Sutcliffe Jügend – "When Pornography Is No Longer Enough" (Death Factory – DEATH-982) 1998

The living Jug End that is Kevin Tomkins's Whitehouse facsimile project named after the Truck driver from Leeds who had it in for a dozen or so Sex Workers,and looked remarkably like Odd-Bod from Carry On Screaming.I've been through this before on the excellent write up wot i wrote for "We Spit On Your Graves" so I won't bore you with anymore comedy look-a-likes.

There's no real reason to own more than one Sutcliffe Jugend album,they all sound exactly the same and exactly like Witehouse,same subject matter,same room emptying effect.

I found the Album Title amusing, especially in these days here in France when Porn Hub and associated sites, have pulled out,before you've pulled off,and left a disgruntled message where before there were pies full of flying Jissom hitting various parts of a naked young lady's body now there are none or Nun.(its coming to your town soon). 

So as a social experiment to discover what effect the lack of Pornography has on the Sex Crimes creamy pie chart.Either someones gonna get murdered,or those naughty teenage chaps are gonna display a new found respect for Ladies,and use their imaginations if they want a wank, and stop murdering and raping. I strongly suspect the murdering and the raping will likely increase somewhat. Chemical castration may indeed be the next refuge for the righteous,either that or just listen to Sutcliffe Jugend when you get a semi on,and that should put you off non-consensual sex for at least a week.The days of the "Dirty book" and brown paper bags are back.

"When Pornography Is no longer enough" we get Donald Trump and the moral maga-jority,putting a federal ban on unregistered consensual Sex,bringing The Handmaids Tale and 1984 combined, into a AI controlled reality.Strict control, by machine,aborting adult males by the millions,and enslaving the female population for the Catholic Priests and the powerful.That should solve the problem of those filthy criminals with the disgusting "Y" chromosome. "Y" indeed.....I think you know why........fuck this,I need a Wank!.....probably accompanied by track 3 I reckon?.....wait! There's someone at the door.....it's the Thought Police AGAIN!?

TRACKLIST:

1 When Pornography Is No Longer Enough. 2:04
2 First Victim : With Knife : Left To Die With Many Cuts 4:20
3 Second Victim : With Brutal Force : My Pleasure Your Pain 3:06
4 Third Victim : With Control : Message To The Mother 5:50
5 Fourth Victim : With Murderous Passion : Homage To De Sade 4:30
6 Fifth Victim : With Murderous Passion : Homage To De Sade 3:38
7 Sixth Victim : With Venomous Contempt : F. B. C. 4:20
8 Seventh Victim : With A Beauty Beyond Compare : Slow Torture 6:13

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Jody And The Creams – "Lords Of The Gromet Canning Factory" (Cordelia Records) 1998

Two slabs of almost seamlessly segued Indie collage experimentation from Deep freeze mice relations, the Creams with Jody,before they dropped the 'Jody' part and went all full cream on us.

Eight years after the debut long player,the formula has not changed,a lump gravy collage,furtively recorded girly chat,mixed up with some funny noises and half finished art pop numbers.Featuring the farewll appearances of Ariadne Metal-Cream Pie,and Ruth 'Po!' Miller.

The charming Blodwyn P. and her Organ.

Alan Jenkins and Blodwyn P. Teabag would carry it on in the Jody-less Creams,whom I understand were almost popular at some stage?

NB:

A sense of humour is required.

Tracklist:

A - Some Music By Jody And The Creams (19:17)
B - Some More Music By Jody And The Creams (22:06)

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Silver Apples - "The Garden" (Whirlybird Records ‎– WR109) 1970/1998

Ozzy Osbourne and Dan Taylor examine the running order of the completed  and notoriously difficult Third album.

With all the renewed interest in the mid-nineties,not that there was any interest when they were around the first time, The Silver Apples took this opportunity to finish the mythical 'Third' album that they had started to record in 1969,until Pan-Am fucked it all up for them.
Simeon told me that it was "Too Commercial",but the evidence dismisses that claim.It's not commercial at all, just a little bit crap.....but not as crap as those albums Simeon did with Xian Hawkins before he rediscovered Dan to finish "The Garden" and tour Europe.
The Can-like repetition,Simeon and The Simeon's primitive electronics are still there,and so is Coxe's warbling vocals. There's also some ill-advised cover tunes,which I'm sure would have been dropped from the finished LP originally;maybe that was the commercial aspect which Simeon was referring to?
There's about four decent Silver Apples style tunes on here that stand uo to those on 'Contact',even if "Walkin'" starts off like a remake of "You're Not Foolin' Me"....well they're not foolin' me!
Sounding like the kind of bonus disc material which blights every remastered classic album since 1990,this is not prime Apples, but it's still an intriguing listening experience.Especially like the instrumental jams,or noodles as they call them.
Sadly just after it's eventual release, Simeon was put out of action for 5 or 6 years after breaking his neck in a tour bus crash.Athough Dan died in 2005, Simeon is still playing as the Silver apples into his eighties, using recordings of Dan's drumming to augment the one man band aspect.


Tracklist:

1.I Don't Care What The People Say 3:08
2.Tabouli Noodle 4:18
3.Walkin' 4:07
4.Cannonball Noodle 5:29
5.John Hardy 2:22
6.Cockroach Noodle 2:24
7.The Owl 3:23
8.Swamp Noodle 2:58
9.Mustang Sally 3:15

10.Anasazi Noodle 3:20
11.Again 2:58
12.Starlight Noodle 4:39
13.Mad Man Blues 3:13
14.Fire Ant Noodle 3:43

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Mark E. Smith ‎– "The Post Nearly Man" (Artful Records ‎– ARTFULCD14) 1998

Staying in Manchester on the theme of mancunian Poetry....cut to pseudo intellectual skin'ed blogger from near future to explain......
If the kids of the future are still able to read,write and go to school, the works of Mark E. Smith should clearly be on the syllabus. A unique wordsmith was Mark Edward,criminally underepresented in the exclusive spheres of the spoken and written word.
Around the time that seemed to be the end of the Fall around 1998,with the infamous drunken brawl in New York,when the long serving/suffering members of the classic Fall line up walked out on a seriously alcoholic,and abusive Smith. Mark Edward 'S',recruited a new band and created his first solo album,"The Post Nearly Man"; which was a kind of an experimental spoken word collage,primarily featuring Mark's unique style of language and some unaccompanied readings of Fall lyrics.
"Get ahead with your purile slurred word rigmarole and 'purritout('put it out' in English)'", says Mark on "I'm Bobby(part 1)"......And 'Purritout' he did.
"The Post Nearly Man",ironically starts off not with the words of Mark E. himself, but those of fellow initials user, H.P.Lovecraft,and this unnervingly accurate insight into the oncoming New Dark age:

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”

.....well,I couldn't have put it more bleakly,or accurately myself? Let there be No Light!

After the Lovecraft quote,this CD is a fine work that examines the joy of language,and delivery of therein, which almost becomes an avant-garde tape collage.....(oooooh He'd have hated that pigeon hole!).Frequently used,is that technique that fellow poet,and obvious influence,Don Van Vliet, used on Trout Mask Replica,stopping and starting a cassette recorder or dictophone,to live edit ones parole in real time.
But unlike most 'proper' artists and poets, our Mark, wouldn't waste his and our time explaining himself, its just something he did,and here's the product and the proof.
Question:....Poet, or just drunk bloke doing drunk bloke stuff that we all read too much into, viewed from our pretentious disneylands...ahhhhh!
Personally,in the last ten years or so of the Fall it did sound just like that.A middle of the road post-punk tribute band fronted by a Drunk pub philosopher.......but,indeed,a much missed, Drunk Pub Philosopher......irreplaceable.
From here in The safety of this 'New Intellectual Skin'ed Morass'....RIP MES. 
(read my honest obituary of the great man/drunk HERE!)

Tracklist:

1 The Horror In Clay
2 Shad Segment
3 The Caterer
4 I'm Bobby Part 1
5 The CD In Your Hand
6 Enigrammatic Dream
7 Visit Of An American Poet V 1
8 Segment
9 Visitation Of An American Poet
10 Visit Of An American Poet V 2
11 I'm Bobby Part 2
12 Typewriter
13 Dissolute Singer
14 A Lot In A Name

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Various Artists - "Soviet Synth Wave Volume One (1980-88)" (2019)

The Soviet approach to making pop music was very similar to their apprach to architecture,as featured on the accompanying photo with this compilation. Brutal,formulaic,structually unsound ,with humans reduced to nothing more than an after-thought. There are no Yazoo's, Pet Shop Boys,or Gary Numanski's on here, just a jumble sale of imported music tech let loose in the hands of young(the 35-45 demographic) socialists with little or no idea of how to write a catchy tune......sounds good huh?
This all sounds like a whole music culture based on catching a brief snippit from a western radio transmission of a post Vince Clark Depeche Mode tune,merged with a three second snatch of a Classix Nouveaux track.
However, the Mumii Troll track is a urainium tipped classic.
Yep, leave the timeless electro-pop hits to those pale eye-liner wearing English Kids, and leave the Russians to do what they do best.....clearing a room.

Track Listing:

01. Alisa - Experimentator (1984)
02. Nautilus Pompilius - Eta muzyka (1985)
03. Nochnoi Prospect - Ansambli (1986)
04. Nikolai Kopernik - Liudi mira (1985)
05. Alians - Govoriashchaia golova (1984)
06. Agata Kristi - Vtoroi front (1988)
07. Mirazh - Okolo polunochi (1987)
08. Kino - Poslednii geroi (1985)
09. Televizor - Chelovek iz vaty (1985)
10. Zvuki Mu - Yezhednevnyi geroi (1987)
11. Mumii Troll - Saionara diska (1987)
12. Avia - Urok russkogo yazyka, par (1986)
13. Pop-kombinat - Telefonnyi robot (1987)
14. Zodiak - Zodiak (1980)

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Vibracathedral Orchestra ‎– "Copse" (Self-released CD-r) 1998

Only recently did I notice that this CD-r wasn't called 'Corpse'!?...It's 'C-O-P-S-E....."Copse", as in 'Call the cops' or a small group of trees.
Dunno about trees, but Vibracathedral are a small group of, here comes that word again... 'Experimental' musicians, or most likely, Non-Musicians in this case.
Where on the graph of musicianship is the line drawn that marks the transistion from Non-Musician to Musician? I prefer to see myself, and other worthy vessels such as 'moi', as inhabiting the scarred and cratered land between the two, a 'No-Musicians Land' if you will allow me such flights of fancy? Here inhabits Poets who would never call themselves 'Poets', Artists who don't think they are the special ones, and Musicians like Vibracathedral who just do it because they appear to have a need to do it, without any pretentions otherwise. A killing ground where the only category is 'Other'.Its not, uh-hum, "Experimental", because its a natural outpouring of a lifeforce channeled from the pure energy that flows within us all,and it can be a rich seam, the motherlode.Then once you've discovered this exposed treasure....Reject it and start again.
In a sense Human Beings are experimental biological machines, full of flaws and defects,both organically and morally...dare I say?...A Failed Experiment?
Its taken a billion years to find out that intelligent life will always destroy itself, and most other living objects they come into contact with.Except for the humble Tardigrade,which is indestructable and would even survive the demolition of the Earth by the Vogons if so required.Perhaps the perfect living creature?
Vibracathedral are perhaps not the perfect living band, but their approach to Drone music cannot be faulted, and also can't be compared to the immortality of the Tardigrade.Especially as the 1998 era of CD-r manufacture turned out to be a less than perfect method for the storage of information.Several manufacturers of these awful little discs,produced CDs that slowly disintegrated over the ensuing years,contrary to the legend that CDs were indestructable.'Dee-grade'would be the name of their creature equivalent.

Tracklisting:

1 Knots Tied In This World Will Hold In The Next
2 Slow Amplic Crackle
3 Kids' Drawings Eat Gloom
4 The Sea Of Sleep
5 Losthappy
6 It's Always Like This
7 Some Will Come

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Vibracathedral Orchestra ‎– "Mothing" (Self-released CD-r) 1998

As I said!..Neil Campbell was an integral member of the Vibracarhedral Orchestra!.Weren't you listening?...no(?), because you were reading......well....probably NOT as it happens.Haven't you got anything better to do?
In fact haven't,... I(?)....,got anything better to do?
That's depressing.
Well, to make me feel like life's worthwhile i'll tap away on my grubby keyboard on the subject of the Vibracathedral Orchestra, and generally talk about anything but the music, as I normally do.
I fact I'm listening to something else while I write these words.Words that are destined to disappear forever as soon as Google decide, one day in the near future, to delete everything on Blogger without prior notice.Google plus is going in april.The only thing people are interested in these silly old days are pictures of themselves on Instagram,reading fake stuff on Farcebook,watching funny cats on YouTube,or typing about complex issues in bad english with a minimum of 140 characters....nothing shitter than Twitter, i mean, Trump uses it for starters.
What am I listening to while i'm typing is garbled nonsense is what you all wanna know now right?....Ok,Ok,its that album by the late Mick Karn and Peter Murphy, Dalis Car, "The Waking Hour"....i think its well weird me;but is it weirder than Vibracathedral?.....I reckon it is.
In 1998 everyone and his granny were doing a Drone project.Everyone thought you couldn't get any weirder than that. Well, now i'm of the opinion that A Flock Of Seagulls and Japan were far weirder, we just didn't realise it at the time because this stuff was in the charts. Even the members of these mutant bands thought they were making normal chart music.However, I don't think Dalis Car actually got in the charts?...did it?
My sister actually turned up at a wedding looking for all intents and purposes like Mick Karn in a Dalis Car Video.I had to ask her if she wasn't actually the great Mick himself? She didn't find this funny.I was rather disappointed in fact that it wasn't the Karn himself.
Twenty years in the future...yep, as a commerical for Boeing said on TV this morning, 'The Future is already here'.....and Vibracatherdral doesn't sound so much of the time(1998) as Dalis Car probably does of 1984.Mainly because 'The Drone' is a timeless form of meditative music that dates back at least five thousand years, so 1998 was merely a blip of trendiness, where the perps thought they were doing something new and fresh, when in fact they had gone back to the year zero of pop.So, five thousand years ago this would have been number one,and Dalis Car would still be lingering around the number 50 mark.
But, Einsteins theory of Relativity has an interesting by-product called the 'Loss of Simultaniety'. So if one was travelling very fast (the speed of light) towards an event, say Vibracathedral playing a gig? And my sister, dressed as Mick Karn was, doing light speed in the opposite direction towards a television playing a re-run of Dalis Car on the Old Grey Whistle test in 1984, on Planet Niburu in the Oort Cloud of this solar system; they would have two different perspectives of which one was happening now or in the future or the past. My sister would see the Whistle test as having already happened, but oneself, travelling towards the Vibracathedral gig would think that that Whistle test re-run was in the future. So simutaneously, both parties would have different ideas of which was in the future,but they would both be correct.....got it? Therefore, this suggests that the future has already happened, depending on your relative speed and position in space. A third person, sometimes how I like to refer to myself as when i'm feeling arrogant...I prefer to call it confidence,....oh yeah,i digress,...the Third person....if this Third person, stands equidistant from both events, they will appear to happen in the present, simultaneously.But the other two have quite different views as to wether they have happened, or will be happening in the future.Therfore one viewer will be seeing the future before it has happened for the other.
Now that I've done your Brane in, you probably need some nineties Drone music to soothe your cerebral cortex......or even better,play some Dalis Car. 

Tracklisting:

1 The Beauty Of Refined Austicity 18:36
2 High Reach Driver 11:33
3 Souls Of Centrifuge 4:01
4 Fave Welfare 7:20
5 Transvestite Electrics 5:12
6 Falling Free You & Me 22:59

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The Ceramic Hobs ‎– "Psychiatric Underground" (Pumf Records And Tapes ‎– PUMF 322) 1998

So who was/is the 'best band from Blackpool'?........Tempted to say Section 25, but they went disco......therefore it's obviously 'The Ceramic Hobs' innit?
They are a kind of alternative Danny and the Dressmakers,but unlike the dressmakers, they didn't sell out and make 'proper' music. They have been going since the early 80's,still releasing genre liquidising nailed together nonsense to this very day.
This one's only 20 years old,so its vintage mid-period Hobs,rather than classic cassette-era Hobs from the eigthies....but its as if technology never happened,and each member seemed to have the very special talent of being incapable of improving as musicians.....all in the traditional sense of course.

Tracklist:

1 Vigil
2 Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
3 Atomic Clock
4 Amplified Sorrow
5 Meeting The Summertime
6 Hospital Detective
7 Thsi Sore And Broken Blackpool Legacy (Germ Mix)
8 These Dead Things
9 Pirate Night For Karen Morgan
10 Hey Lads Hey
11 Dick Whittington, Turn Back (Expose Your Eyes Mix)
12 Mr Vicar
13 Say Goodbye To The President
14 Robin Blood
15 Crash And Burn
16 Irreversible Liver Failure
17 Used Goods/Damaged Goods
18 Winterbottom Speaks
19 Love Letters Read Like Suicide Notes
20 Long Black Limousine
21 Tomorrow
22 Total Disarmament By June 1st 1983
23 Castrol GTX
24 Mr Vicar Fills His Head With Rock
25 Take Fewer Puffs
26 Parrot Night For Caprtain Morgan
27 Psychiatric Underground
28 Low Alcowipe

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Jandek ‎– "New Town" (Corwood Industries ‎– Corwood 0765) 1998

'Monday Monday'.....the Mamas and Papas sang in the swinging sixties....well,swinging has different connotations in the 21st century, so here's an antidote to that flowery harmony group of incestuous Hippies.....Its Jandek Monday Monday.
The famous drum kit pictured on the sleeve does actually make an appearence on the tenth track, "Time Will Come", like its being played by a toddler with ADHD. The rest is just voice and ,largely, plucked guitar, as if played by the same toddler, but on a heavy dose of Mogadon.
You know those Sun Ra organ solo's, where it sounds like he was just moving his fingers on the keyboard, and it turned out that he had actually notated it all and written it down? Well, Jandek isn't doing the same on the Guitar. He really is making it up in real ,slow motion,time,and probably, really IS falling asleep into a sedative induced stupor.Barely in control of his limbs as his fingers bounce ofF the detuned strings. A kind of automatic music, channeling a long dead mental patients music therapy class from beyond the crematorium.We've heard of the 'Chemical Cosh', well, here we have a musical cosh to remove all reason for living.
Don't mess with the after life kids, or you could be meeting the wrong demons at the crossroads. For every Robert Johnson theres a thousand Jandeks receiving buggar-all from Lucifer in return for their souls........yeah yeah I know......there's loads of Robert Johnsons and only ONE Jandek.But, for every Jandek there's a million Eric Claptons....now that truly is a terrifying gift from hell, and another reason why we are almost certainly,already living in a Hell of our own making! Jandek is just reflecting that back at us......er thanks Jandek!??

Tracklist:

1 New Town 4:14
2 Steal Away Home 4:31
3 Street Walk 3:45
4 You Standing There 3:27
5 Desert Voice 4:36
6 Let Me Hear The Words You Say 3:24
7 The Real You 2:27
8 It Would Only Be Action 4:10
9 Look At It 3:36
10 Time Will Come 2:50
11 What You Are

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Taku Sugimoto ‎– "Opposite" (hatNOIR ‎– hatNOIR 802) 1998

This is a request, but also a timely tranquil respite from all the soul-crushing noise that I've been posting of late.The title is very appropriate,as the improvised guitar minimalism is the absolute 'opposite' to the racket put forward by 'Flying Testicle' previously.The Japanese aren't all VU meters in the red zone types after-all.This one barely registers at all!
It sounds like a guitar being hit by some unknown objects flailing in the wind and striking the strings randomly,but with the wind noise edited out.
Its one of those 'it's not what you put in its what you leave out' kind of moments.99% silence...... Very calming. 

Tracklist:
1 Mirrors 1:08
2 Bells Of ... 4:05
3 Flagments Of Happiness 1:35
4 Spoon River I 3:57
5 Spring 3:22
6 Midnoon 1:44
7 Opposite 0:46
8 Subtle 1:37
9 Birds Of Afternoon 1:32
10 Stained Glass Windows 1:21
11 A Narrow Path 1:32
12 Transylvania 2:34
13 Paris 1:31
14 Spoon River II 3:17
15 Monad 8:49
16 Treading 2:22
17 Pale Light 1:33
18 A Day Book 2:04
19 At The Corner 2:01
20 To Ward 1:11

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Volcano The Bear - "Vol Fur" (Volucan o4) 1998

Was gonna post the brand new Philip Johnson record, but my computers playing up!!!.....so, we need one of those groups who deliberately set out to make "weird" music to fill the void. Then I thought of Volcano The Bear from my home town of Leicester, UK. Who briefly I considered joining in 1995,before they had a name;didn't obviously, but I kept a keen interest in their work,and attended most of their early performances (I've probably seen Volcano the Bear more than any other group,except, bizarrely, Eddie and the Hot Rods!?!) and bought a few of their home produced cd-r's. A-haaaa, I thought, i will post these discs on the internet, and sallied forth to dig out these early cd-r's. But......what is the crapest ever medium for the storage of music? Cd-r's are!
You are guaranteed to lose anything stored on an early recordable cd-r, and low and behold, when i attempted to copy them, all i got was a jumbled noise of glitches mixed with snatches of interference from the band. This sounds all very avant garde, but the object of this exercise was to reveal early live Volcano the Bear to an unsuspecting world.
However, I did manage to salvage three tracks from the performance on the 6th Feb 1998 at the Physio and Firkin pub in Leicester; from a cd-r called "Vol Fur".
Its a fine performance from the eclectic world of the collective members of the band; liberal splashes of Das Kosmishe musick, jaki liebezeit, the Residents, This Heat, and anything else that lurked in their record collections;even the artwork is distinctly Pore Know Graphics inspired. A record collection mostly gathered enthusiastically from the Ultima Thule record shop near the railway station in Leicester. The proprietors of said emporium would frequently be seen loitering in the shadows at a VTB concert, like a pair of perpetual adolescents who had just escaped from their sweatly bedroom ,after being locked in by their disappointed parents sometime around 1972. Steve, I think his name was, looked like a pasty owl with a nest on his head, and spoke like a creepier version of some krautrock obsessed Peter Laurie. The other one looked as if he'd had a bad time in the bedroom,and barely uttered a word, probably thinking about the lost Agitation Free album he'd been dreaming about for twenty years.
But the VTB boys had a sense of humour, and you wouldn't believe that some of them used to be in an awful post-hardcore punk band called 'Scalpt'.
Then after this they were taken under the wings of Steven Stapleton and David Tibet,and went on to international acclaim.Tibets' dark folk obsession having a marked influence on the future VTB sound. Best record in my opinion was before these dodgy blokes got hold of 'em; ie "The Inhazer Decline"
Gooddd Neewws:
The download only included tracks 2,3,and 4. The rest had disintegrated over the ensuing 13 years.(But I now have all the offending tracks thanks to Aaron Moore, of Volcano The Bear,himself!)
Baaaaaddddd Neeewws:
The Freeman brothers were gonna send me all their early cassettes they recorded under various guises; but I think after they read my ,tongue-in-cheek, description of them(see above),they changed their minds. Sorry boys.I won't say 'Ahh Diddums', because you had great record shop.

Produced by Kev Reverb, formerly of another Leicester band, the inexorably terrible 'Crazyhead'.

Track Listing

1		Deli
2		Delicate Swan
3		December Woman
4		Laweaver
5		Tadpole Alphabet
6		Parl
7		Organza

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