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.

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.

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, …

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.

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".

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 (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.

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".

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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, …

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.

Jochen Hippel (born October 14, 1971) is a musician from Kirchheimbolanden in southwest Germany. He played one of the most prominent roles in computer music during the 16-bit microcomputer era, composing the music for 10's of games. He was also an experienced Amiga programmer and ported many of Thalion Software's Atari ST titles.

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, …

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.

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 (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.

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).

Jeroen Kimmel (aka RED) (born February 6, 1968) is a Dutchman known for numerous computer game tunes he wrote in the 1980s and early 1990s for the Commodore 64. Kimmel was a member of the computer demo group "The JudgeS". His most popular compositions appear in the following Commodore 64 Games or Demos: * Rhaa Lovely by The Judges (Music) * Crazy Sample II by The Judges (Code, Music) * Red Hubbard (Code, …

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.

Misko Iho (ex. Mikko) (born May 9 1975 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish commercial film director.

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, …

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.

George Valavanis (George Vala) is a producer, composer, sound designer, musician, and audio engineer. Having established himself as a composer through the years with ATI, Valavanis is now the Audio Director and Senior Sound Designer for Blue Fang Games in Waltham, MA, maker of Microsoft's popular Zoo Tycoon franchise.

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

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.