Kong in Concert - Donkey Kong Country Arrangements

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."

Comments

Game music

[Zorilla]

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.

Re:Game music

[spellraiser]

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.

Relics of the Chozo

[D'Arque Bishop]

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...

No FLACs?

[abischof]

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 :).

If you want the entire original soundtrack...

[Andorion]

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

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

Re:mario music videos???

[kdgibson]

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

C64 Remix scene pays royalties

[Ravenger]

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.

Commodore64 videogame remixes

[dabadab]

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

Re:One Question:

[aaron p. matthews]

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.