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 orchestral, ambient piece with dark harmonies and a sense of ominous tension. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Brooding and ominous, this dark tension & horror track grows from a quiet drone and builds to an intense atonal conclusion. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast, Very fast / 0 BPM]
Mid-tempo guitar rock. Driving, steady rhythm, good forward motion. Positive and friendly, with acoustic and electric guitars [Tempo: Medium / 120 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]
Fresh and funky, mid-tempo Hip Hop track. Strong beat, juicy synth- and orchstral licks. Hiphop R&B Similar to Eminem etc. Urban, funky, groovy. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 91 BPM]
Strong urban beat, with a sax loop, pounding 808 bass drum and quirky drum fills. Typical current Rap Pop beat, in the style of Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Lil Wayne, Iggy Azalea and Ariana Grande. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
Downtempo urban chill-funk out track. Gritty, lazy beats and percussion with soaring atmospheric synths over a deep bassline. Great for night time scenes, cruising, kicking back, stoners, stargazing, contemplation, youth tv, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 85 BPM]
Hip Hop track with a serious tone, a slight sense of impending doom. Somewhat dark, with dramatic strings, deep thumping sub-bass and hip-hop / R&B synth patterns. Good for urban drama / TV / city life, crime and police, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 114 BPM]
A potent mix of spacey synths, massive guitars & monster rock shuffle groove. Dramatic, unique, bouncy & climactic. Would suit sports / action / thriller / horror type projects. [Tempo: Medium / 83 BPM]
Hip-hop track with a slight dark feel. Aggressive and bright synth sounds over electronic drums. Determined, optimistic, perhaps a little anxious. Similar to 50 Cent, Eminem or Jay-Z. Good for scenes of fight and crime, extreme sports, forensics, street violence, and much more. [Tempo: Slow / 89 BPM]
A mysterious, dark and damp, slowly sizzling Urban underscore music track. Suspenseful, moody and sultry. Suitable as music for crime thriller, urban drama, etc. This track is also available in various versions, including an Electric Guitar version and an Quiet version. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 68 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]
Warm, soft, acoustic jazz. Live jazz quartet of acoustic drums, upright bass, piano and saxophone. Emotional, expressive. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 96 BPM]
An intensely high energy drum n bass track that is driving and exhilarating, with an exhilarating vibe. It would be excellent for sports car and automotive campaigns, extreme sports, and hi tech promos and projects in need of a track that is fiercely energetic, while still remaining uplifting and positive. It would also be excellent for athletic video and game cues. Put on your seatbelt and put the top down as you feel the excitement cruising down the autobahn. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 174 BPM]
You really must hear this one. Sizzling, groovy 3-piece rock with bags of punch and chuggy riffs. Stand back! [Tempo: Fast / 109 BPM]
Hip Hop, Rap, Urban, Gangsta. Vintage sampled synth line combined with a deep and dark piano atmosphere. Driving drums similar to Dr Dre and Snoop Dog tracks from the nineties. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 96 BPM]
Pensive, slowly brooding, orchestral adventure style track. Hints of an epic theme, with a tense, dangerous undertow. Good for fantasy, grand adventures, travel, imminent danger, daring missions, brave explorers, etc. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
A modern and progressive take on the jazz genre. Processed drum loops mix with traditional jazz instruments and some of those very slightly skewed chord changes to keep the listener guessing. Smooth, yet rough. Traditional, yet progressive. A great jazz track. [Tempo: Medium / 85 BPM]
Medium paced blues groover with plenty of cool guitar lines, organ, brass stabs and cheesey 60's style organ. Grows in intensity to an almost Big Band sound, as it goes and gets yer foot tappin' instantly. [Tempo: Medium / 113 BPM]
Alternative Metal with an industrial edge. Hard slamming guitar chops and drums, nasty riffs and at times extreme tempo makes this track suitable for destruction, war, mayhem, fighting, extreme sports and more. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
Dark Dub / Hard electronica. Robotic / Futuristic / Mechanical. Funky Breakbeats / Machine like / Robotic. Great for body popping, funky robots, futuristic dance club, futuristic animations, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 70 BPM]
Tense underscore for thriller, crime, stakeout, sneaking, breaking and entering, etc. Dark, scary, tension. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
A warm hip hop beat with a smooth jazz sound and soft punctual scratching. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 91 BPM]
Twangy, psychedelic guitars and robotic, industrial synths combine to create a feeling of journeying over dry desert, heat ripples distorting the horizon, scorching sun. Similar in style to the Chemical Brothers, Fat Boy Slim, Junkie XL this works well with travel scenes, holiday adventures and desert montages as well as high-tech industrial and corporate advertising. Also for action scenes, crime and progress and more. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
Slow, sleazy, lazy, mellow, passionate, soulful, climactic blues track. Imagine yourself in some New Orleans blues dive-audience in darkness, air thick with smoke, sweat dripping from your brow as you watch the dimly lit band bare their souls & tell of about the heartache in their lives. Baby done left me. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Orchestral tension, movie soundtrack underscore. Tension, disturbing, anxious. [Tempo: Medium, Slow / 115 BPM]
Slow, sizzling jazz swing. Jazz club, late night city alleys, private detective, smokey atmosphere, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 95 BPM]
A metal and hip hop hybrid track with heavy syncopated distorted guitars, fat beats and a catchy sitar/string melody ending. In the style of Korn, Limp Bizkit, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes, Linkin Park, Hollywood Undead, POD and Dr. Dre. [Tempo: Slow / 94 BPM]
Irresistibly funky guitar based tune that makes your head nod and your foot tap. Big grooves, pimped-out feel and phatt riffs combine with spacey chords and hard driving choruses. Slightly reminiscent of Satriani and Nuno Bettencourt in feel. Contains guitars, bass and drums. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
Rap / Hip-Hop. Rap song from the "crunk" era of hip hop in Atlanta. High energy with aggressive vocals. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 81 BPM]
Urban, inner city, hip-hop with a wistful undertone. Perhaps dark days, sorrow or misery. A dark, urban edge, like a rainy day in the city. A slight feeling of something old, mixed with the new. Urban drama scene. [Tempo: Slow / 86 BPM]
Mysterious electronic underscore, for moments of uncertainty and problem solving. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
Epically spacey & powerful rock monster with electronic elements. At times slightly psychedelic, others quite dark, heavy & sinister. Always motivated, determined, intense & melodic. Contains some intense guitar work! Would suit thriller / action / sports projects. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
High-intensity, electronic film trailer music, with strong, unrelenting bass and drum tracks and an ever-building array of orchestral instruments. The grand instrumentation and driving energy provide a clear sense of urgency that climbs until the very final moments of the piece. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A dark and hypnotic lofi rock instrumental that features driving bass and drums, tremolo guitar riffs and echoing lead guitar melodies. Menacing / Tense / Atmospheric. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Great live rock track in the style of Nickelback, Soundgarden etc. Laidback intro, all-out blazing chorus part. Great for sport, action, energy, high impact footage etc. Available as a vocal version or an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium / 79 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]
An ominous and foreboding suspense music, starting slowly and then rising into an emotional, epic piece. Featuring full orchestra combined with piano and pulsating synths. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 155 BPM]
Epic, glorious, intense, powerful, massively spacious & highly dramatic rock track with regal grace and a sense of gravitas. Bold, confident, doggedly determined & filled with passion. Would suit cinematic / dramatic / military / action / documentary type projects. [Tempo: Slow / 122 BPM]
Funk, Retro, Sound-Alike. Typical seventies / early eighties Blaxploitation music or Cop Show music theme. Think Starsky and Hutch, Shaft or Superfly. Funky wah guitars, lots of percussion and an epic soul brass finale. [Tempo: Medium / 103 BPM]
A suspenseful introduction with synths, percussion, and piano lends way to a faster paced, exciting, tension building track with the addition of strings, pads, melodic motifs, and driving rhythms. [Tempo: Medium / 91 BPM]
Slow, eerie and darkly sinister electro-rock track with a cool lazy and determined drum feel. See things through the eyes of a cold calculated city stalker, following his prey. [Tempo: Slow / 65 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]
Very cool urban/acid jazz with an attitude and some hip-hop influence. Lo-fi drum kit, upright bass, piano, understated diminished chords. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 75 BPM]
A dramatic, serious epic cinematic track. Blend of symphonic instruments, expressive choirs, synths and electro/dubstep rhythm. Massive sound. A feel of a danger or inevitable dramatic events. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 77 BPM]
Moody, sparse Jazz ballad, with a muted trumpet top line. City feel, perhaps late night jazz club, or mystery. Slightly gloomy, sultry. Also available as an Underscore version, without the lead instruments. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 50 BPM]
A tense, rhythmic, staccato track for secret missions and high pressure situations. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
From rags to riches in a magical way, that's the story of a modern day Mr Fantastic . A classic "dirty south" beat with a heavy synth hold this track together. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 73 BPM]
A solid and determined rock track with a certain amount of grit but without straying into heavy metal. Mid-tempo rock with a rough edge, great for use with sports, high-tech, exciting footage and technology web sites, maybe powerful machinery or vehicles etc. [Tempo: Medium / 82 BPM]
A moving, epic hip hop track, with a great heroic and dramatic vibe. Synths, goodly programmed drum beats and occasional guitar lead. A sense of achievement, aspiration, glory, hopes. Inspirational, inspiring, motivational. Great for scenes of achievement in sports, career, personal life, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 87 BPM]
