Video subtitles: Techno Scene Berlin (Documentary)
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people were partying in a little
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supermarket that has been turned into
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the club and it was really weird
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weird people funny people was hilarious
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when the walking down there was like
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double the size of West Berlin that
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became a place to explore and to find
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new places that were abandoned or in a
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desolate State and they've been turned
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into clubs quickly
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every weekend there was a new project
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somewhere and people just squatted and
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different locations and start started
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clubbing and that was pretty
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minimalistic but very much fun and so
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the whole thing could grow exponentially
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and well that made it possible to make
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Berlin a place for people from all over
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the world
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to party
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I think they're so strong underground
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scene this depends the way you look at
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it that is some obviously Technol now
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these days has been some very mainstream
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there's a lot of clubs playing techno
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that would have never played Tatum
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before but I think if you focus all on
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the underground more upcoming artists
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things like that then you will find as a
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very strong underground scene still
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going there is a underground sound the
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underground sound is that sound which is
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not mainstream so it's the sound you
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will not get rich with when it comes to
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money or material things but the riches
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of the underground lie in a different
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territory it's more here you know it was
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underground at the beginning I remember
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my my friends circle separated into two
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groups people who like tech many people
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didn't now it's absolutely mainstream it
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you know every every song which is a
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produce that's a beat from it from a
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drum machine so many people listening to
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that music because they think it's
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underground and the more people listen
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to music the more it turns to mainstream
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so I think personally that we already
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have lost the underground you had the
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commercial side of it and you had the
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underground side of it and it depends on
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you where you where you where you set
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the border you know you could say okay
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is that really underground he makes a
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living out of it for for the last 18 or
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20 years yeah it is underground because
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it's it's not about making a living out
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of it
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it is about selling the out of
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things you know and I think yeah there
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is a there still is both
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the biggest change and the techno scene
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with maybe the more hard industrial
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sound and the more deep hypnotic sound
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seem to have taken a across roads when
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it came to the tech machine the sound
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itself got more powerful the
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production's got more professional it
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was really much much faster in the
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beginning sons were yeah like gaba
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sounds and today I think it changed
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through the drugs that were taken today
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there's a lot of ketamine in the
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business and that makes it like slow and
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deep and dark and yeah and a little
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Spacey as well when it comes to take no
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there's always that old-school Technol
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feeling that people like to always have
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a nail with the Nano names of machines
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etc but also birth dating with a moment
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has a lot of real innovation going on at
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the moment some real artists who are
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doing something really different that's
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never been here before
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a lot of artists like Ness hue what Russ
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a lot who's doing some really nice stuff
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folks with Giorgio jiggly and people who
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are when I listen to the music I don't
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feel like they're recycling something
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old I feel that they are doing something
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really fresh every new generation that
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comes to the clubs thinks it's something
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really new but actually it isn't the
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same sound that has been 10 years ago
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haunting the club's is now coming back
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we have like these 12 halftone steps on
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one octave we have that on several
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octaves so what you play inside of the
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musical scale actually stays inside of
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the music scale
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it's always been a really diverse
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diverse group of people who love
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technology in the beginning collected
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from all over the place and from all
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different kinds of fields and I like
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diversity I have nothing against it it's
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here in Berlin's certainly got more and
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more foreigners but I like it there's a
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lot of new people coming through a lot
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of fresh ideas coming from a lot of
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different artists
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I guess if one scene sticks to one area
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of people it can eventually start to get
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about steel after a while but I think a
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lot of new people coming through can be
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a good thing but also as you can imagine
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everything becomes overcrowded the club
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culture has changed a bit since there
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are so many tourists coming to Berlin 20
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years ago or 15 years ago there was more
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like a family feeling in the clubs
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people were meeting each other every
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weekend and if it was with it was a sort
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of a community and today it's just the
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other way around there are more tourists
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and the clubs just coming there for for
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one night or maybe two nights the later
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the night goes the less tourists they
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are because they start drinking at after
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dinner and are totally wasted around
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12:00 and the party hasn't even started
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yet they're missing a lot
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investors coming to Berlin that's a
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that's subject with two sides one side
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is they bring money in to the to the
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city and also to the clubs and to the
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scene and they make it possible to
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realize some projects here but on the
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other side they require the best places
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to build new houses new new buildings
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new offices where all the technical
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clubs in the 90s were in the center of
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town in the main areas in this myth
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pants lower back
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skitty sign and and quotes back there
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slowly being pushed out of the center of
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town and for me it's cool because it's
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it's always changing I wouldn't like to
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still go to the same Gazzola
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in the same place whether the evac has
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totally changed since it opened and now
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like part 25 is gone and it went became
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cata
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and now it's gone and I was moving over
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back on the other side become halls
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marked and cata Club and that's great
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it's a constant change I don't I don't
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I'm not sad about it or something
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first of all certain areas are promoted
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as artists areas where do people live
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through bars school clubs then people
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move there by real estate there then
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they start complaining oh it's too loud
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at night our kids cannot sleep so the
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clubs have to close
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then they want looking for a club or Bob
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which is kind of clean so that they can
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go there maybe show out there that keep
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the stuff that closed so then other
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paths
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come for this open up for these people
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shops open for these people
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of course the rents go higher and the
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people who used to live there the
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artists the cool people who have usually
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not so much money have to go somewhere
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else and suddenly it's a boring area
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people were arguing that techno has been
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dead already for 10-15 years
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and they always said no that's just
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that's just a short-term thing and it's
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never going to survive because it's so
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boring always a bomb bomb bomb bomb and
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but still technical existing and
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thriving there will be certain DJ's like
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who will die and the music will still be
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running and it's just like bah he died
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but just musically and it'll be the same
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with techno for me I think taking away
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the thing that is always going to be
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ever-evolving available being techno
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today is nothing like techno so indeed
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and the 90s and I think it will keep
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evolving even though always to go take
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know there's always going to be new
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technology there's going to be new
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producers fresh ideals Satan was always
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going to be evolving there's always
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going to be fresh stones I don't really
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think technicals going to die the Wheel
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of Life keeps on turning
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