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[DVDUFO]

Have you ever seen a DEMO ?
Demos are executables that have excellent graphic , animation & music . some of them  are incredibly little in size ( about 40KB - 100KB ).They were often used in Amiga and Commodore64 computers.
 
here is some Demos, its musics and screen shots:
 http://www.scene.org/topdownloads.php
 http://www.pixtur.de/demoreviews.eng.shtml
 http://www.calodox.scene.org/demoo/
 http://ada.untergrund.net/

I recommend you to download some of them and enjoy it !!!

I don`t know how music bundles with it or what type of music used in them, but result is very excellent .I tried to extract musics of them using some resource extractors but I failed to do this. Does any one know how can I extract them ?
And what about coders, who are they ? What does they do in creating demos ? are they some ones who makes animation ?

[fingersoup]

Demoscene is actually the birthplace of tracking as a hobbyist or amateur musician...

You see, back in the Amiga days, Karsten Obarski wrote Soundtracker.  It was embraced by the Amiga Music community.  Due to it's very technical nature, it was very easy for game programmers and the like to understand a grid, better than a score sheet.  Thus, Soundtracker made it's way to the homes of hundreds of amateur programmers who liked to break copy protections and include their signature in the splash screens and loaders for video games.

It was not long after that free alternatives to SoundTracker were made...  As demoscene floated away from the copyright-breaking business and more into the art of squeezing every last drop of goodness out of a platform in new, interesting and beautiful ways, Tracked music still remained a huge part of Demoscene.  MIDI doesn't sound that good, if you are stuck with General MIDI for compatibility reasons, and ANYONE can record an MP3 these days. Where's the skill in that?  But if you have a tracker, you can make some reasonably large tunes, at a reasonably small size, and write a playback engine in a reasonable amount of code (For traditional trackers at least).  Thus, Trackers are still a preferred source of music.

[d0us]

Yup, what fingersoup said.

I think most people heavily into tracking are very aware or are in some way involved in the demoscene