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Doktor Santi | Mixing Engineer

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International Standard Mixing & Mastering for Afrobeats artistes in UK/USA/Canada/Naija 🇺🇲🇬🇧🇨🇦 🇳🇬
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Why is your music losing listeners????

Welcome to @1717mixing!

I’m Doktor Santi, and if you’ve just landed on my page, just take it that you have finally found THE BEST mixing and mastering engineer for Nigerian Afrobeats artists in the diaspora!

My ONE and ONLY passion and mission is to help Nigerian Afrobeats artists in the diaspora get mixes that sound clean , hit hard , and connect with listeners everywhere 🌍.

Whether it's...

Afrobeats

Afro-fusion

Amapiano

Afro-soul

Afro-gospel

Afro-drill

Afro-whatever..

I will bring your music to life with mixes that arrest attention, sound extra-amazing, and can easily travel worldwide because they are INTERNATIONAL STANDARD.

If you REALLY care about your sound, then DM me today for ultra high quality, Grammy-worthy mixing and mastering of your songs! 🎙🏆

#AfrobeatsMixing #AfroSound #AfrobeatsEngineer

#AfroFusion #AmapianoVibes #AfroSoulMusic

#NaijaToTheWorld #MixingEngineerLife

#GlobalAfrobeats #LagosToLondon

For DOPE BEATS (like the one playing in this video) contact mad producer @ansestorh by @1717mixing

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2 years ago

You don’t need me to remind you… it’s a new year.

And 2026 is not the year your music should still sound like 2025.

Dull.
Flat.
Lifeless.

Nah.

This is the year you level up.
The year your sound commands attention.
The year your records hit harder, feel richer, and connect deeper.

Your audience should hear growth immediately.
Clarity.
Depth.
Energy.
Intentional sound design.

Yes ke!

If you’re serious about grabbing your ideal listeners and giving them the best and the most INTERNATIONAL SOUNDING MUSIC they’ve ever heard from you…

Don’t overthink it.

Send me a DM.

Let’s talk about how we can get your next hit single, EP, or album sounding LIKE IT DESERVES A GRAMMY!

Cheers.

#AfrobeatsDiaspora

#NigerianInDiaspora

#UKAfrobeats

#USAfrobeats

#AfroMusicWorldwide by @1717mixing

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8 months ago

GUYS! GUYS!! GUYSSSS!!! 😭🔥🔥🔥

YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE THIS!!!

HADKOR JUST HIT NUMBER 2 ON @djgosporella's TOP 10 AFROGOSPEL COUNTDOWN!!! 😭🔥🔥🔥

HADKOR by @doktorsanti, @daboomsha and @kl3vamazing !!!

NUMBER FREAKING TWO!!! 😭😭🔥🔥

Omo!!! The love is CRAZYYYY!!!

We are SHOCKED! We are genuinely taken aback by this level of love and support. Like, WHAT IS GOING ON??? 😂😂❤️❤️

This is MASSIVE, guys!!!

THANK YOUUUUU!!! 🙌🏽❤️

Please keep streaming HADKOR!

Keep watching the music video!

Keep sharing it! Let's keep pushing this thing!!! 🔥🔥🔥

LINK TO WATCH "HADKOR" IN @doktorsanti BIO!!! 🔗

Awesome stuff, guys!!!

ALL GLORY TO JESUS!!! 🙌🏽🙌🏽❤️

Audio mixed by @1717mixing

Video directed by @kailonarts

#DrSanti #DaBoomsha #HADKOR by @1717mixing

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6 days ago

AI video doesn’t start when you open the AI tool.

It starts with a vision.

What are you actually trying to achieve?

Sell something? Get people to attend an event? Make people connect with a song? Make them feel something?

That outcome drives the idea. The idea drives the video.

Because AI can give you spectacular very easily. But without direction, you can also end up creating beautiful nonsense 😂

Very soon, everybody will have access to these tools. The real advantage will be what you can see, what you can think of, and how well you can direct the tools to achieve it.

I’ll be breaking this down practically in my AI Video Masterclass on October 24th.

Registration link is in @kailonarts bio.

See you on the other side. 🙏🏾
Actors
@doktorsanti @irawomartins

Music - PAWA by @doktorsanti
Mixed & mastered by @1717mixing by @1717mixing

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8 days ago

#evolve …

The only constant in life is CHANGE.

Yet, as necessary as change is, nobody really likes it because, naturally, we are creatures of comfort.

Think about it: God spent five days creating COMFORT for man in the Garden of Eden, then on the sixth day, He made man in His own image and gave him dominion over all the comfort He had created.

I repeat: nobody likes change, no matter how necessary it is.
Even babies cry when we change their soiled diapers - Selah.

Now, let’s bring that home…

Gospel Zone with DJ Gosporella on @thebeat999fm, Lagos, has been on air since 2009 and is unarguably one of the longest-running gospel music and infotainment shows on radio.

Inside Gospel Zone is Gosporella’s Hitlist — the gospel music chart that airs 10 AM dot and has become a powerful barometer for what’s happening in gospel music on radio this side of the Atlantic.

If you have been an ardent follower, you would have noticed that the Hitlist has metamorphosed several times, evolving with the times and seasons.

First, it was TOP 10 @ 10 Gospel Music Chart; Then we evolved into the TOP 10 AfroGospel Music Chart, giving it a more continental identity.

And now…

WE ARE EVOLVING AGAIN! 🔥

Something is changing on Gosporella’s Hitlist starting next week.

What is it?

Stay tuned… to be in tune!

Gospel Zone with DJ Gosporella …
the HQ of Gospel Music & Infotainment.

Design Concept: @kailonarts

#gospel
#gospelzone
#gospelmusic
#gosporellasgroove taken in Lagos, Nigeria by @1717mixing

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a month ago

MOST REALISTIC AI MUSIC VIDEO IN NIGERIA RIGHT NOW? 😳🔥

Man… the feedback on this HADKOR video has been CRAZY.

I’ve been getting all kinds of calls, messages and reactions from people who genuinely cannot believe what they’re watching.

I honestly did not expect this kind of response oh 🙆🏿‍♀️

Then someone called me and said, “Santi, as far as I’m concerned, this is the most realistic-looking AI video in Nigeria at the moment.”

I was like… WHOA. 😂

That’s a big one, my man. I don’t even know what to say to that.

But hey, the feedback is the feedback!

If you’re yet to see the video, check it out here and tell me what YOU think.

And once again, mad props to my amazing brothers and collaborators @daboomsha and @kl3vamazing on this project. I cannot praise them enough for their excellence, patience and persistence in seeing this thing through with me. 🙏🏾

But most importantly, like I’ve said before, this is a GOD PROJECT.

All glory goes to Him.

Because if it were left entirely to me, this project might STILL be sitting somewhere on my hard disk. 😂 Seriously.

I know what I'm saying 😂

And there’s something else I’m noticing…

Something amazing is happening in the Gospel space right now.

We are literally watching things happen before our eyes that 10, 15, 16, 20 years ago we could only DREAM about. We knew this kind of future might be possible one day. We imagined it. We talked about it. But now it is HERE.

I just watched @greatmantakit 's ADML video yesterday that absolutely blew my mind, and I’m still recovering from it.

Then here I am today, receiving a call from someone telling me he believes ours is the most realistic AI video in Nigeria right now.

These 2 videos are GOSPEL MUSIC VIDEOS! 😱

Something is happening.

The level of creativity coming out of this space right now is ridiculous, and things we once thought belonged to some distant future are suddenly happening RIGHT NOW.

And I’m here for ALL OF IT.

Audio Produced by KAILON SOUND

Mixed & mastered by @1717mixing

Video directed by @kailonarts

This is only the beginning.

Crazy times, guys.

Cheers! ❤️‍🔥

Cc: @ by @1717mixing

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a month ago

My next Live AI Video Masterclass is holding in September..

Are you ready...?

😁 by @1717mixing

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a month ago

PLEASE READ THE CAPTION:

"And Caleb spoke to Joshua saying"
I am 85 years old yet I'm as strong as I was 40 years ago. I'm as strong as ever in battle, whether coming or going.

So give me this hill country that God promised me. If God goes with me, I will drive out the Giants, just as God said." - Joshua 14:6

" Hadkor" is not just another street anthem. It's an epiphany for anyone who has stayed consistent in their God-given assignment over the years.

Don't down your tools yet.
You have a stone with a Giant's name on it.
Make sure it gets to the owner.

Let he who has ears hear what the Spirit is saying.

Nuff said. by @1717mixing

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2 months ago

When I had my parts locked in for HADKOR, I really didn’t have to think too hard about who was coming on after my verse.

DaBoomsha @daboomsha was the unmistakable choice.

I’ve known this man for 16 good years, and to me, he embodies HADKOR. Not just hardcore rap, but being hardcore about your faith. Standing on what you believe. Not compromising.

SETTING YOUR FACE LIKE A FLINT.

When I sent him the beat, I literally told him, “Boomsha, feel free to slaughter me on this song 😂. Finish me. Outshine me. I don’t care. Just give me your BEST bars.”

And you can hear for yourself 😂

The delivery is crazy. The bars are crazy. But beyond all that, there’s a heaviness to the SPIRIT of what he’s saying.

That thing hits differently.

Anyway, HADKOR is OUT! 🔥

Starring @doktorsanti X @daboomsha X @kl3vamazing

My little love letter to faith-fuelled hip-hop.

Produced by KAILON SOUND

Mixed & mastered by @1717mixing

Video directed by @kailonarts

Because apparently, this hip-hop thing is something I cannot escape sha! 😂

After all these years, somehow, it’s still there.

Still my core driver.

Watch the full video on YouTube. LINK IN BIO.

Cheers, guys. ❤️ by @1717mixing

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2 months ago

My younger self was definitely smoking something powerful when I wrote:

“Ati di HADKOR for the Lord, yoh…” 😂

Some 15 years later, an old song from my first album somehow found me again and refused to leave me alone.

What started as simply reworking it eventually became HADKOR (HARDCORE) featuring two incredible men, artists and men of God: @daboomsha & @kl3vamazing of the legendary Rooftop MCs.

And somehow, it also became my most realistic AI video yet.

But this project is bigger than the AI, the visuals or even the music.

“Therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.” — Isaiah 50:7

That is the spirit of HADKOR.

My prayer is simply that it catches whoever God designed it to catch… and sparks something somewhere.

There’s a LOT more to unpack. We’ll get to that. 😁

For now…

HADKOR (HARDCORE) — @doktorsanti x @daboomsha x @kl3vamazing

Full video in @doktorsanti bio

Mixed & mastered by @1717mixing

Video directed by @kailonarts

Watch it. Enjoy it.

Then we’ll discuss. 😁

Cheers. by @1717mixing

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2 months ago

The thing that excites me most about AI visualizers isn’t even the AI.

It’s the storytelling opportunity.

We’re entering a time where simply releasing a song, posting the artwork and saying “stream my new song” isn’t enough.

Boring.

Every song is an opportunity to build a world around the artist.

Characters. Situations. Different perspectives on the lyrics. Stories that continue from one piece of content into another.

That’s where AI becomes powerful.

And when your live-action content and music videos exist inside that same world, everything begins to connect. At that point, whether people know something was created with AI becomes far less important.

The STORY is what holds everything together.

That’s why I’m particularly excited about my current 10 AI visualizers offer for artists.

For the deliberate artist, these aren’t simply 10 promotional videos.

They’re 10 opportunities to expand the world around one song — and give your audience a reason to keep coming back for the next piece of the story.

That’s a completely different way of thinking about music promotion.

Don’t just ask people to stream your music.
Give them a world they want to enter.

Don’t sleep on this.

Cheers! by @1717mixing

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2 months ago

Your music deserves more than one post and a prayer. 😅

Give your song enough visual ammunition to keep showing up, stay fresh, and keep people watching.

10 different visualizers. One release. More ways to push your music.

This is for artists who are serious about making their songs impossible to ignore.

Only 10 slots available.

Once they are gone, THEY ARE GONE OH! by @1717mixing

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