Ed Starink (born Eduward A. J. Starink on December 17, 1952, in Apeldoorn), also known as Star Inc., is a Dutch

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and

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. He is best known for his albums in which he

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ed different hits, film and television themes, which were released under the Arcade

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and his Star Inc. Music label.

Biography

Eduward A.J. Starink was born on December 17, 1952, in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. Since his childhood he was fascinated by music and taught himself to play many

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s like the piano, flute and guitar. Later he would study classical piano and composition. During his studies, he worked for several major

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s in the

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. As a keyboardist he was engaged to accompany the Beach Boys on the

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, and also to play keyboards for

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. In 1965, he played guitar, bass and piano in small bands and in 1970 he formed the group Gamma, composed the music and played the synthesizer EMS Synthi AKS in it. Starink graduated in 1976, later giving his own Music Academy lectures. In 1981 released their debut album, ''Cristallin'' influenced primarily by

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and in 1983 he bought the Fairlight CMI-2 and composed the "Big Brother Suite", inspired by

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's Nineteen Eighty-Four book. In that same year, he released his next album ''Syndrome''. In 1989, Starink co-operated with Arcade Records, and released an estimated of 30 albums of which his best known series is ''Synthesizer Greatest'', which succeeded mainly in the European market. His first album of this series was released in that same year and peaked at No. 22 in the

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. On October 7, 1989, it released its sequel ''Synthesizer Greatest Volume 2''. His 1993 album ''Synthesizer Greatest Gold'' reached at No. 29.(6 February 1993
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'', Retrieved November 9, 2010 Japanese electronic composer

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greatly influenced his technical approach to

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, among his other influences are

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, Bach, Scriabin and Wendy Carlos. In 1991, Ed remixed his older analog recordings in his new digital studio for the "Retrospection" album. Also he composed the main theme for the Dutch comedy film " De Zeemeerman" (1996). By 1998, Starink released "The Surround Experience" albums with many of his previous works remixed in

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and moved with their studio to the

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. From 2002 to 2003 he began to compose and research for a ''Universe Symphony'' project, in 2004 he changed his Dolby Surround for a Dolby Digital 5.1. that he would use to record the first songs of his project. In 2005 he used software synthesizers and other plugins for Logic Pro 7. By 2006 he finished pre-recording Of a total of 500 songs and began refining these basic recordings into fully orchestrated pieces, later that year he would compose a total of 1,200. In 2008 he abandoned his usual hardware equipment to focus entirely on a computerized studio. In May 2012 he released the recordings of the first part of their project entitled ''The Piano Works''. The following year he began with the arrangements and orchestration of the second part of his project titled ''The Orchestral Works''.

Discography

References

External links

official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Starink, Ed 1952 births Living people Cover artists Dutch record producers Dutch electronic musicians Dutch keyboardists Dutch composers People from Apeldoorn