Two of the most famous screeches in music history are from House of Pain’s Jump Around and Cypress Hill’s Insane in the Brain — you likely heard both of them in your mind just reading the names of the songs. This short video explains where those samples came from and which one of them is a horse (and not Prince).

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ReMix of Donkey Kong Country (SNES) by Mel Decision, Nemo Fairlight, paradiddlesjosh.
Original soundtrack by David Wise, Eveline Novakovic, Robin Beanland.



Download audio: https://iterations.org/files/music/remixes/Donkey_Kong_Country_I_Want_to_Go_Home_OC_ReMix.mp3

ReMix of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (SNES) by PRIDASK.
Original soundtrack by David Wise.



Download audio: https://iterations.org/files/music/remixes/Donkey_Kong_Country_2_Rose_Gray_OC_ReMix.mp3

With the back-port of the VLC DMXMUS plugin from VLC 4.0, versions 3.0.22-RC2 and later are able to play music files from the 1990's DMX sound library such as Doom, Doom II and Heretic.

ReMix of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (SNES) by Argle.
Original soundtrack by David Wise.



Download audio: https://iterations.org/files/music/remixes/Donkey_Kong_Country_2_Rigging_Rampage_OC_ReMix.mp3

Name A 28-Year-Old. “The data tells us that 3,880,894 children were born in the year 1997, and yet we can find no trace of them in popular culture.”

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