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Calvin Harris
Scottish electronic music producer and DJ (born 1984)
Aphex Twin
British electronic musician (born 1971)
Deadmau5
Joel Thomas Zimmerman (born January 5, 1981), known professionally as Deadmau5 (pronounced "dead-mouse", and stylized in all lowercase), is a Canadian electronic music producer and DJ. His musical style mostly includes progressive house and electro house genres, though he also produces and DJs other genres of electronic music, including techno under the alias Testpilot. Zimmerman mostly appears and performs with a custom helmet called the "mau5head". He has received seven Grammy Award nominations and won four Juno Awards for his songs.
Darude
Toni-Ville Henrik Virtanen (; born 17 July 1975), better known by his stage name Darude (), is a Finnish DJ and record producer from Eura, Satakunta. His music is characterised by its progressive/uplifting style. He started making music in 1995 and released the platinum-selling hit single "Sandstorm" in late 1999. His debut studio album, Before the Storm, was released on 18 September 2000, and sold 800,000 copies worldwide, earning Darude three Finnish Grammy Awards. It peaked at number one on Finland's Official List and number 6 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart in the United Sta
Koji Kondo
Japanese composer and pianist (born 1961)
C418
Daniel Rosenfeld (born 9 May 1989), known professionally as C418 (pronounced "See-Four-Eighteen"), is a German musician, composer, and producer, and sound designer. Known for his minimalistic ambient work, he rose to fame as the original composer and sound designer for the 2011 sandbox video game Minecraft. Acclaimed for its nostalgic value and relaxing quality, his music for the game is considered one of the greatest video game soundtracks ever composed.
Axwell
Axel Christofer Hedfors (; born 18 December 1977), better known by his stage name Axwell, is a Swedish DJ, record producer, remixer and owner of Axtone Records. He is a member of Swedish House Mafia along with Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello. He is a two-time DJ Awards winner, and in 2013 he was placed 19th on the DJ Magazine Top 100 DJ Poll.
Infected Mushroom
Israeli psytrance/electronica duo
Jesper Kyd
Danish composer and sound designer
Thomas Bergersen
Norwegian composer, co-founder of Two Steps from Hell
AronChupa
Aron Michael Ekberg (born 30 March 1991), better known by his stage name AronChupa, is a Swedish music producer and DJ. His 2014 song "I'm an Albatraoz" reached number 1 on the Swedish Singles Chart and in Denmark, and top 10 in many charts across Europe. It also reached number 25 in the UK and number 10 in the US dance charts. His younger sister, Nora Ekberg, better known professionally as Little Sis Nora, provided the vocals for the track and starred in the music video, but never appeared as featured artist on the track. The music video has surpassed 1.5 billion views on YouTube.
Susumu Hirasawa
Japanese singer-songwriter, lyricist, composer, music producer
Hirokazu Tanaka
Japanese composer
Hitoshi Sakimoto
Japanese composer
Yuzo Koshiro
Japanese composer
Astrix
Avi Shmailov () known by his stage name Astrix, is an Israeli trance music DJ and producer. His specialty lies in the subgenre of progressive psychedelic trance. In 2006, Astrix achieved the 41st position in DJMag's "Top 100 DJs" annual ranking, alongside several other Israeli musicians, with Infected Mushroom ranking the highest at #9. The following year, in 2007, Astrix climbed to the 18th spot on the list, marking a significant representation of the Israeli electronic music scene in the global rankings.
Rob Hubbard
British composer
Chris Hülsbeck
German video game music composer
Anamanaguchi
Anamanaguchi is an American chiptune-based pop and rock band from New York City. The band has four members: lead songwriters and guitarists Peter Berkman and Ary Warnaar, bassist James DeVito, and drummer Luke Silas.
Blue Stahli
American electronic music project
ACiD Productions
demogroup
Ethan Kath
Canadian musician
Jeroen Tel
Dutch composer
Shinji Hosoe
Video game composer and musician
Neophyte
Dutch gabber group
Jake Kaufman
American composer
Jezper Söderlund
Swedish musician
Freezepop
Freezepop is an American electronic band from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, formed in 1999 by Liz Enthusiasm, Sean T. Drinkwater, and The Duke of Pannekoeken (an alias for Kasson Crooker). Since December 2009, the current lineup includes Enthusiasm, Drinkwater, Robert John "Bananas" Foster, and Christmas Disco-Marie Sagan. The band is named after the frozen snack, and they have described their music as "sweet and cold and fruity and plastic-y".
Bogdan Raczynski
Polish-American electronic musician
Osdorp Posse
Dutch rap group
David Whittaker
British video game composer
Martin Galway
British musician
Alexander Brandon
American musician
Michiel van den Bos
Dutch composer
Bjørn Lynne
Norwegian sound engineer and composer
Ugress
Ugress is an electronica project from Bergen, Norway, the main project of electronic musician Gisle Martens Meyer (GMM). Meyer started his music career in the early 1990s making Scream Tracker and Fast Tracker modules under the alias Gnosis. Among Meyer's other projects are Nebular Spool, Shadow of the Beat and Ninja9000 as well as scoring soundtracks for moving pictures and several TV-shows.
Disasterpeace
Richard Vreeland (born June 29, 1986), better known by his stage name Disasterpeace, is an American composer and musician. He first got started in music after learning the guitar in high school and began writing music around the age of 17. Known for his work as a chiptune artist, Vreeland has scored numerous video games, including Fez and Hyper Light Drifter. He stepped into film score composition with the 2015 film It Follows, and has since composed the scores for Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Under the Silver Lake, Triple Frontier, and Bodies Bodies Bodies.
Barry Leitch
Scottish video game music composer
Jonne Valtonen
Finnish composer
Brothomstates
Brothomstates is one of the stage names of Lassi Nikko, a Finnish composer and 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 known for his complex and abstract melodies and unique sounding drum programming. His 1998 debut album kobn-tich-ey was amongst the first mp3-only LPs released.
Gustaf Grefberg
Swedish musician
Pedro Macedo Camacho
Portuguese composer
Tim Wright
Welsh video game music composer
Chipzel
Niamh Houston (born 23 September 1991), better known by her stage name Chipzel, is a musician from Northern Ireland. She is best known for making chiptune music, particularly with a Game Boy. She is also a video game music composer, and is known for the soundtracks of games such as Super Hexagon, Interstellaria, and Dicey Dungeons. Her music is also featured in other games such as Just Shapes and Beats and Spectra.
Andrew Sega
musician from America
Tim Follin
English video game music composer
Nasenbluten
Nasenbluten were an Australian electronic music group, formed in Newcastle in 1992. The group was made up of Aaron Lubinski, David Melo and Mark Newlands, and released six studio albums before disbanding in 2001. They have been described as a significant influence on the breakcore genre.
Max Tundra
British musician
Yasuaki Fujita
Japanese video game music composer
Manabu Namiki
Japanese composer (1971-)
Naoki Kodaka
Japanese video game musician
Simon Carless
British video game designer
Penelope Scott
American singer-songwriter
Motohiro Kawashima
Japanese video game composer and techno producer
Nicklas Nygren
Nicklas Nygren (born 6 January 1983), better known as Nifflas, is an independent Swedish video game developer. He is known for his freeware Knytt game series along with another freeware game, Within a Deep Forest. He has lived in Umeå, Sweden, and Copenhagen, Denmark.
Markus Kaarlonen
Finnish keyboardist
8 Bit Weapon
band
Machinedrum
Travis Stewart (born March 4, 1982), better known as Machinedrum, is an American electronic record producer and performer from North Carolina. He has also recorded as Syndrone and Tstewart. He is one half of Sepalcure, with Praveen Sharma, one half of JETS, with Jimmy Edgar, as well as half of Dream Continuum with Jim Coles, a.k.a. Om Unit.
Prevale
Italian DJ and producer
Peter Hajba
Finnish musician