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JUGI, aka Jukka Kaartinen

[WHO?]
Jukka Kaartinen, aka Jugi/Complex, is another extremely important Finnish .MOD musician, having contributed to a number of major early Complex Amiga demos such as 'Vector Preview' - and then going on to add his initially classically 'demo-scene', eventually sinuously electronic sounds to the group's 'Dope' and 'Bill G Force' intros on the PC, too. In fact, these latter two productions were notable incursions from design-savvy Amiga veterans into the sometimes clunky early PC demo-scene, so Complex are one of the few groups to be relatively well-known in both scenes. Largely active from around 1990 to 1995, he's alsonotable both for co-writing the music to the 'Book Of Songs' musicdisc for Complex alongside Delorean - one of the best musicdiscs ever released on Amiga. After leaving .MOD making, he formed an electronic duo called Aisth, and is still active in various audio-visual ways as a creative director for Finnish media companies.

[OUR TOP 5 .MODs?]
1. "Tubular Vectors "
[It can't be overstated how important Complex's 'Vector Preview' was to the early/mid Amiga scene - released at the Society Party in Finland in Summer 1992, the demo includes multiple filled-vector X-Wings running on a lowly Amiga 500 - sure, no textures, but mindblowing at the time. And the soundtrack was an agreeably space opera-esque melodic stomp too, thanks to Jugi.]

2. "Blowaway.Short"
[From Complex' 'Book Of Songs' music-disc in 1993, this immortal hookup between Delorean and Jugi - with both musicians working separately and contributing to a shared music-disc alternating tracks by the two, mind you - produced things like this tight piece of electronic funk, with an insane organ solo. It's difficult to realize now how difficult it was to program a lot of this off-kilter funk-style music from scratch into a computer and make it sound at all naturalistic, and the brass, funk bass, and percussion come off great.]

1. "Dope"
[After crossing over to Amiga, Complex's 1995 demo 'Dope' placed first at The Gathering party in 1995, and a lot of PC demo fans from wayback probably remember Jugi's 8-minute odd soundtrack for it - carefully timed to the effects, and rocking some serious multichannel melodies. It's also sometimes called 'Onward', incidentally, and there's various versions of it floating around, but this one seems like a good example. Ah, halcyon days.]

1. "Cyberm00n"
[From Complex's 'Resolution' demo in 1994, another important and impressive technical piece from the Finnish folks (Jugi and Reward), and some insane code by my former groupmate Stelios. The soundtrack, meanwhile, has some pure arpegiating and is, absolutely, 'normal' melodic demo-scene music, but is classic demo-scene music at the same time - again showing that Jugi's close ties with a great demo group meant he got more songs on great demos than a lot of other good .MOD musicians.]

1. "Inner Mountain Flame"
[Once again, a key Jugi track from a seminal demo, and this time it's from The Party 1994, where 'Cyboman II' won the 64k intro competition, and this compact, groovy multichannel piece was vital to its success. If you remember little vector fishies floating around to this soundtrack, then you're on the same page as me.]

Download our top 5 Jugi .MODs from here, or the scene.org mirror (.ZIP!)

[ALL MODs?]
As well as offering our top 5 picks, we've included another archive with every single Delorean .MOD ever released, for completists and those who want to hear more from the artist in question.

Download Jugi's complete .MOD collection here, or the scene.org mirror (50 tunes in .ZIP!)

[MISSING .MODs?]
If you have any Jugi .MODs that we're currently missing, please contact us.

These works are licensed under a Creative Commons License with the full permission of Jukka Kaartinen.