Rene Splinter

Rene Splinter is an independent electronic musician based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His music is very much inspired by the electonic rock music from the early eighties, though has a unique sound of his own.

René Splinter was born on December 1968 in Te Hague, Netherlands. In 1986, when he met his best friend Maik, René has started building up his electronic music studio and created several soundscapes and tracks, heavily inspired by the German electronic rock genre (Berlin School) of the early eighties. In 1989, he recorded his first album project called ‘Almery’. The album was released on MC and several tracks were aired on ‘Maneuvers in het Donker’ (Belgium radio show). Since then, many more tracks were recorded, but never released.

During the last few years, Rene decided to continued as an electronic musician after a long period of inactivity, and worked on his new studio and private lable Studio35D, seriously working on new material. This material is highly inspired and motivated by artist Souw TikHien, who asked for supporting music for his projects.

Recently, some of his work from the early nineties has been recovered and remastered for future release, including the ‘Almery’ album. Some of these tracks have been broadcasted recently on the Tangerine Dream Fans Zone radio show podcast, which can be found at www.tdfz.mypodcast.com.

Besides this web-log site. René is also maintaining a MySpace site, featuring some examples of his work during the years.

Rene Splinter hasn't been performing his music live so far. But anything can happen!

Berlin School, Tangerine Dream, Johannes Schmoelling, Edgar Froese, Steve Reich, Klaus Schulze, Trent Reznor, Charlie Clouser

Elka Synthex (on earlier recordings), SCI Pro One, Korg Mono/Poly, Yamaha CS20M, Waldorf Microwave, Akai AX80, Korg DSS1, Kurzweil K2000RS, Clavia Nordrack 2, Clavia MicroModular