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Depeche Mode's 101

by Mary Valle ...

Narrated by Jo Anna Perrin ...

Series series 33 1/3
Unabridged

2 hours 47 min

Depeche Mode’s 101 is, at first glance, a curious thing: a live double-album by a synth band. A recording of its “Concert for the Masses,” 101 marks the moment when doomy, cultish, electronic Depeche Mode, despite low American album sales and a lack of critical acclaim, declared they had arrived and ascended to the rare air of stadium rock. On June 18, 1988, 65,000 screaming, singing Southern ... Read more

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Depeche Mode’s 101 is, at first glance, a curious thing: a live double-album by a synth band. A recording of its “Concert for the Masses,” 101 marks the moment when doomy, cultish, electronic Depeche Mode, despite low American album sales and a lack of critical acclaim, declared they had arrived and ascended to the rare air of stadium rock. On June 18, 1988, 65,000 screaming, singing Southern
... Read more
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You Don't Need a Dick to DJ

by Smokin Jo ...

Narrated by Smokin Jo ...

Unabridged

8 hours 1 min

Before she became Smokin Jo - the most famous and visible of the first generation of 'superstar DJs' - Joanne Joseph was a young girl growing up in a children's home with her sister. Until her mother returned and whisked the siblings away just before secondary school to a flat on the Portobello Road, her life was devoid of music: the home didn't allow it, apart from hymns and carols at Christmas ... Read more

$49.99 NZD

Before she became Smokin Jo - the most famous and visible of the first generation of 'superstar DJs' - Joanne Joseph was a young girl growing up in a children's home with her sister. Until her mother returned and whisked the siblings away just before secondary school to a flat on the Portobello Road, her life was devoid of music: the home didn't allow it, apart from hymns and carols at Christmas
... Read more
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Was jede Elektrofachkraft wissen muss

Grundlagen der Fachkunde für Elektrotechniker, Elektriker und Elektroingenieure

by Matthias Surovcik, Matthias Surovcik ...

Narrated by Raúl Gonzalez ...

Unabridged

2 hours 6 min

Dieses Hörbuch möchte Ihnen die wichtigsten Grundlagen der Fachkunde in der Elektrotechnik näherbringen. Es richtet sich in erster Linie an Berufstätige und in der Ausbildung befindliche Hörerinnen und Hörer aus der Elektrotechnik und setzt damit ein gewisses Grundwissen der Elektrotechnik voraus. Sie erhalten einen fundierten Überblick zu den für alle Elektrotechnikerinnen und Elektrotechniker ... Read more

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Dieses Hörbuch möchte Ihnen die wichtigsten Grundlagen der Fachkunde in der Elektrotechnik näherbringen. Es richtet sich in erster Linie an Berufstätige und in der Ausbildung befindliche Hörerinnen und Hörer aus der Elektrotechnik und setzt damit ein gewisses Grundwissen der Elektrotechnik voraus. Sie erhalten einen fundierten Überblick zu den für alle Elektrotechnikerinnen und Elektrotechniker
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Brad Lansky and the Anti-Starc

by J.D. Venne ...

Narrated by Dieter Zimmermann, Matthew Roberts, Bianca Resnekov, Guy McDonald, Jennifer Beattie, Nigel Vermaas, Sean O'Connor, Shannyn Fourie, Stephen Jennings ...

Series Audiobook 4 - Brad Lansky Series
Unabridged

1 hour 43 min

These are troubled times. MARA, the mighty blue supergiant of the Torvus Iubar System is dying, as are the other thirteen ambistars that make up the Ambistar Collective. Billions of lives are in peril. What conceivable force could cause the simultaneous death of fourteen ambistars thousands of light-years apart?Since the peace accord between Giri Null and GAIA three years ago, Torvus has prospered ... Read more

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These are troubled times. MARA, the mighty blue supergiant of the Torvus Iubar System is dying, as are the other thirteen ambistars that make up the Ambistar Collective. Billions of lives are in peril. What conceivable force could cause the simultaneous death of fourteen ambistars thousands of light-years apart?Since the peace accord between Giri Null and GAIA three years ago, Torvus has prospered
... Read more
Audiobook

Futuromania

Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines and Tomorrow’s Music Today

by Simon Reynolds ...

Narrated by Rich Keeble ...

Unabridged

12 hours 46 min

Pre-order Simon Reynold's forthcoming Still in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers, and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-1994, publishing June 2026.'A captivating celebration of the music that pushes us forward' RECORD COLLECTORFuturomania is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow: the vanguard genres and heroic innovators who prefigure and shape pop music's future. It explores the interf ... Read more

$49.99 NZD

Pre-order Simon Reynold's forthcoming Still in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers, and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-1994, publishing June 2026.'A captivating celebration of the music that pushes us forward' RECORD COLLECTORFuturomania is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow: the vanguard genres and heroic innovators who prefigure and shape pop music's future. It explores the interf
... Read more
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Halcyon and On and On: The Story of Orbital and the Rise of Rave

The Story of Orbital and the Rise of Rave

by Paul Hartnoll, Phil Hartnoll ...

Unabridged

10 hours

'By the end of the book, I fully expect that to many people I'm going to look like a right ***t.' Paul Hartnoll, OrbitalThe Gallagher brothers of the rave scene, Paul and Phil Hartnoll together make Orbital - one of the biggest-selling and most recognisable techno acts on the planet. They have sold millions of albums, played to an audience of 10 million people at the Closing Ceremony of the London ... Read more

$39.99 NZD

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'By the end of the book, I fully expect that to many people I'm going to look like a right ***t.' Paul Hartnoll, OrbitalThe Gallagher brothers of the rave scene, Paul and Phil Hartnoll together make Orbital - one of the biggest-selling and most recognisable techno acts on the planet. They have sold millions of albums, played to an audience of 10 million people at the Closing Ceremony of the London
... Read more
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Tales from the Dancefloor

Manchester / The Warehouse Project / Parklife / Sankeys / The Haçienda

by Sacha Lord ...

Narrated by Sacha Lord ...

Unabridged

7 hours 10 min

The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Haçienda to The Warehouse Project.Tales From the Dance Floor is an electrifying journey into the heart of Manchester’s music culture with its most influential promoter.Over the past three decades, Sacha Lord has hosted countless iconic parties, booked legendary DJs, and shaped an underground scene ... Read more

$40.99 NZD

The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Haçienda to The Warehouse Project.Tales From the Dance Floor is an electrifying journey into the heart of Manchester’s music culture with its most influential promoter.Over the past three decades, Sacha Lord has hosted countless iconic parties, booked legendary DJs, and shaped an underground scene
... Read more
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Electronically Yours

Vol. I: My Autobiography

by Martyn Ware ...

Narrated by Martyn Ware ...

Unabridged

9 hours 18 min

This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware.The Human League and Heaven 17 were among some of the most pioneering bands of the 1980s, with Ware having played an integral role in each of their numerous successes. A young lad from the heart of post-war Sheffield, Ware formed The Human League a few years out of school in his early twenties. Described by David Bowie as ... Read more

$43.99 NZD

This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware.The Human League and Heaven 17 were among some of the most pioneering bands of the 1980s, with Ware having played an integral role in each of their numerous successes. A young lad from the heart of post-war Sheffield, Ware formed The Human League a few years out of school in his early twenties. Described by David Bowie as
... Read more
Audiobook

Trip-Hop

Genre: A 33 1/3 Series

by R.J. Wheaton ...

Narrated by Adam Sims ...

Series series Genre: A 33 1/3 Series
Unabridged

5 hours

Bloomsbury presents Trip-Hop by RJ Wheaton, read by Adam Sims.Trip-hop described some of the 1990s’ best music, and it was one of the decade’s most revealing bad ideas. This book chronicles the music and its leading artists, packed with recommended listening, essential tracks, great remixes, and under-recognized albums.“Your playlists will soon be overflowing.” - Spectrum CultureThe music itself ... Read more

$43.99 NZD

Bloomsbury presents Trip-Hop by RJ Wheaton, read by Adam Sims.Trip-hop described some of the 1990s’ best music, and it was one of the decade’s most revealing bad ideas. This book chronicles the music and its leading artists, packed with recommended listening, essential tracks, great remixes, and under-recognized albums.“Your playlists will soon be overflowing.” - Spectrum CultureThe music itself
... Read more
Audiobook

Paused in Cosmic Reflection

The definitive, fully illustrated story of The Chemical Brothers

by The Chemical Brothers ...

Narrated by Robin Turner, Ben Bailey Smith, Maria Louis ...

Unabridged

6 hours 22 min

A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023Paused in Cosmic Reflection is the definitive story of The Chemical Brothers. Told in the voices of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, with contributions from friends and collaborators, it is fully illustrated with 30 years of mind-bending visuals. ... Read more

$49.99 NZD

A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023Paused in Cosmic Reflection is the definitive story of The Chemical Brothers. Told in the voices of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons, with contributions from friends and collaborators, it is fully illustrated with 30 years of mind-bending visuals.
... Read more
Audiobook

Recover Me

A user's guide to overcoming addiction and insanity

by DJ Fat Tony, Tara Day ...

Narrated by DJ Fat Tony, Tara Day ...

Unabridged

8 hours 6 min

Getting clean was just the beginning...DJ Fat Tony has lived a thousand lives: celebrated nightlife icon, survivor of decades-long addiction to drugs, alcohol and sex, and a LGBTQ activist who navigated trauma, abuse, and the AIDS epidemic.In Recover Me, Tony charts his journey from the hard graft of addiction to self-acceptance, affirming that recovery is not a destination but an ongoing ... Read more

$49.99 NZD

Getting clean was just the beginning...DJ Fat Tony has lived a thousand lives: celebrated nightlife icon, survivor of decades-long addiction to drugs, alcohol and sex, and a LGBTQ activist who navigated trauma, abuse, and the AIDS epidemic.In Recover Me, Tony charts his journey from the hard graft of addiction to self-acceptance, affirming that recovery is not a destination but an ongoing
... Read more
Audiobook

Tim – The Official Biography of Avicii

the subject of new Netflix documentary 'Avicii – I’m Tim'

by Måns Mosesson ...

Narrated by Nikolas Salmon ...

Unabridged

10 hours 21 min

The intimate biography of the iconic DJ who was lost too soon.Like a firework against the night sky, the DJ and producer Tim Bergling exploded onto the music scene. A musical visionary who, through his sense for melodies, came to define the era when Swedish and European house music took over the world.But Tim Bergling was also an introverted and fragile young man who was forced to grow up at an ... Read more

$39.99 NZD

The intimate biography of the iconic DJ who was lost too soon.Like a firework against the night sky, the DJ and producer Tim Bergling exploded onto the music scene. A musical visionary who, through his sense for melodies, came to define the era when Swedish and European house music took over the world.But Tim Bergling was also an introverted and fragile young man who was forced to grow up at an
... Read more
Audiobook

Welcome to the club

The life and lessons of a Black woman DJ

by DJ Paulette ...

Narrated by DJ Paulette ...

Unabridged

7 hours 51 min

Read by the author and featuring a foreword from Annie Mac. In Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career, with help from some famous friends. One of the Haçienda’s first female DJs, Paulette has scaled the heights of the music industry, playing to crowds of thousands all around the world, and descended to the lows of being ... Read more

$60.99 NZD

Read by the author and featuring a foreword from Annie Mac. In Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career, with help from some famous friends. One of the Haçienda’s first female DJs, Paulette has scaled the heights of the music industry, playing to crowds of thousands all around the world, and descended to the lows of being
... Read more
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Nichts Neues außer Abortive Gasp

Feature über Electro-Industrial-Musik

by Ludwig Kamberlein ...

Narrated by Karina Frik, Marvin Boehmke, Lorena Manz, Anke Sandig, Harry Luehr ...

Unabridged

17 min

„Nichts Neues außer 'Abortive Gasp'“ porträtiert die kontroverse Hamburger Electro-Industrial-Band Abortive Gasp (1987–1989). Gegründet von Harry Luehr (Instrumente) und Tim Paal (Gesang) mit wechselnden Gästen, zeichnete sie hoher Improvisationsanteil aus – untypisch für die Elektronik-Szene. Der Stil vermischte frühen Dub, Persiflagen auf Front 242/Ministry und ironisch-anarchische Elemente. Als ... Read more

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„Nichts Neues außer 'Abortive Gasp'“ porträtiert die kontroverse Hamburger Electro-Industrial-Band Abortive Gasp (1987–1989). Gegründet von Harry Luehr (Instrumente) und Tim Paal (Gesang) mit wechselnden Gästen, zeichnete sie hoher Improvisationsanteil aus – untypisch für die Elektronik-Szene. Der Stil vermischte frühen Dub, Persiflagen auf Front 242/Ministry und ironisch-anarchische Elemente. Als
... Read more
Audiobook

Songs In The Key of MP3

The New Icons of the Internet Age

by Liam Inscoe-Jones ...

Narrated by Liam Inscoe-Jones, Rori Hawthorn, Gemma Lawrence, Sam Crerar ...

Unabridged

12 hours 49 min

It's 2013. You're a teenager squinting at your laptop in the dead of night, flicking between iTunes and YouTube and PirateBay. Endless reams of artists unspool at the click of a button. New forms of musical discovery open up before your very eyes. This evolving digital landscape exists beyond the radio, HMV and even the most extensive record collection. You've entered a whole new world and, ... Read more

$49.99 NZD

It's 2013. You're a teenager squinting at your laptop in the dead of night, flicking between iTunes and YouTube and PirateBay. Endless reams of artists unspool at the click of a button. New forms of musical discovery open up before your very eyes. This evolving digital landscape exists beyond the radio, HMV and even the most extensive record collection. You've entered a whole new world and,
... Read more
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Twice

The Story of K-Pop’s Greatest Girl Group

by Jamie Heal ...

Narrated by Jennifer Lim ...

Unabridged

7 hours 26 min

In the space of just five years, Twice have taken the K-Pop world by storm.With hundreds of millions of views on YouTube, a sell-out world tour and record-breaking album sales under their belts, Twice have well and truly earned their place in the K-Pop hall of fame. And they’re only just getting started.Twice: The Story of K-Pop’s Greatest Girl Group tells the amazing story behind one of the most ... Read more

$29.99 NZD

In the space of just five years, Twice have taken the K-Pop world by storm.With hundreds of millions of views on YouTube, a sell-out world tour and record-breaking album sales under their belts, Twice have well and truly earned their place in the K-Pop hall of fame. And they’re only just getting started.Twice: The Story of K-Pop’s Greatest Girl Group tells the amazing story behind one of the most
... Read more
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Wildfire

My Ten Years Getting High in The Prodigy

by Leeroy Thornhill ...

Narrated by Leeroy Thornhill ...

Unabridged

2 hours 53 min

Wildfire tells the story of the first decade of The Prodigy from the perspective of original member Leeroy Thornhill, fully illustrated with entirely unseen photography from the earliest raves, to Japan and the United States in the late '90s, by which point the band were one of the biggest on the planet.Rave pioneers whose sound also encompassed hip hop, punk and rock, The Prodigy arguably had as ... Read more

$49.99 NZD

Wildfire tells the story of the first decade of The Prodigy from the perspective of original member Leeroy Thornhill, fully illustrated with entirely unseen photography from the earliest raves, to Japan and the United States in the late '90s, by which point the band were one of the biggest on the planet.Rave pioneers whose sound also encompassed hip hop, punk and rock, The Prodigy arguably had as
... Read more
Audiobook

Music Sets You Free

A Memoir

by Ryuichi Sakamoto ...

Narrated by Akie Kotabe ...

Unabridged

11 hours 5 min

‘Fascinating! A life as art unspooling in real time' WILLIAM BASINSKI, composer of The Disintegration Loops‘A maestro in the truest sense, Ryuichi Sakamoto's very existence has made the world a better place. I'll never stop being grateful for all he has given us’ PAUL RUDD, actor‘Arguably the best-known and most successful Japanese musician in the world’ The New YorkerA genre-defying artist... ... Read more

$52.99 NZD

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‘Fascinating! A life as art unspooling in real time' WILLIAM BASINSKI, composer of The Disintegration Loops‘A maestro in the truest sense, Ryuichi Sakamoto's very existence has made the world a better place. I'll never stop being grateful for all he has given us’ PAUL RUDD, actor‘Arguably the best-known and most successful Japanese musician in the world’ The New YorkerA genre-defying artist...
... Read more
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CRAZE

Step Inside Sydney's Early Raves, Doofs & Festivals

by Stephan Gyory ...

Narrated by Stephan Gyory, Colette Gyory ...

Unabridged

11 hours 52 min

Craze is a journey into sound, a book which along the way will bring to you a new colour; new dimension; a new understanding of the cultural, technological, and chemical strands that led to the Electronic Music Revolution.Take a trip down rave memory lane into Sydney’s early warehouse scene and explore the forging of a global cultural phenomenon. Re-live the Second Summer of Love from the unique ... Read more

$25.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

Craze is a journey into sound, a book which along the way will bring to you a new colour; new dimension; a new understanding of the cultural, technological, and chemical strands that led to the Electronic Music Revolution.Take a trip down rave memory lane into Sydney’s early warehouse scene and explore the forging of a global cultural phenomenon. Re-live the Second Summer of Love from the unique
... Read more
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The KLF

Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds

by John Higgs ...

Narrated by John Higgs ...

Unabridged

6 hours 51 min

THE STRANGE TALE OF DEATH, LIFE AND LEGACY OF THE HUGELY SUCCESSFUL BAND'Magical ... stunning' Dan Schreiber, No Such Thing as a Fish'Brilliant, discursive and wise' Ben Goldacre'Utterly irresistible and totally brilliant' QuietusThey were the bestselling singles band in the world. They had awards, credibility, commercial success and creative freedom. Then they deleted their records, erased... ... Read more

$39.99 NZD

THE STRANGE TALE OF DEATH, LIFE AND LEGACY OF THE HUGELY SUCCESSFUL BAND'Magical ... stunning' Dan Schreiber, No Such Thing as a Fish'Brilliant, discursive and wise' Ben Goldacre'Utterly irresistible and totally brilliant' QuietusThey were the bestselling singles band in the world. They had awards, credibility, commercial success and creative freedom. Then they deleted their records, erased...
... Read more
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Never Be Alone Again

How Bloghouse United the Internet and the Dancefloor

by Lina Abascal ...

Narrated by Graham Halstead ...

Unabridged

4 hours 18 min

Whether you called it electro, indie dance, or were too busy scouring the internet for MP3s to care about a genre name, Never Be Alone Again: How Bloghouse United the Internet and the Dancefloor connects the disparate parts of an under-documented era in the first book focused on the musical and cultural phenomenon called bloghouse.For a brief period in the mid-2000s, a network of independent music ... Read more

$25.99 NZD

Whether you called it electro, indie dance, or were too busy scouring the internet for MP3s to care about a genre name, Never Be Alone Again: How Bloghouse United the Internet and the Dancefloor connects the disparate parts of an under-documented era in the first book focused on the musical and cultural phenomenon called bloghouse.For a brief period in the mid-2000s, a network of independent music
... Read more
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Hämchen Hämchen / Wunderschöner junger Mann

by Rosa Barba, Klaus Sander, Anja Theismann, Jan St. Werner, Ingrid Wiener, Oswald Wiener, Wichtel u. die Wuchteln ...

Narrated by Wichtel u. die Wuchteln ...

Unabridged

8 min

Wichtel und die Wuchteln: Hämchen Hämchen mit einem Doppelquartett des Männergesangsvereins Alpenland Mariazell 2) Wuchtel und die Wichteln: Wunderschöner junger Mann mit Lucyna und Megumi ... Read more

$8.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

Wichtel und die Wuchteln: Hämchen Hämchen mit einem Doppelquartett des Männergesangsvereins Alpenland Mariazell 2) Wuchtel und die Wichteln: Wunderschöner junger Mann mit Lucyna und Megumi
... Read more
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Strange Things Are Happening

Adventures in Music

by Richard Norris ...

Narrated by Richard Norris ...

Unabridged

9 hours 12 min

'A revelation. Richard Norris lived the twentieth century and beyond like no one else . . . this is one of the truly great eyewitness accounts of the counterculture' DAVID KEENAN'A dazzling psychedelic memoir' CAUGHT BY THE RIVER'Makes you feel like getting up and doing something!' WENDY ERSKINEAs a pioneering musician, producer and DJ, Richard Norris has been at the forefr... ... Read more

$49.99 NZD

'A revelation. Richard Norris lived the twentieth century and beyond like no one else . . . this is one of the truly great eyewitness accounts of the counterculture' DAVID KEENAN'A dazzling psychedelic memoir' CAUGHT BY THE RIVER'Makes you feel like getting up and doing something!' WENDY ERSKINEAs a pioneering musician, producer and DJ, Richard Norris has been at the forefr...
... Read more
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Don't Look Back In Anger

The rise and fall of Cool Britannia, told by those who were there

by Daniel Rachel ...

Narrated by Charles Armstrong, David John, Dean Williamson, Jot Davies, Louise Brealey, Paul McGann, Shvorne Marks, Tania Rodrigues ...

Unabridged

18 hours 44 min

Read by Paul McGann, Louise Brealey, Tania Rodrigues, Shvorne Marks, Jot Davies, David John, Dean Williamson and Charles Armstrong. Introduced by Daniel Rachel, and featuring audio-exclusive extracts from Daniel's source interviews.The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the 'Swinging Sixties' had art, comedy, fashion, ... Read more

$39.99 NZD

Read by Paul McGann, Louise Brealey, Tania Rodrigues, Shvorne Marks, Jot Davies, David John, Dean Williamson and Charles Armstrong. Introduced by Daniel Rachel, and featuring audio-exclusive extracts from Daniel's source interviews.The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Not since the 'Swinging Sixties' had art, comedy, fashion,
... Read more

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