Animal Collective Announce 2006 North American Tour

After finishing up a lengthy European tour, the creatures of Animal Collective are marching out of the forest and into the big cities of North America. They will play a few U.S. shows later this month, before spending December and January in hibernation. Hopefully re-establishing Groundhog Day, the collective will emerge from its lair in February for several scattered performances, many more of which are to be announced soon.

=^.^=:

11-10 Berlin, Germany - Volksbuhne *
11-12 Utrecht, Netherlands - SJU Jazz Podium *
11-13 Arhus, Denmark - Voxhall *
11-14 Goteberg, Sweden - Nefertiti *
11-15 Stockholm, Sweden - Sodra Teatern *
11-16 Malmo, Sweden - Chokladfabriken *
11-20 New York, NY - Webster Hall $
11-21 San Francisco, CA - Great American Music Hall %
11-22 Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre @
02-21 Boston, MA - Paradise
02-22 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rossa
02-23 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Place
02-24 Lansing, MI - Temple Club
02-25 Chicago, IL - Logan Square Auditorium
03-01 Seattle, WA - Neumo's
03-02 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richard's on Richards
03-20 Asheville, NC - The Orange Peel

* with Storsveit Nix Noltes
$ with Amandine, Excepter
% with Octis
@ with Amps for Christ

Also, furry followers, keep in mind that the 2000 Animal Collective LP Hollindagain will see a Paw Tracks rerelease next year, as will another album from Avey Tare’s side project with Eric Copeland from Black Dice, Terrestrial Tones. Panda Bear (aka Noah Lennox) has two solo vinyl releases up his sleeve, one on Fat Cat / Paw Tracks, and the other on UUAR. The latter is a single, "I'm Not / Comfy in Nautical", and will hit stores November 22 on seven inch and CD. Paw Tracks will also release another Ariel Pink album, and the debut from the brand-new band First Nation. Well, if that isn't just the cat's meow.

Paw Tracks: http://www.paw-tracks.com/

Update: Coldplay Confirm Full Tour, Supporting Acts

Fiona Apple and ex-Verve frontman Richard Ashcroft will each open a leg of the latest round of the "Twisted Logic" tour. Boy, Martin sure loves dem Apples.

In addition to next year's tour, Coldplay will grace the television set on December 7 and 17, appearing on "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" and "Austin City Limits" respectively.

Don't panic when you see the ticket prices:

01-25 Seattle, WA - Key Arena *
01-26 Vancouver, British Columbia - GM Place *
01-30 Sacramento, CA - ARCO Arena *
01-31 Oakland, CA - Oakland Arena *
02-01 San Jose, CA - HP Pavilion *
02-03 Las Vegas, NV - MGM Garden Grand Arena
02-19 Denver, CO - Pepsi Center *
02-20 Omaha, NE - Qwest Center *
02-22 Auburn Hills, MI - Palace of Auburn Hills *
02-23 Louisville, KY - Freedom Hall *
02-25 Houston, TX - Toyota Center *
02-26 Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center *
02-27 Oklahoma City, OK - Ford Center *
03-04 Orlando, FL - T.D. Waterhouse Centre *
03-05 Tampa, FL - Ford Pavilion *
03-20 Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena &
03-22 Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Center &
03-25 East Rutherford, NJ - Continental Airlines Arena &
03-26 Uniondale, NY - Nassau Coliseum &
03-30 Chicago, IL - United Center &
04-03 Manchester, NH - Verizon Wireless Arena &
04-04 Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun Arena &
04-06 Philadelphia, PA - Wachovia Center &

* with Fiona Apple
& with Richard Ashcroft

Coldplay: http://www.coldplay.com
Talk The Tour: http://www.talkthetour.com

Kraftwerk to Release Live DVD, Box Set

It will also feature bonus footage of Florian, Ralf, and co. performing "Aerodynamik" at the 2003 MTV Europe Music Awards in Edinburgh. And this is how America is different from Europe: we get R. Kelly doing "Trapped in the Closet" as a one man performance art piece, and they get Kraftwerk.

Santa's probably got a few insane Kraftwerk fans on his list, so on December 6, Astralwerks will also relese a special edition "Notebook" box set, which will include both the DVD and CD versions of Minimum-Maximum, plus an 88-page hardback book chock full of photos (some familiar, some new), stage design, and technical data for all the gearheads out there. So if you want to create your very own Kraftwerk show in your backyard, go ahead.

The whole she-bang will be packaged in a nifty laptop-shaped box, so you can fool co-workers and/or fellow students into thinking you're actually getting things done. If job security's not a priority, the DVD will probably suffice. Here's what lies ahead on the visual autobahn:

Disc One:

01 Meine Damen Und Herren
02 The Man-Machine
03 Planet of Visions
04 Tour De France 03
05 Vitamin
06 Tour de France
07 Autobahn
08 The Model
09 Neon Lights
10 Radioactivity
11 Trans Europe Express

Disc Two:

01 Numbers
02 Computer World
03 Home Computer
04 Pocket Calculator / Dentaku
05 The Robots
06 Elektro Kardiogramm
07 Aero Dynamik
08 Music Non Stop
09 Aerodynamik (MTV Europe Music Awards performance)

Kraftwerk: http://www.kraftwerk.com/

Liars Launch European Trek, Get Naked

Cheekily billed on their website as "a great stocking stuffer," and said to contain "Slamin'[sic] Beats!" the single for "It Fit When I Was a Kid" will invite lawsuits beginning November 21 when Mute Records releases it on 7" picture-disc vinyl. (America will have to wait until December 13.) This hyper-limited run of 500 copies will be censored; however, the band, iconoclasts that they are, plan to release an **uncensored** edition-- on edible paper, no less!-- via their website in the near future. Pause for a moment to let the shock and awe sink in. Edible paper! Why did Karen O break up with this guy again?

You're probably already there, but we'd be remiss if we did not mention that said Liars website currently features the sure-to-be-infamous cover in all its uncensored glory, right there for the corruption of young web-surfers all over the world. In other words: FREE PORN. Did you hear that? That was the P-fork hit counter exploding.

Oh yeah, there's music on the thing, too. The single will be backed by a remix of "It Fit When I Was a Kid" called "Don't Techno For an Answer", as if you care about that. Mute's will also offer the single on CD, with bonus videos directed by the band members. Tracklists:

7":

A: It Fit When I Was a Kid
B: It Fit When I Was a Kid (Don't Techno for an Answer remix)

CD:

01 It Fit When I Was a Kid
02 Frozen Glacier of Mastadon Blood
03 Bingo! Count Draculuck
04 It Fit When I Was a Kid (Don't Techno for an Answer remix)
Videos:
It Fit When I Was a Kid (Video by Julian Gross)
Frozen Glacier of Mastadon Blood (Video by Aaron Hemphill)
Bingo! Count Draculuck (Video by Angus Andrew)

In other, significantly less important news, Liars will descend upon Europe tonight to commence a 10-date tour, possibly clothed.

Adults only:

11-10 Palermo, Italy - Canelei *
11-11 Catania, Italy - Zo *
11-12 Legnano, Italy - Jail #
11-16 Hasselt, Belgium - M.O.D.
11-17 Nottingham, England - Social
11-18 Liverpool, England - Evol at Korova $
11-19 Birmingham, England - Flapper & Firkin $
11-21 Glasgow, Scotland - ABC2 $
11-22 Belfast, Northern Ireland - The Bunker at Laverys
11-26 Dublin, Ireland - Whelan's %
11-29 Manchester, England - Bierkellar $
11-30 London, England - Luminaire $

* with Operazion NAFTA
# with I/O
$ with Celebration
% with Betamax Format

As previously reported, 2006 will see the release of Drum's Not Dead, the third Liars LP and another guaranteed rank-splitter. The follow-up to 2004's noisy witchcraft concept record, They Were Wrong, So We Drowned, Drum's will be bundled with a bonus DVD featuring three videos for each song, directed by Liars' Angus Andrew and Julian Gross, as well as German filmmaker Markus Wambsganss.

Liars (no one under 18 admitted): http://www.liarsliarsliars.com/

Exclusive: Hidden Cameras Talk Dance, New Album

As anybody who's seen the band live knows, dancing is an inherent part of the Hidden Cameras experience. Their shows are a happy chaos of numerous band members, a menagerie of instruments, gleefully filthy lyrics, and scantily clad go-go shimmying. It was one of these productions that first inspired the collaboration between Hidden Cameras main man Joel Gibb and Toronto Dance Theatre choreographer Christopher House.

"Christopher saw a pretty special Hidden Cameras show years back, where I got about thirty of my friends to be our dancers," Gibb told Pitchfork last week. "I directed the dancers to do certain things for certain songs, to have props for certain songs, and to and go into the audience for certain songs. Christopher is interested in breaking down the barriers in modern dance, because if you go to a modern dance show, it's very passive. And he was excited about doing something different."

The band partnered with the TDT for last year's "You Are the Same" production, which Gibb described as "more like a Hidden Cameras set, with choreography around the songs. At the end of the show, all of the audience ended up on the dance floor, just dancing with everybody, just complete chaos."

But don't expect the same old song and, uh, dance for "In the Boneyard". Not only will the band provide live sonic accompaniment, but they'll get in on the hoofin', too.

"This time it's gonna be more of a dance piece," Gibb said. "We'll be dancing in about three different sections of the piece. It's going to be more integrated, like, there's going to be a switcheroo [between the musicians and dancers]. There's gonna be nine Hidden Cameras and I think twelve or fourteen dancers. There's going to be some instrumental interludes and some sound design; there's going to be parts of the show where it's just silence."

The Hidden Cameras will perform all new material during the show, including seven songs from their forthcoming third album, Awoo, due out on Rough Trade early next year. "Over the last week, I've been teaching the dancers about three different pieces which use songs I've written that the Hidden Cameras have yet to perform," Gibb said. "So it's almost like the dancers are going to introduce some songs to the band."

Gibb described Awoo as "less dense" than previous Hidden Cameras efforts. "People think of the Hidden Cameras as having a wall of sound with every instrument piled on every song. [On this album] there's no harp, there's no choir, there's no horns, there's no pipe organ. It's more rock and roll I would say."

Awoo was recorded with Don Kerr (Ron Sexsmith, Rheostatics) and Ohad Benchetrit (Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene) at a studio on the Toronto Islands. Gibb enthused, "You can just do a vocal track in a booth and get all sweaty and go jump in the lake."

For a taste of the new tunes, Gibb's label, Evil Evil, released the "Learning the Lie" 7" in June, featuring four-track demo recordings of the title track, "Why I Understand", "Lollipop", and "Death of a Tune", all of which are set to appear on Awoo.

In addition to Hidden Cameras CDs and vinyl, Evil Evil has also put out music by artist Marcel Dzama, famous for his album covers for Beck (Guero) and the Weakerthans (Reconstruction Site). The Art Lodge Tapes, the debut album by Dzama's musical project, Albatross Note, was released November 1. The label also recently put out an EP by Swedish Stephin Merritt-alike Jens Lekman, who has toured and played with the Hidden Cameras.

Awoo!!!

Hidden Cameras: http://www.musicismyboyfriend.com/
Toronto Dance Theatre: http://www.tdt.org/
Evil Evil: http://www.evilevil.ca/
Rough Trade: http://www.roughtraderecords.com/

Clearlake Prep Third Album

Amber's first single, "Good Clean Fun", will get a proper British release on December 5, with a remix by Caribou as the b-side. Because Clearlake is a rock band, a physical, slap-it-in-the-disc-tray U.S. single is not planned.

Subjects of the Queen will wrap their ears ‘round the full-length on January 16, while us Yankee Doodle dandies have to wait until January 24 to hear these top choons:

01 No Kind of Life
02 Neon
03 Good Clean Fun
04 Finally Free
05 You Can't Have Me
06 Amber
07 I Hate It That I Got What I Wanted
08 Here to Learn
09 Far Away
10 Dreamt That You Died
11 Widescreen
12 It's Getting Light Outside

So what's this new record all about, then? Guitar-slinging, keyboard-plinging frontbloke Jason Pegg says, "The music we were listening to this time was definitely more rock: Queens of the Stone Age, Neil Young, Low, My Bloody Valentine." We're not sure that really qualifies as news-- Clearlake covered Young's "Cinnamon Girl" on a 2001 single, and MBV and Low aren't exactly in another galaxy from Clearlake's sound thus far.

More headline-worthy, perhaps, is the album's production team of Pegg, the well-traveled Steve Osborne (New Order, Happy Mondays), and hot younger knobtweaker Jim Abbiss (Kasabian, Arctic Monkeys), augmented by the nigh-unto-legendary engineer Phil Brown (who's worked with Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix, as well as various other still-living icons). The stories those guys could tell, if only they could talk...oh, wait, they probably can.

Although founding guitarist and longtime friend of Pegg's Sam Hewitt does play on Amber, he has left the band, according to an otherwise tight-lipped official announcement. We can only hope Hewitt doesn't do anything goofy like break into his former bandmate's apartment and steal stuff to pawn for drug money, but then that might get Clearlake in the tabloids. Recent dates have been played as a trio, and the band plans to find a replacement by the beginning of their planned February tour. We recommend either Mick Jones from the Clash or Mick Jones from Foreigner.

* Pitchfork Review: Clearlake: Cedars

Clearlake: http://www.clearlake.uk.com
Domino: http://www.dominorecordco.us

Elf Power Touring in Support of Forthcoming Album

However, years after the demise of the Elephant 6 collective, Elf Power continue to pump out quality records, tour their asses off, and, in the case of Elf Power leader Andrew Rieger, run Orange Twin, a record label and "pedestrian-based eco-village." It's a busy life.

Pitchfork spoke to Rieger via email about Elf Power's current U.S. tour and upcoming full-length, which you probably didn't even know existed. Well, surprise! Rieger says they've just completed recording their as-yet-untitled eighth album, with a lineup that includes multi-instrumentalists Laura Carter and Derek Almstead, bassist Bryan Poole, guitarist Jimmy Hughes, drummer Josh Lott, John Fernandes of Olivia Tremor Control on violin, Heather McIntosh of Japancakes on cello, and Deanna Varagonna of Lambchop on saxophone. As far as the sound of the new record, Rieger quotes fan comments like "evil gypsy music" and "R.E.M.'s Chronic Town meets Bob Dylan's Desire."

"It's definitely folkier and more orchestrated than the last few Elf Power records," Rieger continues, "though this album still rocks pretty hard at times, in...a face-melting psychedelic manner. There's lots of 12-string acoustic guitar, accordion, cello, and violin arrangements, which gives the tunes somewhat of a rockin' gypsy music flavor." According to Reiger, they're still figuring out which label to release it on, though it should be out in Spring 2006, after which they'll spend the better part of the year touring.

Wait, did we say touring? Back to the point:

11-10 Lexington, KY - Dame *
11-11 Chicago, IL - Subterranean $
11-12 Madison, WI - Café Montmartre
11-14 Kalamazoo, MI - Kraftbrau Brewery &
11-15 Lansing, MI - Mac's Bar &
11-16 Pittsburgh, PA - Brillobox
11-17 New York, NY - Knitting Factory #
11-18 New London, CT - Brass Rail
11-19 Hartford, CT - The Bistro at Trinity College
11-20 Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell's @
11-21 Washington, DC - Warehouse Next Door
11-22 Charlotte, NC - Tremont Music Hall @
11-23 Atlanta, GA - The Earl @

* with the Impossible Shapes, Los Pepiniyoz
$ with the Living Blue, Moxie Motive
& with Those Transatlantics
# with the King of France, Stefanie Drootin & Gretta Cohn
@ with the Earlies

Rieger also set us up with the tracklist for the upcoming record, and since we like you...:

01 Come Lie Down With Me (and Sing My Song)
02 An Old Familiar Scene
03 Rolling Black Water
04 King of Earth
05 Peel Back the Moon, Beware
06 23RD Dream
07 Somewhere Down the River
08 The Spider and the Fly
09 Forming
10 All the World Is Waiting
11 Under the Northern Sky
12 Come Back to the Web

Elf Power: http://www.elfpower.com
Orange Twin: http://www.orangetwin.com

Chicks on Speed, Kevin Blechdom Launch U.S. Assault

Multimedia conceptualists Chicks on Speed have just the ticket, as they prepare to hit American shores for their first tour in three years.

The trio, made up of a German, an Australian, and an ex-pat American (all on speed, of course), will tear through material from their 2005 collaboration with the No Heads, Press the Space Bar, and their 2003 LP 99 Cents, and they won't be alone. Post-techno powerhouse Kevin Blechdom will bring the electro-catharsis in support of her latest effort, Eat My Heart Out. (Will she perform naked, holding an animal heart dripping with blood? We hope so!)

Will save us all:

11-10 Hollywood, CA - Key Club *
11-11 San Francisco, CA - The Independent *
11-12 Portland, OR - Holocene *
11-14 Seattle, WA - Chop Suey *
11-17 Chicago, IL - Abbey Pub *
11-18 Washington, DC - Nation *
11-19 New York, NY - Knitting Factory *
11-21 Edmonton, Alberta - New City Liqwid Lounge $
11-22 Calgary, Alberta - Broken City
11-26 Miami, FL - Bugged Out Arena

* with Kevin Blechdom, Planningtorock
$ with DJ Nik7

After the tour, Blechdom will return to Europe for more shows. According to Blechdom's visually dizzying website, more dates are expected to be announced for Australia and Japan in late January/February 2006, so catch her in the States while you can.

Follow the trail of blood:

11-16 San Francisco, CA - Eggs *#$
11-26 New York, NY - Sin-e*$%
12-01 Lausanne, Switzerland - Le Bourg *
12-02 Dudingen, Switzerland - Bad Bonn *
12-03 Martigny, Switzerland - Cave Du Manoir *
12-04 Berlin, Germany - Traenenpalast *@
12-08 Berlin, Germany - Gogogossip *&
12-10 Munich, Germany - Rote Salon *
12-15 Cologne, Germany - TBA *
12-16 Nurenberg, Germany - Ladyfest *
12-17 Linz, Austria - TBA *
12-18 Vienna, Austria - Rhiz *
01-13 Milan, Italy - Cox 18 *
01-14 Rome, Italy - TBA
01-16 Faenza, Italy - TBA
01-17 Massa, Italy - Tagomago

* with Planningtorock
# with Blevin Blechdom, Wobbly $ with Safety Scissors
% with My Robot Friend, Lumberob, John Starlight, Ulysses
@ with OrganLady
& with Miss Le Bomb

Chicks on Speed: http://www.chicksonspeed.com
Kevin Blechdom: http://www.kevyb.com
Chicks on Speed Records: http://www.chicksonspeed-records.com

Tralala Frolic With Broadcast, Release Christmas EP

Recently voted "Best Bangs in a Local Band" by The Village Voice, Tralala take those lovely locks on the road tonight for a tour almost as short as the careers of many flash-in-the-pan acts, opening for Broadcast in select east coast cities. Their manifest pop destiny is yours to experience here and now:

11-10 New York, NY - Webster Hall *
11-11 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church *
11-12 Washington, DC - Black Cat *

* with Broadcast, Gravenhurst

Following up this summer's self-titled Audika Records debut, Tralala have just graced us with a Christmas EP, cunningly titled Fa La La La La with TRALALA. Released in a limited run of 1,000 copies, and probably at least as good as Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas, Fa La showcases the following three hall-decking originals:

01 Christmas Never Comes (When You're Alone)
02 Holiday Hearts
03 Everybody Christmas Time

Fa La La La La with TRALALA is available at New York City's Other Music. In our fantasy world, a Tralala mash-up with England's Pipettes will soon be available on some geezer's too-hip-for-life blog.

Tralala: http://www.tralalatheband.com/
Audika: http://www.audikarecords.com/

Tickets on Sale Tomorrow for Pitchfork's 10.0

Pretty much guaranteed to be the greatest New Year's celebration in the city (even if we do say so ourselves), 10.0 kicks off Friday, December 30, with performances from electro-acoustic manipulators the Books and baile-blasting Hollertronix DJ Diplo. The following night we bring in 2006-- and yes, Pitchfork's 10th anniversary year-- with an all-night rockathon featuring copyright-shattering sonic terrorist Jason Forrest, Brooklyn art-punk slaughterhouse Blood on the Wall, and the triumphant stomp of Montreal-based indie behemoths Wolf Parade.

Tickets for this 21-and-over event, sponsored by Goose Island's 312 Urban Wheat Ale, Whole Foods Market, and WLUW FM, will be available HERE at noon CST tomorrow. For your own good, we urge you to snap 'em up with the quickness, since this place is intimate, to put it lightly. Tix for the 30th are $20, while the 31st runs a scant $35-- which for New Year's Eve in this city is, like, incredible! We love you, too.

And now, for those who just skimmed those last four paragraphs, let's have that lineup in schedule format:

>> Friday, December 30
Diplo
The Books

>> Saturday, December 31
Wolf Parade
Blood on the Wall
Jason Forrest

Location: The Viaduct Theater, 3111 N. Western Ave., Chicago

Tickets: $20 for December 30, $35 for December 31. On sale November 12 at 12:00 p.m. CST from Ticketweb.

* Tickets: http://www.ticketweb.com/user/?region=xxx&query=schedule&promoter=pitchfork

10.0: Pitchfork's 10th Anniversary New Year's Bash: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/pforknye05
Viaduct Theater: http://www.viaducttheater.com/

Sony Music Sued Over Anti-Piracy Software

The suit claims that when a copy-protected CD is loaded onto a hard drive, it installs a hidden program known as a "rootkit," which not only keeps track of the computer's activity, but depletes the drive's resources in the process. So Sony is basically eating up your hard drive space while keeping track of all the porn you watch, just because you actually spent money on a My Morning Jacket CD.

Thanks, guys. This is even better than getting the RIAA to sue us.

The rootkit also makes the computer more susceptible to viruses. Sony falsely states that its copy-protection software can be easily removed, when in reality, getting rid of a rootkit can be damaging.

Here's the crux of the suit, straight from the legal papers: "As a result of Sony's failure to disclose the true nature of the digital rights management (‘DRM') system it uses on its CDs, thousands of computer users have unknowingly infected their computers, and the computers of others, with this surreptitious rootkit. This rootkit has been responsible for conflicts within computer systems, crashes of systems, and other damage."

The suit, which accuses Sony of "fraud, false advertising, trespass, and violation of state and federal statues prohibiting malware, and unauthorized computer tampering," claims that the suspect software has been included on certain Sony BMG Music CDs since this spring. Albums to watch out for include Amerie's Touch, My Morning Jacket's Z Kasabian's Kasabian, Neil Diamond's 12 Songs, Cassidy's I'm a Hustla, Kings of Leon's Aha Shake Heartbreak, and, appropriately, the Bad Plus' Suspicious Activity and the Coral's Invisible Invasion, among others.

In short: if you're about to load that new My Morning Jacket disc onto your hard drive, STOP. Sell the album back to the record store and buy something on Dischord.

Learn about rootkits: http://www.rootkit.com
Sony Music: http://www.sonymusic.com

Islands (ex-Unicorns) Announce More Shows

Islands had been playing secret gigs around Montreal this fall, tinkering with their debut album and preparing to launch a proper tour with a proper band (which appears to include Jim Guthrie of Royal City, Mike Feuerstack of Wooden Stars, and Patrice Agbokou). They supported Beck for a few shows, and will soon head out on their own headlining trek.

According to ChartAttack.com, that album will be out in January on Rough Trade (in Europe-- no North American label yet), under the title Return to the Sea. It might contain contributions from members of the Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade, and Bell Orchestre. Details, as usual, are sketchy. And none of this takes into account the goings-on of Th' Corn Gangg, Diamonds' and Tambeur's hip-hop side project, responsible for that wacky "Do They Know It's Halloween" benefit song.

Confused though we may be, we can tell you this: Islands have just announced a handful of new tour dates.

I am a rock:

11-11 Montreal, Quebec - Zoobizarre
12-01 Toronto, Ontario - Drake Hotel Underground
12-02 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen *
12-03 Dayton, OH - Elbo's $
12-04 Oberlin, OH - Oberlin College
12-05 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church #
12-06 New York, NY - Knitting Factory
12-07 Boston, MA - YWCA

* with Make Believe, Locks
$ with the Human Reunion
# with the A-Sides

Secret Unicorns Forum: http://www.secretunicornsforum.com

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