Comment by leviathant

I don't have a direct lead for you, but this sounds like it's tracker music (music written on Modtracker, Screamtracker, Impulse Tracker, Fasttracker, etc.) - I'd hazard a guess that it was recorded in the mid-to-late 90s.

Unfortunately, the only clue you have to its origin - "candyman" - is the name of a film being actively promoted right now, so it's going to be even more difficult to chase down than it was even just a few months ago.

It's possible that the name of the MP3 is a reference to the person who wrote the music, or it could be the name of the song they wrote. I've found at least five different "candyman" musicians doing tracker music, demoscene music, cracktro music, etc., the actual files are hard to come by, and the music I do find is techno, but not the same genre.

I could see the tune you linked being played over the end credits of some demoscene disk.

Anyway - I'm pretty sure that what you're listening to is an MP3 of a tracker file.

Every little bit of information helps :)