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.
A different job every week is the life of someone "down for the hustle". An upbeat rap song with bright synths and piano stabs keeps this one interesting. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 83 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]
Retro rock theme for spies, espionage and international men of mystery. Works equally well for spoofs and humourous secret agent antics as it does for serious action/crime thrillers. Features live horns, guitars, bass and drums. [Tempo: Fast / 135 BPM]
A sneaky and subtly pensive background / underscore track, suitable for mystery, discovery, exploration and for history / documentary etc. This is music that you don't really 'notice' as it doesn't stand out or grab the attention. It just stays in the background and provides a creepy, uneasy, mysterious atmosphere. Has a sense of dangers lurking nearby. The track is over 6 minutes long with no repetition at all, so it can be played in a loop for a long time without getting too repetitive. Can also be used for crime / criminal police / forensic investigation, puzzle solving etc. [Tempo: Slow]
A fierce, almost ugly, electro / hardcore / metal rock crossover track. Very dark, with mangled and twisted sounds of rock and electro mayhem. Destructive, post apocalyptic. Harsh, unfriendly and chaotic. Not for the faint hearted. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
A dark, tense and dramatic, textured film score piece. Very slight eastern European feel, but certainly not limited to that region. [Tempo: Slow]
Imagine being a world renowned jewel thief on your latest job. Great tension in the air, your mind starting to spin with adrenaline, sweat beading on your forehead, trying to stop your hands shaking. This track paints a mental picture of the suspense and thrill you might feel as you worked to finally get away with that massive gem. Contains violins. violas, cello and piano. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Fast, exciting, intense, frantic, driven, edgy, energised, motivated, hectic cinematic rock track combining spacious synths, frenetic drums & walls of distorted guitars. Crazy, heavy, explosive, relentless, highly dramatic music that would suit action / sports / extreme / combat / military type projects. [Tempo: Fast / 111 BPM]
Percussion only track / Battle drums. Tracks with Drums only are useful for action sequences, fight scenes, war and battles, macho sports and exertion, powerful imagery, dramatic trailers and more. Also available as seamlessly looping Drum loops / Percussion loops. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 94 BPM]
Battle drums. Pounding percussion. A combination of orchestral percussion and ethnic / tribal drums. Suitable for battle, fight, chase, brawls and action scenes. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 77 BPM]
Cinematic track with a mysterious and dark atmosphere full of anticipation. Great for crime films, documentaries, investigation news and videos. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
A cool indie pop song about a liar. Amazing powerful male vocals, slick guitars & dirty synth fx! Sounds like Gorillaz, Soulwax, Michael Jackson. Perfect as a theme song for movies or series. Also really radio friendly, this could be a monster hit! [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Rap / Hip-Hop. High energy rap with dance, rock, and latin influences. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 97 BPM]
Rhythmic pulsing orchestral music track with a scientific and anticipation aura. Curious and epic music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 140 BPM]
A gritty, sharp and nasty hard rock track with 'epic trailer' tendencies. Big pounding percussion and orchestra provide the backdrop for a biting, snarling guitar riff and powerful rock drums. Violent / Dark / Raw. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 108 BPM]
A dirty and gritty funk music track with an ominous, foreboding feel. A nasty bass riff provides the basis for this somewhat doom-laden, edgy, electro/funk workout. Good stock music for crime, action, sports and much more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
This is a hard rock song with male driven vocals, and lots of group vocals, about being the revolution. Great for sports shows or energetic placements. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
8-second electro Ident. [Tempo: Medium / 122 BPM]
Modern suspenseful music played by orchestra, synths, and ethnic instruments. Sounds like the opening credits for a spy movie based in the middle east. Driving, pulsating rhythms keep the energy up, while atmospheric sections create a moody, dramatic feel. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 99 BPM]
Biting, gritty, and nasty guitar riffs combine with squelching, acidic synths to create a sort of apocalyptic, post-industrial grind rock music. Dark and menacing, unnerving and stressed. Combat, fight / brawl, power, aggression. Threatening, destructive. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 120 BPM]
Dreamatic, slightly dark, cult music, eerie, sinister undertones, alternative. Electric guitar, rhythm, synth, strings, choir, horns. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 116 BPM]
A staccato and ominous / uneasy track with a traditional European flavor provided by Violin, Accordion and Mandolin, combined with pounding drums and orchestra. Could be Italy / Italian / Sicilian or other European country, possibly Mafia related or a track to accompany conflict, battle, shootout, chase or some urgent situation. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
Glitchy and busy electronic Dub. Active, mechanical, funky. Hip-hop flavored drums with nasty, staccato synthesizers interplaying. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
Edgy, tense, powerful, exciting, hefty & driven rocker. Walls of distorted guitars combine with crushingly heavy drum grooves to make intense, dynamic music suitable for action / thriller / extreme sports / combat type projects. Determined, groovy, wild, hectic, irresistible & climactic. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 96 BPM]
A passive but slightly sinister mood that could be used as background source music. It's mixture of emotion makes it ideally suited to black comedies. [Tempo: Slow / 61 BPM]
Funky, hectic, spy thriller or crime caper bed track. Urban funk, secret agent feel. Good as chase or battle sequence in film etc. [Tempo: Fast / 125 BPM]
Hard hitting, fast, relentless and ruthless techno / industrial style material. This track is high on energy and packs a mean punch. Suitable for film chase or fight scene, extreme sports, racing, raw power, sci-fi and much more. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 86 BPM]
Authentic & fresh, up to date Hip Hop / Urban track. A steady piano harmony is the basis for the piece, joined by synths melody and rather soft electronic drums. For gangsters, crime fighting, life in the streets, cop show, thrillers. Films and video game scores, action, dangerous situation. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 76 BPM]
Unsettling, dark & digital. Broken future, hi-tech, scary, tension. [Tempo: Slow, Medium]
A sad, heartfelt string atmosphere that is ideal for evoking a tender, dramatic ambience. Live and sensitive performance with a sweet expressive melody and a melancholic, passionate arrangement that pulls at the heartstrings. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow]
With strings, electronic rhythms and synthesizers, this underscore track brings a sense of tension, foreboding, fear and danger. Impending battle, undercover, espionage, dangerous situations. Good for action and adventure thrillers, science fiction, investigation, forensics. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
A pulsating synth and eerie melodies create a haunting, suspenseful atmosphere soon joined by synth bass and an electric guitar ostinato. Electronic and Acoustic drums and percussion help build a crescendo and reinforce the feeling of purposeful, unstoppable resolution. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Downbeat, downtempo, easy-going hip-hop / lo-fi / trip hop. Minimalistic style. Moody, elegant, with a chilled, dark side. Wide open synth textures and subtle groove vibes. Excellent for web sites, commercials etc. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A powerful piece of epic action music with elements of dramatic power, full on soaring melody lines, and hard hitting percussion patterns. Great for that modern hybrid epic dramatic style sound, and to give your visuals that big Hollywood edge. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 135 BPM]
Edgy, eerie, spacious, tense, mysterious, animated synth rock piece with great atmosphere and a nervous, suspense-filled, uneasy mood. Jittery, moody, menacing, serious, ethereal and dreamy. Would suit dramatic / crime / detective / histori / documentary / investigative news type projects. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Tribal percussion, hand drums, djembe drum and giant drums. Starts from a deep drone and builds in a crescendo to an intense climax with tribal chants and chaotic sounds. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 201 BPM]
Dark ambient synth pulse, made for tension, mystery and suspense. Besides the main track, this piece comes in many different seamless loops which can be used in combination with each other to 'build' the soundtrack needed for a scene, in a modular way. Simply place the different loops on the timeline, in a way that matches your on-screen action, or blend, combine, crop and join the loop pieces to create your own 'version' of the track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A gritty, quirky, nu-retro, slightly psychedelic track perfect for action/crime films and tv. Think Oceans 11 or CSI, heists and carefree bad guys on the run. A powerful, edgy groove featuring distorted electric piano and bass, guitar, drums and synth. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 124 BPM]
A combination of ethnic instruments and modern cinematic orchestra and synth layers, this track is perfect for livening any project with an Eastern setting. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Punchy Rock track with a grungy feel. Classic rock / retro rock sound, with a sense of movement and purpose can be felt throughout the track. Featuring a full rock band. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 141 BPM]
Cool and funky instrumental track featuring powerful bass and drum, groove ideal for cop shows, car chases, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
A nicely crafted hip hop track with a futuristic vibe. With a tense, suspenseful feeling, it is also uplifting at the same time, perhaps with a slight dark undertone. Good for use in science fiction, future and high technology productions. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 74 BPM]
An intense epic action cue with driving percussion rhythms, orchestral energy, and big drums, underscoring anything from a fast car chase to a battle between man and machine. Very much in the vein of John Powell's "Bourne" movies and the scores of Hanz Zimmer and Steve Jablonsky ("Batman Begins" and "Transformers"). [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 122 BPM]
Epic suspense filled orchestral rocker. big guitars mix with big strings and fat grooves. Would suit sports, action or dramatic project. [Tempo: Medium / 71 BPM]
Restrained and mysterious underscore music featuring a pulsing bass and warm synth pads, percussion and atmospheric textures and underlying strings create a mellow yet dark mood. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A swing jazz band playing on top of a bed of scary string tremolos and SFX. A pause at 1:42. Afterwards, brass instruments return with some crazy noodling. Unsettling, a bit psychedelic, perhaps losing grip on reality. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
Skewed, odd, quirky. Slightly mechanical sounding, leftfield urban mechanoid beats with a hip-hop flavor. Anxious. [Tempo: Medium / 86 BPM]
Rap / Hip-Hop. Classic Hip hop freestyle vocals, with a steady drum beat, piano, and hard guitar synths. Undergound Hip hop. (Note: The lyrics in this track contain words that are offensive to some). [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A rough, tough, down and dirty track suitable for battle, modern warfare, combat, fighting or brawling. Also, extreme machines, high power sports, motor racing, mean streets, tough guys taking no prisoners. Slow and funky, powerful Big Beat drums, slamming rhythm, hard biting guitars and synths. Dirty and gritty, like barbed wire. [Tempo: Medium / 97 BPM]
Combining elements of Chilled-out Funk, Urban pop / Hip-Hop and Lounge music, this is an easy-going, cool and confident track with a retro chic, stylish urban feel. Live performed instruments. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 91 BPM]
