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The track, along with the rest of the Donkey Kong Country soundtrack, was part of the launch lineup with the Nintendo Music application in October 2024. [ 10 ] References
David Wise is a British video game music composer and musician. He was a composer at Rare from 1985 to 2009, and he was the company's sole musician up until 1994. He has gained a dedicated following for his work on various games, particularly Nintendo's Donkey Kong Country series.
Eveline Novakovic (née Fischer; born 1969 in Christchurch, Hampshire) [1] is a British video game music composer who contributed music to Donkey Kong Country, [2] composed most of the soundtrack for Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble!, [3] and provided voice acting and sound effects for several other Rare projects.
Donkey Kong Country [b] is a 1994 platform game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES). It is a reboot of Nintendo's Donkey Kong franchise and follows the gorilla Donkey Kong and his nephew Diddy Kong as they set out to recover their stolen banana hoard from the crocodile King K. Rool and his army, the Kremlings.
The soundtrack of Diddy's Kong Quest was composed by David Wise and was released in the United States as The Original Donkey Kong Country 2 Soundtrack. [35] The soundtrack maintains similarity to its predecessor with its prominent percussion and eclectic genres ranging between big band , disco and hip hop .
Video game soundtracks considered the best Year Game Lead composer(s) Notes Ref. 1985 Super Mario Bros. Koji Kondo: The Super Mario Bros. theme was the first musical piece from a video game to be inducted into the Library of Congress's National Recording Registry.
The Wii version of Donkey Kong Country Returns was released for download on Wii U via Nintendo eShop. Donkey Kong Country Returns was made available on Nintendo eShop on January 21, 2015, in Japan, [63] January 22 in Europe, [64] and January 23 in Australia and New Zealand. [65]
Thomas thought compared to the other Donkey Kong Country games, the music in Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! stands out the least, although he stated that it was an "impressive effort". [18] Van Duyn similarly commented that the soundtrack was not as "legendary" as it was in its previous instalment, but still admitted that it had some "great" tracks.