Minimal / Organic / Percussion / Ethno / Folk

 
Style: Modern Classical / Minimal

Format: LP
Label: CBS (US)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

The minimal master's take on dance pieces.

If i were the dancer i'd freeze in amazement ...

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Style:  Big Room Organic

Format: LP

Label:  Spoon

Year:  198x

Condition: NM/VG+

TD of Diethelm/Famulari fame on the solo trip. He must have impressed the Can guys big time so they would release this on their label (first Spoon LP by a non Can member). Highly recommended adult Pop with STRONG splashes of Ethno!

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Style: Organic Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Aurophon

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/NM

Sounds like musical interpretations of windfalls and rainshowers aka complex, funky and organic Percussion Jazz. Walter Quintus on the console. Like new copy!

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Style: Organic Jazz

Format: 2LP
Label: Delta

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+  

The king of organic fusion joined by his friends Christoph Haberer and Wolfgang Tiepold is back with a double LP loaded with deep and ambient jazz. Magic treats for listening sessions or the next NTS mix. Booya!

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Style: Organic Music

Format: LP
Label: Poljazz

Year: 1980

Condition: VG/VG+  

Tribal sessions aka lessons in organic by the polish pioneers of psychedelic ritual folk. Vinyl shows a few hairlines and plays with occasional clicks. Clean rip included on CDr (or 24bit wav DL).

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Style: ORGANIC!

Format: LP
Label: TSB (Private)

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG- some stains

Two guitars in autumn, feathery percussion enables the lovers to fly.

Eight songs for grown up - from pensive to utterly yet sincere romantic.

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Style: Desert Songs

Format: LP
Label: MMP

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG seamwear & sticker tear

Deep and percussive songs from the desert. Lots of long tracks to get lost in plus that version of Ellington's Caravan that makes the most sense ever... This one album seems to be a rare one. I've seen lots of copies of Abou-Khalil's other albums, but this one is the second of the Roots & Sprouts album I've seen in the real world. 

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Style: Fusion into Aboriginal

Format: LP
Label: WEA (aus)

Year: 1987

Condition: VG+/VG+

Fourth World Synth Pop meets didgy ambient.

Pretty much unfindable outside OZ realms.

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Style: Psychedelic Organicz

Format: LP
Label: Poljazz

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+

Deepest organic music from Poland. Psychedelic rituals featuring master Tomasz Stanko on both tracks of side B. Enjoy the ride!

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Style:  Organic Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Gams Bart

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/NM 

The first LP of the magnificent Muthspiel brothers from Austria. Valuable experiments at the border between Organic and Ambient! This is the first pressing on the private GamsBart imprint including an Extraplatte insert.

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Style: Organic Jazz / Contemporary Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Amadeo

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/NM

Duo Due are the brothers Muthspiel from Vienna. They have played with almost everybody in jazz in the last 30 years. Tre is their third album ;)  and holds my Muthspiel fave - Sushi Moto. It's such the tune.....

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Style: Ambient Jazz / New Age

Format: LP
Label: Reflektor

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/NM

From Synth Raga over soothing ambient to cocktails by the pool. This album by master Kunjappu has it ALL. Like new copy of this might fine New Age Jazz GEM.

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Style: Organic Outsider Hits

Format: LP
Label: Not On label

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Organic percussion and words that are still relevant. This little known private press by Pago Balke and his company holds some unpolished jewels. Apart from that excellent cover version of Tülay German's Dere Geliyor Dere there is a highly notable song about our beloved cars ...

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Style: Iraqui Folk Tales

Format: LP
Label:  Le Chant Du Monde

Year: 1975

Condition: VG+/VG+

If silence sounds like this i want silence all day...

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Style: Portugese Folk

Format: LP
Label: Schui!

Year: 1987

Condition: VG+/VG+

Fluffy folk to blow the winter thoughts out of your brain. No shoes allowed (with the exception of barefooters). First heard it in your family's collection of portugese classics or in this mix...

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Style: Organic Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Jazz Haus Musik

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/VG+ including various inserts

More tropical drums by the group around Christoph Haberer and The ELIMA percussion group from Zaire. Power recommended!

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Style: Organic Ice Palaces

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1991

Condition: NM/NM

Organic food for thoughtful moments by these gentlemen.

Sensitive picking at the speed of colibry wings.

Highest possible recommendation!

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Style: Bulgarian Blast

Format: LP
Label: Sandstock

Year: 1987

Condition: VG+/VG+

Mara! is an australian band around Mara Kiek, a percussionist and trained singer in old school bulgarian style. Their deep and spiritual fusion of bulgarian folk and jazz? is PRETTY unique...

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Style: Cosmic Meditations

Format: LP
Label: Z Sounds (Private)

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Highly organic cosmic meditations played on self-built instruments.

Recorded live at a freak-session in Hamburg's summer of 1986.

Sun-Power recommended!

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Style: Organic / Shamanic /Archaic

Format: LP
Label: Xymax

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

Music made with wood and stones. Plus kalimba, xylophone and very basic percussion instruments. Made by music therapists with love and care. Fantastic all the way through. An impossible to find private release from Hamburg, Germany

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Style: Organic

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+  

Rainer Dimmler calming us down on his chinese zither. Accomapanied by guitar and percussion only - to create a lightweight but intense sound. There's a meditative atmosphere throughout the album. Highest recomendation!

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Style: Vocal Drones, Kalimba, and Percussion

Format: LP
Label: Magischer Kreis

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  

You really have to listen since I have no worrds for this. Well maybe just a few about these healing songs of the Makonde people: Beyond real!

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Style: Organic Krautfolk

Format: LP
Label: Gerryland (Private)

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM

Jazzy & deep Folkrock from Franconia. A private release knowing no boundaries. Friends of organic Jazz will love this as much as collectors of underground Krautrock.

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Style: guess what!

Format: LP
Label: RASH

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+

Deep and organic PERCUSSION.

A bit of Esoterica adds the essential spice!

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Style: Contemporary Music

Format: LP
Label: Sound Aspects

Year: 1988

Condition: NM/NM

Would it be okay for you if I just describe this as music and you check that eight and a half minute long soundclip to get an idea what I mean?

Thank you!

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Style: Esoteric Pop?

Format: LP
Label: Philips

Year: 1983

Condition: NM/VG+ 

When I first saw this record I bought it by chance. "Trilok Gurtu on percussion - it can't be that bad". It's actually VERY nice and still one of my favourite records. In my humble opinion this is one of those records that should have a place in everybody's record collection.

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Style: Organic Weirdness

Format: LP
Label: Stechapfel

Year: 1988

Condition: VG+/VG+

Completely freewheeling and highly percusive organic experiments from the swiss alps. Totally suitable as the soundtrack to a film noir ... or a weird circus!

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Style: Ambient / Organic

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1992

Condition: NM/VG+

Various percussion and flute is enough to light the fire. This impossible to find private pressing from 1992 has enough fire to burn entire woods. Light yer insense and burn the socks. It's time to dance!

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Style: Experimental Jazz / Latin Jazz / Organic Music

Format: LP
Label: Entente

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+  

Check out this  amazing mix of mandolin, violin, piano and even Human Beatbox in a scatting mode. Truly unique sound and pressed in VERY limited quantities.

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Style: Organic Sounds / World Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Pro Sound (Private)

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/NM

Crossover kitchen blending indian and european spices.

Tiny cuisine so no one ever heard of it ;) Highly unique taste.

In other words: delicious!

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Style: Organic Jazz

Format: LP
Label: VeraBra

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

My favourite Matthias Frey LP.

Those wings of the colibry ...

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Style: Ethno Rock!

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+  

Percussive Ethno Rock from Düsseldorf, 1990.

Mostly arabian spices in the pot. Delicious stuff!

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Style:  Folky Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Aulos / Private

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+ 

Wonderful Kraut Fusion with a folky feel and some EXCELLENT dialogies between flute and guitar. This private album from Krefeld, Germany is VERY listenable all the way through. Highly recommended!

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Style: Indo Fusion / Organic as shahi korma

Format: LP
Label: Sonet

Year: 1985

Condition: NM/VG

Okay Temiz and his crew teaming up with members of the infamous College of Percussion for a proper trip from Stockholm to Istanbul via South India!! Check the organic ambient masterpiece High Fly

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Style: Drums!

Format: CD
Label: ITM

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Two Drummers drumming for world peace.

Tropical Drums of Deutschland!

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Style: Synth Folk

Format: LP
Label: Celluloid

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM 

Pretty unusual sounds for friends of the unexpected.

Deep and melancholic folk not folk not pop.

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Style: Sultan Of Swing / Percussive Eden

Format: LP
Label: ARC

Year: 198?

Condition: VG+/VG+

Hossam Ramzy, the self declared sultan of swing delivers a workshop of middle eastern (egyptian) percussion. It's not only fun to hear him introduce the instruments he also plays on them. Most of these incredible instrumental jams are between 2 and 3 minutes but some are 5 minues and longer. All shortened in the clips...

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Style: Eso Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Amiga

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Sehnsucht nach Veränderung translates "yearning for change". well that change came the same year. This wonderful east german Eso Jazz album was part of the prediction!

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Style: Organic Steel

Format: LP
Label: Hip Pocket (Ger)

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

The german Direct Metal Mastering version of this organic fusion classic. Burn yer socks and dance on steel. Would you be so kind to tell me who sampled the first one in the second clip?

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Style: Guys'n Guitars

Format: LP
Label: Milky Music

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG+

Seldom seen coop of Günther Beckers and Özkan Yalkinoglu.

Partly pensive, partly funky or simply guitar imitating a kalimba.

Jamming in the exhibition!

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Style: Namlook Fusion

Format: LP
Label: Frog

Year: 1986

Condition: NM/VG+

Peter Kuhlmann (read the last name reversed) and his crew with one of the great Electronic / New Age /Organic Jazz  fusion LPs of Germany's 80s. Autumn Air vibes!

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Style: Organic Sounds

Format: LP
Label: CMP

Year: 1983

Condition: VG+/VG+

Is there a place to. byu organic diving suits?

No? Not a problem you can just listen to Mark Nauseef!

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Style: Elefantentanz

Format: LP
Label: Nektar

Year: 1987

Condition: VG+/VG+

If you should be after the mad rare debut on 7" I strongly recommend to take off the blinders and check what the guys have done through their career. The percussive Call For Action powersound is there and WTF is that incredibly deep Fourth World shit???

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Style:  Indian Fusion

Format: LP
Label: RCA

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+

This is the turning point in Tri Atma's oeuvre. The synthesizer founds it's way into their music. Still in the background but enough to make forget about the drugs. Highly recommended!!

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Style: Percussion Madness

Format: LP
Label: Jazzlabor

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG+

Total percussion madness from the private laboratory.

Producers, i call on you!

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Style: Organic Kraut

Format: LP
Label: Wergo

Year: 1971

Condition: VG+/VG+  

The very first album by the "International fusion band based in Munich (formed in 1970 as Between The Chairs), featuring avant-garde tendencies within a music that blended the medieval, the ancient and the futuristic." This is the hard to find Wergo 1001 first issue - not the common Spectrum issue from 1972.

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Style: Fluffy Clouds

Format: LP
Label: Traccia

Year: 1980

Condition: VG+/VG+ cut corner

Fluffy Folk-Pop fusion perfect for sunday mornings in or out of bed.

Sehr senusal and highly recommended!

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Style: Planctonic / Subaquatic Contemporary

Format: LP
Label: Nabel

Year: 1989

Condition: M/M

Thos of you who have recently discovered these Elefants will be very happy to hear that there's a grown up equivalent in quality to their rare 7". Wasserwüste is a true beauty filled with subaquatic and organic floaters, culmintaing in the blissful flute jam - Dream Of Plancton. Don't miss this!

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Style: Esoteric Guitar

Format: LP
Label: JCI

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/NM

Heinz is from Switzerland and he's a fusion guy. He knows his instrument and seems to be a pretty chilled guy judging from his music.

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Style: Worldmusic behind the Iron Curtain

Format: LP

Label: Amiga

Year: 1977

Condition: VG+/VG+

Bayon is kind of the East german Between with one more toe in folky waters. Highly recommend (counts for all their records!!)

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Style: World Music / Universal Synth Pop

Format: LP
Label: World Music

Year: 1989

Condition: VG+/VG+

Get Cosmically Connected with the I.N.O. coming with some slow and danceable world synth joints as you expect them to serve.

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Style: Voodoo Drums

Format: LP
Label: Lyricord

Year: 197?

Condition: NM/VG+

Wicked Voodoo Drums from Port au Prince. Please excuse me if i might have said about other drum records as well: Great for tribal dancers, producers and open minded DJs.

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Style: Percussion / Jazz

Format: LP
Label: LAG (Private)

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG seam split

Here's an odd compilation recorded at a jazz meeting in Remscheid, 1984. I couldn't pass it since i spotted a cooperation of Jasper van't Hof and Peter Giger on the record plus another van't Hof tune. Both are actually great contemporary jazz tunes. But the real surprise is that laid back percussion jam called BUBU played by Gerhard Laber...

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Style: Organic!

Format: LP
Label: Amadeo

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+

Austrian Free jazz legend Wolfgang Puschning accompanied by Linda Sharrock (Lobster, Lobster, Lobster) getting down with the korean percussion ensemble SamulNori. Sometimes worlds don't collide but amalgamate!

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Style: Organic Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Zytgloge

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/VG+  

Incredible organic jazz made in Switzerland... 

These ladies know about some damn good voodoo!!

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Style: Drums, Drums, Drums

Format: LP
Label: AVC

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+

One of the rarest private german precussion bits out there and it's a blast. the vocal percussion sounds like art belching at times. yeaaaaah!

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Style: Chilled Rai

Format: LP
Label: ARC

Year: 198

Condition: NM/VG+

When the sun sets over the pyramid of Djoser and Imhotep's spirit makes your belly dance... it's time to worship Hossam Ramzy. And the Star Collector!

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Style: Ethno Gods

Format: LP
Label: ECM

Year: 1990

Condition: NM/ NM

Get your spiritual update with these two middle eastern flavoured Ragas. Both sides around 30 minutes... Like new copy!!

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Style: Experimental Percussion

Format: LP
Label: View

Year: 1984

Condition: NM/VG+  small tear

Experiments on instruments. Jazz not Jazz.

Organic percussion. Breathing in.

Dark and deep. Breathing out.

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Style:  New Age Of Jazz

Format: LP
Label: Amiga

Year: 1980

Condition: NM/VG

I discovered the group Bayon via this LP. Took it home from the fleamarket and didn't expect much of it. After listening to first side I probably thought something like ahh nice not knowing that I would manically hop around the room to Ballata and Fantasia only seconds later ....

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Style:  Krautfolk

Format: LP
Label: Schwann Studio

Year: 1972

Condition: NM/VG++ 

Seldom seen political Krautfolk in top condition. Interesting to know that Ihre Kinder have not been the only ones singing in german in 1971. 

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Style: Organic Jazz / Spiritual Kraut

Format: LP

Label: Jazz Haus Musik

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/NM (incl. Insert)

The first Boury LP in amazing condition. The booklet insert is also included. Anyway it's about the music and not the packaging and the music is simply wonderful. Organic and partially psychedelic jazz meandering into progressive krautrock. The sound that you'd expect to hear on an early 70s Dauner LP ... Changed hands for for some money.

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Style: Bard Gone Mental

Format: LP
Label: Nature

Year: 1978

Condition: NM/VG+  

VERY unusual album by the german Liedermacher Peter Horton. He usually cooperates with Siggi  "Sitar" Schwab in a guitar duo. On this release he adds synths and percussion to the guitar. Of course Siggi Schwab is featured on some of the tracks, but the outstanding ones are made by Horton - left alone experimenting in Studio 70, Munich.

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Style: Organic Folk

Format: LP
Label: Trikont

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Tribal Proto House a la Finis Africae meets Amazonian Folk. The end of someone's journey might be the beginning of another's...

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Style: Organic Experiments

Format: LP
Label: Grosor

Year: 1987

Condition: NM/VG archive sticker

Calling this unique is a bit of an understatement. Sorof's fingers fly over his chapman sticks like colibry's wings. Trying to find words for this. I just can't ... I'm blown!

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Style: Pensive Folk

Format: LP
Label: Guimbarda

Year: 1981

Condition: NM/VG+  

Calm and pensive harp based Folk with influences of neo classical music. Creating an atmosphere of warmth and privacy.

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Style: Experimental Fusion / Contemporary

Format: LP
Label: Olufsen

Year: 1989

Condition: NM/VG+ 

A seldom seen Ocean Fables offshoot project lead by Kim Kristensen on keys and synths and Marilyn Mazur on percussion. Unusual Fusion with an outerworldly sound - very organic and highly recommended!

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Style:  Krautfolk

Format: LP
Label: Not On Label

Year: 1982

Condition: NM/VG+  Incl. Insert

Wonderful folky kraut from the politically left. Sung in german so most of you won't get the sometimes brilliant verbal attacks against the establishment. 

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