Five Musicians was a demo group / netlabel

Netlabel

A netlabel is a record label that distributes its music through digital audio formats over the Internet...

 with origins in the demoscene

Demoscene

The demoscene is a computer art subculture that specializes in producing demos, which are non-interactive audio-visual presentations that run in real-time on a computer...

. It was active between the years 1995

1995 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1995.- January–February :*January 18 – Jerry Garcia crashes his rented BMW into a guard rail near Mill Valley, California, USA, but is not injured in the accident....

 and 2000

2000 in music

See also:* 2000 in music Record labels established in 2000-Events:*January – Gary Glitter is released from jail, two months before his sentence for sexual offences ends.*January 1**John Tavener is knighted in the New Year's Honours List....

. The idea of limiting the group to only five members caused the group to be very selective. As a result, they created a number of very high-quality releases, and became one of the most influential early netlabels. The first FM FTP

File Transfer Protocol

File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server...

-server became what is known today as scene.org

Scene.org

Scene.org is a non-profit organization, providing the currently largest demoscene file repository. It was founded in 1996 by Jaakko "Mellow-D" Manninen, though originally it existed as ftp.fm.org, an FTP-server for releases from the group Five Musicians. In 1997, it re-opened as Scene.org...

.

Chronological list of members

• Andrew Sega
  Andrew Sega
  Andrew Gregory Sega , also known by the moniker Necros, is an American musician best known for tracking modules in the 1990s demoscene as well as for composing music for several well-known video games...
  
   (Necros)
• Jaakko Manninen (Mellow-D / MD)
• Dan Gardopée
  Dan Gardopée
  Daniel Gardopée aka Dan Grandpre is an electronic musician and former member of game music production company Straylight Productions...
  
  , also known as Grandpre (Basehead)
• James Storer
  James Storer
  James Storer is a rugby league player. He is a Fijian international.-External links:*...
  
   (Big Jim)
• Jonne Valtonen
  Jonne Valtonen
  Jonne Valtonen is an award-winning Finnish composer, arranger and orchestrator. He is renowned for his contributions in the field of demoscene and video game music.- Life and early career :...
  
   (Purple Motion)
• Ariel Gross (Stalker) http://spoomusic.com/
• Victor van Vlaardingen (Vic)
• Erik Stridell (Zodiak)
• Jeroen Tel
  Jeroen Tel
  Jeroen Godfried Tel is a Dutch composer. Best known for numerous computer game tunes he wrote in the 1980s and early 1990s for the Commodore 64, Tel is a founding member of the computer music group Maniacs of Noise....
  
   (WAVE)
• Hans Van Vliet (Hunz
  Hunz
  Hunz is an electronic pop music group from Brisbane, Australia. The name Hunz can refer to either the group or its composer, keyboardist and vocalist, Hans van Vliet....
  
  )

External links

• Five Musicians website (now defunct)
• spoomusic.com Internet-based record label created by stalker, now producing music under the moniker sp00 with colleague Ramenboy
• Alpha Conspiracy Current musical project of Necros
• Kschzt.com Website for Jaakko Manninen (now recording as Kschzt)
• MD's discography on Discogs.com
• hunz.com.au Web site for Hunz
• ModArchive music listing for Basehead
• ModArchive music listing for Big Jim
• ModArchive music listing for Mellow-D
• ModArchive music listing for Necros
• ModArchive music listing for Purple Motion
• ModArchive music listing for stalker
• ModArchive music listing for WAVE
• ModArchive music listing for Zodiak