UPLOAD an ACAPELLA

[djtopcat]

Yeah I'd really like to start a pella/instr/multitrack trading group on the DL for serious old school aficionados. I make tons of near studio quality diy pellas myself and would love to share and trade. Mostly golden era hip hop/r&b classics that I'm not even sure studio pellas even exist for.


I've belonged to some of those "secret" remixer groups in the past,but I just get sick of the same ol' shitty top 40 Lady Gaga posts. Frankly some of those mashup producers I've dealt with are just plain arrogant douchebags.





There needs to be a group where true dedicated old school djs/remixers/collectors can specifically request and trade for rare classic things amongst their peers just like the old AIM days. I still personally don't want to hear super rare hip hop pellas slapped over a Taylor Swift instrumental and lauded on Reddit as being "genius". I'd rather hear those classic dope blends, and more creative uses that still preserve the integrity of the genre.


I'll be brainstorming ideas for a group next month. I have 17,000+ records I'm not looking forward to moving Sept 1st that I have to take care of first though.





Anyway someone here requested ODB-Brooklyn Zoo pella? Still not sure if a studio exists but I made this a long time ago from the cd single. B Batson's might be better though I honestly can't remember now haha properly tagged and bpm should be close. 320kbs


http://www7.zippyshare.com/v/VuknUlSG/file.html





Let's keep the thread going!

 

[Thermos]

I'm definitely into the idea of trading classic hip-hop acapellas. I have a small collection of rap 12"s with acapellas for cuts and samples. I snap em up whenever I find decent ones. Here's a one that I just ripped:





Nas - One Love http://www3.zippyshare.com/v/pdC41CSF/file.html





I'm also curious about your DIY acapella making technique. I've only ever tried this with mp3s, and ended up with pretty sloppy sounding results. How do you get it to approach studio quality? Do you need an uncompressed copy off a CD?

 

[djtopcat]

"I'm also curious about your DIY acapella making technique. I've only ever tried this with mp3s, and ended up with pretty sloppy sounding results. How do you get it to approach studio quality? Do you need an uncompressed copy off a CD?"





Well kind of, I actually seek out lossless rips first and then go from there if not available.


Really the biggest snag to making usable near studio acapellas from rips (vinyl or cd) is just the annoying wow and flutter problem. Almost everything in the pre-digital age was recorded on tape machines, and you're always going to have little pitch and speed fluctuations when the music gets pressed. In those cases it boils down to just tedious and time consuming chopping and pasting to line things up.


The rest is kind of my secret KFC recipe since I often use three pieces of software all at once to get the best results. I actually very rarely do straight phase inversion (vocal/instr) pellas anymore unless I have modern digital lossless rips.


My specialty is the golden era hip hop classics of the 80's and 90's and most of those rips have the problems I mentioned above. There's also cases where they added more bells and whistles to the vocal version and the instrumental is more basic (dry) Then you have to start playing with volumes and channels.


Frankly most of the diys I hear around to me are garbage. CPU pellas (frequency extraction) are almost always over-filtered and tinny sounding. It took a decade plus of trial and error and pulling my hair out to find that perfect sweet spot where you get the crisp loud vocals and very minimal background artifacts. I will always choose to have some slight background bleed which is easily covered up in the mix over tinny over-filtered mud. No diy is ever going to 100% perfect, then again I have studio pellas with such loud headphone monitor bleed that they sound like a diy lol


Actually in some cases my diys made from direct cd rips are better then the studio rips from vinyl. Vinyl is notorious for glitches (pops/clicks) and that same damn wow and flutter issue.





This is an ODB-Got your Mone diy pella I made from the clean studio version mixed with bits of the dirty diy I made years ago. A remixer friend has the studio multitracks to the explicit ODB-Got your money, but won't trade for anything but equal multi tracks, which I don't have a lot of. So if anyone out there has the full dirty version pella please let me know. Always down to trade.





https://www.sendspace.com/file/sj5r9b

 

[Thermos]

Thanks for revealing a bit of the secrete process.

It took a decade plus of trial and error and pulling my hair out to find that perfect sweet spot where you get the crisp loud vocals and very minimal background artifacts.

I'm interested, what motivated you to spend so much time and effort on this? Are you really into remixing?

 

[djtopcat]

Just a little hobby on the side really, I wasn't able to get all those exclusive studio pellas with the connected dj/producer AIM crowd back in the day so I just started making my own from my cd single and vinyl collection. I originally just set out to replace all the awful over-filtered cpu hip hop pellas out there with ones that if mixed right could sound as professional as possible. I do like remixing, but diy acapella making is challenging and fun, not so much if it doesn't work though.





Here's a KRS One diy pella I just made, is there a studio version? Dunno but I think mine is pretty good.


Enjoy


KRS One-Hip Hop Lives diy acapella


https://www.sendspace.com/file/iw84h3

 

[djtopcat]

FunkyFlatulent said:

Warren G ft. Natt Dogg - Regulate

Oh Shit, thanks so much for this! I was actually going to request it, so I'm really glad you hooked it up. Out of curiosity, is this on wax at all?


Now I just need to keep looking for Young Jeezy Soul Survivor (pretty sure you have to be a name mixtape DJ to nab that one, but oh well)
Nah the regulate pella was never on wax. The Jeezy is defenitely not out yet either.

NOW I HAVE A HUGE REQUEST. DOES ANYONE HAVE THE JODECI FT RAE AND GHOST - FREAKIN U REMIX ACAPELLA? IT'S ON A PROMO I THINK. I'VE BEEN AFTER THAT FOR YEARS.

THANKS.

Here's the Fugees- Ready Or Not

http://s64.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0PPZC9YLEII3D2IJHMICZSKC9D


Batson!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Man where ya at??? I got some joints for ya in Dropbox, if you're still alive hit me up buddy!

btw ... Regulate pella was on the promo Above the Rim strk 12" just stumbled on it in my crates today ha
http://www.discogs.com/Warren-G-Nate-Dogg-Regulate/release/487525

 

[ketan]

djtopcat said: NOW I HAVE A HUGE REQUEST. DOES ANYONE HAVE THE JODECI FT RAE AND GHOST - FREAKIN U REMIX ACAPELLA? IT'S ON A PROMO I THINK. I'VE BEEN AFTER THAT FOR YEARS. THANKS.


I think I have a promo for that but my hip hop shelves are a mess. I'll try to take a look sometime soon...

 

[djtopcat]

ketan said:



djtopcat said: NOW I HAVE A HUGE REQUEST. DOES ANYONE HAVE THE JODECI FT RAE AND GHOST - FREAKIN U REMIX ACAPELLA? IT'S ON A PROMO I THINK. I'VE BEEN AFTER THAT FOR YEARS. THANKS.


I think I have a promo for that but my hip hop shelves are a mess. I'll try to take a look sometime soon...




Thanks Ketan!
it's the dalvin remixes 12"
http://www.discogs.com/Jodeci-Freek-N-You-Remixes/release/2491430

 

[rain103]

:latepass: : hoping some of these links are still active lol :baller: