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		<title>Music: Covenant: Sequencer, Hexfix93&#8217;s take.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 11:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Sequencer

Sequencer
Stalker
Figurehead
Phoenix
Slow Motion
Tabula-rasa
Storm
Luminal
Flux




Of all the bands I have been label mates with over the years, this is the one who has captivated me the longest. I am still a true fan to this day, and love most all of their cds. Unlike the scene that picks other lps and songs to adore covenant by. I [...]]]></description>
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<p>Of all the bands I have been label mates with over the years, this is the one who has captivated me the longest. I am still a true fan to this day, and love most all of their cds. Unlike the scene that picks other lps and songs to adore covenant by. I stand by this cd. To me, it is simply their best. From start to finish, not one bad song, every song is gold. There is a dark core to these songs that I love, and so much emotion in the vocals. One of my favorite cds of all time. Below is a fan video I made for my favorite song of this LP, in fact my favorite song by Covenant, Tabula-Rasa.</P></p>
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<p>I remember hanging out with these guys in 2000. So much fun. Those guys even out drank me back in those days. LOL. Eskil and Joakim were always great to talk to. In fact Joakim even confessed up that he sampled my strings from the start of decypher from fun with knives and used it in one of their tracks :) No problems here. I was so flattered. I remember arguing with Joakim over what synth is better, the jupiter 8 or the xpander. Funny, they got an expander and hardly used it he told me LOL. I what I love about this cd is the roland acid sound. I think they used some old roland SH mono synth, one of the weird ones like a sh-1000 or something(don&#8217;t quote me, he told me, but it&#8217;s hard to remember) and sampled riffs into their yamaha sampler.  They worked lo tech like me back in those days. Below is a FAN video made for the figurehead, there was another version of this video on youtube but the sound was so bad you could not even make out what it was, so I fixed it and re=uploaded it.  </p>
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<p>My favorite tracks are: Sequencer(this dark foreboding electronic grinding rythmic sound, then this rubber band &#8220;ROLAND&#8221; synth sound drive the track, with awesome arpeggios and strange vocals and amazing lyrics), Stalker(This is a very cool ebm anthem track), Figurehead(Pure industrial ebm heaven, one of the best club tracks ever, I love the intermittent stuttering string lines, genius), Phoenix(can tell they tipped their hat to old front 242 here), Slow Motion(This is the song that reminds me of the sisters of mercy, well just because towards the end he really freaks out while screaming the vocals, and it reminds me of when andrew eldridge does it, I love the melody during the chorus), Storm(I want to get struck by lightning), Flux(I love the roland rubbery synth sounds on the arpeggios). Below is the video for the Stalker. </p>
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<p>This is a must own for anyone who dares say they like EBM. To me this is better than most of the old front 242 stuff that i know and love, better than most nitzer ebb. Not only that, this band has evolved and stayed very relevant in the scene still. I give this a 10 out of 5.  Buy now!  <a title="download Sequencer by Covenant"  href="http://www.amazon.com/Sequencer/dp/B000X71KOK/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&#038;s=dmusic&#038;qid=1210158367&#038;sr=8-3">Click Here to download Sequencer by Covenant DRM FREE 256 mp3</a>.  Or <a title="buy audio cd Sequencer by Covenant"  href="http://www.amazon.com/Sequencer-Covenant/dp/B00000JJO4/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=music&#038;qid=1210158425&#038;sr=8-1">Click Here buy Sequencer by Covenant on Audio CD</a>.</p>
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		<title>Art: Kometani</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 21:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hexfix93</dc:creator>
		
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I really love this guys style. It&#8217;s like a hybrid of anime and tolken style fused together. Dig It. Check out http://kometani.deviantart.com/. Below are some of the other cool images I like.
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<p>I really love this guys style. It&#8217;s like a hybrid of anime and tolken style fused together. Dig It. Check out <a title="http://kometani.deviantart.com/" href="http://kometani.deviantart.com/">http://kometani.deviantart.com/</a>. Below are some of the other cool images I like.</p>
<p><a title="http://kometani.deviantart.com/" href="http://kometani.deviantart.com/art/Skull-Samurai-57538597">One</a>.</p>
<p><a title="http://kometani.deviantart.com/" href="http://kometani.deviantart.com/art/succubus-79614208">Two</a>.</p>
<p><a title="http://kometani.deviantart.com/" href="http://kometani.deviantart.com/art/Wizard-and-Gunner-59139952">Three</a>.</p>
<p><a title="http://kometani.deviantart.com/" href="http://kometani.deviantart.com/art/hel-84286321">Four</a>.</p>
<p><a title="http://kometani.deviantart.com/" href="http://kometani.deviantart.com/art/death-84369326">Five</a>.</p>
<p><a title="http://kometani.deviantart.com/" href="http://kometani.deviantart.com/art/echidna-80312989"> Six</a>.</p>
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		<title>Games: Grand Theft Auto 4, PS3. Hexfix93&#8217;s Review.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 11:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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So what is my favorite thing about gta4? The laughs. The humor. The tv. But The thing I love the most is when you get grenades. Yes. Go draw a bunch of cops to you, then get in a car with your grenade selected. Once a lot of cop cars are around and cops start [...]]]></description>
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<p>So what is my favorite thing about gta4? The laughs. The humor. The tv. But The thing I love the most is when you get grenades. Yes. Go draw a bunch of cops to you, then get in a car with your grenade selected. Once a lot of cop cars are around and cops start coming up to the car, throw a grenade out the window but just sit in the car, don&#8217;t drive off, sure this kills you, but you get to watch lots of people get launched into the air in slow motion while you die. This is so fucking hilarious to me. I&#8217;m a fan of violent entertainment(yes, movies, games, sports like ufc). I have played all the GTA games. I love mob movies, scarface, donnie brasco, godfather, you name it. GTA, and I mean all of them are mob games. You play a thug climbing your way up the mob ladder. NOW, let&#8217;s talk about what is good. The aiming system is improved big time. Now, you can either lock on by holding L2 all the way, or free aim by holding down L2 only a little bit. There is now a cover system ala Uncharted or Rainbow 6 Vegas. This adds a whole new dimension to the game play. The gunplay is amazing, especially when people are up close. The screen kind of blurs and its frantic and loud and when you shoot people the animation of them being shot is simply amazing. This game is so intensely overbearing, It stirs up emotion in me. Especially the close combat gunplay. The over all feel of the game is so much better than previous games. Sure the graphics are a lot better, but the biggest difference is in all the small details in the world. From the random people on the streets, to the physics of the cars, to the animations of everything, this is a huge leap up from GTA3: SAN ANDREAS. </p>
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<p>Ok, ok, Rockstar seems to be the only company that can really pull off an open world type of game and do it well. What sets this above all the clones and copies? The characters, the music, the humor, the story, the writing, the acting, the physics, the gun play, the cars, the driving, the look and feel, the game mechanics, and the missions. This world breathes and lives. There is a ton of sarcasm. I love how it picks on reality. I love how it portrays politicians, and authority figures. This is closer to reality in many ways than what the real media shows us(especially the stuff on the rich and powerful). One of the shows on the TV is this series called Republican Space Rangers. This had me on the floor laughing. This is so damn spot on! SO HILAROUS! The fake radio commercials are hilarious as well. So much work went into this game to really make you feel like you are living in this world. Sure the relationship aspects(dating and bromance) of this are kind of shallow and boring once the driving drunk(btw, you can call a cab instead of getting in a car while drunk), bowling, darts,  and pool gets boring, I did not find this part of the game that fulfilling and ended up blowing most of it off, and it does effect the game. If you don&#8217;t keep up with your friends and girlfriends, they wont help you out as much in some of the missions. So yes, there is dating, the internet, and cell phone texts in this game. Whoo, like in real life but much funnier. You can have insinuated sex in the game after a date, it doesn&#8217;t show anything, but you can hear it as a camera pans around the house. No hot coffee this time I bet. I love being able to play as the bad guy, another thing that the GTA series always seems to do well. I like anti heros. I like dark art. This game has a black sense of humor, one that I can really identify with.<br />
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<p>The graphics are pretty impressive. Well, at first I was not that impressed, I was like wow, a new paint job on an old game. Then I went back and looked at vice city. This is a huge improvement over the past games. When I compare the visuals of GTA4 to something like Uncharted, Heavenly Sword, or even Call Of Duty 4, I felt a little underwhelmed by the visuals. However, as I played on and noticed all the details in the city as more and more of it was unlocked to me, I realized that this looks amazingly detailed. The explosions are amazing. There is so much going on in this game. How the different people walk, talk, fight, die. So much polish went into this game and this is really obvious once you go back and play one of the older GTA games. The world is seamless. Not many loading screens at all once it boots. the initial load in (when you start the game) is a little long, but I can live with it.  The driving mechanics are a lot more finicky this time around. The cars will spin out and you will lose control a lot more often than you used to from the previous incarnations of the game.  I found this new sense of driving realism(no nothing like a simulation racing game or anything) to actually help the game play. You really can tell the difference between the different makes of cars in how they drive and turn. Car wrecks are much more fantastic now. Not to mention that people will be thrown from their cars in really bad wrecks(through the windshield). If this happens to you, you can lose major health. Another thing that has improved is the common people in the streets. Some will fight you, some will cower. When you shoot people and wound them, they will hung over and crawl off or gimp off, sometimes only making it a few feet then falling over, then getting back up after a minute and trying again to fall again. What detail.<br />
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<p>The multiplayer is PHAT! So many modes. It plays well. Lag is not really an issue from what I can tell. My personal favorite types are Helicopter Race, and Cops and Robbers, only because I have not really played much else. Getting online with a bunch of friends and having 4 people in a car shooting at other people is so much fun. This is serious fun. I mean I will play this for years type of fun, or until the next installment of GTA comes out. My only real complaint about this game would be that when a lot of stuff starts happening on the screen, the frame rate can slow to a crawl and really have a negative effect on the game mechanics. Back to what is good. In one of the missions you have to run down some people fleeing from a drug deal gone sour. I put the driving view mode into first person cockpit view. Let me tell you, running over people like this is amazing. The way their bodies curl over the front of the car and how their bodies go limp and flail and slide off. The detail is amazing, and it is never the same twice it seems. Sometimes its so hilarious. I also love when you spook a crowd of people, and they go running into a busy street and get hit by cars and go flying. Man. This game makes me laugh in so many ways. From the artistic satire found in the media in the world, from the web pages, radio, and tv, to the many senseless ways you can find funny ways to kill people. Niko the character you take control of in the single player game is by far my favorite character of all the GTA series. I really like the single player story. Its a great mob movie in the form of a video game. In fact better than a lot of the more recent mob movies that hollywood has barfed up recently. It&#8217;s not just Nike I like though. I like a lot of the bad guys in the game, they are very entertaining to say the least. The story and the characters really make me want to beat the game and do all there is to do. The music in this game is pretty cool as well, in fact, for me, some of the best because they put in Nitzer Ebb, Aphex Twin, Killing Joke, Sisters of Mercy, Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Smashing Pumpkins, Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre all of which i really listen to. I do still like all the fake music in the original gta3 the most especially the techno. But this one comes in second. Although I really did like the Vice City sound track as well. Just a warning, this game is hard. Towards the end you will have to try missions over and over before you can beat them. This really puts a lot of people off. I just wait a couple of days once i get burnt out and try again. This works well for me. I have beat every GTA game. I would say this game is a little harder than all the others.<br />
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<p>10.0	Presentation<br />
The way the story is told, the menus, the look and feel of everything, the radio stations, the tv, all of it looks and feels alive. TOP NOTCH.</p>
<p>8.5	Visuals<br />
I do not agree with the rest of the press on this. I know the ps3 can do better graphics than this. I was kind of miffed to find out the game ran at 630p, not 720p like the 360(even though the game still runs and looks better on the ps3)(so what, call of duty 4 on ps3 and 360 is 600p, so what, that looks amazing still too). Still, the ps3 should be able to do better. Hopefully the next GTA game will improve on the visuals and the frame rate slow downs when lots of things happen. The frame rate is pretty high and stable most of the time though.</p>
<p>9.9	Audio<br />
The kick ass music sound track! The sound FX, The Voice Acting, the background music, all of it is spot on!  </p>
<p>8.8	Game Mechanics<br />
I still think the game could be more responsive like Uncharted. I will say that it is a huge, and I mean BIG step up from it&#8217;s predecessors.</p>
<p>10.0	Replay<br />
100 hours of game play if you explore everything. The story is about 40 hours. So there is a lot of game here. Finally a game that is actually worth 65 dollars. Its worth beating he single player game a couple of times to tinker with the relationship aspect of the game. The multiplayer is simply great. This world is so fun to play in. The modes are great as well. Nothing else like this on the market. </p>
<p>9.9	Total Score.<br />
(out of 10 / not an average)</p>
<p><P>If you do not like grand theft auto from previous versions of the game, this one will not win you over, the core is still the same. There is just a lot more detail. Even with the duck and cover system, it does not change the game that much. So If you hate gta, you wont like this one either. I happen to love them all. I love the big free world, how you can ignore the story and just spend hours being a hooligan destroying things, killing people and running from the cops. If there was no story, I would still buy this game to just be a hooligan in this world. That is so much fun all by itself. So far, this is the best game of this year so far. Wonder if MGS4, Little Big Planet, or Killzone 2 or Resistance Fall of man 2 will topple this. I doubt it. One last thing: To all you fear mongering jerk off conservative media fucks who say that games, tv, music, and movies lead to violent behavior, excuse me, go read some history. Long before there was tv, electricity, and guns people were killing each other. With knives, Spears and arrows. War after war after war. People did not kill because of fictional art in those days and people do not kill because of fictional art in these days. Violence and murder pre date all of this entertainment my friends, so stop spewing forth your un-scientific idiotic religious fear monger claims. Art is a reflection of life with a twist. Art is a result of life. Art is not instruction. It is entertainment, it is fantasy. Dumb people do Dumb things. People should take responsibility for their own actions. These games never tell you to kill anyone in real life. They are fiction. They are entertainment. Just because a small handful of idiots do stupid things, don&#8217;t blame the rest of us. This is a game made by adults for adults. This is not for children. The box clearly states this. GO BUY THIS GAME: <a title="buy Grand Theft Auto 4 for Sony PS3" href="http://www.amazon.com/Rockstar-Games-Grand-Theft-Auto/dp/B000HKP88C/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=videogames&#038;qid=1209814742&#038;sr=8-1"> Click Here to buy Grand Theft Auto 4 for Sony PS3</a>.</p>
<p>PS: Now you know why my blog has been so stale this week. This game is like 100 hours of game play in it. I cannot get enough of it.</p>
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		<title>Synths: Moog Freqbox mf-107 Oscillator. Hexfix93&#8217;s Take.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 09:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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The moog freqbox, a versatile fx pedal unit that can be used as an oscillator in a modular synth setup. When I first plugged them in, I noticed how huge they sounded. How alive. They reminded me of the older moog stuff, like tarus pedals and model d minimoog. With two, the oscillators would beat [...]]]></description>
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<p>The moog freqbox, a versatile fx pedal unit that can be used as an oscillator in a modular synth setup. When I first plugged them in, I noticed how huge they sounded. How alive. They reminded me of the older moog stuff, like tarus pedals and model d minimoog. With two, the oscillators would beat and sound pretty vintage. These things are FAT. The biggest. The sync sounds were so mean and huge, it would make my whole house shake. I ran these into my doepfer custom eurorack filled with rare boutique modules. I loves how the moog oscillators sounded through the polivoks filter the most. I prefered these oscillators for BASS duties.  There is this warm beef that you get in the 60 to 200hz  range on the low end of the frequency spectrum. No other synths and oscillators can pump this style of sound out. These pedals really did sound more vintage to me than the little phatty and the new minimoog voyagers. They had plenty of high end frequencies which I think are lacking a tad on the newer moog synths. </p>
<p>As far as the tracking goes? Well I ran into a little trouble. But once they warmed up I could get about 3 octaves of stable tracking no problem. Amos Gaynes, one of the techs who works at moog saw my initial comments on the tracking that I posted a while back, and offered to modify them so they would track better. After the mod, they did better. This is how great the customer support is over at moog music. A couple of things that I think would make these better would be a fine tuning knob for the osc, and if they could be put into doepfer format and make them track a tiny bit better they would put the competition in the modular synth world out of business when it comes to fat big bass oscillators.  That would be so awesome. I kind of did not like having two wall warts. I also was not fond of having them on the floor with long cables to my modular, but that is something I could of fixed If i bought a rack mount for the pedals.  For synth oscillators, these are the best for modular bass lines. Better than any other modular doepfer eurorack oscillator that I have used in the bass dept. for sure. I still like other things for leads more though. </p>
<p>We did run our guitar through this pedal, and we could get some really strange sounds with it. Something new and different for sure. The sound quality of this pedal is top notch and will enhance any guitar or modular synth rig with ease. You really cannot go wrong here. I give this a 4 out of 5.</p>
<p>This is a link to a video I did that shows off the moog in action: <a title="video demo i did with the moog freqbox" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_wAH_Z6R3Q">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_wAH_Z6R3Q</a> &#8230;</p>
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		<title>Interview: Scott Jaeger aka The Harvestman by Bryan Erickson.</title>
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Let me start by saying I love my polivoks filter and my malgorithm bit crusher. The Harvestman makes really unique analog and digital modules for the doepfer eurorack modular format. I could not live with out either of these, In fact when I was freaking out over the unstable tracking on my oscillators, I was [...]]]></description>
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Let me start by saying I love my polivoks filter and my malgorithm bit crusher. The Harvestman makes really unique analog and digital modules for the doepfer eurorack modular format. I could not live with out either of these, In fact when I was freaking out over the unstable tracking on my oscillators, I was going to sell my modular system, But I kept going, what would I do with out my custom faceplated Malgorithm and the brutal resonance of the Polivoks filter? Die I think. The Harvestman gave me the real reason to keep my modular, so I could make mean evil sounds, and skin peeling resonant acid sounds(Not to mention he is a totally cool guy to talk to, and yeah, I think he will get his guitar pedals out before Gun&#8217;s and Roses gets their new LP out). LOL. I really appreciate that Scott took the time to answer my silly questions.</p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE: What is the modus operandi of your company?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:gold">Harvestman: Pretending like semiconductor technology advanced along the same timeline where Biff Tannen owns a casino. Recognizing the total disaster of raising a generation of programmers to worship high-level language instead of the silicon that makes it real. Designing electronic music devices with these awarenesses in mind.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE: What got you interested in making modules?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:gold">Harvestman: I wanted a nice bitcrusher module for my modular system but there wasn&#8217;t one in active development when I first started playing with patchcords. Around this time I fortunately forgot most of what I knew about software development, starting over with a focus on embedded DSP. I&#8217;ve been writing exclusively in assembly for the last two years and my brain is ruined in the best way possible.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE: Before you did harvestman, did you do anything else with electronics, and what age did you start tinkering?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:gold">Harvestman: I circuit bent (casio sk1s exclusively) starting in high school, and years later my work started incorporating patchable external control and explorations into a more fluent reverse-engineering of the instrument. Around this time I stopped the bending and started thinking about standalone devices to continue my work. At the time I was heavily studying music technology in an academic setting, but I wasn&#8217;t able to take engineering classes for credit. Now that I look back on it, those two years were sort of like buying time to teach myself enough discipline to produce working circuits, seasoned with some awesomely informative high-level signal processing lectures.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE: What do you think separates you from the other boutique module manufacturers?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:gold">Harvestman: A focus on digital techniques and a healthy dose of iconoclasm? I think all of the designers have something resembling a common goal in that we work to bring new capabilities to a decades-old performance interface. And what awesome work it is. My modular setup that I use for composition and performance contains devices from a half-dozen designers and all those different design laws combine to form a really flexible instrument. There&#8217;s no better time to be a modular synthesist, I think.</span></p>
<p><center><a title="buy the malgorithm" href='http://www.analoguehaven.com/theharvestman/malgorithm/'><img src="http://www.velvetacidchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/2012finalpanel.jpg" alt="" title="2012finalpanel" width="79" height="220" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-556" /></a> <a title="buy the polivoks" href='http://www.analoguehaven.com/theharvestman/polivoksvcf/'><img src="http://www.velvetacidchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/polivoksvcfpanel.jpg" alt="" title="polivoksvcfpanel" width="86" height="220" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-559" /></a> <a title="buy the Zorlon Canon" href='http://www.analoguehaven.com/theharvestman/zorloncannon/'><img src="http://www.velvetacidchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/1986monopanel.jpg" alt="" title="1986monopanel" width="95" height="220" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-555" /></a></center></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE: What void are you filling in with your products?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:gold">Harvestman: If there was ever a need for modular devices purpose-built for garbage audio manipulation, I guess I&#8217;ve got my slurry nozzle wedged in the void. I&#8217;m a discrete-time sleaze vendor.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE: What is your favorite old school synth?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:gold">Harvestman: Probably the ARP 2600, everything you really needed in that decade except for the tape machine. The ultimate suitcase weapon for space jazz freakout. I&#8217;d love to try a black and orange one someday, I&#8217;ve only had the chance to play with a really beat up grey one. My favorite 80s synth (not counting the SK-1) is the MC-202&#8230; it&#8217;s like a calculator with a curtis chip inside&#8230; amazing industrial design with a good cv/gate interface that&#8217;s the perfect companion to a Eurorack system. I don&#8217;t have too much experience with vintage gear&#8230; too much awesome new boutique stuff out there these days keeps my attention. I&#8217;d say that the Buchla 200 series is among my favorites, but the new 200e is really where it&#8217;s at.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE: What was your favorite video game console sound chip?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:gold">Harvestman: It&#8217;s a tough choice between the Atari POKEY and the Nintendo&#8217;s 2A03.  I like the former for its unique shift register-based tone generation (the Harvestman Zorlon Cannon uses this technique as well), but the 2A03 has a ton of character packed into its five channels. The pitch glide, 4-bit triangle, &#8220;looped noise&#8221; mode, and delta-modulation sampling have a very unique sound compared to other game chips, and &#8220;real&#8221; synthesizers too. Check out the TIA (atari 2600 chip), it&#8217;s pretty fun. Like the POKEY&#8217;s hydrocephalic little brother. 5 bit frequency register (can&#8217;t even get an octave of pitches in tune), and the rest of the chip wrangles a single line of video at a time. Programming the thing to get post-Activision style results is kind of like trying to pull off the solo at the end of &#8220;Five Magics&#8221;.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE: What do you think of the psp and nitendo DS music program things?<br />
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<span style="color:gold">Harvestman: I have no experience with them, but I think they&#8217;re a great ideas (especially the korg thing). I&#8217;ve only ever played around with the old music sequencer on the game boy camera cartridge years ago. Klangstabil did a good 12&#8243; using only that.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE: Most of your modules are indeed digital, however, the polivoks is pure analog, and I must say it is my favorite thing from your company, don&#8217;t get me wrong, I love the Malgorithm bit crusher. But honestly what is your attraction to the lofi digital sound?<br />
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<span style="color:gold">Harvestman: It&#8217;s a unique class of sounds that can&#8217;t really be reached through purely analog techniques.  I&#8217;m a big fan of distortion and other means of severely corrupting a signal, and simple digital processing methods have produced some of the most savage noises I have ever heard.  It&#8217;s also a really straightforward way to get aggressive and offensive sounds that are at home in outlaw electronic styles like power electronics, the second wave of rhythmic noise, and low-art identity enforcement, all traditionally achieving their ugliness though misapplications of analog amplification. Throwing some digital sacrilege into the mix just makes the ears hurt more and I&#8217;m happy to work to put these devices into such hands.</span></p>
<p><center><a title="buy the Tyme Sefari" href='http://www.analoguehaven.com/theharvestman/tymesefari/'><img src="http://www.velvetacidchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/1973monopanel.jpg" alt="" title="1973monopanel" width="161" height="220" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-554" /></a><a title="info on the new Hertz Doughnut"  href='http://www.theharvestman.org/9791.htm'><img src="http://www.velvetacidchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/9791monopanel.jpg" alt="" title="9791monopanel" width="130" height="220" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-557" /></a></center></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE: What gave you the idea to turn digital strangeness into CV controllable Frankenstein monsters?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:gold">Harvestman: Two things: when I started incorporating gate inputs on some of my bent SK-1s, and also watching an engineer friend work on a project that turned a 2A03 chip into a MIDI sound module. While observing him I learned a bit about microprocessor programming, and how inexpensive ADCs can be used to give digital processors smooth, analog-like control behavior with the correct user interface. Once I acquired some engineering skills I was able to start designing modules that filled large functional holes in my personal system (bitcrusher, loop sampler, etc). Since going into business in fall 2007, my engineering chops have improved but my taste has not.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE: What are you planning for the future?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:gold">Harvestman: Next month I&#8217;m moving to Seattle and hiring some help so I can deliver more modules on time. That gives me more time to design new devices, and get these guitar pedals out the door&#8230; the second half of the year will be very busy for me. At least 5 new modules coming out this year!</span></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE: Any new modules you can give us a heads up on?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:gold">Harvestman: First of all I&#8217;m doing a fully-featured bitcrusher pedal sort of like the Malgorithm. Then, a 4-channel guitar pedal adaptor module (to incorporate pedals into a modular system) with the ability to easily make feedback loops. I&#8217;ve also had a neat digital oscillator design near completion for a while, I need to spend a weekend writing some better code for it. I am working with more advanced DSPs for really weird effects you&#8217;ve never seen in a hardware modular before. The cooperation with Vladimir Kuzmin will also continue, with interesting Russian synth modules released that defy vintage Western circuit design conventions.</span></p>
<p>If you want products that mangle sound and get mean and have edge and get really filthy dirty check out just about anything by The Harvestman:  <a title="The Harvestman's official home page" href="http://www.theharvestman.org/">http://www.theharvestman.org/</a>.  If you want to buy any of this stuff, head over to <a title="analog haven, best modular dealer in the USA" href="http://www.analoguehaven.com"> http://www.analoguehaven.com</a>. In particular the <a title="cwejman section at analog haven" href="http://www.analoguehaven.com/theharvestman/">the Harvestman section of AH</a>. AND PLEASE, Tell Analog Haven that you found out about it from Velvet Acid Christ and make him feel guilty for not giving me better deals on stuff, JUST KIDDING. LOL.<br />
Below is the video that got me to buy the malgorithm:<br />
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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 Someone I found on deviant art. Very fetish oriented photography, and phantasy style art. I liked a lot of her photos, I don&#8217;t really know much about her. She has a web site  Darkknot.com. And her Deviant art profile Click Here. 
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<p> Someone I found on deviant art. Very fetish oriented photography, and phantasy style art. I liked a lot of her photos, I don&#8217;t really know much about her. She has a web site <a title="http://www.darkknot.com/" href="http://www.darkknot.com/"> Darkknot.com</a>. And her Deviant art profile <a title="tinebra deviantart" href="http://tinebra.deviantart.com/">Click Here</a>. </p>
<p><a href="http://fc07.deviantart.com/images3/i/2005/155/9/c/Demonrat_Potrait__by_Tinebra.jpg">One</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://fc03.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/049/4/f/Fetish_Knot_Nurse_by_Tinebra.jpg">Two</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://fc07.deviantart.com/fs15/f/2007/049/f/4/Emo_Pose_by_Tinebra.jpg">Three</a>.</p>
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<p><a href="http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/024/b/f/Grunge_Nurse_by_Tinebra.jpg">Six</a>.</p>
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		<title>Interviews: Wowa Cwejman by Bryan Erickson.</title>
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I took it upon myself to interview Cwejman because I need a little bit more information about his products. Well, that was one of the reasons. The other reasons were that I felt that there is not enough coverage about these products and their creators. There are a lot of synth companies out there now [...]]]></description>
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I took it upon myself to interview Cwejman because I need a little bit more information about his products. Well, that was one of the reasons. The other reasons were that I felt that there is not enough coverage about these products and their creators. There are a lot of synth companies out there now making new and interesting analog synthesizers that have their own sound and bring something new to the table. Cwejman makes a full synth and Modules for the Eurorack(doepfer) modular systems. I wanted to pick his brain on a few subjects regarding his products. I seriously am fed up with most magazines that cover this gear. I wanted an even more in depth form of covering and asking questions about this gear that true synth-nerds will understand.  I cannot thank him enough for answering my questions.</p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE: What sets your oscillators apart from the others?</span><br />
<span style="color:green">Wowa Cwejman: I don&#8217;t know. It&#8217;s actually up to users opinion. My constructions are not &#8220;copy and paste&#8221; from older products (more about it later).</span><br />
<center><a title="vco 6" href="http://www.analoguehaven.com/cwejman/vco-6/"><img src="http://www.velvetacidchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/vco-6w-color.jpg" alt="" title="vco-6w-color" width="131" height="237" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-548" /></a><br /></center><br />
<span style="color:blue">BE:What are the main differences between the Vco-6 and the VCO-2RM.<br />
<span style="color:green">Wowa Cwejman: All my oscillators (S1 MK2, VCO-2RM and VCO-6, so far) have the same stable oscillator core. The VCO-2RM is more a standard oscillator (OK, two in one module + a ring modulator). The VCO-6 has a very different solution for the sine wave (much cleaner as result) and different set of PW modulated waveforms: PWM saw tooth gives a true dual saw detuned effect (for low speed modulation) and a ring modulated effect with modulation with  another oscillator  in audio range. Pulses are symmetrical in the whole range of pulse width and they are different from the &#8220;classic&#8221; variable pulse whichis asymmetrical when the pulse width is not equal to 50% (square waveform). The Pulse1 contain more even harmonics (as saw tooth waveform) and the Pulse2 contain more even harmonics (as square waveform) which results in different sounding signals.<br />
PWM pulse 1 with even content of harmonics<br />
PWM pulse 2 with odd content of harmonics (like square wave and even with very narrow pulse width, my favorite) ..and, of course a regular saw tooth and triangle.</span><br />
<center> <a title="vco 6" href="http://www.analoguehaven.com/cwejman/vco2rm/"><img src="http://www.velvetacidchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/vcorrm.jpg" alt="" title="vcorrm" width="187" height="237" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-549" /></a></center></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE:Do they sound similar or are they completely different?</span><br />
<span style="color:green">Wowa Cwejman: I already answered to this question&#8230;and yes, the VCO-6 sounds very different (sine wave + all PWM waveforms).</span></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE:How do the Cwejman Eurorock modules compare in sound and function to your S1 MK2?</span><br />
<span style="color:green">My ambition was (and still is) to make modules as a compliment to the S1 MK2 (no exact copy of different modules inside the S1). The cores of oscillators are the same (for tracking and stability reason). Filters have also the same &#8220;engine&#8221;. However, the complexity of my two (so far) filter modules offer much more functions and patching (modulation) possibilities. The transient generators are very different (solution for electronic circuits). Voltage controlled amps are also different; all my vca modules are build around &#8220;the-state-of-the-art&#8221; integrated circuits for very low noise (dynamics) , low distortion (THD) and almost non-existing DC offset. All vcas are also DC coupled for controlling of DC and audio signals. Below the list of modules where I used those circuits:<br />
VCA-2P<br />
VCA-4MX<br />
INS-2MX<br />
MX-4S<br />
RES-4<br />
VC-FC<br />
and soon VC-FCS (stereo version of VC-FC) and VCEQ-4.</span><br />
<a title="vco 6" href="http://www.analoguehaven.com/cwejman/s1/"><img src="http://www.velvetacidchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/s1front.jpg" alt="" title="s1front" width="480" height="234" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-547" /></a></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE:Did you make your systems and modules to cover all the analog ground from the strange sci-fi sound fx to bread and butter synth bass and leads?</span></p>
<p><span style="color:green">Wowa Cwejman: I don&#8217;t know exactly how to answer. My ambition is to offer the best I can make and with no focus on a specific &#8220;sound&#8221;. I&#8217;ll here quote Gordon Read from Sound-On-Sound magazine and what he wrote and what also reflect my concept; &#8220;The difference is hard to quantify, but seems to me to be one of precision. This is a weird concept, and hard to put into words, but the S1 does exactly what you ask of it, neither coloring nor enhancing the sound beyond what you ask it to do. Curiously, this means that it is equally at home producing the sounds of a vintage American synth as it is the fizzy, squelchy sounds of many Japanese instruments.&#8221;</span><br />
<span style="color:blue">BE:I have read that your oscillators track the best for true analog modules. What is your take on this?<br />
<span style="color:green">Wowa Cwejman: All my products/concepts are simulated in computer simulation software. Already om this early stage I can predict the performance of circuits, such as temperature stability, waveforms shapes, frequency, amplitudes..and all other qualities. I usually don&#8217;t make any breadboard but &#8220;jump&#8221; directly to production units. Exception are S1s oscillators; I tested/confirmed the stability in my climate oven from -10degC to +60 degC and which confirmed the result of my simulated temperature behavior of oscillators. The tracking (and especially in the high region of frequency) is a result of a careful calibration and nothing else. I&#8217;m a perfectionist and I strive to make perfect calibrated products.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE:What is your favorite old school synthesizer?</span><br />
<span style="color:green">Wowa Cwejman: Moog modular, at least back in the 70-th. They are so musical.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE:Who do you admire most in the synth industry past and present?</span><br />
<span style="color:green">Wowa Cwejman: Bob Moog (of course) and Wendy Carlos, as his musical adviser back in the 60-th. I&#8217;ve no prefered synth-maker right now&#8230;well, maybe Modcan guy.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE:Where do you see the future of analog synthesizers heading?</span><br />
<span style="color:green">Wowa Cwejman: Integration between analogue and digital (DSP) techniques but still with &#8220;analogue&#8221; interface. We can already see this process..and MIDI should be replaced by other control interface.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE:I have been struggling with oscillators in the eurorack format. My main gripe is tracking stability, and tuning stability. I still want growly animated oscillators, but I want them in key and musical as well. I use a kenton pro solo, will these work with the Cwejman oscillators well? Have you tried these, and what do you recommend for midi to CV? I sequence with computers. (I have done extensive midi timing test on PCs and macs and have found that Logic 8 with a AMT8 has the least amount of midi jitter, as you might tell, I am a bit OCD about calibration and tightness as well).</span></p>
<p><span style="color:green">Wowa Cwejman: I&#8217;m not an expert in MIDI matters but Kenton products should make the perfect job, as long all gears match (1 Volt/octave). I don&#8217;t own any MIDI to CV converter. I use my own from S1 for calibration. I&#8217;ve no experience with computer based MIDI stuff, sorry.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE:What old gear do you own, You spoke so highly of the old moog modulars, Do you have one?</span><br />
<span style="color:green">Wowa Cwejman: Nothing! I even don&#8217;t have my own gear because all I produce is ordered. I&#8217;m not a musician.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:blue">BE:So, for a Cwejman marketing slogan, would this be a good way to sum up what your company and your products are about?  &#8220;Stability, Calibration, Perfection&#8221; ?</span><br />
<span style="color:green">Wowa Cwejman: I&#8217;ve already one; sound for demanding musicians.</p>
<p>with best regards<br />
Wowa</span></p>
<p>I suggest, if this is new to you and you are in the market for a new synth go check out <a title="cwejman's official home page" href="http://www.cwejman.net">http://www.cwejman.net</a>. There are sound examples of the s1 mk2. I think it sounds pretty cool and unique. He also has many great modules in the doepfer a-100 modular format. Check it out. If you want to buy any of this stuff, head over to <a title="analog haven, best modular dealer in the USA" href="http://www.analoguehaven.com"> http://www.analoguehaven.com</a>. In particular the <a title="cwejman section at analog haven" href="http://www.analoguehaven.com/cwejman/">Cwejman Section of AH</a>. AND PLEASE, Tell Analog Haven that you found out about it from Velvet Acid Christ and make him feel guilty for not giving me better deals, JUST KIDDING. LOL. To listen to the sound of Cwejman<a title="listen to a song made with cwejman synth technology" href="http://www.cwejman.net/cwejman.net/cwejmachine.mp3"> Click Here</a>.<br />
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		<title>Games: Call of Duty 4 Map Pack Expansion for PS3. Hexfix93&#8217;s take.</title>
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The above map is the TV station map that comes with the new Call Of Duty 4 Map pack that you can download via the newly redesigned Playstation Network. It will set you back about 10 US dollars. Is it worth it? HELL YES. This games is already near perfect. Simply the best first person [...]]]></description>
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The above map is the TV station map that comes with the new Call Of Duty 4 Map pack that you can download via the newly redesigned Playstation Network. It will set you back about 10 US dollars. Is it worth it? HELL YES. This games is already near perfect. Simply the best first person shooter controls on any console. I play this more than any game I own. I don&#8217;t think anything will beat this game out in the fun factor, rpg elements, and ease of use and perfect game mechanics. My only gripe still is that the games end if the host quits. They really need to fix this and transfer the game to another player with out the game dying. So the above map is great. The tv station is huge, lots of cool rooms and places to snipe. You can get on the roof and there are some buildings across the parking lot that are great for sniping as well. This is a really nice addition.</p>
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<p>The above map is Creek. This is breathtakingly pretty, especially the water fall and the creek bed area of the map. This is cool as well, up top the ridge of the ravine there is like a mountain path on one side, and on the other there are houses and a burb like area. Very well designed. This is sniper heaven. This is a game of try to run from sniper fire in al most all cases. Game modes like sabotage and search and destroy really are a bitch to do on this map, and poses a real challenge.</p>
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<p>Above is a picture of the Killhouse map, which usually only shows up in private matches and cage matches. They added cage match which is a 1 on 1 battle, and I simply own all 1 on 1 usually so I absolutely love this map. The VAC klan usually has private matched where we play the shipment map that is small. This map is small like shipment but a tad bigger. Perfect for big private matches of free for all and 1 on 1 cage matches. Nice to have another map like shipment. I like the small maps best for private matches. A very welcome edition. They also added some new game modes to select from: Variety Pack Team Death Match(new maps team death match), Variety Team Objective(new maps like team tactical with more players), Variety Hardcore, Mercenary Team Death Match, Hardcore Team Death Match, Hardcore Search and Destroy, Old School Free For All. So a lot of new modes to play online!</p>
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<p>Above is China Town. This map is pretty cool, Looks nice, but it is confusing because a lot of it looks the same and it&#8217;s hard to figure out where you are on the map at first. I eventually got used to it, but  it honestly took me the longest to adjust to. I would say this is my least favorite of all the maps but do not think for a second that it is not worth it. It really is a great edition and adds a welcome variance to the cod4 maps. These maps do nothing to the single play part of the game, they are for online multiplayer. So if you do not play this game online then do not bother buying this map pack. But if you play this online like I do(I&#8217;m addicted to this hardcore, almost as bad as the smoking addiction I had in my 20s) this is worth every single cent you pay. I highly recommend this. I have raised COD4 with this map pack to an over all score of 9.9. I&#8217;m sorry, but no other game on the ps3 has held my attention like cod4. In fact this may turn out to be my favorite game of all time after playing it hard core since it&#8217;s release. BUY THIS!</p>
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		<title>Videos: Old school Industrial!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dig the atari 520 ST!:

Good old union pissed off industrial:

Al had such cool hair back then, dig the michael jackson style vox:

Oh hell yeah, good old nitzer ebb!

Now this is what I call EBM industrial music!! DONT FORGET THE FUCKING ROOTS!
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<p>Good old union pissed off industrial:<br />
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<p>Al had such cool hair back then, dig the michael jackson style vox:<br />
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<p>Oh hell yeah, good old nitzer ebb!<br />
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<p>Now this is what I call EBM industrial music!! DONT FORGET THE FUCKING ROOTS!</p>
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		<title>Music: Severed Heads: Rotund for Success Hexfix93&#8217;s take.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hexfix93</dc:creator>
		
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Rotund For Success

All Saints Day
Triangle Triangle Tango
Bad Times Too
Midget Sings
Greater Reward
Big Car Intro
Big Car
First Steps
Rotund for Success
Lovesick Fascist Meathead
Chasing skirt
All Saints Day Original
Bad Times Three
Miles




One of my favorite 80s electronic pre industrial bands. I picked this LP because of the song All Saints Day which to me as good as any new order hit. [...]]]></description>
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<p>One of my favorite 80s electronic pre industrial bands. I picked this LP because of the song All Saints Day which to me as good as any new order hit. I know a lot of you might think I am crazy, but seriously. I&#8217;m not. I really think Severed Heads is over looked. In fact these guys had a huge influence on Skinny Puppy when they first formed. This is probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite Severed Heads LP, but I wanted to introduce new people to this band via all saints day.</P></p>
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<p>I still listen to this LP pretty often, It has good replay for me, reminds me of being younger. I think this still holds up over all this time. It sounds a tad dated, but that is it&#8217;s charm I think. I see Severed Heads as the avant guard australian version of NEW ORDER. I prefer the lp version of greater reward to the 2005 remix that is featured in the video below.  </p>
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<p>My favorite track is All Saints Day, this song reminds me of New Order. I love the production of this LP. Some analog, But a lot of yamaha DX synths too. I think his melodies are super cheesy in the way that I love. Other notable tracks: Greater Reward, Bad Times Too, Big Car, First Steps, Lovesick Fascist Meathead, Bad Times Three. I prefer the original Big CAR to the remix video version below.</p>
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<p>I think this is a classic record. I love it. I still listen to it a lot. If you like New Order, and quirky weird music, This CD is for you.  I give this a 4 out of 5.  Buy now!  <a title="download Rotund for success by severed heads"  href="http://www.amazon.com/Rotund-For-Success/dp/B000S581FS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=dmusic&#038;qid=1208984954&#038;sr=8-1">Click Here to download Rotund For Success by Severed Heads DRM FREE 256 mp3</a>.</p>
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