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Kong in Concert - Donkey Kong Country Arrangements

Posted by Hemos on from the good-things-to-listen-to dept.

Digital Coma writes "Kong in Concert, a project directed by myself and coordinated by familiar artists of the unofficial game music arrangement community, has been released at http://dkcproject.ocremix.org and spotlighted at OverClocked ReMix. Its purpose is to pay respects to the excellent Donkey Kong Country SNES soundtrack and honor its composers with 22 rearrangements (or ReMixes) of every song from the game in high quality MP3 and OGG. We also have a BitTorrent distribution of the album's whole WAV compilation. If you like the idea of free, non-commercial videogame remixes, check us out."

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  1. Game music by Zorilla · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is one game that I believe had underrated music. I'll have to check this out when I get home. OCRemix has a streaming radio station at oc.ormgas.com, if you don't mind all the Final Fantasy and Sonic music they play.

    Also, for Commodore/Atari ST fans, there's Nectarine Radio.

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    1. Re:Game music by spellraiser · · Score: 3, Informative
      I feel obliged to plug one of my favorite bands here.

      If you haven't heard of Machinae Supremacy yet, I recommend you check them out. They are a very cool Swedish band who mix different styles, play with synths a lot, and are self-professed gaming nuts.

      In the current context, The Great Gianna Sisters is particularily salient. It's a remix of / tribute to the theme song of the C64 game of the same name. Excellent stuff.

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  2. Relics of the Chozo by D'Arque+Bishop · · Score: 5, Informative

    This isn't the first time the Overclocked Remix guys have come together to make a tribute album for a Super Nintendo game. I highly recommend checking out Relics of the Chozo, which is their soundtrack tribute to the game Super Metroid. VERY good stuff, if I do say so myself.

    Just my $.02...

    1. Re:Relics of the Chozo by gpinzone · · Score: 2, Informative

      Get the WAV files from, the Bittorrent and encode them yourself. Quite frankly, I don't trust other people to encode MP3s properly. I use the recommended LAME from Hydrogen Audio.

  3. No FLACs? by abischof · · Score: 3, Informative

    We also have a BitTorrent distribution of the album's whole WAV compilation.

    If their goal is to allow people to burn a CD of their work (which would appear to be the case), why not distribute FLACs as well? For those unaware, FLAC is an open source codec which stands for "Free Lossless Audio Codec". It's like WAVs in that it's lossless but the files are much smaller since they're compressed :).
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  4. If you want the entire original soundtrack... by Andorion · · Score: 4, Informative

    Try here: http://www.zophar.net/zsnes/spc/

    Then go here for the Winamp SPC plugin: http://www.zophar.net/utilities/spc.html

  5. Re:mario music videos??? by kdgibson · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can find them under the videos link at http://www.ebaumsworld.com

  6. C64 Remix scene pays royalties by Ravenger · · Score: 3, Informative

    The Commodore 64 remix scene is very active, in fact there was a live C64 remix concert in London, UK last Saturday (Sept 11th), and a fantastic event it was too.

    It was organised by a guy called Chris Abbott, and his company C64Audio.com now represents many of original 1980's C64 musicians and licenses their music. To date he's paid over £20,000 in royalites to the original musicians.

    So the C64 scene shows you can have a vibrant remix community, whilst giving credit to the original composers and paying them royalties.

  7. Australian law by DMJC-L · · Score: 2, Informative

    under australian copyright law afaik, this is legal as long as a maximum of 10% of the original work is used, anything more and they'll owe rights.

  8. Need a Mechanical License by Webapprentice · · Score: 2, Informative

    For Project Majestic Mix, a fan-tribute album for Final Fantasy music (http://www.kfssstudios.com/), the people needed to get what is called a mechanical license, which is a royalty-based license when someone wants play rearranged/remixed versions of the original music.

  9. Commodore64 videogame remixes by dabadab · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you happen to be a C= fan, then check out http://remix.kwed.org/ for some great stuff.
    There's also a webradio of this stuff: Slay Radio

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    1. Re:Commodore64 videogame remixes by quantax · · Score: 2, Informative

      A far geekier concert went down this weekend with c64 remxixes: http://www.backintimelive.com/ Concert with all live c64 remixes, unfortunately for the last time. Slay was good enough to broadcast the concert live for us non-brits (or poor folk).

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  10. No, they didn't. by Smoke824 · · Score: 2, Informative

    NIN never did a Zelda cover. Look it up. Someone else just renamed their work to show it off. It's a common thing on P2P.

    People on there also seem to think that Weird Al did every funny song ever, and System of a Down did a Zelda remix too(They didn't, the original's on OCR and has a statement from the band itself that it's not them)

    Hell, Terra in Black has been credited to Madonna a few times on P2P networks. There's tons of other examples as well.

  11. Re:One Question: by aaron+p.+matthews · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hi, I'm one of the guys who worked on this project. (I did the ice cave track)

    This project is not licensed. We didn't ask for permission.
    This is a project done by fans, for fans.

    Nintendo is 100% within their rights to send us a cease-and-desist order if they choose to. However, Nintendo has shown no animosity towards such projects in the past and I suppose they won't show any towards this one either.
    But who knows? just enjoy the music. :)

    cheers.

  12. nope... by aaron+p.+matthews · · Score: 2, Informative

    I'm guessing this is a buddy of someone on slashdot or VA, or they are paying for the advertisement.

    well as one of the guys who worked on this project, I can tell you now, none of us know any of the slashdot editors.

    I actually urged the project leader not to submit this story to slashdot -- because I've been here a while and I didn't feel this was slashdot material.

    Looks like I was wrong! Maybe Hemos is a DKC fan :)

    cheers.

  13. Some more... by Yoweigh116 · · Score: 2, Informative
    I've got an insanely large collection of video game remix MP3s, mostly from OCRemix. I've got a few suggestions for anyone interested in this sort of stuff:
    • The Minibosses, of course.
    • Check out Project X. They've got full renditions of the Mega Man 2 and 3 soundtracks.
    • This has already been mentioned, but Relics of the Chozo is an excellent cover of the Super Metroid soundtrack.
    • Poke around at OC Remix. You're sure to find something you like there.
  14. Re:I never realized there was a following... by WWWWolf · · Score: 2, Informative

    My first journey to the cool new-fangled music compression systems was when I tried to record DKC music through the sound card line-in. I compressed the files in Linux using the MPEG reference encoder to Layer II at 64 kbps. The songs fit nicely on floppy =)

    Can't remember exactly when this was, but this was back in the Era Before Napster... anyway, it was in the time when the king in the MP3 encoding was l3enc, shareware, the only alternative to use - and I was desperately waiting for a GPL'd MP3 encoder. Back then, no one even made a big deal out of patent issues...

    Those were the days.

    But I digress. The point was, there is a code in DKC that puts you in the music-test mode - I used this to play the music for purposes of recording stuff. In start-up, move the cursor to Erase Game and hit Down,A,R,B,Y,Down,A,Y (DARBYDAY) and hit Select to change songs. (I even had to cheat and look at the web myself. Was fooled to think the code was DYDDY, but that was the bonus stage trick =)

    These days, the best way is, of course, downloading the SPCs.