Ed Starink

Ed Starink (2012)

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Synthesizer gold   UK 29 01/09/1993 (6 weeks)

Ed Starink (born December 17, 1952 in Apeldoorn / also known as Star Inc. ) is a studio musician , composer , arranger and music producer from the Netherlands.

Career

Ed Starink learned to play several musical instruments in his childhood. In the 1970s he studied at the Music Academy in The Hague (concert pianist), where he later gave readings as a lecturer. At the same time he worked in the most important recording studios in the Netherlands and in 1972 founded the jazz rock group Gamma . After playing for several bands and working as a sound engineer, he was finally hired by the Beach Boys and a little later by David Bowie as a keyboardist.

In 1981 Ed Starink released his first own album, Cristallin , which received high recognition from the renowned US magazine Keyboard . Due to his musical training, the compositions are more classic, but interpreted completely with synthesizers. During the early 1980s, Ed Starink expanded his studio into one of the most modern music studios of its time in the Benelux countries. For example, he was one of the few Dutch people who owned a Fairlight CMI synthesizer or a Synclavier . A little later he founded his own label Star Inc.

Since that time, Ed Starink has mainly dealt with cover versions of film music and electronic music ( Jean Michel Jarre , Vangelis , Kraftwerk etc.). Since the early 1980s, he has released well over 100 different albums with his cover versions of well-known pieces of music. At the end of the 1980s, the Arcade record company published the successful Synthesizer Greatest series together with Ed Starink . At the latest from this point in time he fell into disrepute with his cover versions, which was primarily due to the great popularity and ultimately also to the great commercial success of the series. Some fans of the original artists accused him that his versions were emotionless and cold. Others claimed that it was not apparent that Synthesizer Greatest were cover versions and felt accordingly cheated.

In the early 1990s, Ed Starink revised some of his older compositions and released them on the Retrospection album . In 1998 he was one of the first to release a series of CDs with the well-known hits by Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Mike Oldfield and others in Dolby Surround . In the same year he moved his residence and work to France .

In 2003, Ed Starink began to compose for an epically designed music project that is supposed to be about the universe . In the spring of 2012, Ed Starink finished the work for the Piano Works , which consisted of more than ten hours of music, and published the first part of his Universe Symphony purely digitally via online music services with the Piano Works .

Web links

• Website Ed Starink
• Ed Starink at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chart sources: UK
2. ↑ [1] accessed on December 10, 2019