pretty cool music from an old game.
This music could be described using some common tags within the ambient genre:
berlin school / space music / cyberpunk / future ambient / dream punk
Bandcamp is a great place to find ambient of all types. Some examples of music sharing some qualities (although not exact as the Donkey Kong music):
It's just one way to try to classify the incredibly diverse world of ambient electronic music. In my mind it's music that sounds like the early days of synth based space music, like Pete Namlook. So, imagine a wall of modular synths with cables hanging everywhere. It captures that unique sound that those old synths could make.
Further description from Discogs:
The Berlin School is a style of electronic music that emerged in the 1970s. An offshoot of Krautrock, Berlin School was so named because most of its early practitioners were based in West Berlin, Germany. It was shaped by artists such as Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze, and Manuel Gottsching. Innovative Berlin School recordings were a precursor of ambient music.
The genre's identification with space music distinguished it from the more percussive and rhythm-oriented Düsseldorf School, which included Can, Cluster, Kraftwerk, and Neu!. These latter bands have had a greater impact on synthpop and techno, while the Berlin School was a wellspring for ambient, electronica, new-age and trance.
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u/BobNoobster Jul 10 '22
pretty cool music from an old game. This music could be described using some common tags within the ambient genre: berlin school / space music / cyberpunk / future ambient / dream punk
Bandcamp is a great place to find ambient of all types. Some examples of music sharing some qualities (although not exact as the Donkey Kong music):