Wouter Rentema is a Berlin based producer, mixing engineer, multi-instrumentalist and composer.

Wouter started off his career in his home country, the Netherlands. For the first decade he was mainly active as a drummer. But after some time it became clear that hitting objects was not going to be his one and only musical passion. “I see myself as a musician in the widest possible way. I’m extremely curious to try and learn new things.” 

Over the last few years Wouter has been working on movie scores, documentaries, theater projects, albums, podcasts and tours all over the world. He has been touring and recording with bands and artists such as Bonaparte, Sunday Sun, GEM, Orgel Vreten, Laura Jansen, Charity Children, Jacqueline Govaert, Douwe Bob, Dotan and many more.

Wouter has a love for dark gritty cinematic atmospheres, sound experiments, melancholic chords and melodies, real instruments combined with electronic elements, vintage drums and analog (modular) synths. In his studio, located in Berlin Mitte, he has a great collection of drums, synths, mics and analog effects.

In 2014, Rentema moved to Berlin and started his career as a music producer, initially working with film composer Johann Johannsonn (Arrival, Prisoners, Sicario). “This opened up the world of cinematic and textural music for me”. He contributed to Johann’s scores for Mother!, Mandy, Mary Magdalene and Last and First Men.
Rentema also worked together with film composers Rutger Hoedemaekers and Oscar and Grammy winning Hildur Guðnadóttir on the score for the Icelandic TV series Trapped Season 2 and 3. In 2019, together with KW Toering, Rentema produced and composed music for the documentary Where the Light Shines directed by Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Etter.

Besides his film work, Rentema is still involved in various pop projects. In 2016, Tobias Jundt asked Rentema to join his band Bonaparte. Since then Rentema has played multiple tours and headlined festivals in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
He is also the producer and co-writer behind the electro pop project B O K E H. In 2019, he produced and mixed a record for New-Zealand band Charity Children, together with KW Toering. As a drummer and mixer Rentema is involved in the electronic project Interference Pattern. A side project by LCD Systems bassplayer Tyler Pope.

In 2021 Rentema will compose and produce the music for the upcoming podcast Fragments of a Street made by Flaneur Magazine. At the end of this 2021 Rentema will compose music for a theater play in Burgtheater in Vienna together with Jan Schöwer for director Lily Sykes.