Amiga Music: Jester Compilation #1

[@opalpersonal]

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.

[@itsamejonarbuckle]

This 100%

[@ScopeDK]

Agree - still he had access to a synthesizer to make the samples. He was/is very talented!

[@the1marauder2]

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.

[@isaactanner6403]

Elysium and Kingdom Skyes !! The best of all !!!

[@djkoti74]

Elysium got me into dj'ing, safe to say that this track changed my life.

[@moltebergk]

Holy shit, this took me back. Haven't heard this track in 20 some years... used to play this on loop pre internet.

[@yeenyeen7154]

Read your comment just as I was getting into this track. First time hearing it. It's dope!

[@Neuromaster9]

Amiga Trackers are on a come back #CRYPTOMUSIC Chip Tunes Memory Freeze using #Octamed A4000 040

[@Gr33kChief]

Amazing

[@ItIsMyHandle]

Stardust Memories is still divine in 2019

[@lasse9706]

And in 2024.

[@bakatoroi]

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.

[@AmiApache]

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.

[@mnemo70]

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. :)

[@bakatoroi]

@@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)

[@bakatoroi]

@@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.

[@lephisto]

Yeah, Elysium is by far one of Jesters best Tunes.. I think it was his Sanity times..

[@blady51797]

Stardust Memories rocks! I don't even know how many times in my life i've heard this masterpiece. Respect.

[@digimaks]

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.

[@bluebull399]

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.

[@isaactanner6403]

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 !! 😢

[@isaactanner6403]

@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 !!

[@pendragnx]

YES! I used to love listening to Jester's tracker tunes back in the 90s

[@srg-io]

Elysium, the very first mod when I didn't even know what a mod was. High-energy music for everyone!.

[@bryede]

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?

[@PazuzuStalker]

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...

[@rutgermuller]

mod guys pulled from a lot of influences, they knew their blues, prog, pop (from various eras), disco, etc.

[@skuder491]

There are some nice synthwave artists out there, although they're few nowadays. If they could just catch the essence of MODs..

[@cathrynm]

Yeah, agree.

[@rayforceaddict]

@@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.

[@skrovan5180]

yeah, the holy mix : mashup of europan medieval music with sone middle and far eastern melodies, and with contemporary synthpop - italo - industrial influences !!!

[@braelinmichelus]

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!

[@paradigmdream]

check out Ahoy's new video if you're still into this stuff

[@leejacksondev]

ProTracker is a thing of beauty. As always I am hypnotised 😵‍💫

[@digitalbeat666]

Jester is one of the best tracker amiga musicians

[@bryede]

Yep. AKA Volker Tripp

[@digitalbeat666]

ps: Jester of Sanity

[@DashsChannel]

Except when he made the music for The Town With No Name. Still a great musician though.

[@superandroidtron]

@@DashsChannel I believe that is a different "Jester."

[@superandroidtron]

@@mariobro59 Yeah. That's "The Jester," who appears to be British, unlike "Jester," who is German.

[@AndrewOBannon]

I like Amiga, why dont they make a smartphone with AmigaOS? (

[@V3ntilator]

It were planned many years ago, but were cancelled. There is pictures of it online somewhere. Atleast you can run UAE Amiga emulator on Android phones. ;)

[@michaelmontano4280]

@@V3ntilator Commodore was planning to make a smartphone?

[@KajuTheRudeMonke]

@@michaelmontano4280 No, because Commodore no longer exists.

[@stressrepellentmachine]

Jester is the same guy who made the Town with No Name soundtrack right?

[@ninoporcino5790]

Love Elysium! my fav mod along with Space Debris by Captain

[@Hreimr]

A lot of these were familiar - I have listened to A LOT of MODS from back in the day :)

[@supremeninjaDNA]

Cool Juzz :-)

[@deadlyNytshayd]

wasn't even born wa :0

[@DanHammonds]

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.

[@jorgepinogarciadelasbayonas]

I love how many protracker musicians used great pitch bending for their melody.

[@El-rh9fs]

cyberride slaps omfg

[@logarythme2613]

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...

[@keentobor]

Could it be that they just honed their skills without going all-out, and decided to publish it only when assured in its quality?

[@jonathanlaurent3059]

Stardust Memories... Many hours in front of tv playing some Genesis games on my PS2 and scrolling through the Pgen menu hearing this track :')

[@earx23]

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.

[@Neuromaster9]

Anyone know of a public domain holding .MED Amiga Files from BBS groups, NASA ftp, Fairlight BBS Etc?? Etc.???

[@Neuromaster9]

#NEUROMASTER Octamed Sole Distributor Australia 1995 - Pesent #AMIGA Computing #Fairlight #AMI

[@Lagger625]

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 :)

[@namcojr]

This does bring back memories and a rewarding sensation of comfort. Thank you.

[@ariel_monaco]

Why are you guys doing this to me!!?? This is like a 35 year old FLASHBACK!!

[@kokeshininja]

Elysium is the best music from Jester

[@vladimirlatushkin8765]

Amazing! My favourite theme. Good job. Best regards from Russia.

[@TolerableDruid6]

Isn't The Jester the guy who made the music for The Town With No Name? (the amiga version atleast)

[@Trancelistic]

I know this song from 15:00... Bring back memories..

[@roartjrhom4932]

Elysium I listen so much to that amazing tune! :-D Thanks for taking me back to an awsome time! :-D

[@machainetuto4321]

AMIGA rocks ! So good to listen it !

[@phu303]

Stardust memories

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

I owe a sacrifice to the 4-channel, 31-sample gods, even if I never had and will never have an Amiga.

[@fredrik999z]

Stardust Memories is a nice piece of work.

[@creatorsremose]

So Purple Motion basically ripped all his samples and most of his ideas from this guy... cool.

[@lugiakane470]

you got some skills this predates mtv music generator i can see why alot of trance rave techno music of the 90s sounded similar

[@flamepygmy]

Good old days. Cyberride is my favourite, but then I'm a bit biased :-D

[@TheGreatStorm2023]

This brings back so many memories, thank you. Can you do Fajser of Rage in a video?

[@ShallowRavers]

someone, or the original composers, should remake some of the amiga classics with full modern sound..

[@cheulesyigess1187]

Stardust Memories is a pure masterpiece.

[@inferno7654]

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.

[@rpm907]

Looked like a strange new tracker but it was actually good old PT3.61 with some very disturbed color selection, lol :)

[@off1k]

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 :)

[@Shiro_Fubuki]

Space debris, the best of all. No have way.

[@amoledzeppelin]

A separate unit of respect should be paid in the regard that the length of this compilation is 33:10.

[@jackbadger6259]

I love Track 2 - Elysium 👌

[@WazzaMYSTIX]

Awesome compilation !!!!

[@Thegamingground]

Epic stuff mate =) Thank you for uploading this! Because the awesome music makes my working days less harsh on me ;)

[@mattimalkia8653]

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.

[@chrisyuri4187]

wow omg love it, especially Stardust memories, but all these songs are amazin

[@obvioustruth]

LOL!!! Piece that starts @ 15:05 I had on my ATARI FALCON 030 graphics demo, but was way better quality (better, cleaner synths) and probably more channels. :D

[@Fularu]

Funny since it's from Sanity's World of Commodore '92 demo :p

[@galy0]

Thank you for the music.

[@metalstrider2221]

Ooooooohh STARDUST MEMORIES !!!!! i remember .... my children's dream on my AMIGA .

[@robbiew73]

Stardust Memories being a complete rip-off of the famous tune by Firefox/TIP in the Enigma Demo .. even using the same samples and drum patterns.. not as good, but a tune none-the-less..

[@kristoffere9996]

Thanks. I knew I had heard it before.

[@benfactor]

This first song is totally ripped off from Shamen hehehe. Again it would be nice to download all those songs.

[@richardhedderly]

Boss Drum :)

[@the1marauder2]

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.

[@dan2.0.314]

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.

[@saturnsays000]

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!

[@DFX4509B]

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.

[@PazuzuStalker]

Ft2 could open .mod. just save it as xm

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

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.

[@GabrielAndroczky]

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 :)

[@RusslandTV]

He was an excellent musician but in reality I did not like him very much. He knew, that he was good and showed that very openly on scene events

[@zorilla0]

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.

[@SalamCheVodire]

Fantastisch! Da kommen Erinnerungen hoch =D Ich glaub', ich pack gleich meinen A3000 aus!

[@v0yt33]

Good old Cyberride in Extension by Pygmy projects

[@Hypersystemoff]

This is great. Awesome tracks. Thank you so much for uploading!

[@swinki33]

"Elysium", that's enough. The rest is oblivion

[@brendanhoffmann8402]

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!

[@Philtho]

This first song has the same sound as a song from The Shamen.

[@MrNodrogmot]

Thanks. This brings back a lot of great memories.

[@volkankacan184]

gooooood

[@torsvaghavfiske2528]

It kind of resembles the DAW, Renoise.

[@tubeMonger]

Now that I see titles from the mods I realize some of them are spot on (Nazgul for instance).

[@bluebull399]

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 ;-)

[@josso1]

is Jester still about? I make tracker music and have always had a problem with coming up with melodies, inspirational stuff

[@eijentwun5509]

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!

[@musictrans]

ProTracker on my Amiga 2000

[@nostalgia_junkie]

ughhhh wish i couldve been at some of these parties

[@keithwhisman]

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.

[@Synthematix]

Jester, music 2000 on pc and playstation

[@Whelkman]

>4 of his tunes in this collection were among the first floppies of mods I copied don't copy that floppy

[@odorifero]

15:03 Waiting for vaporwave remix...

[@smart_bar]

Это так хорошо, я на небесах!

[@rambozo_fpv176]

Always loved the Protracker oscilloscopes. So crispy!

[@m0nkspeed]

Elysium by Jester - One of the best mods on the planet 11/10! Come On!

[@Storm_.]

How do you get the different colour schemes inside protracker? I have the same version but can't work out how! thx

[@off1k]

@Storm Click setup, on left side you will see RGB sliders, on the right of the sliders you will see 8 squares of different colours, click on one of those squares then adjust the sliders to get the desired colour, each square represents different aspects of the layout, ie: one is for scopes, another for scroll patterns, another for background and so on and so on. hope this helps :)

[@JestersDeadUK]

05. World of Commodore!!!

[@SLLMusicProduction]

Wrauu... just love the intro molecule's revenge tune, great vibe. Man. I wish I made back in the good old Amiga days :-)

[@nbonaddio]

Too modest -- you are an absolute legend, the king SLL! Don't think your magic is forgotten!

[@GameMusicFinland]

Cyberride, best track here, blown away!

[@garrettodonnell4177]

Nice comp but where's Children of Science? ;)

[@earthwormjim420]

What exactly is this music from? was this music used in games or was it just produced for people to listen to

[@off1k]

+Green Wizard Most of the music on my channel are from the Amiga Demoscene, there are some from games, mostly 90's era. The Demoscene is made up of peeps who have skills in code, graphics and music and release demonstrations that usually try to push the capabilities of the Computers that they make them on. In this case the Amiga Computer, which was released from 1985 to 1993. The Soundchip is from 1985 and is an 8bit 4 channel PCM with a frequency of upto 28/56khz, pretty sure the Amiga was the first system to have a sample playback soundchip out of the box and long before PCs had something similar.

[@earthwormjim420]

off1k damn this stuff is cool, so basically all this music was written through coding?

[@off1k]

+Green Wizard Not exactly through raw code but through a software program (Protracker as in this video) much like Computer music today. Peeps who made samples would have recorded them from CD's, Cassette Tapes or live equipment by plugging into a sampler that was connected to the parallel/Serial port on the back of the Amiga. Here are some examples from the Amiga Demoscene, created on an Amiga 500, keeping in mind the A500 is only 7.09Mhz clock speed and 1 Meg of Ram. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bmraomh7pL2sY5I (1992) The Sequel - kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGWwaJhtbr2Hj80 (1993)

[@earthwormjim420]

off1k thanks for the information man

[@off1k]

+Green Wizard No probs

[@johhny449]

Awesome!! :)

[@UXXV]

That first one sounds like Boss Drum

[@StreetDrivenDaily]

They should make Commodore SmartPhone :)

[@survivor303]

original version of cyberride :)

[@dirkdigler2926]

would i be able to make this sort of music on a korg msi? just stumbled upon this for the first time and im mesmerized; im going to research the amiga

[@off1k]

This program here is not a midi sequencer, it's a tracker program so uses samples. A midi sequencer for Amiga would be Music X or Bars and Pipes. If you want to sample your Korg instead and use this software, you would need a small sampler for the Amiga that plugs into the parallel port, the Amiga on it's own doesn't have audio in jacks, samplers for Amiga are generally RCA line in jacks. Another option would be to get an external Midi box for Amiga and use the above mentioned midi sequencer software or you could have the best of both worlds and use a tracker program with midi support like Octamed Pro or Octamed Soundstudio. Hope this helps.

[@chris537a]

That looks like a cool ass version of protracker... I got to find that one.

[@daemonmagic8261]

why mono?...