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  "id": "simpa_dagbon",
  "name": "Simpa (Dagbamba dance music, Tamale)",
  "family": "global",
  "lineage": "Simpa is a recreational drum-and-dance genre of Dagbamba youth in Tamale and the towns of Dagbon in northern Ghana, sung in Dagbani. Its digital form, made by small Tamale producers who sequence sampled drums in software to recreate the dance rhythms, circulated on locally released VCDs and radio; generic synthesis-sequencing and drum-machine cards stand in for the software set-up.",
  "recipe": "classic simpa, functional Song, African pop branch. electronic synthesis sequencing credited drum machine unspecified. treated studio. dynamic moving-coil, transformerless solid-state pre, parametric EQ. 24-bit digital.",
  "recipe_chars": 219,
  "score": 1.085,
  "config": {
    "traditions": [
      "simpa_dagbon"
    ],
    "instruments": [
      {
        "id": "voice",
        "slots": {
          "voice_register": "voice_register_source_unspecified",
          "voice_quality": "voice_quality_source_unspecified",
          "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral",
          "voice_effort": "effort_moderate",
          "voice_vibrato": "voice_vibrato_local_unspecified",
          "voice_articulation": "voice_articulation_source_unspecified",
          "voice_microtone": "voice_microtone_local_unspecified",
          "voice_tradition": "voice_tradition_source_unspecified",
          "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_compound_source_unspecified",
          "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_quality_source_unspecified",
          "voice_speech_song": "voice_speech_song_local_unspecified",
          "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_solo_accompanied",
          "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_system_source_unspecified",
          "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_source_unspecified",
          "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_unprocessed",
          "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_single_lead",
          "voice_tessitura": "voice_tessitura_source_unspecified"
        },
        "scores": {
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          "voice_quality": 0,
          "voice_vocal_tract": 0,
          "voice_effort": 0,
          "voice_vibrato": 0,
          "voice_articulation": 0,
          "voice_microtone": 0,
          "voice_tradition": 0,
          "voice_mechanism_compound": 0,
          "voice_estill_quality": 0,
          "voice_speech_song": 0,
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          "voice_ornament_system": 0,
          "voice_pitch_organization": 0,
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          "voice_multitrack_stack": 0.39,
          "voice_tessitura": 0
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "electronic_synthesis_sequencing_unspecified",
        "slots": {
          "electronic_synthesis_sequencing_identity": "electronic_synthesis_sequencing_architecture_unspecified"
        },
        "scores": {
          "electronic_synthesis_sequencing_identity": 0
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "credited_drum_machine_unspecified",
        "slots": {
          "credited_drum_machine_generator": "credited_drum_machine_generator_unspecified",
          "credited_drum_machine_pattern": "credited_drum_machine_pattern_recurring",
          "credited_drum_machine_interface": "credited_drum_machine_interface_unspecified"
        },
        "scores": {
          "credited_drum_machine_generator": 0,
          "credited_drum_machine_pattern": 0.168,
          "credited_drum_machine_interface": 0
        }
      }
    ],
    "pinned": {
      "voice": [
        "voice_register",
        "voice_quality",
        "voice_vocal_tract",
        "voice_effort",
        "voice_vibrato",
        "voice_articulation",
        "voice_microtone",
        "voice_tradition",
        "voice_mechanism_compound",
        "voice_estill_quality",
        "voice_speech_song",
        "voice_ensemble_config",
        "voice_ornament_system",
        "voice_pitch_organization",
        "voice_processing_chain",
        "voice_multitrack_stack",
        "voice_tessitura"
      ],
      "electronic_synthesis_sequencing_unspecified": [
        "electronic_synthesis_sequencing_identity"
      ],
      "credited_drum_machine_unspecified": [
        "credited_drum_machine_generator",
        "credited_drum_machine_pattern",
        "credited_drum_machine_interface"
      ]
    },
    "room": "treated_studio",
    "inline_chain": {
      "mic": "dynamic_mic",
      "pre": "transformerless",
      "console": "console_in_the_box",
      "comp": "comp_none",
      "eq": "eq_active_parametric",
      "amp": null,
      "medium": "digital_high"
    },
    "tuning": "twelve_tet",
    "aesthetic": null,
    "arrangement": null,
    "fx_extras": []
  },
  "source": {
    "tuning": "twelve_tet",
    "room": "treated_studio",
    "parts": {
      "voice_register": "voice_register_source_unspecified",
      "voice_quality": "voice_quality_source_unspecified",
      "voice_vocal_tract": "tract_neutral",
      "voice_effort": "effort_moderate",
      "voice_vibrato": "voice_vibrato_local_unspecified",
      "voice_articulation": "voice_articulation_source_unspecified",
      "voice_microtone": "voice_microtone_local_unspecified",
      "voice_tradition": "voice_tradition_source_unspecified",
      "voice_mechanism_compound": "voice_mechanism_compound_source_unspecified",
      "voice_estill_quality": "voice_estill_quality_source_unspecified",
      "voice_speech_song": "voice_speech_song_local_unspecified",
      "voice_ensemble_config": "voice_ensemble_solo_accompanied",
      "voice_ornament_system": "voice_ornament_system_source_unspecified",
      "voice_pitch_organization": "voice_pitch_source_unspecified",
      "voice_processing_chain": "voice_processing_unprocessed",
      "voice_multitrack_stack": "voice_multitrack_single_lead",
      "voice_tessitura": "voice_tessitura_source_unspecified",
      "electronic_synthesis_sequencing_identity": "electronic_synthesis_sequencing_architecture_unspecified",
      "credited_drum_machine_generator": "credited_drum_machine_generator_unspecified",
      "credited_drum_machine_pattern": "credited_drum_machine_pattern_recurring",
      "credited_drum_machine_interface": "credited_drum_machine_interface_unspecified"
    },
    "pin_parts": true,
    "chain_mic": "dynamic_mic",
    "chain_pre": "transformerless",
    "chain_comp": "comp_none",
    "chain_eq": "eq_active_parametric",
    "chain_medium": "digital_high",
    "chain_console": "console_in_the_box"
  }
}