Hunter Complex is the moniker of Dutch artist Lars Meijer. In the late eighties Meijer began releasing rudimentary synth music on handmade tapes, before turning to lo-fi pop as Larz in 1994, resulting in two albums on the Californian cult label Blackbean and Placenta. Around the turn of the century Meijer released several albums with the improvisational electro-acoustic band Psychon Troopers and electronic music duo Living Ornaments, including music on famous labels like Deathbomb Arc and Skam.
Meijer began working as Hunter Complex in 2008. The self-titled debut album came out in 2010 and was influenced by synthpop and new wave bands from the 1980s. Follow-up Heat, which was released on Narrominded in 2013, was the last album to feature vocals, but the first featuring the trademark layers of warm and bright digital synths. With Open Sea Meijer delivered an album full of ‘supreme synth goodness’, according to the Death Waltz label that released the album in 2019. Twin record Dead Calm and Zero Degrees was released in 2020 on Burning Witches Records.
Airports and Ports was released in 2022 on Burning Witches Records and took a new direction with influences from new age, ethereal jazz and krautrock. It features contributions by Aquiles Navarro (trumpet), Kat Epple (flute), Alexander Hawkins (piano, Louis Moholo-Moholo), Justin Sweatt (aka Xander Harris, guitar) and Coen Oscar Polack (field recordings).
After the release of Airports and Ports (2022), Meijer did a live score in October 2023 to Der Golem, Wie Er in die Welt Kam, a silent movie by Paul Wegener from 1920, at the Imagine Fantastic Film Festival in Amsterdam. A soundtrack to the short animated film Oars and Ears by Marna van Hal arrived in November 2025. Call of the Wild and Void is the sixth studio album by Hunter Complex and arrives 3 July 2026 on the Seattle-based label SFI Recordings.