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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · 5d

My radio show from September 26th on @freeformportland.org is up for listening!

Haze, gaze, plonks, whirrs, Laurie Spiegel, thumb piano, The OO-Ray→Aphex Twin→Oklou, high-energy cut-up vocals.

www.mixcloud.com/welwing/some...

#freeformportland

screenshot of a playlist:
Some Wonderful Noise: Episode 17 (September 26, 2025)
1. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma — Gift Song II
2. Ex-Easter Island Head — Two Coins
3. High Places — Namer
4. Low — Belarus
5. vhvl — hem
6. Toro Y Moi — Lissoms
7. Amon Tobin feat. MC Decimal R. — Verbal
8. Botany — Agave
9. Laurie Spiegel — Appalachian Grove III
10. lee (asano+ryuhei) — ---y-k---
11. Kelly Lee Owens — Bird
12. Stella Chiweshe — Kasahwa
13. Prefuse 73 — Eleven Notes Thru 14808.err
14. Resina — Resin
15. The OO-Ray — Piru
16. Aphex Twin — Goon Gumpas
17. Oklou — thank you for recording
18. Julie Byrne & Jefre-Cantu Ledesma — Love's Refrain
19. Cocteau Twins — Pepper-Tree
20. James K — Doom Bikini
21. Dorisburg & Sebastian Mullaert — Archway
22. Circle Traps — Mirrors and Monuments
23. Surgeons Girl — Intimate Advance
24. Kareem Ali — They Can't Stop Us
25. Jeremy Greenspan & Borys feat. Christina Sealey — Stylite
26. Milinal — Brinta
27. Seefeel — Ever Me (Demo)
28. Leila feat. Luca Santucci — Don't Fall Asleep
29. Young Marble Giants — N.I.T.A.
30. Plaid — Uneasy Listening
31. The Chemical Brothers — Get Up on It Like This
32. Househead Samira — Throw It Up
33. Laurie Spiegel — Appalachian Grove I

Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · 10d

🎉 On Monday I started my new job as the Full-stack Engineer at @calmatters.org and @themarkup.org. The people on my team are kind and talented, the work is important, and I’m very excited for this new phase of my career.

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · 19d

My show on @freeformportland.org from September 12th is also now up for listening on Mixcloud!

Glitches, bells, glitchy bells, Karin Dreijer two ways, Portland’s Dao Strom and Methods Body, rhythmic madness from NÍDIA and Chancha Via Circuito.

www.mixcloud.com/welwing/some...

#freeformportland

screenshot of playlist:

Some Wonderful Noise: Episode 16 (September 12, 2025)
Crystal Sting — Splash Party
Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta — Una cumbia en Kinshasa
Toumba — Identity Crisis
Mouse on Mars — Wipe That Sound
Mrs Jynx — Bedtime Stories
Tomu DJ — Moon Park
Salamanda — Rumble Bumble
Four Tet — 0181 [Bells Excerpt]
Disiniblud feat. Amigone — Blue Rags, Raging Wind
Apparat — Birds
Kara-Lis Coverdale — TOUCH ME & DIE
The Knife — Like a Pen
Shanti Celeste — Lights
Carli — The Runner feat. Seinabo Sey
Fever Ray — I'm Not Done (Therapy Session)
Young Galaxy — Pretty Boy (Peaking Lights Remix)
Nonkeen — Ceramic People
Dao Strom — tender variation iv: [love|object|treason]
Boundary — Juegos de Fe
µ-Ziq — Mushroom Compost
Methods Body — Quiet Pt. 2: Tell Us to Be
NÍDIA — Nunun
Chancha Via Circuito — Prima
Pépe — Katta
Karen Gwyer — Did You Hear the Owls Last Night?
Sophia Loizou — Revenant
RareBit — Mt Weather
Rival Consoles — Unfolding

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · 19d

My show on @freeformportland.org from August 29th is also now up for listening on Mixcloud!

Cut-up piano, plenty drums, Röyksopp & Robyn & Olof Dreijer all at once, hazy drum-n-bass, Disiniblud’s wondrous textures, new Sofia Kourtesis, old Tam Tam.

www.mixcloud.com/welwing/some...

screenshot of playlist:

1. KMRU — space of uncertainty
2. Quixosis & Quantum Juan — Panterabyte
3. rrao — Tell Me
4. Cousin — PicL
5. Avalon Emerson & Priori — You're My World
6. Röyksopp & Robyn — Monument (Olof Dreijer Remix)
7. Luke Abbott — Modern Driveway
8. Surgeons Girl — Rescind
9. Alex Burkat — Tarot (Global Warming Mix)
10. ex_libris — #32 (Walrus)
11. Logic1000 feat. DJ Plead & MJ Nebrada — Every Lil'
12. Facta — Skyline 4
13. 1tbsp feat. Mietze Conte — No Nein
14. Ike — Stone Diviner
15. Cotton Mouth — Suchness
16. Nina Keith — Hereditary Trauma Dream Sprinting (Oxford Circle)
17. Okmiracle — Mutagen
18. Valentina Magaletti & YPY — Her Own Reflection
19. Skee Mask — 7am at the Rodeo
20. Disiniblud — whole30 Fight Club
21. Codek — Tam Tam
22. rRoxymore — Drunken Clouds
23. Mira Calix — Do I Ever?
24. Ellen Allien & Apparat — Do Not Break
25. Beats Unlimited — Optics (Digiflower Version)
26. Sakura Tsuruta — Double Standard
27. Sofia Kourtesis — Nitzan and Aminaa
28. Mor Elian — Beta Zest

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · 19d

My show from August 15th is now up for listening on Mixcloud!

New music from Portlanders @patriciawolf.bsky.social and The OO-Ray, dreamy polyrhythms, a suite from Yu Su, some shoegaze, and my dog’s birthday song request.

www.mixcloud.com/welwing/some...

#freeformportland

screenshot of playlist:
1. Patricia Wolf — Krummi's Theme
2. KK Junker — Jujinkai
3. Boundary — Llegada al cometa
4. Kilchhofer — Hedha
5. Ouri — Ego Extent
6. Doc Sleep — Cloud Sight Fade
7. Dukwa feat. Mar-G — Thoughts
8. Polygonia — Bloom
9. Masquer — Happiness (The Field Remix)
10. MJ Guider — Viñales
11. No Joy — I hate that I forget what you look like
12. Yu Su — Avanvera
13. C.A.R. — 19s
14. Tamaryn — Sandstone
15. Lightning Bug — The Right Thing Is Hard to Do
16. Gregory Uhlmann, Josh Johnson, Sam Wilkes — Arpy
17. Lori Scacco — Strange Cities
18. Caribou — Every Time She Turns Round It's Her Birthday
19. Holden & Zimpel — Time Ring Rattles
20. Actress x London Contemporary Orchestra — Hubble
21. ọmọ igi — what now
22. Arch Cape — Arrival
23. Dan Deacon — Woof Woof
24. NZO — Something's Changed
25. Mrs Jynx — Diving Loop
26. Kirk Barley feat. Matt Davies — Verre
27. The OO-Ray — Tunguska

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · Aug 20

Sounds like you need an ennui-fueled night-long walk in the woods until you find a ring of trees with doors in ’em!

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · Aug 20

Jack Skellington somehow knows about Shakespeare, Kentucky, Eng-a-land, and France, but not Christmas.

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · Aug 15

I will be on @freeformportland.org playing absolutely unbelievably great music very soon: 4–6pm PT (7–9pm ET) this evening!

Tune in to 90.3 or 98.3 FM if you live in Portland, Oregon, or listen online at freeformportland.org.

#freeformportland

a photo of a sunset with pink and lavender and soft streaks of clouds over a pale blue sky; text overlaid: Some Wonderful Noise with Welwing • Friday, August 15th, 4–6pm PT • Freeform Portland 90.3 FM • 98.3 FM • freeformportland.org

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · Aug 4

My show from Friday on @freeformportland.org is up for listening.

New DJ Will Wier shadowed me and did a guest mix!

My favorite Perfume Genius remix, new stuff from @jasshaw.bsky.social, drums, strings, Portland’s own Arch Cape, Squarepusher, Nina Simone.

www.mixcloud.com/welwing/some...

screenshot of playlist:
Some Wonderful Noise: Episode 13 (August 1, 2025)
1. Jas Shaw — A Vague Anchor
2. Squarepusher — Iambic 5 Poetry
3. Arch Cape — Red & Gold
4. Adrianne Lenker — symbol
5. Shlohmo — Seriously (Live)
6. Koreless — Moonlight
7. rRoxymore — Moodified
8. Broadcast — DDL
9. Yu Su — Xiu
10. Salamanda — Homemade Jam
11. Oliver Coates feat. Malibu — Norrin Radd Dreaming
12. Boom Bip — First Walk (Peel Session)
13. Djrum — A Tune for Us
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*DJ Will Wier’s Guest Set*
14. Brian Eno & David Byrne — The Jezebel Spirit
15. Portishead — Sour Times (Live)
16. Aphex Twin — Acrid Avid Jam Shred
17. Nick Drake — Horn
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18. Paul de Jong — Age of the Sea
19. The Comet Is Coming — New Age
20. Cid Rim — Surge
21. Baltra — Work (It) Out (Extended Mix)
22. Bent — Invisible Pedestrian
23. Perfume Genius — Braid (mmph Remix)
24. Nina Simone — Who Knows Where the Time Goes

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SoundCloud Comments @soundcloudsaid.bsky.social · Jun 7

I Love this one Matt. You're looking good

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · Jul 12

My show from yesterday on @freeformportland.org is up for listening!

Songs I used to love and still do from Blue Man Group and Barenaked Ladies and Fountains of Wayne, space rock from 'Blues Clues' Steve, YYYs, YLT, IDM, R.E.M., BSS, and +/-.

www.mixcloud.com/welwing/sub-...

screenshot of playlist:

Welwing Sub for Triangle Time (July 11, 2025)
Björk — Alarm Call
Blue Man Group — Drumbone
DJ Shadow — Mutual Slump
John Vanderslice — Time Travel Is Lonely
Modest Mouse — Gravity Rides Everything
Broken Social Scene — Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Remix)
Cat Power — Free
Yeah Yeah Yeahs — Y Control
Yo La Tengo — From a Motel 6
Stereolab — French Disko
Belle and Sebastian — Le Pastie de La Bourgeoisie
The Shins — Know Your Onion!
The New Pornographers — When I Was a Baby
Stars — Look Up
Aimee Mann — Lost in Space
Broadcast — Colour Me In
Boards of Canada — Roygbiv
Aphex Twin — Flim
Cibo Matto — Clouds
+/- {Plus/Minus} — Crestfallen
The Notwist — This Room
The Cansecos — This Girl and This Boy
Weird Al Yankovic — Frank's 2000" TV
They Might Be Giants — Ana Ng
Barenaked Ladies — Light Up My Room
Steve Burns — Maintain
Fountains of Wayne — Hackensack
Built to Spill — Else
The Autumn Defense — The World (Will Soon Turn Our Way)
R.E.M. — Find the River
Cocteau Twins — Lorelei
My Bloody Valentine — Blown a Wish
Dntel — (This Is) the Dream of Evan and Chan

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · Jul 11

Errrr, I meant no music from AFTER 2003! 😅

Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · Jul 11

This afternevening I will be subbing my friend’s show on @freeformportland.org. I’ll be playing 100% late-teens nostalgic favorites—no music from before 2003!

Tune in at freeformportland.org from 4–6pm PT.

a close-up photo of grass that has been hue-shifted to purple; text overlaid: Welwing subs for Triangle Time • Friday, July 11th, 4–6pm PT • Freeform Portland 90.3 FM • 98.3 FM • freeformportland.org

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · Jul 5

My radio show from yesterday is up for listening!

Changing colors and states, a world of love and care, downcast rock, uplifting house, IDM, Scot-Thai rock, reverb, drums, guitar.

www.mixcloud.com/welwing/some...

screenshot of playlist:

Some Wonderful Noise: Episode 12 (July 4, 2025)

1. Christina Vantzou — Changing Colors
2. Matmos — Changing States
3. Helen Ganya — Morlam Plearn (Luk Khrueng Surprise)
4. Alkibar Junior — Adouna
5. Maral feat. Panda Bear — On Your Way
6. Okzharp & Manthe Ribane — Dear Ribane
7. Xylitol — Leave the Country (Sculpture Remix)
8. John Roberts — Indigo
9. Octo Octa — Fleeting Moments of Freedom (Wooo)
10. Jesse Futerman — Waterzone
11. K A J A — Chimy
12. Yves Tumor feat. James K — Licking an Orchid
13. Bapari — A Different Feeling
14. Transmission Towers — Everything
15. Nathan Kofi — Ego
16. Four Tet — Into Dust (Still Falling)
17. Facta — MPH
18. Logic1000 — From Within
19. Roza Terenzi feat. Ivy Barkakati — Modern Bliss
20. Beta Librae — Weavers
21. Mrs Jynx — Coral Face
22. Jas Shaw — A Man with Two Watches
23. High Places — From Stardust to Sentience
24. The Books — Past Comes Welling Up
25. Ezra Furman — A World of Love and Care
26. Noveller — Canyons
27. Ian William Craig — Purpose (Is No Country)
28. Cody Yantis — Simple Matters V
29. Date Palms — Yuba Reprise

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · Jul 4

My radio show on @freeformportland.org is very soon! I’ll be playing only good songs from 4–6pm PT (7–9pm ET).

Tune in to 90.3 or 98.3 FM if you live in Portland, Oregon, or listen online at freeformportland.org.

#freeformportland

a photo of a sunset sky fading from light blue to orange with slate blue clouds; text overlaid: Some Wonderful Noise with Welwing • Friday, July 4th, 4–6pm PT • Freeform Portland 90.3 FM • 98.3 FM • freeformportland.org

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Freeform Portland @freeformportland.org · Jul 2

Listen to SOME WONDERFUL NOISE on Friday, July 4th from 4–6pm PT on @freeformportland.org. Welwing plays a genre- and world-spanning mix of atmospheric, energetic, and percussive music with context and connections galore. freeformportland.org

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · Jun 23

A bonus Some Wonderful Noise! This ‘evergreen’ show was made for the station’s automation to play at random when nobody’s broadcasting.

It’s all electronic, meticulously beat-matched because I had time to really tweak it. I’m proud of this one!

www.mixcloud.com/welwing/some...

#freeformportland

screenshot of playlist:

Some Wonderful Noise: Evergreen 1: Fin Fringes Filaments (June 2025)

1. Wata Igarashi — The Lamp
2. Andrea — Drumzzy
3. gyrofield — Occam's Razor
4. Varnrable — Cold Bright Hard Light
5. Yushh — Siro Silo
6. upsammy — Relict
7. Christina Vantzou — Percussion in Nonspace
8. Nadia Struiwigh — Lenticular
9. Machine Woman — Displacement of Mr.Sherman
10. Takecha — Hold Me Tender
11. BNJMN & Best Available Technology — Ghosting
12. Airaboi — These Times
13. Tam Nisam — Aethernaut
14. MinaeMinae — Flossensäume
15. Ploy — Intrigued by the Drum
16. Powder — Busy Port
17. Nabihah Iqbal — Untitled Friday
18. Steffi — Arms
19. Mikron — Ghost Node
20. IDRA — Air and Salt
21. Robag Wruhme — Beta Gora
22. Konduku — Kızılırmak
23. Pearson Sound — Robin Chasing Butterflies
24. Ciel — The Twirler (Central Remix)
25. Peach — Silky
26. Ellen Allien — Erdbeermund
27. Surgeons Girl — Rescind
28. Polygonia — Disha Shu
29. Tom VR — Chaotic Folds
30. Archivist — Star in a Circle
31. Klara Lewis — Msuic III

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · Jun 23

My radio show from Friday on @freeformportland.org is up for listening!

A band named after Adobe Photoshop, the lead singer of Zap Mama, four remixes, dubby alligator beats, freaky lounge, magnified feelings, rain facts.

www.mixcloud.com/welwing/some...

#freeformportland

screenshot of playlist:

Some Wonderful Noise: Episode 11 (June 20, 2025)

1. Aphex Twin — Untitled [SAW2 CD1 Track1] (Four Tet Remix)
2. Rival Consoles — Recovery
3. Shy Layers — Holding it Back
4. Salamanda — Truffles Sprinkles
5. Call Super — Ekko Ink
6. Weval — You Made It (Part II)
7. Shigeto — Soaring
8. Rupert Clervaux & Beatrice Dillon — II
9. Chateau Flight feat. Marie Daulne — Superflight (Maurice Fulton Remix)
10. Stereolab — Prisoner of Mars
11. Mouse on Mars — Diskdusk
12. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Blue Morpho (Ciel's Fluttering Dub)
13. Azu Tiwaline feat. Cinna Peyghamy — Tight Wind
14. Avey Tare — Oliver Twist
15. Carmen Villain — Observable Future (Parris Remix)
16. Robag Wruhme — Oulpa Tvi
17. Xylitol — Miha
18. Sully — Hours, Miles & Still...
19. Djrum — Waxcap
20. Linda Perhacs — Chimacum Rain
21. Skullcrusher — Whatever Fits Together
22. Lightning Bug — October Song, pt. ii
23. Broadcast — Tender Buttons
24. Lota Leona — Miraculous Disentanglement
25. Maria Somerville — Violet
26. Katerina & Yaniel — Magnified Feelings

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · Jun 20

I am back on the low-power frequency modulation airwaves of @freeformportland.org tonight! Two hours of REALLY great music from 4–6pm PT (7–9pm ET).

Tune in to 90.3 or 98.3 FM if you live in Portland, Oregon, or listen online at freeformportland.org.

It’s gonna’ be so jamming, I PROMISE.

a close-up photo of a reflective obsidian stone with different colors, shadows, and textures; text overlaid: Some Wonderful Noise with Welwing • Friday, June 20, 4–6pm PT • Freeform Portland 90.3 FM • 98.3 FM • freeformportland.org

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · May 29

The show I subbed last night @freeformportland.org is up for listening on MixCloud!

My favorite dance tunes, DJ Koze twice, Octo Octa ❤️ Eris Drew, jungle segment, Yaeji on the phone with Robyn, Phoenix footwork, lots of great drums.

www.mixcloud.com/welwing/sub-...

screenshot of tracklist:

1. DJ Koze feat. Arnim Teutoburg-Weiss & The Düsseldorf Düsterboys — Wie schön du bist
2. Axel Boman feat. Miljon — Sottopassaggio
3. Little Dragon — Hold On
4. Joe Goddard feat. Daniel Wilson — Home
5. Celeste — Stop This Flame
6. Robyn — Beach2k20 (Yaeji Remix)
7. Jayda G — All I Need
8. Kaytranada — At All
9. Esty — Home
10. Javiera Mena — La Joya
11. Sofia Kourtesis feat. Manu Chao — Estación Esperanza
12. Gerry Read — It'll All Be Over (DJ Koze Remix)
13. Mura Masa & Georgia — Live Like We're Dancing
14. Friendly Fires — Heaven Let Me In
15. The Avalanches — Music Makes Me High
16. Jennifer Loveless — Muzik
17. Todd Edwards — Wishing I Were Home
18. Hot Chip — Night and Day
19. Big Dope P — Chaos Around Me
20. Tim Reaper — Teletext
21. Radicall — One Moon, One Star
22. Nia Archives — Baianá
23. Betty Harris — There's a Break in the Road
24. The Trinikas — Remember Me
25. The Pleasure Seekers — Light of Love
26. Daphni feat. Paradise — Sizzling
27. Octo Octa — Ecstatic Beat
28. Eris Drew — Loving Clav
29. Or:la — Chant (Pearson Sound Edit)

Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · May 29

📻✨ I picked up a show to sub tonight from 6–8pm PT on @freeformportland.org, and it’s gonna be all good vibes and dance music! The brief from the DJ: “Feel free to play whatever you like, especially if it makes you feel good! :)” So I will! You can listen live at freeformportland.org very soon! 🌀💛

Freeform Portland – 100% Volunteer-Run, Community-Crafted Radio

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · May 26

My radio show Some Wonderful Noise on @freeformportland.org from Friday is up for listening on MixCloud!

Polyrhythms and unusual time signatures from Ukkonen and Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, two vanity remix titles, silly noises, deep techno, thumb piano.

www.mixcloud.com/welwing/some...

Some Wonderful Noise: Episode 10 (May 23, 2025)

www.mixcloud.com

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · May 23

Today from 4–6pm PT I will be on @freeformportland.org playing two hours of really good music! Tune in at freeformportland.org or 90.3 FM or 98.3 FM if you’re in Portland, OR!

a photo looking up at pink flowers through green leaves, with text overlaid: Some Wonderful Noise with Welwing • Friday, May 23, 4–6pm • Freeform Portland 90.3 FM • 98.3 FM • freeformportland.org

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · May 16

“Why would we check the automated captioning? I’m sure it’s fine. Close enough, at least.”

A screenshot of an interactive programming course. The course is instructing the user to build an object in JavaScript using an Airbnb listing for a *castle* as an example. The captions for the teacher's verbal instructions say: "We can use the title, live like a king in my asshole"

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Matthew McVickar @matthewmcvickar.com · May 16

Steve Miller Band’s ‘The Joker’ but the Wolf Whistle Happens After Every Line. vimeo.com/789513598

Steve Miller Band’s ‘The Joker’ but the Wolf Whistle Happens After Every Line

Made this in 2020 and it got some attention on Twitter and a morning TV show.

vimeo.com

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