Aamu Biography

Aamu

Take one [TJM], guitars, PC, and too much spare time. Add experimental methods, too much knowledge of music theory, and too narrow mind to let go of that theory. Stir, sip, and dispose.

[TJM]

• A self-centered ******* with big mouth and caffeine addiction.
• Born 1975 in Mänttä, Finland, Europe, as the middlest of three sons in a devoutly Pentecostal family.
• Raised all around Finland, while the family followed father's changing job situations.
• Some art studies 1994 to 1998 at University of Lapland, Rovaniemi. Never finished any degree.
• Some Computer Science 1998 to date at University of Oulu, Oulu. Never finished any degree, studies still continue after 14 years...
• Wife: Anna, son: Benjamin, two cats: Faarao (Pharaoh) and Petro, and two newts which never revealed their name or rank.

Attack of The Machines

While aggressive music has always been [TJM]'s thing, he's also loved the gloomy ambience of Pink Floyd. When he first heard FRONT 242, Ministry and NIN, he realized that "real" instruments are not the only ones to use when creating beautiful noise. [TJM] also discovered Brian Eno. So this hard rock and metal purist started to combine and break genres, trying to find his own way to create music. That crusade started with ScreamTracker, and continued with Cakewalk, with the ultimate soundcard of early 1990's: Gravis Ultrasound.

The 1990's: Desktop Composing Years

The first Cakewalk songs were pseudo-classical ****. [TJM], however, didn't destroy the first-ever tracks, but I still has the General MIDI songs at his hard drive. Later on, he's returned to those songs several times, to steal some working ideas from them. Every now and then he tries finishing and releasing songs like "Fire", "At the Gates of Chiliani" or "Lintu", but every time he opens those files he's just driven to create something else based on those songs. When he's finished, they never sound like those old tunes, so they are renamed.

1999 - 2002: Magenta Flow

The sonic world of Magenta Flow gave a harder and fuzzier sound to the songs [TJM] created, too. When producing songs for Aamu, he yet rejected the alternative rock MF played. [TJM] finally found himself creating industrialish ambient soundscapes and trip hop. For a long time he thought that songs like industrial metal "Piranha" were just one time experiment, but the current project "Oulu" has obviously proved him wrong.

Magenta Flow released an EP, "Extended Play", and all the songs from the EP in the Internet in the same time as [TJM] started to publish his songs, too. The good thing with MF was, that [TJM] started to record guitars and vocals to his songs with Aamu, too.

2005: CC Mixter

Early 2005, while browsing Creative Commons' website, [TJM] found an interesting website, ccmixter.org.

[TJM] has always been interested of open source music, and many of his songs were released under Open Music Green License, but that licence never got very popular. Creative Commons had been working for copyleft licenses for several years, and the new introduced sampling licenses were amazing.

Joining this great community opened [TJM] many doors, and resulted as several remixes of other CC Mixters' works, and also remixes from Aamu's songs by fellow CC Mixters.