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  "id": "mbalax",
  "name": "Mbalax",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Senegalese popular-music genre codified by Youssou NDour from 1979 onward — Wolof-language vocal foreground over Senegalese sabar polyrhythmic drum-battery foundation extended with electric guitar, electric bass, keyboards, and saxophone; figures Youssou NDours Super Étoile de Dakar band (Set 1990), Baaba Maal, Thione Seck, Omar Pene, Ismael Lo, Cheikh Lo",
  "recipe": "classic West African late-1970s mbalax, groove Percussion, west African branch, African pop functional song congolese rumba isicathamiya. thick, breath veiled tone, straight onset, interlocked note trading. steel castagnari Italian premium folk music accordion, griot voice, mbalax dimba canonical Senegalese single hollowed trunk goat skin wooden pegs canonical wolof family canonical Senegalese mbalax galin sabar. dakar senegal mbalax defining 1979-present indie-commercial dakar mbalax oran rai studio. large-diaphragm condenser, German V72 tube pre, German tube console, vari-mu, Pultec passive program EQ. Studer 30ips tape echo plate reverb.",
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  "score": 192.988,
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      "isicathamiya"
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          "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_opera",
          "voice_speech_song": "voice_sprechgesang_notated",
          "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_four_plus_polyphony",
          "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_quranic_tajwid",
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          "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_talkbox",
          "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_2010s_melodyne_microtuned"
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          "bellows": "cardboard_leather",
          "voicing_chamber": "no_cassotto",
          "accordion_maker_school": "accordion_castagnari_italian"
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        "id": "sabar",
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          "sabar_articulation": "sabar_galin_pin",
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          "sabar_head": "sabar_goat_skin_pegged",
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    "archetype": "arch_emi_lagos_african_70s",
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      "console": "colored",
      "comp": "comp_la2a_optical",
      "eq": "eq_passive_program_pultec",
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      "medium": "tape_15ips"
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    "tuning": "west_north_african_mbalax_rai_polyrhythmic",
    "aesthetic": null,
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    "fx_extras": []
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    "room": "dakar_mbalax_oran_rai_studio",
    "parts": {
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      "voice_quality": "chest_mix_belt_voice",
      "voice_speech_song": "voice_syllabic_singing",
      "voice_tradition": "modern_pop_vocal_training",
      "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_arab_24_quartertone",
      "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_unprocessed",
      "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_solo_accompanied",
      "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_mid_1960s_double_tracking_era",
      "voice_microtone": "maqam_inflected",
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      "voice_vibrato": "slow_vibrato",
      "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_single_source",
      "griot_origin": "griot_wolof",
      "griot_voice_context": "griot_voice_stage",
      "free_reed_technique": "free_reed_folk_first_position",
      "reed_config": "lmm",
      "musette_offset": "dry_tuning",
      "sabar_use": "sabar_mbalax",
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      "sabar_head": "sabar_goat_skin_pegged",
      "sabar_lineage": "sabar_rose_family"
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    "chain_mic": "mic_sm57_dynamic_shure",
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    "chain_eq": "eq_passive_program_pultec",
    "chain_medium": "tape_15ips",
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