Go here for music to support scenes of forensic investigations, information analysis and investigations / detective work. This music often has a sense of mystery and 'puzzles' combined perhaps with feelings of technology and cutting-edge investigation techniques and tools. Shows like CSI, Silent Witness, real-life crime documentaries, criminal investigation programs and films often use music in this genre. In some of these tracks, you can almost hear the ticking of the machinery, the thought processes that solve the conondrums and find that vital part of information that solves the puzzle.
An ambient film soundtrack cue with a very mysterious edge. Pensive, slowly moving soundscape, like hiding, sneaking, or breaking and entering. A subtle rhythmic element enters about half way through along with a deep drone, giving the track a darker, more ominous edge. Great for crime thriller, investigative documentary, a tense moment during reality show or forensic investigation, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 109 BPM]
A dark, cold and damp TV or film underscore cue. Pensive, unnerving and unsettling, this piece is suitable for a scene in a crime mystery, horror flick or perhaps a criminal documentary featuring evil or the occult, gruesome discoveries in forensics, crime scene investigation, etc. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A nice mix of Jazz, Funk and Hip Hop. Laidback, positive and cool. Featuring Rhodes, vintage synths and a terrific drum and bass groove. [Tempo: Medium / 91 BPM]
An intense and fun action cue with driving percussion rhythms, orchestral energy, and big drums, underscoring anything from a major heist to a victorious getaway. Very much in the vein of John Powell's "Bourne" and "Italian Job" scores and the scores of Hanz Zimmer and Steve Jablonsky ("Batman Begins" and "Transformers"). [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
A driving and emotional dramatic cue with a thematic interlude underscoring anything from a kidnapping search to an innocent fugitive on the run. Orchestral with rhythmic percussion, piano, strings, and brass. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
"Constructing the Machine". A pulsing and building orchestral thriller montage cue underscoring anything from working mathematical formulas to constructing a time machine. Rhythmic percussion, brass, strings, ambient fx, electronic instruments. [Tempo: Medium / 128 BPM]
A subtle comedy cue underscoring anything from a sneaky plan to a silly hideout. Sneaking around, scheming, hiding, playing spy. Pizzicato strings, clarinet, flute, and piano. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 98 BPM]
Clean electric guitar textures. Ambient, dreamy, easy. [Tempo: Slow / 72 BPM]
Pulsating and pensive, film/TV-score. Combination of orchestral and electronic elements. A sense of danger, urgency, dire situations. Good for dramatic Reality-TV, film score, movie soundtrack, film trailer or game trailer. Dangerous situations, emergency, build-up to a confrontation or hostile encounter, etc. [Tempo: Fast / 76 BPM]
Reflective piano-led theme, with underlying percussion. Thoughtful, insightful music. Good music for drama, film/TV, and media use. [Tempo: Slow / 101 BPM]
Downtempo hip hop beatz, strange, weird, a little trippy or dreamy. Slightly jazzy elements with skewed chords and very subtle hints of a jazz sax. Warm, dreamy electric Rhodes piano overlays. Dark and dramatic. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A pulsating and pensive, dark underscore. Good for thriller, crime, forensics, investigation, dark subjects. [Tempo: Very slow / 60 BPM]
Playful, mid-tempo swingtime live jazz quartet. Cheeky, groovy feelgood acoustic jazz. Drums, upright bass, piano, tenor saxophone. [Tempo: Medium / 148 BPM]
Softly swaying, live acoustic jazz built on a repeated bass pattern. Instrumental interplay, mellow and breezy style with some jazz improvisation. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A sweeping, softly swaying, romantic chillout music. Orchestral strings and piano, joined a little later by a laidback,subtle, Enigma-like beat. Flute also joins in later. Sensual and emotional. A mix between the classic (string orchestra, piano, flute) and the modern (laidback drum machine beat). Classy, elegant, delicate. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
Jazzy, fresh funk groove. Lively slap bass and jazzy melody licks with muted trumpet. Upbeat, excited. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A subtle background pulse with light, positive melody parts. Mid-tempo groove, comforting and pleasant. Good for information update, weather forecast, world view, data stream and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
Fresh, juicy downtemo hip-hop track. Fat beats and synth textures mixed with some older sounding, slightly grainy elements. The old meets the new, inner city stories. Urban, funky hiphop. [Tempo: Medium, Slow / 80 BPM]
Very staccato, urban hip-hop inspired beatz with a sense of mystery and intrigue. Good for urban scenes, film/background, inner city stories, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Hip-Hop track with a mysterious / mystery feel. Scratching with howls, sinewave synths and later a deep swelling bass. [Tempo: Medium / 98 BPM]
Classic mystery themes in the style of popular TV series, composed by Yuri Sazonoff. Some of these are recorded entirely with a live orchestra, others with a combination of orchestral and electronic elements, like so much of television music today. Good for drama, tv mystery, law & crime, intrigue and story telling. [Tempo: Medium / 67 BPM]
A mysterious guitar arpeggio over an hypnotic drum beat and eerie pads. 3 minute cut with added parts, intro & outro. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
Is this business as usual or a front for an illegal operation? Suspenseful underscore, featuring odd-meter orchestral/electronic rhythmic vamp which gives the feeling of a working process, but at the same time of mischief, something not-quite-right. Good for mystery films and documentaries on crime. Key of D, 104 bpm. [Tempo: Slow / 103 BPM]
Sultry, hypnotic smooth jazz love song features flowing flugelhorn and 5-piece powerhouse horn section. Perfect for the bedroom or an evening out. [Tempo: Medium / 76 BPM]
Urban funky coolness with muted trumpet lead. [Tempo: Slow / 68 BPM]
Vocal ballad with piano and female vocal. [Tempo: Medium / 68 BPM]
Electro-Ambient / Downtempo / Electro chill. Dreamy / floating / slow pulsating rhythm. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 50 BPM]
Downtempo Electro Chill. Dreamy / Quirky / Odd / Otherworldly. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
Downtempo electro space-grooves. Deep & funky, slowly developing electronic soundscapes with hypnotizing, downtempo beat. [Tempo: Medium / 86 BPM]
Slow, oozing and sizzling, deep soundscapes with a very slow, down tempo beat. Ambient-Electro crossing over into Relaxation or Chill-Out. [Tempo: Slow / 64 BPM]
Chilled out ambient electronica. Spacious and warm synth melody, filtered percussion, cool tripped out beats, sliding sub bassline and uplifting strings. Atmospheric and reflective. Great for night time scenes, exploration, contemplation and much more. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 75 BPM]
Chilled out mid tempo electronica. Distorted 909 drums, lush pads, bright pulsey synth, rolling sub bassline, wide gritty beats. Atmospheric, reflective, soaring, meaningful and cool. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
A mellow, funky trip-hop track with spacey moog synth, spoken vocals, vinyl scratching, sax samples and laidback beat. Perfect for creating a dark, lounging, contemporary vibe. Available with or without a female vocal occasionally saying "I'm Feeling You". [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
Ethnic soul - stirring Indian music. Depicts spirit, character, attitude, outlook, approach, essence of a situation. Tabla, dholak, duff, sitars, santoor, morchang, udo pots, flute. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Short but poignant piece with an ambient piano backed up by strings and synths, creating a sense of regret and sorrow. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
An ominous, murky and slightly intimidating theme, played on the marimba giving it an almost tribal sound, along with various other percussive instruments to add a little more urgency. [Tempo: Medium / 130 BPM]
Eerie vocals, in the vein of Danny Elfman. The slow pace, child-like rhythm and spooky vocals give the track give it a darker edge. Other instruments include the celeste, harp and synths. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 83 BPM]
Dramatic trailer music that mixes electronic instruments and strings. It is split into two sections: tension/build up and then a full onslaught. This makes it work well in trailers that have exposition in the first half, then fast cuts and action in the second. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 145 BPM]
A lonely wash drifts across a desert landscape. Sweltering, torrid & extra dry. Mysterious, haunting, uneasy. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A slow, pulsating, rather ominous and pensive rhythm sets the scene for a track that develops into an expansive, open aural vista. It has a sense of something important happening, something amazing approaching. It keeps growing into a glorious crescendo until finally all is revealed at the climax. A great track for when you want to build expectation and excitement towards the revealing moment. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Loungy Funk Pop with a positive mood and groovy funk elements. The catchy sounds and some melodic variations fits well with advertising. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
Aggressive track of evolving suspense and tension, odd and mysterious at times, dark and ominous at times. A punch in your face! [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 123 BPM]
A sci-fi oriented track that we had trouble finding the right category for, featuring sputtering, arpeggiating analogue synthesizers, space echoes, weird spacey sounds. Desolate. Isolation, paranoia, horror, space, scifi. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Slow, mysterious electronica/chillout – spacious synths and hypnotic bassline. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A suggestive track for mystery and intrigue. Piano and strings give this track a classic mystery feel, and can also work for contemporary drama. A story unfolding… all is not what it seems. [Tempo: Medium / 81 BPM]
Electronic underscore with warm piano, spacey synthesizer and lush pads. Explorer, keep moving forward feel. Mystical, eerie. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A mystical tension, suspense / action track with orchestral and hybrid elements. Simmering tension, with a dark atmospheres. Ominous, foreboding. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Calm, atmospheric ambient track with a sense of technology, science or space. Subtle and ethereal. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Thoughtful, contemplative, reflective piece. Piano is joined by orchestral strings and then develops into a full orchestral arrangement a bit further in. Story-like, intriguing, developing. Suitable for drama and storytelling. [Tempo: Slow / 68 BPM]
A pulsing and pensive musical background for mystery, intrigue, processing, analyzing or perhaps just a story unfolding before our eyes. This music track has a slight sense of mechanical or perhaps clockwork- it starts with a simple pizzicato pulse and develops over time, but always keeps its initial nerve and sense of activity and problem solving. Mysterious / Forensics / Undercover Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 86 BPM]