Elwood (Finnish musician)

Elwood
Birth name Jussi-Matti Salmela
Also known as Elwood79
Magellanic Milk
Born (1979-08-11) August 11, 1979
Origin Kankaanpää, Finland
Genres Electronic, computer music
Instruments Computer, tracker
Years active 1995–present
Website elwoodproductions.com
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.[1] 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 Teräskolikkoarkku.

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.[2] 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.[3]

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.[4] 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.[4] 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 Teräskolikkoarkku, 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.[5]

Recognition

Elwood's music has received high reviews throughout the demoscene websites, such as ModArchive, MODPlug Central, United Trackers and several other ones which had been active in the 90's but are now offline, such as Trax In Space and homemusic.cc. His music is regularly remixed and brought up in the demoscene.[6]

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":[7]
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'.

At the moment, I am concentrating mosly on MIDI stuff. I still use FT2 also. It's great for creating breakbeats and all kinds of other loops. I get a lot of inspirations from my environment, simple daily events, other musicians and very much from my wonderful girlfriend.

Discography

XM releases

MP3 releases

References

  1. ↑ "Elwood at AMP". Amiga Music Preservation. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  2. ↑ TerminusEst13 (24 June 2013). "Cyberrunner - 0.11 - No longer in progress". Zdoom. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  3. ↑ "Elwood's Modules". Mod Archive. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  4. 1 2 "Finnish demoscene musician, Jussi-Matti Salmela". Last.fm. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  5. ↑ "Hey Peaches (You Leave Me Speechless) - Single". iTunes. 16 September 2010. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  6. ↑ The reTracked team (27 January 2009). "music disk reTracked #2". Websound reTracked. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010609225214/http://www.inetware.it/elwood/main_htm.htm
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