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i think it's in the shops tomorrow, so i will pick it up then. anyone heard anything from this? will it be money well spent? As good as manitoba? opinions, please.

weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 1 May 2003 07:45 (10 years ago) Permalink

omg WHAT? an album? more info now please!

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 1 May 2003 07:47 (10 years ago) Permalink

it's called "rounds". i haven't heard any of it, so i can't go into much detail! NME and Uncut review it today if you want to read up on it.

weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 1 May 2003 07:52 (10 years ago) Permalink

I've only heard the single 'Rounds' which is pleasant enuff. I read an interview with him where he said that this was his first stab at creating completely stand-alone underivative music, so who knows what it'll sound like. he also said that during recording it he'd been listening mostly to early '90s hip hop - Pete Rock, Diamond D, Extra P etceterah.

i'm intrigued.

nebbesh (nebbesh), Thursday, 1 May 2003 07:54 (10 years ago) Permalink

Tomorrow in Ireland, Monday over here. Called Rounds. Meant to be better than Pause. Which is going to be hard!

Expect it to be very good indeed; Pause is a fantastic album. He's more organic/acoustic than Manitoba, less frenetic than UIF and less jazz than Start Breaking My Heart, with more emphasis on melody and. The penultimate track on UIF is very Four Tet.

I have no doubt that this will a terrific album and I can't wait.

Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 1 May 2003 07:55 (10 years ago) Permalink

Excited!

Although I fear I'll have to wait til I get back to the UK, since Sydney record shops have become notorious round our house for their "Goldfrapp who?"-style knowledge.

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 1 May 2003 08:04 (10 years ago) Permalink

I'm quite excited about it, too.


Insight, moi?

Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:44 (10 years ago) Permalink

I have it, it's aces. But don't ask me to describe it in any detail because I am rub at writing about music

j0e (j0e), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:45 (10 years ago) Permalink

apparently he's producing the next beth orton album, which is quite exciting

j0e (j0e), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:45 (10 years ago) Permalink

No it isn't! :P

Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:46 (10 years ago) Permalink

no IT IS

j0e (j0e), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:47 (10 years ago) Permalink

etc etc

j0e (j0e), Thursday, 1 May 2003 09:49 (10 years ago) Permalink

Had it for a month or so on Promo, and its fantastic, probably the best thing he's done, a progression of what he's done before rather than anything different. Its as good as the Manitoba, in fact those 2 albums will be in my top 50 come the end of the year along with the magic Soulo - Man, the Manipulator and Kopernic - Kopernic

Action Jackson, Thursday, 1 May 2003 10:27 (10 years ago) Permalink

Had it a while too. If you like his stuff you'll really fall for this one, it's gorgeous. Better than Manitoba's Up In Flames in my view and that's really going some coz i luv that record, different to Pause but still just as beautiful... clever, clever fella

Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Thursday, 1 May 2003 10:47 (10 years ago) Permalink

It's very, very good. So is the new Prefuse 73, while you're spending money.

roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 1 May 2003 13:20 (10 years ago) Permalink

Looks like I'll be buying the whole concert bill, then (P73, 4Tet, and Manitoba are playing select U.S. cities). (I only have Up in Flames so far.) (And now kicking myself for planning a trip the same weekend of that show.)

jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 May 2003 14:04 (10 years ago) Permalink

he's not producing the beth orton album (i spoke to him an hour ago). he did some remixes for her and worked on a b-side and they might extend the collaboration. what you're hearing is pr types hyping more nonexistent marketing angles.

ben sterling (frozen in time), Thursday, 1 May 2003 16:22 (10 years ago) Permalink

I interviewed Four Tet recently and he said he *is* producing
the new Beth Orton album. It's right here on my tape, I swear.

Da ve Segal, Thursday, 1 May 2003 19:44 (10 years ago) Permalink

New Four Tet album is luuuurvley. Some of the sounds have the same feel as the previous one, which makes me happy- I love the tones and general mood. There's one awful unlistenable track (a la No More Mosquitoes, though I can't remember the name of the new one) and the ending Slow Jam is kinda boring. My Angel Rocks Back and Forth is prime girlfriend-bait-mixtape material, though. Aces overall.

r. geary (rgeary), Thursday, 1 May 2003 20:04 (10 years ago) Permalink

[off-topic] j_o_e_b, does yr computer have a virus? i just got a superweird bit of spam offa you...150k email titled "Questionnaire" but seemingly containing...nothing. Just asking.

CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 1 May 2003 21:52 (10 years ago) Permalink

charlie, i've has some similar stuff (not from joeb).

gaz (gaz), Thursday, 1 May 2003 22:10 (10 years ago) Permalink

been listening to a few songs on this album all day and then... track eight - 'as serious as your life'! holy shit this rawks. much craze on the board lately with the manitoba's release and now new four tet. of the two, i've always been partial to four tet and pause & rounds are why. cannae wait tah see boef wif prefuse 73.

j.a.e., Friday, 2 May 2003 05:50 (10 years ago) Permalink

that prefuse73 reckid rocks! i was a doubter.

gaz (gaz), Friday, 2 May 2003 08:45 (10 years ago) Permalink

3 years pass...
Anyone heard the new Four Tet DJ Kicks cd?

todd (todd), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 13:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

Just wondering because I can pick it up used, but know only a few tracks:

01. David Behrman - Leapday Night (Scene 1)
02. Syclops - Mom, The Video Broke
03. Curtis Mayfield - If I Were Only A Child Again
04. Heiner Stadler - Out-Rock
05. Gary Davis - The Professor's Here
06. Heldon - Les Soucoupes Volantes Vertes
07. Stereolab - Les Yper-Sound
08. So Solid Crew - Dillema
09. Akufen - Psychometry 3.2
10. Animal Collective - Baby Day
11. Madvillain - Figaro (101 Remix)
12. Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto - Love, Love
13. Four Tet - Pockets
14. Model 500 - Psychosomatic
15. Shona People Of Rhodesia - Taireva
16. Quickspace Supersport - Superspace
17. Cabaret Voltaire - Kneel To The Boss
18. Gong - Love Is How Y Make It
19. Showbiz & A.G. - Represent
20. Group Home - Up Against The Wall (Getaway Car Mix)
21. Autechre - Flutter

todd (todd), Thursday, 11 May 2006 12:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

Looks like you've found a promo- it's not out until the end of June, at least in the US. Interesting tracklist, though- Gong?!

Telephonething (Telephonething), Thursday, 11 May 2006 18:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

hmmm mebbe worth a check

"late night tales" is great

Lukas (lukas), Thursday, 11 May 2006 18:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

that tracklist screams ableton live
can't wait to hear it myself!

yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Thursday, 11 May 2006 20:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

New EP is good. Wing Body Wing is probably one of the better tracks. Kinda sounds like a cross between Pantha Du Prince and Invisible Conga People's 'Cable Dazed'. Glad he's momentarily stepped away from the folk-tronica tag, ugh what a term.

oscar, Thursday, 20 March 2008 02:53 (5 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Hijacked from the Burial thread, the sample B1 here

For this sounds amazing, even compared to his 4/4 stuff, it sounds more more kind of at the same time plain and unlike anything else I've heard by four tet. Absolutely lovely, pitty it has to be on a limited, fetish-object release.

formerly: mehlt (Edward Saroyan), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 01:43 (4 years ago) Permalink

that 'ringer' EP was fantastic. he's really on a bit of a run lately!

butt_hurton (haitch), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 02:05 (4 years ago) Permalink

I saw the 2XLP for $10 but didn't buy it (figured it get it later, but haven't seen it at the same store since)

:(

formerly: mehlt (Edward Saroyan), Wednesday, 29 April 2009 02:39 (4 years ago) Permalink

This is pretty wicked. Goes very nicely with the Field record.

Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 May 2009 12:49 (4 years ago) Permalink

Liking that a lot

stet, Friday, 8 May 2009 12:56 (4 years ago) Permalink

Plz to tell more?

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 8 May 2009 13:46 (4 years ago) Permalink

2 tracks, approx 9 minutes each, collaboration between Burial & Four Tet, very ambient-ey sort of.

Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:01 (4 years ago) Permalink

Limited 12" or download as far as format goes.

Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:02 (4 years ago) Permalink

Oh right.

I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 8 May 2009 14:51 (4 years ago) Permalink

not so limited, already repressed.

languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 12:45 (4 years ago) Permalink

hopefully this pressing will sound less arse than the old one.

languid samuel l. jackson (jim), Tuesday, 12 May 2009 12:47 (4 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

the press release for his upcoming fabriclive sounds good, like this new track locked off it. like a lot. seriously love this guy but he has never made a release that is wholly satisfied. there is love in you didn't go far enough in the direction he's been headed post-reid for me (ringer, the burial collabs etc.)

℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Saturday, 13 August 2011 12:44 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

His new Fabriclive mix is pretty excellent

Number None, Monday, 12 September 2011 16:12 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

yes looking forward to giving this a listen. lots of obscure garage cuts apparently so right up my street.

sam500, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 04:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

8 months pass...

heard this remix of a track from Nigel Godrich's new Ultraista project the other day on Gilles' 6music show and I'm putting it here because Kieran has completely smashed it (and makes the original seem pedestrian by comparison). Srsly, this is *awesome*.

http://soundcloud.com/indietheka/ultraista-smalltalk-four-tet

that mustardless plate (Bill A), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 21:51 (10 months ago) Permalink

Also new from Mr. Tet, not sure if it's being discussed elsewhere:

recordbreaking transfer to Lucknow FC (seandalai), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 22:20 (10 months ago) Permalink

I have been binging on Mr Tet lately so I am happy to have some new ones!

I know ILM has generally been down on Mr Tet but god damn there is nothing he can't make sound good w a sparkly remix. I've been on the fence about Ultraista but I'd listen to Mr Tet remixing the sound of the rubbish collectors this morning TBH.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 05:35 (10 months ago) Permalink

It is really annoying not being able to view/listen to anything with Flash at work.

Psychedelic Space Jellyfish with harps is SUPER DOUBLE PLUS GOOD. I think I've just been so captivated by the video, though, that I'm not really processing the song. I'm not sure about the bass, though. Don't know that wob suits Mr Tet. But who cares, it's all wibbling harps and things.

Ultraista, though. I feel vaguely disappointed with myself that I am utterly failing to be captivated by it. Come on, it's got my name all over it, why is this not total WCC catnip? I don't know if I'm being overly suspicious of something which feels *too* marketed to me, but if a Four Tet remix can't make me fall in love with a song, I don't know that anything will.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 19:19 (10 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

So the proper download of Pink has been out for a week or so. He's doing absolutely no marketing for it. Who's listening? Off one (distracted) listen I wasn't sure it hung together like a proper "album" (excuse my old fashioned rockiest ideas), but it was a distracted listen in the midst of house-buying chaos. I'm just whacking out on the iPod so I can play it via the Zeppelin and hear it in space rather than headphones.

Seemed like plenty of bass, to be fair.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 25 August 2012 07:33 (8 months ago) Permalink

Been listening to this all week, it's fantastic. I had the same 'not a proper album' issue at first too, but I suspect part of that is psychological, given that I know it's a singles comp. If he'd just released this music straight off as a single piece, I'm not sure I'd have given it a second thought.

'Locked' & 'Lions' are the highlights for me so far, really strong opening.

Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Saturday, 25 August 2012 08:08 (8 months ago) Permalink

I need to spend more time with it because, argh, massive amounts of playlists due to various things been floating around this week.

There were a couple of moments I really really loved, but can't recall off hand the song titles.

But this feels a lot less like an album as a collection of songs, and more like a collection of extended 12" remixes, if that makes any sense. Like, this is a collection of pieces aimed for dancefloor playing as opposed to something he's sat down and planned out like an album, like the others were. Which is fine, I like it, it's just a different approach, and probably why he's not treating it like a big deal release.

my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Saturday, 25 August 2012 08:26 (8 months ago) Permalink

You're right -- it is a collection of previously released 12"s, plus 2 new tracks. Both of the new tracks are long and mostly static. They're lovely, especially the twinkly Peace for Earth, but don't do much in the context of the album. I think it'd work better as an album with something more direct in the 2nd slot (128 Harps, maybe) and Peace for Earth moved to the end.

Locked and Pinnacles are 2 of my favorite tracks from the past year, and I'd rate Pyramid and Jupiters up there too. Love the way the percolating bass on Pinnacles drives the momentum forward and the splashy piano chords take it up to the, um, pinnacle. The triplet accents in the bass line and the off-beat timing of the piano chords drive me to OCD fits of finger tapping and air piano (on my desk, anyway), trying to sort out how the rhythm fits together. Irresistible. I've listened to a lot of Jazzanova style jazz house over the years -- this is miles ahead.

Most of Pinnacles is sampled from Buster Williams' 1975 album/track Pinnacle (starts ~4:30):

#!

Bonus: bassline for The Choice is Yours at 1:20

misty sensorium (Plasmon), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:38 (8 months ago) Permalink

Sorry that's Noble Ego, not the title track.

Meanwhile, "this is truly glorious":

misty sensorium (Plasmon), Saturday, 25 August 2012 16:53 (8 months ago) Permalink

Always find it amazing when someone takes 5 seconds of something and turns it into 8 minutes of something else.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 25 August 2012 17:38 (8 months ago) Permalink

OK after wandering through the woods to this album yesterday, it has finally clicked. I think it's because it's such a wonderful build of a thing. The first couple of tracks didn't really catch on for me, but everything from 128 Harps out just gets more and more beautiful as it goes along. I'm completely in love with Atoms For Peace For Earth the way it turns from "still really a Dirty Dronerock boy at heart" wibble and then slowly builds in intricacy - and then Pinnacles of course is the pinnacle.

my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Monday, 27 August 2012 14:57 (8 months ago) Permalink

Yeah, I'm really starting to enjoy this.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 27 August 2012 15:03 (8 months ago) Permalink

http://soundcloud.com/four-tet/128-harps

sourced from 4:00

Milton Parker, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 18:42 (8 months ago) Permalink

Nice review, Nick.

Would feel more inclined to buy it if it was available on CD.

djh, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:12 (8 months ago) Permalink

At my age, 'Peace for Earth' is just fine.

Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 22:00 (8 months ago) Permalink

aw i thought i was a right smart arse when i was trying (and failing) to make a house track sampling cage last night, i'm a smart nothing.

tubular, mondo, gnabry (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:30 (8 months ago) Permalink

"Peace For Earth" is great -- my favorite.

a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:33 (8 months ago) Permalink

yes it's lovely. not really feeling the rest of it so far.

jed_, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:51 (8 months ago) Permalink

Love this and would compare it favorably to the John Talabot, as Sick Mouthy did on his blog.

A side note, John Talabot uses all hardware to write his music. Whereas I think Four Tet is software.

Funny that the software music here feels more "organic".

Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:55 (8 months ago) Permalink

I'm not saying that I dislike the John Talabot at all though, its just a different kind of skewed melodic indie friendly dance.

Josiah Alan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:59 (8 months ago) Permalink

That's bizarre re the hardware / software divide.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 August 2012 05:43 (8 months ago) Permalink

I mean, I don't make music at all, so I'm surfing entirely on instinct, but some stuff sounds like it's from real things making noises and some stuff doesn't.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 August 2012 06:29 (8 months ago) Permalink

There have been far too many bytes spilled already over the difference between "hardware music" and "software music" (well, at least, if you spend a lot of time in producers' forums.) It's kind of a fool's game unless you have ears like Owen P. I'm not even sure what people are trying to get at with this "sounds organic" or whatnot, or indeed what a "real thing" is. (I mean, if you sample a drum that someone played 50 years ago off a recording, chop it up and rearrange it entirely in software in a virtual DAW, what does that mean when you say it sounds "real" as opposed to someone building a drum machine from scratch using electrical components and is triggered by a manual intervention in real time, but it happens to go "plink" instead of "thump"?)

Anyway, I like this album more and more the more I hear it.

my god it's full of straw (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 30 August 2012 07:49 (8 months ago) Permalink

Man, I was vaguely aware of this being out, but I didn't know today that it was digital only. Felt a little foolish after wondering why I couldn't find a physical copy at any likely outlets.

heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 September 2012 21:24 (8 months ago) Permalink

So I just looked into buying the Japanese CD on import from Amazon.co.jp, and it'd cost me £45; reckons shipping to the UK is £25. Surely that's an outrageous lie? Any ILXORs in Japan who fancy posting me a copy for paypal remuneration?

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 08:13 (8 months ago) Permalink

Why didn't I think of that?

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 08:44 (8 months ago) Permalink

And it has arrived. Sounds great on big speakers.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:08 (7 months ago) Permalink

@ WCC, kind of you to suggest I have an ear for this stuff! Mostly I just watch a lot of synth videos.

whiter than... this? (Ówen P.), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:38 (7 months ago) Permalink

Oh man Peace For Earth.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:44 (7 months ago) Permalink

For me, the distinction between hardware vs. software has less to do with "sounds analogue!" and more to do with audible compositional processes that don't really require hands-on experience with synths to 'get'. Stuff like ARP or Beak>/Portishead/Anika or Emeralds or the Analord records or some OPN stuff is just composed differently than Rustie or Four Tet or Flying Lotus.

Anyway I'm SO excited to hear this record, it and Flying Lotus are gonna make my autumn great

whiter than... this? (Ówen P.), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:45 (7 months ago) Permalink

This is brilliant. Loving the drums that kick in around 2 minutes in, really good twist on a sound that I'd connect strongly with Rounds.

The Flying Lotus is also very strong. Very summery.

hyggeligt, Saturday, 22 September 2012 19:49 (7 months ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Live in the Boiler Room:

djh, Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:52 (7 months ago) Permalink

Is that supposed to be a link? Nothing is turning up for it. :-(

I got really really excited when I searched for him earlier because Google suggested that he was playing in ST KILDA and suddenly the thought of Four Tet playing on a DESERTED SCOTTISH ISLAND which is now a nature reserve was like the most exciting and WCC-friendly gig I could possibly imagine. But they meant the one in Australia, dammit.

I can still hold out hope he might play the Papay Festival or such thing.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:07 (7 months ago) Permalink

djh, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:24 (7 months ago) Permalink

No idea why that isn't working.

Search for: "Four Tet Live in the Boiler Room" on YouTube, maybe?

djh, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:26 (7 months ago) Permalink

It's not embedding but I eventually got there with some copying and pasting. Going to have to listen to it at work, though, as my connection is not going to handle that.

http://youtu.be/d9uFygzB-ho <-- hoping this will work.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:30 (7 months ago) Permalink

Your picture of Keiran has been retweeted by him, by the way.

djh, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 17:38 (7 months ago) Permalink

<3

He is the actual best.

White Chocolate Cheesecake, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 18:17 (7 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Four Tet ‏@FourTet
I am going to release a new Four Tet LP today

Bill Goldberg Variations (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 10:38 (4 months ago) Permalink

Oooh

willem, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 10:43 (4 months ago) Permalink

https://soundcloud.com/four-tet/0181-1
Produced by Kieran Hebden between 1997 and 2001
Compiled 2012
TEXT021

Also available on vinyl LP soon.

Another compilation? ;-)

willem, Tuesday, 15 January 2013 11:51 (4 months ago) Permalink

Enjoying this...very old school Tet, serious nostalgia value.

Four days left to vote in the ILM End of Year Poll! (seandalai), Tuesday, 15 January 2013 13:26 (4 months ago) Permalink

I don't know a ton (read: enough) about Four Tet, but this is terrific:

http://dontwatchthat.tv/2013/01/19/just-jam-86-four-tet/

Video and download of a two-hour set of him playing records. And a photo of those records that someone will hopefully turn into a tracklist at some point.

alpine static, Monday, 21 January 2013 08:36 (4 months ago) Permalink

what artist/song is track 3?

brotherlovesdub, Monday, 21 January 2013 08:59 (4 months ago) Permalink

Some sort of tracklisting here: http://www.mixcloud.com/dontwatchthat/just-jam-86-four-tet/

questino (seandalai), Monday, 21 January 2013 13:10 (4 months ago) Permalink

Mr. Tet has put his new ludicrously named track "The Track I've Been Playing That People Keep Asking About And That Joy Used In His RA Mix And Daphni Played On Boiler Room" up for free download, possibly in response to people scalping the 12" on Discogs:

https://twitter.com/FourTet/status/297445374757576704

questino (seandalai), Friday, 1 February 2013 22:22 (3 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

This track with Neneh Cherry is sweet:

https://soundcloud.com/neneh-cherry/neneh-cherry-afrika-baby-bam

supermassive pot hole (seandalai), Friday, 19 April 2013 00:29 (1 month ago) Permalink

yeh, loving that. poked my head up, and now i'm going back in. echoed-out drum sample that shifts in & out behind the hand percussion is ridiculous. anyone know what it's from?

I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Friday, 19 April 2013 01:05 (1 month ago) Permalink

I like that

charlie 4chan, internet detective (Hurting 2), Friday, 19 April 2013 01:07 (1 month ago) Permalink

and okay holy (O)_(O) at this text022 thing!

thanks sd

I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Friday, 19 April 2013 01:12 (1 month ago) Permalink


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