Rene Splinter was born in
December 1968 in The Hague, the Netherlands. Since 1977, Rene got interested
into electronic music since he had heard Jean Michel Jarre's 'Oxygene'.
It was in 1986 when Rene was introduced into the world of Electronic Music
by his best friend. Within that year, Rene bought his first synthesizer,
the Sequential Circuits Pro One. Since then he started to record his own
music, first with very limited resources, by overdubbing the tracks with
two cassette decks, and playing nearly everything manually. During the
following years, Rene has been collecting more synths and recording equipment.
At the end of 1989, after
a few years of experimenting and recording, Rene released his first album,
named 'Almery'. The album was a private release on compact cassette, and
some tracks were aired on the national Belgium radio station BRT1 early
1990 on the 'Manouvers In Het Donker' show.
After that album, lots of
new material was recorded, but none of it was released. Productivity ended
almost completely at late nineties, and was picked up again in 2006, when
Rene met artist Souw TikHien. Souw asked Rene to accompany his artwork
exhibitions and video installations with Rene's music.
In the mean time, 'Almery'
was remastered and re-released as a private release on CDR and digital
download in 2008. An introduction album called 'Dreaming Angels', containing
both recent material, as well as recovered earlier work, also saw the light
of day in several digital ways.
Besides composing new music
again, Rene had re-discovered his own work from the early nineties. As
the old recordings were well received by his friends, Rene decided to restore
it and polish it up for possible release. The recovery work required quite
some research, as most of the original tapes were not archived carefully,
and even some original material appeared to be lost completely. But when
the puzzle was completed, the album 'Transit Realities' was finally ready
for the world. 'Transit Realities' is Rene's first release on MellowJet
Records.
Releases
1989 - Almery (compact cassette)(private
release)
2008 - Almery (private release)
2009 - Dreaming Angels (compilation)
(private release)
2010 - Transit Realities
(MellowJet Records)
Appeared on:
2007 - Analogy 3 - "Probe
One" (on Groove Unlimited as Studio35D)
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