"Hang Glider" from Pilotwings 64 on the Nintendo 64 (1996)
Composer: Dan Hess
Album: No Official Release
Publisher: Nintendo
Developer: Nintendo EAD, Nintendo R&D3, and Paradigm Simulation
Just like I said eight years ago about the hang glider music for Pilotwings Resort on the 3DS, this music is chill, which is what you want to be listening to as the game beeps at you because your speed is has dropped below 29 kph and you just know you're not going to have enough lift to reach that next thermal.
For me, I feel like this song has two distinct elements to it. There are sections where the MIDI flute is playing, and those where it is not. When the song starts, it very clearly feels like something out of the mid-1980s, and then the flute just elevates the song from good cheese to a level of chill that is almost unsurpassed in the rest of the soundtrack, outside of the Birdman theme. When the flute is not playing, it really sounds like it could be intermittent music during a corporate instructional video produced in 1983. Is that Phil Collins? No, it's Dan Hess.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
There Was A Spikey Cinnamon Roll
P.S. I recently started playing Pilotwings 64 again for the sole purpose of unlocking the Cannonball mini-game because I was certain that The Squire would love a game where you shoot someone out of a cannon and they smack into an object after screaming their lungs out. I was right.
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