Donkey Kong Country - Aquatic Ambience [Restored]
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Composed by David Wise. Recreated by me. This was made possible by locating the original instrument samples from workstation keyboards and drum machines before they were put into the game and rebuilding the soundtrack from the ground up, applying some modern mixing techniques along the way to lift the veil of 16bit compression and create an updated listening experience. Part of a project to restore the entire DKC series soundtrack. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: / princesamlet
Sound sources:
Korg Wavestation (Synth Voice, Bass, Harmonica, Electric Guitar), Roland R-8 (Drums), Roland U-220 (Strings, Piano) - Hudba
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"Man Tasked With Making Score for a Monkey Riding a Swordfish Underwater Creates Transcendent Piece of Music"
Greetings, fellow traveler.
There it is
@@Fahrenheit4051 yes indeed
Yeah, the hard drive is really good
AESTHETIC
“It’s a underwater level in a monkey platformer, don’t go too crazy”
*gives you an existential crisis*
Bruh why are you spot on ???
"the monkeys riding a fish
Me riding a wave of emotions
Perhaps we are all monkeys in an underwater level
@@kingdoge69 maybe we are doge, maybe we are.
In earlier times I played it on SNES very often .... And now I hear it 🤣
Miss you, dad. You loved this song. And I loved you.
he loved you very much :)
@@Captainnitemare ;)
Reading this gave me a punch in the gut. It makes me realize just how much you lost. And this is coming from somebody who hates his family for how they treat him.
@@ToacI they don't treat him well? What?
@@the.ben.johnson Nobody ever listens or cares, ever. My parents had a "favourite child" and a child they least liked. I was the least liked child, I had no attention, no friends, the most I got was a threat to get beat by them.
In 1996 a man makes a soundtrack for cartoon monkeys riding on a dolphin. 28 years later 6 million strangers from across the world heal together.
*1994
Swordfish*
Well said
Hahaha dolphin 😂
Apes*
I'm on a 5g mushroom trip rn after a heavy breakup. And I'm crying. I'm a 27 year old man. This song is a glimpse into heaven. Shout out to my grandma
Will never meet ya but love ya pal
Im in the same boat man, can only move into the future, this song says to me don't forget the past but don't be stuck in it
Hope you’re okay brother. The pain of loss is the price we pay to live a life with meaning. One day you’ll love again, and the pain you feel now will make the renewed presence of love all the more fulfilling. Life will get better.
Are you sober now and reading what you wrote dude
Life is a bitch. But there are some moments that are hard to forget. Move forward but never forget your journey
Threw some waterproof earbuds on and a snorkel and went down to the river and swam around with this music
This guy knows how to have a good time 👆
Or how to ruin a pair of headphones
got the waterproof app... you dont need buds to hear this
Bruh
I walked through a local aquarium listening to this. Really fit the mood
Whenever im struggling with mental health i take a day off work go to my bathroom and play this song while in the bathtub. It takes me back to a time when my mom wasn't in the hospital and i had family left. To those warm summer nights when me and my mom would set down and play this together. This has been here for so many people. Such a timeless piece of art. Wishing you all love and happiness.
fuck man, i'm sorry. hopefully you feel some relief that, no doubt, the collective community here (and surely anyone else you reach out to) feels for you.
Are you trying to re-create the Internet checkpoint? someone already re-uploaded it, you can go check it out. I don’t have the link just look it up, sorry.
Love you man
You are not alone.
Cringe
I am personally not a 90's kid but I can still feel the nostalgic vibe this song gives off. It's almost calming, but in a sad way.
Same.
It's amazing it reached you this song is timeless
Yeah your generation is honestly a pile of shit. Sorry
@@gregbradshaw7220Every generation had its loose screws. We always look at the negatives, but ignore the positives.
Born in '87. This stuff is memories.
This is my mom's favorite video game. She;s always stay up late with me trying to beat the minecart level. We only made it to the snow world once, but ran out of lives before the save point. I want to finish it one day for her.
Good Luck!
I played this back in 96. Games back then were hard, but fun. There's also a lot of hidden gems in the game too. That's awesome that you and your Mom spend time to play this. Good luck and have fun 🤘🏽
You're a beautiful woman
MINE CART IS A BITCH!!!!!!
I pased with my eyes closed, How can you not completed. Damn girl, just keep trying until you master it.
Best water theme in all of gaming
I mean zoras domain in legend of Zelda is tied with this.... Cmon
@@spoon7195 That is a step below this
@@Creeper_123 correct
I'd give a nod to:
1. Mario 3 Underwater
2. Mega Man 2- Bubble Man
3. Mario 64- Dire Dire Docks
4. Turtles 1- The Damn Dam (level 2)
5. Turtles in time- Sewer Surfin'
6. Sonic 3- Hydrocity Zone 2
7. Mario 1- Minus World
8. Ocarina of Time- Zora's Domain
9. Super Metroid- Western Maridia
10. Mega Man X3- Toxic Seahorse
Everybody loves Aquatic Ambience! Too bad DKC3's underwater music can't compete with this.
Banjo Tooies Atlantis theme is my opinion the best
- this is my mom's favorite video game.
- She's always stay up late with me trying to beat the minecart level.
- We only made it to the snow world once, but ran out of lives before the save point.
- I want to finish it one day for her.
The 90s was so nostalgic, right?
This comment is literally stolen lmao
Game is so hard. Beat it once. Got to get the 99lives I forget which level but you can...
Fake and gay comment
Timing is everything, and memorizing the level also helped me get through it.
TBH I'm not a very good Gamer, but I still love to play even if I'm permanently stuck on the first level or something.
- this sound reminds me of a time of no stress. No struggle. No fears. No smart phones. just 90s kid life😢
It's funny how many people mention pre smart phone days. Makes on wonder if that is that cause of many of our ills?
No Stress? Lucky
100% I'm a 90s kid and this is PURE nostalgia for me! Check out donkey kong country Credit concerto too! Tell me that don't hit different!
@@Imabouttocuahhhh129 yah my parents never divorced so it was pretty chill
You copied this comment, so sad and pathetic, get a life.
This is a place where ur taste in music doesnt matter.
Whatever genre you normally listen to, everybody here agrees that this song is a masterpiece.
Very untrue, given the dislike ratio. Sorry, it's the truth.
@@ethnictendo ?
@@Cookie_Yii Not everyone likes the song.
@@ethnictendo Yea but its CZcams. There are always dislikes no matter what. The like dislike ratio is very good btw. And i was talking about people that like this song not about people who dont.
I actually met David Wise at a developer's event in Manchester, where he played a soulful rendition of this live using a saxophone. He had to do all his own audio mixing due to a shortage of staff, and yet it still brought me to tears. Super talented guy.
That sounds awesome!
wait I just read a similar comment on instagram, I assume also from you. see ya next time this song comes up
imagine how many millions of views that would have gotten if someone filmed and uploaded that.
Wise guy for sure
Very jealous of this. What was the event?
If you were fortunate enough to be a child in the 1990s and got to experience this masterpiece of a game and song for the first time, then you truly understand just how magical it was. Sitting in front of that giant tv with the thick static glass, mesmerized by it all. Kids today will never understand. So lucky I got to experience all of that back then
I am reliving a classic and at the same time modern experience without losing the characteristics of the nineties. When I was born I immediately had a love of retro
I can still smell the tv static from putting my face on it 🥲
Rented this game along with a SNES multiple times. It was so far ahead of everything else at the time. Listening to this brings me back to those Saturdays playing this game and my mom telling me to go outside or do chores because I'd been playing too long.
Born in 1990 and totally agree. The best decade to be alive as a kid.
I was born in 91 and my first stystem was NES then got the SNES and loved the games and graphics. We were on the horizon of massive world changes and had no idea. I tell my 13 year old step son just how basic life was then. No cell phones. Most PCs were in class rooms and they were useless. Multiplayer games were only split screen.... Makes my heart ache
Recently played DK country for the first time and when I got to the first water stage I genuinely got distracted by how good the music was. I stopped playing and just took it in. What a masterpiece of a theme. It’s absolutely beautiful
Fair play..
Sometimes you might not realise the quality as a child.
Personally, I used to play the level over and over again to hear the song 🙂
I don’t think people truly understand the chokehold nostalgia can have on a person. Sounds, music, smells, foods. It all just transports us back to happier, simpler times. And this song does it.
It's crazy. I still have some of my old games but I don't even want to play them because it won't be the same playing them now vs playing with friends late at night when I was a kid.
@@MrTevens you shoouuulld 😮
INDEED
This song does it way too hard.
@@MrTevens Yeah stay away, it's the loneliest experience if you didn't play these games alone
My ears have been blessed.
777 likes as well... nice
YESSSSSSSSS
Correct.
Rip to all those who passed throughout our lives. It's crazy how retro music like this brings so many memories. Struggling really hard with money and now being here, makes things a little easier than being sad. I wish i can get some help
What kind of help do you need?
@devinwinters1844 just money for food, anything helps honestly
I hope you'll get the help you need. 🙏
Do you have a family who can help you?
Rip baba❤️
I think i found my people. I'm 37 and I miss how simple our life was, how aweosme it was. We saw the birth of the internet. We also had street lights as our curfew, block parties where the neighborhood would close the street down and bring BBQ food and share and laugh. Now everyone is cold and distant. Kids rather be on their phones then riding their bikes and going into the woods. We had the last great time for a generation. Listening to this song has shown me that time is so valuable, 37 years in a blink of an eye.
I can definitely relate
Sometimes David Wise's music just has this beautiful loneliness to it. The tone has a deep longing ache, but it's still so free and sublime.
That describes it too well
David Wise was a very important part to this but DKC's music was a collaberation between a few sound engineers trying to figure out how to make new innovative music while being limited to the 16bit or somethings limit of the snes.
Theres a youtube vid about DKC's music somewhere!
bro you're gonna make me cry lol
Helps that he was sequestered all alone at Rare when he wrote most of the music. Didn’t even have a window.
This is incredibly apt description of this song. You have a talent
I was 6 years old.....this was my first video game ever, I'm 33 now, how did time fly so quickly 😢😢😢
Same here 33 😥😢 miss my snes
Same here at 32, everything passed like a blink of eye, living it's scary sometime
35 bro, the feels hit hard...
Man this is a toast to us man.....I appreciate all my 30 plus peers commenting on this post.....it's crazy man, I remember being in 1st grade, my mom randomly came and picked me up early, she took me to this park by our house that was beautiful, then she took me home, told me to set up my nintendo and she sat next to me and played this......I will NEVER EVER forget that day in my head as long as I live and the feeling I got when we got to this level and I looked up at my mom and she smiled and was like oh I love this song......I know we can't live in the past, and time waits for no man, but it becomes so surreal to me when I play this now, you cant TELL me that was 28 YEARS AGO! now I have a 7 year old daughter who likes to play this with me, and ask me qustions when I was a kid.. its truly surreal.....Godbless all of you guys, I hope all your lives are going well sincerly...
@@KingNez89 We cant live in the past, but we were blessed to have lived those good moment in our life which will be always with us. I used to play snes games with my grandpa, an old guy that was so fascinated by technology and when i left the console here he just keep playing that games on and on, it feel like yesterday whan i was in his home playing yoshi island. I remember playing with my mom mario 64 and killer instict, i was so scared by that game that i locked myself in my room but she would convince me to play it with her lol.
We gotta pass those memories, and create the same with our kids or future kids. Life may be scary and too fast, but it's worth for living those great moments, especially now that we know how precious they are.
I would give everything to pass an afternoon with my grandpa and yoshi again, and i wished i passed more time with him when i was a teenager. I really didnt realized his time on earth was so limited.
God bless you and your daughter bro, she will remember those moment with you with joy for all her life :)
Im 40. In the last 5 years ive lost a brother to a heart attack, and both parents to lung cancer. This song takes me back to when i was 12 years old, and i had no worries, my heart had not hardened yet, and i was optimistic. Now i buy things to chase that feeling of true love, and a family that never i thought could never fall apart. It Doesnt compare. Thank you for posting this.
Sincere condolences! That is a lot of grief to befall one man. I can't imagine how hard it has to be for you, but please remember that even though your loved ones are gone, love itself still exists out there. Don't give up and try to nurture that tenderness which this song (or whatever else) arouses within your heart. I wish you well ❤
@AUSTY888 ) love you brother. You can get through this and be happy again. ❤️
I’ll be praying for you, and I’m agnostic.
Jesus Christ loves you bro. Unharden your hart he will guide you.
Love you dawg
This makes you feel exactly where you were when you first heard it. Mad emotional.
😂❤😢😅😊
I honestly consider this one of the best songs of all video games. The most iconic and nostalgic.
You might enjoy the excellent cover by The Consouls czcams.com/video/AcyzljYGgRg/video.html
Same here. This and Stickerbrush symphony.
How about a piece of this brilliant classic with some added live drums? Enjoy! 🤩
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Add sonic too
No doubt
just amazing sounds these people pushed through a snes.
Wait, what? I've never played these games, that's quite incredible.
David Wise said in an interview that he took off the SNES sound chip and connected it to his synthesizer to explore the full potential of the console's audio.
@@CeciliaTapia We might have seen the same interview. He said he looked at the waveforms that his synth used, and chained them together when programming the the music, allowing tracks such as the bassline to sound far more complex than other SNES titles. His technical work on DKC is phenomenal.
@@billyblueberry For sure. Too bad I can't remember where it was published. 😓
@@CeciliaTapia I watched the interview by Game Informer czcams.com/video/v_RNM2QlujU/video.html
Im not crying, YOURE CRYING
Nah, the whole world cried. This is why the ocean exists, and this masterpiece.
i dont know why
but this song just calms me down
no matter what im going through
it just makes me feel better
This song has so much meaning to me. The memories of me and my mom playing this game together, over and over. One of the very few games she enjoyed.
Sadly she passed away when I was 18. We had like a "funeral party", and I had to chose a song that plays when all of us walked into the church. It was this song that I chose, an emotional roller coaster. I don't even know why I'm typing this in a CZcams comment section.
Anyways, regardless of my story, this is a beautiful song.
beautiful story. May she rest in peace
You are a good son
😔😔🥺🥺😞
I'm glad you wrote this in a youtube comments section.
Dude I would have started bawling when this music came on. Rip your mom, I'm glad you have these positive memories to remember her by
I've been listening to this song for a while. It's probably one of the most beautiful soundtracks in a game. I feel like it captures the beauty, the terror, and intriguing nature of the ocean. It's such a beautiful place yet so mysterious. The fact that someone could capture these intense qualities of the ocean in one song is truly an amazing feat.
While still matching the games tropic topic.
David wise is a beast
@@bobderbraumeister6919 HFCXX
Thanks for that comment. I think your right
well said x2
Suddenly tears 😢 flowing into my cheeks... good times, bad times and when my father still alive playing this game together... 😖 feeling empty
Hugs, dude.
I love you brotha.
Pois é mano, esse jogo também marcou a minha infância. I love video games antigos ❤
This has become my happy, transport me to another place & time song. I can even think about it and I’m back in my room as a kid in the moment
Nearly 30 years later, at 38 years old, my heart still slips a beat when I hear this. The sound of 100 million memories with all my friends. I miss those days so much. I miss you guys.
We are the same age and I know exactly what you are saying. Much ❤️ never forget those late nights or racing home to forget about home work in order to get as far as you can that day.
I keep it alive by playing it on my drums: Enjoy! ✌🏻🤩
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Bro this comment got me, nice work ❤️❤️❤️ awesome comment
We miss you too
Same age bro and I feel ya yeah, I miss those late nights of just endless game playing and shooting the S^it with your buddies with not a care in the world
I am literally crying right now, I miss our families and friends the way it used to be. I miss the innocence of childhood. I think deep down we’re all kids, some of those harden our hearts to defend against evil. But I think deep down all of us just want to be happy and love one another. Idk man just take me back.
Softening your heart is how you go back. You have to open up for kid to come out
i might just be high and emotional and rambling but,
please get in touch with your inner child and let loose Darren
from one man to another, please
if everyone just got in touch with their inner child and healed the world would be a better place
i've been getting in touch with mine recently and healing past my old traumas, going outdoors and exploring more, doing more, "childish" things. inspecting nature, picking up and looking at bugs, rolling in the grass, staring at the clouds with wonder
and i've been doing and feeling so much better with my life
finding passion for living and passion for hobbies
gardening is a real big one for me. i love cacti. we should strive to be more like cacti.
grow tall and strong no matter what life throws at you.
anyways,
i used to be a depressed doomer
now, im becoming a bloomer. it took a lot of work,
but, it is worth the work.
life is beautiful, if you choose to see the beauty
the world is what you make of it, friend
spread love and kindness wherever you go no matter how small the gesture
that's how we all get there, healing, together
good luck, i love you and whoever else reads this wall of text
@@camdt456 I love this, and I appreciate that you took the time to write all this. The band Yes has help me get through a lot of hard times like this, and it’s funny, because I tell my friends this but I’m still working on it myself. Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried Until 75. I’ll keep working on myself., and thank you. I agree 100%, if everyone healed their inner child, the world would be a better place
@@darrenparis4742 ill write till the end of time as long as i can help even just one person feel better
simpler times my friend. I always come back to this track over and over. It's so damn peaceful.
Não é somente pela linda sinfonia, mas também por tudo que representa, pelo tempo se passou, pela inocência de nossos corações naquela época. É por todos esses motivos que essa música nos deixa tão feliz e nostálgicos, quase como uma tristeza feliz. Que música! 🥰
I remember running home from school, I was at the first grade and made a new friend who happened to own DKC. We would play this game for hours.
Now I'm sitting here, almost 30 years after, with my 4-year old son, and just enjoying this masterpiece. The Donkey Kong -series and the soundtracks have already become a bonding experience for me and my son. These are the new memories that I will come back to 30 years from now, hopefully giving my son the same nostalgia that I got.
And for everyone who comes here to heal the mind and soul that is going through a struggle, I'm thinking of you, it will get better eventually ❤️
Filled my bathtub and went under listening to this. Found Atlantis.
I did the same and instead met a sworfish inside a wooden box.
I did the same. Found Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong swimming in my bathtub
Lmfao....I bet you took something before you set sail tho....
@@scotta2641 No, just straight up found Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong in my bathtub. I didn't take anything.
🕊
"Yea just make a song that makes you feel like your underwater, don't go to crazy"
*creates song that makes you feel like your witnessing the heat death of the universe
🤣🤣🤣🤣
What about that 007 pause music?
@@djcarlwalker thats a bop for sure, but i dont think its even close to this one. this shit feels like youre floating away in space, 007 pause music just makes me want to boogie
😂😂😂
Brilliant.
1:23 la mejor parte ❤️🩹❤️🩹
This sound reminds me of a time of no stress. No struggle. No fears. No smart phones. Just 90s kid life. 😢
Absolutely insane how this entire song was born from one request to the composer by the dev team to make a "small track for a funny big gorilla swimming underwater while riding a swordfish".... and it's more memorable than most AAA OSTs over 30 years later
This is good but it's nothing compared to the soundtracks of a lot of recent AAA games, such as Persona 5, Death Stranding, Cyberpunk 2077, Metal Gear Solid 5, Detroit Become Human, Halo Infinite (has a great soundtrack actually), that one Call of Duty Black OP's Cold War lobby track (which js actually fire), and others.
@@jimmythegamer2231HAHAHAHAHAHA nice one.
@@jimmythegamer2231 none of those games has a better song than aquatic ambience, maybe persona but still i think this is the peak
this is peak because it was on the SUPER NINTENDO IN 1994!!! 29 years ago!!!! it has aged super well
It's just a game about funny gorilla? That's The Donkey Kong of classic arcade fame.
RareWare was doing their biggest, prettiest game ever, and told their resident (only) musician, David Wise, to really go for some epic tunes.
This Man went in the studio and put his heart and soul into this song and I hear this every time I need some motivation and this is one of those songs that you can’t go a day without listening to it.
Wether it be a good or bad day i think this song should help anyone through any type of situation good or bad
he did it on a gorilla game
He is also a moon landing denier.
How about a piece of this brilliant classic with some added live drums? Enjoy! 🤩
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@@informitas0117 how can someone be so genius yet so stupid
Even for someone who has never known about this game until now, this is beautiful.
I‘m a overprivileged white person from central europe, with no „real“ problems in my life. still i listen to this song and expirience the worst nostalgia and sadness possible. i had some minor problems in my life, such as the divorce of my parents, the death of my grandfather and the love of my life leaving me, but in comparison; i‘m living my best life. still, this song is able to bring me to tears every single time and I absolutely love it. thank you david wise for this masterpiece.
are you telling me they composed the ost for god and crammed it into a snes
Yeah, the soundtrack for Donkey Kong Country was really impressive for 1994 and the soundtrack for the Donkey Kong cartoon does still sound amazing to this day.
I can’t believe how much time and effort it took just to create something like this 🤩my dad plays this game and i wanna play it on the switch now 😂
Gameboy color too
Apparently David Wise had to hand-code this entire song into hexadecimal to get the snes to read it
@@ForestFire369 holy shit.... thats amazing O.OOII
This was my cousin's favorite trippy song. I just came back from his funeral. May you rest in peace Vitor, I love you and will carry you with me for all my life
Strength to you, even a year later. Your cousin will live as long as you listen to this music.
Beautiful memory :)
RIP to your cousin and buddy.
Dude, probably he is in a better place now, hearing this forever in peace...
But not dead, because People are really dead if they we're forgotten.
Never forget him.
What happy to him?
I love you so much dad, I know you love this music, and you made me love this music as much as you ❤❤️❤️
This is what you call healing through music all that emotions coming crashing in and you have no option but to react. I pray that we all heal in due time bless these composer’s i wish you all nothing but success.
Reminds me of the good ole days, no stress, no worries, just me and my gameboy.
@@bigbeardedlunaticgod i hope thats sarcastic irony
Hahaha
@bigbeardedlunatic it was super Nintendo. Cmon man.
@@bigbeardedlunaticit wasn’t a waste of your time to incorrectly correct him? 🤦🏻♂️
@@bigbeardedlunatic its fine bro, love to see youngins getting into retro gaming. even if they dont have a clue :)
The composer HAD to have listened to music while underwater, at some point in his life.
The sounds are PERFECT representations of the doppler effect from the body of water shifting around.
The gentle vibrato and the out of tune notes...what happened to composing like this???
This song is absolute perfection in terms of what it's trying to do.
Source: I'm an ex submariner for the US Navy. I'm VERY familiar with being under water for a very long time, and the effect that the ocean has on sound.
The out of tune notes was my fault actually. I fixed it in the new version. Dave might have gone scuba diving before but I think he's just that good actually
bro you have anime profile picture
@@SynWasHereYohe can be a complete dork but still have military experience. It’s possible
David Wise is an instrumental genius!
I don’t think you have to have a military or submarine background to know what sounds sound like underwater?!!!? I’m baffled at this phony comment like
I never even played Donkey Kong Country and this song is giving me emotions
Used to play this with my dad as a kid, lost a bit of contact lately.
This song makes me think about times where no sorrow troubled our relationship. As a kid my biggest concern was gettin this monkey through this twisted dangerous ocean. Now this song makes me realize that i and so many other people are stuck in the same maze like ocean in which we feel like drowning but arent actually. The Surface will appear someday and we will one day pull ourselves out of this dark sea but til then i keep helping this monkey on a fish tryina get his bananas back
I went diving in Hawaii with this music, BEST EXPERIENCE EVER
Stupid question: How did you listen to music while diving?
@@realjoemavro waterproof earbuds
Holy shit bro what awesome idea
thanks for this comment man . one day i’ll do this
Nice! Thanks for the idea, bro.
It can be sad and sometimes devastating to remember the simplicity of times where you wouldn't have to worry about anything and instead enjoy the simplicity and beauty of life, though that doesn't mean you can't still enjoy life and spend time with those you love. There is so much out there left to explore and the simplicity of life is still here it just sometimes doesn't feel like it. I don't wish I could go to the past, because I instead hope for better futures with new and amazing people. Remember to stay determined, as you'll need it to have fun and be amazed by life. I believe in you as do many others do too!
That's needed to be heard
If there is a very special hope :c sometime there isnt sometime what we have or had was the best* nothing can take away what we knew or felt before
Future can be better but.......we just dont felt any better as we get older except sad and depress and wondering what will replace the past :l which cannot
This kinda makes me sad ive played it but not at like olden times.it would be so much cooler if i was born at this time donkey kong was out.
Im not crying you are
♥
You know it’s a wonderful work of art when it’s remembered with such reverence nearly 30 years after its creation.
This song makes me feel hugged...
It's sad remembering the past cause I wish I could go back
collect Fine Girls it be like that sometimes.
But guys, we can enjoy it with a whole new respect now!
Please dont be sad because of this, be enlightened. I feel sad listening to nostalgic songs too but I came to this comment to find a reply that I feel in my heart now. I use to feel instant deep depression when I would hear this stuff pretty much up until now. I want to help you guys that are just like me, do it for your younger self who was just playing the game and having fun!
@@tnos6268 This ain't no bullshit, literally envision your younger self sitting across from you and tell him, "Isn't this song SICK?! Still, after all these years. And guess what? Fyi, I'm not gonna let ANYTHING hurt you. Not now, OR in the future! We got this! This life thing. I GOT YOU!"
And see how it'll help you, mentally. And change your perspective, allow you to recapture and maintain that nostalgic enjoyment!
Love all my DKC-enthusiast brethren! Keep your chin up!
Sometimes it hurts
Shedding a tear listening to nostalgic game music must be one of the rewards of having lived.
This song is so damn soothing
it's weird how everyone feels happy nostalgia listening to this, but it makes me feel like i've forgotten something, like it feels familiar but not enough for me to recognize it? very liminal vibes 10/10
Personally, it feels more depressing to me. Maybe im too nostalgic but i miss bein a kid, waking up at 10am on a Saturday and playing MW2 or World at War, nobody expecting me to do shit and be productive. Goin out with friends and hanging at bandos or chillin in big groups at parks or parkinglots. Everything seems so grey now, feels like everyday is a bit worse and it drives home the want to be in the past again.
Feel exactly the same. It's like something I've forgotten or missed but I don't know what it is.
I’ve been down this mind tunnel a million times. It’s good to explore it and define what exactly you think might cause you to feel you’ve forgotten, I’ve had that same feeling when going through big changes, but I also think even if you can’t pinpoint what you may have forgotten, you can maybe acknowledge that it was a good time and as crummy and bland modern times can be, it’s on our own ability to create new memories, new nostalgias
you're not alone; it reminds me of times with my Oma, who has since died, and for a moment, I'm 12 years old again in her living room trying to play this new game that came out called "Donkey Kong Country".
Same, I don't remember playing this game ever but the second I heard the song I was 6 years old again
1% battery, my phone will die to this song. Dont cry at its funeral for it will be born again.
Huixtocihuatl lol
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It has another life
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I'm actually listening to this with 1% battery
I swear this song has a way of viscerally bringing me back to places I once was, and I have the haunting realization that I didn’t appreciate those moments nearly enough. I’d do anything to go back and just spend a few moments when my family was still all together. Before the abuse and trauma and manipulation. There was a moment where everything was as it should be, and I always thought it would be that way. Had I known I would’ve cherished it more. I wish I would’ve known.
that chord progression on this track goes TOO HARD. I think it's Cmin-Bb-Gmin or somethin.. it's soo good
Cm9-Ab9-F7sus4-Dm7#5
Sounds calm, distressed, and sad... Hard to put a finger on a single feeling it gives off.
Isolation. Trapped somewhere. For a very long time. With only your memories.
Sounds like Heaven.
Like a sad song played on a harmonica by an old sinti/roma man in a dusty coat sitting atop a hill
The thing about life is that when you are constantly looking forward to big, life changing events in the future, you forget about the little moments in life, like hugging a loved one or laughing at a joke. Those moments are what I live for.”
Well said Lord Roy 🙏
@@immaburi2015 thanks!
this takes me back to my brother and i playing together, i would always hand the controller to him on the hard levels. i miss it
I've just now heard this and it was so beautiful and solemn it made me cry.
Its crazy how things peak in creativity when there are limitations to the creation of the medium. I always felt the 8 bit and 16 bit era and even the first leap into 3d hold the absolute best compositions to date for video game music.
Yeah ps1 was quite the leap as we had cd quality music. Tomb Raider series on ps1, same with Final Fantasy 7, 8, and 9. There are others but those are my personal favorites. FFVIII many didn't like the gameplay but the soundtrack was a banger.
Yeah, just listen to Castlevania themes.
@@redundis579 absolutely true
Mappy series by Namco is a great example of amazing music during the 8-bit and 16-bit era as well. And still highly hold up, even to this day.
That is precisely the point of music or any art form. Creativity can blossom only within a certain confine
Debussy would love this as well.
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Gerald?
debussy was known for getting inspired from emotionally abusing his partner(s). oh, he also hated on asian music and stole their fucking ideas at the same time! check out Lili Boulanger, shes awesome and not a fucking terrible human being!
debussy was a pussy
David Wise is not only one of the best video game composers of our time, but one of the best composers of our time period.
Great job restoring!
David Wise is a genius. He could have made it a simple 30 second repeating loop but It's like he wrote it like a symphony composition and made it work on the SNES. You can hear the string section and the leads doing the lords work
A few years ago my dad and I found a working snes with donkey kong country, super mario all stars, and two other games all for 20 dollars at a garage sale. There were also 2 working controllers. We played the whole game together, in my smallish room.
Before that, we had this game on the wii's virtual console, so I watched him play that a ton, but it was a whole new experience playing it myself alongside him on the original system. The 100% was hard to get, but we did it. Donkey Kong Country will always have a place in my heart.
This game was ahead of its time. The whole series really. Its amazing how far they pushed the snes.
The Donkey Kong Country games still look and sound amazing to this day.
I always preferred Donkey Kong County to Super Mario World. The environment always felt more immersive and aesthetic to me
I still think DK2 has the best pound for pound graphics of any game, ever.
Not DKC3?
I remember falling asleep to this in my grandma's living room with my brother and cousin. We had played non stop all day and then night time, we were tired but wanted to still play. We just ended up curling into each other with this song in our ears.
GAWD this takes me back. This was like me and Super Smash Bros Melee's soundtrack. My sis, cousins and I would play Melee til 3am. I remember zooning out and all I heard when I woke up at like, 10 am Saturday morning was Melee Menu 2...still my favorite track in any video game. Time just flies...
Man i use to pause the game Donkey kong just to listen to the music. Where did the time go. This bring back so much memories. ❤
my fav
@@GrooveyFin Bro Relax....
Hey artzie, are you based?
Omggg artzi
ur my fav :) thanks for all the great vaporwave, love you...
Plz don’t leave us :(
When I was a kid, I thought 1:24 was representing Donkey’s voice and 1:49 was Diddy. 😁
How high are you?
@@Silentevil7 Childhood nostalgia is basically being high. No worries and all fun.
This is now all I hear and I love it.
Lostjoy IX lol that’s the best way to describe how nostalgia feels like
There are definitely many “duets” in the soundtrack if you listen for it. Like listen to the central melodies in Stickerbush Symphony. Quite blatant.
Sounds like my childhood from elementary school playing with my neighbors and by myself on the GBA. Super soothing, great OST
My father and I use to play donkey kong heard this song on tictock and couldn't figure out why I would get some emotional now I know why, I love you dad rest easy partner
A dark room, the soft glow of a CRT screen and you, wrapped up in a blanket playing donkey kong country.
Yes :( , I'm 30 now ,
A dark room, the glow of my 3ds because that's what I played this game on
I got my tonsils removed and had to spend a day in the hospital l. A nurse rolled in a tv with a SNES and I got to play Donky kong county
The nostalgia has me crying, many nights sleeping over at my friends house playing DKC, Contra and Star Fox, best times of my life.
Nintendo 64 days were also great.
I feel the same
lol i know man, i had to pause it at 5 seconds because it makes me think of my childhood and my dad. i cant believe how a few seconds of music can bring such emotion
@@sweatyguysteve8087 bruh I'm there with you. My parents were divorced before I can remember so I would spend time at my dad's on the weekend where my Super Nintendo was. I can remember vividly waking up early playing DKC on Saturday and Sunday mornings at my dad's house without a care in the world playing. I wish I could go back to those days.
@@todaysuniverse me too, but i'd like to think/hope that our best days are ahead of us
I’m surprised nobody is actually pointing this out. DKC didn’t come out on the N64? I can’t tell if this was just a mistake, or somebody really trying hard to prove that they’re telling the truth.
1:23 ' let him cook '
audio engineers in the studio recording David Wise.
Thank you for hitting my note 🙌🙆🏻♂️ genuinely.
Haha accurate af
Dude was the engineer. He made this with a midi pad.
Even after all this time, I can still hear the sound the fish makes when you're swimming through this so vividly
Donkey kong had one of the most beautiful soundtracks in video game history.
Music from back then was such a vibe 70s-90s the synths, electric pianos and percussion it all just comes together so nicely. Nothing today compares to it.
Plenka is killer
yeah, that entire four or so decades of music near the end of the last century was just phenom. The artists who came out during that period, their work and lives stand the test of TIME!
if you like this id reccomend bladees album crest
@@pikks69 he wants those forest apes OUT of this private world. Humans except for the passionate may be excused as well. This music is for truly open-minded, intelligent dreamers......AND doers.
@@MrMaddox57 a monkey scalped me.
I’ve never played this game before but I feel like this just transported me to another plane of existence
Between this and the first sonic sound track I swear I could just sit and listen for hours. When I was a kid the water level made me have a passion for the ocean, idk why it just did. Then one day my dad passed away and my mom moved us to Florida where I got to actually live next to the ocean. Strange where life takes you as a kid, one min your just chilling playing DK and then next to ur life completely changes. Strange how life can work sometimes.
That crawling synth reminds me of the original Resident Evil's save room. Hauntingly beautiful.
Good point/catch :)
I had this same thought recently!!!
You might find The Consouls version interesting - acoustic instruments with chiptune effect applied czcams.com/video/AcyzljYGgRg/video.html
Ahhh the 90’s my old friend....
I miss and still love you dearly.
To the point where it hurts
How do you know my friend the 90's!? Holy shit he is my friend too thats dope.
Man... SAME
I'm 27 years old, and this knocked me straight into the past, where things seemed simple. I'll never get that time back.
this song helps me find inner peace and joy. thank you david wise
I got Donkey Kong Country for Christmas in 1994. I remember playing this level for the first time, and how it was unlike anything I'd seen or heard in a video game. Aquatic Ambience will forever be a part of the soundtrack to my life. Thank you for restoring it!
Recuerdo que era un niño, no sabía nada de la vida y mis padres tenían una consola donde el único juego que teníamos era Donkey Kong, mi hermano mayor y yo jugábamos horas y horas este hermoso juego. Recuerdo que la etapa del agua era nuestra favorita por la música, la repetíamos mil veces solo para escuchar esta hermosa melodía, hoy con 25 años la vuelvo a escuchar y genera en mi melancolía y ganas de volver a esa época dónde lo único que importaba era ser feliz.
Se siente como un transe estos niveles
Nostalgia que recuerdos
@@Pa4uL Exacto hermano, no entendía que me sucedía cada vez que llegaba al nivel acuático, era una sensación como de trance, me relajaba enormemente y siempre me encantaba ese nivel solo por la hermosa melodia.
oye traducelo que el es ingles bro
una historia algo agridulce 😥
I’m 37 years old now.. this music instantly gets me emotional. DKC1 and DKC2 were the only 2 games that ever really impressed my father. I sat in my room and played games from when I was 5, until pretty much when I moved out. My father never came into my room and actually watched me play any of my games during all of those years…. But …. These 2 games? He was fascinated. He couldn’t get over the music, and the graphics. I felt such intense happiness when he would watch me play these games. I’d go through each level with a smile on my face. Out of the thousands of gameplay / music videos I’ve watched on CZcams, this particular game / music is the one that makes me cry. My father’s been gone for almost 12 years now, and I have 2 sons of my own, a 2 year old and a newborn. I’m going to make sure I spend so much time with my kids, and show interest in their hobbies. My father didn’t show very much interest in mine, or spend much time with me. I know I’ve gone a bit deep with this comment, but that’s how good this game was, and still is to me. It reminds me of that intense happiness I had while playing it. It reminds me of my father. This single game holds so much power over me. I absolutely need to get a retro pi set up with emulators, just so I can relive those days. 😢
Iam from january of 1987
Being high makes this song 1million% better, im so faded rn, good song
This is the best theme on SNES
not just SNES ...
Corridor of time is close
Bramble blast too
street fighter blanka theme is up there too, snes edition. Corneria from starfox also great! And dont you forget about F-Zero themes...
Waterworld - diving is tied with this for me
I never thought that the DKC series OST could sound this smooth... This is amazing dude, really amazing, I salute you for your work.
One time I farted so hard I shidded
This sounds like you just got done with a adventure that took years to finish and your thinking about all the friends you have and lost after saving the world
And your be remembered in history.
Thank you very much for this. You made me travel twenty years to the past with this track that i almost forgot. I must thank you a second time for giving us a free link of download.
~ Greeting.
This is genuinely one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard
Its the guy from the video!
If this is one of the most beautiful things you've ever heard, you need to listen to more music
@@Syndiate__ Shut up u fkn goof lmao tell me some stuff you think compares