As you said, the game's look very advanced graphically, and when David Wise was trying to compose a Soundtrack to match those visuals, he went for a very atmospheric sound scape to underscore the ambience that games of the time were very rarely able to achieve. It's common for him to add environmental sounds such as bird chirping or pickaxe beats into the songs.
Heavy agree. David Wise is my favorite VGM composer. I listen to his work *all the time*. Tropical Freeze's OST is a personal favorite of mine while doing household chores. So yeah, looking forward to him hearing more.
Yesss. And this is some of David Wise's best work, in my opinion. I actually just found you for the first time yesterday, and binged a lot of your reactions to gaming music. I wanted to recommend this to you after seeing you react to Fear Factory (Slammin' Steel) from DKC Returns. His pieces in DKC specifically are just incredible, and I could recommend just about the entire Tropical Freeze soundtrack to anyone who appreciates VGM. DKC2 has an amazing score, as well, but I personally think DKCTF is his best work. If I could recommend one from that game for you now that might interest and surprise you, though... I'd go with either Big Top Bop or Punch Bowl. It shows that he really nails many genres of music. In any case, Forest Interlude is just fantastic, and tracks like this really showed that Wise was able to push the limits of what music could really do on the SNES. It's grand.
All the composers at Rare in its heyday made made some magical tunes. & David Wise here was no exception. He pushed the SNES sound chip to its limits. IIRC, Wise was trying to emulate a Korg Wavestation with his DKC tracks. Apparently, it could synthesise single-cycle waves shuffle them around & resequence them in different orders. So it could simulate things like portamento & filter sweeps. Nitty-gritty details that, supposedly, were impossible to do on an SNES. All done by meticulously sampling many keyboards at different cutoff thresholds to obtain single-cycle wave samples.
There’s a RUclipsr named Udge who’s been recreating DKC music with the “stop posting about among us!” video. I can’t hear this song without hearing “stop posting about among us… stop posting about among us…” echoing in my ears. It’s still an absolutely beautiful song, too.
David Wise did the music for the snes trilogy and it's all just so amazing. The only songs that arent bangers are the songs that are groovy as all hell
@@Pwrplus5 Yeah Eveline Fischer did DKC3 and afaik Wise was in charge of converting DKC3's soundtrack to the GBA version but I think he didn't like how it sounded with the GBA sound chip and it was a pain to convert them so he decided to just compose a new soundtrack for DKC3's GBA port.
This theme is my favorite of the whole soundtrack it's really amazing how David Wise match perfectly the music with the atmosphere of an enchanted forest.
What blew my tiny mind was that the stages often transitioned in some way into the next one, in the background, the exit that lead to the next stage, or the overworld would show the in-between.
my personal favorites are mostly from donkey kong country 1. But the gang plank galleon stands out a lot. and from donkey kong coutry 2 stickerbrush symphony
"I'm glad I have the visuals, because I would've never guessed it would've been during something like this." There is a fascinating juxtaposition between the songs in this game and the stages they accompany. They often seem like not at all what you would expect to hear, and yet somehow perfectly compliment the gameplay and other sounds in the game. Stickerbush Symphony is the classic example, a beautifully serene song where you are launching yourself between barrels, hoping not to hit the web of massive thorny vines surrounding you. The entire game is a masterpiece of sound, gameplay, and art coming together to create a whole that is much greater than any of the parts on their own. The track where it really hit me was called In A Snow-bound Land. It's an incredibly slow song, which almost listens like an '80s love ballad, especially with the way David Wise uses higher and lower pitch versions of the same synth to "sing" complimentary verses; I've always heard it in my head as Diddy and Dixie singing to each other. That track is used for several ice stages in the game, but the one where it really grew to mean something to me was a stage called Black Ice Battle, which is one of the secret stages and arguably one of the hardest levels in the game, where you are constantly descending down an incredibly steep and slippery slope, for what feels like forever, often falling onto or sliding into your demise before you see it coming. I remember really struggling with the stage one time, but couldn't help but be amused that one of the most rage-inducing levels in the game had one of the slowest songs which seemed like the complete opposite of how the stage felt to play - and yet, somehow, the juxtaposition of that made it feel weirdly appropriate.
Great write up, Donkey Kong Country is video game art in its purest form. Everything comes together in such bliss that creates a masterpiece. One of the greatest games of all time, and legit art. It deserves to be up there with Shadow of Colossus and Last of Us, not for story. But how everything comes together with such care and artistry.
I go back to DKC and DKC 2 every once in a while, although I've never finished DKC 2.They really do hold up and the music is fantastic. So glad to see some DKC 2 now :D
Yess!! Been hoping for some DKC for ages. David Wise has gotta be top 3 game composers of all time, no debate IMO. I’d highly recommend checking out (all from DKC2) Stickerbush Symphony Hot Head Bop Flight Of The Zinger Jib Jig Crocodile Cacophony Mining Melancholy & Klomps Romp
i was born in 1991 and SNES was my first game console as a kid. Imagine being 5 or 6 years old listening to tunes like this and semi difficult platformer as 1 of your first games. It blew my child brain mind.
David Wise is up there with Tim Follin in terms of pushing the SNES hardware to heights unexpected in its day. Can't recommend the DKC soundtracks enough, not just for their quality but their variety.
DKC's soundtracks are pretty legendary. Easily among the top of the cream in terms of SNES soundtracks. And the competition is pretty heavy with stuff like Mega Man X and various amazing JRGP's also having amazing soundtracks.
I think it's worth mentioning that this isn't the original, but a fan-made restoration by Jammin' Sam Miller. His restorations are much better and more faithful than most, but the restoration process is complicated and subjective. There will always be some things lost in the translation. As many have mentioned already, the DKC soundtracks really pushed the SNES sound chip to its limits, far more than most other SNES soundtracks. This aspect is lost in these restorations, which could never run on the SNES.
It's complicated, but what I appreciate about the DKC restorations is the composer's involvement. Because of David Wise these recreations/restorations are about as accurate as they could be, so ya can't hope for better than this honestly
@@fiets_freek oh, you're right. I looked into it and it seems like he's seen them and likes them, but wasn't actually involved in making them. Wonder where I heard that? Gotta love misinformation on the internet
Donkey Kong Country had an OST that was so ahead of its time and amazing. It had one of the most atmospheric sounds for that era. Personally, DKC2 was the best of the 3. I've never been able to finish 3 despite 3 attempts, I just give up part way through... But DKC2... I've finished to Completion, including the secret ending. Briar Brush Bramble is the most famous track but if you like Platformers from the 90s, DKC is worth a check. They could be a fun stream, but they are hard games.
Small caveat, they are hard if you intend to clear 102%. Just finishing the base game have one or two difficulty spikes, but the real difficulty is doing certain stuff required to unlock bonus stages, DK coins, or just the secret world as a whole, which is 100% optional
@@NibelungJ My dude, I am still traumatized from the stage where you have to ride Rattly the Rattle Snake up to the top of a stage with instant death water. I have nightmares about it. That's in like the last world before the normal ending. But yes... Beyond a few extremely hard stages, most of the REALLY hard stuff is the bonus stages.
You really need to play Paper Mario for the N64, its the best in series for story, ost and humor. Mario Galaxy 2 is also incredible in its gameplay and OST. Wish you a lot of fun in your gaming journey and listen.
just to be clear donkey kong country 2 has one of the best video game music of all time, I hope you will react to others ost from this game ^^ it was a good video
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"This is the kind of music you listen to when you want to become a parent"
True statement lmao. Also, the composer for this is David Wise. :)
You need to listen to Stickerbush Symphony. One of the most beautiful video game tracks ever.
As you said, the game's look very advanced graphically, and when David Wise was trying to compose a Soundtrack to match those visuals, he went for a very atmospheric sound scape to underscore the ambience that games of the time were very rarely able to achieve.
It's common for him to add environmental sounds such as bird chirping or pickaxe beats into the songs.
David Wise is one of the greatest game composers of all time. Looking forward to you reacting to more of his work, because it's just on another level.
Heavy agree. David Wise is my favorite VGM composer. I listen to his work *all the time*. Tropical Freeze's OST is a personal favorite of mine while doing household chores. So yeah, looking forward to him hearing more.
HA HA HA
(throws a barrel)
HA HA HA
(throws a barrel)
Yesss. And this is some of David Wise's best work, in my opinion. I actually just found you for the first time yesterday, and binged a lot of your reactions to gaming music. I wanted to recommend this to you after seeing you react to Fear Factory (Slammin' Steel) from DKC Returns. His pieces in DKC specifically are just incredible, and I could recommend just about the entire Tropical Freeze soundtrack to anyone who appreciates VGM. DKC2 has an amazing score, as well, but I personally think DKCTF is his best work. If I could recommend one from that game for you now that might interest and surprise you, though... I'd go with either Big Top Bop or Punch Bowl. It shows that he really nails many genres of music.
In any case, Forest Interlude is just fantastic, and tracks like this really showed that Wise was able to push the limits of what music could really do on the SNES. It's grand.
Busted Bayou from Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze is one of my all time favorite DKC songs, and it's from the most recent game in the series even.
Me too! The sax solo might be one of my favorite series of sounds ever
All the composers at Rare in its heyday made made some magical tunes. & David Wise here was no exception. He pushed the SNES sound chip to its limits. IIRC, Wise was trying to emulate a Korg Wavestation with his DKC tracks.
Apparently, it could synthesise single-cycle waves shuffle them around & resequence them in different orders. So it could simulate things like portamento & filter sweeps. Nitty-gritty details that, supposedly, were impossible to do on an SNES. All done by meticulously sampling many keyboards at different cutoff thresholds to obtain single-cycle wave samples.
This is so nostalgic. This track makes you feel cozy and excited at the same time.
There’s a RUclipsr named Udge who’s been recreating DKC music with the “stop posting about among us!” video. I can’t hear this song without hearing “stop posting about among us… stop posting about among us…” echoing in my ears. It’s still an absolutely beautiful song, too.
I really expected DKC to pop up earlier here. I'm also surprised it wasn't Stickerbrush Symphony first.
he also did fear factory from returns a while ago
David Wise did the music for the snes trilogy and it's all just so amazing. The only songs that arent bangers are the songs that are groovy as all hell
IIRC he didn't do DKC3, but actually contributed to the GBA version's arrangements
@@Pwrplus5 I'm not sure if she was the sole composer, but Eveline Fischer has the credit to that game iirc
@@KMoonshield she was, david wise supervised her however, but David Wise returned in tropical freeze
@@Pwrplus5 Yeah Eveline Fischer did DKC3 and afaik Wise was in charge of converting DKC3's soundtrack to the GBA version but I think he didn't like how it sounded with the GBA sound chip and it was a pain to convert them so he decided to just compose a new soundtrack for DKC3's GBA port.
Thank you for your reaction. I love the music from Donkey Kong Country.
This theme is my favorite of the whole soundtrack it's really amazing how David Wise match perfectly the music with the atmosphere of an enchanted forest.
Hell yeah DKC2 is probably some of my favorite video game music of all time, the entire OST is fantastic.
I still can't believe that an SNES can produce these sounds (and graphics tho). David Wise was (and is) a huge legend
What blew my tiny mind was that the stages often transitioned in some way into the next one, in the background, the exit that lead to the next stage, or the overworld would show the in-between.
"ooo key change"
yeah, that got me too the first time. And it just keeps surprising you a little at a time.
my personal favorites are mostly from donkey kong country 1. But the gang plank galleon stands out a lot. and from donkey kong coutry 2 stickerbrush symphony
This sounds so advanced for that time somehow.
"I'm glad I have the visuals, because I would've never guessed it would've been during something like this."
There is a fascinating juxtaposition between the songs in this game and the stages they accompany. They often seem like not at all what you would expect to hear, and yet somehow perfectly compliment the gameplay and other sounds in the game. Stickerbush Symphony is the classic example, a beautifully serene song where you are launching yourself between barrels, hoping not to hit the web of massive thorny vines surrounding you. The entire game is a masterpiece of sound, gameplay, and art coming together to create a whole that is much greater than any of the parts on their own.
The track where it really hit me was called In A Snow-bound Land. It's an incredibly slow song, which almost listens like an '80s love ballad, especially with the way David Wise uses higher and lower pitch versions of the same synth to "sing" complimentary verses; I've always heard it in my head as Diddy and Dixie singing to each other. That track is used for several ice stages in the game, but the one where it really grew to mean something to me was a stage called Black Ice Battle, which is one of the secret stages and arguably one of the hardest levels in the game, where you are constantly descending down an incredibly steep and slippery slope, for what feels like forever, often falling onto or sliding into your demise before you see it coming.
I remember really struggling with the stage one time, but couldn't help but be amused that one of the most rage-inducing levels in the game had one of the slowest songs which seemed like the complete opposite of how the stage felt to play - and yet, somehow, the juxtaposition of that made it feel weirdly appropriate.
Great write up, Donkey Kong Country is video game art in its purest form. Everything comes together in such bliss that creates a masterpiece. One of the greatest games of all time, and legit art. It deserves to be up there with Shadow of Colossus and Last of Us, not for story. But how everything comes together with such care and artistry.
I go back to DKC and DKC 2 every once in a while, although I've never finished DKC 2.They really do hold up and the music is fantastic. So glad to see some DKC 2 now :D
Get this guy to listen to more DKC and DKC2 tracks, especially DKC2! Crocodile Cacophony, Stickerbrush Symphony, Mining Melancholy.
thank you for this reaction, I cannot make requests through patreon but always wanted to hear your thoughts about donkey kong country ost
Yess!! Been hoping for some DKC for ages. David Wise has gotta be top 3 game composers of all time, no debate IMO.
I’d highly recommend checking out (all from DKC2)
Stickerbush Symphony
Hot Head Bop
Flight Of The Zinger
Jib Jig
Crocodile Cacophony
Mining Melancholy
& Klomps Romp
i was born in 1991 and SNES was my first game console as a kid. Imagine being 5 or 6 years old listening to tunes like this and semi difficult platformer as 1 of your first games. It blew my child brain mind.
The king is back
David Wise ❤
David Wise is up there with Tim Follin in terms of pushing the SNES hardware to heights unexpected in its day. Can't recommend the DKC soundtracks enough, not just for their quality but their variety.
DKC2 has amazing music
DKC's soundtracks are pretty legendary. Easily among the top of the cream in terms of SNES soundtracks. And the competition is pretty heavy with stuff like Mega Man X and various amazing JRGP's also having amazing soundtracks.
This song give me so much nostalgia even though I've never play this game.
I think it's worth mentioning that this isn't the original, but a fan-made restoration by Jammin' Sam Miller. His restorations are much better and more faithful than most, but the restoration process is complicated and subjective. There will always be some things lost in the translation.
As many have mentioned already, the DKC soundtracks really pushed the SNES sound chip to its limits, far more than most other SNES soundtracks. This aspect is lost in these restorations, which could never run on the SNES.
It's complicated, but what I appreciate about the DKC restorations is the composer's involvement. Because of David Wise these recreations/restorations are about as accurate as they could be, so ya can't hope for better than this honestly
@@VelvetAura David Wise wasn't involved in these restorations.
@@fiets_freek oh, you're right. I looked into it and it seems like he's seen them and likes them, but wasn't actually involved in making them. Wonder where I heard that? Gotta love misinformation on the internet
Alright, you need to listen to the entirety of the Tropical Freeze OST
Donkey Kong Country had an OST that was so ahead of its time and amazing. It had one of the most atmospheric sounds for that era. Personally, DKC2 was the best of the 3. I've never been able to finish 3 despite 3 attempts, I just give up part way through... But DKC2... I've finished to Completion, including the secret ending. Briar Brush Bramble is the most famous track but if you like Platformers from the 90s, DKC is worth a check. They could be a fun stream, but they are hard games.
Small caveat, they are hard if you intend to clear 102%. Just finishing the base game have one or two difficulty spikes, but the real difficulty is doing certain stuff required to unlock bonus stages, DK coins, or just the secret world as a whole, which is 100% optional
@@NibelungJ My dude, I am still traumatized from the stage where you have to ride Rattly the Rattle Snake up to the top of a stage with instant death water. I have nightmares about it. That's in like the last world before the normal ending. But yes... Beyond a few extremely hard stages, most of the REALLY hard stuff is the bonus stages.
you havvve to listen to aquatic ambiance and a lot of the first game tracks
Another super good donkey kong song i suggest for you is “big top bop” from tropical freeze, I recommend it heavily
I'm unable to watch 3-4 hour streams of the games, so I'm glad you're back to doing these.
Finally Donkey Kong Country 2
Phil Collins guys I called it
There's SO much Phil Collins in DKC2 songs! Compare the underlying beat of "Bayou Boogie" to "In the Air Tonight," they're just about identical.
Can’t wait to hear some tropical freeze
More Donkey Kong please :)
You really need to play Paper Mario for the N64, its the best in series for story, ost and humor. Mario Galaxy 2 is also incredible in its gameplay and OST. Wish you a lot of fun in your gaming journey and listen.
As trilhas sonoras mais incríveis do SNES estao nesse game ❤️
Hell yeah.
Oh this is a good one.
I wonder if stardew valley was inspired by this kind of snes music
More old school ost reactions xD
David Wise
just to be clear donkey kong country 2 has one of the best video game music of all time, I hope you will react to others ost from this game ^^ it was a good video
Did you try, Hot Head Bop?
React to Stickerbush Symphony! its sooo good!
I did yesterday actually haha. It's on Patreon now.
just close ur eyes and keep infinite
One of the best pieces of music ever written. This wasn’t a very good version to do this song justice.
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If you mean the video choice, it is the best version to do lol. It's all of the samples recreated in higher fidelity, what's bad about that?