genre charts for Jan 18 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 VILLAGE OUT WEST: THE LOST TAPES OF ALAN WEST VARIOUS ARTISTS Smithsonian Folkways
2 SIERRA FERRELL Long Time Coming Rounder/Concord
3 GRACE CUMMINGS Storm Queen ATO
4 JOHN FRANCIS FLYNN I Would Not Live Always Rough Trade
5 CHRIS COOLE, SAM ALLISON, ADRIAN GROSS, MARK KILIANSKI AND JOHN SHOWMAN VARIOUS ARTISTS Self-Released
6 PINK STONES, THE Introducing… Normaltown
7 MARK SCHATZ AND BRYAN MCDOWELL Grit & Polish Patuxent
8 AARON BURDETT Dream Rich Dirt Poor Self-Released
9 JAMES MCMURTRY The Horses And The Hounds New West
10 HAYES CARLL You Get It All Dualtone

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BIG KAHUNA OG AND UNLUCKY BASTARDS Flameboy Advance Mutant Academy
2 DUCTTAPE JESUS DuctTape Jesus Public Welfare
3 AESOP ROCK AND BLOCKHEAD Garbology Rhymesayers
4 HAVIAH MIGHTY Stock Exchange Self-Released
5 ATMOSPHERE WORD? Rhymesayers
6 MOOR MOTHER Black Encyclopedia Of The Air Anti-
7 EVIDENCE Unlearning Vol. 1 Rhymesayers
8 CARTEL MADRAS The Serpent And The Tiger [EP] Sub Pop
9 BLACKLIQ AND MOPES Time Is The Price Strange Famous
10 JAKE PALUMBO Plant-Based Libtard SpaceLAB

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DARKTHRONE Eternal Hails…… Peaceville
2 OBSCURA A Valediction Nuclear Blast
3 MAYHEM Atavistic Black Disorder Kommando [EP] Century
4 MODAL CITIZAN Idolatry [EP] Self-Released
5 SHADOW OF INTENT “Intensified Genocide” [Single] Self-Released
6 PEBBLES PALACE Shockoe Sessions Live! In Your Ear Studio
7 ARMAGEDDON DILDOS Destruction Alfa Matrix
8 FIRST AID 4 SOULS Beyond the Galaxy (Rework Version) Alfa Matrix
9 RECTOR SCANNER Das Mädchen Aus Dem All – EP II [EP] Alfa Matrix
10 MATRIXX: 20 YEARS OF ALFA MATRIX VARIOUS ARTISTS Alfa Matrix

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DJ HARRISON Tales From The Old Dominion Stones Throw
2 BSTFRND Healthy Space Satellite Syndicate
3 ODONIS ODONIS Spectrums Felte
4 BONOBO Fragments Ninja Tune
5 ALESSANDRO CORTINI SCURO CHIARO Mute
6 STEVE ROACH Zones, Drones & Atmospheres Self-Released
7 TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB “Satellite / What You Know (Karma Kid & Lau.ra Remixes)” [Single] Glassnote
8 ZOMBIE ZOMBIE “Nusquam et Ubique” [Single] Born Bad
9 EMMA-JEAN THACKRAY Yellow Movementt
10 DER PLAN Save Your Software Bureau B

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 NKUMBA SYSTEM Bailao Duro Prado
2 SONS OF KEMET Black To The Future Impulse!
3 ELIA Y ELIZABETH Elia Y Elizabeth Vampisoul
4 EL DRAGON CRIOLLO Pase Lo Que Pase El Palmas
5 DOWDELIN Lanmou Lanmou Underdog
6 OLIVER NAYOKA Aja Wele-Wele Odogwu/Palenque
7 EXTRA MUSICA NOUVEL HORIZON Vision Universal Africa
8 PAT MATSHIKIZA AND KIPPIE MOKETSI Tshona! We Are Busy Bodies
9 TCHISS LOPES Ja Bo Corre D’Mim Arabusta
10 ALOGTE OHO AND HIS SOUNDS OF JOY “Doose Mam” [Single] Philophon

    January 18th, 2022

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genre charts for Feb 2 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 WILLIE NELSON That’s Life [Advance Tracks] Sony/Legacy
2 RAYE ZARAGOZA Woman In Color Self-Released
3 GRANT LEE PHILLIPS Lightning, Show Us Your Stuff Self-Released
4 HORSENECKS, THE Started Out In Town Old Time Tiki Parlour
5 SAM MOSS Shapes Lost Honey
6 STICK IN THE WHEEL Hold Fast From Here
7 HOLY RIVER Courage Earth Folk Collective
8 BEN TOWNSEND The King Of Ramps – The Music Of Melvin Wine Questionable
9 JAKE LOEW Return Of The Son Of Old-Time Fiddle Old Time Tiki Parlour
10 BRAD LEFTWICH AND LINDA HIGGINBOTHAM At Home In The Parlour Old Time Tiki Parlour

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BIG KAHUNA OG AND MONDAY NIGHT Shark Report Scheme Team
2 PROP Vintage Luggage HLGNLIFE
3 PINK SIIFU AND FLY ANAKIN FlySiifu’s Lex
4 BLU AND EXILE Miles Dirty Science
5 TOBE NWIGWE Cincoriginals Self-Released
6 OPEN MIKE EAGLE Anime, Trauma And Divorce Auto Reverse
7 SAHTYRE The Roaring Below System
8 HENNY LO Sages Mutant Academy
9 IAMDOECHII Oh The Places You’ll Go [EP] Five 5
10 THERAVADA Xenophon 2000 ENT.

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ASPHYX Necroceros Century Media
2 ABIOTIC Ikagai Syndrome Audio
3 ANGELUS APATRIDA ANGELUS APATRIDA Century Media
4 SPITS, THE VI Thriftstore
5 NUCLEAR POWER TRIO A Clear And Present Rager [EP] Metal Blade
6 EINHERJER North Star Napalm
7 MAESTITIUM Tale of the Endless [EP] Black Lion
8 PILLORY Scourge upon Humanity Unique Leader
9 HENRIK PALM Poverty Metal Svart
10 FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE No [EP] Nuclear Blast

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 KELLY LEE OWENS Inner Song Smalltown Supersound
2 OLD MAN OF THE WOODS Dissolve [EP] Self-Released
3 BEAUTIFY JUNKYARDS Cosmorama Ghost Box
4 JONSI Shiver Krunk/ADA
5 PUBLIC MEMORY Ripped Apparition Felte
6 ELA MINUS Acts Of Rebellion Domino
7 SPECIAL INTEREST The Passion Of Night School
8 MINOTAUR SHOCK Qi Bytes
9 SINK YA TEETH Remix [EP] Hey Buffalo
10 BUKE AND GASE WITH SO PERCUSSION A Record Of… Brassland

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DUB PISTOLS V DUBMATIX “Blue Monday” [Single] Cyclone
2 EL DUSTY “Sax Riddim (feat Chucho Ponce & Los Daddys and Mariano Herrera)” [Single] Americano
3 LA CUMBIA MODERNA DE SOLEDAD/MACHUCA CUMBIA “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy/Stayin’ Alive” [Single] Vampisoul
4 ABELARDO CARBOBO Y SU CONJUNTO Guana Tangula Vampisoul
5 ALFREDO LINARES Lo Que Tengo Vampisoul
6 TOMMY GUERRERO Sunshine Radio Too Good
7 KHRUANGBIN Late Night Tales Night Time Stories
8 SONGHOY BLUES Optimisme Fat Possum
9 KELEKETLA Keleketla! Ahead Of Our Time
10 NKUMBA SYSTEM Bailao Duro Prado

    February 2nd, 2021

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Genre charts for week ending Jan 11 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 JOHN PRINE The Tree of Forgiveness Oh Boy
2 KACEY MUSGRAVES Golden Hour Universal
3 DAVE ALVIN AND JIMMIE DALE GILMORE Downey To Lubbock Yep Roc
4 ADDY Rose Eyes [EP] Self-Released
5 JONATHAN VASSAR Little Ease [EP] Self-Released
6 JONATHAN BYRD AND THE PICKUP COWBOYS Pickup Cowboys Waterbug
7 MOUNTAIN MAN Magic Ship Nonesuch
8 LUCY WAINWRIGHT ROCHE Little Beast Self-Released
9 MICHIGAN RATTLERS Evergreen Self-Released
10 MIKE FARRIS Silver & Stone Compass

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BIG KAHUNA OG Kahuna Cartagena Scheme Team
2 YUNG SUMS Black Friday Self-Released
3 FLY ANAKIN AND OHBLIV Backyard Boogie Mutant Academy
4 LINA SYMONE “Need That” [Single] Self-Released
5 BAD SEED X NOTTZ, THE No Way In Hell Crisis Center Collective
6 CUT CHEMIST Die Cut A Stable Sound
7 HECTOR GUERRA Desde el Infierno TheMusicJoint
8 JID Dicaprio 2 Dreamville/Interscope
9 NICKELUS F Stuck AGM
10 BENNY THE BUTCHER Tana Talk 3 Griselda

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 UNMAKER Firmament Self-Released
2 BODEGA Endless Scroll What’s Your Rupture?
3 WINDHAND Eternal Return Relapse
4 CIA, THE The C.I.A. In the Red
5 YATRA Death Ritual Grimoire
6 CURSIVE Vitriola 15 Passenger
7 MEWITHOUTYOU [untitled] Run For Cover
8 DEAFHEAVEN Ordinary Corrupt Human Love Anti-/Epitaph
9 YOB Our Raw Heart Relapse
10 NITA STRAUSS Controlled Chaos Sumerian

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BEAK >>> Temporary Residence/Invada
2 MARIE DAVIDSON So Right [EP] Ninja Tune
3 GUI BORATTO Pentagram Kompakt
4 MARK PRICHARD The Four Worlds Warp
5 AISHA DEVI DNA Feelings Houndstooth
6 AMNESIA SCANNER Another Life PAN
7 GRUPO CONTROLE DIGITAL A Festa É Nossa Soundway/Phoenix Spink
8 GUDRUN GUT Moment Monika Enterprise
9 I YA TOYAH Code Blue Self-Released
10 RAIN WITHIN, THE Atomic Eyes Negative Gain

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DAKTARIS, THE Soul Explosion [Remastered] Desco/Daptone
2 STEP FORWARD YOUTH VARIOUS ARTISTS Greensleeves
3 TARTIT Amankor / The Exile Riverboat
4 SALIF KEITA Un Autre Blanc Naive
5 JUANECO Y SU COMBO El Gran Cacique Infopesa
6 ALBOROSIE MEETS ROOTS RADICS Dub For The Radicals Greensleeves
7 IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE “Tell Me (Doko Mien)” [Single] Merge
8 STEEL PULSE “Stop You Coming And Come” [Single] Rootfire Cooperative
9 STRICTLY THE BEST VOL. 58 VARIOUS ARTISTS VP
10 MAURICE LOUCA Elephantine Northern Spy

    January 12th, 2019

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Genre charts for week ending Nov 9 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ANNA ST LOUIS If Only There Was A River Woodsist
2 MIPSO Edges Run Antifragile
3 DOM FLEMONS Black Cowboys Smithsonian Folkways
4 COREY HARRIS Free Water Way Self-Released
5 LUCY WAINWRIGHT ROCHE Little Beast Self-Released
6 SALIM NOURALLAH Somewhere South of Sane Palo Santo
7 ZOE SPEAKS Wings Redbird
8 SAW BLACK Water Tower Crystal Pistol
9 ADDY Rose Eyes [EP] Self-Released
10 NATHAN BOWLES Plainly Mistaken Paradise Of Bachelors

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BIG KAHUNA OG Weapon OX Mutant Academy
2 SCHEME TEAM Big Bluntz DVD Mutant Academy
3 BLOOD ORANGE Negro Swan Domino
4 DENZEL CURRY TA1300 Loma Vista/Concord
5 MASTA ACE AND MARCO POLO A Breukelen Story Fat Beats
6 DOGFUCK Violent Headjerk Self-Released
7 OHBLIV AND BEN FM Give it Uuup Problematica
8 CURREN$Y, FREDDIE GIBBS, AND THE ALCHEMIST Fetti ESGN / Jet Life / ALC / EMPIRE
9 LINA SYMONE “Need That” [Single] Self-Released
10 CALVIN PRESENTS “Dream” [Single] Self-Released

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 WINDHAND Eternal Return Relapse
2 BLACK ACID RITUAL Resin Self-Released
3 VNV NATION Noire Metropolis
4 BLACKWATER HOLYLIGHT Blackwater Holylight Ridingeasy
5 BODEGA Endless Scroll What’s Your Rupture?
6 DESERT MOUNTAIN TRIBE Om Parvat Mystery Metropolis
7 OCTOPUS Supernatural Alliance Rise Above
8 GRITTER Nobody Cares Self-Released
9 PIG DESTROYER Head Cage Relapse
10 SUPER UNISON Stella Deathwish Inc

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 DEAD CAN DANCE Dionysus PIAS
2 MARIBOU STATE Kingdoms Of Colour Counter
3 A CERTAIN RATIO acr:set Mute
4 GOST Possessor Blood
5 IAN WILLIAM CRAIG Thresholder 130701
6 JOHN MAUS Addendum Ribbon
7 ORB, THE No Sounds Out Of Bounds Cooking Vinyl
8 RIVAL CONSOLES Persona Erased Tapes
9 RENE HELL AND REWARRP Depression Original Traxx
10 U96 REBOOT UNLTD

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BABA COMMANDANT AND THE MANDINGO BAND Siri Ba Kele Sublime Frequencies
2 SUPERFONICOS Suelta [EP] Discos Fonicos
3 DEAD CAN DANCE Dionysus PIAS
4 DUR DUR BAND Dur Dur Band of Somalia, Volume 1, Volume 2 Analog Africa
5 PEREGOYO Y SU COMBO VACANA Mi Buenaventura Vampisoul
6 ALBA GRIOT ENSEMBLE The Darkness Between The Leaves Riverboat
7 BICICLETAS POR LA PAZ Surfeando Un Cometa Self-Released
8 JR THOMAS AND THE VOLCANOS Rockstone Colemine
9 HOLLIE COOK “Sweet Like Chocolate” [Single] Merge
10 CAZ GARDINER AND THE BADASONICS Caz Gardiner & The Badasonics Badasonic

    November 10th, 2018

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Genre charts for two weeks ending Oct 26 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 MOUNTAIN MAN Magic Ship Nonesuch
2 ADRIANNE LENKER abysskiss Saddle Creek
3 AMY RAY Holler Compass
4 ANNA ST LOUIS If Only There Was A River Woodsist
5 CONNER YOUNGBLOOD Cheyenne Counter
6 MICHIGAN RATTLERS Evergreen Self-Released
7 SALIM NOURALLAH Somewhere South of Sane Palo Santo
8 TILLERS, THE The Tillers Self-Released
9 EPILOGUE: A TRIBUTE TO JOHN DUFFEY VARIOUS ARTISTS Smithsonian Folkways
10 VOICES OF MISSISSIPPI ARTISTS AND MUSICIANS DOCUMENTED BY WILLIAM FERRIS VARIOUS ARTISTS Dust to Digital

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BIG KAHUNA OG Weapon OX Mutant Academy
2 NAMEBRAND Chatham Grove Purple Republic / AGM
3 BIG KAHUNA OG AND FLY ANAKIN Big Fly 2 [EP] Mutant Academy
4 SCHEME TEAM Big Bluntz DVD Mutant Academy
5 GORILLAZ The Now Now Parlophone/Warner Bros.
6 PUSHA T Daytona Def Jam
7 BIGAL HARRISON Bintage Self-Released
8 RADIO B Jesus Never Wore A Suit The Association Of Great Minds
9 LINA SYMONE “Need That” [Single] Self-Released
10 SKUZZII Veronica’s Apartment Self-Released

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 UNMAKER Firmament Self-Released
2 WINDHAND Eternal Return Relapse
3 DRUGLORD New Day Dying Sludgelord
4 LISTLESS Listless [EP] Self-Released
5 NINE INCH NAILS Bad Witch The Null Corporation/Capitol
6 THIN LIPS Chosen Family Lame-O
7 GOTHIC LIZARD Creeping Out of the Dark Cold Vision
8 AWAKEN CTHULHU “Rise” [Single] Self-Released
9 UNCLE ACID AND THE DEADBEATS Wasteland Rise Above
10 WOLFHEART Constellation Of The Black Light Napalm

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 CHANCHA VIA CIRCUITO Bienaventuranza Wonderwheel
2 LEONIE PERNET Crave InFine
3 MATTHEW DEAR Bunny Ghostly
4 OURI We Share Our Blood Ghostly/Make It Rain
5 ARP Zebra Mexican Summer
6 ESSAIE PAS New Path DFA
7 JON HASSEL Listening To Pictures NDEYA
8 RAMZI Phobiza “Amor Fati”: Vol. 3 FATi
9 THOMAS FEHLMANN Los Lagos Kompakt
10 THOM YORKE Suspiria XL

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 ANDRE SAMPAIO Alagbe Sony Brasil
2 ANGELIQUE KIDJO Remain In Light Kraven Works
3 BABA COMMANDANT AND THE MANDINGO BAND Siri Ba Kele Self-Released
4 DANIEL KAHN AND THE PAINTED BIRD The Butcher’s Share Oriente Musik
5 KALETA AND SUPER YAMBA BAND “Mr. Diva / Hungry Man, Angry Man” [Single] Yamba
6 NEWPOLI Mediterraneo Self-Released
7 AFRO CUBAN ALL STARS A Toda Cuba Le Gusta World Circuit
8 ALBA GRIOT ENSEMBLE The Darkness Between The Leaves Riverboat
9 BLACK MASALA Trains And Moonlight Destinies Self-Released
10 JOHNNY CLARKE Creation Rebel VP

    October 27th, 2018

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Genre charts for week ending Sep 14 presents:

AAA

Rank Artist Album Label
1 WAR AND TREATY, THE Healing Tide Thirty Tigers
2 GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS The Waves, The Wake Nettwerk
3 TUNNG Songs You Make At Night Full Time Hobby
4 BEN HOWARD Noonday Dream Republic
5 TANNAHILL WEAVERS, THE Orach Compass
6 TRACY GRAMMER Low Tide Self-Released
7 I’M WITH HER See You Around Rounder/Concord
8 KATHY MATTEA Pretty Bird Captain Potato
9 SHEMEKIA COPELAND America’s Child Alligator
10 JULIANA DAUGHERTY Light Western Vinyl

Hip-Hop

Rank Artist Album Label
1 BIG KAHUNA OG AND FLY ANAKIN Big Fly 2 [EP] Mutant Academy
2 BLOOD ORANGE Negro Swan Domino
3 GINKGOA One Time Self-Released
4 MAYA JUPITER Never Said Yes Artivist
5 MICHAEL MILLIONS Hard To Be King Self-Released
6 PHONY PPL mō’zā-Ik. 300 Entertainment
7 MAC MILLER Swimming Warner Bros
8 OHBLIV AND BEN FM Give it Uuup Problematica
9 FLATBUSH ZOMBIES Vacation in Hell Glorious Dead
10 DEATH GRIPS Year of the Snitch Harvest/Third Worlds

Loud

Rank Artist Album Label
1 WINDHAND Eternal Return Relapse
2 NINE INCH NAILS Bad Witch The Null Corporation/Capitol
3 ABORTED Terrorvision Century Media
4 JUDAS PRIEST Firepower Epic
5 PIG Risen Metropolis
6 TRASH DEITY Cross and Divide Metropolis
7 A PRIMITIVE EVOLUTION Becoming Metropolis
8 AT THE HEART OF THE WORLD Rotting Forms Glory Kid Limited
9 KNUTZ, THE The Tower afmusic
10 BARBARELLATONES, THE “Surfing In Drag” [Single] Self-Released

RPM

Rank Artist Album Label
1 TEACH ME EQUALS Fix History Wild Klamath
2 CARPENTER BRUT Leather Teeth Caroline
3 ITAL TEK Bodied Planet Mu
4 PAUL WHITE Rejuvenate R&S
5 JANELLE MONAE “I Like That (Naxxos Remix)” [Single] Bad Boy
6 WINGTIPS “Relativity” [Single] Self-Released
7 GOO MUNDAY Goo Munday [EP] Negative Gain Productions
8 SIWO Stretch Symphonic Distribution
9 LORN REMNANT Wednesday Sound
10 KIDDY SMILE One Trick Pony Neverbeener

World

Rank Artist Album Label
1 JUPITER AND OKWESS Kin Sonic Everloving
2 NICKODEMUS A Long Engagement Wonderwheel
3 TANNAHILL WEAVERS, THE Orach Compass
4 DIZZY MANDJEKU AND ALE KUMA De Palenque A Matonge Zephyrus
5 DOCTOR NATIVO Guatemaya Stonetree
6 DIALI CISSOKHO AND KAIRA BA Routes Twelve | Eight
7 BOMBINO Deran Partisan
8 LOS TEXMANIACS Cruzando Borders Smithsonian Folkways
9 MINYESHU Daa Dee Arc
10 DE’ANZA Cosmic Dream Fusion Beats

    September 15th, 2018

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Top 30 new albums for week ending Jun 29 presents:

The weekly chart reflects the diversity of programming on WRIR. In an average week, WRIR DJs play approximately 1,200 albums (and EPs and singles).

To make it on the list, an album must be released in the past year. Local bands and albums played by more than one DJ are given priority in the rankings.

Below the chart is a list of new albums added to the music library once that information has been compiled.  Check back later if it’s not there yet

Rank Artist Album Label
1 Angélique Kidjo Remain in Light Kravenworks
2 Snail Mail Lush Matador
3 Natalie Prass The Future and the Past ATO
4 Big Kahuna OG Sky Chryme Mutant Academy
5 Lucy Dacus Historian Matador
6 Dumb Waiter Heck JUJU
7 Parquet Courts Wide Awake! Rough Trade
8 Ana Egge White Tiger StorySound
9 Bad Magic What’s Wrong with My Eyes? self-released
10 Arat Kilo, Mamani Keita & Mike Ladd Visions of Selam Accords Croisés
11 Courtney Barnett Tell Me How You Really Feel Indie Rock
12 Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Sparkle Hard Matador
13 Serpentwithfeet soil Secretly Canadian
14 Sudan Archives Sink – EP Stones Throw
15 Unknown Mortal Orchestra Sex & Food Jagjaguwar
16 Lithics Mating Surfaces Kill Rock Stars
17 MGMT Little Dark Age Columbia
18 Neko Case Hell-On Anti/Epitaph
19 Peach Kelli Pop Gentle Leader Mint
20 La Luz Floating Features Hardly Art
21 Kadhja Bonet Childqueen Fat Possum
22 Young Scum Young Scum Citrus City
23 Kenneka Cook Moonchild American Paradox
24 Nickelus F Stuck AGM
25 Red Baraat Sound The People Rhyme & Reason
26 The Rock*A*Teens Sixth House Merge
27 Dawes Passwords HUB
28 Let’s Eat Grandma I’m All Ears Transgressive / PIAS
29 Kamasi Washington Heaven and Earth Young Turks
30 MOURN Sorpresa Familia Captured Tracks

(more…)

    June 30th, 2018

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