Every Saturday, we’re going deep on one song we’ve never reviewed before. Today, we’re discussing the meticulously composed Donkey Kong accompaniment, immortalized as the soundtrack to the internet’s collective memory. Discussed: internet checkpoints, hexadecimal composing, Walter Benjamin, the most introspective 16-bit song ever.
Throughout the 2010s, the YouTube algorithm would summon a mysterious transmission. Uploaded in 2012 by a user named “taia777,” the video featured a 15-minute loop of David Wise’s “Stickerbush Symphony” over a cascading image of thorn bushes in the s... [8319 chars]