Bluesy ambient The piece that kickstarted David Wise’s journey through the Donkey Kong franchise and ended up giving the identity to the DKC series since in only one piece it features the range that would… Read More »Super Smash Bros. – Donkey Kong Music
Synthetic nature With Forest Interlude we complete a trilogy of “David Wise attempts to cram a Korg Wavestation synthesizer into the puny SNES hardware and gets away with it”. And it may be his definitive… Read More »Inside The Score – Donkey Kong Country 2 – Forest Interlude / Web Woods
Heavenly Ambience A Wise man once managed to capture the sound of water and make the Super Nintendo sing by encapsulating modern synthesizer techniques into its tiny memory; now in its spiritual and pretty much… Read More »Inside The Score – Donkey Kong Country 2 – Stickerbush Symphony
Heavy Shanty Musikal Analysis You are on a pirate boat fighting a crocodile because they are water creatures. So you hear some sea shanty-inspired Irish track that then transforms into an Iron Maiden song bekause… Read More »Inside The Score – Donkey Kong Country – Gangplank Galleon / Final Boss Battle
It’s all in the name This is a game where two monkeys ride on a cartoonish swordfish collecting bananas underwater yet here we are pondering the mysteries of the universe and reflecting on the vicissitudes… Read More »Inside The Score – Donkey Kong Country – Aquatic Ambience