George Garside - The Jester (Full 1985 New Age/Electronic Album)

[@puppyfan420]

i just know his ass would have loved balatro

[@RandyOrlok]

What are you even on about

[@adamssmasher]

@@RandyOrlok bro doesn't get it😂😂😂😂 bro lives in 1985😭😭😭

[@RandyOrlok]

@@adamssmasher Your mother gets it

[@fuckiopussigetti453]

​@@adamssmasherI'm sorry I'm not as gay as you are

[@sam2rost]

i thought this was a librarian video when i clicked on it

[@trevargh3432]

If George is still around, I hope he knows we appreciate these musical hidden treasures he created, decades after their composition.

[@Jazz-attqck]

Probbaly still around. The latest album I could find from him is from 2008.

[@oz_jones]

@@Jazz-attqck That's almost 20 years ago.

[@miscellaneousmedia3753]

​@@oz_jones holy fuck please don't say that out loud 😭

[@nameq]

@@Jazz-attqck 1985 to 2008 = 23 years 2008 to 2025 = 17 years

[@Lactone-s3p]

@@oz_jonesI’m not that old 😔

[@mr.nobodymc9741]

It’s good that music like this is able to find a audience in the modern day

[@SilenceManifests]

We Jesters still live !

[@mr.nobodymc9741]

@@SilenceManifests good to see that a fellow traveller still walks ; )

[@dontdie777]

@@mr.nobodymc9741How Grand and Lovely it is to journey and find refuge amongst brothers for a time.

[@HiGlowie]

@@dontdie777is this all…in jest?

[@hypnotrax]

Say what you will about modern YT but I love how stuff like this can be found out about because of their recommendation system

[@chimedemon]

This was my introduction to 2025

[@bromox13]

An astral shit Welcome

[@Idksomestrange]

Same here

[@WagwanHappyPappyHapPap]

Cool?

[@af6462]

Exactly 40 years late but that's cool

[@lyancisternas8879]

same

[@gw_m2oo665]

Listening to this while playing Balatro and getting Yorick was a full experience. Great album and beautiful synth.

[@HalibutToast]

Real Balatro hours

[@scuraballthetrueone]

lol playing balatro with this ost is such an esoteric feeling i believe it makes you better at the game too, you start seeing patterns and shit

[@henryhardfoot]

💀

[@qwiznoes]

real shit

[@aladdinsmonkey7600]

Ball knower

[@RXBeetle]

Bro please watch we’re you saying this… it’s so addictive now I have to go and play it

[@squabbbb]

This album broke my writer's block. Thank you George Garside, you may not have loved this but I'll love it twice as much for you.

[@immaterialinkantation]

i love triboulet the most off this track, it reminds me so much of the music from the phantasy star series for the sega genesis and just gives me a very relaxed feeling. reminds me of the stars and galaxies

[@youngchopsnare234]

0:00 1 Triboulet 5:00 2 Will Somers 9:23 3 Touchstone 13:53 4 Feste 18:11 5 William Kempe 21:19 1 Puck 26:54 2 Thomas Skelton 31:20 3 Yorick 33:54 4 Herlequin 37:09 5 Rigoletto

[@charliepassarell8393]

@@youngchopsnare234 thank you for doing this

[@youngchopsnare234]

@@charliepassarell8393 no problem boss

[@lukethegamer13]

I listened to this while playing Balatro and won for the first time!

[@liamverrall]

so electronic so stuctured so human

[@ReplyequalsNerd]

you already know if an 80s mixtape has bootleg album art like this and can only be found on KZbin that its going to be lit as hell

[@PASTELXENON]

god i love new age music long live new age

[@PASTELXENON]

this album genuinely made me cry

[@robbiekissinger]

That was an incredible journey. Laying in bed with my injured leg up after a wonderful Christmas week with family and friends. Nice end to the day.

[@sephardiris]

Here's to a full recovery to you. 🎉

[@PlaceholderPlaceholder-z5k]

Have a healthy recovery friend, and take care of yourself.

[@feywerfolevado6286]

From DIE or DIY2 blog might shed some clues: Lying casually in a box in Garside sleeve designer Peter Jolly's attic space,was recently found George's abandoned follow up to "Oasis", provisionally entitled "The Jester". Having been asked by George to design a cover for it, he had sent PJ a copy of the work, who then promptly designed the insert above. Then Garside decided he wasn't happy with the music,and proceeded to dump the project. Leaving this sole copy to gather dust in Peter J's attic. Peter has kindly digitized it, and reworked/redesigned the artwork, to better represent the theme of the composition. I'll let Peter explain: "Inside the folder you'll find the original cover that I made, with a cartoon pinched from Hunt Emerson. All on green card, and a bit boring, but he liked it enough to ask me to design the covers for his subsequent tapes. Bear in mind this was before PCs, so all done on Letraset and photocopier! When I ripped the tape I thought that I would try to find some titles for the tracks, so I've named them all after famous historical jesters. While I was researching I found a Joker playing card that I though would make a better cover, so I've upgraded.. All ripped in 320, volume corrected and tagged." The music itself is your usual Garside minimal melodic synthesiser symphonies,with all those georgeous (sic) warm analogue electronics; like a bedroom Edgar Froese. The best album Integrated Circuit Records NEVER released!

[@Recordeer]

We didn't have PCs in 85? Since when?

[@GizzyDillespee]

​@@RecordeerHe probably just meant that the PCs and printers weren't good enough yet, to replace the techniques he described. But yeah, there were PCs... probably VGA monitors?

[@Recordeer]

@@GizzyDillespee Don't tell Xerox then!

[@Recordeer]

@@GizzyDillespee I mean don't get me wrong, letraset got the job done back then, but there's a reason printshops we're on their last legs at that point. The only way the last of us stayed afloat a little longer was for very specific die cuts or massive print jobs that needed to be done in a moments notice.

[@WrathOfTheClouds]

I think it's absolutely wonderful 🎉

[@RoachChef]

this is how it feels to be sitting under wind chimes on a winter night. rocking chair softly swaying

[@Kowrage]

Not ironically this album is beautiful, I feel genuine love for this George's creation and that his art can still be appreciated in this era. I didn't know it before of course, I say this because of the feelings that this album evokes in me, its cover, its year of creation, it is something so beautiful that I feel that it is being lost little by little with the massification of AIs. Seriously, thanks for sharing this piece of music, good luck.

[@ljones2087]

please read more.

[@PachaUploads]

@@ljones2087 some thoughts (yours) aren't worth sharing

[@Firepal3D]

@@PachaUploads It could be seen as a comment on the person's literacy, but in all fairness, there are many things out there worth reading...

[@superpacmanz101]

this is nice for some late night pondering

[@SeafoamBoi]

Perfect music for playing Balatro

[@sussy6905]

i beat my first ante 8 while listening to this. thanks george

[@an3582]

Thanks for uploading this! Never heard before but already loving it

[@Garbageman28]

this release has been waiting for balatro for forty years.

[@edwardwav]

Beautiful

[@mdntsyntx]

I don't care if you hate this, George, I'm just gonna DOUBLE love it then

[@immaterialinkantation]

i wish there was more information on who george garside was, it makes me sad to see someone who created a masterpiece go quietly

[@funkypeach8082]

Sensational

[@Laysfan]

He who dances on bees 🐝

[@Elnenesinsentido]

Te recomiendo oír Dvar

[@Elnenesinsentido]

Te recomiendo escuchar Dvar

[@ross666ssor]

this is beautiful. thank you so much.

[@leonmac9979]

What an amazing cover

[@MicahBuzanANIMATION]

So far ahead of it's time.

[@brunoarres1187]

balatro on the amiga is insane

[@meangreenmememachine2890]

"The Nephilim looked like Clowns" brought me here.

[@4422-m2j]

6:28 wow

[@zackozga2411]

Nice album to find right as I’m about to do some reading, very cool

[@GCWP24]

love this

[@williammarshburn]

thomas skeleton goes hard

[@domovoi_0]

Incredible. Love and blessings!

[@sofiaflorina]

This is good for me to concentrate.

[@kasprong3944]

I love playing rain world and drawing to this

[@YourCaptainDrew]

Top ten songs to bet The Mortgage on!

[@marcoaltomare4030]

Masterpiece

[@Veltment]

Amazing album, loved to hum and create lyrics while listened to it

[@eternallygone]

i gonna love it

[@dakat_]

Algorithms can be beautiful sometimes.

[@magmasunburst9331]

Interesting. It could be in 1985, when this was recorded, the only true algorithmic synthesizer work that was in academic work and the Casio 1000P. The composer Robert Scott Pearson (goes by RS Pearson) has been using this synthesizer since 1983. From his website: There is a very interesting type of sequencer that is built on intervals. For instance, you have the digits from 1-10....1-9 are intervals between steps, and 0's are rests. You can have something like 167 steps which then repeat. The most important thing however is that this sequencer is triggered from the keyboard. I have been using this technique since 1983 and it has given me great results in composing music. I would like to bring it to the MIDI age and I'm thinking MAX/MSP is the best vehicle. I have no desire to "own" the application, although in a way this writing here is a type of copyright in case someone creates the application and charges a huge fee for it. I create sequences like this 12462002424210002642864100001624 (we'll call this the loop) and for each note I play on the keyboard, when the sequence starts, it goes in a loop and assigns the 1 to the first key pressed down, the 2 to the second, and so on. If there are 9 different intervals all used in the loop, but only 3 keys held down the program will play the octaves of the notes, so that 123 would be abc, and 456 would be a'b'c'...and so on. You have to isolate everything I'm talking about to get the full algorithm and why it's so interesting: 1) the full interval pattern 1-9, and then 0 for rests, is looped -- this creates a living pulsing sequencer 2) the fact that this loop is triggered by an accomplished or just lucky person's playing of the loop on the keyboard 3) the fact that the interval loop will do interesting things if less than the number of original keys are held down that are in the loop (the loop becomes "intelligent"). 4) You do not have to create full 167 step sequences, and in fact, creating smaller ones create different contexts for new musical patterns. Small sequences can create different accompaniment structures that can change just like regular ones do (that is, I IV V type changes). Longer sequences tend to have complexities in them that can be fascinating to listen to because they develop different sub melodies. These sub melodies can actually change within a piece. For some reason, when different keys are held down different submelodies come out. One reason why this happens is that different notes are combined in what seems like different rhythms. The loops I create take on visual aspects or patterns. For instance, I would create patterns like 135 4321 111 123 123 135 4321 222 123 345 135 4321 333 1357999 This would be an example of one using no rests. Here is one, in which the 0's are rests 0003 0040050060076 0004 001002001002 0020040064076 0002 00900200865432 Of course, such patterns can create totally unique rhymic structures. And from same page, above it: There is no way to avoid the fact that chance adds elements of beauty and intelligence to the arts. This started being openly documented in the 1920's by Max Ernst and other Surrealists but it may have had an earlier history. Tristan Tzara showed us the cut-up around 1917, but there wasn't the rhyme and reason that Ernst gave it by using intelligence and controlled chance as a backdrop which he used his gifted artistic technique on. Max Ernst's asethetic theories and painting techniques did not really have much of a musical equivalent until recently. Ernst was really a theorist of chance in a different way than John Cage, because Ernst used intelligent and limited chance and then used his masterly realistic painting techniques to create realistic and figurative embellishments on structures that chance created. While I had an interest in Dada and Surrealism since my teen years, I did not aim to ape Ernst's techniques. I actually was creating in this medium mostly because my keyboard's sequencer was a totally unique one, using an algorithm that no other sequencer used.

[@shinyminunthetheatregeek2036]

YAAAAAAY SYNTHS!!!!

[@Rebecca-Pithion]

Great, thank you !

[@streetdope]

Transcendent and fresh as fuhhhhh

[@ntnbigwop9543]

I luv this jester stuhh..

[@blackbabychocobo7179]

Bro a visionary

[@aren337]

Very good music

[@RobertOgilvie]

Trippy & fascinating...

[@Jidgegw083jegwgqy]

🙏🏽💚

[@mingyuexingxing]

Very spectacular!

[@ZilgoStardust]

great stuff

[@JonEyv]

Ytb>bandcamp>SoundCloud>Spotify . My rank

[@MalachiLamb]

but really tho youtubes algorithm can recommend some amazing music

[@allgoa]

a hundred percent agree

[@JonEyv]

@@MalachiLamb the thing about this is how annoying and ugly Spotify is I hxte sporty Interface and spoty cool hipster norm vibe ytb wins

[@RadekLoquendo]

If this is what All-Colours Sam played to the kids, I get it now.

[@ningadudexx390]

this sounds like the inside of my head

[@hvchet8820]

this is amazing

[@happyvolts]

man this is crazy good

[@ceef8688]

Thank you for sharing this oddity - - this is the sound that comes out of a jester in a Stanislaw Lem novel...

[@gooddayhuman]

ARP ❤

[@jaisheh]

this is tuff

[@tinypeas]

gorgeous

[@squalamander]

oghh. real good

[@coniwa7755]

2025/1/1オススメに出てきたけど、なんか正月っぽいですね😊

[@electricalscarecrow]

Just now realized it... the art for Sink Like a Stone/Simple Test by Secret Abuse is a play on the cover of this tape.

[@Recordeer]

@@electricalscarecrow More likely the other way around.

[@electricalscarecrow]

@Recordeer how? This tape "came out" in 85.

[@Recordeer]

@electricalscarecrow very cheeky use of quotation marks ;)

[@electricalscarecrow]

@@Recordeer it was never released lol

[@Recordeer]

@@electricalscarecrow Well, not physically

[@sarudatiko]

Wooooooow!

[@foncess]

something about this first track makes me feel like giving 2x mult to every king or queen scored

[@sclr]

Amazing!!!

[@kj1989-k]

It's like if Sim City 2000 and Harvest Moon had a baby

[@HaturnAhheadns]

this is good. thank you for sharing

[@dashthatonedude]

Gosh i wish j had found this last night so i have the motivation to study😊

[@ackmanstein]

This is my jam

[@dragonfirendly]

wow this is great!!!!!

[@heyitsmort7744]

reading pachinko research papers to better understand Ballionaire

[@korill125]

Jestermaxxing

[@xyzeltus]

You Will Be Famous

[@jungletrainn]

no need to

[@RandyOrlok]

Why are people mentioning Balatro in comments ?

[@wuzfoz]

smoking on the mega buffoon pack

[@RandyOrlok]

@@wuzfoz You zoomers are copy-pastes of each other. You are unable to communicate other than with flavour of the month slang phrases.

[@dh-ck2om]

@@wuzfozdamn you got called a stupid robo what you gone do about it

[@MrNuke101]

This is the music that inspired balatro

[@PlayChannelLuki]

❤

[@ProGentShow]

Oh man, my chip/mult count is about to skyrocket to this album.

[@johannesgutenburg9837]

point and laugh girls! he is incapable of engaging with media on it's own terms and instead must insert his own interests into it, creating a neverending marvel multiverse of the mind and destroying his ability to enjoy things authentically!

[@yuletidecheer]

@@johannesgutenburg9837 who shit in your coco puffs? damn

[@GwentheGoblin]

@@johannesgutenburg9837 youre so lame dude, i bet you cant enjoy a ham sandwich without deconstructing it L comment

[@Itsjustme108]

This is so beautiful...

[@feIon]

reminds me of classic minecraft

[@fabiancallejom1484]

Suena chingón

[@KrazyKaiser]

This one get's a little dungeon-y about halfway through!

[@youngchopsnare234]

wow this is all great

[@yyy2979]

muito bom pqp

[@Spoof122]

Is this on spotify?

[@thejay8963]

Aww, you didn't mention Roland the Farter 😢

[@Александр-й4ж2ъ]

Tod da musics hairy balls at first in da beginning den gave it a chance and listened further and das wasup yo

[@thejay8963]

Alex what are you yapping about

[@Frustratedartist2]

Anyone has more information about the artist? I'm unable to find anything

[@feywerfolevado6286]

They found a cardboard box of these tapes in the attic-space by the artist after 10/20 years, and they were uploaded to the internet thereafter.

[@Recordeer]

Some bloke with controversially select kinks

[@feywerfolevado6286]

@@Recordeer Hahaha omg

[@Recordeer]

@@feywerfolevado6286 I do believe this certain someone also still owes me a beer 🍺

[@Cora-l2e]

Me encanta , me da vibras de the fall de Gorillaz ❤️

[@DiDicicix]

☀️

[@dem7556]

Ah yes, it's Balatro time

[@mudvayne_fan]

for me its triboulet

[@rafaelmangrone721]

❤️

[@Croucher72649]

Garside? Like Katie Jane Garside?

[@DanTDMs-homunculus]

BALATRO REFERENCE

[@newtz.]

i genuinly thought this was ai at first... then thinking it was ai but the person was real, to digging around about this album untill i found out that it infact is real, just unreleased since ages ago and they found it again 2014

[@spaceseer]

Is this dungeon synth?