{"id":3233,"date":"2017-10-11T10:04:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T01:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=3233"},"modified":"2017-10-11T10:04:36","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T01:04:36","slug":"artificial-world-records-thcbfreeform-hardcore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=3233","title":{"rendered":"Artificial World Records &#8211; THCB=FREEFORM HARDCORE="},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/346109666&amp;color=%232f3842&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Later this month sees the sudden, surprise release of an very promising remix album, courtesy of Kokomochi. This is actually another freeform take on ZUN&#8217;s inspired soundtracks for the Touhou series &#8211; the emotional melodies are made for freeforming, as we&#8217;ve seen in goodness knows how many past compilations.<\/p>\n<p>Kokomochi looks to have done a spot-on job of adding some aggression to the tracks, thankfully sidestepping the jolly style of some hardcore remixes I&#8217;ve heard in the past. Instead there&#8217;s plenty of melancholy here (see my first-impressions favourite, <em>White Heron<\/em>), along with some quality track progression and an impressive level of production. The tone overall strikes the sweet spot between freeform&#8217;s various camps, with some UK-style fills and effects combining nicely with nastier Finnish filtering.<\/p>\n<p>As things stand the release is only announced for this month&#8217;s M3 event, but I&#8217;ll update as and when any other release info turns up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Later this month sees the sudden, surprise release of an very promising remix album, courtesy of Kokomochi. This is actually another freeform take on ZUN&#8217;s inspired soundtracks for the Touhou series &#8211; the emotional melodies are made for freeforming, as we&#8217;ve seen in goodness knows how many past compilations. Kokomochi looks to have done a [&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":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese","category-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233","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=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3234,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions\/3234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}