René Tinner


René Lee Tinner is a Swiss recording engineer and producer who has produced over 200 studio records and numerous live performances.

Career

Tinner began his career as the audio engineer of the noted German Krautrock band Can in 1973, with whom he recorded seven albums until 1989. In 1978, he took over the Can-Studio, the Cologne-based band’s the rehearsal and recording room. Tinner managed the studio until it was dismantled and integrated into the German rock'n pop museum in Gronau on November 9, 2007, where it was inaugurated in the presence of all the Can band members and René Tinner himself.
During this time, he also worked as a producer with a variety of artists and bands. During 1978-79, he worked with Lou Reed on Live: Take No Prisoners and The Bells. Other artists and bands Tinner worked with in his capacity as a producer include Maloo, KFC, Joachim Witt, Trio, Traffic, Holger Czukay, Die Krupps, Floyd George, Julian Dawson, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Helen Schneider, Fury in the Slaughterhouse, Jule Neigel Band, and Kreisler. In addition, Tinner also produced Jim Capaldi's Living On the Outside.
Tinner went on to work with other performers such as German actor and musician Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Russian band Mumiy Troll, German comedian Dieter Nuhr, Norwegian alternative rock band Serena-Maneesh, and others.
Tinner has also worked on a number of television and film soundtracks. In 2008, Tinner recorded the film music for the Wim Wenders production Palermo Shooting. Other notable television and film soundtrack productions include Knife in the Head, Schneeland and . Tinner is also active as a producer at the Minneapolis-based independent production company Megabien Entertainment.

Discography

Filmography

  • Eurogang, engineer, 1975
  • Messer im Kopf, engineer, 1978
  • Flächenbrand, engineer, 1981
  • Die Heimsuchung des Assistenten Jung, engineer, 1981
  • Rote Erde I & II, engineer, 1983/86
  • Westernhagen Live, music producer and mixing engineer, 1990
  • Lola da musica, himself, 1997
  • CAN: Het zwarte gat, himself, 1997
  • Tausendschönchen, engineer, 2003
  • Silbergraue Augen, engineer, 2003
  • Ich werde immer bei Euch sein, engineer, 2003
  • Wenn Frauen Austern essen, engineer 2003
  • Fleck auf der Haut, engineer, 2004
  • Schwestern, engineer, 2004
  • Der Stich des Skorpion, engineer, 2004
  • Schneeland, engineer, 2004
  • Ein krankes Herz, engineer, 2005
  • Palermo Shooting, engineer, 2008
  • Da Da Da - Drei Mann im Doppelbett, himself, 2009
  • Spiegel TV - "Inside Nazi Germany", engineer, 2011
  • , engineer, 2012
  • , engineer and mixing 2015