitar I decided to try the tuning without tempering to make the octave pure. So I made a scala…
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This is the blues version of my song, performed by Bob Estrada of Monterey Park, California. Love it!!!
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I'll lose control but maybe find love instead....
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Added a little more to this nice little change of strumming patterns played as an excuse to write a little love song.
I FOUND LOVE
You know I love you more than I
Ever thought one simple man could
You know I need you more than I
Ever…
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Recorded in the late afternoon of a day following a sleepless night in May 2011.
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in order
Agnus dei - Free organum Anonymous 12th C
Benedicamus domino - Melismatic organum Anonymous 12th C
Deo gracias Anglia (The Agincourt Carol) Anonymous 15th C.
score
http://micro.soonlabel.com/just/adaptive_JI/AGNUSDEI.pdf
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Some of that Old School, pulling something special out for you
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for choir, percussion, piano, hang drum and prisoners.
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This is in some boring typical genre. I just can't figure out which one. Perhaps Wiccan dances for epileptics? Not sure.
In Cold Hell, in Thicket is a microtonal musical setting of Charles Olsen reading his poem in 1950 as provided by PennSound…
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Dead soldiers from the war (pick one) gather together for old times' sake, ideally at the local tavern in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. Which may or may not put Sleepy Eye on the map ....
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Another one from the collaboration of Chris Vaisvil, Norm and thetworegs from the album Women and Whisky together ain't no good. We hope you enjoy......................
Reg created the lyrics, vocal melody, and sang
Norm composed and played…
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small notes, on a windy,, palms in the desert day
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The music and recording go back to the mid Ninties but the lyrics are actually a poem I wrote in school in about 1982.
This is another track for my jazz playlist / album
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Jonathan asks what our bodies will be like in heaven.
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"Oblivion is not such a bad place. Its kinda like a club med."
For Reg ;-)
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Originally on my [24-hour album](http://alonetone.com/colingarvey/playlists/24-hours-of-aargh) back in 2008, I've added an invisible rhythm section and remixed it.
I may do this with a few more old tracks I didn't quite get right first time round.
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A likable, hedonistic alien stumbles upon earth. He is forced to leave because of humanities' reaction to his arrival. He returns a couple millenia later and is surprised by what he finds...
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Kind of a Neil Young impression, I guess.
You know what's ironic? I think this was the only song on the album I didn't use a metronome to record.
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Drums - Steve Gardner
Lead & rhythm guitars - Norm
Bass - Mimmo
Words, music, vocals, piano & 'strings' - Errol
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This one was so much fun to do its over run a bit and wore poor old Reg out so much they have had to call an ambulance to the cellar to get him ..... His two friends worry about him on the way home.....................hope his ok?
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DanO piano and bgv
Michael guitar and vocals
oil and water
just like oil and water
whenever we come together
you never know what kind of weather will show
but you know it's gonna blow
you it's gonna flow
just like oil and water
you drink your…
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http://improvfriday.ning.com/
recorded for the Japan benefit happening this weekend (right now) over at improvFriday. Stop by and help or just give a listen.
My father brought a koto back from Japan after WWII, I thought this might be a good time…
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This is an oldie. Like, last century oldie. I programmed the drums myself, which I'm kind of proud of.
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There is a Dutch expression Luchtfietsen/Luchtfietserij which I transated as Skycycling. It's a term for unrealistic plans/dreams. Another recent Dutch expression is Linkse Hobby (leftist hobby/leftwing hobby) which was coined by rightwingers…
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A couple of ornate melodies on a string that Will worked really hard to decorate with words. Since the song has basically two different melodic themes, the idea is to portray a relationship from two perspectives.
Over You
(Words by Will Gough…
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Secondhand Stray
tboudreau
music by Cmariano / Tboudreau
i watch ya walking these streets, a few feet off the ground
i hear ya talking so sweet, never making a sound
i see ya looking so cute your such a secondhand stray
from your bracelets…
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RPM 2011
Seasons start to change without much worry
Ordinary days no reason to remain
The clouds will force the rain realize its glory
Nothing keeps us sane better start to hurry
Slow monkey cabin fever
Free clinic dirty needle
They've…
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Had to re-post this one... noticed some clipping issues when I played it in my jeep :)
Lyrics:
this is the number of the disenchanted
this is the number i've made unclean
this is my number this is my number for you
show your weakness and they…
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Something I'm working on for RPM 2011. I think this is a really pretty tune, just wish I had the kind of voice for singing it.
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Homegrown loops, cut and pasted.
Drumming with loops. I'm going loopty looooo...
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for ImprovFriday 2/10-12 2011
ambient impro+tweaks
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3rd one for RPM2011. This is an 'oh you'll never get to heaven' type affair inspired by a beer my mate introduced me too. The song is basically about drinking yourself to death and having one up on the healthy brigade having made a rather spectacular…
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rpm 2011
I'm a rolling rollercoaster see me roll away
I'm a rocking rockstar rocking every day
I'm a soaring albatross, but I soar too low
I'm a fleeting moment, fleeting moment, fleeting moment
Too many times I'm nothing
Too many times…
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Found this one while clearing out the cobwebs prior to the 2011 RPM Challenge. It appears to be as finished as its going to get, sooo... here it is.
In short: a quirky love song for our cybernetic brothers and sisters who dance to a different beat.
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It's almost Christmas Eve, and some of Santa's best elves have walked off the job. Candy Cane, the local news reporter, joins the disgruntled elves outside the North Pole to find out what's happening, and discovers that "something's going down…
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WATCH THE VIDEO -- it'll make more sense (and I apoligize for "yelling")
Lyrics:
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Narrator:
So pretty
You deserve everything
all you want
for free
Demon:
Take what you need from me
What that gets you... you'll see
Thief…
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I was reading a book in my lounge and started to feel as though someone was watching me. It was silent in the room, the TV was switched off as was the radio. I noticed the web-cam on top of my computer but that was switched of too so i couldn…
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In the theater. Slowly the lights go down, calm idle talk, curtain, and ...
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Woody's first adventure in didgeridoo recording. Features bass through a keyboard and a tsamiko rhythm drum loop. Tsamiko is a popular traditional dance of Greece. The rhythm seemed to suit the didgeridoo quite well and inspired this piece.
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Samples: Neha Viswanathan reading Jack Gilbert's poem Failing and Flying.
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