I'm wondering what you folks use for Witch Doctor music.

Currently, I have a playlist from the following:

Amazon.com: Djembe: African Percussions: Music:...
Amazon.com: Djembe, Vol. 2: Famoudou Konate:...
Amazon.com: The Best of Kodo: Music: Kodo
http://www.portlandtaiko.org/store/index.html

I switched to taiko because I wanted more base than traditional Djembe drums give. The problem with all these, though, is about 1/2 the tracks are unusable, some of the djembe tracks are recorded live and thus have crouds reactions, while Taiko utilizes flutes in some music, which really makes it not fit.

Kodo's CD's are not recorded at the best quality, and come out a lot softer than the others. Too bad, as they have some good stuff. Portland Taiko puts out some VERY nice stuff, and it is recorded very well, giving a nice base, rich sound.

I've been wanting to mix in some chants into the whole mix, but have been having quite a difficult time finding any.

I have a ".wma" file of the Indiana Jones Ride temple drums - it's a long, slow sequence of "jungle drums" with lots of other sound effects - could be great for a witch doctor.

I've also got an mp3 of a drum sequence I put together - spliced from the intro to Europe's "Cherokee". More of a Plains Indians sound, but very cool if I do say so myself. It's got the keyboard "hits" and I put in some thunder and shaker sounds... could be great with a witch doctor and a strobe light.

Both are good for looping - send me a PM and I'll try to email them to you if you like.

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Wait... Did you hear that?

If you're willing to investigate the notion of a Medicine Man or Shaman, you could look at recordings like "Sorcerer" or "Singing Stones" by Michael Stearns & Ron Sunsinger, "Kiva" by Sunsinger, Stearns, and Steve Roach, or "The Serpent's Lair" by Roach and Byron Metcalf. Very rhythmic stuff, with plenty of ambient weirdness and some chanting here and there. It's not strictly African sounding though - it's more Native American and Central/Latin American.

For my headhunter soundtrack I used the audio track from Disney's "Jungle Cruise" ride with some didgeri doo added to it. It has drums and chanting and some great jungle sounds to boot.

DB

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"But Why is the rum gone???"
" If wishes were horses we'd all be eatin' steak"

What about that one track on the Skeleton Key soundtrack, the conjure of sacrafice.