Re: Rap vocals

Subject: Re: Rap vocals

From: "Picinali, Lorenzo" <l.picinali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2025 08:26:09 +0000

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Reply-to: "Picinali, Lorenzo" <l.picinali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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Thread-topic: Rap vocals

Hi Robert,

in the past we have used Tency Music (https://www.tencymusic.com/), a karaoke service with very high quality tracks, including voice (all separate stems) - see for example https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.769663/full. You can just get in touch with them and agree on a research or a commercial use of their tracks - they are very kind and nice people!

Best
Lorenzo

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From: AUDITORY - Research in Auditory Perception <AUDITORY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Robert J Zatorre, Dr <robert.zatorre@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2025 9:47 PM
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Subject: [AUDITORY] Rap vocals

Dear colleagues

We are looking for audio recordings of rap or hip-hop music that contain only the vocalizations, without any instrumental background. Does anybody know of such a database?

Alternatively, any databases of a capella singing in general would also be useful, if you can recommend any.

Thank you for your help and best wishes

Robert

Robert Zatorre, PhD

Professor and Canada Research Chair

Montreal Neurological Institute

McGill University

3801 University

Montreal QC H3A2B4

Canada

From Perception to Pleasure: The Neuroscience of Music and Why We Love It

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Rap vocals
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