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.
An ethereal, contemplative opening on synth pads leads to a hard-nosed and edgy guitar based rock track with insistent, driving percussion leading to an epic climax. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 135 BPM]
A rough, down and dirty guitar rock track with almost a "Tarantino'esque" sound. There is a vocal version as well as various instrumental cuts and loops. Note! The vocal version has explicit lyrics -- Parental Advisory notice. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 135 BPM]
An Edgy electronic based theme with Cinematic sensibilities using traditional Tribal Percussion along with Piano, Drums, Electronic pads, Electric Guitar, and Sound effects. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A dark and dramatic piece with unique sounds creating disillusion, confusion and worry. Pulsating drones, bass hits, evil sounding delayed guitar, deep strings and mechanical, electronic drums make this track geared towards creepy dramatic TV cues heard on Investigation Discovery, Unsolved Mysteries and Dateline NBC. Crime scene flashbacks, serial killers, twisted plots, ghosts and supernatural events come to mind. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Mysterious electronic underscore, for moments of uncertainty and problem solving. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
Heavy alternative rock. Powerful female vocals tell a tale of metaphorical revenge. Alternative rock band with atmospheric synths and drum machines. Keywords: Nightmares, dreams, scary. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Retro breaks and Blues riffs in the style of Beastie-Boys / Fat Boy Slim featuring scratching & vocal refrain, 'The beat don’t stop when the baseline drop (Check the rhythm, check the flow)'. Also available without the vocal parts. [Tempo: Slow / 82 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 dark, somewhat gloomy, mystery soundtrack. Perhaps crime, criminals, crime investigation. Dystopian, with a sense of activity and danger. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 138 BPM]
Enhance your scenes of long and dark winters, loneliness, mystery, broken hearts or breathtaking nature with this brooding, urban downtempo track featuring piano, pads, bells, bass and drums. Creates a real feeling of space and emptiness over a relaxed funky groove. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 77 BPM]
Rap / Hip-Hop. Digital Hip hop referring to the struggle of "making it". [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 95 BPM]
Hard slamming, Futuristic, Dark Dub / Techno / Dubstep / Break Beat. Machine like, Funky Robotic, Mechanical, Dark & Weird, Strong. Also available without the vocal samples. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Here's a cool, laid back, hip hop track along the lines of DJ Premier and Wu tang Clan. The opening baseline and hi-hats create a gangster vibe which soon mellows into a more melodic and jazzy feeling chorus section. Great for any scene set late at night and also works well for urban culture scenes. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
A sparse, cut-down, deep & funky hip-hop track. Pop-corn like cheesy synth, orch riffs, sub bass. [Tempo: Fast / 95 BPM]
A music track in a Cinematic Action genre: energy, anticipation, escalation and breakdowns, and lots of evolving sounds. This piece is featuring many Synthesizers, drum beats and percussion instruments. Will work in films, trailers and videos that involve Spy Action, New Technologies, Computers and Hacking, Chase scenes, CIA investigations, Crime News etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 118 BPM]
Tinkling, synthetics and filtered, pulsating drum beats. An eerie atmosphere. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
Energetic, suspenseful - Orchestra and urban beats. Good for setting up tension for a sports game or urban battle. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 106 BPM]
More of a groove, than a song. A monotoneous, ever grinding dark synth pulse, rough rock style drums and a dark, synthetic, almost poisonous groove. Rough and determined. [Tempo: Slow / 77 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]
Dreamy and Ethereal cinematic piece featuring delayed guitars, solo Cello and piano melodies and create a thoughtful and atmospheric sound great for films and documentaries. [Tempo: Slow / 63 BPM]
Upbeat and uplifting hip hop track. Confident, motivational, successful. An epic synth line creates a strong positive and optimistic feel. Energetic, celebratory, uplifting. Great for presentations, tv commercials, achievement and confidence. Also nice as a background track for sports & commercials. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 153 BPM]
With strings, electronic rhythms and synthesizers, this underscore track brings a sense of tension, foreboding, fear and danger. Impending battle, undercover, espionage, dangerous situations. Good for action and adventure thrillers, science fiction, investigation, forensics. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
A driving, swinging modern jazz track influenced by Lalo Schifrin's Mission Impossible theme. Features Flute, Vibraphone, Piano, Upright Bass and Drums. Great for action, adventure, commercials, documentaries, live applications or any project in need of some dynamic, cool, sophisticated jazz. [Tempo: Medium / 98 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]
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: Medium / 86 BPM]
Uniquely intense riff-fest with a Japanese flavour to it. Interwoven koto lines begin the track and are soon overrun by a huge deluge of distorted guitar riffs, bass and drums. These two groups of instruments dual and parry through the tune giving great dynamics and drama. [Tempo: Fast / 121 BPM]
Funky jazz track a la Herbie Hancock featuring electric piano, flute, guitar, bass, drums and sound effects. Will work well as video background about arts and culture events, night city life, jazz clubs, movie, advertisement, fashion. Warm, jazzy, gentle, special mood. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
A funky, determined and edgy funk-rock music track with a strong groove. Great music for sports, action, edgy footage, extreme sports and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 158 BPM]
Dramatic, intense, powerful, groovy, dark, primitive, moody & visceral. Dangerous & brooding hard rocker with a malevolent, menacing blues edge to it. Slowly builds in tension and power as it goes. Mean, raw & calculated. Would suit action / thriller / horror / halloween type projects. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 144 BPM]
A sad, heartfelt string atmosphere that is ideal for evoking a tender, dramatic ambience. Live and sensitive performance with a sweet expressive melody and a melancholic, passionate arrangement that pulls at the heartstrings. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A very dark, down and dirty track blending industrial, electronic and rock elements. Rough guitar riffs, machine like downtempo rhythms, metallic scrapes and a repetitive synth bass creates a pumping, sizzling groove. [Tempo: Fast / 100 BPM]
Downtempo hip hop, urban style beat with a dramatic edge. Orchestral strings over downtempo, gritty hiphop beatz. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Ominous and arid western atmosphere, inspired by modern TV drama like Breaking Bad, CSI and Banshee. Slide guitars over a driving rhythm. Crime and gangster feel, as well as police investigation mood. Cinematic / Western / Crime Music. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
15 minutes continuous, uninterrupted background music track for video productions and other media. Contemplative and neutral, busy / activity, a mid-tempo music bed with Trap / Hip Hop influences. Business, industry, science, technology, research etc. [Tempo: Medium / 145 BPM]
An urgent, mechanical sounding tune. Driven by strong percussion, forward drive, Good as a theme or background music for TV show, game show, etc. Pensive, with a sence of urgency and nerve. [Tempo: Fast / 145 BPM]
A fairly hardcore hip-hop / hard rock / industrial music crossover track. Aggressive, dirty and gritty, with downtempo, powerful drums and hard attack guitar riffs. Similar to The Crystal Method and Rammstein. There is an alternative version without the 'Bang goes the drum' vocal samples. [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
Good solid hard rock with a high energy levels and lots of variety throughout. Determined guitar riffs, drums shifting between half-time and double-time rhythms for a high impact, aggressive, exciting metal rock track. Use with scenes of extreme sports, racing / Nascar / destruction, fighting and brawling, hardcore warfare, stunts and high energy footage. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A grooving jazz piece with a playful electronic twist. The overall sound is reminiscent of classic 1940s swing. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
Phasing and glitching metal guitar riffs begin to rise in tempo before dropping into a filthy and snarling EDM drop. Gives the feeling of chasing through the jungle like the ‘Predator’ so therefore perfect for use with war, military, gaming, extreme sports! [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Hypnotically groovey electro track with spacey synth lines crossing over staccato piano backed with laid back urban beats and a phhatt dubby bassline. A distinctly urban flavour. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Very hard core, industrial, violent, meltdown cyber rock. Hard biting, aggressive guitar riffs with slamming drums in a post-industrialist, gritty, hard slamming drums. Nuclear stuff. Not for the faint hearted. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Fast, Very fast / 160 BPM]
A chilled, ambient track with a modern serene groove perfect for soundtracks, documentaries, dark and moody dramas or any project looking for a cold, mysterious and dreamy sound. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
A industrial style percussive track with large bigger than life cinematic production which invites the audience into a story. As the drums become more and more intense towards the end and throughout the cue the use of rhythm and metal industrial percussion brings the music to a climatic, epic and dramatic conclusion. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 113 BPM]
A tension building track great for action and adventure scenes or reality game show programming. Features unique drum rhythms, a harmonic piano ostinato, synth motifs, and string riffs. [Tempo: Medium / 64 BPM]
Energetic Hip Hop track, using piano and strings over typical hip hop electronic drums. Some arabic / middle eastern melodies give it an exotic feel. Low-rider, gangsta, gang culture. Good for scenes of night clubs, inner city, action and crime, but with an exotic twist. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Electronic percussion and eerie electric piano melodies generate an atmosphere of tension and suspense. The mystery thickens and new sound layers are added in a dramatic, hypnotic crescendo with a few stops, perfect for edit points. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
Tough to describe in words. A hypnotic dance throb runs through this fairly avante garde track as various synth leads come in and out. Very spacey and yet relentlessly trance inducing. Brings visions of an underground pumping, sweaty nightclub scenario to mind. [Tempo: Medium / 111 BPM]
Dark and subtly dramatic underscore for film, tv, game or any visual media. Foreboding, serious, perhaps political or law thriller, undercover or dangerous mission. Pensive, mysterious piano notes, nervous strings, brass crescendi and an understated rhythmic pulse. [Tempo: Medium / 89 BPM]
Slowly evolving, gradually growing in tension hybrid industrial trailer royalty free music track. Atmospheric intro with piano, synths and tribal drums builds to full theme at 1'32''. Second ending starts at 2'03''. Dramatic, Powerful, Edgy. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
Dramatic hip-hop instrumental. Slightly dark and gloomy with R&B feel. Slow tempo, lush string section and deep piano give the track a certain sense of doom or seriousness. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
