Toto - Africa (Instrumental + Stems)
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- Опубликовано: 26 дек 2020
- Due to unauthorized selling of the stems, download link as been removed until further notice.
This one took quite a long time to make.
Two years on and off, in fact.
Song: Toto (David Paich and Jeff Porcaro)
Arrange: Andoroid
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*SO this is different from what I usually do.*
Two years ago, I started creating backing tracks for a top 40 band I was involved with. One of the songs I had to do was Africa.
I had never heard a Toto song until I added it to our setlist. When I heard the chorus, I was blown away by how complex and clever the harmony for the chorus is. Not only that, but the instrumental had more going on in it than I thought. It led me to become a Toto fan.
However, when I found the 5.1 mix of Africa that was dissecting the song, I can not overstate it when I say I was absolutely *blown away* by how many unheared subtleties there are in that song. There are strings, the guitar work is complicated, there are percussions elements I hadn't heard before, and again the harmony is insanely clever.
*It lead Toto - Africa to becoming my Favorite song of all time.*
As a love letter to the song, I spent a year and a half studying every aspect I could of the original and tried to replicate it to the best of my abilities. It's *not* perfect, and I realized after a certain point that *Africa is a song that can never be perfectly replicated.* The closest way it can be replicated perfectly is if Toto plays it live. Besides that, it's such an easy song to misunderstand when arranging covers of it. (Many old karaoke tracks for the song miss notate relatively important parts, for example.)
Rather than keeping myself from releasing it to the public based on it's imperfection, I decided that as long as I could come *close* to doing the original intent and feeling of Africa by Toto justice, I might as well share it. I *Hope* I did it justice.
If you're looking for stems for a cover, backing tracks or anything else, feel free to use it! Please just give credit for the arrangement.
If requested enough I may upload the multitracks one day, but that would be hundreds of files.
So for now, I hope you enjoy my cover of Africa by Toto!
Merry Christmas and God Bless
Never thought my "toto africa stems" search would actually yield anything but here we are. I'm studying this song and this is a huge help, thanks!
bravo!! Gracias!!
The last person to use the actual studio multitracks to Africa was engineer Elliott Scheiner in 2003 for the SACD hybrid release of Toto IV. I chatted with him about the project. He did the remixing in house under the supervision of David Paich. Since it's Toto's biggest song my guess is they wanted more money to license it, so Harmonix went the cheaper route and split their own stems for the game. Just a guess though.
This has gotta be the best soundalike cover I've ever heard 🤯 Thank you so much for sharing the stems, these could prove invaluable to the mashup community.
This madlad actually did it 🔥😤🤘🏼
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing this!
perfect backing track 🤘🤘
you are a legend man thanks for sharing
Sounds great. the percussion and drums backing track sounds like the one they actually used during the 2000s
I wonder when we will ever get an official instrumental and acapella
I wonder the same thing. Hopefully someday! In the meantime I *hope* I gave the internet something semi-useful lol
There actually was a original version of it, sadly it's gone from youtube... At the end the synth is heaven ^^
@@Max-su1kg I dont think that was official ... if you checked carefully the guitars were a little bit different
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH!
wait youre amazing holy shit
Remarkable! It is clear that you dedicated yourself to getting this right, down to every last detail. I'd love to know what instruments you used in order to produce this.
Thank you! My desire was to get it sounding as accurate as I possible could.
The bass was recorded with an Electra Pheonix, the electric guitars with an Electra ESPx320, and the acoustic was a larrivee. For certain parts I played the same part an octave higher to give it a 12 string sound. The drums were done with Ezdrummer 2. I couldn't replicate the amazing groove Jeff Porcaro did, but being a drummer, I tried to make it dynamic. The other percussion was done with air xPand2, and the synths were a huge mixture of various programs including some stuff from Cakewalk.
Nice, will you re-share the stems?