1. Peter Hajba

    Peter Hajba (born December 15 1974) also known by his demoscene nickname Skaven, is a Finnish musician and graphic artist. In spite of having no formal training, he has won numerous awards for his music, including winning the Assembly music competition in 1993, 1995 and 2002. His most recent project is with Remedy Entertainment as an animator, sound designer and graphic artist.

  2. Janne Suni

    Janne "Tempest" Suni is a Finnish demoscener, pixel artist and tracker musician, and a member of the demogroup Fairlight. He is best known outside the demoscene for being the creator of the song "Acidjazzed Evening", from which R&B producer Timbaland allegedly used themes without permission in the 2006 song "Do It" by Nelly Furtado (see 2007 Timbaland plagiarism controversy). "Acidjazzed Evening" originally won the oldskool music competition at the 2000 Assembly demoparty.

  3. Jeroen Tel

    Jeroen Godfried Tel (aka WAVE) (born May 19, 1972) is a Dutchman known for numerous computer game tunes he wrote in the 1980s and early 1990s for the Commodore 64. Tel is a member of the computer music group "Maniacs of Noise".

  4. Alexander Brandon

    Alexander Brandon (also known as Siren in the demoscene and tracker community, b. 1974) is a US musician, former member of Straylight Productions, who composed music mostly for games produced by Epic Games, or games based on Epic technology, including "Unreal", "Unreal Tournament", "Deus Ex", "Tyrian", "Jazz Jackrabbit 2" and the cancelled game "Jazz Jackrabbit 3D".

  5. Jesper Kyd

    Jesper Kyd (born in Horsholm, Denmark) is a video game and film music composer. He combines sounds of ambient, electronic and symphonic music and has won many awards. He is also notable for his work in the demo scene where he composed a large amount of music in his teenage years.

  6. Venetian Snares

    Venetian Snares is the performing name of Aaron Funk, an electronic music producer and performer from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is known for making experimental electronic music often in odd numbered time signatures. He is a prolific artist, having released records on the History of the Future, Isolate/DySLeXiC ResPonSe, Addict, Zod, Distort, Sublight, Low-Res, Planet Mu and Hymen record labels.

  7. Lackluster

    Lackluster is the stage name of Esa Juhani Ruoho, who has also recorded as Esa Ruoho, Can'o'Lard (defunct), Kökö and the Köks and XLLV (defunct). Lackluster is formerly known as the chiptune musician, Distance, part of the demoscene group, The Planet of Leather Moomins (TPOLM). Esa has lived most of his life in Helsinki, Finland, but has also, since 2000, travelled to Regina, …

  8. Paniq

    paniq (real name Leonard Ritter; born July 31, 1980 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany), is a German composer, coder, graphic artist and writer. He is a member of the German demo group Farbrausch. As a demoscene musician, paniq has so far composed more than 150 pieces of electronic music. The music varies from a cappella over a variety of modern electronic music styles, to wide-ranging crossovers spanning different musical genres.

  9. Bjørn Lynne

    Bjørn Lynne is a sound engineer and music composer, now living and working in Stavern, Norway. He has been widely known as a tracker music composer under the name Dr. Awesome/Crusaders in the late 1980s–early 90s when he released numerous tunes in MOD format and created music for some Amiga games. His work during that time period was mostly released into the demoscene world.

  10. Dalezy

    Dalezy is one of the stage names of Ronny Engmann (these days better known as Rengmann). He is a Chiptune-, Electronica- IDM- and Dark ambient-Artist since the early 1990s. Rengmann has been in the demoscene for more than a decade, having made music using the various monikers Dalezy, The Unconsciousness and Animal on C64, Amiga and IBM PC for groups such as Scoopex, Rebels, Creators, Superior Art Creations, Radical Rhythms, …

  11. Brothomstates

    Brothomstates is the stage name of Lassi Pekka Nikko, a Finnish IDM musician. He also used to produce music in the demoscene under the moniker of "Dune" in the demogroup "Orange". His works are mostly downtempo or ambient, but he is also well known for his complex and abstractive melodies and odd sounding drum programming.

  12. Jonne Valtonen

    Jonne Valtonen, a.k.a. Purple Motion, was the lead composer for Future Crew, one of the most widely popular demo group of the 1990s. He won multiple awards, most notably at Finnish demo-party Assembly, for his work throughout the demoscene. Some of his best known MOD tracks are UnreaL II (Second Reality), Satellite One, and Starshine. He, like the other members of Future Crew, is from Finland and was born in 1976.

  13. Andrew Sega

    Andrew Gregory Sega (b. 20 May 1975), also known by the pseudonym Necros, is a musician best known for tracking modules in the demo scene in the 1990s. Sega began writing MOD music in 1992 for the demo group Psychic Monks. Through the mid 1990s he contributed music to various demo and music groups, and music disks such as "Epidemic" (1994), featuring other noted tracker musicians like Purple Motion (Jonne Valtonen) and Skaven (Peter Hajba).

  14. Bogdan Raczynski

    Bogdan Raczynski is a UK-based braindance artist. He was born in Poland, c. 1977, but he moved along with his family to the USA during his childhood. During the mid-1990s he used trackers to compose techno tracks, which were released on the netlabel Kosmic Free Music Foundation under his alias "Karl". At some point between mid-1996 and 1997 he left the US for Japan where he attended and eventually dropped out of art school.

  15. Calvin Harris

    Calvin Harris (born January 17 1984), is a British singer, songwriter and record producer. He grew up in Dumfries, UK.

  16. Andrew Barnabas

    Andrew Barnabas (born May 1973 in Croydon, England) is a video game music composer. He studied at the University of Leeds where he earned a B.A. (Hons) in Popular Music Studies. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Andrew composed MOD music as "Nightshade" in the demogroup Crusaders. He is currently one half of Bob and Barn, a company that creates music for video games as well as for film, television, and advertising.

  17. Jake Kaufman

    Jake Kaufman (also known as virt) (born April 3 1981) is an American video game music composer. In 2002, he set up the website VGMix and administered it until the site's troubles in 2006. He is presently redesigning it, for the second time, with a team of volunteers. He is also a member of the netlabel Hellven. Kaufman has recently released an album for free under the creative commons license on 8bitpeoples.com entitled FX3, …

  18. Atomly

    atomly, real name Adam Lee, is an electronic music producer from Chicago. He is known for making dubstep, grime, techno, IDM, drum and bass and breakcore. In addition to producing music, he runs his own record label, atomiq, and has released music on various other labels. He is also the co-founder and champion of the first, and maybe only, Bacon-Off.

  19. Gustaf Grefberg

    Gustaf Grefberg (born 1974) is a Swedish musician. As part of the Amiga scene, he is known under the artist name Lizardking, and much of his production is tracker music. He is or has been a member of the demo groups Alcatraz, The Silents, Razor 1911, The Black Lotus and Triton. He also has composed the score of several computer games, including Enclave, Justice, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, Magus Dawn and The Darkness.

  20. Travis Stewart

    Travis Stewart is an electronic musician and one of the artists who helped launch Merck Records. His debut album was released under one of his aliases, Syndrone. The style of which could best be described as tracking Autechre stylized glitch but adding a bit of venous melody. Syndrone's debut, "Triskaideka" started off small but within a matter of years sold out of 1000 copies and was soon licensed by a respected European IDM label called Djak-Up-Bitch.

  21. Hunz

    Hunz (born December 15 1976, real name Johannes Van Vliet), is one of the familiar names involved in the demoscene of the 1990s. He grew up in Brisbane, Australia and began working on tracker music in his early teens. He is noted for being one of the first trackers to make the unconventional move of adding vocals to the compositions. First appearing on the scene in 1991, Hunz refined his art using Protracker, Fast Tracker 2, and Jeskola Buzz.

  22. Elwood

    Elwood (real name Jussi-Matti Salmela) is a demoscene musician and electronic tracker from Kankaanpää, Finland. His alternative alias is known as "Elwood79" which he used during his releases at the previous site of MP3.com, apparently because the Elwood-profile was already occupied. He has produced the soundtrack to a small short-movie called Teräskolikkoarkku, …

  23. Olof Gustafsson

    Olof Gustafsson (also known as Blaizer / The Silents) is a Swedish video game music composer. He started doing music for a demogroup called The Silents. Several members of this group decided to go into game development, and started Digital Illusions. Gustafsson joined them, and did the music for most of their early games. In 2005, he left Digital Illusions to start a new company, called Motherlode Studios, later known as Epos Game Studios AB.

  24. Michiel van den Bos

    Michiel "M.C.A." van den Bos (born 1975) is a musician who composes primarily for games from Epic Games, or for games based on Epic technology. He began composing on the Commodore 64 and Amiga before making the transition to composing professional soundtracks for games. His first project was Age of Wonders and went on to produce music for other critically acclaimed titles such as Unreal, Unreal Tournament and Deus Ex.

  25. Nino Gauthier

    Nino Gauthier is a video game music composer and producer. He is sometimes credited as Romain Gauthier (his real name) or NinoMojo.

  26. Dan Gardopée

    Dan Gardopée aka Dan Grandpre is an electronic musician and former member of game music production company Straylight Productions. He was active in the tracking community during the 1990s and was a member of the groups Five Musicians and Kosmic Free Music Foundation. As part of Straylight Productions, his music was featured in many games, including Unreal, Unreal Tournament and Deus Ex. He co-composed two CD albums, …

  27. Tim Wright

    Tim Wright, alias CoLD SToRAGE, is a British musician most famous for his work in video game soundtracks such as Wipeout. He first composed songs for the Commodore Amiga before joining Psygnosis (now Sony Computer Entertainment Studio Liverpool) in the early 1990s. He now works in his own company, Tantrumedia, continuing to produce music and music production software.