![]() Milan Records didn't promote the album that much, outside of the airing of its documentary counterpart this, added with the fact that it wasn't released through their main label, East Side Digital, meant it would be less known to Residents fans. 'Hunters' remains one of the more obscure entries in The Residents' vast catalog. The set also included outtakes such as the previously unreleased " Fat Boy" demo tape and the 1993 EP Prelude to "The Teds". ![]() The album was been out of print for 26 years following its initial release, but was eventually reissued as part of the three-disc Gingerbread Man pREServed edition in May 2021. VOX Records released it in European territories, with the title translated as Räuber Der Wildnis (Predators in The Wilderness). Milan Records owned the album, so it was not released by The Residents' main record label at the time, East Side Digital. The group finished recording the soundtrack in December 1994, despite their interest in the series waning after receiving a number of rough cut episodes and seeing that the series now included "trite, cliched narration" and none of the violent documentary footage they had been told would feature heavily. The Residents were unsure of taking on such a monumental task, having never recorded such a large amount of soundtrack music before, but agreed and began work on the project after being offered a "whopping check". With the series having been intended to feature no narration, the Clark brothers asked the group to provide around ten hours of music similar in tone to their 1979 "documentary" album Eskimo. In 1993 The Residents were working on their album Gingerbread Man when they were approached by Barry and Terry Clark, two Los Angeles television producers who were developing Hunters: The World of Predators and Prey for the Discovery Channel. The album was not as widely available as the groups' earlier releases had been, leading Hunters to fall into relative obscurity. It is also, The Residents' twenty-first studio album, as well as their first entirely instrumental release. Hunters (The World Of Predators And Prey) (AKA, Räuber Der Wildnis (Hunters)) is soundtrack to the documentary television series of the same name. " Benny The Bouncing Bump" on Eyesore (1996) Steve Rosenthal, Robert Fish & The Residents Residents release chronology Previous ![]() Hunters: The World of Predators and Prey - Original Soundtrack Recording To date, the remaining two episodes have not been released in a digital format no episodes of the series have been released on Blu-ray or to streaming. On November 5th 2007, eight of the ten episodes of Hunters were released on DVD, in a box set titled Predators the opening titles of the episodes on the DVDs retain the original title card reading Hunters. Tapes of individual episodes were released on VHS between April 1998 and January 2000. Shortly after the conclusion of the series, an 11x VHS box set was released. The Residents' soundtrack was released that same year on Milan Records. The Discovery Channel broadcasted all eleven episodes between December 1994 and March 1995. Steve Rosenthal and Robert Fish produced the series for the Discovery Channel and developed and filmed it throughout early 1994. ![]() ![]() 5.2 Our Tired, Our Poor, Our Huddled Masses (1997). ![]()
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