Found in
Toho's two disc Gunhed
DVD release, this cover-less CD is a reissue of the quite
rare soundtrack disc by Fun House (00FD-7115) in 1989.
For those unfamiliar with the score and Toshiyuki Honda's
work on the film, it's a fairly mixed bag. To be blunt,
most of these themes are pretty repetitious. The score
is created with a very minimal amount of orchestration,
often relying on a single instrument to get the job done
while the general flow is almost technoish in terms of
pacing and the general repeating tempos. The movie got
away with using this by breaking a lot of these up and
shortening their use in scenes. As a stand alone and unedited
experience, though, it gets to be pretty taxing on the
listener and it's not unusual to want to skip a number
of these tracks on account of it. To be fair, a few of
these themes are quite nice, such as "Island 8J0"
and "Charge". The two songs by Mariko Nagai,
"Time" and "Anata-o Miteruto", are
also excellent. Overall, it's not a bad CD, but due to
the disparity between those tracks worth listening to
repeatedly and those one will likely want to skip, its
probably only going to appeal to a small audience.
In terms of this particular release, for enthusiasts this
reissue presents an easy, although still not inexpensive,
method to acquire the soundtrack. Dedicated collectors
who already own the 1989 CD, though, will undoubtedly
be disappointed that Toho didn't try to come up with some
more content for this re-release of a fairly short soundtrack.
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