Sometimes DJ mixes can sound really dry if nothing but instrumentals are used all night long, but fortunately DJs have access to a very cool tool – acapellas. The vocal-only track of a song, an acapella can fit beautifully into a mix and spice up the dullest of sets. There is no better feeling than mixing some great vocals with a banging song — perfectly in key — and creating a fresh remix on the fly. Then the crowd looks at you amazed, thinking, “That’s not supposed to be there… but I love it!”
Want to know where to find acapellas? Look no further. Here is a list of my favourite sources and a few more – just because you’re awesome.
This site not only has a very useful and helpful forum, but also boasts an amazing amount of free acapellas. Acapellas4u has been on the scene for 7 years, and it’s growing everyday. It also allows users to upload the vocals they have and based on those uploads get credit for more downloads. As amazing as the pool may be, the downloading comes with some limitations that are based on the number of posts you have. Every member gets 30 downloads per month and must upload or be active in the forum to download more. Another limitation is that you must have 50 posts or donate to the site in order to see the BPM of each accapella. More posts basically means more downloads.
A favorite of source of music for many DJs, Beatport also has a DJ Tools section with acapellas and an almost-perfect user interface. It has more than 4,300 acapellas. The bad side is that they cost as much as entire songs — as high as $2.50 for each acapella. That may sound like a bit much, but you can also find acapella packs that are quite a lot cheaper than individual purchases.
The German DJ Tunes is pretty much everything you need for finding great music and it has a collection of acapellas that surpasses Beatport’s array. During the time of writing they had 5218 tracks, which are priced more or less the same as in Beatport’s store.
Another great site for house music that only has a handful of acapellas but you can still find a lot of great vocals. Just like Beatport it has a good interface, making it very easy to listen to the tracks. Prices go a bit higher here, up to $3.99 per track.
Additional sources
Acapella Tracks For Djs
Here are a few more plentiful record pools for your acapella seeking pleasure:
As a reminder, two previous posts on DJTechTools dealing with the similar subject of finding digital records online:
- Digital record pool round-up
Making your own acapella
For a more hands-on approach you can always take a track and extract the vocals yourself. In order to achieve this you need the normal version with vocals and the instrumental version of the song and they have to be the same quality. With a process called sample inversion you extract the vocals from the song. You put the two song side by side in a DAW and you invert the instrumental. Export audio and voila, your acapellas is ready. For a more detailed version of this process check out this video:
That’s it for this part. If I forgot anything please let me know in the comments section. Next time we will look at how you can use acapellas to your advantage in your DJ set and some tips on preparing them with beatgrids!
For advanced on-the-fly remixing, try mixing acapellas with individual samples—get started with our DJ PowerTools!
Additional reading: Make sure your accapellas work by mixing in key
About the Writer: David Meridian is a DJ based out of Slovenia- This is his first article for TechTools. Want to contribute your self? Visit this page.
Loopmasters proudly announce one of the most anticipated sequels from our acapella series. House Acapella’s Vol2 comes loaded with a fresh set of hot vocal performances written and produced by Andy Lee and performed by some of the best session vocalists, working and recording within the dance music scene today.
With more hooks than a cloakroom, House Acapellas Vol.2 has been tailor made for all House producers looking for upfront, feel good vocals that will work perfectly in many styles ranging from Classic, Deep, Tech or Garage. Included in this volume are 5 Sultry Female Vocal Tracks and 3 Reflective Male Speeches and folders of inspirational Ad Libs and Phrases ready to drop into your House based productions.
Everything is supplied 100% royalty free and this means that you can do exactly what you want with the content, chop it, process it, layer it, use long or short sections and mould it to your sound. Only the best mics, pre amps and signal paths have been used recording every detail of these amazing vocalists in the studio.
Acapellas are a goldmine for producers worldwide and this collection will not fail to deliver, you get verses, bridges, chorus plus additional harmony and single word phrases making it a breeze to arrange and remix the stems to your preference. With world class vocal performances from in demand vocalists your tracks can take on a whole new level of popularity when performed and released – and the cool thing is you avoid those awkward conversations that start with “About my Royalties”
House Acapellas weighs in at 857MB and includes 155 24Bit Wav Samples at 44.1 KHz. The package contains 8 Stems from the Feeling Love Track, 20 Stems from Don’t Make Me Wait, 8 Stems from Saturdays, 7 Stems from Feel It In Your Soul, 14 Stems from Fabulous, 3 Spoken Word Male Speeches and 95 Male and Female Short Phrases.
With the success of Vol.1 appearing in many Hot Club tracks, do not hesitate in picking up these incredible vocal samples today, check out the demos, stay ahead of the crowd and sample House Acapellas Vol.2 TODAY!
Female vocals provided by Leanne Lawson & Natasha Watts, male vocals provided by Mike Prempeh
Format Options Explained:
- Zip(main) format includes Acidised Wav and Rex2 Loops – all single (non looping) sounds and Sampler Patches for Kontakt, Halion, NNXT, EXS24 soft samplers.
- Apple Loops format includes Apple Loops and Rex2 Loops – all single (non looping) sounds and Sampler Patches for Kontakt, Halion, NNXT, EXS24 soft samplers.
- Stem Pack format includes Wav Stems from One Vocal Track only.
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You know how it is. You want to create your very own mashup of that great new track that just topped the charts a few days ago, just like all your DJ/producer heroes have already done in the past week. You already know how you’re going to fit it in an existing song that you have in your library, and you even have that all-important “drop” planned out. Your heart races as you imagine playing that tune in front of your friends, minds blown as they try to figure out how you could’ve come up with such a floorfilling dance gem. Piece of cake! Now if only you could find the vocals of that track…
You scour the net for it, only to be duped by a handful of bogus download sites, clickbait and, even worse, you’re even tempted to hang around in dubious filesharing sites with their “.exe” and “.dmg” viruses. Not good. So here’s our list of where you ought to be looking instead…
Edit, bootleg or something else?
An edit is when you “cut up” a piece of music to add bars, remove certain portions of a song, or rearrange it according to your liking – we’ve got a post on edits here. This is perfect for adding in an intro and an outro to make a song easier to “mix in” when you DJ, for example.
Bootlegs or mashups are a different thing. Whenever you take portions of a song (say, the chorus vocals) and put your own twist to it by layering your own beats and melodies under them, that’s called making a bootleg. Bootlegs are, for the most part, unofficial remixes using readily available versions of those songs, such as the ones you hear on the radio (called a “radio edit), or one that you can purchase online through stores like iTunes. Mashups are very similar, although mainly you’re taking whole elements of already finished songs here and putting them together to create something new.
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Find here THE LATEST  & HOTTEST Acapellas!
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01 – Childish Gambino – Feels Like Summer (Diy Acapella) – 7A – 83.mp3
02 – Eminem Ft. Joyner Lucas – Lucky You (Diy Acapella) – -.mp3
03 – Ariana Grande Ft. Nicki Minaj – The Light Is Coming (Diy Acapella) – 1A – 105.mp3
04 – Avril Lavigne – Head Above Water (Diy Acapella) – 7B – 130.mp3
05 – Silk City & Dua Lipa Ft. Diplo & Mark Ronson – Electricity (Diy Acapella) – 8B – 118.mp3
06 – Sigala, Ella Eyre & Meghan Trainor Ft. French Montana – Just Got Paid (Diy Acapella) – 11A – 120.mp3
07 – Jax Jones Ft. Ina Wroldsen – Breathe (Diy Acapella) – 10A – 126.mp3
08 – Dua Lipa – Want To (Diy Acapella) – 1A – 92.mp3
09 – The Chainsmokers Ft. Kelsea Ballerini – This Feeling (Diy Acapella) – 2A – 105.mp3
10 – Alan Walker – Darkside (Diy Acapella) – 9A – 85.mp3
11 – The Chainsmokers – Sick Boy (Diy Acapella) – 11A – 90.mp3
12 – Imagine Dragons – Natural (Diy Acapella) – 7A – 100.mp3
13 – Domo – Currency (Studio Acapella) – 5A – 108.mp3
14 – Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Vs David Guetta Ft. Kiiara – Complicated (Diy Acapella) – 4A – 90.mp3
15 – Becky G & Natti Natasha – Sin Pijama (Diy Acapella) – 10A – 125.mp3
16 – Cardi B Ft. Kehlani – Ring (Diy Acapella) – 12B – 106.mp3
17 – Martin Garrix & Justin Mylo – Burn Out (Studio Acapella) – 9A – 128.mp3
18 – Xxxtentacion – Moonlight (Diy Acapella) – 8A – 128.mp3
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Mp3 320Kbps | Acapellas News| Bpm, Key & Cue
Hello DJs & Producers!
Find here THE LATEST  & HOTTEST Acapellas!
Ready to open Ableton?!
01 – Camelphat & Elderbrook – Cola (Diy Acapella).mp3
02 – Ingrosso – Dreamer (Diy Acapella).mp3
03 – Kid Ink – Tell Somebody (Diy Acapella).mp3
04 – Ethan Payton – Roll With It (Diy Acapella).mp3
05 – Sza – Broken Clocks (Diy Acapella).mp3
06 – Yfn Lucci Ft. Meek Mill – Street Kings (Diy Acapella).mp3
07 – Lil Jon Ft. Offset & 2 Chainz – Alive (Diy Acapella).mp3
08 – N.E.R.D & Rihanna – Lemon (Diy Acapella).mp3
09 – Chris Brown – Tempo (Diy Acapella).mp3
10 – Kodak Black Ft. Xxxtentacion – Roll In Peace (Diy Acapella).mp3
11 – Galantis & Throttle – Tell Me You Love Me (Diy Acapella).mp3
12 – Ingrosso – More Than You Know (Diy Acapella).mp3
13 – Kesha – Woman (Diy Acapella).mp3
14 – Bruno Mars – Finesse (Diy Acapella).mp3
15 – Vinai – Parade (Diy Acapella).mp3
16 – Tech N9Ne – Don’t Nobody Want None (Diy Acapella).mp3
17 – Ramz – Barking (Diy Acapella).mp3
18 – Dj Rapture Ft. Dozay – Jiggle (Diy Acapella).mp3
19 – Diplo Ft. Mo – Get It Right (Diy Acapella).mp3
20 – Sam Hunt – Body Like A Back Road (Diy Acapella).mp3
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