Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Composers: Kenji Yamamoto, Minako Hamano, Masaru Tajima, Shinji Ushiroda, Daisuke Matsuoka


00:00 - Donkey Kong Country Returns
01:47 - Jungle Hijinx
04:30 - Stage Clear
05:53 - Jungle Overworld
07:17 - King Of Swing
09:36 - Bonus Stage 1
10:34 - Palm Tree Groove
12:47 - Quiet Quarry
16:24 - Crazy Kart
18:50 - Mugly's Mound
20:23 - DK Island Overworld
21:48 - Item Shop
23:14 - DK's Beat
24:02 - Beach Overworld
25:26 - Poppin' Planks
28:51 - Puzzlin' Pinchers
30:00 - Bonus Stage 2
31:36 - Sloppy Sands
33:38 - Blowhole Bound
35:07 - Whale Waters
41:41 - Stormy Shore
45:20 - Tidal Terror
47:42 - Pinchin' Pirates
50:05 - Ruins Overworld
51:30 - Temple Topple
53:45 - Button Bash
55:13 - Ruin Rhaspody
57:59 - Damp Dungeon
59:53 - Mast Blast
1:02:07 - Savory Stu
1:03:36 - Cave Overworld
1:05:01 - Regal Railway
1:07:20 - Mine Cart Cruise
1:10:02 - Tricky Track
1:12:32 - Mine Menace
1:14:58 - Rickety Rails
1:18:00 - Mole Patrol
1:20:00 - Chaotic Cart
1:23:50 - The Mole Train
1:27:33 - Forest Overworld
1:28:58 - Vine Valley
1:30:55 - Longshot Launch
1:33:12 - Muncher Marathon
1:35:15 - Mangoruby Rush
1:37:36 - Cliff Overworld
1:39:01 - Sticky Situation
1:41:25 - Prehistoric Path
1:43:51 - Weighty Way
1:46:03 - Boulder Roller
1:48:14 - Clifftop Concert
1:50:33 - Thugly's Highrise
1:52:38 - Factory Overworld
1:54:02 - Slammin' Steel
2:00:29 - Gear Getaway
2:02:48 - Factory Friction
2:06:48 - Switcheroo
2:10:48 - Automatic Action
2:14:41 - Factory Switch Room
2:16:16 - Lift-Off Launch
2:18:27 - Feather Fiend
2:20:36 - Volcano Overworld
2:22:01 - Furious Fire
2:24:21 - Hot Rocket
2:26:18 - Smokey Silhouette
2:28:30 - Roasting Rails
2:31:06 - Bobbing Basalt
2:32:59 - Tiki Tong Terror
2:34:41 - Tiki Tong Song
2:37:56 - Staff Roll
2:41:29 - Mystery Of The Key
2:43:36 - Golden Temple Overworld
2:45:01 - Banana Temple
2:46:45 - Game Over


I wanted to do Returns and Tropical Freeze for a long time and finally got around to do them. The music always sounded quite compressed and dirty to me, especially Returns. Tropical Freeze sounded better but I couldnt say why. Maybe because of David Wise or they were better encoded but who knows. I really love the music of these games and always wanted to do some quality upscale remasters of the entire soundtrack. But only now I could do it with a quality that I find acceptable and oh boy, so much joy to listen to them now. The remasters came out better than I expected and I also did lots of further mastering improvements for a clean and audiophile friendly sound. Everything is based on original platform rips so the Wii and Wii U. It should be noted though that this time around I decided not to loop them. They are often already long enough even with just one loop and somehow I just felt like they dont need to loop. So in most cases they fade out after one loop but some shorter tracks were actually looped.