Timehunter

Timehunter
File:Timehunter 1.jpg
Box set by Merzbow
Released	May 1, 2003 (2003-05-01)
Recorded	2002 at Bedroom, Tokyo
Genre	Noise
Length	70:33
Label	Ant-Zen
Producer	Masami Akita
Merzbow chronology
24 Hours – A Day of Seals (2002)24 Hours – A Day of Seals2002 Timehunter (2003) Cycle (2003)Cycle2003
inside view
inside view

Timehunter is a box set album by Japanese noise musician Merzbow. The album "originally began as an exercise working in the dynamics of 2002's Merzbeat".

Timehunter features deconstructed beats which i took from 70s hard rock stuff like Omega, Golden Earring, Spontaneous Combustion, Alamo. Also I tried mixing these destructed breakbeats with heavy guitar drone.

— Masami Akita

Some tracks might be named after the bands Warhorse, Ramatam and Stone the Crows, and after the song "Space Truckin'" by Deep Purple. "CD Hunter" is a remix of "Ab Hunter", released in 1999 on Split Series 1–8, and later collected on Another Merzbow Records.

The release comes on four mini CDs, and is packaged in a day planner binder, complete with a calendar and business card. In the calendar days are marked with the time certain tracks should be played. The card includes a phone number and says "please give me a call — timehunter". The track titles are also listed in Japanese.

Track listing

All music composed by Masami Akita.

CD 1
No.	Title	Japanese title	Length
1.	"Warhorse"	軍馬	21:17

CD 2
No.	Title	Japanese title	Length
1.	"Space Trackin"	宇宙追跡	10:05
2.	"Ramatam"	ラマタム	8:40
Total length:			18:47

CD 3
No.	Title	Japanese title	Length
1.	"Conga"	コンガ	3:26
2.	"Stone the Crow"	ストーン・ザ・クロウ	9:02
Total length:			12:31

CD 4
No.	Title	Japanese title	Length
1.	"CD Hunter"	ＣＤハンター	18:03

Personnel

• Masami Akita – performer
• Stefan Alt – design
• Illektrik.Toolz – mastering