Royalty-Free Music for crime mysteries and crime thillers; in particular, the tracks we've put in this area represent the music that we felt would go well with Gangsters, Drug dealers, Tough guys and general Bad-Asses. The music will tend to have a slow, mean beat, sometimes Hip-Hop or Urban based music but also sometimes more Orchestral / Classic style music that can be used to illustrate the Bad Guy in your production. This music will tend to have a cold, ruthless edge to it.
Hip Hop styled theme to the urban underworld. Groovey beats combine with plucked strings, synth pads and leads to make a hypnotic and unnervingly atmospheric soundscape. Don't look behind you. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
Starting with a simple & compelling staccato synth line, this slow paced Hip Hop track grows progressively from a sparse instrumentation to a full effect urban beat. Synthesizers, organ, & authentic hip hop drums. Good for crime and cop shows, investigation, mystery, night club, sensual scenes. [Tempo: Slow / 145 BPM]
Strong and determined Hip Hop with heavy brass and a methodical, relentless trap beat. Great for sports, edgy urban footage, street fashion, motivation, and determination. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Edgy, lively, groovy, motivated, driven electro rock tracks with bundles of tension, suspense & nervous energy. Synth bass & lush strings combine with lively drums and syncopated organ lines to make music suitable for thriller / action / crime in progress / jewel heist type projects. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
Edgy and energetic sports & action track, which starts with a quiet intro and keeps building to a frenetic climax. Catchy guitar riff, crunchy synths and breakbeat drive the track. It has an epic feel that would rock a stadium or music festival, and also a funk influence to give it a cool factor. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 116 BPM]
A dark, brooding piece. It starts with a low synthy bass. The melody is subtle, but grows with each iteration. It builds as it repeats itself. The last section adds a subtle rhythmic element, insinuating a growing nervousness. Perfect for a documentary or horror film/tv show. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 80 BPM]
Techno / breakbeat choppy and processed beats meet up with heavy metal guitar riffs in a gritty, grindy, industrial, techno-rock mash-up. Hectic / frantic, nervous and twitchy. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
Ambient textures on top of dubstep beats and atmospheric sounds. A chilled, eerie, drum'n bass influenced soundtrack. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 140 BPM]
Sneaky, suspicious underscore track for film, tv, media. Spy / Secret Agent / Crime. Sneaking, hiding, stalking, searching. Perhaps investigating or finding clues, or possible track and follow mission. Dark and mysterious. [Tempo: Slow / 92 BPM]
Downtempo hip-hop with staccato orchestral taps, great mix of classical and urban styles. Funky! [Tempo: Medium / 78 BPM]
A dirty and gritty funk music track with an ominous, foreboding feel. A nasty bass riff provides the basis for this somewhat doom-laden, edgy, electro/funk workout. Good stock music for crime, action, sports and much more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
Uptempo hip-hop with funky wah-wah guitar licks and a deep sub bass. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
This piece is subtle, quietly yearning and contains a beautiful tension. This tension could easily be an inner drama of the mind wrestling with dark emotions. Instruments include: piano, Chinese Kim, marimba, pizzicato strings, bass, synth pads, drums and soft percussion. Excellent for commercials, travel and drama/comedy based themes, as well as for mystery and intrigue, analysis and data gathering, puzzle / crime solving and much more. [Tempo: Medium / 142 BPM]
Minimal percussion, an eerie electric piano, pads and distant voices, all help build an atmosphere of sadness, melancholy and regret. Soft and delicate with a few harsh elements that keep a subtle tension... Thinking of what could have been, a life wasted, light rain falling on the pavement. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
A slow, pumping and sizzling guitar rock music track that builds in power and passion. Big sound / Stadium rock. Somewhat blues music feel. Masculine. Musky. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 73 BPM]
An atmospheric groove and guitar track that's calming and inspiring at the same time. A repetitive, jazzy bass pattern supports floating pads and sensitive guitar melodics. Somewhere between lounge, chillout, smooth jazz and blues. Tasteful and appealing. [Tempo: Medium / 81 BPM]
Edgy electronic underscore, with a feeling of urgency and danger. Complex and intricate but un-intrusive. [Tempo: Medium / 130 BPM]
Mysterious, gritty and somewhat dark urban / hip-hop beat with electronic drums, synthesizers and strings. It features male rap vocals accompanied by ethereal female vocal samples in the background. Atmospheric, pensive and sombre, this track would be good for thrillers, urban drama, crime, conspiracy films, action, film trailers, television dramas. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
Pensive and mysterious, rhythmic film/drama underscore. Science, technology, investigation, perhaps forensics or chemistry. Finding solutions, interpreting clues, maybe building up to something. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Jazzy, abstract intro. Grows in intensity as it goes along, and introduces new elements. Works well as an intro to something with high expectation. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 160 BPM]
A hard hitting, wall of noise type, guitar rock track drawing on classic and modern rock styles. Heavy chugging guitars, blasting drums, high energy level. Exciting, rough, dirty and grinding, with a dark edge. Good for things like dangerous stunts, wild sports, raw Nascar racing, extreme engine power, ultimate fighting championship, and much more. [Tempo: Fast / 100 BPM]
A cool, relaxed and chilled-out jazz / lounge track. Smooth bass lines, slightly dusty or smoky sound, warm and pleasant jazz chords. Soft jazz guitar solos. Note - this track has some "vinyl ticking" sounds added deliberately, to complement the mood. You will hear some slight scratching and ticking - this is not an error with the file. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 84 BPM]
A powerful and gutsy hard rock / metal track with guts and attitude, and with a bluesy edge. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 122 BPM]
A heavy, powerful metal / hard rock track which starts of with a very heavy, slow riff and soon goes into overdrive with a fast, raw, intense guitar rockout. [Tempo: Slow, Fast, Very fast / 153 BPM]
Fresh hip-hop, urban track with an inner-city or futuristic feel. Fat drum beats, funky bass line and cool synth licks in an upbeat, catchy piece. Suitable for productions about urban youth, crime, action and chase, night clubs, investigation, CSI-style. Also great for sexy and adult scenes. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A down and dirty, nasty beat and synth riff. Determined, controlled aggression. Combining elements of urban, rock, electronica and hip-hop. Similar to the sound of The Crystal Method. Pensive, confident, cool. [Tempo: Medium / 122 BPM]
A tough, uncompromising, state-of-the-art soundtrack. Its driving, futuristic sounds & orchestral pay off would suit Olympic sized sporting events, epic visuals, contemporary gaming, modern war themes, movie trailers & films. Stark instrumentation leaves room for narrative, epic sound design or added SFX. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 63 BPM]
Uptempo, bustling, hyper-active beats and electro grooves. A busy and complex drum section brings a sense of urgency, traffic, quick movement. Great for any media use where you need to bring out a sense of hurry, intensity and ahigh activity level. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 160 BPM]
Futuristic Hip Hop track with a sense of movement, achievement, success and triumph. New inventions and discoveries. Synthesizers arpeggios and paterns over pulsing hiphop drums. Good for corporate presentations, TV shows related to science, high technology and the future. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
A sparse and somber Trap background music track with dark and mysterious vibe that would align well with mystery, crime, investigation or forensics, but can also be used for edgy sports footage, masculine product presentations, and more. Dark / Urban / Edgy. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
Minimal Trap tune, also referred to as Bass Music, this track is fresh and current, with a pounding 808 bass drum and cool drum machine rolls. Trap Pop beat, in the style of Tropkillaz, Diplo, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Lil Wayne, Iggy Azalea and Drake. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
Simple powerful hard rocker with an Eastern flavour to the guitars parts and leads, giving it a great range of sonic colours. Very uptempo and energising.Would suit action/sports/thriller type projects. [Tempo: Fast / 100 BPM]
Intense, driven, exciting, adrenalised, thrilling progressive rock track with great urgency & forward momentum. A sound like Dream Theater or Symphony-X with some super heavy riffs and some parts more melodic. Also some use of 7/8ths time signature. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 113 BPM]
Classic surf rock sound. Fast picking, twangy guitars, Exotic Mexican/Latino feel. A dark edge, pensive, with a sense of danger. Nice for cool style surfing, also for historical / cultural, sports & events, retro fasion etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 91 BPM]
A ghoulish groove shrouded in mystery, atmospheric and forward moving. Ideal music for scenes in the sci-fi, horror or mystery genres. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 104 BPM]
A slow moving background track for drama and fiction. Serious subject matter, perhaps crime, criminal investigation or dark urban subjects. Slightly dreamy. Various mixes are available. This track shares its sound / production style with two other tracks, 'Turmoil 1 Suspicion' and 'Turmoil 2 Activate'. They can work well together, if you wish to keep a uniform sound / feel in your production. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 48 BPM]
A pulsating underscore track representing mystery and suspense. Perhaps espionage, difficult problem solving, technology or crime investigation. Low level bass pulse, digital pads and short synth pulses like signals or clues. [Tempo: Slow / 85 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]
Pounding guitar riff combined with a Industrial Dubstep beat. Metallic and glitchy tones, with an actual wobble Dubstep section. Lots of balls and an evil spirit. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 125 BPM]
Gritty 60's / 70's funk in the style of the Meters and the JB's. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Fast, frantic and hard hitting semi-orchestral, semi-electronic music for action, fight or racing scene. Distorted, twisted guitars, deep brass stabs, extremely fast techno breakbeat. Chase or battle material. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
A mechanical and technical sounding urban / drum'n bass track. Fast, dry and glitchy drums with synth sub-bass, digital signals and gritty sound elements. Trippy, futuristic, spacey and quirky, Good for science, space / space travel, cutting-edge technology, experimental science, micro organisms, Information Technology, DNA/forensics, movement and activity. Developing science. Edgy / industrial. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 170 BPM]
Tense, industrial trailer type track. Intro: 0'45'' – 0'45'', build: 0'46'' – 1'30'', climax starts at 1'32'. Starts tense and enigmatic, increases in intensity to tribal drums from 1'09''. Dramatic / Tension / Awe. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 85 BPM]
Guttural industrial sounds featuring low and distorted sound effects. Great for a heavy and mechanical feeling. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 101 BPM]
Funky, Hard Electronica / Dark Dub. With Grime and Drum'n Bass influences. Machine like / Robotic / Harsh / Gritty. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
Horror, scifi or thriller underscore featuring severely mangled guitar notes, deep thumping percussion and a disturbing drone. Like the desolate sound from the pits of hell, this is a very dark ambient track. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Atmospheric, spacey, slightly dark rock track with electronic elements and orchestra strings. Build-up towards the climax at 2:20. Conflict, Police / Agent, Undercover operation, Military operation etc. Futuristic / edgy / determined / science feel. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 160 BPM]
This hybrid pop music track combines the serious flavor of Tech narration cues with 80's-drenched Synthwave music. Its plucked synth motif is set against evocative synth bass, fluid pads and trap-inspired drums. A sense of intrigue and perilous excitement is evoked in this piece, excellent for themes, dramas, and style programming. Tech / Synthwave / Peril. [Tempo: Medium / 88 BPM]
Smooth, cool hip-hop style beats groove as echoey synth pads and talkbox leads float above. Very laid back... until the chorus comes where blunt distorted guitars enter and steal the show. Has a funky yet mysterious, intriguing feel to it, and always seems to promise and deliver big changes in the future. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 86 BPM]
Groovy hip-hop beat with distorted bass and scratch elements. Fits well to corporate videos and lifestyle scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]