Amiga Music: Jester Compilation #1
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- Jester would be one the first musicians I heard/seen on Amiga in mod format, 4 of his tunes in this collection were among the first floppies of mods I copied from a friend way back in 1991.
Elysium, Opus Dei, Cubes of Silver and Wicked Winds was the stuff of awesome at that time for me, hope you like.
The Amiga is a series of computers released by C=ommodore from 1985 to 1993, all Amigas used the same sound chip, an 8bit, 4channel, upto 28khz PCM called "Paula".
Winuae sound settings used:
Channel mode: Stereo
Stereo separation: 30%
Interpolation: Sinc
Frequency: 44100
Audio filter: A1200
TRACK LIST
01 - [00:00] Molecule's Revenge
02 - [03:30] Elysium
03 - [07:17] Opus Dei
04 - [10:20] Cyberride
05 - [15:03] Stardust Memories
06 - [18:59] Nazgul
07 - [24:00] Cubes of Silver
08 - [27:16] Basic Instinct
09 - [30:32] Wicked Winds
Programs used: Winuae 2.0.0 with Protracker 3.61 installed, Camtasia 7
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i think tracker music and early computer music in general teaches us an important lesson: it's not about the price tags on your equipment or how many tools you have- it's about using your creativity and drive to use the tools at your disposal to make something great.
This 100%
Agree - still he had access to a synthesizer to make the samples. He was/is very talented!
Stardust Memories is still divine in 2019
And in 2024.
Elysium and Stardust Memories, two of my favourite songs of all time. I never fail to get a chill down my spine and goosebumps when they come up in my play list.
Elysium and Kingdom Skyes !! The best of all !!!
Stardust Memories rocks! I don't even know how many times in my life i've heard this masterpiece. Respect.
Elysium, the very first mod when I didn't even know what a mod was. High-energy music for everyone!.
I love how many protracker musicians used great pitch bending for their melody.
I was a huge fan of Jester and Elysium is my all time favourite Amiga module. Watching his mods playing in a tracker was always so fascinating too, seeing him push those 4 channels to their maximum potential.
Guys !!
Jester/Sanity was the best MOD music creator ever !! I had it im young heart about MSX music with fast tracker 2 here, in Brasil !!
90’s 8bit Music !!!
I had a music called KNGDMSKY (Kingdom Sky)… simply Awesome !! Cant find it…
Thanx man to compile this video with this piece of my childhood !! 😢
Brasil, Retrigger Ornatorrinco Volador Buzztracker sweetness :D
@@baduino
A lot of creators !! I had a HD with a lot of MOD and XM music !! I used to play them wen party with friends !! My old 486DX4 100mhz with FASTTRACKER II !!
Elysium got me into dj'ing, safe to say that this track changed my life.
Holy shit, this took me back. Haven't heard this track in 20 some years... used to play this on loop pre internet.
Read your comment just as I was getting into this track. First time hearing it. It's dope!
Amiga Trackers are on a come back #CRYPTOMUSIC Chip Tunes Memory Freeze using #Octamed A4000 040
Amazing
ProTracker is a thing of beauty. As always I am hypnotised 😵💫
YES! I used to love listening to Jester's tracker tunes back in the 90s
Stardust Memories is a pure masterpiece.
Another earsplitting hit from the jester
I was in my pre-teens/teenage years when I first heard Cyberride. It blew my mind. It clearly had a big impact to me and got me into scene music and later to music in general. I still listen to old tracker songs every now and then - when I want to take a trip on a nostalgy-train.
Stardust Memories... Many hours in front of tv playing some Genesis games on my PS2 and scrolling through the Pgen menu hearing this track :')
Keeping good memories in mind is a great power. I used to listen to these musics in late 80s and 90s. Never got out of my brain. In a world surely having real problems it is a great source of hope and ideas to me.
Cyberride may be my favorite protracker mod ever. Jester manager to make an Epic melodic track and yet also very techno-like. Later guys tried to emulate it, but never came close imho.
Cyberride is the soundtrack for the Palm OS game Bike or Die! 2
I'm here just for that, I haven't lived long enough to get to know the Amiga in it's days of glory :)
Thank you so, so much for uploading this. Here's my story:
So after realizing the Mozart sound card my dad bought didn't include an OPL3 sound chip - despite that at 10 years old I repeatedly told him to buy a Creative Sound Blaster - I was devastated. I loved electronic music and video game music was just not there, even though I had great games like Doom and The Incredible Machine 2. I couldn't make it work, if it was even possible.
So then I realized something: there was music in cheap Spanish magazines (PC Manía IIRC) that included CDs, with shareware and demo versions of games. And it was then that I discovered the world of trackers! With a trusty copy of Sound Tracker 3.
I instantly fell in love with them. It was something so incredible, like nothing I ever heard before. Each month I would go through all the tracks sent by readers in floppy disks (files couldn't be < 1.44 MB) to the magazine's offices. So once, dicking around, after I typed in
C:\VGACopy>dir
I realized there was a .MOD file over there, a floppy disk duplicating utility folder.
Curious, I loaded it on Scream Tracker and, lo and behold, it was Elysium, only I learned its name 10 minutes ago. Awesome track.
U're welcome. That's why i instantly fell in love with Amiga computer. There's nothing like it.My intire youth spend with that excellent computer makes a an impact. My whole computer knowledge is based on that. My whole experience is based in that. My wife told me that i should get into computer business. Well. SOme years i was in it as experienced engineer, until my nerves wreckerd... Due to bad coverning of an good company.. Well, itss all history but its still par of my Experience. And i still own an Amiga top of the class. A4000, PPC, CGX. I havent time to get a Delfina Audio sound cardm which i had. There's no computer like Amiga Computer.
Heh. I *think* I am responsible for the inclusion of Elysium in VGA-Copy. I met the programmer at my university on a computer science project and since I am an avid Amiga fan, introduced him to MOD music. He liked Elysium very much and since Volker's (Jester) contact information was included in the mod (or some other mod by him), he directly asked for permission to include it in VGA-Copy, which Volker obviously granted. End of story. :)
@@mnemo70 Hahahah oh wow! Thank you man! You definitely added to the music of my childhood.
(I don't know why I didn't get a notification for your message)
@@nathantru2979 Check mnemo70's reply. Elysium is the song name. Its author is Volker/Jester. VGACopy was the DOS-based piece of software that included that song and how I got to know it.
Yeah, Elysium is by far one of Jesters best Tunes.. I think it was his Sanity times..
Thanks for the video. Jester has been one of the most talented and great musician during Amiga-Mod period. Elysium is a masterpiece and is my favourite Jester's song.
This does bring back memories and a rewarding sensation of comfort. Thank you.
Ohh! I abolutely LOVE that.
wow omg love it, especially Stardust memories, but all these songs are amazin
Jester is one of the best tracker amiga musicians
Yep. AKA Volker Tripp
ps: Jester of Sanity
Except when he made the music for The Town With No Name.
Still a great musician though.
@@DashsChannel I believe that is a different "Jester."
@@mariobro59 Yeah. That's "The Jester," who appears to be British, unlike "Jester," who is German.
Thanks. This brings back a lot of great memories.
This is great. Awesome tracks. Thank you so much for uploading!
Elysium I listen so much to that amazing tune! :-D Thanks for taking me back to an awsome time! :-D
Always loved the Protracker oscilloscopes. So crispy!
Epic stuff mate =) Thank you for uploading this! Because the awesome music makes my working days less harsh on me ;)
I owe a sacrifice to the 4-channel, 31-sample gods, even if I never had and will never have an Amiga.
Ooooooohh STARDUST MEMORIES !!!!! i remember .... my children's dream on my AMIGA .
Cyberride, best track here, blown away!
you got some skills this predates mtv music generator i can see why alot of trance rave techno music of the 90s sounded similar
Why are you guys doing this to me!!?? This is like a 35 year old FLASHBACK!!
Awesome compilation !!!!
The important point is that he his one of the best to this day and has been since the beginning: apparently out of nowhere the sanity team released from the beginning only hits and Jester mastered mods making from protracker / noisetracker start .
It would be great to know how he did it. He surely has some huge music background, father / mother in that matter...
Could it be that they just honed their skills without going all-out, and decided to publish it only when assured in its quality?
Thanks for this. My introduction to Jester was "Basic Instinct". Amazing track.
Elysium by Jester - One of the best mods on the planet 11/10! Come On!
I learned about "Cyberride" because it was featured in some random iOS physics bicycle offroading game called Bike or Die 2 that came out during the early days of the mobile app boom. That was probably the last place I would ever expect to hear a tracker song from 1993.
Jeesh, reminds me so much of Unreal Tournament 99. All their track is Tracker music, and memorable till this day!
If anyone curious - look up UT- GoDown , UT - facing worlds , UT-Mech8.
The tracker music in UT is definitely the finest example of tracked music, a totally awesome game with demo scene music, you couldn't ask for more. All 3 tracks you've mentioned there are absolute bangers.
This is really great!
cyberride slaps omfg
Good old days. Cyberride is my favourite, but then I'm a bit biased :-D
Cool, thanks for the upload!
05. World of Commodore!!!
Thanks for this Amiga music fix!
Now that I see titles from the mods I realize some of them are spot on (Nazgul for instance).
Thank you for the music.
Beyond awesome!
Stardust memories
The voice clips, those are just great.
Grew up in the 2000s. Sad I never got to enjoy this kind of stuff when I was a kid. But that doesn't mean I can't appreciate it now! My thanks goes to LGR and the 8-bit Guy for introducing me to all this cool retro tech and media!
check out Ahoy's new video if you're still into this stuff
A lot of these were familiar - I have listened to A LOT of MODS from back in the day :)
Cool Juzz :-)
wasn't even born wa :0
Fantastisch! Da kommen Erinnerungen hoch =D Ich glaub', ich pack gleich meinen A3000 aus!
WOW
I remember downloading a crap ton of .mod music from a couple BBS’s as well as a DOS player that had a nice GUI. I wish I was able to go back in time to relive the good ole days.
Это так хорошо, я на небесах!
I just released an album that I made between 1994-1998 on my Mac IIsi using a mod tracker called 'Meditor', it was a bit different in that it had a more visual way of tracking, rather than the lines of code. The album is called 'Weinermart'. by me. (It's really quirky music), I made it when I was a kid and the full imagination was on show!
Magnificent :)
Yay!
Awesome!! :)
Elysium is the best music from Jester
Amazing! My favourite theme. Good job. Best regards from Russia.
Wrauu... just love the intro molecule's revenge tune, great vibe. Man. I wish I made back in the good old Amiga days :-)
Too modest -- you are an absolute legend, the king SLL! Don't think your magic is forgotten!
AMIGA rocks !
So good to listen it !
Slay
Gosh these protracker songs really bring back memories.
Stardust Memories is a nice piece of work.
ughhhh wish i couldve been at some of these parties
Jester was sick, that guy only needed 4 channels to produce hits. I ripped loads of samples from molecules revenge and basic instinct back in the day. And yes, of course I credited him in the sample text ;-)
gooooood
I love Track 2 - Elysium 👌
Nazgul is simply awesome.
😎👍👍
someone, or the original composers, should remake some of the amiga classics with full modern sound..
14:05 ÉPICO
Wow never seen this version of Protracker looking Nice Finally.....been out of the Amiga scene for a few years now...I need to get this at least in Emulation. Awesome looking!
Jester / Volker Tripp once sent me a CDR album of other music he'd been working under the name Odd Job called Oddeology. Sadly, the disc no longer plays. Anyone know if it's available somewhere?
#NEUROMASTER Octamed Sole Distributor Australia 1995 - Pesent #AMIGA Computing #Fairlight #AMI
ohhhhhh 17:23. pure gold!!
Amiga FOREVER ;)
Space debris, the best of all. No have way.
This brings back so many memories, thank you. Can you do Fajser of Rage in a video?
This is awesome! My intro to Jester was "fast food". Still looking for it in a version I can access... I found a .mod but a recommended quick fix to re-save as a .mpg didn't work. darn!
Foobar2k + DUMB Module Decoder, rip the file in whatever codec you want, I prefer either ripping straight to FLAC, or ripping to uncompressed WAV, adding additional processing such as a fadeout at the end for the tracks like Elysium that abruptly end, for example, and metadata to that WAV file, using the internal text in the source .mod file as reference for inputting the metadata.
I don't generally recommend ripping lossy, preferring to use lossless codecs, but whatever floats your boat.
Ft2 could open .mod. just save it as xm
Cyberride roxx!
Give me a drink, bartender.
I'm sure he'll never live that off
It's probably not the same jester as in this piece of turd.
I know this song from 15:00... Bring back memories..
Elysium... I remember that one I've heard it before.
ProTracker on my Amiga 2000
Good old Cyberride in Extension by Pygmy projects
Looked like a strange new tracker but it was actually good old PT3.61 with some very disturbed color selection, lol :)
yeah not my best colour combination, I try to make it different with every protracker upload but will get a few shockers from time to time :)
Holy shit, cyberride is The Messsenger.
This first song has the same sound as a song from The Shamen.
The Amiga. Ahhhh....wonderful memories. So far ahead of its time. It's too bad that the CEO had no idea what he had and didn't promote it like he should have. Atari ran some very misleading ads claiming that it was superior to the Amiga, but Commodore never counter-responded point for point on any of them as far as I know. The ST was superior in price and clock speed only - and yeah, it had a MIDI port. Big whoop. When the Atari Jaguar came out, Atari once again forgot how to tell the truth and claimed it was a "64 bit system". Yeah, no. You don't get to add up the bits of the various chips and declare that's what it is.
Anyway, if Commodore had come out with the AGA chipset sooner, with an updated audio chip (more voices and 16/24 bit depth) and dropped the price a bit, we'd probably still be using them. Granted, they would have had to do what Apple did and change the processor to something else, since Motorola stopped developing the awesome 680x0 line of processors.
Still lots of fun to pull out of the closet from time to time and relive those good old days. DCTV-Paint is still my all time favorite paint program, and DCTV itself is an amazing achievement - compressing 18 bits of video data into 3 or 4. On analog equipment, it looks incredible. Anyway, Commodore should have licensed this technology and incorporated it into the next generation of Amigas.
That 2 MIDI ports on the Atari was the only reason it became the de-facto standard later in studios... Commodore could really have fitted 2 MIDI ports on the Amiga, I wonder which machine would have then gotten in the studios :)
That looks like a cool ass version of protracker... I got to find that one.
A separate unit of respect should be paid in the regard that the length of this compilation is 33:10.
The MOD-guys always got the lead synths right... not like those.. retro,synth,etcwave guys who Always gets lost in fibbly kiddy tralala leads in all off their compressed kick 80's pastish's...
mod guys pulled from a lot of influences, they knew their blues, prog, pop (from various eras), disco, etc.
There are some nice synthwave artists out there, although they're few nowadays.
If they could just catch the essence of MODs..
Yeah, agree.
@@rutgermuller Totally true. The musicianship in the scene was incredible, and completely spoiled me. It was hard to go from that back to popular music, or even independent music scenes, where it was more just about image. I don't believe in meritocracies, but the demoscene was the closest thing I ever saw to one.
yeah, the holy mix : mashup of europan medieval music with sone middle and far eastern melodies, and with contemporary synthpop - italo - industrial influences !!!
That first one sounds like Boss Drum
I love 3:30