- 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. - 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, … - 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, … - Rad Man
Christian Wirth, better known by the pseudonym RaD Man, is a computer artist and historian. He works in the field of ANSI art, a method of creating art using a limited set of text characters and color escape codes based loosely on the relevant ANSI standard (X3.64: Control Sequences for Video Terminals and Peripherals). RaD Man was initially involved in the Aces of ANSI Art (AAA), … - Mark Knight
Mark Knight, also known as madfiddler, "TDK", or The Dark Knight (born January 8, 1973, in Brighton, England) is a well-known Amiga demoscene musician and video game composer/sound designer. As a member of Melon Dezign and Anthrox, his chip music sounds often appeared in Crystal cracktros for the Fairlight group among others. As a game musician, he converted several existing game tunes to the Amiga, … - 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. - 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. - Karsten Obarski
Karsten Obarski (born May 11 1965), handle "Obi", is considered a pioneer of the demoscene for the creation of the music creation program "Ultimate Soundtracker", the ancestor of all tracker programs. - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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". - 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. - 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. - 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. - Thomas Pytel
Tomasz (aka Thomas) Pytel is a Polish-American programmer, better known as Tran / Renaissance in the demoscene. He is notable for the creating the Timeless demo in 1994, and for co-creating the PMODE DOS extender with Charles Scheffold (a.k.a Daredevil). He was also the designer of the PC game Zone 66. After that, he went to 3D Realms and was one of lead programmers on Prey. - Jori Olkkonen
Jori Olkkonen, current name Petrik Salovaara and known in the demoscene as Yip/Pure-Byte, is one of the most widely known Finnish computer game musicians of the 1980s, making music for Commodore 64. Some of his most widely known pieces of music are "Omega Man" and "Scroll Machine", latter of which was used in the high-score list music of the game "BMX Kidz" (the main game music was composed by Rob Hubbard). - Arjan Brussee
Arjan Brussee (born 1972) is a Dutch computer game programmer. He's notable for being the main coder behind both "Jazz Jackrabbit" games and "Tyrian". He's currently working on "Killzone 2" at Guerrilla Games as a development director. He is often credited with being the first successful Dutch game developer, sometimes mentioned as "the godfather of Dutch game development". Arjan used to be one of the most well known demoscene coders. - Yannis Brown
Yannis Brown is a composer and sound designer for portable devices and consoles. He grew up in Adelaide, Australia. He began playing keyboards by ear at the age of 4 and started composing music around the age of 13. He then moved on to writing MOD Tracker formats on the Commodore Amiga since 1989 and later IBM PC around 1993. He was heavily involved with the music part of the DemoScene and ran Groovy Compo - a bi-weekly Tracker based internet competition first started by Mick Rippon. - Ari Pulkkinen
Ari "artz" Pulkkinen is a Finnish musician with a background in the tracker music demoscene. He won won many music competetitions and made his first big public album to accompany a freeware game named "StarFight VI: Gatekeepers" in 1999. His production, for Frozenbyte, of the soundtrack for the computer game Shadowgrounds generated wide-ranging interest and was released separately as an unusual Finnish commercial soundtrack. - 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, … - Frank Seemann
Frank Seemann (nicknamed as Tao or Tao/Cream) is a known Atari ST demoscene musician with coding abilities related to music. He is the longest active Atari ST chip musician, and member of the Cream demoscene crew. Tao is known also for developing software like JAM for Windows, Magic Synth, and several special YM effects like sineSID and syncbuzzer. - Heinz Rudolf
Heinz Rudolf was born in Germany in 1968. He got in touch with Computers in 1983 by buying a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. The following year he spent learning to program in BASIC and Z80 machine language on this machine. Beside a few games, he mainly worked on teaching software before he switched to the Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga. On those machines he worked as a freelance programmer and pixel graphician in the early 90s. - Marco Foco
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- Jetro Lauha
Software Engineer with lots of experience in optimized software for games with realtime graphics, mobile devices and internet middleware software. Have worked as Lead Programmer in several projects. Long "demoscene" career as a hobby, with many awarded productions. Some widely distributed hobby game projects such as the "Porrasturvat - Stair Dismount" -game and its sequels. - Reko Nokkanen
Generalist graphic artist with experience in both on-line and off-line media with strong teamleading skills. Specialicing currently in illustration, concept art and game design. - Raimo Gratseff
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