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INTERVIEW WITH JESTER/SANITY



Our   next   victim   is  the  already
well-known Jester of Sanity!          
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T20: Hello...  Would  you  like  to be
interviewed???  I'm  sure  ya  want so
let's start... A little intro?        
Jester:  Well,  I'm  really  tired but
I'll   try   to   manage  that...  I'm
Jester  of  Sanity,  20  years old and
since  I  know  how  to use Protracker
I'm a musician in my group!           
T20:  Yep,  a Protracker-user like all
the  others except that you are number
2 in the Musicians Chart...           
J: Well, it's nice to see that my work
is  appreciated but that won't give me
a   big   head.   In   spite  of  that
chart-position  I  still look up to my
all-time  idols like Moby or Mantronix
even  though  they  are  ranked  lower
IN THE CHARTS (but certainly NOT in my
personal opinion!)                    
T20: Your inspiration sources??       
J: New sounds/samples, mainly.        
T20: Any commercial inspiration?      
J:  Yes ofcourse, the 70's Disco, 80's
Pop but also some classical music!    
T20: Any special groups?              
J:  I  could  mention a lot of groups,
the  most important ones certainly are
The   Smiths,   The   Pet  Shop  Boys,
New   Order   and   of  course  Abba'n
Erasure...                            
T20: I'm sure that many guys out there
would   like  to  know  what  hardware
you've got...                         
J:  Well  as everybody,I have an Amiga
(500..)  with  extradrive,  1  meg , a
monitor (I'm really lucky, you see...)
a    Deluxe    Sound    Sampler    and
Midi-Interface.   Moreover   I  use  a
Roland   D10   and   a   Yamaha  TG33.
Sometimes I borrow some KORG, AKAI and
ENSONIQUE  machines from pals of mine.
My  biggest  source,  though,  are  my
sampling  CDs  (worlds of new sounds!)
T20:  What  software do ya use for the
midi?                                 
J:  The  one  and  only MED from TEIJO
KINUNNEN !                            
T20:  Have  you  received  any musical
education?                            
J:  SAD BUT TRUE, no musical education
at  all.  I  don't  even play a single
instrument (flute?-ed.)               
T20:  And now over to the party...Were
 you present at the music-competition 
(stupid question...)                  
J:  Yes of course but it was really at
the  highest degree of noninterest and
boredom. There were only a fistfull of
tunes  I liked (Lizardking, Moby, Doh,
Audiomonster)  and  the  rest  was all
poor techno and pseudo-jazz crap.     
T20:  So  what  do you think about the
techno-wave  that  invades  the  music
scene?                                
J:  Well  I  think  that  it allows to
untalented     people    to    compose
acceptable music in their own style!  
T20:   I   think   ya   expected  this
question...  What  do  you think 'bout
Jesper Kyd?                           
J:  He's  maybe  the only exception to
the  techno-rule...  I  mean, he's the
only techno-composer who has developed
a  style of his own and his music fits
the  Silents  productions really well.
Still I think his stuff is too weak to
stand on its own.                     
T20:  So,  were  ya  on  the Kyd/Balle
concert?    (I   think   I   know  the
answer...)                            
J: Nope, but that's just because I was
so  awfully  tired. I was somewhere in
hall 3. Snoozing and dreaming (oh, how
sweet ...).