Recommendations for cinematic, fast, African chase music?

[Meteo Xavier]

For lack of a better term I can come up with. I have a track to finish up, I'm not used to the genre its in and I'm having trouble actually finding a lot of examples, either cinematically or in album music that sound like this, and what few examples I do find are usually pretty bare - just the beat itself and almost no accompaniment. I want to add a lot of atmospherics and electronic chords, SFX and melodies to it.

I can post my WIP if anyone wants it, I just wanted this to be a recommended music topic like others here instead of a Workshop topic.

Thank you!

[Theophany]

wat @ this thread title, but check this out:

[Kenogu Labz]

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Well, at least these suggestions are from scenes placed in Africa...

[Meteo Xavier]

wat @ this thread title

I thought it might be enticing others to answer, as the last couple threads I was asking for help didn't get responses. But also, I AM using, I believe, samples of drums from Africa.

[Nonamer]

I'm assuming you mean like fast pace African tribal music?

Documentaries about Africa are a good source of this type of music. I saw one recently about the evolution of humans in the environment.

[psychowolf]

This is all i can think of, it was used in this tv show i cant remember.

And it was about people being stranded on an island so... kinda works i guess. idk

[Meteo Xavier]

I actually have a pretty decent beat/groove going on for it already, it's what kind of music I can do on top of it that I'm having trouble with.

Closest example I can find is this from one of my favorite CDs of all time:

. Problem is, the mood of this piece is almost completely different than what I want while still having a lot of the instruments in there.

I don't know, I was just looking for more examples of Fast Tribal music that wasn't like a gimmick track where it's there just so the composer can show off. Those are usually pretty minimalistic and I'm trying to do a full-figured track.

Also, if this is coming off strange, it's because I accidentally took some Tylenol PM at work and I'm still not all together yet.

Edit: Yeah, Psycho Wolf, thats kinda what I'm looking for. Nice find.

[OutSpoken]

http://www.behaviormusic.com/music/michael_mccann/kinshasa_infiltration_part2_with_high_stress.mp3

This is what comes to mind although it doesn't really develop until about 3 minutes in. If you download the full soundtrack (which is free) for Splinter Cell: Double Agent, the Kinshasa level has a fight theme that might be faster paced than the infiltration theme.

I would definitely like to see your WIP.

[Meteo Xavier]

This is the WIP: http://tindeck.com/listen/wtiu

It started out as a remix for the SD3 project for "Left Handed Wolf" but I never got much further with it. I want to keep the string stabs but lose the horns and some of the more cinematic elements to it for an electronic and (slightly) spacey/ambient thing.

So I'm basically looking for more stuff that sounds kinda like this if at all possible. I want to really develop this into something neat.

Thank you for the suggestions so far!

[Sinewav]

Surprised no one has posted this one yet. Especially around 4:45.

I think the gist of it is lots of fast hand percussion. And maybe african choirs like in Baba Yetu.

[Meteo Xavier]

There's no way in hell I could get choirs like Baba Yetu in there, but the Casino Royale one is awesome. Thanks Sinewav

[Sinewav]

There's no way in hell I could get choirs like Baba Yetu in there, but the Casino Royale one is awesome. Thanks Sinewav

Haha I figured as much, but it was worth a shot. No prob dude.

[Sinewav]

Sorry for the double post, but I just realized the irony of me helping you with that track... I actually was working on Left Handed Wolf for the SD3 project myself a long time ago, but had to drop it because of life/computer issues. Looks like I got to contribute after all.

[Sole Signal]

Maybe to a lesser extent, but between the big strings and synths this has some cool African percussion style breakdowns:

Matrix soundtrack - Mona Lisa Overdrive

[Archangel]

If you're still looking for ideas, you can check out the soundtrack from the movie 10,000 BC.

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