Donkey Kong Country Theme Restored to HD

What you're hearing are the original samples used to create
the Opening Title Theme from Donkey Kong Country, combined with the music instruction data from the game, plus mixing and mastering magic for a perfect recreation of what a studio recording would have sounded like.

All remasters currently progressed:

Song composed by David Wise, restored by Jammin' Sam Miller

[AndrewSmith-rqcs]

8 year old me would never imagine I'd be 30 listening to these DKC soundtracks to relax everyday

[bro.bro]

God: Creates Humans.
Humans: Create this theme.
God: Not bad at all.

[mathisdebrabandere]

0:13
Beat drops harder than most of the modern EDM songs

[dasiccwun]

Imagine how they must have been feeling in the studio

[marcaopenas]

This is a masterpiece. Incredible melody, brings me childhood memories.

[XavierIsBigBoy]

The passionate workload for Donkey Kong Country was intense. The rendering machines they used for the models would become so hot that they had to direct all their office fans at them to keep the units from overheating. This meant no cool air for the development team during the hot summer of 93’.

[Dragonizedgaming]

This brings back memories from my childhood. When I was a kid, my grandpa and I would play this, Super Marioworld, and a few other games on their old SNES and N64. These were some of my best memories of my grandfather. I was young, so I kinda sucked at video games, which means it would amaze me even more when we (mostly he) would beat either game. It’s been years now since my grandpa passed away, he was my father figure, and I didn’t really know how to deal with his death (he died when I was still kinda young, lung cancer). These games helped me cope, and they still bring back memories and feelings from the past.

[evolvedfromrot]

I simply CANNOT stop listening to this. The song has so many different elements in it and I love the sound of Diddy's taking damage sound in the background.

[toxyclem_]

The fact this was quickly referenced in the movie's OST (Drivin' Me Bananas) but was replaced by Take On Me (which I love) is so sad to me

[Yahirrrr]

I cried when I heard this my dad showed me this game when he booted it up I felt like it was the old ages and I was growing up with it I miss the old times when I had my dad

[ZombieaidZ]

Song is so fire Diddy Kong is getting burnt throughout it

[bayardochavarria]

Every time I listen to this song I feel like I’m going to cry

[isaachernandez]

For some reason the music has always made me want to cry. It's weird. It hits a weird spot in my heart.

[coopers]

The harmony in the intro falling away to that central bassline with the funky mouth bongo on the backbeat is genuine musical genius.

[VandergriftMoefies]

Monkey Mondays. The moment we've ALL been waiting for!

[yojirex]

Shoutouts to the guy from r/AskReddit who falls asleep to this song every night

[bumby]

0:00 when you first walk in the school bus
0:13 when you get to the back

[DuchessGummybuns]

it's so weird hearing this sound so *crispy.*

at the same time, i love it so much.

[MadMovieMakers]

Was this the earliest instance of this theme, or did it appear in any of the earlier arcade games?

[andrewjelen]

He's the leader of the bunch. You know him well. He's finally back to kick some tail!
#DonkeyKongBonanza