Kong In Concert

Ooh, it's almost topical, what with the big King Kong hype and all. It's also one of those scratch scratch, "is it legal?" numbers, being as how it's all based on arrangements of Nintendo's intellectual property... But this website - and it's a big, obvious website, a stationary target if you will - has been up for well over a year. So while I wouldn't presume to vouch for anything else on the OverClocked Remix site, I'll go out on a limb and say this is probably safe to download. If'n the jackbooted thugs come a'knockin' I guess you can add my name to your countersuit. Until then, I will assume that this is one of those cases where Nintendo has wisely elected to view it as free brand identification juice rather than trying to assert their rights to compositions from a decade-old game for an obsolete platform.

In it's day, though, Donkey Kong Country was the shit, yo. Wikipedia says this is because it was the "first game for a mainstream home video game console to use pre-rendered 3-D graphics," which really takes me back to my friend Roger explaining the same thing to me 10 years ago and how I didn't really understand it then either. The graphics were hot, anyway. The other much-remarked aspect of the game was its soundtrack. You can read all about it at the site. The bottom line here is that a bunch of nerd artists got together and produced this homage album based on the soundtrack. It's not half bad, if you like that kind of thing.

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Clouded Mind and Ringing Ears (Misty Menace) by Aetherius

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