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A cooperative of music journalists and community enthusiastically covering the sounds across so-called Canada. newfeeling.ca

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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Richie Assaly (@rdassaly.bsky.social) talked to the duo behind alter-ego musical project Polo Lewis about making genre-bending pop, and how the character helps them navigate the grind of being a young, independent artist in Toronto. Read it here: www.newfeeling.ca/polo-lewis-i...
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Polo Lewis’s Propulsive Pop Channels the Warm Melancholy of Youthful Ennui
Richie Assaly chats with the Toronto group about their colourful, genre-bending sound, blending R&B, garage, drum and bass and hyperpop.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Richie Assaly (@rdassaly.bsky.social) talked to the duo behind alter-ego musical project Polo Lewis about making genre-bending pop, and how the character helps them navigate the grind of being a young, independent artist in Toronto. Read it here: www.newfeeling.ca/polo-lewis-i...
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Polo Lewis’s Propulsive Pop Channels the Warm Melancholy of Youthful Ennui
Richie Assaly chats with the Toronto group about their colourful, genre-bending sound, blending R&B, garage, drum and bass and hyperpop.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Today!
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Daniel G. Wilson @danielgwilson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I interviewed the toronto based experimental artist Essena for @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social . Check out the article here.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Toronto experimental artist Esssena closes out Venus Fest tomorrow in a performance we're co-presenting! @danielgwilson.bsky.social spoke w/ her about the sounds of her childhood in Bermuda, and how memory, place and the natural world shape her work. www.newfeeling.ca/esssena-arti...
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Exploring Esssena's Islands of Sound
We spoke with the Toronto-based experimental artist before her appearance at Venus Fest's 10th edition
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rosie Long Decter (@rosield.bsky.social) spoke with members of Musicians for Palestine Montreal about their new compilation that’s raising funds for the Sameer Project, and how the group is building local support for BDS amongst cultural workers and institutions. www.newfeeling.ca/montreal-mus...
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Montreal Musicians Turn Solidarity Into Sound for Palestine
The organizers behind the ‘Musicians for Palestine Montreal’ comp talk about building cultural support for BDS.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“I feel like for so long, we’ve been invisible, and any representation about Somalia in the West has always been so negative.” For a new generation of Somali artists, recovering the country’s rich musical history offers another way of telling their story. www.newfeeling.ca/how-the-soma...
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Using Music To Piece Together Lost Histories
How the Somali diaspora is using music as a tool to piece together lost histories
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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 18/08/2026
so so good. on time, music, politics by @rosield.bsky.social “…artists are more focused on piecing together enough gigs to pay rent or taking their landlord to court than developing their craft and hanging out with other weirdos” h/t @therewasnosound.bsky.social www.newfeeling.ca/always-dream...
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Always Dreaming: On Diamond Jubilee and Hauntology
Cindy Lee’s compositions are fiddly little slices of heaven. She writes pop songs about memory and loss, sung in a delicate falsetto, backed by sweet harmonies.
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Unrigged @unrigged.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
TONIGHT join Maisonneuve magazine+ @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social at Houndstooth Bar in Toronto! Entrance is free and the publications are celebrating Maisonneuve's landmark issue 100 while New Feeling launches their first print anthology.   Doors at 7pm, and readings at 8pm see you there!
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Michael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
i'll be reading at this event tonight! from a story i wrote in 2023 called "Would You Congratulate Me If I Got A Job At Spotify?" -- a somewhat snarky piece about music journalism, labour exploitation, and what solidarity with music workers can look like! hope to see you there
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We made a zine, and we're launching it tonight in Toronto! Copies are officially for sale, and we’re celebrating their arrival with a launch party at Houndstooth that we're co-hosting with our good friends at Maisonneuve. Come by, pick up a copy, & enjoy some live readings from our contributors!
Blue poster with a wave-pattern background promoting the New Feeling & Maisonneuve Summer Reading on August 17, 2026, at 7 p.m. at Houndstooth, 818 College St., Toronto, celebrating New Feeling's print anthology and Maisonneuve Issue 100 with multiple featured readers.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
“Every noise act that I can think of—even if it is just someone [standing] behind a laptop—has this feeling of intimacy and physical proximity [...] You can do a DIY space, somebody’s kitchen – or a cathedral [...] It’s almost like a devotional experience.” www.newfeeling.ca/bespoke-devo...
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Bespoke Devotional
Montreal's Amarior invokes vengeance and forgiveness in radiant noise
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Michael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
we put together an anthology of some of the co-op's writing! i'm really proud of how this turned out.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
How can sound reshape the nervous system and the dance floor? Tia Julien (@tiaalandra.bsky.social) spoke with Palestinian-Canadian artist Jeena about her EP 'Light Codes,' sound therapy, and the personal journey that led to her “forever sonically protesting.” www.newfeeling.ca/light-codes-...
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'Light Codes' Casts Frequencies for Healing: In Conversation with Jeena
Tia Julien chats with the Palestinian-Canadian artist about her new EP Light Codes, neuroacoustics, sound therapy, and creating music for healing.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Five years of stories collected. What began as a members-only keepsake from last year's member drive became something we wanted to share beyond our own community.
A hand holds a light blue zine titled New Feeling Collected in front of a patch of yellow flowers.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
How can sound reshape the nervous system and the dance floor? Tia Julien (@tiaalandra.bsky.social) spoke with Palestinian-Canadian artist Jeena about her EP 'Light Codes,' sound therapy, and the personal journey that led to her “forever sonically protesting.” www.newfeeling.ca/light-codes-...
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'Light Codes' Casts Frequencies for Healing: In Conversation with Jeena
Tia Julien chats with the Palestinian-Canadian artist about her new EP Light Codes, neuroacoustics, sound therapy, and creating music for healing.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Five years of stories collected. What began as a members-only keepsake from last year's member drive became something we wanted to share beyond our own community.
A hand holds a light blue zine titled New Feeling Collected in front of a patch of yellow flowers.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New Feeling and Maisonneuve are partnering up for a Toronto reading event to mark two very special occasions. New Feeling is launching their anthology zine, which originally began as a member-only perk, but now is something they want to share with the world.
Blue poster with a wave-pattern background promoting the New Feeling & Maisonneuve Summer Reading on August 17, 2026, at 7 p.m. at Houndstooth, 818 College St., Toronto, celebrating New Feeling's print anthology and Maisonneuve Issue 100 with multiple featured readers.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New Feeling and Maisonneuve are partnering up for a Toronto reading event to mark two very special occasions. New Feeling is launching their anthology zine, which originally began as a member-only perk, but now is something they want to share with the world.
Blue poster with a wave-pattern background promoting the New Feeling & Maisonneuve Summer Reading on August 17, 2026, at 7 p.m. at Houndstooth, 818 College St., Toronto, celebrating New Feeling's print anthology and Maisonneuve Issue 100 with multiple featured readers.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
In his first piece for the co-op, DeForrest Brown Jr. applies the concept of 'schizophonia' (the separation of sound from its source) to streaming audio, examining how these same systems managing music consumption now fuel the dual-use “defense” economy. www.newfeeling.ca/zero-latency/
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Zero Latency: On the Possibility of World Soundscapes beyond Spotifycore Sovereignty
DeForrest Brown, Jr. revisits R. Murray Schafer's theory of "schizophonia" to examine how streaming platforms like Spotify reshape listening and perception.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
In his first piece for the co-op, DeForrest Brown Jr. applies the concept of 'schizophonia' (the separation of sound from its source) to streaming audio, examining how these same systems managing music consumption now fuel the dual-use “defense” economy. www.newfeeling.ca/zero-latency/
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Zero Latency: On the Possibility of World Soundscapes beyond Spotifycore Sovereignty
DeForrest Brown, Jr. revisits R. Murray Schafer's theory of "schizophonia" to examine how streaming platforms like Spotify reshape listening and perception.
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Michael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
very proud of this issue!
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
On friday, Angine de Poitrine were shortlisted for the @polarismusicprize.bsky.social. Here, @touchofallright.bsky.social roots them firmly in a long and rich history of Quebecois rock experimentalism. www.newfeeling.ca/angine-de-po...
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Angine de Poitrine could only hail from la belle province
Erin MacLeod explains the Quebec context for everyone's new favourite band
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Erin MacLeod @touchofallright.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Very proud that I have something in this!
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Michael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
i know i say this a lot, but this is a very good issue! really proud of how this one turned out and i don't even have a piece in it.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
🌬️💨⏩ Our 26th issue, SLIPSTREAM, is here! In his editor's note, Tom Beedham (@tombeedham.bsky.social) explores the “slipstream” as a space where artists can resist dominant forces and forge new paths for collective imagination/experimentation/change. www.newfeeling.ca/issue-26-sli...
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ISSUE 26: SLIPSTREAM
Slipstreams can be avenues of momentum through which artists, scenes, and collective initiatives can transcend their regular working conditions
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
This is tomorrow!!!
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
We had to reschedule last week's Reading Group due to illness, but we've picked out a new date and hope you can make it! Registration is free and open to all. We'll send you the reading and a link to the meeting once you've registered. Hope to see you there!
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Daniel G. Wilson @danielgwilson.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Reminder that I am hosting this reading group focused on International metal next week for @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social . Aggressive music is a passion of mine. This is especially true for such music made by people outside if the Anglo-American and British spheres. Sign up if you are interested
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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
And if you're looking for new tunes, check out What We're Listening To for an album roundup featuring Narcy, Mecha Maiko, Paste, Hiroki Tanaka, Siyahkal and Dead Bob. @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social
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What We’re Listening To
Looking for some new music? Here are six Canadian albums worth checking out, carefully curated by the New Feeling crew and The Grind’s music contributors…
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
We had to reschedule last week's Reading Group due to illness, but we've picked out a new date and hope you can make it! Registration is free and open to all. We'll send you the reading and a link to the meeting once you've registered. Hope to see you there!
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The Grind @thegrindto.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Looking for some fresh tunes? Here are six Canadian albums the @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social are listening to this spring, including Narcy, Mecha Maiko, Hiroki Tanaka and more.
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What We’re Listening To
Looking for some new music? Here are six Canadian albums worth checking out, carefully curated by the New Feeling crew and The Grind’s music contributors…
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Monstrosa is creating the kind of music space they didn’t have growing up: one that’s queer, open about mental health, and built on mutual support. Adele Lukusa has the story: www.newfeeling.ca/embracing-your-in…
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Embracing Your Inner Monster with Monstrosa
Behind the masks, Monstrosa are building a creative space where queerness, vulnerability, and chaos roar in harmony.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Our first Reading Group in over a year is happening in exactly one week! May 19th, 7pm ET. This discussion of the World Metal chapter from Ian Christe's history of heavy metal will be led by @danielgwilson.bsky.social and take place on Google Meet. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Our first Reading Group in over a year is happening in exactly one week! May 19th, 7pm ET. This discussion of the World Metal chapter from Ian Christe's history of heavy metal will be led by @danielgwilson.bsky.social and take place on Google Meet. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Congrats to our friends Subvert on their launch today!
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Daniel G. Wilson @danielgwilson.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Gonna be leading a talk/reading group talking about international metal. Stoked
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
After more than a year away Reading Group is back! In two weeks time, @danielgwilson.bsky.social will be leading a virtual discussion around a chapter from Ian Christe's Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal. Registration link below.
Black promotional graphic with large white serif text reading “New Feeling Reading Group.” Event details say it is a virtual discussion of Ian Christe’s World Metal: The Globalisation of Heavy, on Tuesday, May 19, from 7–8:15 pm EST on Google Meet. The event is free and everyone is welcome. A book cover for Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal appears on the right.
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Michael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
so glad we're doing these again! my first piece of advice to any writer is to read! @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social takes that seriously and invites our community to come read and sharpen our critical skills with us. registration is free and the discussion takes place virtually. more info:
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
After more than a year away Reading Group is back! In two weeks time, @danielgwilson.bsky.social will be leading a virtual discussion around a chapter from Ian Christe's Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal. Registration link below.
Black promotional graphic with large white serif text reading “New Feeling Reading Group.” Event details say it is a virtual discussion of Ian Christe’s World Metal: The Globalisation of Heavy, on Tuesday, May 19, from 7–8:15 pm EST on Google Meet. The event is free and everyone is welcome. A book cover for Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal appears on the right.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
You love to see a new journalism co-op here in "Canada." Follow and support these fine folks! Welcome to the fold, @defacto-ca.bsky.social !
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Michael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
here's a thread of some of @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social's labour-related stories for this may day
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Happy International Workers' Day!!!
Stylized poster celebrating May Day with a red gradient background and simplified silhouettes of people raising their arms in unity. In the foreground, a large black industrial gear and smokestack appear to break apart into falling fragments. Bold text reads “HAPPY MAY DAY,” with smaller text “NEW FEELING” in the corner.Stylized poster celebrating May Day with a red gradient background and simplified silhouettes of people raising their arms in unity.

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May Day’s legacy of solidarity and resistance echoes in the origins of New Feeling. What began as a small gathering of writers and Music Enthusiasts has grown into a cooperative shaped by the belief that creativity thrives in community.

Labour has always been central to why New Feeling organizes, shaping both our purpose and our editorial focus. That commitment comes through in our coverage, and today we’re proud to highlight the work and voices that sustain it.
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Michael Rancic @therewasnosound.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
@tiaalandra.bsky.social has been doing some incredibly creative work with the co-op. here she patches together lyrics from different artists to create a conversation "told through borrowed lines." it's a smart comment on creativity in the face of AI and we were so happy to publish it:
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
In an age where mechanized thinking and corporate interests converge to devalue labour, Tia Julien explores the ways artists are using their art to find connection and reinforce the human element in the creative work. www.newfeeling.ca/mind-the-gap...
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Mind the Gaps: A History Told Through Borrowed Lines
Tia Julien weaves lyrical fragments from multiple artists into a shared conversation that highlights human creativity, relational sound, and collective meaning.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
There's another worker-owned media outlet launching, we absolutely love to see it. Welcome to the fold, @weareravenous.com! www.weareravenous.com
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Ravenous Is a New Worker-Owned Food Culture Media Company
For too long, food media has felt toothless. Help us take a bite out of it.
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Montreal!! Thursday!!
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David William with a 'This IS my costume' pin @nrvscrcts.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
"A beautiful coincidence is that our word for doctoring translates to 'singing heavy songs.'"
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NEW FEELING @newfeelingcoop.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Across the Blackfoot Confederacy, heavy music has become a conduit for release and repair. Reid Blakley traces how community-led festivals in Canada and the US are transforming pain into connection, mentorship, and healing. www.newfeeling.ca/singing-heavy-son…
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Singing Heavy Songs
How heavy music heals and unites Indigenous people on both sides of a border.
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