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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's Bandcamp Friday I made a album I hope EVERYBODY likes it. cookylamoo.bandcamp.com/album/advanc...

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Advanced Coburg: Phase 2, by Ben Harper

8 track album

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The lightness and brightness come as part of the mediation between real and virtual sounds." Jules Reidy's 'Clerestory'. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Jules Reidy: Clerestory

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

New post. Le Balcon perform Stockhausen's Mittwoch aus Licht in Berlin. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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A second Mittwoch

Mittwoch aus Licht, Deutsche Oper

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New post. Listening to the new issue of recovered Gentle Fire works: Further Explorations. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Gentle Fire: Further Explorations

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"The dignified amateurism and communal pride that the Scratch Orchestra aimed for." Vilhelm Bromander, Jeff Kimmel & Jack Langdon, Jackson Greenberg, Christopher Whitley. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Some older stuff I had saved but forgot about (2)

Vilhelm Bromander: aurora

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

New post about older stuff. Vilhelm Bromander, Jeff Kimmel & Jack Langdon, Jackson Greenberg, Christopher Whitley. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Some older stuff I had saved but forgot about (2)

Vilhelm Bromander: aurora

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"All with a loving touch and delicious sensuality." Listening to piano music by Eldritch Priest, Linda Catlin Smith, Emilie Cecilia LeBel. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Pianos: Eldritch Priest, Linda Catlin Smith, Emilie Cecilia LeBel

Eldritch Priest: Too, So Like Nothing

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

New post: Listening to piano music by Eldritch Priest, Linda Catlin Smith, Emilie Cecilia LeBel. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Pianos: Eldritch Priest, Linda Catlin Smith, Emilie Cecilia LeBel

Eldritch Priest: Too, So Like Nothing

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Posted my mail haul to Instagram and it suggested WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY SOME THROBBING GRISTLE WITH THIS PIC lol

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

One day I'm going to remember Bandcamp Friday anyway here's the most recent thing it's pretty good. cookylamoo.bandcamp.com/album/advanc...

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Advanced Coburg: Phase 2, by Ben Harper

8 track album

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"The sonic and evocative depths the musicians find in this hostile materiel." Listening to Santiago Diez Fischer's 'Songs' and Magnus Granberg's 'Aus der Nacht'. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Diez Fischer, Granberg

Santiago Diez Fischer: Songs

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New post. Listening to Santiago Diez Fischer's 'Songs' and Magnus Granberg's 'Aus der Nacht'. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Diez Fischer, Granberg

Santiago Diez Fischer: Songs

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Maybe it was an allnighter." Listening to Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, and Huw Morgan playing Jashiin. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, Jashiin

Jashiin: Overflow

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

New post. Listening to Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, and Huw Morgan playing Jashiin. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø, Jashiin

Jashiin: Overflow

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"The best you can do is take it on trust and sympathise." Soundscape Summer with Sawyer Spaces. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Soundscape Summer

Michael Pisaro-Liu: anabasis (1)

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

New post: It's Soundscape Summer with Sawyer Spaces. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Soundscape Summer

Michael Pisaro-Liu: anabasis (1)

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

"Unbridled anal expulsiveness." It's the Electronic Noise Shootout, Summer 2026 edition. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Electronic Noise Shootout, Summer 2026

Nolan Hildebrand: Noise Trip Explosion

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

New post: it's the Electronic Noise Shootout, Summer 2026 edition. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Electronic Noise Shootout, Summer 2026

Nolan Hildebrand: Noise Trip Explosion

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

"An apparent immobility that emerges through the constant microscopic activity." Listening to works by Conner Simmons, Wilson Tanner Smith, Maya Bennardo, Kristofer Svensson and Erik Blennow Calälv. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Troubled Quiescence

Maya Bennardo: rustlings

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

New post: listening to works by Conner Simmons, Wilson Tanner Smith, Maya Bennardo, Kristofer Svensson and Erik Blennow Calälv. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Troubled Quiescence

Maya Bennardo: rustlings

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

"Two musicians and composers who make a virtue out of abstemiousness and rigour." Listening to duets by Morgan Evans-Weiler & J.P.A. Falzone. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Back to work: Morgan Evans-Weiler & J.P.A. Falzone

Morgan Evans-Weiler: Grid and Gradient

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Back to work: listening to duets by Morgan Evans-Weiler & J.P.A. Falzone. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Back to work: Morgan Evans-Weiler & J.P.A. Falzone

Morgan Evans-Weiler: Grid and Gradient

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Listening to Jon Catler's microtonal electric guitars in "The Young Mountain of the East" and Cristiàn Alvear's monotonal guitar in "Sin título #30 – Singularidad #1 (Carrasco – Astaburuaga)". www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Electric Guitar: Jon Catler, Cristiàn Alvear

Jon Catler: The Young Mountain of the East

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

New post. Listening to Jon Catler's microtonal electric guitars in "The Young Mountain of the East" and Cristiàn Alvear's monotonal guitar in "Sin título #30 – Singularidad #1 (Carrasco – Astaburuaga)". www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Electric Guitar: Jon Catler, Cristiàn Alvear

Jon Catler: The Young Mountain of the East

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

"More and more, your attention comes to what is missing." Live performances of Eldritch Priest's 'pleasure drenching...' and Jürg Frey's Clarinet Quintet. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Music We'd Like To Hear (again): Eldritch Priest, Jürg Frey

Music We'd Like To Hear: Eldritch Priest, Jürg Frey

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

New post. Live performances of Eldritch Priest's 'pleasure drenching...' and Jürg Frey's Clarinet Quintet. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Music We'd Like To Hear (again): Eldritch Priest, Jürg Frey

Music We'd Like To Hear: Eldritch Priest, Jürg Frey

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

"It’s a pleasure to learn this music is now not so overlooked." Sam Cave et al present Michael Finnissy And The Guitar. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Michael Finnissy And The Guitar

Michael Finnissy: Finnissy And The Guitar

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

New post. Sam Cave et al present Michael Finnissy And The Guitar. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Michael Finnissy And The Guitar

Michael Finnissy: Finnissy And The Guitar

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

"An ephemeral but definite structure and substance." Teodora Stepančić's 'Transparent Duo' and Andrew McIntosh's 'Fixations'. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Not quite there: Stepančić, McIntosh

Teodora Stepančić: Transparent Duo

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Music that's not quite there: Teodora Stepančić's 'Transparent Duo' and Andrew McIntosh's 'Fixations'. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Not quite there: Stepančić, McIntosh

Teodora Stepančić: Transparent Duo

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"Frey has determined to things the hard way." The premiere of Jürg Frey's Clarinet Quintet; plus Je laisse à la nuit son poids d’ombre. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Jürg Frey: Clarinet Quintet, etc.

Jürg Frey: Clarinet Quintet

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

New post. The premiere of Jürg Frey's Clarinet Quintet; plus Je laisse à la nuit son poids d’ombre. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Jürg Frey: Clarinet Quintet, etc.

Jürg Frey: Clarinet Quintet

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

"It begins as a prolonged gasp, before suddenly unleashing a thunderous wall of dense, hyperdetailed granular sound; from there on it runs the listener and the players ragged." I'm joining the ranting about Timothy McCormack's "The Hand is an Ear". www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Welcome returns (2): Timothy McCormack

Timothy McCormack: The Hand is an Ear

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

New post. I'm joining the ranting about Timothy McCormack's "The Hand is an Ear". www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Welcome returns (2): Timothy McCormack

Timothy McCormack: The Hand is an Ear

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"The reductionism never comes across as cold or affected, seeming to be born out of a strong affection for even the simplest sounds." The welcome returns of Sylvia Lim (Flare) and Eldritch Priest (dead-wall reveries). www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Welcome returns (1): Sylvia Lim, Eldritch Priest

Sylvia Lim: Flare

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This is what happens when you write a bunch of paragraphs without thinking about how they fit togther. Apartment House play Cage, Weston Olencki, Astasie-abasie, the return of Alex Paxton. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Some older stuff I had saved but forgot about (1)

Alex Paxton: Happy Music for Orchestra

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

New post: the welcome returns of Sylvia Lim (Flare) and Eldritch Priest (dead-wall reveries). www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Welcome returns (1): Sylvia Lim, Eldritch Priest

Sylvia Lim: Flare

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

New post about older stuff. Apartment House play Cage, Weston Olencki, Astasie-abasie, the return of Alex Paxton. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Some older stuff I had saved but forgot about (1)

Alex Paxton: Happy Music for Orchestra

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"An obvious pleasure in indulging their creepy side." Àlex Reviriego and friends play compositions that sound like improv and improv that sounds composed. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Reviriego, Helena, Reuter et. al.

Markus Reuter / Vasco Trilla / Àlex Reviriego: Música fúnebre

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"An obvious pleasure in indulging their creepy side." Àlex Reviriego and friends play compositions that sound like improv and improv that sounds composed. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Reviriego, Helena, Reuter et. al.

Markus Reuter / Vasco Trilla / Àlex Reviriego: Música fúnebre

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

"Some passages require eyes to be closed, others open, adding to the taut balance between freedom and control." Some curious string quartets. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Quartets: Power, Tremblay, Tougas, St-Pierre

Ian Power: Brace

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"A reincarnation of the glory days at Westdeutschen Rundfunk." Listening to mostly electronicky stuff played by Ensemble Pamplemousse, Pareidolia and Erik Hall. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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It's electrical, mostly

Pareidolia: Far Away Worlds

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Ben Harper New post. Listening to mostly electronicky stuff played by Ensemble Pamplemousse, Pareidolia and Erik Hall. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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It's electrical, mostly

Pareidolia: Far Away Worlds

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

"The initial quiet lyricism which takes on a transformative purposefulness." Listening to compositions by James Opstad and Zeynep Toraman. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Listening In: Opstad, Toraman

James Opstad: Drift

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

New post. Listening to compositions by James Opstad and Zeynep Toraman. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Listening In: Opstad, Toraman

James Opstad: Drift

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

"The English reticence at play here also ensures any seductive effects are blunted." John White at Ninety, as part of Music We’d Like To Hear. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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The Many Hands of John White

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

"A strange space in which timbre and pitch start to blur into a single quality." Listening to Eva-Maria Houben & Harmjan Roeles 'given' and Blutwurst playing Marja Ahti's 'Visiting Cloud (Two Translations)'. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Getting in the groove: Houben & Roeles, Ahti

Marja Ahti: Visiting Cloud (Two Translations)

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Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

New post. Listening to Eva-Maria Houben & Harmjan Roeles 'given' and Blutwurst playing Marja Ahti's 'Visiting Cloud (Two Translations)'. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...

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Getting in the groove: Houben & Roeles, Ahti

Marja Ahti: Visiting Cloud (Two Translations)

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