NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN

WEST COAST MONTHLY SOUL CLAPS START TODAY!

Jonathan — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:43:05 +0000

New York Night Train will be bringing its world famous SOUL CLAP and DANCE-OFF party to the west coast every month starting this fall! The claps are in Los Angeles (first Saturday), Oakland (second Thursday), San Francisco (second Friday), and Portland, OR (second Saturday). The NYC party will now take place on the third Saturday. Get up! Get down! Get out! Get in it!

- Sat, Aug 7: downtown Los Angeles – TheSex (816 S. Sante Fe): Soul Clap and Dance-Off, 10pm, $5

go to the facebook event

- Thu, Aug 12: downtown Oakland, CA – The Uptown (1928 Telegraph Ave): Soul Clap and Dance-Off

go to the facebook event

- Fri, Aug 13: downtown San Francisco – 111 Minna: Soul Clap and Dance-Off, 10pm, $5

go to the facebook event

and, starting in September, monthly Portland, OR Soul Clap and Dance-Off at East end

GORIES’ DANNY KROHA’s new trio makes NYC debut!

Jonathan — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:00:20 +0000

New York Night Train
presents
Danny Kroha Three
(NYC debut of new garage trio fronted by legendary Gories singer/guitarist!)
w/A-Bones, Daddy Long Legs, and Everly Sisters
followed by dancing w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin and friends
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Cameo Gallery (93 N 6th, Williamsburg? ) 9pm, 21+, $6

Underground rock legend DANNY KROHA, singer/guitarist for important bands like the Gories and the Demolition Doll Rods, in town to play Lincoln Center July 31, is importing the other two members of his new Detroit outfit to make their NYC debut Thursday in the comfy confines of Williamsburg’s new and improved Cameo Gallery! According to a number of connoisseurs, this new band isn’t only Danny’s return to the Back from the Grave-style primal garage punk of the Gories, but one of the best new bands going from that universe. This is big news!

Also on the bill are Norton Records house bandThe A-Bones , Stalkers/Electric Shadows dirty harmonica blues project Daddy Long Legs, and Kroha’s hand-picked opener, the Everly Sisters. Finally, NY Night Train’s Mr. Jonathan Toubin takes over on the decks after the bands to keep the party going.

Here’s the schedule:

9:00 Everly Sisters
10:00 Daddy Long Legs
11:00 A-Bones
12:00 Danny Kroha
1:00 Mr Jonathan Toubin and friends

also, Danny is a legendary DJ/record collector (Fine Wine of WFMU’s Downtown Soulville credits Kroha with getting him started in the 1980s!) and will be Mr Jonathan Toubin’s guest DJ at NY Night Train’s Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down party at Home Sweet Home (131 Chrystie, Manhatan) on Friday, August 6.

NYNT announces SHAKIN’ SUMMER GUEST DJ SERIES at HOME SWEET HOME

Jonathan — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:57:20 +0000

Since taking over Home Sweet Home’s Friday night more than two years ago, New York Night Train’s Mr. Jonathan Toubin continues to wage war on mediocre nightlife by becoming the first DJs in recent memory to helm a long-running weekend Manhattan dance club party consisting exclusively of rock and soul rarities – no obvious hits, no popular contemporary dance music styles, and in the 45rpm medium to boot! While Toubin has typically helmed the ship entirely on his own, underground rock legends like David Johansen (NY Dolls), Jello Biafra(Dead Kennedys), Jon Spencer (Blues Explosion, Pussy Galore), Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening, Dub Narcotic), and Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers) have all randomly popped in as guest DJs on occasion.

With the intent to cement his night’s reputation as the finest and most prestigious rock and soul 45 party in the entire world, Mr. Jonathan Toubin is putting his money where his mouth is – bringing in legendary rock and rollers who also have amazing record collections and/or the finest professional 45 DJs from around the world each and every week. Basically, Mr Jonathan Toubin is bringing in his musician, collector, and DJ heroes from around the world to make his typically sold-out party even better. And the cover will remain $3!

The following will all DJ alongside Mr. Jonathan Toubin except where noted (*):

- july 2: Jim Sclavunos (NYC/London) of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Grinderman, and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks (formerly of Sonic Youth, Alex Chilton, etc)

- july 9: Kid Congo Powers (Washington, DC) – In The Red Records solo recording artist (formerly of The Cramps, Gun Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, etc)

- july 16: Ian Svenonius (Washington, DC) – of Vice TV’s “Soft Focus,” author of “Psychic Soviet,” leader of Chain and the Gang (formerly of Make-Up, Nation of Ulysses, Weird War, etc.)

- july 23: DJ Primo (San Francisco) – DJ/promoter of SF institution Oldies Night

- july 30: Howie Pyro (L.A.) – Intoxica Radio DJ, founder/DJ of legendary Green Door party, and former bassist of Danzig, D-Generation, and ‘77 CBGB punks The Blessed

- Aug 6: Dan Kroha (Detroit) – guitarist/vocalist for The Gories, Demolition Doll Rods, etc

- *Aug 13: Josh Styles (NYC) of the Smashed! Blocked! party (subbing for Jonathan Toubin – his favorite DJ) w/guest Todd-O-Phonic Todd (Hoboken, NJ) of WFMU, Maxwell’s and Southpaw, and the head of Telstar, Candy, and Satan Records

- Aug 20: James Chance (NYC) of the Contortions and James White and the Blacks

SOUL CLAP & DANCE-OFF APRIL TOUR

Jonathan — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:56:21 +0000

New York Night Train brings the excitement of its most famous party, featuring an all night get-down to Jonathan Toubin’s wild soul 45s and a dance contest in the middle, back on the road throughout April – notify your peops in Chicago, Portland, Arcata, Oakland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. The tour officially kicks off Saturday, April 10 in NYC at Glasslands and continues randomly throughout May in places like Portland, ME, Orlando, FL, and Asbury Park, NJ.

Check the brand-spankin’ new SOUL CLAP AND DANCE-OFF WEB SITE for details…

SEE IT SHIVER… WATCH IT QUIVER… JELLO IS JONATHAN’S GUEST AT MOTOR CITY

Jonathan — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:07:52 +0000

Wed, Mar 24: Lower East Side, Manhattan – Motor City Bar: New York Night Train Wednesday w/Mr. Jonathan Toubin and guest DJ Jello Biafra(!), 10pm – 4am, 21+, $3: A downtown institution for over three years, the “Cheers” of the Lower East Side’s rock and roll underground, New York Night Train Wednesday is where conductor Mr Jonathan Toubin tests out his latest jams before anyone else gets to hear them on the world’s dancefloors – plus he also turns occasional punk classics and other old favorites for you to either sing along with or criticize him for playing. Your other pals, Hari Kupian behind the bar and Marc Ryan at the door, are also working at this, Mr/ T’s only mellow hangout night. This week isn’t so mellow though because Senor JELLO BIAFRA himself is doing two DJ sets (JB’s in town with his new band Guantanamo School of Medicine - they play at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple the following night - go here for tickets!). This is far from some kind of celebrity gig. Jello, who spun the November Soul Clap in San Francisco, has more records than anybody you’ve ever met, some killer and very exquisite taste from many genres, and knows how to shake a room to boot. Also, when he’s not DJ-ing, Jello’s a friendly approachable gent who has plenty to discuss with you. Fall by and hang out.

A letter to my Monterrey amigos regarding my MtyMx cancellation

Jonathan — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:54:18 +0000

Dear Monterrey friends and other folks in town for MtyMx Festival,

I sincerely apologize for not making it to Monterrey this time. I am so sad to have let you down and am conversely so flattered that you care at all that I couldn’t make it. I hope that next time I hear from you, it will be because I’m coming back to party in Sultana del Norte. I’ve done nearly a thousand gigs and never canceled once before now. Officially I didn’t turn up because I was coming down with a major cold after spending 12 straight hours outside, under-dressed for Saturday’s arctic chill during my own SXSW party. But I feel you deserve an adequate explanation that should shed some insight not only into my situation but that of some of the other cancellations as many of you don’t seem to understand the intricacies of both sides of the situation.

I admit I was on the fence about MtyMx for weeks because 1) I couldn’t get the organization to discuss my compensation or other important details of the gig with me and 2) I didn’t think I could adequately promote the Soul Clap as I couldn’t advertise a dance contest prize, judges, etc and didn’t even get the time or admission information until two days before and wouldn’t help with simple things like sending the facebook invite out to people. But I’m used to disorganization in regards to Mexican gigs (and American ones for that matter). So, leading up to Saturday, I was planning on DJ-ing two ambiguous afterparties for an undetermined sum of money – but I decided to do it – viewing it as a donation of a couple of free nights (sorry, but at this point in my career, the $100 or so artists were getting is pretty much free to me – particularly with the amount of time and effort involved) with the benefit of seeing my Monterrey friends, being a part of a noble and interesting experiment (and an amazing bill), and lending advocacy Todd’s bold and amazing idea.

By Saturday night/Sunday morning reports were already coming in about 10 to 16 hour bus-rides, the festival sending broken down school buses that turned back to Austin in disrepair, buses not showing up, all kinds of border hassles resulting from the escalation of the internal drug war the last few weeks, etc – and, finally, the events Thursday and Friday which apparently had much of the highway coming south into Monterrey shut down and much of the city in a bit of a panic. Despite the wave of cancellations and advice from my family, friends, and business associates (and my body) not to come, going back and forth on the issue throughout the night, and warning Todd that I may not turn up, I couldn’t bring myself to cancel.

Not long before we were to board the festival’s 6am shuttle, I got an email from Todd’s organization explaining that the 10pm, 2am, and now 6am buses didn’t materialize but we would be guaranteed spots on the 10am and 2pm buses. At this point I had worked my NY Night Train party from 11am to 11pm, and then the Vice Party from 11pm to 5am. The whole idea of going back to my dad’s house, sleeping a couple of hours, and dragging my worn-down self to see if a bus would indeed materialize and embark upon what was looking like a long and disorderly journey to be hopefully on time to a gig of uncertain details and minimal at best compensation sealed the deal for me – I went to bed for a couple of days.

All of you know I’m not a “pussy band” but a DJ who loves Mexico with all of my heart and has already played in Monterrey (at Yo Garage nonetheless) and elsewhere in the country on my own accord. Anyone who knows even a little bit about me is aware that I constantly hit all kinds of far-flung markets totally exhausted with no sleep – sometimes doing long consecutive runs of up to three straight weeks of between one and three gigs a day. As for the other bands, the ones I spoke with, though certainly concerned about the events of the last few days in Monterrey, mostly canceled due to the disorganization more than the fear – the kind of bands Todd had on the list are a hard-touring ballsy bunch accustomed to dealing with extreme situations. All of them were looking forward to coming to see you or they never would have agreed to do this. As for Todd, this kind of thing can be expected for the first shot of such a grandiose undertaking and he deserves kudos for attempting to go where no man has gone before. I hope he tries again next year ironing out a few details and learning from a few of this year’s oversights. We need to knock down the borders – both American and Mexican artists can mutually benefit from one-another’s markets and cultures and I think this is a great step. I really think people need to quit blaming both the festival and the bands as the situation on both sides is completely understandable and we’ve all worked together in the past and will definitely continue to do so in the future (hopefully in Mexico!).

Most of all, I regret not getting a chance to rock Monterrey again. While I hope this letter sheds a little light on the subject for others, it had been written para usted, my amigos/amigas south of the border. I really love you all and can’t wait to get down with you all once again – as soon as possible!

Usted está en mi corazón,
Señor Jonathan Toubin

Lineup for 5th Annual NY Night Train SXSW Hoodang Announced – 45 bands from all over

Jonathan — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:25:40 +0000

While Mr Jonathan Toubin is busy with a slew of DJ gigs at SXSW (Thu the 18th dance at High Ball Bowling Alley, Fri the 19th two TBA gigs, and Sat the 20th, the Vice party) followed by two nights at Todd P’s MtyMx festival in Monterrey (Mar 20th and 21st), the big New York Night Train event in Austin weekend will be the 5th Annual New York Night Train SXSW Hoodang at Spider House – featuring 45 amazing bands from all over the world on a 4 stages from Noon to 2am. This event is co-presented by comrade in arms Panache Booking with a little help from NYC amigos Cake Shop and Sacred Bones Records. The indoor stage was co-curated by Jason McNeely of Spider House. This NYC promoting DJ, booking agency, venue, and record label have banded together out of friendship and solidarity to bring a sponsorship-free day of the kind of high quality old school communal underground music fun that rarely rears its head these days.

We’ve chosen to execute the party yet again at this relaxed oasis of courtyard tables, food, and drink as an alternative to the less comfortable downtown music events – in hopes that this will yet again be a destination instead of a stop-off. However, since it’s only three blocks from the University of Texas, this popular institution is easy to reach by a variety of city buses that run up and down Guadalupe (The Drag) every few minutes taking you downtown and back (roughly a 10 min ride).

Don’t take our word for it, just ask anybody – last year’s all-day/all-night fiesta, headlined by The Seeds’ Sky Saxon (R.I.P.), was the unofficial SXSW jam of the year. This one’s even bigger and better. Don’t miss out!

SPIDER HOUSE STAGE
- 12:15: TK Webb (NYC)
- 1:15 Sonny and the Sunsets(San Francisco – cult hero Sonny Smith’s music project backed by an indie rock supergroup including Kelley Stoltz)
- 2:15 Hopewell (NYC)
- 3:15 Turbo Fruits (Nashville_
- 4:15 Cheap Time (Nashville)
- 5:15 Garotas Suecas (Sao Paulo, Brazil):
- 6:15 Dum Dum Girls(San Diego)
- 7:15 Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Brids
- 8:15 Cause for Applause (Austin)
- 9:15 Chicken Snake (NYC – Jerry Teel, leader of Honeymoon Killers, Knoxville Girs, etc + underground supergroup )

COURTYARD STAGES
- 12:30 Wild Yaks (NYC)
- 1:00 Signals (Los Angeles – new band w/3/4 of the Mae Shi)
- 1:30 Z’s (NYC)
- 2:00 Notekillers(Philadelphia – re-reunited No Wave legends)
- 2:30 Talk Normal (NYC)
- 3:00 Eternal Tapestry (Portland, OR) -
- 3:30 UUVVWWZ (Lincoln, NE 3:30)
- 4:00 Shellshag (NYC)
- 4:30 Street Eaters (Oakland)
- 5:00 Swiss Dots (Chicago – Jason Ward’s and Shelley of Tellenova’s new joint)
- 5:30 The Beets (NYC)
- 6:00 So Cow (Tuam, Ireland)
- 6:30 Grass Widow (San Francisco)
- 7:00 Awesome Color (Detroit)
- 7:30 Golden Triangle (NYC)
- 8:00 SCREENS (NYC)
- 8:30 Frankie and the Outs (NYC – new solo project by Frankie of Dum Dum Girls, Vivian Girls, Crystal Stilts, etc)
- 9:00 Daily Void (Chicago – Sacred Bones Records presents)
- 9:30 Timmy’s Organism (Detroit – Sacred Bones Records presents)

INDOOR STAGE
- 12:00 New House (Tokyo, Japan)
- 12:45 Water Fai (Osaka, Japan)
- 1:30 Hard Nips (NYC/Japan)
- 2:15 The Hoa Hoas (Toronto)
- 3:00 Action Makes (Toronto)
- 3:45 The Postcards (Montreal)
- 4:30 Sixteen Deluxe (Austin)
- 5:15 Headdress (Austin)
- 6:00 Dead Meadow’s Jason Simon (Los Angeles)
- 6:45 Woven Bones (Austin – Cake Shop presents)
- 7:30 Eternal Summers (Roanoke, VA – Cake Shop presents)
- 8:15 International Waters (Austin)
- 9:00 Moonmen on the Moon, Man (NYC – Cake Shop presents)
- 9:45 The Happen-ins (Austin)
- 10:30 Wine and Revolution (Austin)
- 11:15 Kingdom of Suicide Lovers (Austin)
- 12:00 Royal Buchers (Austin – Aaron Blount’s new jam!)
- 12:45 Bosco Delrey (NYC)

NY NIGHT TRAIN SOUL CLAP & DANCE-OFF CELEBRATES IT’S 3RD ANNIVERSARY IN STYLE!

Jonathan — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:03:51 +0000

SATURDAY, MARCH 13: SOUL CLAP and DANCE-OFF 3rd ANNIVERSARY EXTRAVAGANZA w/DJs JONATHAN TOUBIN and special guest IAN SVENONIUS and a cast of 1000s, THE GLASSLANDS (289 Kent, Williamsburg, Brooklyn) 9PM – 4AM, $5

New York Night Train’s Soul Clap and Dance-Off celebrates its third birthday in style! In the last three years, the underdog party, which features an all night get-down to Mr. Jonathan Toubin’s exquisitely exciting soul 45s and a dance contest in the middle, has evolved from intimate neighborhood get-together to one of NYC’s biggest sold-out monthly institutions to global phenomenon. In the last year the party broke out of Brooklyn to ping-pong back and forth from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine, and from Mexico City to Tel Aviv while remaining stronger than ever at home – hipping both NYC and the rest of the world to some of the finest music of all time in the process.

To commemorate hitting the three year mark, the Soul Clap will feature an early record fair with sellers from the DJ and record vendor community, guest MC/DJ Ian Svenonius, and two Dance-Offs – a regular $100 contest at 11pm open to everyone and, at 1am, a $200 championship featuring winners of three years worth of contests leading up to tonight’s. As always, Laura Leigh is the MC and a cast of neighborhood personalities will judge the contests (see below) while Mr Toubin shakes you all night long!

Here’s the schedule:

9pm – 10-ish: Soul Record Fair/Swap with both record dealers and DJs hawking their wares. NY Night Train wants to get you not only to get down to the vinyle but get involved in the culture! Dealers will be making a collaborative DJ set out of 45s they have for sale. Also, all Sky Vodka drinks are $2! Dealers include:
- Casey from Eat Records
- Jonathan Toubin of New York Night Train
- Mr. Fine Wine of WFMU’s Downtown Soulville
- Doug from The Record Grouch
- Phast Phreddie, the Boogaloo Omnibus – LA punk legend behind the seminal “Backdoor Man” fanzine and current resident DJ of Subway Soul and the Wang Dang Doodle
- Rodney of NY Vinyl
- William from Radio Heartbeat (NY’s most notorious power-pop DJ with a box o’soul from his native New Orleans)

10pm – 4am: All night dancing to the 45rpm magic of Mr Jonathan Toubin and guest DJ Ian Svenonius (Chain and the Gang, Make-Up, Nation of Ulysses). While Mr Jonathan Toubin tries to introduce around fifty new 45s every month, tonight we get down only to the Soul Claps biggest and baddest classics.

11pm: Dance-Off w/MC’s Laura Leigh and Ian Svenonius and a panel o/judges: - Alana Amram of Alana Amram and the Rough Gemsand bassist for everybody except Lou Reed
- Jake Noodle Boy of Wellington Ladies Welfare League
- Amanda Berkowitz – back-stabbing slut/synth darling of FiASCO, Soviet, WIT, etc
- Seva Granik, head of NYC event production company Abracadabra Talent and founder of Myopenbar.com
- Tara McPherson – illustrator, artist, and professor (”the crown princess of poster art” – ELLE Magazine

1am: Dance-Off Championship w/MC’s Laura Leigh and Ian Svenonius and judges:
- Brooke Baxter and Rolyn Hu, proprietresses of Glasslands and Manhattan Inn
- j sinopoli (dewey xoxo) of of street radio international http://www.facebook.com/l/b6b06;legalizedancing.org
- Laurel Bell – raw chef of Rockin’ Raw
- Mr. Fine Wine DJ/voice of the world famous WFMU radio show Downtown Soulville
- Sarah Brown of Slingshot Photography

dance ’til 4 and then go to see Mr Jonathan Toubin spin at Shanky afterhours at the Badlands immediately following the Soul Clap!

Sat, Mar 13/14, Williamburg, Brooklyn – The Badlands: Shanky Afterhours w/DJ Jonathan Toubin, 4am – 8am, $5:Hooooooot! Calling all night owls! Get there early to avoid the line while Glen Szabo warms ya up then Mr. Jonathan Toubin gets you down all night long at Brooklyn’s biggest, baddest, and most consistent afterhours. Fall on by if you happen to up… for it!

NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN DEBUT’S NEW PARTY/NEW FORMAT

Jonathan — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:59:13 +0000

Le Cheetah: International Discotheque Psychedelique w/DJs Jonathan Toubin and Josh Styles, visuals by Mighty Robot AV Squad, Go Go Dancing by the Marmaladies, and more. Secret Project Robot (210 Kent at Metropolitan), 10pm, all ages, $5: Get down deep into the morning in a psychedelic ocean of smoke, bubbles, strobes, projections (Mighty Robot AV Squad), and go go girls (from Marmaladies, Beacon’s Closet and more). Tonight’s party will feature the big beat, lights, and general aesthetic of a 60s discotheque – but revised from a more contemporary tripped-out and international perspective. DJs Jonathan Toubin and Josh Styles rotate a format that includes not only 60s discotheque classics but loads of fuzzy movers, foreign language jams, and obscurities. We get going around 11 and plan to shake it ’til you just can’t take it. This is the entire Animal Train crew reunited for an amazing cause… Every dollar made at this event benefits the legal defence of Heather and John Henry of the LA band Static Static.

MR JONATHAN TOUBIN PLAYS 4 GIGS IN ONE DAY… AGAIN

Jonathan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:57:17 +0000

follow Mr T around for 4 gigs from 2pm – 8am Sunday morn…

Sat, Feb 20 (2PM): Manhattan – Lucky Strike Lanes: Bowling for Revolution – A Fundraising Party for Revolution NYC, w/DJs Jonathan Toubin, Such N’ Such (Jaleel Bunton of TV on the Radio), and Rev. Vince Anderson

then, at 5pm, in the city…

- Sat, Feb 20 (4PM): Manhattan – Metropolis Vintage: 20th Anniversary Party/Show w/The Thing With Two Heads, Jonathan Toubin, Nervous Assistant, Two Tears, WLWL

and then, at midnight…

Sat, Feb 20: NYC, Glasslands: New York Night Train’s SOUL CLAP and DANCE-OFF, Glasslands Gallery: 12am– 4am (1am Dance-Off for $100 prize), 21+, $5:

Tonight’s party will immediately follow WIlliamsburg Fashion Week’s afterparty at Glasslands Gallery. So get there early!

New York Night Train’s most popular party (and contest), the Soul Clap and Dance-Off, which last year broke out of Brooklyn to ping pong back and forth from Portland, Oregon to Portland, Maine, and from Mexico City to Tel Aviv, returns to its Glassland’s Gallery home Saturday. As always, this month’s Soul Clap will feature all-night dancing to the exquisitely dynamic 45rpm ’60s soul magic of New York Night Train soul proprietor Mr. Jonathan Toubin (who is just returning from a Mardi Gras tour of the south!)- plus a 1AM Dance-Off for a $100 grand prize MC-ed by lovely Laura Leigh.

This week’s contest will be presided over by a distinguished panel of judges consisting of the following pillars of the local community (follow the links and support their noble endeavors):

- Tom – lead singe of Brooklyn’s fabulous Electric Tickle Machine
- Vice’s Nicholas Gazin – illustrator, blogger, promoter, photographer, and all-around mustachioed renaissance fella
- Georgia Walker of Darryl K (and former NY Night Train intern!)
- Dr Lila Wolf - rock and roll chiropractor to the stars
- Daniel Barcelowsky - film maker and leader of NYC’s rhythmic dark post-punk sensation Preacher and the Knife

Doors and dancing start at MIDNIGHT.

check out this Dance-Off video Vice’s Nicholas Gazin captured at Glasslands a couple of months back:

Final Round At the Soul Clap Dance Party on November 20th, 2009 at Glasslands from Nick Gazin on Vimeo.

Then, afterhours!

Sat, Feb 20: Brooklyn, Badlands (undisclosed location): Shanky Afterhours, 4AM, 21+, $5: Brooklyn’s biggest and most notorious late night party returns with Mr Toubin making you dance ’til past dawn. Are you up? for it?

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