Robert Rental has been played on NTS over 90 times, featured on 87 episodes and was first played on 7 March 2014.

Robert Rental (1952 - 2000) was an electronics experimenter who came to prominence in the late 1970s before quitting music in the early 1980s.

Born as Robert Donnachie in Port Glasgow, Scotland, he grew up together with Thomas Leer, with whom he formed a short-lived punk band in 1976. The two quickly decided that electronic music was the way to go and they both released DIY solo EPs in 1978, Rental's being "Paralysis" produced by Leer.

In 1977 and 1978 Rental had produced…