Jamie xx, Young Thug, and Popcaan Share Video for "Good Times”

Jamie xx, Young Thug, and Popcaan have shared the video for their collaboration "I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)", which appears on Jamie xx's In Colour. The video was directed by Rollo Jackson, and features clips of Young Thug and Popcaan performing the track in various urban settings in New York and Jamaica. Watch it below.

Watch Jamie xx play Idris Muhammad's "Could Heaven Ever Be Like This" (sampled on "Loud Places") at Pitchfork Music Festival 2015:

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Kanye West Attending, Expected To Perform at Democratic National Committee Fundraiser

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Kanye West is slated to attend a Democratic National Committee event in San Francisco on Oct. 10, NBC reports. The fundraiser is billed as "an afternoon concert" that "will be hosted at the Warfield—a 2,300 seat venue—with tickets selling for $250 to $10,000 each". According to NBC: "West is expected to perform songs from his latest album, 'Swish.'"

Earlier this summer while accepting the video vanguard award at the MTV Video Music Awards, West announced that he planned to run for President of the United States in 2020. (Watch that video below.)

Since that time, West gave an interview with Vanity Fair in which he discussed these ambitions to run for president and his admiration of Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson. In it, he said he's "definitely" thinking of running for president in 2020.

When talking about his plans, he explicitly praised Carson:

When I run for president, I’d prefer not to run against someone. I would be like “I want to work with you.” As soon as I heard [Ben] Carson speak, I tried for three weeks to get on the phone with him. I was like this is the most brilliant guy. And I think all the people running right now have something that each of the others needs. But the idea of this separation and this gladiator battle takes away from the main focus that the world needs help and the world needs all the people in a position of power or influence to come together.

Today, Carson addressed West's comments on ABC's This Week. Host Martha Raddatz closed out the interview by asking Carson what he thought about West and if the two had been in touch. Carson praised West's "business acumen" and said that he's "certainly willing to give him a chance" as a presidential candidate. Said Carson:

Carson: Well, I did have an opportunity to talk with him. I was extremely impressed with his business acumen. He knows a lot about business. And, you know, I talked to him about the possibility of him and maybe himself and some of the other people in the pop culture doing some music that might be uplifting, that might give young women a sense of their value and young men a sense of responsibility. I think it could be a tremendous thing in our society.

Raddatz: Do you think he'd be a good president some day? 2020?

Carson: Well, I'm certainly willing to give him a chance. We'll see. He'll be able to explain things and see if he resonates with the people.

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The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach Performs Song by "Blind Freddy Blind-Man" in "Colbert" Skit

The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach was recently a guest on "Colbert", where he performed "Outta My Mind" as his solo project the Arcs. After the performance, however, Auerbach also sat for a sketch in which he discussed his "biggest influence", which may or may not include a musician named "Blind Freddy Blind Man".

Watch the video via the tweet below:

Who was @danauerbach’s biggest influence, other than @thearcs and @theblackkeys? #LSSC https://t.co/pZGtEpOWTw

— Stephen Colbert (@StephenAtHome) September 27, 2015

The Arcs put out the boxing-themed "Stay in my Corner" b/w "Tomato Can" in May, before releasing Yours, Dreamily in early September.

"Outta My Mind":

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Brian Eno Delivers John Peel Lecture

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Today, Brian Eno delivered this year's John Peel Lecture, an annual event in which a keynote speaker makes a speech on a musical subject of their choice. Listen to his lecture on "the ecology of culture" here via BBC Radio 6.

Read the BBC's description of the lecture:

Brian Eno will seek to demonstrate how the whole complex of individuals and institutions engaged in culture - artists, broadcasters, gallerists, promoters, DJs, managers, lawyers, fans - are symbiotically connected parts of a single huge organism which we call Culture. He will outline some of his thinking on this very unpredictable ecology and explore the interconnective relationships between the elements and components that combine to create our culture, and show how cultural processes confer essential and important benefits on society.

Ahead of the event, Eno visited Peel Acres, the radio DJ's expansive archive. He discussed hearing the Velvet Underground for the first time on Peel's show in 1967, as well as the time Peel played Fripp & Eno's Evening Star album in its entirety, backwards, live on air. Watch his visit below.

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Max Richter Performs Sleep Live for Eight Hours, Sets Guinness World Record on BBC Radio 3

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British composer Max Richter recently released Sleep, "an eight-hour lullaby" that is one of the longest single pieces in the history of classical music. As previously announced, Richter performed the entire composition live for the first time and gave the audience beds, instead of seats, encouraging them to sleep through it. BBC Radio 3 broadcast the event, which took place at the Reading Room at London's Wellcome Center. The performance set Guinness World Records for longest broadcast of a single piece of music and longest live broadcast of a single piece of music. Listen to all eight hours here. See photos from the event (taken by Mike Terry) and hear audience members reflect on the performance below.

Richter's Sleep performance took place from midnight to 8 a.m. on September 27. He played piano, keyboards, and electronics, and was joined by Grace Davidson (soprano), Natalia Bonner and Steve Morris (violins), Reiad Chibah (viola), and Ian Burdge and Chris Worsey (cellos).

Richter consulted with neuroscientist David Eagleman while working on the piece to learn about how the brain functions during sleep. "Sleeping is one of the most important things we all do," he said. "We spend a third of our lives asleep and it's always been one of my favourite things, ever since I was a child. ... For me, Sleep is an attempt to see how that space when your conscious mind is on holiday can be a place for music to live."

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At Least 10 People Injured at Summer Ends Festival

Ten to 12 people were injured at Saturday night's Summer Ends Music Festival in Tempe, Arizona, according to Stereogum. At least nine people were taken to the hospital and others were treated on sight for injuries suffered from a reckless rush to the front of the crowd during the reggae band Rebelution's set. One fan told KTVK, "Everyone was so eager to get to the front, they just kept pushing." Another added, "It was crazy. People were getting pushed, stepped on, trampled over. Nobody was really caring about anybody." The festival was stopped temporarily to treat the injuries, but later resumed for J. Cole's headlining set.

Summer Ends will continue with its final day today, as planned. Kanye West will headline. Chance the Rapper, Pusha T, Vic Mensa, Travis Scott, and Kaytranada are schedule to perform, as well.

Tempe Police Sgt. Damon DeSpain released a statement about Saturday's events and the plans for Sunday:

The Tempe Police Department is working with Tempe Fire Medical Rescue and the event promoter (Lucky Man Productions) to avoid any similar type of incident today. We are asking that concert goers come prepared by staying well hydrated, dressing appropriately for the hot weather, and wearing sunblock. As always, we encourage guests to have fun while acting responsibly and in a safe manner.

 Tempe Police also shared a photo of the concert as it ended Saturday night.

Concert over and crowd clearing out. http://pic.twitter.com/ulZx4DtA63

— Tempe Police (@TempePolice) September 27, 2015

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Presidential Candidate Ben Carson Discusses Kanye West on ABC's This Week

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Recently, Kanye West expressed his admiration for Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, calling him "the most brilliant guy" in an interview with Vanity Fair. Today, Carson addressed West's comments on ABC's This Week. Host Martha Raddatz closed out the interview by asking Carson what he thought about West and if the two had been in touch. Carson praised West's "business acumen" and said that he's "certainly willing to give him a chance" as a presidential candidate. Watch the full interview and read a transcript of Carson's comments about West below.

Raddatz: One final question, Kanye West told an interviewer earlier this month that when he heard you speak he thought you were "the most brilliant guy" and he tried to call you. First of all, I want to know whether you got in touch in the last few weeks, and what you think of him, whether you'd like him to help out with your campaign.

Carson: Well, I did have an opportunity to talk with him. I was extremely impressed with his business acumen. He knows a lot about business. And, you know, I talked to him about the possibility of him and maybe himself and some of the other people in the pop culture doing some music that might be uplifting, that might give young women a sense of their value and young men a sense of responsibility. I think it could be a tremendous thing in our society.

Raddatz: Do you think he'd be a good president some day? 2020?

Carson: Well, I'm certainly willing to give him a chance. We'll see. He'll be able to explain things and see if he resonates with the people.

Read our feature on West's 808s & Heartbreak, "The Coldest Story Ever Told". 

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Pearl Jam Bring Out Beyoncé at Global Citizen Festival

Global Citizen Festival took place Saturday at the Great Lawn in New York's Central Park. The event featured headliners Beyoncé, Pearl Jam, Ed Sheeran, and Coldplay. Following her set, Beyoncé joined Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder on stage to cover Bob Marley & the Wailer's "Redemption Song". Clips of a Nelson Mandela speech played behind them during the performance. Watch the duet below via Stereogum.

Global Citizen Festival is part of the Global Poverty Project, a UN-backed campaign to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030.

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Global Citizen Festival Streams Live, Featuring Beyoncé, Pearl Jam, Coldplay, and Ed Sheeran

Today, the 2015 Global Citizen Festival takes place at New York’s Great Lawn in Central Park. Curated by Chris Martin, the event features headliners Beyoncé, Pearl Jam, and Ed Sheeran, as well as Coldplay themselves. The event begins at 4 p.m. Eastern; watch a live stream below.

Global Citizen Festival is part of the Global Poverty Project, a UN-backed campaign to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030. 

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Fetty Wap Involved in Serious Motorcycle Accident

Fetty Wap has been injured in a serious motorcycle accident, TMZ and Hot New Hip Hop report. He appears to have been hit by a car while riding his motorcycle. Although his identity is yet to be confirmed, pictures shared by DJ Akademiks on Twitter seem to show the rapper being carried away from the scene on a stretcher. According to Akademiks, eyewitnesses said he was responsive before being taken to hospital.

Allegedly, Fetty Wap was just involved in a motorcycle accident. Will Update when I get more details. http://pic.twitter.com/UHzXh1nbp5

— DJ Akademiks (@IamAkademiks) September 26, 2015

More photos coming pertaining Fetty Wap allegedly being in accident. Seems paramedics arrived. http://pic.twitter.com/6JlSCKrH2f

— DJ Akademiks (@IamAkademiks) September 26, 2015

Fetty Wap being transported to the Hospital by Paramedics - Eye witness confirmation + pic confirm thats him. http://pic.twitter.com/xsk2lfnnEY

— DJ Akademiks (@IamAkademiks) September 26, 2015

We've contacted Fetty Wap's representative for confirmation.

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Kanye West Brings Out Kid Cudi, Young Jeezy for 808s & Heartbreak Show

Photo from Kim Kardashian's Instagram

Kanye West gave the first of two special 808s & Heartbreak shows last night at the Hollywood Bowl. As well as selling new merch themed around the album, Kanye brought out Kid Cudi, Young Jeezy, and Mr Hudson, who all featured on the record. Watch fan footage below.According to an Entertainment Weekly report, Kanye was joined throughout the show by the best part of a symphony orchestra and a variety of dancers and performance artists. Technical difficulties disrupted the second half, with TMZ reporting that tracks were out of sync, apparently due to Kanye's late arrival to a soundcheck on Thursday.

At the show's conclusion, EW's report continues, Kanye "returned cloaked head to toe in a theatrical costume: a burlap bodysuit replete with a bulging codpiece and rough-hewn mask that covered every inch of his body and face." (See the photo above.)

It goes on:

With just piano as accompaniment and his singing voice cloaked by pitch-correcting computer effects, the artist delivered a kind of tortured Auto-Tune soliloquy. “I just want to be a real boy,” West sang. “This must be what it feels like to live a real life — to be real!”

Lurching around the stage with the herky-jerky movement of a marionette, he continued singing: “I’ll tell the truth…and keep running. There is no Gucci I could buy. There is no Louis Vuitton that I could put on… There is no YSL that they could sell/To take my heart out of this jail…There are no clothes I could buy that could turn back the time…There is no vacation spot I could fly that could bring back a piece of real life… I ask you tonight, what does it feel like? To live a real life?”

Read "The Coldest Story Ever Told", Jayson Greene's recent article on 808s and Heartbreak.

"Love Lockdown":

 "Welcome to Heartbreak" (feat. Kid Cudi):

"Say You Will":

"Heartless" (with Kid Cudi):

"Robocop":

"Street Lights":

"See You in My Nightmares":

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Brian Eno Explores John Peel's Archive, Discusses the Velvet Underground in Peel Lecture Video

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Tomorrow, Brian Eno will deliver this year's John Peel Lecture, an annual event in which a keynote speaker makes a speech on a musical subject of their choice. Ahead of his lecture on the "ecology of culture," Eno visited Peel Acres, the radio DJ's expansive archive, as part of the BBC's coverage. He discussed hearing the Velvet Underground for the first time on Peel's show in 1967, as well as the time Peel played Fripp & Eno's Evening Star album in its entirety, backwards, live on air. Watch the four-minute clip below.

According to the BBC's description, Eno's lecture "will seek to demonstrate how the whole complex of individuals and institutions engaged in culture - artists, broadcasters, gallerists, promoters, DJs, managers, lawyers, fans - are symbiotically connected parts of a single huge organism which we call Culture. He will outline some of his thinking on this very unpredictable ecology and explore the interconnective relationships between the elements and components that combine to create our culture, and show how cultural processes confer essential and important benefits on society."

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De La Soul Bring Out Damon Albarn, Cover Gorillaz' "Feel Good Inc." at Dismaland

For the final night's entertainment at Dismaland — Banksy's pop-up art project in Weston-super-Mare, England — the "bemusement park" hosted a headline set from De La Soul. As well as performing their feature on Gorillaz' "Feel Good Inc.", they brought out Damon Albarn to do his verse and choruses. Watch it below. (Albarn's mic starts working 30 seconds in.)

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The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach Performs "Outta My Mind" as The Arcs on "Colbert"

The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach has a solo project called the Arcs who put out the boxing-themed "Stay in my Corner" b/w "Tomato Can" in May, before releasing Yours, Dreamily in early September. Last night, they performed the song "Outta My Mind" on "Colbert". Watch it below.

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Run the Jewels Drop Meow the Jewels

At long last, Run the Jewels have dropped Meow the Jewels, the cat-centric remix of their last album, RTJ2. The album is now up and available free. Download it for free here.

It originated as a joke, became a Kickstarter campaign, and is now a real album.

All of the profits will be going to charities that benefit victims of police brutality. Listen to "Meowrly" below.

Previously, they shared "Oh My Darling Don't Meow", which was remixed by Just Blaze. 

Read our feature on Run the Jewels, Last Rappers Standing.

Watch El-P and Killer Mike on Pitchfork.tv's "Over/Under":

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Father John Misty Shares New Song "The Memo"

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Father John Misty has shared "The Memo", a new song that you can listen to above. It caps off a rather productive week for Joshua Tillman, who uploaded (and later, deleted) two Taylor Swift covers in the wake of Ryan Adams' 1989 – and also ran into some flack for his "The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment" video. Check out Ed Steed's artwork for the track below, along with its lyrics. 

Read our feature on Father John Misty, "How to Make Love".

                 

"The Memo":

I'm gonna steal some bedsheets
From an amputee
I'm gonna mount em on a canvas
In the middle of the gallery
I'm gonna tell everybody it was painted by a chimpanzee
But just between you me
Here at the cultural low water mark
If it's fraud or art
They'll pay you to believe

I'm gonna take five young dudes
From white families
Gonna mount em on a billboard
In the middle of the country
I'm gonna tell everybody they sing like angels with whiter teeth
But just between you and me
They're just like the ones before
With their standards lower
Every concert goer will pay you to believe

Caffeine in the morning, alcohol at night
Cameras to record you and mirrors to recognize
And as the world is getting smaller
Small things take up all your time
Narcissus would have had a field day if he could have got online
And friends it's not self-love that kills you
It's when those who hate you are allowed
To sell you that you're a glorious shit the entire world revolves around
And that you're the eater, and not the eaten
But that your hunger will only cease
If you come binge on radiant blandness at the disposable feast

Just quickly how would you rate yourself
In terms of sex appeal and cultural significance
Do you usually listen to music like this
We can recommend some similar artists
Are you feeling depressed?
But your feedback's important
To us

Gonna buy myself a sports team
And put em in a pit
Gonna wage the old crusade
Against consciousness
All I need is a couple winners to get every loser to fight in it
You keep the golden calf
I just need the bullshit
They won't just sell themselves into slavery
They'll get on their knees and pay you to believe

Watch Father John Misty perform for Pitchfork.tv:

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Julia Holter Shares "Betsy On The Roof" Live Performance Video

Julia Holter just released her excellent new album, Have You in My Wilderness. Today, she's shared a live performance video for "Besty On The Roof", one of the album's tracks. It was directed by Federico Urdaneta and filmed inside the St. Pancras clock tower in London, and can be viewed below via Nowness. 

"'Betsy' is one of my favorites, because it is the one to which I've imposed the least clear narrative," Holter told Nowness. "To me, it's so much more about the feeling – desperation – than any kind of story at all. There's very little imagery or character development, it's just about a deep and desperate search for something. It doesn't matter what it is.”

Read our 2013 interview with Holter.

Watch Julia Holter perform "In The Green Wild" at the 2013 Pitchfork Music Festival:

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The Flaming Lips Announce Clouds Taste Metallic 20th Anniversary Reissue Box Set

It's been twenty years since the Flaming Lips released Clouds Taste Metallic, their seventh LP as well as their last album to feature guitarist Ronald Jones. Today, the band announced a deluxe reissue of the record featuring rarities, B-sides, and other ephemera, out November 27 via Warner Bros. Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic will be available in a number of configurations, including a three-CD collection and a seven-LP boxset. Check out the tracklisting for the CD boxset below. 

The first disc contains the whole album as well as The King Bug Laughs, a collection of rarities and outtakes); the second contains a promo-only compilation CD entitled Due To High Expectations The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles For Your Balloons; the third contains a previously unreleased live recording from a 1996 gig in Seattle.

The Flaming Lips website will also be carrying exclusive numbered, colored versions of the latter, along with exclusive t-shirts and posters. Individual vinyl LPs will become available at a later date.

Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997 CD Box Set:

Disc 1: Clouds Taste Metallic / The King Bug Laughs (Oddities and Rarities)
01 The Abandoned Hospital Ship
02 Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles
03 Placebo Headwound
04 This Here Giraffe
05 Brainville
06 Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World
07 When You Smile
08 Kim's Watermelon Gun
09 They Punctured My Yolk
10 Lightning Strikes the Postman
11 Christmas At the Zoo
12 Evil Will Prevail
13 Bad Days (aurally excited version)

Disc 2: Due To High Expectations The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles For Your Balloons
01 Bad Days
02 Jets Part 2 (My Two Days As An Ambulance Driver)
03 Ice Drummer
04 Put the Waterbug in the Policeman's Ear
05 Chewin' the Apple of Yer Eye
06 Chosen One
07 Little Drummer Boy
08 Slow Nerve Action
09 It Was a Very Good Year
10 Sun Arise
11 Life on Mars
12 Ballrooms of Mars
13 Hot Day
14 Nobody Told Me
15 Magician Vs The Headache
16 She Don't Use Jelly (Live @KJ103)

Disc 3: Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles (Live in Seattle 1996)
01 The Abandoned Hospital Ship
02 Unconsciously Screamin'
03 Take Meta Mars
04 Moth in the Incubator
05 Put the Waterbug in the Policeman's Ear
06 Lightning Strikes the Postman
07 Bad Days
08 She Don't Use Jelly
09 Chewin' the Apple of Yer Eye
10 When You Smile
11 Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles
12 Love Yer Brain
13 Placebo Headwound

Watch Wayne Coyne on Pitchfork.tv's "Over/Under":

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Pope Francis to Release Rock Album, Shares First Song "Wake Up! Go! Go! Forward!"

Popes have long dabbled in music: Pope Benedict XVI's voice was featured on 2009's Music From The Vatican: Alma Mater, and Pope John Paul II appeared on albums like 1999's Abba Pater. Pope Francis, however, may be the first pope to rock. Today, His Holiness released "Wake Up! Go! Go! Forward!", a prog-inflected song that features an address he made in English, as well as his singing voice. Listen to it above, via Rolling Stone.

"Wake Up! Go! Go! Forward!" is part of Wake Up!, an 11-song album that features Francis speaking in English, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese.

"For many years, I've been the producer and the artistic director of albums by the Pope. I had the honor to work with John Paul II, Benedict XVI and now Pope Francis," Don Giulio Neroni, who produced Wake Up!, told Rolling Stone. "As in the past, for this album too, I tried to be strongly faithful to the pastoral and personality of Pope Francis: the Pope of dialogue, open doors, hospitality. For this reason, the voice of Pope Francis in Wake Up! dialogues music. And contemporary music (rock, pop, Latin etc.) dialogues with the Christian tradition of sacred hymns." The album will be released on November 27, and you can find the track list below. 

Wake Up!

01 Annuntio Vobis Gadium Mangum
02 Salve Regina
03 Laudato Sie…
04 Poe Que' Sufren Los Ninos
05 Non Lasciatevi Rubare La Speranza!
06 La Iglesia No Puede Ser Una Ong!
07 Wake Up! Go! Go! Forward!
08 La Fa Es Entera, No Se Licua!
09 Pace! Fratelli!
10 Per La Famiglia
11 Fazei O Que Ele Vos Disser

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Kendrick Lamar Jumps On Funkadelic's "Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard On You?"

Photo by Jessica Lehrman

Last year, legendary funk outfit Funkadelic released their three-disc album First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate, featuring "Ain't That Funkin' Kinda Hard On You?". Now, as Billboard points out, they've shared a remix of the track by Louie Vega, featuring Kendrick Lamar. (To Pimp a Butterfly featured contributions from George Clinton). Listen to it above via Spotify.

Read "On Kendrick Lamar and Black Humanity" at the Pitch.

Watch Funkadelic and Soul Clap's video for the Sly Stone collab "In Da Kar" via Pitchfork.tv:

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