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  "id": "bikutsi",
  "name": "Bikutsi",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Beti music of Cameroon's central plateau around Yaoundé, historically a women's balafon-and-stamped-earth genre in fast 6/8, electrified from the 1960s by Messi Martin and Anne-Marie Nzié and pushed to distortion-soaked international form in the 1980s by Les Têtes Brûlées and Zanzibar, whose guitars imitate the balafon's rolling triplet ostinato over 130-150 BPM tom-heavy kit and shouted overlapping female-led vocals.",
  "recipe": "classic Western European mid-1960s bikutsi, functional Song, African pop branch, west African groove percussion, modal electric drone modal tuareg guitar african blues. thick, breath veiled tone, wide pitch sway, interlocked note trading. balafon, ebony clean strummed single coil electric guitar, alder la bella flats Detroit soul bass canon sub heavy electric bass, pre muffled edge muffled brushes-and-sticks drum kit, congas, single gourd interlocking mvet. paris African diaspora recording 1970-2000 mid tier paris pathe marconi african diaspora. large-diaphragm condenser, German V72 tube pre, German tube console, vari-mu, Pultec passive program EQ. Studer 30ips tape echo plate reverb.",
  "recipe_chars": 693,
  "score": 248.59,
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      "tuareg_guitar",
      "african_blues"
    ],
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          "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral",
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          "voice_vibrato": "oscillating_vibrato",
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          "voice_tradition": "mande_jeli_vocal_tradition",
          "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_M0_pulse_borrowed",
          "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_speech",
          "voice_speech_song": "voice_sprechgesang_notated",
          "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_four_plus_polyphony",
          "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_sub_saharan_polyphonic",
          "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_drone_overtone_harmonic_series",
          "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_talkbox",
          "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_late_1980s_reverb_saturated_bus"
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        "scores": {
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      {
        "id": "balafon",
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          "balafon_resonator": "balafon_gourd"
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      {
        "id": "electric_guitar_single_coil",
        "slots": {
          "electric_technique": "electric_clean_strummed",
          "amp_make": "amp_british_orange",
          "body_wood": "mahogany",
          "neck_wood": "maple",
          "fretboard": "ebony_fb",
          "pickup_magnet": "ceramic",
          "string_material": "nickel_plated",
          "string_gauge": "g_11",
          "bridge": "hardtail",
          "scale_length": "scale_gibson",
          "finish": "nitro",
          "string_tuning": "dadgad"
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        "scores": {
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          "string_gauge": 0.63,
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      {
        "id": "electric_bass",
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          "body_wood": "alder_b",
          "pickup_config": "humbucker_mm",
          "string_type": "la_bella_flats_motown",
          "scale_length_b": "short_scale_b",
          "fretted_or_not": "fretless",
          "bass_technique": "sub_bass_synth_blend"
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      {
        "id": "drum_kit",
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          "drum_technique": "brushes_and_sticks",
          "drumhead": "ec_pre_muffled_drumhead",
          "drum_kit_kick_pedal": "dk_kick_single_felt"
        },
        "scores": {
          "drum_technique": 20.475,
          "drumhead": 4.5,
          "drum_kit_kick_pedal": 0
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "congas",
        "slots": {
          "percussion_technique": "percussion_open_slap",
          "conga_set": "quinto",
          "conga_skin": "conga_mule_hide",
          "conga_shell_wood": "conga_oak_staved"
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        "scores": {
          "percussion_technique": 0.52,
          "conga_set": 0.39,
          "conga_skin": 0.585,
          "conga_shell_wood": 0.39
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      },
      {
        "id": "mvet",
        "slots": {
          "mvet_form": "mvet_beti_bulu",
          "mvet_delivery": "mvet_interlocking_dance",
          "mvet_string_construction": "mvet_idiochord_raffia"
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        "scores": {
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          "mvet_delivery": 5.970000000000001,
          "mvet_string_construction": -0.1
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    ],
    "room": "paris_pathe_marconi_african_diaspora",
    "archetype": "arch_emi_lagos_african_70s",
    "inline_chain": {
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      "pre": "transformer_solid_state",
      "console": "console_soundcraft_3200_uk_80s",
      "comp": "comp_dbx_160_vca",
      "eq": null,
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "tape_15ips"
    },
    "tuning": "equal_heptatonic_west_african",
    "aesthetic": null,
    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
  },
  "source": {
    "tuning": "equal_heptatonic_west_african",
    "room": "paris_pathe_marconi_african_diaspora",
    "chain_mic": "condenser_ldc",
    "chain_pre": "transformer_solid_state",
    "chain_comp": "comp_dbx_160_vca",
    "chain_medium": "tape_15ips",
    "chain_console": "console_soundcraft_3200_uk_80s"
  }
}