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Title: Hot Top Volcano 
Game: Diddy Kong Racing  
Composer: David Wise

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When Do You Hear It?

• It plays in the Hot Top Volcano track

Album of Which it Appears:

• Track 5: Hot Top Volcano - Diddy Kong Racing Soundtrack 
• Track 10: Hot Top Volcano - Diddy Kong Racing Original Soundtrack

Where to Buy: Diddy Kong Racing Soundtrack

• Amazon (Mod note finding results for the Original Soundtrack have proven to be difficult)

Other Works by David Wise:

• David Wise has composed many soundtracks for Rare. Which include Donkey Kong Country, Battletoads and the likes.
• He also composed the soundtrack for a game called “War World” which was developed by a small team of Rare alumni back in 2005, that was later ported to the XBox Live Arcade in 2008.
• He also composed the soundtrack to Starfox Adventures.
• Wikipedia
• OverClocked ReMix
• VGMdb

Random Fact:

• Because the game in itself was on the N64 and therefore cartridge based Wise utilized this to have tracks that could change mood during gameplay (i.e the overworld or character select screen) However this was only used on one racing track Boulder Canyon