Kong in Concert - Donkey Kong Country Arrangements

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Kong in Concert - Donkey Kong Country Arrangements

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 13, 2004 @03:25AM 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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Re:One Question: by Rxke · 2004-09-13 04:04 · Score: 0, Offtopic

And to the band Kong? http://www.kong.nl/bio.html

Fortunately for youthey stopped. Great band though.
Re:Game music by Bertie · 2004-09-13 05:06 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Wasn't The Great Giana Sisters sued off the shelves by Nintendo because it was basically the original Super Mario Brothers with the characters changed into spiky-haired girls?
Re:DKC... by StocDred · 2004-09-13 06:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Whoa... let's stop that right there. BG&E is a fine game, but the story is nothing but one gigantic pathetic obvious cliche. The story has NO twists, NO surprises, and yet insists on being taken seriously. The game review columns all totally laid down on this one.
Spoiler Example: You know that government guy in the beginning who is big and ugly and says he's protecting the planet? HE'S NOT. In every scene, he's spouting like Hitler and marching like Mussolini, yet the characters spend half the game deciding that he's evil... something that is obvious to any gamer just on visual bigness, ugliness and Hitlerishness.
A truly worthy story - that would be worth the hype and meet the challenge of such an important sounding title as "Beyond Good & Evil" - would have eventually revealed the big, ugly Hitler guy as a genuine good guy and thus turn our preconceived notions of good and evil on their ear.
BG&E does nothing of the kind. Good guys are beautiful, bad guys are ugly, and that's as deep as it gets. Also, what's up with that boring cardboard-cutout soldier dude you're haplessly teamed with, who keeps quoting starfleet space regulations faster than Arnold J. Rimmer? I was hoping he would turn out to be evil just so he'd get a plot point... but he doesn't. He's handsome, so he must be good.
"Beyond Good and Evil." Please. Play the game, but don't go trumpeting it as a highmark of video game story development.