<Tr> <Th> Associated acts </Th> <Td> Robin Beanland Eveline Fischer Grant Kirkhope Graeme Norgate Steve Burke </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> davidwise.co.uk </Td> </Tr> <P> David Wise is an English video game music composer and musician . He was a composer at Rare from 1985 to 2009, and was the company's sole musician up until 1994 . He has gained a cult following for his work on various games, particularly Nintendo's Donkey Kong Country series . Wise is known for his atmospheric style of music, mixing natural environmental sounds with prominent melodic and percussive accompaniment . </P> <P> Wise has said that he has had a wide range of musical influences, though the first instrument he learned to play was the piano, before later learning the trumpet, and then learning to play drums during adolescence . He played in a few bands during his youth, and was still active in a band as of 2004 . His career at Rare began when he happened to meet its two founders, as he explained in response to a question posted on its company website: "I was working in a music shop demonstrating a Yamaha CX5 Music Computer to a couple of people, Tim & Chris Stamper . I'd written and programmed the music for the demonstration material . They offered me a job ." </P>

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