Suspenseful thriller underscore. Ticking rhythm giving a sense of counting down. Sneaky strings, spy-like electric piano. International conflict, thriller, inspired by the music in films like 'The Interpreter' and TV series like '24', etc. [Tempo: Fast / 113 BPM]
These dark horror cues can be classed either as "music cues" or "sound effects", as in reality they function as both. They are all recorded with a large, live symphony orchestra with the same quality as any soundtrack from big budget movies. The effects are easy to loop and edit, and can be tailored to fit any cue, as they can be used from virtually any point. Consider them a construction kit to score horror, mystery and dark drama. Recorded, mastered, and delivered to you in pristine 24-bit audio. Also look for YS Horror Cues 01-20 and YS Horror Cues 41-60. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Medium intensity slowish rocker with beautiful lead guitar playing the part of lead vocals. Spacey clean guitars and simple lead lines gradually build towards the catchy chorus section. Very colourful and emotive. [Tempo: Medium / 129 BPM]
Hypnotic, groovy, trance-inducing electronic chill track that you might hear in a night club on pluto, if you're ever passing by that way.Just sit back, get your groove on & enjoy the spectacle of the interstellar superfreaks. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Nervous action / thriller underscore. Stakeout, movement, urgency, ticking bomb. This track has a strong and tense nerve, as if everything is going to blow at any second. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 131 BPM]
Strong, eerie trailer style horror / suspense royalty free stock music with insane and never ending risers to build huge tension both in the full piece and the cuts. Evil / Dark / Epic music. [Tempo: Slow / 96 BPM]
Dark ominous and anticipatory sustains and sound effects, a repeated abstract and odd figure with a pensive edge. [Tempo: Very slow / 109 BPM]
A dark, ambient, electronic piece, with ominous bass and synth tracks. Elements of science fiction are present, with an overall sound that sits tensely just below the boiling point. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A powerful mix of syncopated synths, dramatic, fast accented strings and breakdown beats. Ideal for reality TV cues when firing contestants as well as other dramatic cues such as Celebrity Apprentice, Survivor and Hell's Kitchen. Mob hits and urban chase scenes with bad guys on the move. [Tempo: Medium / 130 BPM]
Documentary or reality-TV style background music. Very pensive, with a a feeling of urgency, critical situation, danger, urgent investigations, rescue operations, etc. Great for reality shows, investigative journalism, crime reporting and much more. Also good for gameshow with problem solving while time is counting down. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Grand orchestral track with a strong mystery / fantasy feel. Magical, amazing, a little bit scary, but very exciting and adventurous. Dark forces / Mysterious creatures. Good for cinematic trailer, adventure & magic, movies, games and more. Available with or without the choir. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 69 BPM]
Ominous and tense, semi-orchestral action or sci-fi track. Danger or evil forces. Also suitable as music for TV Reality Drama, crime, accidents, fire or other extreme danger. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 125 BPM]
Cinematic retro synth wave; this track was created using only two vintage hardware synthesizers; a Moog Minimoog model D and a Prophet 5. Strangely futuristic and vintage at the same time. Ambient / Eerie / Synthetic / Retro / Mystery. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Like music from deep space or a molecular structure, this ambient music track features scattered sounds, signals and rhythms in interwoven textures. Good for science, technology, documentary, history, space, science fiction, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 112 BPM]
A very pensive underscore track, suitable for drama or thriller. Thoughtful, a sense of time passing, clues coming into place. Starts out with a simple piano and grows in intensity towards a frantic crescendo at about 01:15 before returning to the original, sparse theme once again. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 139 BPM]
A slow, relentless synth bass pulse is the foundation for this foreboding track. With string section and subtle piano joining in later, this is a dark, urban piece of music suitable for film or other media. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Dramatic rising cinematic track driven by powerful percussion. The track begins calmly and builds to a powerful conclusion. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
This dark and gloomy horror track starts out with only a few dark piano notes. Other elements such as distant voices, metal scrapes join to create a creepy and eerie horror musical soundscape. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A weird and different piece. Very eerie, spooky, strange and hard to classify. Led by a single soprano voice, the track soon rises up to a monolithic, scary, larger-than-life mystery. Magic, witchcraft, halloween, fantasy, evil lair, strange lands, mystical places... [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 55 BPM]
A Percussion Only track, with marching snares, military march. Occasional big drum strikes. Useful as music for scenes of war, war preparation, battle preparations, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A very dark film soundtrack underscore cue featuring bowed metals, drones and a subdued percussion section with a tribal feel. A few well placed spanish guitar tones adds a sense of drama and emotion. Great for thriller, crime mystery, documentary, urgent situation. [Tempo: Slow / 108 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a mass epidemic. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Slow / 77 BPM]
Dark and ominous percussion, anxious, ritualistic, tribal, fear, malevolence. For more in this style, please see the genre Ambient: Dark/Sinister [Tempo: Slow / 104 BPM]
Cool and contemporary tech house, cyclic and grinding synth bass, tight rhythmical beats and lush atmospheric pad. Motivated and full of energy. [Tempo: Medium / 118 BPM]
Nicely upbeat, cool and rhythmic. A very versatile instrumental song that could be used in many areas. Sports, statistics, technology, iphones, gaming, activity, background music, presentation, advertisement. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Dramatic, epic track suitable for trailers, action scenes and more. Dark and powerful staccato percussion, joined by choir and big brass. Powerful, uprising, glorifying. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 139 BPM]
This track is a frightening dark ambient music bed that is well suited for horror, thrillers, suspense, fantasy footage, as welll as video games. It has haunting overtones that make a nice tension builder. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A subtle orchestral film soundtrack underscore, nervous and dark with a feeling of mystery and hidden truths. Delicate, frail strings, mysterious woodwinds, sneaky backdrop. Good for drama, exploration, danger, lurking and sneaking, unfolding story. Dark and pensive, but not openly horror or terror. More suspicion, exploration in a dark place. Good for film and TV, also for adventure games etc. [Tempo: Very slow / 81 BPM]
An obstinate piano riff and synthesizer line, joined by electronic drums, create am atmosphere of fear, darkness, mystery and foreboding in this hip hop track. Good for use in moderate action scenes, thrillers, game shows, chase scenes and much more. [Tempo: Medium / 98 BPM]
A song of dark exploration and discovery. Strange, spacey and meaningful. Will work well in areas such as astronomy, spirituality, discovery, meditation, relaxation, psychology, paranormal and exploration. Like venturing into the unknown. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 80 BPM]
Orchestral hits and numerous rises and falls make this a dramatic track that tells a story. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 125 BPM]
Thrilling chase feel, orchestral with electronic elements and guitars. Powerful, dark, busy, fast, tense and cold with a slight industrial edge. [Tempo: Fast / 132 BPM]
Pensive, slowly brooding, orchestral adventure style track. Hints of an epic theme, with a tense, dangerous undertow. Good for fantasy, grand adventures, travel, imminent danger, daring missions, brave explorers, etc. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Grand, edgy, epic, powerful, tense, moody, dynamic, bombastic, dangerous, dramatic, thrilling, climactic music with great suspense & an air of excitement & expectation. Make the right decision - win or lose millions! Would suit thriller / action / extreme sports / combat type projects. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 135 BPM]
Horror Mystery Soundtrack. Rhythmic / Twisted / Tribal / Chase / Urgent. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
This soundtrack is written in the best traditions of the genre of spy James Bond. Anxiety, uncertainty, analytical thinking, investigation, crime mystery. Symphonic orchestra, medium tempo, cinematic. Well suite for the movie project and video background too. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 140 BPM]
A brash and up-front theme tune for commercials, TV shows, youth culture, games and more. Similar to the style of TV shows such as X-Factor, Pop Idol / American Idol, various MTV shows, etc. Stirring and exciting, combining elements of pop, rock and dance music. Good for branding, TV, pop culture, theme tune, etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
A mysterious cloud of sounds made up of guitar effects and synths creates a sense of subtle uneasiness. About halfway in, the action intensifies with big drums ushering in a sense of urgency. The music later dissolves to the same sense of mystery it started with. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
Pulsating sound design track with subtle but nervous percussion. Expectant, foreboding and slightly menacing. Good for use in thriller, action / adventure, sci-fi and sci-tek, future warfare, technology or suspense / action. Tense. Starts to build in intensity from 2:00 onwards and reaches a climax / crescendo at 02:55. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 115 BPM]
Dark, pounding, progressive trance. Hard, distorted synths in staccato pulses. Massive and foreboding. [Tempo: Very fast / 138 BPM]
Groovy piano pop track with great forward momentum, a sense of drama and suspense and a catchy, tv theme type chorus. Would suit tv soap/medical drama/documentary projects. [Tempo: Fast / 104 BPM]
Cool, trancey & hypnotic electro-groove track. Spacey and slightly dark synth drones cross with various synth, organ, mellotron & guitar lines. Very beaty. [Tempo: Medium / 121 BPM]
A sense of impending doom builds from distant bells to sinister cellos, drums & a climax at 2:45. [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
Retro funk drums and funky clav are joined by futuristic electronic sounds, to create an unusual & eclectic form of urban jazz groove. [Tempo: Fast / 105 BPM]
Like the music for a Trans-Universal bus or train ride, as many new and unusual images drift past your window. Syncopated drum and synth arrays lay a foundation for simple piano chords and strings to float over. Contains drum unit, synths, bass and strings. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
This track has an eerie mood, yet still suggesting hints of something whmsical, and perhaps mischievous. It would be well suited for footage and video games about horror, fantasy and paranormal subject matter. [Tempo: Slow / 134 BPM]
Simple snare drum pattern. Dead man walking / walking to execution / walking the plank, etc. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A stomper of a royalty free dance music track. Big drums and phatt bass combine with synth lines and sequences to produce a very spacey yet driving track. Full of impetus and positive driving energy. Would suit action sequences. [Tempo: Very fast / 162 BPM]
Ambient / Electronica / Film score. Forward motion with Orchestral drum. Lingering. Pensive. Suspicious. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 100 BPM]
Ambient textures open this mysterious horror track. Heavy horror stabs punctuate the atmospheric layers. Subtle percussive rhythms give a light sense of propulsion, and a distant piano plays a sweet and creepy melody. Perfect for horror films and haunted houses. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
