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.
High energy, bouncey, intense, groovy and hypnotic heavy rock track with celtic harp intro and lush orchestral strings in the chorus section. Would suit action/thriller/sports projects. Epic gutsy, energised rock with a unique flavour. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A rough and determined, gritty crossover of Rock, Funk, Electro and Hip-Hop. Slamming funk drums, a biting guitar riff and occasional squelchy synth riffs come together in a sort of urban "big beat" funk-rock. Good for chase, metal & glass, destruction and fighting, car race / car chase, tough guys, rough sports and action, action-filled undercover operation, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 118 BPM]
Vocal pop / urban / funk / hip-hop / party track with lots of funky attitude. UK underground style Urban / Dance. Male rap / vocals. Also available as an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
Dark Dub / Hard electronica. Robotic / Futuristic / Mechanical. Hard slamming beats with effects and synth patterns. Machine like / Heavy industrial. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
Stripped down to a simple pulse, an electronic minimalist beat comes in after 1 min. [Tempo: Medium / 102 BPM]
Retro Cop Show theme and variations. Sound of the 1970's and 80's. Action and anticipation music, with a lot of wah guitars, funky clavinet, horn section and groovy basslines. Suspenseful variations, with a somewhat comic flavor. [Tempo: Slow, Medium]
Uniquely intense riff-fest with a Japanese flavour to it. Interwoven koto lines begin the track and are soon overrun by a huge deluge of distorted guitar riffs, bass and drums. These two groups of instruments dual and parry through the tune giving great dynamics and drama. [Tempo: Fast / 121 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]
Urban, funky hip hop beat with a high sense of action, danger and adventure. Banging drums, bright synths and deep bass. Serious and fresh. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 101 BPM]
Deep hip-hop beat. Inner city, gritty and grinding hip hop style. Low-rider, gangsta, gang culture. Slow and sexy, featuring bright synth lines and hard electronic drums. Good for any scene that shows excitement, energy, motivation. Raw power, urban menace, low-key mob hit, gangsta low riders. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 154 BPM]
Spacey, slow and slightly dark electronic piece. Trancey synth-piano lines are overlaid with more jagged synth and drum noises to produce an ethereal and yet quite emotive soundscape. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 60 BPM]
Edgy and suspense cinematic music track made with orchestra, synths and other various effects. Action / Spy / Tension Music. [Tempo: Medium / 120 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 pulsating, tension building music track, featuring piano chord progression, ambience synths, and epic orchestra sound. Powerfully rising into a big, epic music track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 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]
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]
Warm and ambient music, featuring pulsing bass patterns and smooth textures that create a mood of intrigue. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
Rap / Hip-Hop. Up beat hip hop track composed with various synth sounds. All about partying and going wild, Buckwild! [Tempo: Medium / 85 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a sudden kidnapping. Orchestral with piano, with electric bass and percussion, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Medium, Fast]
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]
A bluesy, swampy, gritty and edgy, Blues music / rock'n roll bad boy. Groovy and cocky. Stoner rock music influence. [Tempo: Slow / 71 BPM]
Fast, heavy, high adrenaline, straight for the jugular, metal bruiser. great energy, motivation & relentless momentum.Verses are spacious and atmosperic. [Tempo: Fast / 130 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]
Creepy, sinister, beautiful, haunting, heavy, spacious, determined, powerful & intense orchestral metal track with an exotic, slightly Eastern flavour and a hypnotic, slow groove. Atmospheric, exotic and calculated. Would suit cinematic / mystery / foreign / drama type projects. Note: Deliberately 'gritty' sound on the piano. [Tempo: Slow / 66 BPM]
Dramatic accented strings, heavy percussion, blasting brass and pulsating synths give this track a dramatic, epic and futuristic vibe. Intended for epic promos, video games, sports, trailer and dramatic radio cues. Also ideal for breaking news, tragedy, turmoil, tension and struggle in reality TV shows like Celebrity Apprentice, The Ultimate Fighter, Survivor, Fear Factor and The Bachelor. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
A hybrid drum & bass music track with a mix of cinematic and electronic. The track has an apocalyptic feel with distant guitar strums, glitched drums and eerie sound effects. Half way through the track switches to a funky drum and bass loop with a deep and warm bassline accompanied by a piano melody. Great music for video game trailers, movie trailers and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
Powerful and macho Epic Hip Hop beat, with vigorous stabs and orchestral elements. Strong heroic feel. Good for sports and epic stuff with an urban twist. In the style of Eminem. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
Abrasive and jarring machine-like rhythmic elements, epic and otherworldly with ominous undertones and rising in intensity. Works great with crime, industrial, steampunk and sci-fi scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 126 BPM]
Electro metal tune. Buzzsaw synths build the tension as hypnotic rhythms and trancey basslines weave together. The chorus brings an explosion in intensity as dirty rhythm guitars enter. An insane frenzied lead guitar brings the track to a close. Contains synths, bass, drums and guitars. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
A crazy, hectic, cool, unpredictable electronic dubstep track. Animated, adventurous, frantic, lively, wild & wicked. Would suit urban documentary / action thriller / combat video type projects. [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
Hip-hop track with spy / mystery / secret agent style strings and brass. [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
Rap / Hip-Hop. A unigue blend Of Reggae and Hip hop. [Tempo: Slow / 83 BPM]
Dark, sinister and brooding horrow/Halloween type piece that combines church organ, tremelo-ed strings and distorted guitar riffs. Hi tension and suspense is blown apart by the chorus part exploding into shining black light. Would suit horror/mystery/suspense projects. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 120 BPM]
Euphoric euro-trance meets glitchy and grimey Dubstep. Electro tweaks / Breakbeat. Grooves build up gradually towards a crescendo and then breaks into a cutting edge, robotic, mechanical sounding Dub Step beat. Production style similar to Skrillex etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
A propulsive track featuring both acoustic and electric guitars, drums and synth. Intense drama simmers just beneath the surface, ready to boil over at any moment. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
A fusion of warm, ambient soundscapes, electro echos and cool melodies gaining momentum with the introduction of drum'n'bass beats. High bass guitars, clean electric pianos and gritty leads complete with breakdowns. Suitable for extreme sports where your action shots are slowed down in HD. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 168 BPM]
A driving, swinging modern jazz track influenced by Lalo Schifrin's Mission Impossible theme. Features Flute, Vibraphone, Piano, Upright Bass and Drums. Great for action, adventure, commercials, documentaries, live applications or any project in need of some dynamic, cool, sophisticated jazz. [Tempo: Medium / 98 BPM]
Dark and disturbing soundscape. Horror, scifi, creepy, sound design. An uneasy drone and distant, reverberant hissing noise develops into a climax at about 35 secs. [Tempo: Slow]
String quintet developing a dramatic theme, suited for dramatic series involving psycological or criminal content. Timeless, with a classic / classical influence music. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 160 BPM]
A dark and driving cinematic cue consisting of strings, electronic drums and ominous synths. A huge sounding track which is epic in every sense - some unusual key changes create a powerful and unique sound. [Tempo: Medium / 70 BPM]
A dark and ominous underscore with ambient guitar sounds. Mysterious and with a feeling of unbearable heat, or a dark, damp place. Think Breaking Bad, Banshee or other modern western, or doom laden TV / Film music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 90 BPM]
Cool and contemporary tech house, cyclic and grinding synth bass, tight rhythmical beats and lush atmospheric pad. Motivated and full of energy. [Tempo: Medium / 118 BPM]
Powerful and dramatic future retro Funk perfect for action scenes, spy's, superheroes, impossible missions, confrontations or any project looking for a contemporary track with a retro twist that packs a punch. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
Battle drums / marching percussion. A combination of orchestral percussion and ethnic / tribal drums. Suitable for battle, fight, chase, conflict, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 102 BPM]
Very dark, driven, disturbed, sinister electro-rock track with an unnerving organ intro, tribal syncopated beats, big guitars and synth textures. Great drive and power but with melody and release to the tension it builds. Powered by determined riffs over monster beats. Intense & wicked. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
A mechanical and technical sounding urban / drum'n bass track. Fast, dry and glitchy drums with synth sub-bass, digital signals and gritty sound elements. Trippy, futuristic, spacey and quirky, Good for science, space / space travel, cutting-edge technology, experimental science, micro organisms, Information Technology, DNA/forensics, movement and activity. Developing science. Edgy / industrial. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 170 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]
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]
This 80's-drenched, but also futuristic track is inspired by synth-heavy, 80's sci-fi action and mystery movies. Its arpeggiated bass and fluid synths invoke slightly shifting moods as the track progresses. There's a feeling of danger and adventure, perfect for road driving or flying type programming, crime in progress / criminal enterprise, emotive dramas, and flyovers. Outrun / Sparse / 80's Sci-fi. [Tempo: Medium / 131 BPM]
Cool upright bass groove, percussion and a fast hip hop breakbeat. Good stock music for spy, gangster, crime and heists scenes. Think "Snatch", "Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrells", "Oceans Eleven" and many more. Funky criminals / crime in progress. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 118 BPM]
