Excellence in Art was started around 1990-1991 by Per Almered.

Per's first passion (well, from age 4, at least) was playing the piano, but at 11 years old, the home computer boom of the early 80's swept him up, and he spent his early teens combining music and programming, primarily on the Spectravideo 328 (an MSX pre-cursor). Besides making nfinished games, he mainly made little "sort-of" demos in BASIC under the "Bach TP" handle, inspired by the amazing productions his friends with C64's would show him.

By the time of the Atari ST's arrival in Sweden, Per was programming less and less, music taking up almost all of his time. But the purchase of his first ST reawakened his interest in the Demoscene, which by this time (1988:ish) was starting to move forward in giant strides.

And so, around 1990, he started programming 68000 assembler, and he was hooked; the infinite possibilities of combining his passion for music with his daytime work as a graphic designer proved irresistible.

Thru the demoscene, he stumbled into the games industry, and by 1995, the interest in making Atari demos was overshadowed by web design and PC programming.

And so the years passed with the occasional "for fun" releases on C64, GameBoy Color and even a small release on the old Spectravideo, until in 2009, Evil/DHS managed to persuade Per to take a look at the latest in Atari ST/STE trackers, and he was hooked again.