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Someone did up top already, but point taken.
sorry lmao, ctrl-f failed me
Someone did up top already, but point taken.
I think that's the beauty of both David Wise and Kenji Yamamoto working together. Because both are great at choosing music to accompany what is happening on screen. I mean, the Metroid Prime soundtrack was a perfect example of that.True. It's also one of those games where context definitely helps. It's one thing to hear the tunes totally separate from gameplay footage, and another to see and understand just how well each tune compliments its home stage from having actually played the game. For example, High Tide Ride's buildup is just plain excellent. I'd love a world in which more platformers boasted music that perfectly matched the flow and intensity of each individual level and section of level as well as some of DKCTF's do.
Secret best track in the game.While I always approve of more threads praising Tropical Freeze's incredible soundtrack, I would like to post a few of my favorite tracks that always seem to get buried under the popularity of other great tracks on the album (I'd post more, but I don't want the thread to suffer from overlap). Some of these do an unbelievably stellar job of selling the atmospheres of the levels they appear in, but others are just excellent tracks in their own right that I'm sad I didn't get to hear more often in the game.
Deep Keep (Land)
True. It's also one of those games where context definitely helps. It's one thing to hear the tunes totally separate from gameplay footage, and another to see and understand just how well each tune compliments its home stage from having actually played the game. For example, High Tide Ride's buildup is just plain excellent. I'd love a world in which more platformers boasted music that perfectly matched the flow and intensity of each individual level and section of level as well as some of DKCTF's do.
Yeah, I have no idea why Nintendo didn't release a soundtrack CD/download for this. It makes absolutely no sense considering how huge the OST is and how much acclaim it got (well, by the actual users).It is criminal that there is no way to buy this soundtrack. People should be in jail for this.
I feel like Wing Ding is Tropical Freeze's answer to Stickerbrush Symphony. Doesn't the ending theme even play them both together?
Why no mention of Frantic Fields? Is is because Scorch N Torch overshadows it?
It was posted before (and I think only appeared for a short section in one level) but I can't stop tapping my foot to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PNTWLAXC5A
So is this the OST people will be listening to while building some crazy Mario Maker levels?
Y'know, people say they'll complain if Retro's next game is another DK, but honestly, I'm down if we're getting another Wise soundtrack.
Or hey, maybe they can do something new and still work with him on a soundtrack.
All the spins on Aquatic Ambiance were just as magical as the original, too, although this one was my personal favorite.
Guys, Sawmill Thrill exterior is so dope for a simple background theme..
All Hail the King Baby!
It was posted before (and I think only appeared for a short section in one level) but I can't stop tapping my foot to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PNTWLAXC5A
So is this the OST people will be listening to while building some crazy Mario Maker levels?
one of my favorites and sadly no one ever talks about it because if you play that level normally you only hear it for like 10 seconds before you jump into the water
whereas you've got to let it go for about a minute before the full goodness reveals itself. love the horn tone. that bass tone too. so nice. so warm. and whoever is playing enunciates their phrases very well.
makes thread including picture of david wise playing sax but leaves out not only the best track but the track that this picture represents...Busted Bayou
for shame, just wait for that sax....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95HuSMQSUVo
Y'know, people say they'll complain if Retro's next game is another DK, but honestly, I'm down if we're getting another Wise soundtrack.
Or hey, maybe they can do something new and still work with him on a soundtrack.
Holy shit this is awesome. David Wise is the motherfucking man.
It's honestly so weird to me how this soundtrack manages to do that. There are a fuck load of tunes that just exist as "filler" until the real meat of the level shows itself and the major leitmotifs establish themselves, but that "filler" is full of rich dynamics that almost make you wonder why someone would even do that for such a small segment. It's as if they just love music enough and said "fuck it, have fun guys!"
For example, stepping back to my Jammin' Jams post for a bit, there were at least three different "style swaps/beat drops/tempo switches" in a song that really could have been just one of those three styles. Why?
makes thread including picture of david wise playing sax but leaves out not only the best track but the track that this picture represents...Busted Bayou
for shame, just wait for that sax....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95HuSMQSUVo
Nocturnowl doing an underrated list and Jammin' Jams manages to completely miss the boat there too.
Greatest video game soundtrack of all time. Infinite variety, infinite quality, seemingly bottomless track list. David Wise is god.
I'm still upset we didn't get anything as moody as Forest Interlude. The deep sounds and synth at the beginning are just...man.
While I can distinguish that sound more than most of the other tracks in TF, it's still not the kind of music I was hoping for.
I think if you heard this track you'd understand the sound I'm talking about. The beginning of Forest Interlude and this track just make me feel some sort of way. It's really good.
I was control-F'ing the thread to see if anyone mentioned this track yet. It's not my outright favorite, but it's definitely up there and I'm weirded out how ignored it is considering how close it feels to the first DKC's more natural, jazzy stylings compared to either the DKC2 or Diddy Kong Racing/DKC3 GBA tones Wise went with most of the other tracks.Nocturnowl doing an underrated list and Jammin' Jams manages to completely miss the boat there too. This song is absolutely infectious and invites a series of silly fun imagery complimented by the fact that you're platforming through a frozen fruit production facility stuck in a partially frozen jungle. It doesn't get more surreal or comical than that. The theme itself is just full of a playfulness with a nice percussion and use of flutes before dropping the STANKEST midsection (1:27 on) complete with a "voice" sample that has stuck in my head from my first time hearing it to now as one of the coolest little things in the entire OST's composition.
11/10, would buy icees to this theme.
That sort of sound is nostalgic to me so I never minded, but I sort of get what you mean? There's some interviews with Wise where he makes out there was a big emphasis on recreating a lot of the original DKC soundfonts but in modern times, which is probably why even when you'd expect there to be more live-instrumentation for certain tracks, there isn't.When it comes to Kirkhope or Wise I'm going Wise almost 100% of the time, but I just cannot get into the Tropical Freeze tracks. They work fine for the game itself, but it doesn't have that same quality that some of the better DKC tracks have that make me want to listen to it outside of the game. I don't know if it's the instrumentation or what, but most of them just sound kind of corny to me, like the kind of music produced when video games first got CD audio.
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