Not a videogame thread, I barely played it but the soundtrack is on heavy rotation.
Mainstream answer ishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J67nkzoJ_2M
but I might have to go withhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N6RKS5DoTM
or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAFJoATw3Kw
― abcfsk, Sunday, 15 August 2010 12:51 (thirteen years ago) link
The music in this game IS really good, but there are already a couple of VGM threads (which have mentioned DKC iirc).
This is the Video Game Music Thread
Video Game Music
P.S. My favorite is probably the music for the swamp levels.
― Joanie Loves Shakuhachi (corey), Sunday, 15 August 2010 13:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Joanie Loves Shakuhachi
thumbs up.
I think, tbf, that if any one game soundtrack deserves a thread of its own, it's between this and Ocarina of Time.
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 15 August 2010 14:13 (thirteen years ago) link
<3 ocarina of time soundtrack... and ocarina of time in general
― teledyldonix, Sunday, 15 August 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
the lava world one is a jam too, though it doesn't have that jarre vibe of the best ones
― ciderpress, Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I always thought it sounded like leftover scraps from the album "Invisible Touch."
― fear mongrels (Abbott), Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
whenever i write synth-based music it tends to come out sounding a lot like the music from this game stylistically, which is weird since i never really played the dkc games a lot in my childhood
― ciderpress, Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Should probably keep to the other thread, but I have yet to hear better OST vidgame music than what's on the original NES Metroid and it's SNES sequel Super Metroid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIwG-BH3DeE
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Another Genesis connection, the rhythm of this is totally from "In the Air Tonight"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkcXD6IkUKM
― Joanie Loves Shakuhachi (corey), Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost (And yes I know that technically Metroid 2 was on the Gameboy).
― Nate Carson, Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
i like how with a lot of the best-written video game music you can picture the full band / full orchestra piece the composer had in their head despite the low polyphony and fidelity of the actual sequence
― ciderpress, Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Nate - I don't know if that was intentional, but that's on-topic because the composer behind those games is the composer for the new Donkey Kong Country game to be released on the Wii. He also did the Metroid Prime music.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
That Maridia theme is gorgeous. I never got that far in the game. u_u
― Joanie Loves Shakuhachi (corey), Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
you should replay it! it's probably my favorite nintendo game ever, and the maridia area is particularly wonderful and creepy
― ciderpress, Sunday, 15 August 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
You've got a point with In the air tonight..----
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTEuL3jltQ0
When I'm absent-mindedly listening to this soundtrack the transition at 1:10 here knocks me over.
― abcfsk, Sunday, 15 August 2010 18:43 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ this
― puerile aretha franklin jokes (crüt), Sunday, 15 August 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wise_%28composer%29
The guy did the soundtrack for Marble Madness, too, probably my favorite video game soundtrack ever. I mean, it gave me a reason to keep playing that sadistic game.
― fear mongrels (Abbott), Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
reminds me of the transition to the second half of Aeroplane's 'Too Hard' remix!
― Antoine Bugleboy (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjO2g8nQShU
― abcfsk, Sunday, 15 August 2010 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
"In a snow-bound land" sung in Mandarinhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zpwG8XtuaA
Some pretty good cover versions on this remix album. David Wise himself contributes with one.http://www.youtube.com/user/ocremix#grid/user/71409717BB2670D8
― abcfsk, Sunday, 15 August 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh I'm such a fan of this game and its music. I think the song on the mines level is my favorite one... love the synth that enters around the 35 second mark and the sort of humming response that comes a minute later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcF3tifLweo
― Moka, Monday, 16 August 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
the brambles theme was pretty good too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaSkYXbMAFc
― Moka, Monday, 16 August 2010 03:33 (thirteen years ago) link
composed during what he called his "experimental Paris phase".
great phase to have
― just sayin, Monday, 16 August 2010 11:15 (thirteen years ago) link
super metroid music SO AMAZING. i think one of my fav video game music moments was hearing the fade-in for the brinstar green/jungle area for the first time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UIz_cUtHzM
― teledyldonix, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
So David Wise returns to Nintendo and Donkey Kong many years later for the WIi U game 'Tropical Freeze' - the soundtrack is being uploaded and I think it's already safe to say he's still got it and that this is DKC2 levels greatness. I will push hard for this to be the first game soundtrack to make it on ilxor year-end lists.
http://www.youtube.com/user/piplupwater/videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFP4wn0dejchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA2WjP6sgrchttp://youtu.be/ss421nbCAJEhttp://youtu.be/IAfo6YI4KGs
etc
― abcfsk, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 10:07 (ten years ago) link
Heh, that Mandarin cover you linked upthread was done by me and my friend (who sang). Absolutely adore the DKC soundtracks. I recently finished another vocal remix of the lava level that has yet to come out.
― Vinnie, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 14:19 (ten years ago) link
Oh! Nice job. You should give the new one a spin as well, think we'll see a cover album of it in a few years.
― abcfsk, Friday, 28 February 2014 08:47 (ten years ago) link