Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen (born 16 November 1973) is a Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 musician/songwriter/producer, and the keyboardist

Keyboardist

A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...

 of the Finnish rock band Poets of the Fall

Poets of the Fall

Poets of the Fall is a rock band from Finland. It consists of Marko Saaresto , Olli Tukiainen and Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen...

. Kaarlonen catapulted to considerable underground fame with his Amiga

Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities...

 MOD

MOD (file format)

MOD is a computer file format used primarily to represent music, and was the first module file format. MOD files use the “.MOD” file extension, except on the Amiga where the original trackers instead use a “mod.” prefix scheme, e.g. “mod.echoing”...

 music in the early 1990s. His first commercial album was released as Dance Nation's album "Dawn" in 1994. After that came moderate success with Aikakone

Aikakone

Aikakone was a Finnish pop music group active in 1995–1998 and shortly in 2001 and 2003 as Aika. In 2003 they changed their name back to Aikakone and had their last concert....

.

Kaarlonen also works for the software company Futuremark

Futuremark

Futuremark Oy is a Finnish software development company, that produces computer benchmark applications for home users and businesses. Company headquarters and R&D department are located in Espoo, Finland...

 as a Senior Web Developer and Audio Designer.

Mod era

• Spacemuzaxx
• Space Debris (Horizon Party 1990, Vårby school, Stockholm, Sweden)
• Beyond Music (The Gathering 1991, Parikkala
  Parikkala
  Parikkala is a municipality of Finland located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the South Karelia region. The municipality has a population of and covers an area of of which is water...
  
  , Finland
  Finland
  Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...
  
  )
• Broken Dreams (Assembly 1993)
• Mickus (Assembly 1994)

Commercial productions

• Dance Nation: Dawn (1994)
• Poets of the Fall
  Poets of the Fall
  Poets of the Fall is a rock band from Finland. It consists of Marko Saaresto , Olli Tukiainen and Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen...
  
  : Signs of Life
  Signs of Life (Poets of the Fall album)
  -Release history:-Singles:-Awards:-Nominations:...
  
   (2005)
• Poets of the Fall
  Poets of the Fall
  Poets of the Fall is a rock band from Finland. It consists of Marko Saaresto , Olli Tukiainen and Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen...
  
  : Carnival of Rust
  Carnival of Rust
  Carnival of Rust is the second album by the Finnish rock band Poets of the Fall. It was released on 12 April 2006 in Finland, 12 September, 2006 in Sweden, October 2006 in Australia, Russia and Ukraine, then on 20 April, 2007 in Germany...
  
   (2006)
• Poets of the Fall
  Poets of the Fall
  Poets of the Fall is a rock band from Finland. It consists of Marko Saaresto , Olli Tukiainen and Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen...
  
  : Revolution Roulette
  Revolution Roulette
  Revolution Roulette is the third album by the Finnish rock band Poets of the Fall. It was released in Finland on 26 March 2008 and went straight to the top of the Finnish charts...
  
   (2008)
• Shattered Horizon
  Shattered Horizon
  Shattered Horizon is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by Futuremark Games Studio. The game was released on the Steam digital distribution service on 4 November 2009. On 19 November 2009, Futuremark Games Studio and Steam released three Guest Passes each to owners of the game...
  
   Original Soundtrack (2009)
• Poets of the Fall
  Poets of the Fall
  Poets of the Fall is a rock band from Finland. It consists of Marko Saaresto , Olli Tukiainen and Markus "Captain" Kaarlonen...
  
  : Twilight Theater
  Twilight Theater
  -Release history:-Singles:-Trivia:*The track War is featured in the video-game Alan Wake*The track 15 Minute Flame was partly inspired by the movie The Sixth Sense starring Bruce Willis...
  
   (2010)
• Rochard
  Rochard
  Rochard is a science fiction platformer available for the PlayStation 3 through the PlayStation Network, and for Microsoft Windows through the Steam digital distribution platform. Developed by Recoil Games, the game revolves around the manipulation of gravity and the use of a G-Lifter, a gravity...
  
  : Original Soundtrack (2011)