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Donkey Kong Country (video game)/Awesome Music


The Donkey Kong Country series has some of the most awesome VG music ever written. To name a few tracks:

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Donkey Kong Country 3 - SNES Version

  • Rockface Rumble
    • Someone got the idea of overlaying this song with "Mining Melancholy". The resulting epicness can be found here.
      • From the same guy, there's a mashup of Hot-Head Bop and Treetop Tumble.
  • Jungle Jitter, from DKC 3, isn't quite the classic Donkey Kong Country theme, but it's deliciously groovy in its own way.
  • Mill Fever, possibly the most jazzily mellow tune in the series since DKC 1's Treetop Rock - it helps that it's a down-low blues number.
  • Nuts and Bolts. It's DKC 3's factory theme, and it has an awesome guitar solo.
  • Also from DKC 3, Pokey Pipes.
  • Don't count out the Opening theme for DKC3, the second best opening in the series.
  • To be honest I'm one of those youngsters that didn't grow up with DKC (except the GBA remakes) but Stilt Village is just too friggin catchy.
  • Big Boss Blues is ominous and highly awesome.
  • Frosty Frolics is a really pretty and mysterious song that just perfectly fits snow levels. Too bad it was replaced by...... this.

Donkey Kong Country 3 - GBA Version

Donkey Kong Land

  • The Game Boy Gaiden Series, Donkey Kong Land, has some gorgeously good music to itself as well. Kremlantis from the first DKL game is a terrific track even in cheesy GB 8-bit.
  • Big Ape City has one of the catchiest 8-bit basslines of all time.
  • Blimp On! Blimp Off!
  • There's also the rockin' Monkey Mountain theme, which goes high and low and all over. Hum it with me now! Dah dah dahdahdah, deerrr ner ner ner...
  • The 8-bit remix of 3's "Enchanted Riverbank." It puts more emphasis on the melody, and really lets it shine through.
  • The chiptune version of Lockjaw's Saga somehow manages to sound as epic as the SNES version.
  • The Boss music is pure, gratuitous awesome. Think of all the rock bands which just can't approach this kind of catchy.
  • The Donkey Kong Land 2 version of Donkey Kong Rescued arguably surpasses its 16-bit counterpart.

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  • Even though Kenji Yamamoto of the Metroid Prime series is the new composer and there are mostly remixes, that doesn't make the music any less awesome. One such theme is Mine Menace/The Rocket-Barrel stages.
  • Another such remix... Jungle Hijinx.
    • Here is the theme of King Of Cling, it's an AWESOME remix of the second half of the DK Island Swing.
  • Palm Tree Groove, a.k.a. The stages that make DK and Diddy look like they stepped into the world of The Rub Rabbits. Smooth jazz, baby.
    • Here is the version that is played in the volcano.
  • Let's add an original song: Feather Fiend, the 7th boss.
  • Another original tune from one of the volcano stages: Bobbing Basalt.
  • One of the best remixes for Fear Factory. And the surprisingly catchy Music Madness stage too?
  • For some more remixes of older DKC songs, we have Northern Hemisphere, Forest Frenzy, Treetop Rock, Voices of the Temple, and most of all, Life in the Mines!
  • What about Tidal Terror? (which is another remix of Northern Hemispheres) You can really hear the influence of Metroid Prime here.
  • Although each and every mine cart stage contains its own unique cover of "Mine Cart Madness" from the original DKC, "Rickety Rails" is the only one to feature an entirely new arrangement of the piece. And IT. IS. AWESOME.
  • The remix of "Aquatic Ambiance". So soothing.
  • The final boss theme, which sounds a lot like the Bryyo music from Metroid Prime 3.
  • The World Map remixed "Simian Segue" every time it could: Variable Mix at its best.
  • Another original song: Mast Blast.
  • Yet another original song: Trophy.

Remixes

  • Overclocked Remix. That is all.
  • A remix by Panmandan that fuses both versions of Mill Fever into one extremely chill package. The synth in the GBA version perfectly accentuates the bass of the original.
    • And another that fuses both version of Treetop Rock. That percussion.
  • Some guy mixed together "In the Air Tonight" by Phil Collins with some DKC2 tunes, mostly Bayou Boogie (since its drums sound very similar to "In the Air Tonight"). The result is pretty impressive.

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