Music for space exploration, science fiction films and futuristic / space / science related content. From the obvious "The Planets Suite" by Gustav Holst and "Also Spracht Zarathustra" by Strauss, to ethereal, spacey, ambient soundscapes that brings our thoughts to alien species and far-away galaxies. This area is by no means limited to a single music genre, but draws on classical, choral, experimental, ambient and electronic music influences.
A staccato and edgy Action- or Trailer track. Live orchestra recording. Powerful, determined, strong, excited, relentless. Features several 'edit points' with sudden drops, stabs, rises etc. [Tempo: Medium / 85 BPM]
A heavy rock track infused with synth elements, igniting the adrenaline of warriors preparing for an epic battle. Influenced by Japanese action cartoons and Manga heroes, its relentless energy and raw power make it the perfect accompaniment for action sequences, climactic showdowns, or any scene where the stakes are high and heroes are gearing up to face their ultimate challenge. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
Streamlined, uptempo, feelgood electronic dance track. Not too hard, and with a nice and even drive. Occasional scattered space voices. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Excited, energetic techno-pop in the mood of Pop Idol / American Idol and other youth culture oriented media. Pumping beat, euphoric feel, stuttering synths, "larger than life" sound. Also great for exercise, workout, high energy aerobics, spinning, running etc. [Tempo: Fast / 125 BPM]
Touching and modern synth-based music track intensifying with piano and percussion. Great for relationship or family moments, travel and documentaries. Heartfelt, positive, yearning music. [Tempo: Medium / 112 BPM]
Funky Deepstep / Dubstep. Moving, grooving, swirling beats in 'half-time' 140 BPM with futuristic synth layers. Good for cutting edge media, technology and robotics, sci-fi and sci tech. Also for sports montages, rough footage, engine technology, science and research etc. Moody / Groovy. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 70 BPM]
A gritty, semi-industrial Hybrid action music track, with a dark, violent edge and a rough, doom laden feel. Hard, edgy, danger, tension music. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A dark trailer track with strong electronic theme and heavy hitting drums. Atmospheric opening of the track is quiet and open with distant sound effects, a few orchestral chords come in right before the first big drop. Low synthesiers and twisting electronic instruments are building up to the main part. The big drop in the middle of the track is full of huge drums and strong synth theme. This track will work great in video game trailers, movie trailers, car commercials, battle scenes etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
Battle drums. Pounding percussion. A combination of orchestral percussion and ethnic / tribal drums. Suitable for battle, fight, chase, brawls and action scenes. [Tempo: Medium / 108 BPM]
An epic and rousing track for fantasy, adventure, epic trailers. Features actual live performed orchestral instruments in combination with samples. Passionate, soaring, emotional, eternal, great love. Amazement / Wonderment / Magic. Big orchestral sound with choir and a live performed solo soprano voice. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 91 BPM]
Ultra spacious and atmospheric sound design, time dilation with bubblings of ambient texture. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A powerful, booming heroic epic trailer track. Begins with emotional cello and choir, moving into thumping drums and strings at 0:20, with heroic horns entering at 0:33. A breath in the music at 0:59, then the second sections begins which is more relaxed and pulled back. 1:30 sees the music move back into the powerful and epic style once again with the penultimate section beginning at 1:50 which builds until 02:03 when the most epic part begins. Powerful strings, horns and drums dominate this track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
A hardcore, full-on, no mercy electro-noise track in the style of the Prodigy or the Crystal Method. Howling synths, snarling guitars and slamming drums. Very high energy level, almost chaotic. Aggressive, dominant, nasty. Very suitable for extreme sports, fighting and war, action trailer or any other high impact action footage. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 124 BPM]
Saturn from The Planets suite by Gustav Holst. Recorded exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com by D Hamilton. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Inspired by Sci-Fi action and adventure movies, this theme evolves from pensive melancholy to an epic and heroic climax. Starts with a futuristic piano motif and builds up to a full-fledged orchestral and choir piece, with heavy percussion and a fresh sound. Epic, Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure, Orchestral. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
Long-playing (34 minutes 11 seconds), ethereal, ambient music. Available with or without nature soundscapes mixed in with the ethereal pads. Suitable for hypnosis, therapy, relaxation, as well as for sci-fi, fantasy, underwater, otherworldly projects. Mystical, deep, elemental. [Tempo: Very slow / 0 BPM]
A different and unique, mid-tempo electro track. Has a strong sense of technology, information flow, cutting edge developments. Somewhat mechanical feel, but with lush, warm, organic sounding pads and patterns. Futuristic and Flowing. [Tempo: Medium / 115 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]
Mid-tempo electronica with a strong technology / science / future feel. Confident and high tech music track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Swirling, oozing urban beats, mixing elements of drum'n bass, lounge, chill, dub and R&B. Great for use in multimedia. [Tempo: Fast / 134 BPM]
An exciting and dynamic trance tune. A steady and pulsating rhythm drives under evolving synth melodies and electronic beats. Builds nicely from soft flowing intelligent Dance Music into a racing and evolving futuristic combination of trance and IDM. Experimental, artistic and exciting music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
A relaxing and calm ambient piece, with cool and collected synth sounds that glide over a solid drum and bass groove. [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
A cue consisting mainly of electronic sounds along with solo violin which creates a melancholy mood. Great for a dark and brooding scene to create tension. A good mix of heroic themes, fight themes and booming sounds. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 110 BPM]
A slamming, hard core rock/electro crossover track. Heavy guitar impact with acidic synths and pumping drums. [Tempo: Very fast / 180 BPM]
An epic and heroic orchestral soundtrack with a feeling of hope, honour and glory. Perhaps a hero's journey into battle or triumphant return home after a victory or achievement. It could be used for a grand adventure / fantasy film score, epic storytelling, travelling across the lands and sailing the seas. Features orchestra, strings, brass, drums and choir. The piece has a fast-moving feel to it. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 85 BPM]
Discover the immersive world of royalty-free background music, where technological elements blend seamlessly with a constant rhythm and expansive soundscapes. Unleash your creativity with glitchy sounds, melodic arpeggios, and modern sound design, creating the perfect backdrop for any project. [Tempo: Medium / 100 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]
An analogue synth music track with a vintage / retro 1980's sci-fi vibe. Arpeggios and pads. Electronic / Futuristic / Vintage Stock Music. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Mid-tempo electronic music track with a strong technology / science / future feel. Multi layered arpeggios. Confident and high tech music. [Tempo: Medium / 102 BPM]
Electronic dance beats. Positive, energizing, hi-tech, spacey. Uplifting, feelgood grooves and melodies. Joyful and energetic. Good for technology, future/science, media presentations, video games, dance club as well as for aerobics, training / workout / exercise, sports and excitement. [Tempo: Medium / 130 BPM]
Dark, atmospheric and eerie music track made with hybrid synths. Suitable for a main theme or as a part of the soundtrack. Scifi / horror / thriller music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 120 BPM]
Minimalistic electronica. Fairly neutral, transparent, soothing but with a slight edge. Technology, future, data, robotics, networks, deep information, processing. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 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: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
Minimalist electronica somewhere between Dub / Dubstep, Glitch, Drum'n Bass and Electro-Ambient, this track features tricky beats, syncopated electro drums, retro synths and echoey signals. Good as background music for anything to do with cutting-edge technology, science and future, forensic investigation / DNA, space exploration, underwater or otherworldly material. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
We had trouble figuring out the best genre in which to place this highly unusual sounding, slightly avant-garde music track featuring a growing, high-tech beat overlaid with complex vocal harmonies. A sense of mystery, technology, amazement and new thinking. Great release at the end, highly suitable for commercials or intros, for those who dare to be different. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
A cut-to-the-wire royalty free breakbeat music track with an ominous undertone and a strong forward drive. 165 BPM. This track exists in a 60-second version, a 30-second version and a 15-second version. There is also an alternative "drums and bass only" mix of the 30-second version. [Tempo: Fast / 166 BPM]
Music for adventure, fantasy, exploration and amazing stories. A somewhat melancholic piece that suggests contemplation or gazing into the stars. The piece has a slightly sad feel that could also allow it to compliment scenes of contemplation or introspection. Celestial / Angelic. [Tempo: Slow / 76 BPM]
Inspiring / Inspirational, semi-orchestral / semi orchestral. Style similar to Vangelis. Somewhat epic, amazing, grand. Music for a grand adventure, also good for commercials, corporate presentations and more. [Tempo: Medium / 87 BPM]
Don't look behind you! A very dramatic piece. Wave upon wave of synths and sequences....All interwoven together to make one rather dark and stormy soundscape. Small pulsing verse section then a major dynamic lift-off for the chorus parts. Contains synthpads , effected drum kits , drum machines , synth basses and intense guitar melodies in the final section. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
Sneaky, suspicious, ambient track with a sense of future, sci-fi, space. Could be good for a scene of exploring a dangerous place, abandoned spaceship or warehouse, strange alien planet, etc. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 47 BPM]
Backed by gritty guitars and epic drums/percussion, this dark, passion fuelled hybrid rock track delivers an epic climax. Dramatic / Aggressive / Determined. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Busy, glitchy, hard and edgy electronic / dubstep track available with or without the vocals. Deep pumping dubstep beats, staccato synths squelching and oozing. Cutting edge, electro step, technology / future. Underground club. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 70 BPM]
An epic and cinematic orchestral music track that builds slowly and powerfully with a huge choir and orchestra entering at 1:10. Perfect music for film trailers. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A very crisp and chilled drum'n bass tracks featuring uptempo, dry electronic drums, sub-bass and various textural and dreamy pads, with ambient / echoey tones. Very 'cold' sound, could be science & technology, cutting-edge concepts, future & sci-fi, forensics and micro studies, etc. Nordic/Scandinavian Underground, minimalistic Drum & Bass production style. [Tempo: Medium / 85 BPM]
A dark, ambient track with heavy pads, low strings and harmonics, and guitar feedback. Great for horror films and thrillers. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Electro-Ambient / Downtempo / Electro chill. Dreamy / floating / slow pulsating rhythm, with melodic synth motifs. [Tempo: Medium / 101 BPM]
Modish, stylish. This is a production for modern flair and intelligent design. Fashionable, trendy, technological, creative and inventive. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A jazzy double bass and drum groove glues this tune together as soft spacey synth pads, choirs and soft lead guitar that just float over the top. Has a constant and undeniable momentum , always moving forward with hope and a hypnotic energy. Contains drums, bass, choirs, synth pads , lead guitar and strings. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 160 BPM]
A powerful, epic composition of war, struggle, battle or amazing feats. Rhythmic and rousing, this track has a strong sense of determination and overcoming. It builds to a crescendo twice - once in the middle and once towards the end. Epic, amazing and valiant. This recording features actual live symphonic orchestra, combined with samples. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 180 BPM]
Brooding, distorted guitar riffs floats above a smouldering dystopian landscape awash with strange metallic artefacts. This dark but strangely beautiful soundscape encompasses many different styles to create a unique atmospheric theme equally at one with either action or scene setting narratives. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 118 BPM]
