Album: Donkey Kong Country 2: Serious Monkey Business

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Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the complete thread or post your own.
I've known this album for a while, but it sort of got lost in my 'random play all' playlist, so I haven't heard it for some time...
Just to give the thumbs up to this whole album which features some amazing tracks (rare respite, crystal swamp...), and especially one particularly big thumbs up to Backwards Room by zykO, who worked on a 22 second long music featured only once in the game (I think.... I'm pretty sure) and created... one of the insan-iest rock track I know !
To me, this is the definition of what OCR stands for: working out of little, and producing masterpieces. And this is why I asked if somebody would do a remix of the 4-second-long Tune of Currents of Zelda, Oracle of Ages (*wink* *nudge* anybody want to get back to that? *nudge* *wink* :-D)
Anyway, I love you guys <3

- loony on April 23, 2012
According to Rare, Eveline Fischer did Simian Segue, Candy's Love Song, Voices of the Temple, Forest Frenzy, Treetop Rock, Northern Hemispheres and Ice Cave Chant, none of which appear in DKC2 under any circumstances. Robin Beanland's only addition to DKC was Funky's Fugue and we all know that didn't appear in DKC2, heh. So therefore, all the DKC2 tracks based off those from DKC were done solely by David Wise.
I don't think it matters too much what the main OCR site says; even if it's slightly incorrect, oh well, who cares? :D

- Cody Wedel on June 8, 2011
Palpable;759823 wrote: It may have been explained further back in the thread (maybe in another thread), but since DKC2 uses tracks from DKC1 or based on tracks from DKC1, they are credited.

But if that's the case, why aren't they credited only on the album page and not on OCR's DKC2 page?

- Plombo on March 10, 2011
Plombo;759787 wrote: The album page for this album has the list of original composers wrong. It lists the composers for DKC (Wise, Fischer/Novakovic, and Beanland), not DKC2. Dave Wise was the only composer for DKC2, no?

It may have been explained further back in the thread (maybe in another thread), but since DKC2 uses tracks from DKC1 or based on tracks from DKC1, they are credited.

- Palpable on March 8, 2011
The album page for this album has the list of original composers wrong. It lists the composers for DKC (Wise, Fischer/Novakovic, and Beanland), not DKC2. Dave Wise was the only composer for DKC2, no?

- Plombo on March 8, 2011
The songs you mentioned are (in the same order you mentioned them) Jib Jig, Klomp's Romp, and Snakey Chantey, which WERE covered on the project by Patrick Burns, Joren de Bruin, and Tepid. Don't worry, they weren't left out :-)

- Emunator on January 6, 2011
There are 3 original tracks in DKC2 that I don't seem to see in this album:
Rigging
Ship Deck
Ship Deck 2
These are the titles from the SPC rips. I know Rigging is on the level where you are climbing up the ship's rafts during the rain.
Why were these not remixed (or maybe they are and I just don't recognize them)? These, IMHO, are some of the best songs in the original DKC2 soundtrack.
Good job on everything else!

- void.pointer on January 3, 2011
So, given that its been a little more than half a year, I should chime in with my thoughts about the album: http://www.bahamutwc.com/blog/?p=46

- Bahamut on December 8, 2010
so i was in the living room doin something when my computer turned on and rhumba rumble started playing (my laptop had run out of juice and i was recharging it).
it was at that very moment that i realized it was the greatest ringtone evur
(my review? the entire album kicks ass, but it definitely had to grow on me, initially i only liked a few tracks. the only song i dont like is the remix of the map screen, mostly because i expected it to be godly because the source is that in itself)

- RDX on November 23, 2010
a_d;726744 wrote: actually DKC3 album was started when this one was released. it's in the works (find it in the projects thread). Interestingly, they're remixing both the original SNES soundtrack by Eveline Fischer and the GBA version by David Wise
P.S. Dixie, not Trixie

More accurately, DKC 3 was started a few months before this one was released.

- Bahamut on November 2, 2010
actually DKC3 album was started when this one was released. it's in the works (find it in the projects thread). Interestingly, they're remixing both the original SNES soundtrack by Eveline Fischer and the GBA version by David Wise
P.S. Dixie, not Trixie

- a_d on November 1, 2010
This is by far the best OC remix album. It's my personal favorite. You guys need to do Trixie's Double Trouble!

- AuthenticM on November 1, 2010
I should've clarified. I only download and keep the songs that pass my judgment (bwa), soooo... what I said only applies to those songs. I've become rather picky!

- a_d on October 9, 2010
a_d;697065 wrote: Listening to this again, I realized how much of a downer album it is. The only songs that aren't depressing are Rare Respite, Monkey Merengue (my two personal favs) and that Geoffrey Taucer vocal collab

My song on this album (Simian Soirée) is probably the happiest and most upbeat piece of shit I've ever written, unless you mean it's depressing in terms of quality rather than mood, in which case, eh, I'm inclined to agree (looking back I would change so much about it).

- Tensei on October 9, 2010
It's a good thing this thing is free because it is of much higher quality than any CD that requires one to pay for it.
Truthfully, I expected the album to be mediocre at best and containing only a few good songs. Then I actually started listening to it and got punched in the eardrums for being doubtful. I'm especially pleased by the tracks that contain actual singing, although the death metal arrangement of Crocodile Cacophony amuses me to no end (I'm assuming that death metal is supposed to sound threatening, so I suspect that the song in question does the opposite of what the genre is trying to accomplish).
Kudos to absolutely everyone who participated in this project and here's hoping future projects come out just as great.

- Sansato on September 28, 2010