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hunz is an electronic pop music group from brisbane , australia .
the name hunz can refer to either the group or its composer , keyboardist and vocalist , hans van vliet .
the group was formed in 2005 by johannes -lrb- hans -rrb- van vliet -lrb- born 15 december 1976 -rrb- , who is better known by his pen-name hunz .
hunz was raised in brisbane , australia and began working on tracker music in his early teens using protracker , fast tracker 2 , and jeskola buzz .
hunz is noted for being one of the first trackers to make the unconventional move of adding vocals to his compositions .
he was also affiliated with the tracking groups heretics , analogue , five musicians -lrb- fm -rrb- and hellven .
from 1999-2002 , hunz toured the united states as vocalist for the hard music band beanbag , who released two albums , `` free signal '' -lrb- 2000 -rrb- and `` welladjusted '' -lrb- 2001 -rrb- , on american label inpop records following their australian independent debut , `` guttersnipe '' -lrb- 1998 -rrb- .
the group disbanded in 2002 after a van accident that left hunz hospitalized for three days with lung damage .
hunz returned to the music community in 2005 with `` when victims fight '' , which was his first release under the hunz moniker .
the album was released on apegenine recordings on 20 june 2008 and was accompanied by a promotional video that displayed hunz 's motion design and visual art .
`` when victims fight '' was critically acclaimed by cyclic defrost , tokafi and brisbane street press time off .
in february 2009 , hunz entered the rpm challenge , wherein musicians across the world attempt to write and record an album within a month .
second album `` thoughts that move '' was hunz 's rpm challenge submission , which was independently released in may 2009 as a free high-quality download on bandcamp .
hunz also included the renoise -lrb- .
xrns -rrb- source files , which allows renoise users to see how each of the album 's ten tracks were arranged .
the track `` soon , soon '' was included with the release of digital audio software application renoise version 2.1 .
`` thoughts that move '' received positive reviews on australian music site fasterlouder.com.au , brisbane music blog before hollywood and in brisbane street press rave magazine .
