Ed Starink

Ed Starink

Genres: synthesizer, electronic, dutch, old school synthesizer

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About Ed Starink

Ed Starink was born in 1952 in the Netherlands. Against his father's wishes he bought a guitar and taught himself playing it. Later he switched more and more to keyed instruments and consequently took classical piano lessons. In the mid-60s he was involved in countless productions of the Netherlands' best studio. He also accompanied the Beach Boys on the Hammond organ and played keyboard for David Bowie. In 1970 he formed the pop/jazz rock group "Gamma", composed the music, and played besides the keyboards also guitar and flute. In the 70s he went to the Academy of Music in The Hague (Netherlands) and was educated as a classical concert pianist. At the same time he worked in several studios (e.g. as a recording engineer with the M.C.R. Studio starting in 1975) and taught also composition and keyboard at the Hilversumse Muziekschool. Ed Starink graduated from the Academy in 1976 and finally gave his own Academy lectures. Ed Starink released his debut album named "Cristallin" in 1981, which was made with synthesizers only. In 1983 he composed the "Big Brother Suite", inspired by Orwell's book “1984”. In the early 80s Ed Starink started his own "Star Inc." studio and label. He released more than 100 compilations which sold more than 3 million copies. In 1989 he started a collaboration with the Arcade Group Inc., which resulted in the release of about 30 albums, most prominently the widely recognized "Synthesizer Greatest" and "Synthetiseur" series, locally adapted for various European markets. These series sold more than 10 million copies alone in Europe. In 1996 he released the final album for Arcade and began a rather recreational period. As one of the first in the business Ed Starink released in 1998 a series of three CDs named "The Surround Experience" with many of his former works re-mixed in Dolby Surround. At the same time he moved with his studio from Bennekom (Netherlands) to southern France. Since 2002 Ed Starink is working for an epic project about the universe. In 2006 Finished the pre-recordings of all themes/cells (500+) for his epical project and began to refine these basic recordings into completely orchestrated pieces, a process that he says will take about 3-5 years from now. Composed about 1'200 additional themes/cells for his project in autumn 2006.

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