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Jack Starr's Burning Starr is Back! New Album, Anthology, and Catalog Reissues!

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Jack Starr's Burning Starr is back! With a brand new album, a new career-spanning anthology, and a reissue program to get the band's catalog back in print from Global Rock Records, this heavy metal band is taking no prisoners! Order the music here: Rock The American Way (1985) https://amzn.to/3qE4ejz No Turning Back (1986) https://amzn.to/3xofSTC Blaze Of Glory (1987) https://amzn.to/3S7hcBY Burning Starr 1989 (1989) https://amzn.to/3RXiWhu Burning Starr VI - Under A Savage Sky (2003) https://amzn.to/3LdjjSA Land Of The Dead (2011) https://amzn.to/3xpg2dm Souls of the Innocent https://amzn.to/3xnBTBK Eternal Starr: The Burning Star Anthology https://amzn.to/3xlb6pO Global Rock Records Signs Burning Starr: https://www.globalrockrecords.com/press/jackstar_070222.html Burning Starr on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jackstarrsburningstarr/ CerealAtMidnight.com Shop: CerealAtMidnight.Threadless.com Ebay.com/usr/cerealatmidnight Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight Facebook.com/CerealMid...

Donkey Kong Country and the Greatness of "Aquatic Ambiance"

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I've been playing a fair bit of Donkey Kong Country  lately on my SNES Classic Edition , and I've been struck all over again by what an amazing video game it is. Something I'd forgotten, though, was how beautiful the soundtrack to the game was (and still is), with a lot of different genres of influences going into the pot. The music for the game was composed primarily by David Wise with help from Eveline Fischer and Robin Beanland; Fisher's goal was to create music that would sonically refer back to great synthesizer scores of the past. He threw in some world rhythms and a bunch of African instrumentation, and the rest is history.