It’s got more in common with Clams Casino than The Donut Plains from Super Mario World. But “Stickerbrush Symphony” is downright mournful.
The emotional scale was limited to the tenor of Saturday morning cartoons. Before Donkey Kong Country, game music worked with big, blocky primary colors. Maybe it’s just a happy accident that Biggie’s luscious drawl fit so naturally into Wise’s grooves, but frankly it’s hard to imagine synergy this natural with anything else on the Super Nintendo. “But that also provides a huge amount of creative freedom to work with, and is rewarding in a completely different way.” “When you consider the limitations of the Super Nintendo sound chip, it takes a lot of CPU power and virtual VST synths to get something that sounds as powerful by today’s high standards,” he said. In an interview with FACT, he said “Stickerbrush Symphony” came from trying to compose something that emulated synth sounds that were just out of the console’s reach. Wise matched those efforts by putting together a truly avant-garde score for the era. It was a far cry from Mario and Luigi’s jointless sprites. Artists sculpted out chunky, paper-mache backdrops, and molded the character models with a surreal, not-quite-3D depth. The game was released in 1995, one year before the dawn of the Nintendo 64, and Rareware famously pushed the aging 16-bit technology to its limits.
“Stickerbrush Symphony” was his opus a dreamy, forlorn, new-age ballad unlike anything we typically heard in console mascot games. But his best edit is his 2011 mix of the Bad Boys posse cut “Flava in Ya Ear” to the theme from a level in the 1995 Super Nintendo smash, Donkey Kong Country 2 – “ Stickerbrush Symphony.”ĭavid Wise, the legendary composer behind Donkey Kong Country 2‘s music, had a knack for contorting the primitive Super Nintendo sound chip into exotic shapes. He’s let Slim Thug stomp all over Zelda‘s “ The Great Fairy Fountain,” paired Blackstar and Earthbound, and mashed-up Gang Starr with Super Mario RPG. Chicago-based remixer Tim Jacques has made a name for himself on Soundcloud by pairing classic video game themes with hip-hop tracks under the name Team Teamwork.
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