{"id":2600,"date":"2017-09-25T20:47:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T11:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2017-09-25T20:47:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T11:47:21","slug":"shimotsukei-lunch-tribute-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=2600","title":{"rendered":"Shimotsukei &#8211; Lunch Tribute Mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/311669818&amp;color=2f3842&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m ever so late with this one, but as it&#8217;s hard to keep up with Shimotsukei&#8217;s mix-posting schedule there might well be some who missed her excellent tribute to Lunch. As the founder of Tokyo Hardcore Construction it&#8217;s not overstating things to say that there wouldn&#8217;t be much of a gabber scene here without Lunch&#8217;s music and events.<\/p>\n<p>Shimotsukei&#8217;s set does a fine job of representing Lunch&#8217;s sounds (and even sourcing them in the first place), running through his final tracks on <em>Pure Existence <\/em>as well as far earlier work and some big THC anthems like <em>Oldskool Terrorist <\/em>(one of my personal favourites) and <em>Hardcore Ravers Motherfucker<\/em>. The mixing is also top drawer with some interesting, longer transitions that you wouldn&#8217;t often hear at THC &#8211; such was Lunch&#8217;s (justified) confidence in his timing he would usually play the next track with both faders at max volume from the very start.<\/p>\n<p>More than any other recent set, this brings back all sorts of memories of the Tokyo harder scene of years past, but even without the nostalgia element it&#8217;ll be pretty hard for newcomers to resist melodies as manic and catchy as these.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m ever so late with this one, but as it&#8217;s hard to keep up with Shimotsukei&#8217;s mix-posting schedule there might well be some who missed her excellent tribute to Lunch. As the founder of Tokyo Hardcore Construction it&#8217;s not overstating things to say that there wouldn&#8217;t be much of a gabber scene here without Lunch&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-japanese","category-mixes","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3221,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions\/3221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}