Grant Kirkhope somehow made N64 sound hardware produce music that feels like a Saturday morning cartoon you can walk around inside. Banjo-Kazooie's soundtrack adapts in real time to where you are, and even stripped down to standalone versions every world theme is instantly recognizable.
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Treasure Trove Cove has that steel drum warmth that puts you right on the beach. Freezeezy Peak is pure winter joy, all bouncy xylophone and sleigh bells squeezed through the N64's sample bank. Click Clock Wood changing across four seasons with one melody is still brilliant.
Mad Monster Mansion doing spooky pipe organ on this hardware. If you grew up with Rare's N64 era, these melodies are probably already permanently encoded in your brain, but they're worth revisiting anyway.