Donkey Kong music is fucking IDM

(skip to like 1:25)

This next one is almost afx

Its hard to not do every one because they are all fantastic and IDM sounding. Regardless, I'm going to post more now, skip them if you like. First 4 are mandatory though.

I'll probably flood this thread with pickings from the second 2 games, because this is just the first and every god damn track in these games is like above average quality

the aquatic ambiance is fucking amazing, that whole game is fucking amazing.

Undoubtedly. Do you guys remember when Rare used to make good games?

jesus christ, dk country was the foundation of my whole taste in music.

that, and anything by koji something-or-other. the guy who composed the shit for mario 64 and ocarina of time.

hear:

Dire Docks

  On 7/2/2009 at 7:06 AM, iamabe said:

jesus christ, dk country was the foundation of my whole taste in music.

 

that, and anything by koji something-or-other. the guy who composed the shit for mario 64 and ocarina of time.

 

hear:

Dire Docks

wow that tune brings back memories, that game was awesome too...... damn games really are shit now

  On 7/2/2009 at 7:06 AM, iamabe said:

jesus christ, dk country was the foundation of my whole taste in music.

this

I was using the built in Jukeboxs that those games had to play the tunes on loop before I ever got into any other kind of music. Honestly I must have started listening to video game music when i was like 8 or 10

Haha, I have all the tracks on my itunes and I legitimately listen to them from time to time. I downloaded them after replaying the whole game with my friend. Aquatic ambience and forest frenzy are indeed quality.

do you guys know what they used to make this music? i would appreciate some advice on how i could find these synths, or whatever software it is that they used for this music so that i can try to make some. any links or anything at all would be appreciated.

some of my favorites

this is absolutely mindblowing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXhzry3P5o4

ok this is the king in my opinion. so scary. someone in the comments reflected my opinion, this music used to freak me out in weird ways playin this game when i was younger. i used to listen to the soundtrack (you could play the disc in cd players). my first introduction to electronic music. i was obsessed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bZoIxaDM8g

Donkey Kong Country 2 is easily the best soundtrack of the whole lot. Dave Wise composed the entire soundtrack, and it really shows.....they're ALL brilliant.

Oh my yes you're in good company here, I know there's a few people on this forum that are deeply in love with the DK soundtracks. I'm not particularly into the 3rd one, but the first two are amazing.

My favourites from the second one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAFJoATw3Kw

and I later found out that this was an homage to Theme from Antarctica, by I think Vangelis, but it's still beautiful in it's own right:

But there's so many other good ones...

Too bad DK64's music sucked. On the one hand, I would have loved to hear what David Wise doing this kinda style with the more advanced sound capabilities but then again, it's not like these sounds aren't adequate and besides, the weird SNES-ness of them gives them a certain charm...

Here's the Vangelis one BTW, for comparisson, it's pretty similar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDw5p4th0A8

I still like the DK one more <3

good thread, dk has good music indeed

Aquatic Ambiance is one of my favourite pieces of video game music ever.

I thought this was going to be about the 8-bit music from the original DK...

David Wise is the shit, my second favorite VGM producer (behind Koji Kondo and ahead of Hip Tanaka) :-D

Pikmin 2 has awesome music too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmUMeKRYByI&feature=related

LOL I can't believe this was the credits music in Half-Life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8Dlp5a6Wg

  On 7/2/2009 at 9:11 AM, vamos scorcho said:

do you guys know what they used to make this music? i would appreciate some advice on how i could find these synths, or whatever software it is that they used for this music so that i can try to make some. any links or anything at all would be appreciated.

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Q: Hi, these questions are directed to David Wise. What, in your opinion is the greatest song you ever composed? And second, the DKC series' music is considered some of the best gaming music ever composed. What was your inspiration for the songs, and how did you manage to squeeze so much quality out of the SNES's skimpy little SPC700 chip, which is known for its programming difficulty? It's truly a work of art. Also, what is your favorite work from the DKC series? My favorites would be DKC2's Mining Melancholy & Disco Train.

ThirdMarioBro

 

 

Dave W: I personally like the Water level from the first SNES DKC game. Both from an emotional and technical perspective.

The inspiration for the DKC SNES music: at the time there was a synthesizer called the Korg Wavestation. I wanted the SNES to sound similar to this synthesizer. It used a method of playing back waveforms in a pre-defined sequence. Very much like many drum loops are broken down and replayed, but in a more melodic way. It was also a good way getting around the fact that the SPC700 didn't have a dynamic filter per voice. I could therefore use many very small single cycle waveforms, which sounded much better combined than if played individually.

Source.

  On 7/2/2009 at 6:18 PM, Q27 said:

Pikmin 2 has awesome music too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmUMeKRYByI&feature=related

 

LOL I can't believe this was the credits music in Half-Life.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni8Dlp5a6Wg

 

 

 

Source.

I'm feelin' the HL song

  On 7/2/2009 at 7:06 AM, iamabe said:

jesus christ, dk country was the foundation of my whole taste in music.

My thoughts - I'm gonna quote myself here:

  On 10/10/2008 at 2:14 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

9 year old Terpentintollwut brought his self-recorded tape with the Donkey Kong Country 2 soundtrack and cassette recorder to his third grade school festivity and played the beehive-level-score. When the class teacher categorized it as "too fast", he stopped believing in people's perceptions of music.

That's my cover art from back then. :D

These ones I liked especially:

  On 7/2/2009 at 4:02 PM, Higgins VanHiggins said:

Aquatic Ambiance is one of my favourite pieces of video game music ever.

Me too (second is probably the Schala theme from Chrono Trigger or the Final Hours track on Zelda Majora's Mask ), in fact that track was what made me want to make music.

The aformentioned Zelda track could almost be something by Bola -

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fuck, this makes me want to play donkey kong again

Donkey Kong Rap!

THIS

informed my subsequent taste in music forever. The soundtrack's got (old) electro, Peter Gabriel-esque shit, GeneralMIDI "rock", even arena breaks lol. And then there's the really idiosyncratic pieces in there, the pure VGM (such as the above link and several others). This is one of my favorite games ever, and it holds that place 50% because of the music. 

yeah donkey kong country's music was the shit!

  On 7/4/2009 at 3:28 PM, Lube Saibot said:

THIS

 

 

informed my subsequent taste in music forever. The soundtrack's got (old) electro, Peter Gabriel-esque shit, GeneralMIDI "rock", even arena breaks lol. And then there's the really idiosyncratic pieces in there, the pure VGM (such as the above link and several others). This is one of my favorite games ever, and it holds that place 50% because of the music.

lol @ "lube saibot"

and yes jazz jackrabbit had excellent music too! mod files ftw!

edit: i see alexander brandon did the soundtrack to jazz jackrabbit, he was involved with a few other really awesome game soundtracks like deus ex and unreal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Brandon

  On 7/4/2009 at 3:33 PM, modey said:

yeah donkey kong country's music was the shit!

 

 

lol @ "lube saibot"

 

and yes jazz jackrabbit had excellent music too! mod files ftw!

 

edit: i see alexander brandon did the soundtrack to jazz jackrabbit, he was involved with a few other really awesome game soundtracks like deus ex and unreal.

 

http://en.wikipedia....exander_Brandon

Nope, Alexander Brandon did the Jazz Jackrabbit 2 soundtrack, which consisted of remixes of the original and several (IMHO) uninspired original tracks. Robert A. Allen did the music for the first Jazz Jackrabbit (as well as for another brilliantly-scored game, Epic Pinball). He hasn't done much since. He took note of the many remixes of his tracks circulating on the net and that was basically the last mention of him. Shame. He should be scoring every surrealist game out there at the mo, except for Braid's and World of Goo's soundtracks i haven't really been enthralled with anything lately, its either big Hollywood orchestras or "cutesy" folky indie bullshit if it's an "alt game".