Elwood (Finnish musician)
Elwood (Finnish musician)
Jussi-Matti Salmela | |
Elwood79 Magellanic Milk | |
Born | August 11, 1979 |
Origin | Kankaanpää, Finland |
Genres | Electronic],computer music |
Instruments | Computer],tracker |
1995–present | |
Website | |
Notable instruments | |
FastTracker 2 |
Jussi-Matti Salmela (born August 11, 1979), better known by his stage name Elwood, is a demoscene musician from Kankaanpää, Finland. His alternative alias is known as Elwood79 which he used throughout his releases at the previous site of MP3.com. He has produced the soundtrack to a short-movie called Teräskolikkoarkku.
Elwood is additionally known as Magellanic Milk, after September 2010.
Jussi-Matti Salmela | |
Elwood79 Magellanic Milk | |
Born | August 11, 1979 |
Origin | Kankaanpää, Finland |
Genres | Electronic],computer music |
Instruments | Computer],tracker |
1995–present | |
Website | |
Notable instruments | |
FastTracker 2 |
Music
Elwood released 15 module compositions throughout the 1990s written in FastTracker 2, a few of which have been featured in home-made levels for video games like Jazz Jackrabbit 2 , Unreal Tournament , Mario Forever and Cyberruner. They can be fetched at different sites, but primarily at the Mod Archive. Most of them have received top rates by reviewers there, calculating an artist average of at least 9 out of 10 points.
By the end of the 1990s he stopped releasing for the tracking scene and moved to MIDI software, producing a number of tracks similar to his old style, though having a more "mainstream" flavour to them. Many of the MP3 tracks from the newer timeline were released at the previous site of MP3.com. Last tracks from that era that he has been known to released are Low Horizon and Waverider Remix 2003 from the mentioned year. Past & Present was composed for Razor 1911, a warez and demogroup from Norway.
During late 2003 and early 2004 he organised the band LooM, which in spite of all the announcements hasn't yet released any completed material.
Demo clips show that LooM music is quite different from the style of Elwood's solo works, this time as a fusion with rock elements.
According to the previous contact info on the LooM project, Elwood now lives in the bigger Finnish city of Pori, attending a school to prepare a possible education in media, while his cooperative partner Juuso Kemi (student buddy from his old high school) lives in Tampere. Juuso Kemi is featured as one of the producers behind the short-movie Teräskolikkoarkku, where he additionally made an actor appearance. Their album Electricities is apparently still under its way, after the site was updated again in 2006, standing still for almost two years.
On September 16, 2010, he released his first commercial music entry under the alias Magellanic Milk.
The track represents a continuation on the melodic expedition started by Elwood, building from the demoscene and contemporary sounds and styles.
Recognition
Elwood's music has received high reviews throughout the demoscene websites, like ModArchive, MODPlug Central, United Trackers and several additional ones which had been active in the 90's but are now offline, like Trax In Space and homemusic.cc. His music is regularly remixed and brought up in the demoscene.
Personal life
Elwood isn't a public person and there's quite little information on his personal life, the only sources being the bio section on his old homepage Elwood's World Of Music, which is now offline, and scarce comments in module files themselves.
Bio from "Elwood's World of Music": [8] Here is a brief introduction to me and my past: I was born 11 August 1979. I grew and grew and got interested in making music by chance when my friend had bought Amiga 500 (wow!). I hadn't ever even thought that you could do music with computer! In addition to that, I heard Jan Hammer's song, Crockett's theme, for the first time in my life. I was totally awestruck and I got a tremendous inspiration: I wanted to make music too! I made my first mod when I was about 12 or so. Of course it sounded total crap, but to me it was a good start I had an ordinary Amiga 500 (!) running soundtracker (I can't remember the version). Then time went by and I got better and better. PC became a must because its soundcards and programmes were able to play 16 channels simultaneously. Then came FT2, which became a milestone in my 'career'. At the moment, I'm concentrating mosly on MIDI stuff. I still use FT2 also. It's great for creating breakbeats and all kinds of additional loops. I get a lot of inspirations from my environment, simple daily events, additional musicians and quite much from my wonderful girlfriend.
Discography
XM releases
Fall From Sky (1995)
Dead Lock (1995)
Into The Shadow (1995)
Little Man (1995)
Inferiority Complex (1995)
Shooting Star (1995)
Feats Of Valor (1996)
Unknown Phuture (1996)
One Fine Day (1997)
Sick On Monday (1998)
Homecoming (1998)
Experience (1998)
After Hours (1998)
Neutral Zone (1999)
Sweet Dreams (1999)
The Only One Left (2000)
MP3 releases
Agony
Beyond The Rainbow
Far Away
I Can Seek
Memorize
Stompin' Little Scouts
Sunshine
Take Me There
Waverider
Feed Your Supermind
On The Run
Outcast
Past & Present
Waverider 2003 remix (2003)
Low Horizon (2003)
Theme To Vertebra (2010)
Hey Peaches (You Leave Me Speechless) (2010)
Spark (2013)