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Mars Volta to release one-track album

Mike_Diver by Mike Diver [Edit this content] ▾ 85 comments 14:54 December 3rd, 2004
cedric mars volta
All that hair must make you a little doo-lally...

The Mars Volta are to release a new album next year. No surprises there you might think, but get this: it'll feature ONE track.

'Frances The Mute' will be a 77-minute song/track that can be 'split' into 'suites'. All sounds a little Close to the Edge, to me. Expect this radio-friendly delight to drop at the end of March 2005.

The Mars Volta
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Mars Volta to release one-track album

the irony...
last album had a single that was two "tracks" stuck together.

so really what theyre saying is that the album flows throughout

like the last one...
alcxxk | 3 Dec '04, 14:59 | X | Reply

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I dunno... guess so.
It'd be pretty stupid to have 77 minutes you can't skip through.
Then again...
Mike_Diver @alcxxk | 3 Dec '04, 15:01 | X | Reply

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would force people to buy it on vinyl to protect their sanity.
or just copy it onto your computer and sound forge it into shape.
alcxxk @Mike_Diver | 3 Dec '04, 15:05 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

Twice when I've been at gigs, someone has played their first album the whole way through whilst we've waited for a band. Both times I nearly lost the will to live.
Damian | 3 Dec '04, 15:08 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

Any singles from the album?
Raanraals | 3 Dec '04, 15:12 | X | Reply

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teehee.
and what the hell will it be like live?
alcxxk @Raanraals | 3 Dec '04, 15:16 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

can 77 minutes fit on one side of vinyl?? invent a new speed especially for it?
lowandbehold | 3 Dec '04, 15:19 | X | Reply

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Don't they usually extend the tracks live?
Damian @alcxxk | 3 Dec '04, 15:32 | X | Reply

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i love their first album on record. it's interminable live though. which sucks because they ARE capable of great live shows, i've seen it. [well.... once. but it was really REALLY great, honest. and there were no twenty minute drum solos in sight.]

xxx
-gen- @Damian | 3 Dec '04, 15:40 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

why did i know they'd go and do something like that...

awkward fuckers!

xxx
-gen- | 3 Dec '04, 15:43 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

I think it's only meant to be about five 'songs' collected into one piece anyway...
Effloresce_Sean | 3 Dec '04, 15:55 | X | Reply

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Mars Volta Rule!!!
fullerov @Effloresce_Sean | 3 Dec '04, 16:18 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

dEUS did that ages ago!

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
sadpunk | 3 Dec '04, 16:28 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

...and Frank Zappa. But thats exactly it. They did it AGES ago. Mars Volta are current. They aren't planning on hitting the single chart for success, but I guess there isnie little point in that anyway.

Mars Volta Rule!

x ed s
Ed_Case | 3 Dec '04, 16:37 | X | Reply

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the terrifying words 'prog' and 'revival' spring to mind.

god help us!
furvert @Ed_Case | 3 Dec '04, 16:55 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

Comedy.
Ramzy_ | 3 Dec '04, 16:59 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

Expect to see Bixler sporting a wizard hat and playing maniacal keyboard solos on the 2005 tour.
Effloresce_Sean | 3 Dec '04, 17:15 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

Fantomas did that THIS YEAR. However, I like the Mars Volta anyway.
MegaHyper | 3 Dec '04, 17:22 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

This is apparently all the official information on it:

"All the players are the same as have toured for a year now. However, the album will also include a number of guest performers, including Larry Harlow as previously reported.
It was produced by Omar, mixed by Rich Costey, and recorded in Australia, Los Angeles, Puerto Rico and New York. Storm Thorgerson is doing the artwork again, and the lyrics will be included in the package this time. The songs are both in English and Spanish. "The Widow" will be the single, and it will have a video.
Frances The Mute's 77 seamless minutes will officially see the light of day March 22nd. You can try and decipher the tracklisting by clicking Read More.
Cygnus....Vismund Cygnus
A. Sarcophagi
B. Umbilical Syllables
C. Facilis Descenus Averni
D. Con Safo
The Widow
L' Via L' Viaquez
Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore
A. Vade Mecum
B. Pour Another Icepick
C. Pisacis (Phra-Men-Ma)
D. Con Safo
Cassandra Gemini
A. Tarantism
B. Plant A Nail In The Navel Stream
C. Faminepulse
D. Multiple Spouse Wounds
E. Sarcophagi "

WOW.
Effloresce_Sean | 3 Dec '04, 18:33 | X | Reply

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Ok, would help if I spaced this out so it was actually understandable

I:Cygnus....Vismund Cygnus
A. Sarcophagi
B. Umbilical Syllables
C. Facilis Descenus Averni
D. Con Safo

II: The Widow

III: L' Via L' Viaquez

IV: Miranda That Ghost Just Isn't Holy Anymore
A. Vade Mecum
B. Pour Another Icepick
C. Pisacis (Phra-Men-Ma)
D. Con Safo

V: Cassandra Gemini
A. Tarantism
B. Plant A Nail In The Navel Stream
C. Faminepulse
D. Multiple Spouse Wounds
E. Sarcophagi

Effloresce_Sean @Effloresce_Sean | 3 Dec '04, 18:34 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

drools in anticipation.
IranDIS | 3 Dec '04, 18:35 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

Anyone know what they added to it? It was going to be realeased about now apparently.

I wonder if any of the lyrics/story is about Jeremy.
fullerov | 3 Dec '04, 18:41 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

"or just copy it onto your computer and sound forge it into shape."

That's what I'm going to do, with my software on my 'puter. They are one of the most original bands of their time, certainly a lot better than the other band to come out of ATD-I, Sparta. Their first album was great, normally I don't like "difficult albums", but this was incredible. I wonder how soon it's going to take people to try and find hidden meanings and the like behind the songs.
CaviarAndCigarets | 3 Dec '04, 20:43 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

I really like Deloused In The Comatorium, but find the bits like the 3-minute whoosh-y noise in Cicatriz ESP to be over-pretentious pointless wastes of time.

I have a feeling that Frances The Mute will be full of things like that.

And one 77-minute song is a good idea in theory, but I'm sure that my short attention span will force to get annoyed with it very, very easily.
richard_tmo | 3 Dec '04, 21:04 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

"but find the bits like the 3-minute whoosh-y noise in Cicatriz ESP to be over-pretentious pointless wastes of time."

I'm sorry but if you don't like bits like that then listen to At the Drive-In. The middle bit of Cicatriz ESP is what the Mars Volta are all about, experimentation, if your not open to that then you shouldn't really listen to them because thats what 90% of their stuff is.

Rocky_Raccoon | 3 Dec '04, 21:14 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

Yeah, they've always seemed a bit Emperor's New Clothes to me. Great for people who think sticking "art-" on the beginning of something automatically makes it great.
Smileadelic | 3 Dec '04, 22:06 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

Wasn't the last album a one track album too?
Teepee_uk | 3 Dec '04, 22:37 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

one track, split into sections and subsections?




godspeed...
waves | 3 Dec '04, 23:01 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

the new prog >>> the new garage.
Zoo1 | 3 Dec '04, 23:05 | X | Reply

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So that's fifteen songs that merge into each other?

I presume it'll be five tracks on the CD. Or maybe fifteen. If they do it as one, that's just fucking stupid.

N.
lanky @Effloresce_Sean | 4 Dec '04, 01:25 | X | Reply

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NO NO NO EMBRACE IT!
crablin @furvert | 4 Dec '04, 02:30 | X | Reply

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come on guys, putting loads of potentially rubbish intertwining songs on an album isnt big or clever. two words for you:

Mansun, Six.
benmarwood @Ed_Case | 4 Dec '04, 10:19 | X | Reply

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good call - maybe So Solid will be on it.
benmarwood @Zoo1 | 4 Dec '04, 10:20 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

This is quite fucking funny.
OceanStorm | 4 Dec '04, 10:44 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

has nobody else noticed that they kept the same guy who did 'that' artwork?

what are they thinking?

tenwords | 4 Dec '04, 10:47 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

Nah, they'll pull it off they always fucking do. You can forgive them for their pretensious experimentation because they always seem to deliver, well in my clkose to objective opininon. And that wooshy stuff is only part of what their about their shouty angry stuff is just as Mars Volta, their not pure prog and thats kinda why they don't bore me to tears. It's all good mate.
cayce_p | 4 Dec '04, 15:30 | X | Reply

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That was a great album you tool! Stop being post anti-britpop avant garde!

Ed_Case @benmarwood | 4 Dec '04, 17:31 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

Check it out, Cygnus..its like rush all over again, ..wicked..i loved hemispheres .. can't wait to hear this one
stew331 | 5 Dec '04, 09:56 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

Most of you are friggin' idiots. I'm sorry but this has to be said. Your all way too A.D.D to sit down and listen to a record all the way through unless its complete with shit riffs and stupid hooks. Oh let's listen to Coheed because there cool and scene. They also have a nifty comic book. The Mars Volta is one of the few bands playing for the love of playing and pushing the limits in music today. I don't think you can say Thrice or some other similar band is doing that or fucking Coheed and Cambria. Can someone tell me what the hell is so special about that band?? Whiny ass emo pop with a hint of experimentation (a very small hint at that). Bands like that are just another ploy for companies to make money. Atleast I know the Volta are not about the money our fame but about what everyone should be about.... THE MUSIC.
emporium33 | 5 Dec '04, 10:01 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

Not all music is 'coheed and cambria'.

i have it on good authority that many, many bands love playing and push the boundaries.

tenwords | 5 Dec '04, 11:41 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

I agree, pigeonholing bands into categories that 'don't push the boundaries of rock' doesn't do anyone any favours.

But yeah, I can't WAIT for this one, very exciting indeed :)
dis-integration | 5 Dec '04, 12:09 | X | Reply

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How many of us even like Coheed & Cambria here anyway???
-Mark- @dis-integration | 5 Dec '04, 13:05 | X | Reply

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maan. c'mon, six was ace.

i dunno. the mars volta record might be shit, but knowing them, the awkward fuckers might just pull it off.

xxx
-gen- @benmarwood | 5 Dec '04, 13:14 | X | Reply

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One of my favourite albums ever!
iainf @benmarwood | 5 Dec '04, 13:42 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

this is the best thing i've seen since that Hermione porn earlier today
ollie | 5 Dec '04, 14:49 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

sounds like prog to me.
John_Brainlove | 5 Dec '04, 16:02 | X | Reply

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"putting loads of potentially rubbish intertwining songs on an album isnt big or clever"

But putting loads of potentially brilliant intertwining songs on an album is big and clever.

It'll live or die by how good the songs are, not the fact that they flow into each other a bit.

N.
lanky @benmarwood | 5 Dec '04, 16:43 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

prog is the way forward, people.
the_patient | 5 Dec '04, 19:11 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

nevermind, ill just chop up the tracks in cool edit
mass | 5 Dec '04, 19:18 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

and coheed are no way as good as the mars volta. plus, this is anything new to have one track. dj shadow? but still, so many bands do it. Yes, its fine at first, but after a while, the majority of people in the end buy a cd for music, not because of the mood, and so there will be parts on the cd people will want to skip to because they like it. now theyre not going to enjoy fast fowarding 60 minutes to listen to the last 10 now are they...
its stupid. typical arrogant mars volta. still the best band in the world
mass | 5 Dec '04, 19:36 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

F**king BRILLIANT idea. Who's to stunt creativity? More of it I say.
Very Fantomas
nemesisjennings | 6 Dec '04, 04:33 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

Hermione porn ??!!
bobslayer | 6 Dec '04, 05:06 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

De-loused in the Comatorium is the greatest album ever made by Mars Volta. I'm pretty sure they're gonna be one of those one-hit-wonder bands...
inabunker | 6 Dec '04, 06:17 | X | Reply

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De-loused in the Comatorium is the ONLY album the band have released.
One-hit-wonder band! My word you are talking bollocks!
Rocky_Raccoon @inabunker | 6 Dec '04, 09:41 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

GOD! these idiots are one of the most over-rated bands ever, f*** off for Christ's sake.
Spider | 6 Dec '04, 10:38 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

anyone who is against this surelyt doesn't apreciate the mars volta as theuy should.

whenever i listen to the album i never skip tracks or pick one out. never.

i am way more excited for this now. this is a statement of their originality and this should be apreiciated if not liked by many of their fans.

they should be grateful bands as big as mars volta only release an album every two years......i would kill for a 77 minute track from this band anyday. i am expecting sometyhing very very epic.

imagine the live show. they will play some old tracks and then improv on this album for about 30 mins.

they are genius and although it wont attract the mainstream (thank god) it will do very well.

i just hope a lot of the fans feel the same way i do.

OH ONE HIT WONDER??????? a band of this calibur can NEVER write a bad album (or in this case song)

and MASS......they are pushing the limits of music and that warrant arrogance.......(evben though i dont think they are being arrogant)

i am now so hyped for this album


come on march 05
idrisguitar | 6 Dec '04, 10:59 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

anyone who is against this surelyt doesn't apreciate the mars volta as theuy should.

whenever i listen to the album i never skip tracks or pick one out. never.

i am way more excited for this now. this is a statement of their originality and this should be apreiciated if not liked by many of their fans.

they should be grateful bands as big as mars volta only release an album every two years......i would kill for a 77 minute track from this band anyday. i am expecting sometyhing very very epic.

imagine the live show. they will play some old tracks and then improv on this album for about 30 mins.

they are genius and although it wont attract the mainstream (thank god) it will do very well.

i just hope a lot of the fans feel the same way i do.

OH ONE HIT WONDER??????? a band of this calibur can NEVER write a bad album (or in this case song)

and MASS......they are pushing the limits of music and that warrant arrogance.......(evben though i dont think they are being arrogant)

i am now so hyped for this album


come on march 05
idrisguitar | 6 Dec '04, 10:59 | X | Reply

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Yes. oh no you're wrong. Keep listening to shit Kasabian and Crack-Rock band The Others.
fullerov @Spider | 6 Dec '04, 11:07 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

They are almost as bad as the Trail of Shit, i saw At the Drive-in, and wished i hadn't, however the support band FUTURE ADVENTURES were fucking amazing, better than ATDI by a long shot.

Everybody now knows Kasabian are cool, so fuck you.
Spider | 6 Dec '04, 12:55 | X | Reply

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You're right: Future Adventures were excellent for all of their seven or so gigs.
I feel glad that I saw them.
Mike_Diver @Spider | 6 Dec '04, 13:07 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

i saw the mars volta at reading in 2003. I really don't know what was going on. It looked bizarre, and odd. I'm not slagging them, just that it looked strange.
blingblingbling | 6 Dec '04, 13:14 | X | Reply

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Wow you so told me. Majority of people here dislike them i suspect.
fullerov @Spider | 6 Dec '04, 16:43 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

Ollie, tell me about the Hermione porn?


In reply to blingblingbling, of course they're strange that's the whole idea.
CaviarAndCigarets | 6 Dec '04, 19:31 | X | Reply

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it's illegally good
ollie @CaviarAndCigarets | 6 Dec '04, 21:31 | X | Reply

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Fantomas are pretty current too, no? Delerium Cordia was one 77 min track.
jsut_peopel @Ed_Case | 6 Dec '04, 22:37 | X | Reply

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Prince?

lovin the MV though.
thommo @Ed_Case | 6 Dec '04, 22:38 | X | Reply

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Yes, but I'm just saying, De-loused was the peak of their greatness and it seems unlikely that any album they'll spit out in the near future will be as good...

But we'll just have to see.
inabunker @Rocky_Raccoon | 6 Dec '04, 23:53 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

Surely chopping up the track misses the point. They're making it one track on purpose, presumably so you DON'T skip throught parts of it. Personally, I'd rather hear the album (if it can be called that) as the artists intended, and if that's as one long track, so be it. Don't be scared of it, it's an adventure! Like Mr Bungle's first two albums, you can listen to them from start to finish without a lull and your ear's will jizz.
Guthrie | 7 Dec '04, 13:08 | X | Reply

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I agree - same goes for 'Loveless'. I LOVE stupidly ambitous/pretentious prog - it's certainly much more fucking interesting than the Chas-'n'-Dave-with-a-fuzz-pedal bollocks that appears to be all the rage with 'the kids'. Er, sorry, maybe that should read 'the NME and Shorditch crowd'.
Judas_Kisses @Guthrie | 7 Dec '04, 17:34 | X | Reply

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hell ya they do, cicatriz esp, 12 minutes on the album, was 33 minutes live.
joopowr @Damian | 9 Dec '04, 04:21 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

If you dont like it, dont get it! Easy as that. The Mars Volta is amazing and I will be one of the first to get the new record. Stop bitching about it if your not into it.
thedeadsilence | 28 Dec '04, 03:04 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

If you dont like it, dont get it! Easy as that. The Mars Volta is amazing and I will be one of the first to get the new record. Stop bitching about it if your not into it.
thedeadsilence | 28 Dec '04, 03:06 | X | Reply

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i apologise in advance but i only skim read these articles thus missed the most crucial point..release date..
anger_is_a_gift @thedeadsilence | 1 Jan '05, 20:52 | X | Reply

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if you're looking at one track albums, think farther back. Thick as a Brick (thats jethro tull for those of you who dont know what you're about) came out in 72 and is 43 minutes long. It was followed the next year by A Passion Play that is of similar length. It's called a concept album, and good bands do it all the time.
Psilocybin @sadpunk | 15 Jan '05, 04:50 | X | Reply

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the reason volta is better than ATD-I and sparta is because omar didnt write the songs in ATD-I. The now-frontman of sparta did. The only difference between ATD-I and Sparta is the lack of crazy guitar work in the background and a less talented singer (even though they found someone who sounded like Cedric). Thats why the mars volta is amazing, and sparta sucks
Psilocybin @CaviarAndCigarets | 15 Jan '05, 04:54 | X | Reply

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the artwork on deloused was amazing, i think thats why you're the only one who thought he needed to complain about it
Psilocybin @tenwords | 15 Jan '05, 04:57 | X | Reply

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you cant rightfully compare new prog music to the new garage. Some of the new prog bands around (tool, MV) make amazing music whereas new garage is just a piece of record label vomit that has caught the public eye for a little while
Psilocybin @Zoo1 | 15 Jan '05, 05:02 | X | Reply

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the one thing that everyone has to admit to themselves here, is even if you dont like prog! which is fine! is that prog (like it or not) is a genre that demands the most talented and disciplined musicians. Actual prog music cant be performed let alone written by some stereotypical record company clone like all the pop music of today.
so even if you dont like it, atleast respect what these people are doing as actual art
Psilocybin @the_patient | 15 Jan '05, 05:08 | X | Reply

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it can still be great without it being as great and deloused. the great thing about music is that there's a lot of space between suck and not suck. MV is better than ATD-I but that doesnt mean that ATD-I doesnt have some good stuff too
Psilocybin @inabunker | 15 Jan '05, 05:12 | X | Reply

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thank god someone made that distiction. I dont need to say more than that because you hit the spot dead on. Boo on whiny emo shit, yay mars volta
Psilocybin @emporium33 | 15 Jan '05, 05:14 | X | Reply

Mars Volta to release one-track album

Love them but saw them in B'Ham, England a few months ago... was funny to see everyones faces towards the end of the gig... The same facial expression of all was "When is it guna end?" BORED FACES!

Half and hour intros, half an hour outros.. *yawn*

All in all, great unique band.. just wish i was sittin down at the gig..
stina | 9 Sep '05, 08:59 | X | Reply

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