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bella flats electric bass, brushes-and-sticks drum kit, expressive muted and open tanbou ka, saxophone, diy sequenced yamaha psr casio home keyboard 1990s 2000s gm auto accompaniment home township studios sub bass rompler workstation. port au prince Haitian recording 1970-2000 indie-commercial port au prince haitian kompa studio. sennheiser MD421, transformer-coupled solid-state pre, colored vintage console, optical compressor, parametric EQ. tape 15ips spring reverb.", "recipe_chars": 862, "score": 224.357, "config": { "traditions": [ "kompa_gouyad", "milonga", "folklore_surero" ], "instruments": [ { "id": "voice", "slots": { "voice_register": "chest_voice", "voice_quality": "aspirated_voice", "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral", "voice_effort": "effort_moderate", "voice_vibrato": "slow_vibrato", "voice_articulation": "hocket_voice", "voice_microtone": "maqam_inflected", "voice_tradition": "scottish_gaelic_taladh_tradition", "voice_mechanism_compound": 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