Inspiring, relaxing, mid-tempo pop / chill track, featuring piano and guitar harmonics. Positive, in a subtle and elegant way. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Upbeat, uptempo guitar rock with a strong forward drive. Available both as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Fast / 186 BPM]
This piece is subtle, quietly yearning and contains a beautiful tension. This tension could easily be an inner drama of the mind wrestling with dark emotions. Instruments include: piano, Chinese Kim, marimba, pizzicato strings, bass, synth pads, drums and soft percussion. Excellent for commercials, travel and drama/comedy based themes, as well as for mystery and intrigue, analysis and data gathering, puzzle / crime solving and much more. [Tempo: Medium / 142 BPM]
Tensions rise as stoic piano and guitar build to a dramatic exposure of driving bass, urban drums and strings. Would work excellent on a film or TV show as a revelation of betrayal or selfish intent. [Tempo: Slow / 77 BPM]
Interesting mix of female vocals, grungy guitars and a hint of Radiohead. Clean and heavy guitars, heavy drums and grinding bass. Powerful female vocals tell an autobiographical tale of admitted weirdness. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
Beautiful Piano weaves its melody through orchestral elements and atmospheric percussion to set the mood for contemplative thoughts. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 77 BPM]
Medium tempo country rock song about giving old love a second chance. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 72 BPM]
A soulful ballad about rising above doubts and fears and saying "yes" to love. Featuring female vocals by Tricia Kelly. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
A building and driving orchestral cue with an ambitious sense of urgency and sweeping fantasy, underscoring anything from an intense adventure to a suspenseful chase. The slight middle-eastern flavor makes this cue perfect for period epics. [Tempo: Medium / 72 BPM]
A romantic and graceful little solo piano track. Sweet and quaint, perhaps about an unlikely friendship or memories of a love affair. At the 1-minute mark the track features some passages with a slight French or Parisian feel, but the track is in no way limited to that. It might just as well be set in New York City or anywhere else for that matter. Performed live on an old piano. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 55 BPM]
A positive and optimistic, but also restrained and understated, track featuring simple harmony and melody. Inspirational, motivating, insightful. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Think Massive Attack meets Jean Michel Jarre and you're in the right area. Pulsing bass synth starts this track and then the chorus brings simple piano melodies and distant choirs. Gradually the track builds in rhythmic intensity until the mid breakdown where effected drum sounds take the machines heartbeat down to zero. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
Spacious, moody, dreamy, atmospheric, other-worldly synths combine with simple piano lines & a steady beat to make tense, eerie, thoughtful & slightly unnerving music that would suit documentary / thriller / mystery / crime / spy / horror type projects. Dark & haunting. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Delicate and beautiful piano music, with a strong classical influence. European flavoured modal waltz, with heavy influence from Yann Tiersen and Ludovico Einaudi. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A warm, upbeat and relaxed underscore cue with guitar, synth, piano and percussion. Non-instrusive with sparse instrumentation, this would work well for evoking a feeling of travelling, children or innocence. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Slow, deeply thoughtful, melancholic and hypnotic piano-lead orchestral piece that tugs at the heartstrings and ticks at the speed of time itself. Simple piano combines with soft staccato woodwind and atmospheric, lush sustained strings. Would suit any dramatic/romantic/documentary/history projects. [Tempo: Slow / 56 BPM]
A beautiful, serene, calming, hypnotic, spacious, delicate, ethereal, magical and thoughtful piece. Gentle plucked harmonics and lush orchestral strings. Trancey, tranquil, dreamy and repetitive. Would suit documentary / space / science / fantasy / travel / history / dramatic / cinematic projects. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 130 BPM]
Gentle, reflective electric guitar version of the traditional piece 'Amazing Grace' accompanied by strings. The guitar parts are natural in feel using high-quality synths that were played live rather than programmed. There are tiny discrepancies from a live performance which adds to the realism. The improvised counter melodies further add to the authentic feel of this music. This music works for a variety of purposes including film, religious, spiritual or background music purposes. It is a calm, gentle, tender, light and thoughtful/contemplative music track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 72 BPM]
Slow and mellow French music / Parisian music style ballad with accordion over lush strings, pads and keyboards. Streets of Paris, French culture, also suitable for other European cities and European heritage. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 61 BPM]
This piece moves through various sections of chinese inspired ambient and rhythmic music. Some melodic elements (Chinese main theme), but also some sections with just background ambience and Chinese percussion. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
An introspective and lonely track featuring guitars, bass and electric piano. Suitable for drama, story telling, and more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 110 BPM]
Fresh, juicy downtemo hip-hop track. Fat beats and synth textures mixed with some older sounding, slightly grainy elements. The old meets the new, inner city stories. Urban, funky hiphop. [Tempo: Medium, Slow / 80 BPM]
Functional piece of music on piano and strings. Organic feeling and repetitive melody will fit for technology, corporate, commercials. This easy listening track will be good also for ambient, background situations. [Tempo: Slow / 68 BPM]
A sore, tender and emotional, understated piano piece, suitable for drama, loss, memories or bittersweet love stories. The main version has a constant ambient pad underneath the piano. There is also an alternative version without this pad, with only the piano itself. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 97 BPM]
Neutral and forward-moving tech / industry / production type music bed. Active / Busy. Business, industry, science, technology, research etc. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Downtempo, light and elegant electro grooves. Repeated, comforting, reassuring, somewhat odd/quirky. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Soft and tender acoustic guitar track. Romantic, gentle, pastoral, picturesque and mellow. [Tempo: Slow / 63 BPM]
Warm, inviting and friendly theme, slow pulsating rhythm. Synthesized. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Floating through wide open spaces, rivers and canyons these dreamlike baritone guitar licks are as laid back as a campfire under the stars. Subtle, dreamy washes give this retro style Country & Western a futuristic twist. [Tempo: Slow / 81 BPM]
Chilled beats with swirling, odd, cranky moods. Interwoven grooves in strange aural landscapes. The old meets the new. [Tempo: Medium / 87 BPM]
Slow, spacey, ethereal, cinematic piece. A plucked string pulse is overlaid with simple beautiful piano lines, acoustic guitar chords and emotive strings. Would suit filmic/cinematic/detective/thriller type projects. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 144 BPM]
The famous grand piano piece, "Fur Elise" (for Elise) by Beethoven. Recorded exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com by D Hamilton. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
A building, atmospheric rock track with intertwining electric guitars, purposeful drums and atmospheric fx. Hopeful and inspirational. [Tempo: Slow / 122 BPM]
Piano, acoustic guitar and strings over urban / pop drums and bass. A sense of drama on the streets, but things are hopeful and there's a sense of renewal. Could work perfectly for a documentary about urban renewal, or about high school kids. [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
Easy Listening, Christmas Traditional. Soft/Smooth, Exciting, Peaceful/Calm, Pleasant/Nice, Easy, Gentle/Tender. Electric Piano/Rhodes, Flute, Acoustic Guitars, Fretless bass. Children's. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Beautiful, atmospheric, sad, emotive, moving, meaningful, tragic, lonely, heart-wrending orchestral track using lush-spacious strings, woodwinds and simple piano lines. Would suit dramatic / romantic breakup / requiem / military / history type projects. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Archetypical redneck country, with acoustic guitar and harmonica. Slide guitar also joins in. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 81 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 / 90 BPM]
Soft, ambient, beautiful and relaxing music. Warm and soothing. Comforting and peaceful. Yoga / Mind Focus / Work Focus / Study Music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 70 BPM]
Light bell tones, piano and other warm sounds combine for a contemplative and gentle instrumental mood with light rain. [Tempo: Slow / 103 BPM]
Movie and TV underscore. A dark and gentle melancholy theme with slight moments of hope. Piano arpeggios, beautiful melody on cello with subtle electronic percussion and synth pad. A haunting, tender and dreamy soundtrack for contemporary film. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 68 BPM]
Acoustic soft rock track with guitar riffs and bass. Featuring male vocals about everyday issues, wheeling and dealing. Electronic segments. Intro movie scenes. Scenic scenes. Scenes involving giving up. Two men being served breakfast by a sexy waitress. Fighting scene. Quitting job. An instrumental version is also available. [Note, the lyrics to this track contains an expletive / explicit word]. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
An atmospheric piece with bell-like ambient sounds and some soft guitar notes. Evokes a feeling of purity and calm. Perhaps about returning to place full of memories or finding inner peace. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 136 BPM]
Doom-laden, dark country rock with Dobro over pedal steel, guitars, bass and drums. Has a certain doom-ish, Tarantino'esque, pulp americana feel. The bass line makes us remember the classic Dire Straits track "Six Blade Knife". Not the same bassline, but a similar rhythm and feel. The tempo and intensity picks up gradually. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
A bouncy upbeat track that brings to mind the simple things kids do. Bubbly, light hearted and joyful with fixed piano, mixed pitched percussion, organ and rhodes. Best suited for playful, light hearted TV cues, video games and children shows. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
George Frideric Händel - Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40: Act I. Largo. 'Ombra mai fu'. Arranged and recorded with real live orchestra, exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Deep and Emotional piano track full of drama and tragedy. Listening to this track brings to imagination the images of lost love, old memories, loneliness, pain, sorrow and sadness. Performed live on Grand piano and suitable for films, documentaries, films and videos. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Piano-based, gentle New Orleans groove. Calm, eerie, mellow, relaxed. World jazz, latin. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 107 BPM]
Acoustic guitar mood music. Warm, impressionistic, relaxing with a slightly folky feel and a sense of the natural and true. [Tempo: Medium / 70 BPM]
Trad./Arr Yuri Sazonoff, with various mixes. 100% live performance, no synths or samples. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 80 BPM]
