Deef – "Real Control" (Mass Record) 1984

Starting with a sentiment that we can all agree on, this bunch of brutal Japanese Punk Rockers takes no prisoners,play it loud until you too become Deef.

Old Punk Rocker Heroes such as the terminally awful John Lydon,are almost as bad as their fans,and should do us all a favor and voluntarily turn themselves in at the sadly fictional local extermination camps for gobshite Rockers.

Turning from enemy of the state number one,into housewives favourite, never before have we heard such self-congratulatory verbal vomit as we have in the last decade or so from Neil Young's Punk of preference (says it all dunnit?).Unfortunately,Johnny didn't heed Neil's sadvice and proceeded to fade away rather than burn out.. Having said that I would still turn into a giggling fan boy if by some quirk of reverse indefference I should ever meet Him; He having such a deep influence on the teenage Zchivago,a nose in front of William Shatner and Steve Priest(RIP) would reduce me to a sweating nervous titter should I ever, in earth as it is in Heaven? My Dignity strewn among the wreckage of my free-falling self esteem.

Like a Doubting Thomas of the as-yet unwritten Rock'n'Roll Bible, I have often denied any knowledge of J. Rotten's existence;a Judgement mainly based the endless toe-curling clap-trap this arrogant gob-shite proudly continues to spew forth from 1981 until the present day!? And the public and the dodgier corners of the Media  take it seriously as if this Tubby Tory Tosser is some kind of populist philosopher!? Like his best mate Piers Morgen who would splash a spray of spittle soaked Sycophancy in the general direction of Rottens Arse, whilst exclaiming that he had bought "Never Mind The Bollocks" as a privately educated Yoof..When I die I would love my ashes to be scattered in Peirs Morgans' eyes.

There are similar dick-eads too numerous to list here of course, eg Cave, Geldof.....are they not the same person?....and many others,all of which should have become a noble recluse ,not unlike the Great Syd Barrett,whom I am told was one of Lydon's many influences!???

Then we have the Rebellion Festival look,of beer bellies,fading Tat's,bald heads, shorts and training shoes.Waddling to the Cockney Rejects, reminiscing about their fantasy gig list.Ahhh the night that the UK Subs came to town.

There's a youtube interview with the least stupid member of Spandau Ballet, who went to the Pistol's Screen On The Green show, like I wasn't there too. He saw the Pistol's ,aged 14,and formed Spandau Ballet the next day!?.....let's analyse that for a second? He saw the Sex Pistols and Formed Spandau Ballet? He really couldn't have been listening!?...or there at all, like the thousands who reckon they were.

One always meet these people down the pub and similar social outings,who can't wait to tell you that they're an aging "Punk"?...(If you're a Punk, mate, I certainly ain't). They talk about these fictitious gig nights like they were actually in the Band,and use words like "important" and "crucial"and how they formed a band the next day after seeing 'The Pistols'.

Well, Deef probably have beer bellies forty years on too,but as they are Japanese they're probably genetically slim still;but I'm sure they aren't still touring like The UK Subs...nobodies that irrelevant...surely?

So,"We kill all Punk Rock Heroes"....yes even Gary Kemp,the criminal who wrote "Gold"....cus' he was there you'know...and we weren't.

Tracklist:

A1 We Kill All Punk Rock Heroes
A2 War
A3 脳テン
A4 拷問
A5 メス
A6 Y
B1 Detai
B2 幻想的教育論
B3 キ・ン・タ・マ！？
B4 家畜
B5 ナイ！
B6 自殺
B7 サルの肉
B8 天国パイロット

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Die Öwan – "美川憲一" (XA Records) 1983

Another one Hundred.... er.....songs? from one of the world's greatest ever teen bands.

It loiters  like a lo-fi Punk Rock version of those heavily stoopid  medley records that lurked the highways and byways of the top twenty some decades ago. Such as "Hooked On Classics", "Stars On 45", with the reprehensible Jive Bunny.All of whom saw it,somehow, fit to collect all that terrible music from those 'Not Available in Shops" adverts aimed at those poor victims in their 'golden'years, and added a flaccid four to the carpeted floor Discobeat over the top of 'em. A similar thing was done by the Residents for their 'Diskomo' 12", to Disco-up the 'Eskimo album for the general public. It still managed to clear any dance-floor except for the enlightened few. A similar effect would no-doubt occur if Die Öwan's 100 songs were played to one of those 'New Wave' disco's that popped up at the end of the 70's.

No Disco Beats for Die Öwan however, just a torrent of drumbox driven classic Punk intro's and amputated song parts mashed up with a few dozen originals to create a tumult of hurried cutting room floor edits instigated by  a Japanese Dee Dee Ramone delivering a heavily accented 1-2-3-4 and we're away! Beginning with the famous two note intro to The Clash's "Career Opportunities",and then we can play "Name That Tune" with the next 46 minutes,starting with a joyously incompetent version of "21st Schizoid Man", and wait.....isn't that "Smoke On The Water? Guesswork is needed, especially as the tracklist is impossible to read........but, that's how I like it.

This is certainly NOT available in Shops and its certainly NOT on K-Tel,or even Ronco, but this is the Hooked On (Punk) Classics for the Baby Boomer generation, as we are now,sadly, including myself, approaching one's Golden Years. Sadly i was a couple of months too early to be born within the Generation X bracket,sounds better dunnit? Quelle Dommage!? So one consoles myself with the joyous fact that I'm not part of these Ridiculous Gen Z fools,who missed everything because of their mental health acronyms and blame everyone else for destroying their future,whilst doing, precisely, NOTHING.

I suppose the little Twats have got a point,especially as we (Humanity) are destined to be the only civilisation in history to become extinct because it wasn't cost effective to survive.Alas,while the rocks crumble our kids seem content to point the finger slagging boomers  off for not fixing it. That's new kind of Stoopid......but they (Gen Z) can still Fuck Off,like Greta Thunberg apparently has...in-between the odd-Anti-Israel Rally.

 Tracklist:

A 100 Songs
B 100 Songs

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Die Öwan – "Öwanism" (XA Record – XA-2007) 1981

 

Firstly,I have no idea what the Tracklisting is,but the pix and info here are the best I can be bothered to put forward. Its largely irrelevant anyway.Just see it as 4 long tracks that merge together to become something Avant Garde filtered through the dirty underpants of the collective teenage mind......which this stuff is ,if accidentally ,which always beats the deliberate nonsense that the intellectual elite like us to see as something unattainable.But...There are two types of unattainable; the genuinely unattainable or the pretentious shite that no-one wants to 'attain' anyway. The coming age of Artificial Stupidity is upon us,so the unlearning process that we hear mentioned so often is on its way like a cavalry of good taste coming to kill their women and children in the name of Art. Machines will free us from slavery very soon,and we can live the Nietzchean utopia of the creative ubermensch .

This particular example of Nietzchean Ubermenschen called Die Owan from former the former Axis Hinterland of Japan, involves the DIY lo-fi Punk of a couple of Teenage sons of Nippon banging out endless numbers of short barks and enregistering them within the noble medium of Audio Cassette,back in the daze.

Are these Prats the Japanese Prats, or West Germany's own bunch of Prat-a-like Punk Kinder Die 2.Liga? 

Who knows? Who cares? Either way, its great simple Japanese bedroom thrash,by those who had obviously heard Wire's 'Punk Flag' a few years after it's release.In fact somewhere within the rumpus there pops up a Wire cover,and even "Bored Teenagers" by The Adverts makes an unexpected,but welcome appearance. Dee Dee Ramone countin's and a frantic TR 606 drum machine, makes this an exhausting experience,so when you've had enough,just click the stop button and sit in a darkened room for half-an hour,then hopefully you may forget....until the next time....then you're back in the room

Tracklist: 

1		Anti Children = アンチチルドレン	1:17
2		Where Is Your Love? = ホエア・イズ・ユア・ラブ？	1:19
3		Keihan Ondo = 京阪音頭	1:17
4		No Love = ノウ・ラブ	1:16
5		Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha = ハ・ハ・ハ・ハ・ハ	1:01
6		Hirakata = 枚方	0:28
7		Loadstar = ロードスター	1:03
8		Red Hirakata = レッド枚方	1:39
9		Sadness Song = 悲しみの歌	0:28
10		Kue Song +4 = クエの歌	1:16
11		Gary Koketa = ゲイリー こけた	1:55
12		V's Song +12 = Vの歌 +	1:20
13		Kechi Theme = ケチのテーマ	0:49
14		Cholge Man Theme = チョルゲマン	0:08
15		Bald Eno = ボールド・イーノ	1:19
16		Floor No Kuchi +11 = フロアの口	1:42
17		Sakura = 桜	2:00
18		Lost My Head = ロストマイヘッド	5:12
19		Cholge Man Theme/ Bald Eno (live) = チョルゲマンのテーマ/ボールドイーノ	1:49
20		Ex. Buzzco Timer (live) = Exバズコタイマー	1:54
21		Floor No Kuchi +2 (live) = フロアの口	0:49
22		Harimoto Jin (live) = 張本人	0:16
23		Crying My Hage +11 = 俺のハゲは泣いている	2:42
24		Sabita Hage +12 = さびたハゲ	5:31
25		Hage No Chan Chaka Chan +11 = ハゲのチャンチャカチャン	0:30
26		Suterare Hage + 11 = すてられハゲ	1:53
27		Ikuzo Wa Rasta +12 = イクゾはラスタ	1:52
28		Keihan Dub = 京阪ダブ	2:02
29		Time Shock = タイム・ショック	1:23
30		Chotto Dekakeruwa  = ちょっと出かけるわ	2:18
31		Dareka Haitteruyaro Detekoi  = だれか入ってるやろ、出てこい	1:57
32		Rasta Theme = ラスタ・テーマ	0:44
33		Here Rasta Comes Now = ヒアラスタカムズナウ	3:43
34		Arigataya Song = ありがたやのうた	1:58
35		Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha (demo) = ハハハハハ	1:03
36		Anti Children (demo) = アンチチルドレン	1:25
37		Loadstar (demo) = ロードスター	1:09
38		GHC  (live)	7:53
39		Dareka Haitteruyaro Detekoi  (live) = だれか入ってるやろ出てこい	1:16
40		No Love (1979 version) = ノウラブ DOWNLOAD to achieve  OWANism like a spunking jap-eye HERE!	1:33

Various Artists– "ADK Omnibus Vol.1" (ADK Records – ADK-03E) 1983

Another.....well,one, of two ADK Jap Punk compilations,...volume One in fact, has landed. And pretty manic stuff it is too. Featuring such household names as Sodom , Sekinintenka, Cain, and Gaddess to further damage your sensitive ear filaments with. Well probably not household names at all actually...not even in Tokyo.

No tattoo's on these proper punk rockers. Sporting one of those silly doodles on a Japanese arm was a virtual death sentence in 1983 Japan; akin to wearing a Nazi Armband in mid seventies London. It was certainly easier to Shock in the land of the rising volume levels,as the unwritten rules were enforced with an icy unspoken frostiness as the shadow of the not yet deceased Emperor loomed large....rather like the shadow of Hitler loomed over Argentina.

No such problem in the UK however,but give or take a few Decades and the British were under the iron boot of the Industrial Revolution while the Japs were farting about with Paper as a secure building component. Both Japan and The British Isles,were blighted with the cruel burden of good manners,and drive on the Left, so inevitably Punk Rock was always gonna happen. Nonetheless, a British Punk Rocker would tell his audience to Fuck Off both inside and outside of the concert hall, whereas the Japanese equivalent would likely bow and  thank the seething mass of bobbing black hair for their time.

Like a Kamikaze human drone slamming into an American aircraft carrier , this stuff takes no prisoners...just like the Japanese Army.

PS. Track 7,"夜姦菌孤" is basically Public Image Ltd's "Socialist" from Metal Box with a different singer,and better guitarist is it not?

A1 ソドム*– ソドミズム A2 ソドム*– スペルマ爆弾  A3 ソドム*– L.S.D A4 ソドム*– 自殺 A5 ソドム*– パブリック A6 ソドム*– カンゴフK A7 ソドム*– 夜姦菌孤 B1 責任転嫁*– Fuck B2 責任転嫁*– 春と修羅 B3 責任転嫁*– Worm B4 責任転嫁*– 慕情 C1 カイン*– さつき病 C2 カイン*– すてきなビート (Beat Generation) D1 ガディス*– Bun-Bun-Bun D2 ガディス*– 新宿　-闇のカーニバル- D3 ガディス*– 薬　-Yaku- D4 ガディス*– あたいの..... D5 ガディス*– ケダモノ D6 ガディス*– キ・チ・ガ・イ DOWNLOAD  or miss the omnibus HERE!

Various Artists – "Neo Punk Disordery / ADK Omnibus Vol.2" (ADK Records – ADK-08E) 1984

Punk Rock was made for compilations. One single per band, 15 minute sets per gig,and if there's anything left,of which there shouldn't be if you're a proper Punk Rock band, then that gets stuck on a compilation dunnit?

Using the same criteria for the Japanese, Punk rock was made for da Japanoise Yoof to vomit out the relentless oppression of Japanese Culture......the poor sods.

It's a bit like how da English yoof got liberated by a combination of first wave American Rock'n'Roll and ,ironically, being trapped in the poverty of a bankrupt Britain created by the massive loan...yes I did say 'Loan', that the American Government gave the Churchill Govt to buy armaments from the United States to fight the Third Reich on behalf of of the rapidly diminishing Free World.

Ironically still, no such conditions were foisted upon the axis powers after their inevitable defeat.They all got massive financial reparations to build their economies into the giants they are today.

The 'Brits', they got rationing, powdered egg and Bombed out homelessness. Punishement for giving the Japs the idea of torpedoing the enemy navy in their harbour with light aircraft....exactly what the Brits did to the Italian Navy in the Mediterranean the same year.

However,both Germany, Italy and Japan, didn't have the vibrant youth culture that was produced out of the UK austerity plan post war.

As the last Japanese soldier surrendered in the mid-seventies, things had begun to loosen up a little in Nippon. Disemboweling noise and relentlessly fuming Punk Rock emerged from the polite world of Jap Society. And some of the finest disemboweling shit it is too, as collected on this fine shared jap-core compilation featuring some very pissed off sons of Nippon.

Tracklist:

A1 Gabell– 品種改良
A2 Gabell– レイプ (研究所)
A3 Molugu– Bloody
A4 Molugu– ナチズム
A5 Molugu– AB
A6 Molugu– Insert
A7 Molugu– 餓死
B1 Glycerin – Glycerin (血まみれ世紀)
B2 Glycerin – 臭い
B3 Glycerin – Shelter
B4 Glycerin - 中毒
B5 我殺 Crime Fighter*– Pest
B6 我殺 Crime Fighter*– 血ぞめの改革
B7 我殺 Crime Fighter*– OK
B8 我殺 Crime Fighter*– Crime Fighter

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The Comes – "No Side" (City Rocker Records – DOG 2) 1983

One of the more annoying traits of post-punk hardcore records is when they get their artist mate to hand draw the album art. Usually it's a bunch of cartoon punx in denim and levver, but I dunno whats going on here? 

It could be a terrible tattoo art version of The Comes lead singer, the delightful Chitose.....(pronounced Shit'ouse? maybe?) crossed with Princess Diana....after the accident.

In real life Shit'ouse is a lot easier on the eye, and doesn't hold back in the ferocious vocals department.These are the things that display more than a passing resemblance to Melt Banana's less experimental moments.

The Lovely Shit'Ouse

I Phink I Wanna move to japan.

Talking of Shit Houses, In my charming council estate back in the UK, the really inbred family on my street used to have "Shit'ouse" daubed on the broken door of the toilet in dripping black gloss.These were the local representatives of the Underclass,and frequently decided to threaten me with violence,if only for the fact that i could actually stand up straight,rather than be trapped in a permanent state of scoliosis.That's genetics for ya.

Early Factory Records signing Kevin Hewick also grew up in the same area(Eyres Monsell,Leicester),and has just released a new Album on that very subject, called "Monsell Skyline"...it's great.  

Eyres Monsell,A hard, bleak, hopeless place....but I love it,in a stockholm Syndrome kind of way;and whilst drunk last Tuesday, i said i wanted my ashes to be scattered there.We are strange beasts us Humans innit?

Tracklist:

1 No Side
2 Case
3 Public Cicle
4 Wa-Ka-Me
5 さらけだせ
6 究極
7 バカコケ
8 人間狩り
9 Panic
10 工場
11 Medium

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The Stalin – "Trash" (Political Records – MIG2505L) 1981

 Hmmm,Rather exciting is this Japanese Punk Rock stuff.

And a refreshing change is that no Jap Punk ever reckons they invented Punk Rock,ever!!!

It helps that they never had any Bubblepunk proto power pop groups with Brian Jones hairdo's hanging out at the jap version of the Roundhouse.

You wouldn't find any Brian Jones hairdo's in Tokyo(or London) in 1980 ,and beyond....but you will find a stampede of Colin from GBH look-a-likes, and  weedy versions of 'Wattie' from the Exploited .

To a large portion of the planet, this is what 'Punk' is all about, and who can argue against that?...despite the dodgy version of the Bowl-cut punk bubblegum classic 'Blitzkrieg Bop' making up the numbers.

Nobodies Perfect

Tracklist:

A1 解剖室
A2 冷蔵庫
A3 Trash
A4 天上ペニス
A5 革命的日常
A6 主義者 (イスト)
A7 インテリゲンチャー
A8 バキューム
A9 Bird
A10 溺愛
B1 メシ喰わせろ
B2 ハエ
B3 ハード・コア
B4 猟奇ハンター
B5 電動コケシ
B6 アーチスト
B7 ブタに真珠
B8 Gass
B9 サル
B10 撲殺

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K.K. Null – "Plasmagma" (Video Nasties – MMXV AD #NINE) 2015

Some highly nuanced experimental noise from our ol' mate K.K.

Allowing plenty good space at the red end of the VU meter spectrum. This allows the inevitable Noise fatigue heavily associated with the purveyors of Harsh Noise to be dissipated until well into side two.Lots of attractive noises lull one into a sense of willing exploration,rather than turning it off to listen to the B-52's first,and far weirder than this, album. This is what Industrial Noise should be.Something that wasn't knocked off inside an hour and passed off as something subversive. Maybe forty years ago yes,but not in 2015.The kids who'd shock mum and dad with their Marilyn Manson fixation, are now more likely to produce a K.K.Null cassette to further confuse their Grungy parents somewhat....or Not? All that shits long dead.I shit yee not!

One chose this tape to end my recent pregnant silence because i spied that this label was called Video Nasties, promising me an opportunity to delve into the fascinating world of the 1980's VHS Video Nasty. "Driller Killer" being my most favouritest Punk Rock Movie in that very sorry sub-genre of Punk Rock movies,not to mention Punk Rock Video Nasties.In fact "Driller Killer" could actually be the only Rock'n'Roll movie that doesn't suck ass completely in fact?

Other great Nasties would have to include female exploitation Nasty, "I Spit On Your Grave"...(as mentioned in the UK Parliament's notorious 'Video Nasty debate'.......they do tend to have great titles one must admit. The plot of "ISOYG" is basically ,Chick gets gang raped,Chick walks around naked in the jungle for half an hour, then chick gets bloody and violent revenge on the perps. there may be some clumsy Feminist angle somewhere in there, but I'm struggling to see it?

Only the Daily Mail's balanced mature arguments on the rise of the Video Nasty can really express  the mind of the true Igoramus

The original found footage film "Cannibal Holocaust" is rather notorious for being a suspected Snuff Flick as the chopping up and torture scenes are somewhat realistic? The Italian director was actually tried in court for murder to determine if it was or not....it wasn't!.

Having attempted to watch this all the way through several times,inevitably falling asleep each time......maybe because I was invariably Drunk,this being, along with "Godzilla vrs Mechagodzilla", one's preferred viewing post-kicking out time at the Pub. One has the hazy recollection of a very realistic castration performed upon one of the white guys hung upside down on some bamboo construction.....a most disturbing image to have a hangover enhance in the morning after the night before?

"Texas Chainsaw massacre" was also mentioned in Parliament, although I would contest that this is not a Nasty,just another in a long line of Hillbilly schlock-horror epics started off by John Boorman's great "Deliverence"........others in the Hill Billy Horror genre are "Southern Comfort" and......this is stretching it a bit....."The Hills Have Eyes"?........has anyone seen that documentary on the USA'a most in-bred family yet?.....The Whittakers?.......oooya fookah.......click here.

Sadly I never got to see that Scandalous spaghetti-Nasty,or comedy(?) "SS Experiment Love Camp".....i may right this wrong very soon...or maybe, wrong that Right is more appropriate?

Sci-Fi Nasties aren't too common, but Sick Brit-Flick Nasty "Xtro",has to be one of the finest examples of the motion picture artform ever made.....forget Citizen Kane.

What effect these films could have on your mental well-being is still up for debate.....personally I err on the side of absolutely fucking nothing....but then again I would say that wouldn't I?....Look at the music I play and write about with such pulchritudinous abandon! 

After-all the Margate Police (Daily Mirror 1984) did explain away a violent youths' savage behaviour,as, and I quote, "Influenced by Video nasties or a New Moon"????.....sometimes, maybe its best just to give up completely on the eradication of stupidity?

Maybe there's some troubled youth out there whose behavior is influenced by a K.K.Null cassette or, the next appearance of a Gibbous moon?.

We may never know....or care?

Tracklist:

A1 Plasmagma 01 8:25
A2 Plasmagma 02 9:02
B Plasmagma 03 17:40

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Null & Merzbow – "Babilonia" (ZSF Produkt – ZSF 07) 1983

Null made more than a baker's dozen of these noisy collaborations with everyone's number one choice  to leave,casually strewn across the unpolished surface of their gentrified dockland warehouse abode coffee table...."Oh look Rupert,he's got an early  ZSF Cassette,by Merzbow.", one day. i will transfer these to vinyl and sell them to the uber-nouveau-riche for exorbatant fees.....I will call it Urinal- On- Demand.....O,Rupert I can see it now,me and you and S&M gf''s in Berlin,shops,Genesis P-Orridge museums...the Lot!

Of course these classically educated sons of investment bankers investment bankers would have overlooked the fact that it featured the less commercially minded japnoise pioneer, K.K.Null, but these same ...er.....cunts(?),would only realise this once that enthusiastically priced Vinyl Box-set had hit the inter-web.

So get yer ankle length leather coat on,and imagine you are one of these cred-envy fools, who read marvel comics hidden inside copies of W.S.Burroughs' Soft Machine,and act out their Throbbing Gristle Fanboy fantasy's at the expense of dignity.

Again, yer average Noise outing sounds far better on cassette tape than, CD,or even...mmmm yes, Vinyl.It fuzz's the edges,rather like the Atlantic ocean muffled the screams of drowning poor people on the Titanic.I guess it also muffled to sound of the Billionaires who were crushed as their submersible imploded...except i doubt anyone on the Titanic paid half a million quid for the privilege. Its a great leveller is death.

I have, however, yet to hear of anyone playing Merzbow at their funerals.....unless anyone out there knows better?

Whoops!...I just heard that MONTE CAZAZZA has just died!?.....maybe he'll play some Merzbow at his funeral?

Tracklist:

A Iroha
B1 Nihohe
B2 Tochi
B3 Rinuruo

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Null & Fred Frith – "Null & Fred Frith" (Nux Organization – NUX-21) 1991

If you can't get Brian Eno for your cred cornering collaboration,the next best thing is to procure the ,cheaper,talents of one Fred Frith late of everyone's favourite post-prog art-rock combo, Henry Cow.He has a natural oblique strategies gland inside his front Brain,and can play at least one instrument,if desired;so no need for Eno's famed pack of cards to ever leave the draw.....unless David Bowie wanted them of course...what David wants David gets.....or steals.

Frith brings a more subtle approach to the noise,and side A sounds more like yer Free Improvisation kind of Noise, a noise with nuances if you will?

Woah...side B goes unexpectedly subtle,verging on the Eno's ambient period,with its floaty textures and Atmospheric noodlings.

Who needs Eno anyway?

Tracklist:

Side A : 20000V Live (27:43)

Side B : Heavens Breath (15:32)

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