{"id":3307,"date":"2017-11-22T21:52:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T12:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankyouforthehorse.com\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2017-11-23T00:46:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T15:46:46","slug":"blue-revolver-black-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=3307","title":{"rendered":"BLUE REVOLVER Black Label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/362451305&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=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Presumably we&#8217;re all familiar with <em>Blue Revolver<\/em>, 2016&#8217;s fondest of fond tributes to the modern(ish) shmup? I usually manage to restrain myself from too many game-related posts here, but\u00a0<em>BR\u00a0<\/em>sneaked through thanks to Wyrm&#8217;s sound design and a pretty remarkable OST from Qygen. Plus of course there was the excellent collection of remixes, including the return of ikaruga_nex and some lovely stuff from Hyphen &#8211; the game itself&#8217;s a must-purchase if you&#8217;re even slightly into the genre, but at the very least you need the soundtrack, which was comfortably one of the best freeform releases of the year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Black Label<\/em> is a CAVE style rebalance\/update of the mechanics and frontend, with a <a href=\"http:\/\/bluerevolvergame.com\/1year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">genuinely interesting list of new additions<\/a>. What&#8217;s bolder though is an arranged version of the soundtrack, wisely deciding not to try out-freeforming Qygen and instead taking things in a more conventional soundtrack direction. Exemia and Hagane are nice choices for remix duties (especially after Exemia&#8217;s quality work with <em>Aerolith Aurorablast<\/em>), and Hagane&#8217;s lush, breakbeaty take on Qygen&#8217;s tracks is sounding very successful so far. <em>Black Label <\/em>will be appearing in January next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presumably we&#8217;re all familiar with Blue Revolver, 2016&#8217;s fondest of fond tributes to the modern(ish) shmup? I usually manage to restrain myself from too many game-related posts here, but\u00a0BR\u00a0sneaked through thanks to Wyrm&#8217;s sound design and a pretty remarkable OST from Qygen. Plus of course there was the excellent collection of remixes, including the return [&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":[9,16,7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drum-bass","category-goa-psy","category-releases","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307","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=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3308,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions\/3308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}