Donkey Kong 64 - Fungi Forest - Day/Night (cover) 

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If Donkey Kong 64 was ever remade, I’d imagine the music to sound like this. This is as good as the official song.

when 4:23 started that really hit me 🥲this is probably one of my favorite soundtracks on a game of all times

Hearing DK64 music fully realized with actual instruments desperately makes me wish we could get a remake/remaster of DK64. Because I feel like a lot of issues with that game could be easily fixed with some modern QOL additions. Or at least another attempt at a fully 3D DK game in general.

The production on this is just perfect.

You don't hear a lot of orchestral covers in which the original theme is so clearly present, but infinitely stronger because of the real instruments. Absolutely well done! ❤

This is by far the best cover for this song. It's my fave song from DK64 so thank you for doing the soundtrack justice

This is perfect and this is coming from a very picky-when-it-comes-to-covers person. I would gladly have the whole DK64 soundtrack from you (and your buds)

I love how when you play Fungi Forest the tone of the music changes when you change the atmosphere whether you change it from day to night or night to day.

This is how a remake should sounds like ❤

I recognize the sound effects at night time as being the same ones used by Dives for the Left 4 Dead 2 custom campaigns "Journey to Splash Mountain" and "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Zombies" for the area outside the Indiana Jones ride/Adventureland.

I love DK64! This is truly incredible. I hope Grant Kirkhope sees its

The game with unmatched level themes and atmosphere. Thank you for these!

God-Tier!!! I dare say this is better than the original. Real live instruments add so much. Goosebumps.... Great job!

Holy crap those horns!!! The strings section is on point too! And the clarinet! This sounds amazing Nico. Really great mixing. This is kind of mind blowing.

This was my most fave board on the entire game, but I remember also being terrified once you turned the board into night-time. Watching things that were previously non moving come to life, I hated having to navigate through that😂😂😂

My memories of this song are so clear. Definitely a trip.

this is like, obscenely pretty. Stupid me didn't read the title and had a bit of a hype moment when the night theme started too haha, glad you included that. Loved the tones and textures from this 3 person powerhouse orchestra!

When the French horns come in 🤯 excellent work. Breathes so much more life into this great arrangement

No sabes lo muy feliz que me hace escuchar fungy forest. De verdad, les agradezco la inmensa felicidad que me traen en este momento. Actualmente tengo 29 años y su música me ha hecho regresar a los 13 años cuando mi madre me miraba jugar atentamente D.K 64

Bro... This is a very convincing masterpiece.

That was absolutely incredible to listen to, captures the feel of the original while making it better. You totally did this song justice!

I take it you really love the DK64 soundtrack because I sure do =)

This sounds soooo magical. So many beautiful textures!! And that transition from the day to night version was sooo seemless. 10/10. Great arranging and mixing Nico! 👏 Makes me wanna arrange a VGM with mallets involved

This song is massively nostalgic. I wish people did more covers of DK64 music. Well done!

I come back to this arrangement more and more. I feel you absolutely nailed the recording timbre. I don't know if it was happy accident or not on your part but the way how everything's recorded and played nearly perfectly reflects the sound of the original track and how those original samples sounded (and how they felt emotionally) while all of this still nearly being fully live. I love those French Horns for example. that close, vintage sound is in this context an chefs kiss. Same can be said with all the winds and the rest ♥

I have to say that: one of the greatest covers I've seen in my life. The job that you guys have done in it, is almost perfect. I have no words to describe. Just amazing!!!!!! Greetings from Brazil!!! ❤

You are giving me such memories.... truly amazing soundtrack and greatly performed. Thank you!!

Wow that was fantastic! The double bass was a great addition, it fits in really well!

I don’t even need to SAY this is a perfect cover, I just want to

Incredible performance

Such beautiful music! Brought some tears to my eyes just listening to it.

Wow!!! No sé por qué no tuve la oportunidad de ver este video antes, pero sin duda es una una gran interpretación de Fungi Forest, me trae tantos recuerdos de la infancia ✨ Me encanta tu contenido!!!

I'm subscribing, thank you for all your hard work in this impressive masterful song

Nice Job Nico! The transition between the two versions was seamless

This is incredibly epic. Love how you collaborated to bring in the woodwinds. Takes it to another level!

I didn't know I wanted this.😊

Brother no entiendo como este canal no tiene mas suscriptores. El perfeccionismo con que trabajas tus proyectos es simplemente alucinante!

This is so amazing! Congrats for the work ❤

Masterful cover! Amazing how you brought this track to life with real instruments!🎉

absolutely loved this. You guys are amazing ❤

It's like going camping in the woods for a whole week: daylight full of fun, while at nighttime it gets quite scary. P.S: The wolf howls and the owl hoots are missing for background sounds

Absolutely beautiful

Great cover to my favorite song from this game!

this is A M A Z I N G!!! my heart raced, this is so beautiful! congratulations on your incredible work!!!

This one's spot on

Honestly, one of the best covers I've heard ever, period! You're amazing, dear Lord.

So lydian it hurts. Great job.

Just perfect

I love that music, bring me back a lot of memories when as child, thanks to give us that masterpiece!

Beautiful ❤

Perfect cover!!!

Just found you and you are doing all my favorite songs. Tysm. You are a true talent.

Wonderful job collaborating and well done!

This is so impressive!!

Amazing, as always!

Damn this is really well done! Performances are solid as hell.

Great music and video! You are so talented Nico!

This is amazing

So much nostalgia

Outstanding performance Guys. Great job!

Wow man I really missed out on 2 banger uploads... keep these up friend, loved the orchestration on this one!

Brilliant!! ❤💛🤎

increíble interpretación, realmente como escucharla del juego mismo. Felicidades!

This makes me so freaking happy(: it's so perfect you seriously somehow got every detail you possibly could

Amazing

Incredible, I really mean it

Absolutely incredible!

All the different moods this piece offers are amazing. You tell a story with your instruments. Great work!

Really amazing !!! Cheers from Brazil

Where have you been all my life, I’ve been searching for someone to play this cover and the Crystal Cave, for-e-ver!

I once heard that this level was supposed to be in Banjo-Kazooie, but due to time constraints, it was omitted and used in Donkey Kong 64 instead.

Wow. Really incredible dude!

Love the warmth and grandeur you brought to the day part, and the atmosphere of the night one. The part at 3:48 is a taste of magic.

This is so beautiful! Grant Kirkhope was one of my faves and you took it to the next level, love the collab and the layers and how the atmosphere really shows in this one!

You nailed it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Este te quedó brutal!!!

Incredible :)

Fuck yes

No diré nada, solo disfrutar y cerrar los ojos ✨️💛🌞🌑

2:35 night

Nice Cover!

Oh wow🍌💕 this is quite amazing this entire level was mine second favorite because how it turns to day and night

amazing

Wooow great great job

Hermosisisisimo :D

Simplemente god

precsioso ♥

I'm doing a 365 days of music challenge, and I picked this one for today's! I thought you might be interested in seeing what I wrote about it, so here it is: **Day 133:** "Fungi Forest - Day/Night" - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rPEL1Jq5UEM.html This is an incredibly accurate rendition of a stellar Nintendo 64 track. It's one of my very favorite music tracks in all of gaming from one of my very favorite levels in all of gaming from one of my very favorite games (in all of gaming). Nico Mendoza, JD Winds, and Nathan Banegas did a fantastic job with these live instruments. I also commend the use of natural ambience sfx; you could hear a lot of those kinds of sounds in the original DK64 track. One of the commenters on this video, Linus Olsson Music (whose works I also enjoy...small world!) remarked how similar the instrumentation sounds to the original. I firmly agree! The track doesn't necessarily try to become something bigger or lesser than the original. it just glows it up and makes it come even more alive. What I love about Fungi Forest is...well, I love a lot of things about Fungi Forest. I love the mushroomy, foresty aesthetic. I love how *huge* it is -- bigger than most Super Mario Odyssey levels, and this was released almost 20 years prior! I love how well all the space is used -- Fungi Forest isn't some grassy desert. I love how much there is to it with all the different rooms and the day/night mechanic (though I much prefer day). And I love how the world is so organized: a central hub and branching tunnels, one leading to a place with barns and sheds and such, another leading to a massive garden with evil tomatoes and a helpless worm that lives in a giant apple, yet another leading to a huge mushroom tower you can scale...and there's one more around that mushroom tower that leads you to a beautiful autumn forest that reeks of this storybook, PC-game, Disney energy. I love it! And the music wonderfully captures its grandness, its forestness, its...mushroomyness. It's just...wow! Kudos to Grant Kirkhope for composing it, and kudos to Mendoza and friends for crafting this beautiful rendition. ______________________________________________ All that to say...I LOVE THIS ARRANGEMENT. It was such a pleasure to listen to. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Subscribing!

Incredible I love it have you played Donkey Kong 64 before?

Your video got retweeted by Grant Kirkhope himself! He loves it!

I found myself howling like the wolfs do at night in the game!!!!

Idk why but the night version gives STRONG harry Potter😍❤️

昼だけでなくちゃんと夜まであって感動！小学生の頃は怖かった夜の曲もこうして聞いたらすばらしい。。。 　 4:25 鉄琴の1番高い音が鳴ってない気がしたけど気のせい？

Holy shit this just made me realize how much of a genius Grant Kirkhope is. Well done lads

day 0:00 night 2:35

2:51

Can you all please do king k rool battle team for dk64?!! Please or any of the boss themes for dk64!!! Such a fine and remarkable work!!! For a moment I closed my eyes and just picture myself climbing big mushrooms, magnificent brilliaaaant!!

You should do frantic factory