The beloved Aquatic Ambience theme from Donkey Kong Country performed on synthesizers with the melody on melodica (to emulate the original).

I stayed pretty close to the original, but David Wise added some interesting touches in his rearrangement for DKC Tropical Freeze. So I tried to add something similar here with a few touches of my own.

Instruments used:
Yamaha Reface CP: hook, melodic fills, chords, melody repeat at the end
(both Rhodes patches and the Wurly are used and CP patch briefly for the "CP twinkle")
Yamaha Reface DX: pads, melodic fx
Korg Monotron: riser/fx (choral effect added in Ableton)
Yamaha P37D Pianica/Melodica: melody
Elektron Model:Cycles: bass, drums

Microphone:
Shure SM7db

Set to my own gameplay footage of a couple of the Donkey Kong Country games.

I covered the famous Stickerbush Symphony track from DKC2 a couple years back here:
   • Stickerbush Symphony (Donkey Kong Cou...  

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