Donkey Kong Country - DK Island Swing [Restored] Extended

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Composed by David Wise. Recreated by me. This was made possible by locating the original instrument samples from workstation keyboards and drum machines before they were put into the game and rebuilding the soundtrack from the ground up, applying some modern mixing techniques along the way to lift the veil of 16bit compression and create an updated listening experience. Part of a project to restore the entire DKC series soundtrack. Follow me on Twitter for more updates: / princesamlet
Sound sources:
Roland R-8, Korg Wavestation, Roland U-220, Kurzwewil K250

[@balaam_7087]

That quick cut to the trombone guy😆

[@TheCobyRandal]

😆 1:11

[@bobbyg15]

"No, the REAL DK Island Swing..." "Perfection."

[@psicoffee819]

2:53 if only I could've done that as a kid when I missed

[@ShamanJeeves]

Great restoration! I grew up with these games, and it always pleases me to see how much others love them.

[@2_sp00ky_4_u]

DKC was one of my grandmother's favorite games. These restores are taking me back.

[@IYPITWL]

My god it's perfect

[@catpixer932]

👍 🌈 ❤️

[@DMMDestroyer]

Thousands have enjoyed your restorations over the years. It's always awesome to come back to these after being there since almost the beginning. Thank you!

[@Chop23]

Tbh, I didn't know there were so many hidden bananas in the 1st level

[@kookaman6095]

The one dislike is from King K. Rool

[@Azelf89]

Man, this was so much fun to help work on during your streams. Even if we (i.e. Everyone in the chat) got pretty nitpicky quite often, the end result is something I’m sure that everyone is going to be happy with. THAT SAID! If I can make a suggestion, I think it would be kinda cool if you slightly extended the ending a bit. By that, I mean try to do it like how the arranged version of “DK Island Swing”, “Jungle Groove”, did it by having one more small section with the drums & chimes, but have the drums fade out so that all the song ends with is the chimes. This was a suggestion that was said during the stream chat, but I would like to see it incorporated here. Perhaps as a separate, bonus track? Like have that, but also incorporate the added bird chirping in the beginning of the DK Jamz version of the track, and release that as a separate track. Would be interesting to hear.

[@WiiFitGOTY]

He's finally here.

[@FrankHarwald]

*coconut gun approves*

[@jacksuemnick2686]

Preforming for you

[@xXSpongeBroBrownPantzXx]

*because it is*

[@Alexs23743]

@@jacksuemnick2686 If you know the words, you can join in too!

[@OfcourseJimmy000]

​@@Alexs23743 DK, HUH DONKEY KONG

[@brendaleon1482]

Nothing like getting home from work and listening to this gem

[@k.xultimojo65]

I personally prefer your previous restoration of this track better. But for the sake of this track. Not too shabby, if I do say so myself.

[@MrDaftice]

Holy moly, THANK YOU for this!

[@SteffyCush]

Good job as always with these

[@DruidVorse]

wow the intro was really long, I expected to start as the game does, really caught me off guard :D

[@kala2k7youtube]

Amazing job.. love hearing the instruments with such clarity..

[@eliaspergantis]

Great playthrough by the way!

[@KamiHamster90]

I love that you've been doing this.

[@renatogasparsaldana]

Best edition so far

[@lucalone]

sounds great !!!

[@이세아-h7s]

oh my gosh donkey 1 music is come back in the studio quality

[@battingusamadingus3705]

you the man jammin sam

[@alasthar9991]

*E X P A N D D O N G*

[@deadboltman]

Added to my workout playlist

[@Guerrero1994]

J'Sam Miller You are the best👍 Thank you 🥂

[@johneygd]

They could,ve put those full versions on the snes if they wanted that trough sound streaming but that would,ve take an enormous amount of space.

[@TheGag96]

Is that humming at the beginning really the original sample? It's a little high-pitched and grating compared to the original... The rest of this updated restoration sounds great, though.

[@Obscure_man31]

Yes it was prepare to be suprised what compression does to 5th and 4th gen consoles ie crash bandicoot and re2

[@RicardaSegal]

Fun fact: While developing the game, Rareware studied and observed Gorilla behavior at the Twycross Zoo to help them animate DK and Diddy.

[@EdulinkZelda]

Well done! Next Krematoa Koncerto DK3 :)

[@Davidevgen]

anather home run dude :P

[@StrayFire]

somehow the second part feels off to me - but the first part is amazing

[@ForeverMaggie420]

Hooray!!

[@supergabrielbrososuna9323]

I love donkey Kong game❤️🙉

[@mistery8363]

r u gonna restore Well done and the other small themes (win or lose bonus level, lose a life etc) for the dkc games?

[@esafueminotaverde]

00:32 double bass

[@joseantoniocarvalho2503]

It's perfect!!

[@strumdynastygaming7217]

The instrumentation is good, but unfortunately the cymbals (high hat?) starting at 0:28 are supposed to swing I think. You have them in straight 8ths. The 8th note swing is basically like 8th triplet notes but you skip one hit every 3 notes. It’s important to the song that the cymbals swing.

[@Azelf89]

I just checked with the original song, and nope, it’s straight 8ths there too.

[@strumdynastygaming7217]

Sacha Vaillancourt I don’t think they are

[@Azelf89]

StrumDynasty Gaming No, they are there. It just sounds like it isn’t because the other instruments drown the percussion out a bit. But if you look at the original song, and isolate the cymbals, you’ll find that they do match how the song sounds here.

[@strumdynastygaming7217]

Sacha Vaillancourt I understand. Well, that might be the case, but that would just mean that Sam did not do a good job of making it sound like the original. If it sounds like the cymbals are swinging in the original, it should sound like that here too.

[@rSheffield12]

I know I'm necroposting here, but you're right. It sounds like the Hi-hat/cymbal is being played more often in that section in the original. Sam still did an extremely good job at rebuilding the song, though.

[@shambleshef]

banger

[@GuFabri]

Nice! Where do I get these vst instruments?

[@megamanxfan02]

Is the name of the song jungle japes? Or is it the stage name?

[@JamminSamMiller]

Jungle Japes is its name in DK64. This one is Jungle Groove, DK Island Swing, or Jungle Hijinx

[@juliotironi3134]

3:23 hahahaha

[@Veloso-hf1ux]

Jungle Hijinx

[@eflat5870]

0:39 What instrument is it?

[@esafueminotaverde]

keyboard strings

[@romildonunesdeoliveira8120]

Gostei

[@panetierbread3510]

isn't the bass out of tune?