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.
Electronic, pulsing and rhythmic with a positive feel. Feel-good / Technology / Science Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 122 BPM]
This orchestral cinematic soundtrack has a sense of greatness and grandeur, but without going all out. Poignant and graceful, the track has a darkness, but is also filled with awe, amazement and wonderment. The track builds up to a climax around the 01:20 mark. Emotional, soaring, and with dignity and a timeless cinema sound. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 135 BPM]
IMPORTANT NOTE: Also Spracht Zarathustra / "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" was written in 1896 by Richard Strauss (1864-1949), and is not in the public domain in some countries. You may not legally license this track unless the copyright has expired in your country of residence. Please consult the following link and make sure that the required length of time has passed in your country, since the death of the composer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_length Shockwave-Sound.com will not be held responsible for any copyright infringement caused by not following this advice. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A cinematic orchestra depicts scenes of flying high and soaring above the clouds. Lots of energy, very hollywood, suitable for dramatic and climactic scenes. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
An intense and dramatic movie trailer style track, complete with full orchestra, choir and a huge percussion sections. Very dramatic, powerful, urgent, and tense. Big brass stabs combine with ethnic drums and vocal chants. The chord progression helps to increase the intensity level throughout, towards the final crescendo and climax. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 156 BPM]
An epic, cinematic instrumental piece. Tension builds from the beginning as heavy, stabbing electronic sounds pulse and grow into a driving electronic/orchestral groove near the end. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Dark ambient, Horror underscore. Mysterious / Suspicious / Ominous. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 80 BPM]
10-second Ident, inspired by late night American sports broadcasts etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 96 BPM]
Saturn from The Planets suite by Gustav Holst. Recorded exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com by D Hamilton. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A fast paced action packed cue which creates a dark, cinematic and suspenseful mood. Threatening and pounding drums mixed with electronic elements along with booming brass, creating a huge cinematic sound. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
Cool retro electronica. Tight casio beats and jumpy drum edits with 80's synth arpeggiations. Nice for retro culture, retro chic, computers, videogames etc. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
A unique and quirky blend of sizzling synth lines, blistering beats and tribal vocals combine in this earthy hip hop hybrid track. Slightly menacing, very smooth and totally chilled out music with swirling and filtering synths and keys, atmospheric hip hop feel ebbs and flows, positive and forward moving groove ideally suited to modern advertising, technology & nature programmes. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
An atmosphere of sparse sound effects and eerie sounds, tense and ominous, an odd sonic bed. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Tinkly horror musical soundscapes. Uneasy, sickly, unsettling. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
Loud and chaotic in places. Synths and complex rhythms create an industrial sound. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Downtempo electro-funk. Slightly jazzy feel, an element of acid jazz with chilled grooves. [Tempo: Medium / 92 BPM]
Dark Dub / Breaks. Downtempo, grimy beats. Machine like / Futuristic / Aggressive / Dark Electronica / Robotic / Mean / Strong. Also available without the vocal samples. [Tempo: Very fast / 140 BPM]
A sort of downtempo, electronic funk-groove. Laidback bassline, synth pads and chilled melody in the middle. Relaxed, neutral, professional. Relaxing background music; stays back and does not demand attention. Suitable for media productions including advertising, background grooves, business or science/education presentations. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
An epic, inspiring and uplifting music track made with epic symphonic orchestra, massive choir and cinematic drums. This is a track of grandeur and greatness, but also with a bittersweet, melancholic undertone. Trailer structure, divided into three parts: Intro – rising, middle – climax, outro – similar to the intro, but softer. Magnificent / Epic / Glory Music. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Atmospheric and ambient chill out track, smooth beats, dubby bassline, and bubbley melodic synths. Good for Travel and living, multimedia and corporate videos. [Tempo: Medium / 109 BPM]
Acoustic piano and cool electronic sounds float in a suspension, this highly ambient electronic piece calls to mind slow motion through its drawn-out pads, synth effects and rhythms. [Tempo: Fast / 124 BPM]
A glorious, glorifying and determined track for Epic productions, cinematic trailers, and theatrical scenes of glory, honor, perhaps a rising force, the rise of an empire, or the arrival of a hero. Grand and majestic, featuring Orchestra, Epic drums and full choir. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 75 BPM]
Edgy and relentless electro rock / future-funk / rocktronica. Bass throbs drive stripped-back four-on-the-floor grooves, pulsing arpeggios, vocoders. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
A piece of dark electronic music using edgy, modern synth sounds with driving, electronic, industrial sounding drums playing in a half time feel. This works well as a theme for an action film, action scene, music for a sports show, sci-fi film or tv show. This would also work in commercials. [Tempo: Slow / 153 BPM]
Hypnotic, trancey, tense and motivated dancey track featuring synths, drum machines, strings and vocal samples. Would suit action/thriller/sports/documentary projects. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A sorrowful, emotional cinematic music. A simple piano melody develops into a full orchestral music track with big drums and emotional strings. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A dangerous, dominating and determined orchestral march with heavy use of orchestral and ethnic percussion. Stressed situation, danger and conflict, fight, battle or chase scene. Good for fantasy, action-adventure, dramatic reality-TV, movie- or game trailer, in-game fight sequences, desperate escapes and more. Many versions and options are available, including a Percussion Only mix, several stingers and seamless loops. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 141 BPM]
A surreal setting that evokes drama & mystery music- yet, also with a strangely blissful tone. Unique / undecipherable. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Opening with epic strings and huge sounding synths, this is a massive sounding track complete with risers and boomers for transitions. Perfect for an epic trailer - a huge sounding female choir joins in for the main theme. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 85 BPM]
A very peaceful ambient piece of music. Will sit nicely in the background of any peaceful scene. Calm and meditative. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A funky bassline meets jazzy drums and breakbeat vibes in this experimental music track that's full of groove. Drum'n Bass feel. Funky bass guitar gives it a nice attitude. It's fresh and busy, but without being too stressed. Would work well as music for productions that need a groovy background tune. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 155 BPM]
A slick and groovy electro-pop / hip-hop / chillout number. [Tempo: Medium / 96 BPM]
Chunky and hard hitting rock guitar chops. Excellent instrumental, positively, uplifting and energizing rock music for use with sports, action, stunts, dangerous and grungy film, game, tv, etc. Carries a great punch and a solid dose of testosterone. Adrenaline / Driving / Fresh Music. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Smooth beats and loops, warm atmospheric pads and sparkling piano melodies. A sense of space and reflection. Ideal for film, tv, videogames, corporate, multimedia etc. [Tempo: Medium / 107 BPM]
Dark, downtempo experimental track with hip-hop synth feel. Slow, methodical groove. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 84 BPM]
Revolving galactic synth cylinders, dark and pervasive. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
An atmospheric and imaginative electronic music with inspirational chord progression and a hint of Hip Hop beat. Good music for technology, innovation, travel, discovery and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 140 BPM]
Mixture of synths and eerie guitars, cinematic intro that leads into a downtempo beat with emotional melody, uptempo part follows. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 110 BPM]
An epic, rising track. Suspenseful, with deep bass, risers, whooshes and ominous strings. This track has a serious, foreboding feel and a powerful orchestral + percussion sound, with some hybrid / digital elements too. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Trashy, violent, aggressive and explosive Dubstep track transformed from an 'action movie' like orchestral composition. A complex bass synthesis on a heavy beat; Good for any teenage related footage, hardcore animation, motion design in need of an additional punch to it. And a great way to introduce a surprising violence. [Tempo: Slow, Fast, Very fast / 142 BPM]
An ethereal and ambient music track with a heavenly, blissful feel and a glistening, airy, spatial sound. Calm music / Beauty / Wonderment. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
An inspiring, epic music with large orchestra, and big choir singing unison melody. Amazement / Wonderment / Emotion. Suitable as music for epic and inspirational scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
World inspired new age music, with some galactic outer space aura. Suitable as music for space oriented documentaries, as well as for ambient / atmosphere / hypnosis etc. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
An epic, fantasy type music track. Starting as a deep, atmospheric music, accompanied with big percussion ensemble. As track evolves, it grows, increases, builds and rises. An esotheric mood is created by flutes and a passionate, distant voice calling out. Also available without the voice. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
A nasty, hard-edged experimental dubstep track ideally suited for use in aggressive, fighting or military scenes or is just as suited to industrial, technology, production-line scenes. Where dubstep meets punk rock and industrial techno. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
A solid groove with swirling pads and synthesizers, with a slight feel of the 1980s Synthwave sound, and a somewhat edgy, cool sound. A nice background music track for sports, technology, science / sci-tech, development, progress, manufacturing and more. [Tempo: Medium / 97 BPM]
A very dark, futuristic, edgy and gritty track for dark sci-fi, fantasy, etc. This track has a vocal chant part that makes it feel ritualistic, or just threatening, ominous, dramatic. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 65 BPM]
A hybrid orchestral / electronic, cinematic film score music track. Epic, soaring. Foreboding and edgy music. Big drums, staccato synths and big orchestral brass. A heroic, determined and awe inspiring choir joins in from about 01:30. Dramatic / Tense music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
A suspenseful track featuring dramatic string pattern, accompanied with large percussion, wide brass ensemble and simple piano melody. Suitable for crime and mysteries, secret agents and heroes, battle scenes and blockbuster type videos. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
A calm, serene, peaceful composition. Invites you into a feeling of calmness and serenity. Will work well with peaceful material, relaxation, meditation, spirituality, breathing exercise, life. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 90 BPM]
