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I remembered my dad had once suggested that I do a cover of Herb Alpert's "Rise", and suddenly the ideas merged and I was hearing "Forest Interlude" over top of a jazzed up version of its characteristic ostinato and a funky bass beat. So that got me thinking of what else I could do with it that was "chill" but not in an obvious sense.

I love how beautiful and haunting that tune is, but it also kind of falls into that same flowing/ambient sort of category. "Forest Interlude" has been on my to do list for a while. The last few projects I had done before the hiatus had been sort of dark, flowing lyrical solos or sort of ambient jazz tunes, and, while those certainly fit the definition of "chill", I was ready to do something different. However, when the announcement came up for the Soundole Chillout Cover Contest this year, it seemed like the perfect excuse to get back to making music again.

Life just got too busy as it has a way of doing. This ReMix marks of the end of what was a solid 10-month hiatus from any music activities for me. This time I thought I'd try to find a new approach for a well-tread fan favorite. "I'm back again with another ReMix for your consideration. Like ErichWK from our previous ReMix, it's always a wonderful thing to debut more talented performers into OCR's lineup by way of collaborative champions like TSori, who explained to us how the pieces fell in place: I like it a lot." - so it's time to once again journey to the Jungle Kingdom's " Forest Interlude", as TSori & pals channel two legends, fusing the music of David Wise with the style of Herb Alpert's 1979 post-disco hit " Rise"!

And just as we've had artists make more than one appearance, it's time for a source tune to pull off its own representational twin magic! Rockos just had his own DnB spin on this theme posted - TSori told me "Rockos' version is a banger. Movie, because it's been a bountiful blast o' bananas putting some shine on DK music as part of April's Mario Month that's now stretching into May.

I'm thankful that Donkey Kong featured so prominently in The Super Mario Bros.