This is our place for music aimed at city youth, inner city subcultures and urban culture. In the U.S., the word 'urban' usually refers to black culture / African American culture. But for us, Urban Culture also represents UK / European youth movements, the UK underground club scene, inner city life, as well as urban issues and problems such as gangs and more. The music represented here will often be in the genres of Hip-Hop, Funk, Dance, Trip-Hop, Drum'n Bass, Dubstep and related styles.
This Track has a really tough sound vocally and instrumentally, with a lot of heavy guitar riffs through out. It work well in any action and sport footage, reference the film “300”. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 123 BPM]
A slow paced, dark theme track with cold piano and static noise elements. Made in a genre of chill step or liquid dubstep, this track creates a great dark or disturbing atmosphere without sounding too dissonant. The deep, low bass is riddled with distorted effects. Haunting piano sound distant and eerie. This track will work well for scenes of separation, depression, dark times etc. Also works in CSI investigation or crime scene / undercover etc. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
An infectious and funky EDM tune with crisp synthesizers and a nice energy level. A melodic breakdown leads to a full-on bass drop that will definitely make them move. Deep square bass with twisted elements and great punchy drums. This track is suitable for club scenes, DJ scenes, technology commercials, fun and sports footage, and more. Check out the funky drop at 01:14. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
A fast paced busy, track with plenty to work with. Breakbeat / Big Beat music in the style of The Prodigy or Fatboy Slim. This track starts off with overdriven bass guitar then drums then voice screaming out "psychopath!". The next drop brings a twisted bassline with energetic drum and bass elements. This track is suitable for extreme sports, car chases, car commercials, fast paced frame cuts, crime in progress, powerful and macho footage etc. [Tempo: Fast / 165 BPM]
Progressive Tech / House. Relentless, solid beat. Technology / Sci-tech feel. Infectious, groovy, trance feel. Exciting, Invigorating. Good for science, technology, future / sci-tek; also for workout / exercise with a rough / determined feel. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Progressive Tech / Club. Uplifting, bright and infectious. Edgy sci-tech feel, groovy, robotic. Feelgood dance / techno. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Progressive Tech / House. Repetitive, somewhat minimalistic. A sense of future, technology, cutting edge. Groovy and hypnotic. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 129 BPM]
Progressive Tech / Dance with a Funky feel. Positive, fresh, uplifting. Mechanical, a bit robotic. Good for hi-tech, fresh and sparkling presentations, as well as for exercise, workout and more. Good, moderately high energy level. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Progressive Tech / House. Minimalistic, somewhat dark and with a deep groove. Technology / Sci-tek / Future / Robotic / Cyberpunk. [Tempo: Medium / 128 BPM]
Progressive Tech / House. Minimalistic, somewhat dark and with a deep groove. Technology / Sci-tek / Future / Robotic. [Tempo: Medium / 128 BPM]
Progressive Tech / Dance with a Funky feel. Positive, fresh, uplifting. Mechanical, a bit robotic. Good for hi-tech, fresh and sparkling presentations, as well as for exercise, workout and more. Good, moderately high energy level. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Progressive Tech / Dance with a Funky feel. Determined, relentless, groovy. Mechanical, a bit robotic. A sense of just going, going, going, unrelenting. Good for cyberpunk projects, underground dance club scenes, as well as for exercise, workout and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Ambient, Progressive Tech / House. Swirley, introspective, deep grooves. Occasional distant trumpet licks gives the track a slight acid jazz feel. Relentless, pumping beats. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Cool synth riffs with a retro flavor on top of a hard hitting hip hop beat. In the style of Kanye West and the East Coast new school. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
Sexy and dirty new blues, in the style of The Black Keys. Distorted vocals, fuzz guitars and heavy drums, on a slow yet powerful rock groove. The lyrics are about desire. It has a strong sexual vibe, but it is clean, and free of gender definitions, which appeals to a broader audience. It can be about desire for a person, but can also be for an item, such as a sexy new phone, or a drink, or whatever else that's desirable. Also available as an instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
Orchestra and drums pound out an aggressive theme perfect for a super villain, or a tense scene in a film or TV show. Could work well for sports action: down but not out, making the final push against adversaries. Or also a street battle brewing in a dark and sinister city late at night.Choir blasts in the last section to add an epic swell right before the music abruptly ends, in the style of film trailers. [Tempo: Medium / 97 BPM]
Funk that packs a punch influenced by the likes of Tower of Power, James Brown and Herbie Hancock. A strong beat, driving bass, powerful horn section, wah-wah clavinet and smokin organ perfect for adding that gritty 70's funk with attitude to any project. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
A solid trance royalty free music track with a melodic edge. The track opens to a big melody that drops into a repetative groovy sequence with tough bass and pretty synthesizer. The track eventually builds up to a big synthesizer moment that is a huge hands in the air moment. A positive and uplifting EDM track, suitable for club scenes, DJ scenes, club commercials, scenes of achievement or technological and manufacturing videos, and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
Four short jazzy trumpet solos. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
An indie rock style guitar and bass riff combine with disco style drums. It's got attitude, flair and style. Influences include Franz Ferdinand, Blur, White Stripes etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 132 BPM]
An unpolished, rowdy and unruly track, somewhere between Indie-rock, Punk-rock and Pop. Rebellious, maybe party girls. [Tempo: Fast / 173 BPM]
A thirty-second instrumental dubstep track with a build up and drop half way through. Skrillex / Nero. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 156 BPM]
Modern trip-dub-step production, instrumental. High production values, lots of energy, varied dynamic. [Tempo: Slow / 140 BPM]
Some glitch-funk therapy for your soul! Laid-back funk bass riff twists, turns, warps and breaks into a smooth, chilled-out chorus overlayed with flutes, electric piano and female vocal 'oohs and 'ahs'. Feels like a retro beach party on the west coast of America. Good as music for use in advertising or with motion-graphics and also suitable for gaming or any scene that requires some futuristic funk. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Heavy-hitting, almost nasty disco/dance track combining funk guitar with huge electro house synths and drums. Fast-paced, crescendo filled and creating an upbeat feeling of success, triumph or just great fun, this track can move a scene or a dance floor alike and is good for use with extreme sports, gaming, urban night life scenes or future technology. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
Sun soaked, west coast flavoured hip hop dripping with G-Funk! Live, almost reggae bass and guitar hold down the groove for the flutes, bells and disco stabs to glitch over. The feeling is cool, calm, head-nodding, gangster, no worries - great for advertising, soundtracks for travel and youth documentaries. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 72 BPM]
Drum'n Bass / Techno / Dubstep hybrid. Busy and edgy. Cool for extreme sports, hi speed chases and anything else that needs an energetic and ear catching background track. [Tempo: Fast / 144 BPM]
In the rising electronic music scene, there's always this Dutch sound that's very sought after and recognized. If that's the sound you're looking for then look no further, because this track has everything you need. Huge chord stabs with a pleasing arpeggio melody underneath are in the main break. A long build up leads up to an absolutely massive main drop with the familiar bleeps and heavy bass of a Dutch electronic scene. This track will work great in club scenes, party scenes, also perfect for commercials with teenage and young adult target audience. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
This angelic drum 'n bass track opens with a simple chord progression that builds up with open and wide pads with a calm vocal. After the voice builds to a strong phrase "I'm free" the track drops into a liquid drum and bass tune with a deep bassline. The track progresses with additional vocal glitches and phrase "I'm free to love" as well as large synth pad melody to a calming ending. A positive and uplifting track with lots of soul. This track will work great for scenes of achievement, accomplishment, victory or any production that needs a positive emotional boost. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 155 BPM]
An invigorating and uplifting, liquid Drum and Bass track that features acoustic guitar, piano, strings, and synth pads. Ethereal, refreshing, sparkling and soaring. This track will work well for scenes of achievement or celebration, also great for corporate presentations or weather forecast, or for timelapse footage. The "No drums" version is a wonderful Light Ambient music track in its own right. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 175 BPM]
A guitar driven royalty free music track with electronic elements and fast pace drums. A very fast pace and energetic track full of twist and turns. Great for racing, extreme sports, car/bike commercials, exciting and edgy footage, crime in progress, etc. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 160 BPM]
A fast paced techno royalty free music track with the distorted amp bass and quick drums. This track will work well for extreme sports, racing, but also manufacturing timelapse and other high intensity footage and scenes. A sense of hurry / urgency. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 130 BPM]
Traditional Eastern music instruments are combined with modern beats and sound effects to create some exotic vibes. [Tempo: Medium / 102 BPM]
This track features not only traditional Eastern instruments like sitars and flutes but also authentic singing and voices. Hip-Hop / World Fusion music with an exotic "street" feel. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 82 BPM]
A hip-hop track with a strong India / Bollywood / Eastern / Oriental music / Middle East feel. Modern-day Eastern city. World fusion / U.S. / Eastern combination. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A very funky and mystical music track, combining the sounds of India and the Middle Eastern music with contemporary / eastern flavors, to create a World Fusion / cultural melting pot. Hot and exotic music. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Uptempo and uplifting electro / house / pop / electronic piece. Hard and heavy synthesizers make the main riff, followed by pulsating drums and a deep bass. Perfect for productions aimed at teens and young adults, with a modern and fresh vibe. Also good for extreme sports, urban action, technology. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 132 BPM]
Modern electronic track, with influences from electro house, techno and pop music. Several drops and build ups create the "hands up in the air" atmosphere as seen in dance clubs and raves. Positive, uplifting, futuristic, contemporary. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
Electro-house. Bouncy and positive track featuring a heavily distorted bass guitar like in the tracks of Daft Punk, Justice and others. Vocal sample saying "you drop funky beat". This track will work well for electronics commercials, phone commercials, car commercials, club scenes, rhythmic video editing, urban style and more. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
An electronic drum and bass royalty free music track from hell. A huge build up with massive risers in the opening drops into a proper nasty bass track. Mind twisting basslines and synth stabs are prominent in the first drop. A middle breakdown builds with dissonant risers and pitched synths to a second drop. The second drop is even more gritty with the addition of a pitching up synthesiser that adds a sense or rush and urgency. This track is suitable for extreme sports videos, car commercials, video game commercials, thrillseeker videos etc. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
An uplifting hybrid orchestral / dance royalty free music track with positive feel and electronic elements. The track opens with a simple guitar melody which builds up with addition of string melodies and pads. The main drop is a straight 4/4 electronic beat with strong present bass with a positive synth melody and an uplifting feel. This track will work great in college commercials, positive outlook videos or scenes of celebration and joy. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
A positive and uplifting Drum'n Bass track with high pitched vocals and catchy beat, similar to the style of Skrillex. This track will work great for video game commercial, video game footage, no vocal version is also available and will suit racing videos, running, or celebrating life. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 170 BPM]
An electro house track with a heavy bass in your face. The track opens with a hi-pass filtered bass, that keeps building along with riser. Right before the main drop a vocal screams "wow" and the track drops into a very dirty and grindy Benny Benassi style bass loop. This track has a prominent dutch EDM sound. It will work great for club scenes, people dancing or celebrating, will also work for extreme sports, racing, chasing etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
A slightly menacing synth bass line filters up into a solid groove with an electro disco music, glitch-hop/dub-step feel similar to Nu-Disco. The groove develops and filters up and down in a dreamy kind of trance like state. Great for use with sports, winter sports, extreme sports music and could be used for scene involving robots or aliens. Also works great with workshop, mechanical processing and factory production line scenes. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
A dramatic and quite evil dub step / breakbeat music track gives an uneasy feeling of science fiction and alien encounters. Crescendoing synth keys filter up into a monstrous half-time dub step style beat before the track breaks down and the finale is a complextro breakbeat section. Great for use in sci-fi, extreme sports music, technology or any type of modern urban scene. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Tough, hard hitting, filthy and greasy rock meets electronica / dubtep music. This grime breakbeat rock track breaks down into a gnarly swing / triplet build section before coming home to rock again. Ideal for use as extreme sports music and motor sports but just as suited to car chases and high octane action scenes. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
A modern alternative rock song with polished production about finding the balance in life. The song is radio friendly but not in the vein of top 40. Would fit well on Sirius AltNation. Also available as an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium / 118 BPM]
Intense high energy complextro work out. Slamming bass edits and soaring leads transport you take you straight to the heart of clubland. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Bass fuelled and aggressive underground dance music, featuring heavy basslines, bleepy toplines and a detuned vocal stradding hip hop beats. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Down tempo dub track with old skool drums and synth stabs, industrial warehouse vibe with creative fx to add intensity. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
