
Many great tracks followed by him like Flower Power which was used in the self named demo by Anarchy in 1992 (Winner of the Digital Symposium 1992 demo competition) or tracks like Terminal Fuckup, Optimum Fuckup and Elysium hit
the scene.

Middle of the 90`s it got more silent around him. He did some further tracks for Pygmy Projects and then he disappeard. But where did it all started and what happens after Pygmy Projects? We try to let you know more about Volker Tripp the man behind the pseudo: Jester, who is 37 years old now, living in Berlin/Germany. The man who used to write Amiga mod music from 1988 to 1994.

Letīs go back to the eighties and to the very early begining of Jester. In 1981 with a age of 9 years he started out as a musician with recorder (flute) lessons, which he really didn't like as Jester says. Four years later, something around 1985, he got his C64 - his first computer, like for the most oldschooler of us. It was mainly used for games, later he did some rather unspectacular demos. 

In 1988 with the age of 16 and with the change for the Amiga he was bored of only playing video games and was interested to do something creative with his computer. He tried different ways, as he was bad in graphics and only had little interest in coding he tried hisslelf in music. Music seemed like a good alternative, particularly since he found the Soundtracker to be a really handy tool.
One more reason probably was that he found it to be profoundly more fun than graphics or code. "...I must say, though, that I envy coders and graphics-artists for the fact that they can listen to whatever music they like while they're working..." Jester says.

For the first steps in making music he used Sonix and later on switched to the Ultimate Soundtracker, then other trackers and ended up with Protracker.  "...I loved music as a child already but I really got into creating it myself with Karsten Obarski's Ultimate Soundtracker on the Amiga in 1988..." Jester says. He continued using this type of grid-edit program when Noisetracker and later Protracker came out. For some reason he never liked Octalyzer, Startrekker, TFMX, Jamcracker and all the other tools that there used to be. Protracker definitely was the most handy and easy one to use for him. For MIDI sequencing he was and is still very much into OctaMED because it's the same type of editor as Protracker. He cannot stand Cubase, Notator etc. because he find the classical notation to be of little use for electronic music. "...Someone who has been using Cubase all his 'musical life' will be just as comfortable with it as other people with grid-edit-programs..."
Jester adds.

