Birth name Jussi-Matti Salmela Occupation(s) Composer Role Finnish musician | Name Jussi Salmela Origin Kankaanpaa, Finland Instruments Computer, tracker | |
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Also known as Elwood79Magellanic Milk Born August 11, 1979 (age 44) ( 1979-08-11 ) Genres Electronic, computer music | ||
Jussi-Matti Salmela (born August 11, 1979), better known by his stage name Elwood, is a demoscene musician and electronic tracker from Kankaanpaa, Finland. His alternative alias is known as Elwood79 which he used during his releases at the previous site of MP3.com. He has produced the soundtrack to a short-movie called Teraskolikkoarkku.
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Elwood is also known as Magellanic Milk, since September 2010.
Music
Elwood released 15 module compositions throughout the 1990s, written in FastTracker 2, some of which have been featured in home-made levels for video games such as 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" flavor 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 organized the band LooM, which in spite of all the announcements hasn't yet released any completed material. Demo clips show that LooM music is very 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 Teraskolikkoarkku, where he also made an actor appearance. Their album Electricities is apparently still under its way, since 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 compositions have been highly praised across numerous demoscene platforms, including ModArchive, MODPlug Central, United Trackers, and other sites active during the 1990s like Trax In Space and homemusic.cc, many of which are no longer operational. His music remains a subject of frequent remixes and discussions within the demoscene community.
Personal life
Elwood is not a public person and there is very 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":
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 programs were able to play 16 channels simultaneously. Then came FT2, which became a milestone in my 'career'.