thanks for mentioning the graphics as well!

thank you! there's also forest frenzy, which is not featured in this mix ☝️

​@@juunjuubeiohhhhhh! I'll definitely check it out my friend. This is really really good. What you think about doing a Chrono Trigger one at some point if you ever have the time? This is fantastic

by creating this, i literally live partly in this universe 😅 focussed creating feels like diving in..

@@juunjuubeiAbsolutely. I watch this at work every day to get me started. Hell it’s Saturday and I’m back again 😎 don’t stop creating!!!

​@@Not43Bats i'll never stop 😎 but i assume i'll have to start over on the next ones.. my SSD was blown last week and i don't seem to be able to rescue the data 😅

first of all, thank you for the deep appreciation 💪 the way your talking about your analysis tells me that you're pretty much concerned about the details. i share your opinion about most of the other remixes, but i don't think they are a result of lack of skills or something.. i think they just want to freely interpret the core elements of an original work, while i'm targeting the sound and atmosphere rather than the music itself. therefore i don't change or remove any notes, maybe sometimes a bit of adjusting the arrangement or adding something to boost the groove. cause groove is what the 80s are all about 😎

as far as you're concerned? 😂

thanks! i'd love to bring disco train soon, but my SSD blew up 😵

that's nice to hear! thank you 😁 i'm always thinking that there's something missing in my mixes, still never got behind the problem 🙄

TF why a cucumber? 🤣

@juunjuubei because they're so well hydrated

@@donnythedingo aah 😂 wish you a pleasant dive then! lol

haha! thanks for digging the internet deep enough to get here 😜

thanks!

the sitar is only adding an accent with a single note at the beginning of some patterns. but hey! thanks for digging into my old stuff so deep 😁 quite a journey if you came this far lol

thanks!

it's the softness of the 80 synths drawing you into a reality that never really was 🤩

haha, i'm a big fan of JRPGs, just never made it to the WA series, maybe someday. but when i think about WA music there's that strong morricone influence and i doubt that it would fit into the synthwave genre. but i have only a few tracks in mind, though haven't played it yet. who knows.. maybe i'll change my mind when playing through the first one someday 😅

at least it found it's way to you. well i would've told you about it, but i have zero reach on other platforms 😅

@juunjuubei well you earned a sub so I won't miss anything anymore <3

@StonyOnKZbin 🙌 thanks! i'll have to update this mix in the future anyways 🙃

lol, the first thing i do after arriving on work is firing up YT with a good mix. so reading that my stuff lines up in this "league" is truly satisfying 💪 thanks!

well, at least i'm glad you've found it 😁 there's also a new track, which isn't featured in the megamix ☝️☝️☝️

haha which one of those? 😅

lol it's a bit of free imagination, since the pixel sprite from ps1 doesn't show much detail 😅 but speaking mana, i thought about doing the same with the water palace from secret of mana 😌

​@@juunjuubeiGod that sound perfect I love that song too 😍

thank you! magic lies in the details 🙃 i recreated tons of assets in 3D for these DKC retrowave projects 😵‍💫

@@juunjuubei You can tell that a lot of effort and work went into it. But it looks really fantastic. I've often had the video playing on the TV as background (mainly because of the music) when friends have been over and sometimes they could hardly tear themselves away from the video.

​@@TheMrMueslie that's the reason i'm on YT rather than other platforms. doing a little animation gives the music another level of depth and ads to the atmosphere. and the delorean looks too cool from that perspective 😎

​@@TheMrMueslie dachte mir doch von deinem namen her, dass du deutsch sprichst 😝 krass was mit deinem kanal passiert ist!

@@juunjuubei 😅stark, dass du das nur vom Namen her vermutet hast. Ja gut, die schreibweise "ue" gibts glaube ich auch nur in Deutschland :D Ja, ist echt schade, aber gut, so ist das Leben. Ich habs inzwischen überwunden und konzentriere mich ganz auf meinen 2. Kanal. :D

yeah! i'm happy it found it's way to the target audience :D not everyone likes synthwave and of those who do like it, there aren't many who played DKC 😅

no! this is stage! 😝😂

well, because of that i put so much time into making it real 😝

you're talking about a full game? lol funny thing is that mario kart music was pretty much influenced by japanese 80s fusion bands like casiopea ✨

🙌🙌🙌 that's encouraging 💪😤

huh? he doesn't rap 😂 that's the only basic hiphop element not featured here 🙃 rearranging other people's tracks is just so interesting cause i'm always excited how it may turn out at the end 🤷 but maybe i'll do an original track someday 🙃

Oh, was the squawking just supposed to be beatboxing? I figured that was rapping, but that we just couldn't understand the lyrics because we don't speak bird.

​@@MADGatorumm.. it was just supposed to be what it is, some squaking samples from the original audio to be fired up in a rythmic context as a gag 😂 didn't think about rapping lol

thank you! sorry for the long wait.. it was the animation of the vulture that turned into hell of an effort, i'm not very experienced in character modeling/animation, but i had this stupid idea to be done 😂

@@juunjuubei Yo i missed it on my first watch, took me off guard this time. God damn great uh boi ! I really like the scratch at the end too

​@@pasdawisk6652 🤣 cool, you mentioned the scratching of the vulture sample! was a bit of a motive to get my old turntables running again 🙄

​​@@pasdawisk6652 the speed of the track was a bit unlucky for scratching.. a few more bpm would have sounded nice

@@juunjuubei Definetly feels organic, nice work, you could scratch diddy's victory dance too lol

just never lose patience, i'm not very fast 😅

i'm sitting over the tracks quite long to give em some unique character, therefore it takes some time to release them (besides the 3D stuff i do for them) glad you appreciate the outcome 💪

@@juunjuubei You feel the work that has gotten into this. Both the video and the sound. It's crazy how it absolutely stays faithful to the original but is something different all the same

​@@marvinko6610 i think "faithful" really nails it. i try to recreate it first without missing a single note before adding/editing/ replace the voices with own synths. always respecting the great originals 😁

i feel you, i had far more than just a plan. i got stuck at the guitar parts for the tragic prince, before i fell into the bottom less hole of DKC retrowave 😂 let's just say i've not given up but there are so many things i'd like to do 😵‍💫😵😵‍💫

i'd never say it's better than the original, especially if it's translated into another genre. but i appreciate that, thanks man! now i think i'll have to check out Mannheim Steamroller lol

😂 is it? it's a bit weird and drifted towards electro, while i tried to make it more percussive..

@@juunjuubei Even when it is a bit weird, the retrowave never sounds awful

what's that? 😂

looks like i have a heart for niche-things.. 😅

i personally don't think that it's better than the original, but i really appreciate your opinion 💪😁

😂.. think he doesn't like it.. some other guy and me sent it to him via twitter and there was no reaction. maybe he's very busy but regarding his newer soundtracks i can understand that he's not very much into this style. also DKC music is remixed to death, there's not much of similar popularity among video game music, maybe he's just tired of that 😅

If he heard that sick transition into the Ice Cave Chant, I bet he'd be like "oh..... yeah." So good.

​@@TheAspireChannel still here, are we? 😂 but ice cave chant isn't one of david's tracks 🤓😝

@juunjuubei you know... either way it's great! And yeah, I don't know that I'll find another DK video like this one. I listen multiple times a day haha don't mind me 😎

@@juunjuubei Mate, I listen to this mix quite often! It helps quiet my mind if I am unable to relax. Meditating to this is awesome too.

actually, i'm happy to hear this from people who don't know much about music. it means that the tracks can translate the feelings beyond all the technical aspects 💪 since YT is a video platform, i like to do some video content as well, for the purposes you mentioned, for having it on a screen while working or whatever. glad for your appreciation, thanks! 🙌 i'm not quite done yet.. i'll release forest frenzy very soon 😉

didn't make it to spotify yet, sorry! 😅

haha, you're doing D&D sessions? nice! feel like i should have kept it on the calm foot instead of dashing in with all the brutality at the end of the track.. but sometimes if you're dozens of hours in, you're not able to see the forest for the trees anymore..

@juunjuubei The end wouldn't make sense if this were being looped for longer play, but in a short segment, I feel it works. We've been watching a cutscene in the valley, and now the BBEG/boss has shown up, or danger has arrived. We end on rising action.

i think the gravitas in the original partially comes from the harsh sound of the SNES string samples.. i tried to rebuild the original as far as i could in the first pass, but those old samples always transfer some unique feelings. that's why i always prefer the originals over their rearrangements myself lol.. as for the 2nd part with a more dark orchestration, i tried to point out the military character of the magitek empire and therefore drag it more towards marching music 🙃 thanks for checking and spending some thoughts about it! 🙌

@juunjuubei I think it is that more martial/march tone is what brings the gravitas. Marches are underrepresented in modern music, but if done right, they can work well in rock or even pop!

king K rool? 😝

thank you! it's an honor if those people really think so 💪💪💪

wooow, slow down dude 😂 thank you so much for hyping my stuff! i'm still trying hard to achieve an even more nostalgic sound 💪✨

i think i could, but i don't know if i'd ever get there.. can't find a specific "Donkey Kong Country 2 Funky Kong theme remake" 🤔

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hähä duuuu 👉👉👉

😂 we all can tell from the views that this is not true 😝 but glad you returned 😎

@@juunjuubei i am back from the future and that's the views count there

@@pasdawisk6652 uuuhhh nice! so you can tell me how disco train will perform 😎✨✨✨

@@juunjuubei Holy smokes cant wait !

@@pasdawisk6652 me neither 😂 started already when i got stuck at the forest frenzy 🙄

took me an eternity to do that one, because of a stupid idea animation 😅 now i've nearly finished it, but sadly i can't release it within the next 3 weeks, cause i'm going to japan 😅

Awesome trip! Have fun!

thanks! i will 🙌🙌🙌