Old Composer Reacts to Donkey Kong OG Tracks - Twitch Clips

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[@rpgeebzmusicarcade]

LOL - yea, that joke at @0:42 - dunno what I was thinking. Join me on Twitch Wed and Sat for some more live streaming www.twitch.tv/keyofgeebz - Never know what else I might say LOLOL

[@Spatch_]

I lost it at this comment 😆

[@MrDoreius]

Point 1: nice little joke! Point 2: you dont have to apologize if you get a text from your daughter! I think most can relate! Point 3: I noticed that you already had the Final Fantasy 7 Original Music experiance. That was a nice video, but i would like to hear your point of view on the Final Fantasy 9 music too, since it was also on the Playstation 1 and the last game Nobuo Uematsu did fully himself. It's said, that he burned himself out, after he gave so much to the game.

[@KairuHakubi]

You were thinking of Honkey Dong. that's a _very_ different game. A _hard_ game, I'm told. And decently long.

[@Zanethepure]

I'd sooner assume that some of those "productions" occasionally have nice music still made me laugh

[@kobarsos82]

What a legendary ost, time will never diminish this masterpiece.

[@scoopydooder]

LMAO you absolutely don't have to apologize for that joke in the beginning, that was hilarious. And now that you've said it, I kinda hear it, and I can't unheard it 🤣🤣

[@atomickid]

And knowing the donkey Kong community, we could expand our dongs to it.

[@no3scap3117]

We need to put this man on to some Metroid music!

[@erik1993]

As an apprentice in music production, I appreciate that you react to all my childhoods favorites, but I appreciate even more all the knowledge you share like the mono or ping pong delays and so on, its super useful, never stop doing that!

[@rpgeebzmusicarcade]

I appreciate that

[@evilbread8771]

With all the "Reacts" channels out there, very few actually make me feel like I'm learning something.

[@kirktown2046]

Ahahahaha, I've never heard Donkey Kong music compared to porn music, but that's really not an unreasonable comparison for this track. Thanks for continuing to respond to music that built our childhood. You have no idea how much space these soundscapes take up in my brain.

[@ratmforthewin]

I am so happy to see "Mining Melancholy" make it on here. That's a song I know at least requested in comments earlier. My favorite DKC track

[@Sc00t3rzzz]

One of the most crazy things to me about these compositions from David Wise was the tools he used to make these tracks on the SNES. He was heavily limited by what he could load at once in memory and developed a lot of interesting programming techniques with the SNES Sound Sequencer to quick load different samples while the song was playing live on the system; this way he could pull in way more sounds and do the large sweeps that he was so known for in these tracks.

[@phoenixlich]

DKC2 was the first time in my life that i was exposed to this KIND of music and it changed me for LIFE.

[@scratchxo]

you mentioning "in the Air tonight" makes me think you should check out Bayou Boogie from this game. David Wise was literally trying to emulate sounds and instruments from that song for this track, it's pretty rad.

[@magicbufo4277]

Yeah man the intro of Bayou is so similar to In the Air Tonight, one of my top tracks from DKC2, timeless music from all 3 games.

[@HIStoryWorldTourMJ]

Same with mining melancholy, give a listen to metal on metal by Kraftwerk, exactly identical intro

[@jaredf6205]

Jungle Hijinx isn’t the menu theme, it’s the music for the first level. There is a main menu theme and also a level select song that sometimes get mixed up with the song of the first level.

[@feherlofia2165]

Havent heard these tracks since the 90s... they still sound good. They did an incredible job

[@animalbancho1726]

Somehow, the entire game was all composed and engineered by a singular British guy in his 20s. Definitely incredible

[@Cyberpunk747]

This soundtrack has stayed with me for 25 years. Never once did it age or lost it impact for me. Simply some of the best music composed for any entertainment media, or music ever.

[@wolfman-up7dh]

Jungle Hijinx has been re-recorded so many times, and to this day, it is one of my favorite video game songs. Its sounds AMAZING with real brass.

[@Rottypops]

Donkey Kong Snes' music is a technical marvel of Samples, waves, fades, delays and echoes that had to be keyed in hexadecimal by hand. It was a ton of work to type in music like that. And not only was it typed like that to save space on the cartridge, but the sound chip only had like 64kb of RAM. So this music had to play in tandem with sounds effects of the player, the enemies, and objects. That's why you heard things like bird chirps and insects into the composition itself, because including them in the music channels were a way to include the ambience of the jungle or environment while still allowing enough RAM to allow sound effects to play through. It's musical art on a technical level as limitation gives birth to innovation.

[@shadowisen]

I listen to these tracks all of the time while doing other things, usually computer work. They're so consistently chill.

[@EpicAlex9]

Jungle Hijinx is the background song for the first and second stages, it builds up as you progress throught the first stage then once you enter the second stage the song becomes much more foreboding to reflect that you are now no long in the jungle but inside a cave

[@nTrylo]

This channel just keeps getting better and better. I love it.

[@SomeGuy_GRM]

DKC 1&2 are quite possibly the best example of their genre.

[@MostlyJoJoMemes]

This took me back... thanks again for the great reactions! Always working or asleep during stream (British timezone) but I really appreciate the uploads so frequently and in a timely fashion :) have a good one Geebz ! ! !

[@MichaelManning15]

Interesting fact about Jungle Hijinx is that the song has 3 distinct parts- the buildup intro, then the main segment with the melody, then the slower outdo segment which Geebz thought might’ve been pause menu music. This is because the composer actually made 3 themes for Jungle Hijinx and he was torn on which one to pick, so he combined all 3! That’s why the track is decently long for a game from 1994, most loop after a minute or so.

[@RighteousZeros]

Idk if anyones told you but the sound mixing for these games characters and enemies is absolutely amazing as well. DKC 1 and 2 being my two favorite games of all time is HEAVILY influenced by how good the music and sounds are for these games. Rare's sound team back in the day was top notch.

[@dtmuffinman]

You should check out PPF's covers of some of these songs, he manages to recreate EXTREMELY close to the original sounds using real instruments (or makeshift things like flip flops and pvc pipes), it's super cool.

[@KairuHakubi]

oh hell yes, PPF is a massively underrated treasure.

[@nietzscheente1271]

The metroid games also had an amazing soundtrack. Hope you listen to it too sometime.

[@tamiya2323]

I just discovered you today but damn I'm about to binge every video in this playlist and more! Keep this style of videos up, it's always the subtle things that deserve the most analysis.

[@xkimopye]

OMG you have to check out Donkey Kong Country 2 “Bayou Boogie” and just how similar it is to Phil Collins “In the air tonight”. I wrote into the rock radio station in australia, they were doing songs that sound alike, they gave it a 10 out of 10 😂

[@nietzscheente1271]

Fun reaction. I love the dkc game series. You really have to listen to the donkey kong country tropical freeze game soundtrack too. The composer David Wise is a genius.

[@mariamerigold]

Cant believe I missed this video!! Ahhhhh I've waited ages to hear you react to these songs 🥰🥰 the reality exceeded my expectations! Thanks for pointing out parts of the music that I'd never noticed before, and also thanks for teaching me some new things about some of my all-time favourite songs!

[@napoleonfeanor]

Same, as a non musician, I don't notice a lot of things in my favourite music. Oddly I am much more enjoying music when I have low doses of drugs like benzos. In my youth, i didn't listen at all because most things didn't envoke emotions to me naturally

[@beerfish109]

Only stumbled on this now. Thanks so much for covering some of the songs of my all time favorite game soundtracks Geebz! Been a fan of them ever since I played the first one 30 odd years ago. David Wise really made some fascinating soundtracks. There was a shoutout there for Banjo Kazooie as well, that was his work too.

[@Raida7]

I've never listened to these tracks before without gameplay, I'm surprised how good they are!

[@fredflintstone5356]

I know how you feel. I played these games as a kid and while I loved the music in the background while playing the game, I never actually paused the game to sit down and listen. I replayed these games for the first time since the 90’s last year and I just had to pause the game and sit and listen several times and my 7 year old daughter was right there next to me listening.

[@brandoncarbaugh7994]

The opening title song for DKC is like peak 90's. It's so cheeky, it always makes me smile. Feels like Shigeru Miyamoto kicking in your door and going "HEY KID, WE GOT 16 BITS IN HERE NOW, IT'S A WHOLE NEW WORLD, I'M ABOUT TO ROCK YOUR SOCKS OFF" kzbin.info/www/bejne/pH23YmBrocZ5ZqM

[@KairuHakubi]

you know what, I think I would really enjoy one of these streams sometime. Might just show up to the next one. You've got such a delightful dad energy. Plus it's so wonderfully innocent hearing a neophyte to gaming asking if there's some way to listen to the music in the game by itself. I grew up on this stuff, and I took "sound tests" for granted. Hell, I think I used them more to input secret codes than to sit and listen to the music. And yet starting in my teens, getting online, listening to game music started becoming something I just flat-out did on its own.

[@T0rche]

No Stickerbrush Symphony?... On one hand I'm kind of happy that it's not here because it deserves its very own video!! Keep it up!

[@evanaaveline6184]

yes needs

[@zacharyjanisse4520]

Hi, love your channel and I'm so glad I discovered it! If you are open to recommendations I would love to recommend any of Frank Klepacki's work on the Red Alert series, but probably the track Hell March (1,2, or 3) as it's the opening title for the games. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, it's been fun learning so much terminology and listening critically to music!

[@IvoryMadness.]

That was a nice discussion! Couldn't watch the livestream on Twitch but I'll watch it later.

[@GustavoMaciel]

Hey Geebz, I like how you always seem to keep a positive attitude towards any song the community throws at you! I wonder if there's any style, songs or trends you actually dislike? Thanks for all the content, it really helps us appreciate what makes these songs great.

[@MeitanteiKevin]

DKC soundtrack is really awesome! "Northern Hemispheres" is a song you could check out aswell, it's very different compared to the ones you've listened too, but it's very good too

[@NihilistSolitude]

Disappointed he didn't get to hear DKC final boss song, truly a 16 bit classic

[@AirAssault7]

I imagined the muted synth part you were referencing (in Mining Melancholy towards the end) was the pirate kremlin enemies humming while laboring in the mine when I was a kid. Which maked it work for me.

[@danielwilliams7161]

If you think Mining Melancholy sounds like "In the Air Tonight," listen to Bayou Boogie.

[@countquackula8539]

Do Stickerbush symphony, Lockjaw Lockeroom, and Fear factory. 😃

[@thitho104]

And Krook's March from DKC2

[@L33PL4Y]

He literally says in this very video that he already did Stickerbrush (not "Stickerbush") Symphony.

[@jimmyrodriguez5670]

@@L33PL4Y And I have yet to see it. Do you have a link? Or are you just literally being annoying?

[@spellbinder7036]

So awesome that you took the time out of your day to react to this Who said video games dont have an artform when it comes to there music

[@powercage]

I have to say: I really appreciated your breaking down of these songs.

[@SirCaco]

Oh, you actually did Forest Interlude! Nice! I knew you'd like it.

[@kobarsos82]

donkey kong 1 and 2 osts, will always be the goats for me.

[@CyberFoxy87]

The game was a masterpiece and wish one day we could get an HD version

[@Silviola824]

24:34 Yes, so old school lol that's why I love it! Never had this game as a kid (was like 4 months away from being a year old when this game came out) but that definitely reminds me of the stuff my dad was listening to in the 90s into the early 2000s

[@eachteaartmoetachear7675]

this game is legendary, from when I was little I played PS Nintendo, I really liked it, wow it makes me miss the old days.. great sir.

[@Burger_pants]

"for those of you with headsets" HA! joke's on you sir, my PC is hooked up to my Hi-Fi. I demand my bonus points!

[@liraco_mx]

It's very interesting to hear you react to the music without the context of the game since that really colors our appreciation for the game (since sometimes the context of the levels add to how the song is experienced). I didn't think you'd like the third one (before "Shout" 🤣) which plays during the final boss battle. Made things extra tense! Appreciate when you don't just react but add those musical tidbits and to see you appreciate the composers.

[@makotroid108]

David wise is a legend. Thx 4 rockin it. Can't recommend Tim Follin enough after this. Plok boss theme, pictionary (yes pictionary lol), Solstice and Silver Surfer level 1 are mind blowing on 1st listen.

[@adamhenton6221]

This is so funny. Brings back so many memories

[@firebirdstark]

Forget interlude is my favorite DKC song. It just has everything I need to let the nostalgia flow back

[@dougdynamo9398]

I'm new to your channel, but I enjoyed this video. You spoke at the end of what you want to start playing, and that's awesome! I don't know if you played games in the 70s-80s and moved on to other hobbies or just dabbled through console generations, but of the choices you were deciding on, I'd recommend Journey for a new player. Games like Hollow Knight and Dark Souls/Bloodborne, while beautiful at what they do, are made to be challenging and push players to their limit. I don't think there's anything wrong with trying them first, but if you reach a wall or become frustrated, please don't become discouraged from playing and finding what games best work for you. Journey is much more about the experience and will help you gain a general knowledge of the controller/keyboard. Whatever you decide, hope you enjoy.

[@DaveBudness]

I remeber at a videa game store, they were selling the OST to certain big games way back in the day

[@dkosmari]

What a bummer, you should have gone with the Sam Miller's restored versions for all of the songs. Sam went through the trouble of obtaining synth sounds from that era, to find out the specific instrument banks that David Wise used, prior to downsampling them to fit the SNES hardware. This is something David Wise himself doesn't even have, as he didn't think to "save" a version of the music with the original instruments. When Rare decided to release a music CD with the DKC soundtrack, they pretty much had to use the SNES music, because no higher quality existed.

[@sehrgrossesglied5000]

Hey you new to twitch? I didn't know you were over there, too! Nice

[@coconyt3623]

The first one is from the 5th (out of 6/7) area of the 2nd game (DKC2), which is like a haunted, dreary forest. The second (Jungle Hijinx) is from the first level (and another early jungle level) of the first game (DKC1). The third (Crocodile Cacophony) is the background music of the Final Boss fight in DKC2, aboard K.Rool's flying machine/fortress. The 4th (Mining Melancholy) is from 2 or 3 mine/cave stylized levels from 2nd area and beyond in DKC2. I'm not sure how much of a gamer you are, but the context of the game with the music does take a lot of these to another level. You mentioned Hollow Knight, that's pretty hard, good luck! :D It's a wonderful medium, marrying together so many brilliant things... music, art, world building, storytelling, characters and backgrounds, all kinds of humor, competitive spirit, technique, learning-curves, language, social aspects (multiplayer)... Gaming is wonderful.

[@HarbingerOfTruth1]

I love your reactions and musical breakdowns due to your great understanding and insight in music and I especially adore the fact that you react with your entire body. Although it may not be regarded as any of the greatest ever soundtracks I appreciate the OST of Deep Rock Galactic composed by Sophus Alf Agerbæk-Larsen, you needn't do a reaction to it, but I would greatly appreciate if you did.

[@mendronesg]

I always sing Shout when this track (or stage) starts. LOL since I was a kid, actually XD

[@MilkT0ast]

26:23 The muted synth was supposed to emulate bees. And if you're moving at a "regular" pace in the game, you run into the hornets when this part first comes up.

[@JustinC721]

I have a few requests I would like to make. Specifically pertaining to Final Fantasy composer Nubuo Uematsu and his Deep Purple Influence. I'm a big fan of this era myself, so I'll provide examples below. (FFVII) - Birth of a God (FFVII) - Still More Fighting (FFVII) - J E N O V A Something interesting I found about that last one (J E N O V A) is that the synthesizer lead is almost note for note the same as the intro to "Mr Crowley" from Ozzy Osbourne. Don Airey played keys on that album and was the keyboardist for Rainbow which was a supergroup formed from Deep Purple. Thus, Airy was within that circle of influence which is why he is Deep Purple's current keyboardist. If you listen these, I recommend the uncompressed versions from Mathew Valente where uncompressed the samples. Either that or the original versions as newer ones tend to downplay the organ which is so essential to these songs.

[@Retro-yy8ks]

Hi, I just started watching some of your videos and I've liked the insight you give into these compositions! One thing I'd recommend for the future is making sure you are listening to the OG composition to judge. What you listened to fir Forest Interlude was a fan-made restoration attempt. Said restoration attempts are always cool to see but they aren't always accurate. They almost always have some off mixing and possibly even some incorrect notes. I love Jammin' Sam Miller's work I just think it would be better to judge the original versions. Just something I'd recommend you keep in mind for the future. Especially if you are doing more Donkey Kong Country stuff! Have a good day!

[@napoleonfeanor]

what does the restore part mean exactly? Doing the same composition without SNES limitations?

[@Retro-yy8ks]

@@napoleonfeanor Basically. Finding the same samples and put them onto a ripped sequence to recreate the song without sample compression. The problem is ripping the ""midi"" sequences from a snes game loses alot of the information and needs to be manually recreated

[@dsc-nr5zy]

David Wise, the king. I'm glad you enjoyed his stuff!

[@DougyFreshGames]

I believe the composer David Wise went on a journey to Europe to create these lovely tracks while working on DKC2. Great stuff.

[@rorschachkovacs8322]

Wow what a coincidence. Just discovered you from the aquatic ambience video and then like an hour later you upload another DK song. The Tropical Freeze OST is David Wise’s Opus

[@giggitygoo6797]

omg the nostalgia

[@playstationnintendowin489]

The Dk games music is so magical and so much Nastogic and yes when you said this is really cool around 10:30 or so lol

[@DJIronChef]

the DK series had some of the hardest tracks, period. so good.

[@uhleeshuh404]

Been poking around at this channel and this is great, but I wish people didn't send you the "restored" versions. They aren't mixed the same as the original tunes, so some finesse is lost. Just be wary when you see that note on a video because it's being presented in a way not intended by the composer. Still, I've always absolutely loved the Donkey Kong Country soundtracks. The first song, "Forest Interlude," may be my most favorite song from the series. Found you yesterday and these are very enjoyable. Keep it up! :)

[@jonahgustafson9198]

I don't know if you've already done a reaction to this, but "Dire, Dire Docks," from Super Mario 64 is phenomenal. You should definitely check it out if you haven't.

[@yarion4774]

Greatly enjoy your reactions and analysis so far. Great stream 3 weeks ago. Maybe a curve of recommendation: Fire Emblem Three Houses God Shattering Star. A very operatic piece for a climactic final battle. Maybe the composition is somewhat intriguing for you.

[@paulytheking7365]

Jungle Hijinks isn’t the opening theme. It is used in multiple levels, including the first level.

[@VarietyTelevision]

I love DK music. I also really like New Age Retro Hippie from EarthBound on Super Nintendo. Its a great track, you should give it a listen c:

[@jimmyrodriguez5670]

Well, I have seen you review Aquatic Ambience and Forest Interlude. Only need to hear Stickerbrush Symphony to round out the trilogy. Naturally since Stickerbrush is my favorite, I'm in my feelings that you haven't did that one yet 😂😂

[@erichlepealcaino2231]

oh man Donkey Kong Country will always be the biggest influence in my life, David Wise and Eveline Fischer made this game became the amazing piece of art it is.

[@Beowulfus_Universum]

i would love to see an interview of geebz and david wise the creator of these pieces, geebz would have the right questions to ask him about his pieces, it would be epic!

[@AHeroOfTime]

I'd love to see you chat with David Wise on the channel, these soundtracks were such a big part of my childhood

[@AdolfoSalinasP]

David Wise made magic in Donkey Kong Country

[@Harrock]

You NEED to react to The Mafia games soundtrack ! Especially the Menue Theme from mafia 2 ! Those are probably one of the best composed Videgame Soundtracks of all time !

[@stakyd1]

love forest interlude 💗

[@DuelScreen]

Somebody recommend Click Clock Wood from Banjo-Kazooie to him during the next stream. Remember there are different seasonal versions.

[@insanelytamed]

I love your videos! Since you're on SNES games like Donkey Kong Country... If I could put in a request for a video game OST that I think gets horribly overlooked and underappreciated, please take a moment to look at the OST for the Super Nintendo version of Gradius 3. Amazing arrangements, heavily layered, and even has tracks that remind me of something I'd hear played by Rush. I would love to see it get more attention and see what you think of it. I could send you a link to a great KZbin video that has it in its entirety.

[@Jack-The-Gamer-]

If I could make a few recommendations. Four good tracks from Chrono Trigger would be the "Main Theme", "Corridors of Time", "Frog's Theme", and "Schala's Theme". Four good tracks from Dark Cloud 2 would be "Sindain", "Secret Energy", "Underground Water Channel", and "Battle of the Future". Thanks for everything you do, Jack

[@johnmccombe6342]

I love the music from DKC1 and DKC2! Some of the most beautiful video game music of all time. You should also check out music from Castlevania. Thank you for the awesome reaction once again!

[@Toumasu]

everyone notices the phil collins influence in mining melancholy but not vangelis (the vocal humming like in conquest of paradise). wise said he listened to vangelis a lot in that time

[@chocotrueno3602]

Please, now that you are at Donkey Kong country, react to Gang plank galleon

[@onizame5480]

I hope one day you could talk about Guilty gear strive music, daisuke ishiwatari and the outrage did great job on it "Let Me Carve Your Way" and "Drift" are really out there

[@Josh-xo7ik]

Journey is a good game. It's simple for what it is. I've played it once, took 2 hours Ish. Shovel Knight is more action and movement. Definitely a harder game in comparison.

[@fredymendez855]

I have to thank gaming for my appreciation of music and especially orchesta music. I use it to study but also when I want to relax and I can thank Square Enix with Final Fantasy and Kingdom hearts for this.

[@Enfetamina]

wow! amazing

[@riseagain845]

David Wise was born in the UK in the 60s. I would be very surprised if he wasn't influenced by Tears for Fears. Grant Kirkhope (another Rare composer) riffed on some Duran Duran songs for the GoldenEye 007 (Nintendo 64) soundtrack.

[@C0dey7703]

I need to see a review of Banjo Kazooies music, I’m new to the channel and it might have happened already, but I did a small (small) amount of searching and couldn’t find it.

[@HollowGolem]

God, I forgot how hard the DKC soundtracks pushed the SNES soundcard. 16 but system doing some wild stuff.

[@arkphoenix340]

I love your reactions to this classics you should react to some classics of Genesis as Sonic the hedgehog and Streets of rage...the sound of that system was amazing...and very different

[@MisterBrodo]

where can I watch his Stickerbush Symphony react?

[@DJIronChef]

DK1 to the rest you hear a 'quality' improvment with tech and refinement but still its so good man so damn good

[@ShadowWizard224]

Top 10 greatest DK songs of all time: #10 Fear Factory #9 Rockface Rumble #8 Life in the Mines #7 Krook’s March #6 Mining Melancholy #5 Aquatic Ambience #4 Forest Interlude #3 Stickerbush Symphony #2 Homecoming Hijinx #1 Amiss Abyss Honorable mention: In a Snow-Bound Land THANK YOU DAVID WISE!!! 🎶 🐒

[@yaboi3955]

highly reccomend reacting to Bury the light. its another from DMC 5.

[@grayzee2976]

The soundtracks are amazing, but also huge props to Sam Miller, who revitalizes these tracks and gives them the proper care to restore them.