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 conniving, dramatic string movement. It starts with a solo cello and viola, playing a static, offset melody. It grows into an epic, sneaky orchestral bombardment. It would work well as a period piece, or in a documentary. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 92 BPM]
Pulsating low bass, rhythmic low percussion toms. Merging the aesthetics of tension with trailer music elements. Conveys a sense of threat, uncertainty, and horror. Suitable for dystopian sci-fi, action thrillers, crime dramas, spy / undercover agent, military operations or horror movie trailers. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A sullen track with repeating echoes. Fluttery, mysterious, contemplative. Clarinet solo with flute and pads/percussion give a full rounded sound. Mystical / Introspective / Ethereal / Hazy. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 79 BPM]
A pure drum track. A somewhat jazzed-up pop-rock beat performed live in a studio, by professional drummer Silvio Centamore. This beat features a lot of syncopations, twists and turns, funky breaks, jazzy twists. This drum track has an edgy and confident feel, with a very urban flair. A sense of something happening, something going down, something coming up. For when you need something different, cool and hip - maybe a little daring, audacious, and provocative. Jazzy and complex, urban feel. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A dark and dramatic, cinematic trailer or action / tension score. Doom-laden / Foreboding / Serious / Tense. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Neo-classical music for film, videos, cinematic storytelling and other media. Uneasy / Urgent / Danger building. Orchestra with piano, a timeless classic movie sound. Great for film noir, mysteries, jealousy, crime drama etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 132 BPM]
Big, bad and bold Hip Hop / Trap track, aggressive, in-your-face, ideal for sport, martial arts, exercise and baddy scenes. Powerful and heavy. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
A determined, tight and driving techno / EDM beat music. Gutsy, powerful, edgy, mechanical and methodical - not to mention, very funky! [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
Dark and powerful Hip-Hop / Trap music. Edgy and determined music track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
15 minutes continuous, uninterrupted background music track for video productions and other media. Mystical, eerie, cold and pulsating soundtrack for Scifi or Mystery. Brooding music, pensive and awe inducing. Creates a feeling of unknown tension, and a vast space. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
Intricate drum rhythms and huge hits build to a dramatic finale. Action / Tension / Fight / Chase / Arm-up. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
A minimal and edgy Hip-Hop beat. Ambitious and a little bit mysterious, with an urban trap beat, orchestral strings and minimalistic synths. Great for drama, gossip and slander, with a little bit of edge and spiteful feel. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
A suspenseful and mysterious tension track. Pulsating underscore suitable for action thriller, psychological thriller, spy mystery, dark films and TV series. A sense of foreboding and unease. Mystical / Tense / Ominous. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Big Horn stabs, energetic beats, frantic funk and wobble bass, works great with sports promos, gaming, chase scenes, action or edgy situations. [Tempo: Fast / 142 BPM]
Classic surf rock sound. Fast picking, twangy guitars, Exotic Mexican/Latino feel. A dark edge, pensive, with a sense of danger. Nice for cool style surfing, also for historical / cultural, sports & events, retro fasion etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 91 BPM]
Dark and mysterious royalty free hip hop beat with tuned 808s and rolling hi-hats. Urban / Mystical. Great for urban subjects, investigation, forensics and analyzing, background music for videos, science and data. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Minimal ambient bed for science, technology, news and factual documentary programs. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow / 64 BPM]
Dark electronica / synth wave with an ethereal, dreamy-retro, hypnotic feel. Works great with technology, sci-fi and menacing, ominous scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Ominous and tension-building music mood with big drums and choirs. Dramatic / Edgy / Epic music. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 135 BPM]
A Percussion Only track, with marching snares, military march. Occasional big drum strikes. Useful for scenes of battle, chase, urgency, action. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Very fast / 95 BPM]
Future proof electronica, mechanical and grinding with melodic elements, ideal for gaming, podcast intros. Technology / Future / Info-tech / Edgy but Positive. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 115 BPM]
A sizzling, pulsating and buzzing, hard hitting electro-rock track. Dark and menacing with a huge wall of synthesizers snarling and throbbing. Somewhat futuristic. Intense / pensive. Use for fights, action, doomsday scenario, very brash product launches, power sports / motorsports and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
After an acoustic intro, this track soon builds into a take-no-prisoners, up-front and gutsy, hard hitting rock track. Uptempo and crunchy, with a wild streak. Action / Extreme Sports / Combat / Fight / Wild / Untamed. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 174 BPM]
Moderately busy big beat track built around catchy guitar riff. Confident, relentless and not too overpowering. Think big engines, metal against metal, car commercials/vlogs or anything related to technology, industry, motors, running, sport and testosterone, modern lifestyle, fashion or hipster stuff. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
This track builds and rises from a deep resonant bass sound into a hard hitting dance track that's both catchy and edgy. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Pulsing synths and steady drum beats build this track, very influenced by Lady Gaga's songs like Poker Face and Just Dance. Very modern, bright, fresh, uplifting. Very suitable for night club and party scenes, and productions aimed at young people. Also good for exercise and workout. [Tempo: Medium / 124 BPM]
Deep House, Mysterious with use of guitar and piano melodies. A bit epic and mystical. Youth drama / Urban drama etc. [Tempo: Medium / 128 BPM]
Dark Techy Dubstep, with Grime elements. Dirty Basses. Gloomy and pensive. Also available as a version without the high, blippy synth lead. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 140 BPM]
High energy electronic beat mixing elements of hip hop, house, pop and ethnic music, creating an exotic and mysterious feeling. Very modern, groovy and dark. The piece can find usage in action scenes, extreme sports, adventure, high impact footage; as good as for night club, sexy scenes. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A tight blend of big beats, unique synths, orchestral strings and tremolo guitars. Contemplative, dark and obscure for TV and Film such as Nip Tuck and Dexter. CSI evidence lab, body counts, foggy alleyway chases, hiding and lurking, loading up guns and urban mob action. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
Deep world percussion and fast strings, brass and huge drum accents. Good for heavy tension and struggle, dramatic reality TV cues such as Survivor, The Apprentice, Hell's Kitchen, Design Star and The Bachelor. [Tempo: Slow / 86 BPM]
Tires squealing, sirens blaring, adrenalin flowing. The Chase begins. Dramatic, suspenseful, powerful track mixing electronic and orchestral elements. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 81 BPM]
Bold and confident Big Beat track in the style of The Crystal Method and Leftfield. Gritty synthesizer lines, distorted guitars and some orchestral elements over a pounding Hip Hop breakbeat. Cool for military, gaming, sports and action. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
Repetitive sampled guitar riff over a driving drum rhythm. Synthesizer melody brings in some kind of mysterious and adventurous feel. Lots of confidence and coolness, being the ideal soundtrack for that bad ass spy scene. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 118 BPM]
Funky guitar elements and driving synth melodies combined with a powerful drum beat. Confident Big Beat track with lots of editing cues. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 108 BPM]
Big Beat tune in the style of Prodigy. Distorted synth line and a pounding drum beat, combined with aggressive electronica elements. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Bad Ass Big Beat track. Distorted bass and synths combined with a slow yet very powerful breakbeat. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
Exciting, powerful, thrilling, intense electro-rocker. Raw, gutsy, passionate, fiery, gritty & explosive. Would extreme sports / action / adventure / battle / combat type projects. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 162 BPM]
Dark, dramatic, evil, climactic, spacey, malevolant, sinister, mean, tribal, foreboding, scary rock track with atmospheric and menacing synths meshing with pounding, dynamic, heavy drums. Would suit thriller / action / crime / horror / halloween / space / cinematic / extreme sport type projects. [Tempo: Slow / 112 BPM]
Powerful, intense, mean, dark, atmospheric, epic, foreboding, determined, thrilling, brutal, menacing, rock / metal track with immense malevolant energy and raw, gutsy, gritty drive. Would suit action / thriller / combat / war / extreme sports type projects. The main beat and drive sets in at about 01:23. [Tempo: Slow / 146 BPM]
Gritty, gutsy, intense, lively, raw, aggressive, wicked, heavy, driven and uncompromising modern metal track. A groove that would suit action thriller / extreme sports / motorsports / combat type projects. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 138 BPM]
A slow, restrained and understated, hip-hop style beat provide the basis for this somewhat dark track somewhere between electronica, hip-hop and cinematic soundtrack. This track will go well with a dark corporation or with forensics / investigation / crime solving etc. Has a slightly ominous or malevolent feel, combined with the methodical and calculated. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 75 BPM]
Edgy electro-rock. Biting and gnarling guitar riffs combine with acidic synths for a twitchy, uneasy, Big Beat / Drum 'n Bass / Industrial rock track with a strong edge. Use for crime / criminals, dirt and grit, chase or getaway, edgy sports footage etc. [Tempo: Medium / 116 BPM]
A thrilling, cinematic trailer Sting that is epic and intense. It starts with rising orchestral clusters that begin ecalating into massive, terrifying, dramatic impacts that are designed to have your viewrs on the edge of their seat. This would be excellent for trailers, tv, movies and film, promos, bumpers and video games. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Electronic elements mixed with a huge dark brass section. Incredible sounding distorted drums mixed with orchestral instruments make this a unique sounding cue. Similar in style to Tron with cool synths and Inception for the massive brass section. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Mysterious, dark and suspenseful cinematic music piece great for TV series, films and documentaries in the crime / action genre, investigation videos and criminal news. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Synth and orchestra, in the style of modern thrillers like the Bourne movies. The music keeps the suspense going yet doesn't get big or overly busy. Perfect under dialog. Perhaps someone is being followed, without their knowledge. Things are quiet now, but conflict looms ahead. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 87 BPM]
This dark, suspenseful track builds tension with a combination of synth elements, huge percussion, and piano. Perfect for a reality TV show elimination scene, in which someone gets voted off, or a chase scene in a horror movie. [Tempo: Slow / 81 BPM]
Suitable for modern thrillers, this track features atmospheric and tense layers, orchestra, drums and synth. The tension mounts, with the drama intensifying towards the climactic ending. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 84 BPM]
A mix of orchestral and electronic elements, bringing a track full of suspense and tension. Underscore track for intrigue, crime, conspiracy and troubled times. Film soundtrack style track, with both a dark and a light side, with a strong foreboding sense of impending conflict. Pensive, dark. [Tempo: Medium / 96 BPM]