{"id":4183,"date":"2023-01-13T13:43:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T04:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=4183"},"modified":"2023-01-13T13:53:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T04:53:28","slug":"exemia-gunvein-ost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/?p=4183","title":{"rendered":"Exemia &#8211; GUNVEIN (OST)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=671362915\/size=large\/bgcol=333333\/linkcol=e99708\/tracklist=false\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/exemia.bandcamp.com\/album\/gunvein-ost\">GUNVEIN (OST) by Exemia<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re as much of an Exemia fan as me you&#8217;ll already know that he was signed up by NGDEV to work on <em>Gunvein&#8217;s <\/em>OST. I was definitely planning to give the soundtrack a mention anyway, but for full disclosure I was kindly gifted a promo copy by Exemia around the time of release. It seems the &#8216;freeform loving shmup fan&#8217; demographic is marginally bigger than I expected, and for us especially this was one of the most interesting releases of 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Like <em>Gunvein <\/em>itself, the OST has plenty of late-era Cave atmosphere to it, but (unsurprisingly) a much more authentic hardcore feel to most of the tracks. One of the drawbacks from a freefrom DJ&#8217;s perspective is the short running time &#8211; you&#8217;d need some nimble mixing to get many of these into a set. That&#8217;s obviously not the main goal here though, and the variety is what makes this a fine listen even unmixed.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more drum and bass here than I was expecting, but if anything less guitar &#8211; this is a very <em>DoDonPachi <\/em>inspired game, after all. No surprise that Exemia absolutely nails the stage 1 theme, with enough of a shmup feel to start things off followed by full freeform in the second half. Another favourite for me is <em>Exhaled Haven<\/em>, both a superb boss theme and a track that would easily fit into an Exemia freeform set. An extra mention too for the chilled ending track with its lovely drums and chirpy main lead.<\/p>\n<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been back to trying to 1cc <em>Guwange <\/em>among others (I&#8217;ll take talk of that to Mastodon, not here) so I haven&#8217;t yet given <em>Gunvein <\/em>the time it deserves. With the reception it&#8217;s had so far and the best OST since <em>Blue Revolver <\/em>(or <em>GG Aleste 3<\/em> if we&#8217;re including non-freeform) it&#8217;ll likely be worth the wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUNVEIN (OST) by Exemia If you&#8217;re as much of an Exemia fan as me you&#8217;ll already know that he was signed up by NGDEV to work on Gunvein&#8217;s OST. I was definitely planning to give the soundtrack a mention anyway, but for full disclosure I was kindly gifted a promo copy by Exemia around the [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drum-bass","category-goa-psy","category-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183","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=4183"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4185,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4183\/revisions\/4185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thankyouforthehorse.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}