Welcome to Soundtracker Museum

How a teenager from Kassel became one of the most influential composers in the history of computer and video game music...

By the late 1990s, the golden age of the tracker seemed to be winding down. FastTracker 2 and Impulse Tracker had defined...

In Eastern Helsinki, one of the most quietly influential figures in both the demoscene and the international IDM/ambient scene has spent over three decades making music...

Long before Lassi Nikko was releasing records on Warp under the name Brothomstates, he was known to a much smaller, tighter-knit audience as Dune — one of the most respected musicians of the 1990s demoscene...

From the Commodore 64's SID chip to the Atari ST's Yamaha YM2149 and the Amstrad CPC's AY-3-8912, 8-bit and 16-bit sound chips still fascinate composers and coders decades later. Artificial intelligence is quietly becoming a useful companion in this scene — not to replace the craft, but to speed up the tedious parts and open new creative doors...

Before any of that snowballed, though, there was a very first file — the very first piece of music ever composed in the format Obarski invented. He wrote it for a colleague of his, using his own brand-new tool, as the soundtrack to a video game...

Aleksi Eeben grew up in Finland with an early fascination for both music and computers. As a child he experimented with rhythm and singing, picked up simple programming tutorials from computer magazines, and began writing his own code...