1994. Rare developers listen to Aquatic Ambience for the first time. 

"Man Tasked With Making Score for a Monkey Riding a Swordfish Underwater Creates Transcendent Piece of Music"

A song about a monke riding a swordfish and fighting other fishes really hits deep

Song: 🐟🐒🌊 RU-vidr: 😭

I also love how the framerate is dropping, fits really well.

We all feel it. This song hits your soul.

David Wise is and always will be a musical genius in my book.

This song reminds me of my best friend who passed away last year. We'd always play DK Country on his SNES and I'm glad I'm not the only one who had an emotional reaction to this song

I have said for a long time that this remains the GOAT of all video game level soundtrack music.

Oh man DKC was such a great game and the music was 0n point. This song though i have never seen a level and song go so good together Also I’m a big prog rock fan and always felt like this could have been a yes or early genesis song maybe even a Pink Floyd song . This song is so peaceful to me.

Are you guys aware that David Wise is making a series on how to make his soundtracks in the Korg UK channel? It is really amazing!

Is he legitimately crying? Damn.

Video game music is timeless. I love Aquatic Ambience from Donkey Kong Country. It’s awesome🥲🤍👊🏾

Let's be honest here. This not the only good track in the game. The whole soundtrack is phenomenal, but this is certainly among the best ones, i agree

This song always immediately brings me back to my childhood. Great memories playing this with my friend Danny.

"Damn.. just can't wait to go home" 😂😂😂

l know how u feel. When l hear it l cry so hard. it brings me back of my childhood. l miss those 80s days. This music hits hard

The only snes soundtrack that make me tears was probably the main theme of terranigma and also ff6 opening, DKC is just an amazing and wonderfull trip i add the pleasure to play on my teenage day, this music are cool and smooth but not sad, for me.

1:13 at this moment his mind explodes

It's weird how this hits me despite having no sentimental attachment besides paying the game. It's inspiring and retrospective all in one, and it seems to bring back every good and bad memory that I've ever had. Who is the wizard who composed this?

I think those guys should have a musician carrer too. Its just fantastic for those days video games music it was really next level gameplay music

I thought I was the only one but this song makes me want to tear up too. Don't know what it is

he knows this is for a video game right? XD love that ending

Crying through out the whole song

This can't be real

You guys want your mind blown? Try playing all DKC SNES game in VR. It's really quite amazing.

awesome footage, I love how he doesnt say a word, and really gets into it. probably same reaction w Stickerbrush

Just makes you think about everything.

It’s summer of 95’ - Im about to be 12 and I’m hitting some DKC over at the neighbor kids house until I get my copy the next month

Probably the greatest videogame song of all time.

This isn't from 1994

DKC and Streets of rage are tied for greatest ost for me

It’s quite beautiful isn’t it.

Can you imagine if rare didn’t ever find David wise!

I get similar vibes from some of the old rpg games of the time on the gameboy and ds

😆 great man! One of the best react that I saw

Took me back to 1980s

you couldn't have included the song in the video? I wanted to listen to it and accidentally clicked on your video. I literally just sat here watching a grown man cry thinking there would be some unexpected twist to redeem the fact that this is almost 4 minutes of a guy crying to Nintendo music.

I shed a tear with you dont worry

Heaven sound

Stickerbrush symphony It makes me cry uncontrollably

Bloody good video

Pensé que era el único que le causaba una emoción tan grande que lo hacía llorar 😅❤

The first level I ever paused and listened

You have an insanely symmetrical face.

I thought all Rare developers had heard the songs from their games. Anyway very spesial music.

Nice 1994 iMac in the background there 😉😂

Hahahahaa omg it's not just me. This is gold

Understandable.

Collons, m'ha fet plorar a mi que estic fart de sentir-la al videojoc original!!! 😱🥰😭😭😭

Masterful.

That's what happens when men who don't know what good music is, don't know waht good music is and don't even know nor have an idea that good music exists, because they're confined to a desk and monitor over 80% of their free time programming and playing videogsme and whatever, listen to somewhat good or vaguely well done music.

Why are your pupils so tiny bro, you look high

Music-response

Same 😢

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Yes, its a beautiful song, but man get a hold of yourself.. Your acting like someone just told you your grandma died.

Lol

This my shit 😂

This looks nothing like a 1994 footage. Hopefully I'm wrong lol

*I acted the same exact way when I was told that I was adopted*

Just a reminder. It took David Wise 5 whole weeks to port aquatic ambience onto the dkc cartridge. He had to meticulously record every sound wave and program them into each of the 8 sound channels to fit it on the SNES's 64kb soundchip. He only did this to get specific soundwaves to play on the SNES. He said it was sort of a gift to the devs and to show the world just how technically advanced dkc was for the time. First time I heard the song, it caught me off guard because of how clean and mesmerizing it sounded on the SNES.

Aquatic Ambience, Bramble Blast and Forest Interlude just hit different, David Wise is a genius and one of the best videogame composers ever.

Seriously to this day DK music is on my emotional support playlist

The first time I listened to it was when I was eight years old on my SNES. As an adult I’m still listening to it from time to time, it’s a masterpiece.

It's such a beautiful song. I couldn't believe my ears as a child when I heard it the first time. I remember pausing the level just to hear it

Underrated Video. If you just put on the track with headphones and focus, it’s hard not to get emotional if you love music. Great post 👍 1:11 on is how I feel about this track and all great music. I’m right there with him the whole video.

Video game music is so underrated. Both this and the Ocarina of Time soundtrack are true masterpieces of music

I was emotional the entire time and then the comment at the end made me BURST with laughter 😂 Amazing video man

I absolutely agree with every emotion you’ve expressed, we all feel that ❤️❤️❤️

The song plays in Coral Capers, Clam City, Croctopus Chase, and Poison Pond

To this day this is one of the best tracks in Donkey Kong history. I remember the first time I heard it and I was amazed. It just goes to show how strong this track is when you just automatically start to feel emotional and begin to cry. It's so beautiful

There are few songs that make me feel as nostalgic as this one does.

This is honestly beautiful how even the developers can even get emotional over this song

I thought I was alone as a kid when I would play this level over just to hear this relaxing music. I’ve always loved it. Awesome to see a powerful reaction like this

I know well this feeling, it's awesome.

i love how hes like "I cant wait to go home", then its just total elation immediately after

My guy was never ready for this one. It hit him so hard all his childhood memories came flooding back once the song started.

Literally the most beautiful music to have ever graced the cartridge of the SNES console. Decades ahead of its time.

I knew I wasn’t alone when I felt the same way he did when I heard this many years later ... when things and times were good 😌

Lmao

Its the perfect background music to missing a time from the past for me.

I've always loved this song.

Esse cara teve a mesma reação que eu teria ouvindo pela primeira vez. Somos iguais, cara

I used to enter this world and just listen to the music and not even play

Man, it’s a song that gives you chills *every time* It’s nostalgic, it’s really perfection. I heard this song for the first time late 2022 and ended up re arranging using the ocarina of time soundfont with great results. I love this song and it looks like you did too

Come on we all felt this when we first played this level. U went to sleep that night with the music inside ur head.

Holy shit this dude gonna make me choke up

Last sunday I went to a videogame music symphonic concert, they played this theme and I was crying even when I've listened to this song since I was a child.

It’s a masterpiece ain’t it? Beautifully recorded and sound❤️

I remember specifically just going to the water stage to jam this song back in the mid 90s

I had no idea this song came from a game😮

Takes me back. My grandparents old house. If i could go back somehow...

It really did not have to go that hard

If I could describe nostalgia in a physical sense to someone, this is what it would look like. This is how nostalgia feels. It's such an unbelievable feeling. It's not the first time this guy has heard this. He around the same age as me and I know he's played this game before lol

I was in love with this song for many years but I listened to it so much in so many covers that it isn't as emotional for me as it was. But I kind of feel you, guys. I really love David Wise's compositions and look forward to the new Salamandos album. This love will follow me through my life even after I get a major love of my life - a girl. I'm 19 years old just for you to know how eternal this music is and goes on conveying the ambiance through generations

This song is freaking beautiful, I don’t blame you for crying

*WHO ELSE LEFT THE SNES RUNNING 4 DA MUSIC* 😢

My father and my uncle bought me this game for Christmas 95, they are now currently gone forever. I feel your pain brother 😭

Hey, it's Peter Botting, who actually exists!

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