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 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]
A cinematic / dramatic Hip-Hop / R&B track with orchestral strings mixed with a down tempo urban beat. Good for youth drama, urban stories and more. Classical music meets hip hop. A slight sense of glooom, or at least seriousness. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 102 BPM]
Pulsating scene setter for action film chase or gearing up. Undercover cop, spy, war, SWAT team or secret agent moving in. Slow but with a very strong and determined forward drive. An element of mystery, conspiracy and intrigue. Perhaps high-tech warfare. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Tinkling, synthetics and filtered, pulsating drum beats. An eerie atmosphere. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
A orchestral hybrid royalty free music cue, the use of 70's / 80's synths in combination with the common orchestra, this piece has a modern Sci-Fi feel with an A-list Hollywood production. The use of orchestral hits throughout this cue gives momentum and pace to any scene, as the piece concludes it ranges in dynamics to give the most dramatic end. Dramatic / Tension / Apocalypse Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 120 BPM]
A industrial style percussive track with large bigger than life cinematic production which invites the audience into a story. As the drums become more and more intense towards the end and throughout the cue the use of rhythm and metal industrial percussion brings the music to a climatic, epic and dramatic conclusion. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 113 BPM]
Dangerous but upbeat hip hop track great for television, commercials, ads, presentations about anything urban, street, and modern. Big beats, a strong bassline, and catchy hook vocals. [Tempo: Fast / 116 BPM]
A dark, tense and dramatic, textured film score piece. Very slight eastern European feel, but certainly not limited to that region. [Tempo: Slow]
Classic blues sound. Wailing blues guitar, with a slowly grinding electric guitar riff. Only two guitars, no drums or anything else. [Tempo: Slow / 62 BPM]
Beaty, bouncey, electronic track mixing synths, drum machines and acoustic drums. Sometimes darkly atmospheric & moody, always lively and driven. [Tempo: Medium / 117 BPM]
Slow paced royalty-free music track with digital drums and deep digital basslines mixed with orchestral hits and strings. Broken future, bleak and ominous. The build up is slow into a melodic yet unsettling drop with strings and crushed drums that resemble a gun shot. A good track for movie and video game trailers, scenes of struggle and repression. Also for forensic investigation, crime / crime scene, spy and undercover agent, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
This is pretty much as 'in your face' as we're ever going to get. This is a fast, brutal, ruthless and relentless blazing inferno of destructive mayhem hard rock track. Great for raw footage, destruction and war, burning and slashing, extreme sports etc. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 130 BPM]
Electronic underscore with large percussion, warm synth tones, buzzy synth appregios and complex Moog undertones. Sports, Crime, Automotive. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Big, bold, exciting and funky. For movies, TV, commercials or any project with a retro action packed theme. Bank jobs, crimes in progress, chase scenes, sports, racing against the clock. Features brass, strings, wah-wah guitar, bass and an old school breakbeat. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Dark, ominous, ghostly, slowly turning and twisting soundscape, later joined by gloomy strings. Great horror or sci-fi underscore. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow]
Eerie, tense, percussive soundscape with a relentless spooky melody, dark metalic FX and flute sweeps. Atmospheric with a sense of suspense and imminent danger. Menacing and sinister. 48 hours, The Mentalist, Castle, Alien Invasion, crime drama, horror, Sci-Fi. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 105 BPM]
A very nasty industrial-electronic track with vicious, pounding percussion and a violent, edgy and gritty sound. Violence / Horror / Sci-fi / Destruction / Alarm / Madness. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
A slow building, pulsating futuristic track in the style of Batman, Tron, Watchmen and Star Trek. Deep percussion and flowing strings make this track dramatic and dark yet inspiring and uplifting. In the style of Steve Jablonsky, Hans Zimmer, John Williams and James Horner. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 152 BPM]
Film soundtrack / underscore suitable for drama and adventure, city streets, urban living, mystery and personal stories. Lush strings and acoustic guitars. A jazzy saxophone joins in after about 1 minute. Reflection and storytelling. [Tempo: Slow, Medium]
Very staccato, urban hip-hop inspired beatz with a sense of mystery and intrigue. Good for urban scenes, film/background, inner city stories, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Dark Dub / Breaks. Downtempo, grimy beats. Machine like, Futuristic, Funky, Dark Electronica. Robotic / Mechanical / Dark & Weird / Strong. Also available without the vocal samples. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Rocktronica-breaks track that builds like a lit fuse and explodes into mayhem. Chaotic, frantic, edgy, gives a feeling of releasing pet-up aggression and anger, or pulling off a massive heist! Ideal for use in high-octane action games, chase scenes & extreme sports. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 150 BPM]
Horror, scifi or thriller underscore featuring severely mangled guitar notes, deep thumping percussion and a disturbing drone. Like the desolate sound from the pits of hell, this is a very dark ambient track. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow]
Slightly dark, eerie & sinister electronic rock track with great atmosphere, forward drive & spacey textures. A mixture of synths, drum machines, acoustic drums, strings and guitar. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 119 BPM]
Ominous and arid western atmosphere, inspired by modern TV drama like Breaking Bad, CSI and Banshee. Slide guitars over a driving rhythm. Crime and gangster feel, as well as police investigation mood. Cinematic / Western / Crime Music. [Tempo: Medium]
A 1970's style retro crime or spy funk underscore. All the ingredients are here... The repetitive bass line, the lo-fi funky drums, the mystery guitar and the suspended chords. Great for spy, crime, police, or any cool, rough presentation. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Predators are closing in, tension builds, an attempted escape, a chase. This is an fully orchestral cinematic score of underlying horror and suspense that builds up. Key of D, 120 bpm. [Tempo: Slow / 57 BPM]
A music track in a Cinematic Action genre: energy, anticipation, escalation and breakdowns, and lots of evolving sounds. This piece is featuring many Synthesizers, drum beats and percussion instruments. Will work in films, trailers and videos that involve Spy Action, New Technologies, Computers and Hacking, Chase scenes, CIA investigations, Crime News etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 118 BPM]
Opening with a simple ambient piano motif, this track soon explodes into a dark, passion fuelled combination of distorted guitars and driving percussion - Dramatic / Aggressive / Futuristic. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
Classic 70's dirty funk sound with a modern Hip Hop feel, with vocal refrains, “Stay up on the hustle” & “You can find me on the block” Ideal as music for city gangsters, cops & robbers, blaxploitation movies, urban scenes. Theme / Crime / Gritty Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 92 BPM]
A dramatic, serious electronic track featuring elements of dubstep and electro. Atmospheric and groovy. Useful for new technology and scientific as well as automotive kind of productions [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 77 BPM]
Fast, frantic and hard hitting semi-orchestral, semi-electronic music for action, fight or racing scene. Distorted, twisted guitars, deep brass stabs, extremely fast techno breakbeat. Chase or battle material. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
Nervous action adventure underscore. Ticking rhythm, uncertain pulses, mysterious notes. A sense of urgency and impending danger. Suitable for crime drama, thriller, spy mystery, criminal investigation, reality TV, sci-fi drama and more. [Tempo: Medium / 75 BPM]
Super Cheezy groovy theme to a non existent cop show. The mood is a cross between the Inspector Morse, Bergerac and Starsky and Hutch. Lots of strings, brass and jazzified drums. [Tempo: Medium / 85 BPM]
Softly swaying, live acoustic jazz built on a repeated bass pattern. Instrumental interplay, mellow and breezy style with some jazz improvisation. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A dark dystopian landscape with a driving rhythmic bass, pounding drums and blistering feedback. Resolves at 1:10 with a huge sweeping chord. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Funky, Hard Electronica / Dark Dub. With Grime and Drum'n Bass influences. Machine like / Robotic / Harsh / Gritty. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
A cool, chic and bouncy hip-hop background track featuring bass saxophone and a confident urban strut. [Tempo: Medium / 104 BPM]
This track starts off with a melancholic nylon guitar pattern before erupting into a hard edged, post-modern / post-apocalyptic, gritty electro-rock track. The two contrasting elements continue to combine throughout. Dark and doom'ish. [Tempo: Medium / 120 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]
Dirty and twisted electronic beats, dark and glitchy machine like processing, multimedia, videogames, sports, supercars, advertising. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 121 BPM]
Intense brooding dark malevolant energy is what this track's all about. Uncertainty on the edge of a new exciting but dangerous journey. Great momentum from synth sequences and drums powers the track. Think early Nine Inch Nails meets Massive Attack. Contains synths bass and sequences , drum units and distorted synth lines. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 148 BPM]
Dark and gripping cinematic underscore, with subsonic drums & timpani, arpeggiated piano and horn strikes for moments of tension and near discovery. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Groovy, tension-filled jazzy track utilizing tremelo'ed strings and brass for maximum drama and suspense. Theme to a city slicker's high finance dealings or to a spy's exciting & dangerous mission. [Tempo: Medium]
Driving punk rock tune, with lots of attitude and character. Distorted bass riff and Lust for life type of drums. Edgy and rowdy stock music. Hints of 1970's. [Tempo: Fast / 180 BPM]
If you want dynamic heavy rock ,then this is it ! Unusual track that starts with a very spacey mellow intro and then explodes into anintensely powerful and heavy riff-based chorus part. In the mid, the peaceful and trancey intro returns only to be blown away once more by walls of guitars and drums. Contains guitars, bass, strings and drums. [Tempo: Fast / 136 BPM]
Spacey & atmospheric electro-groove-rock track. Leslied guitars combine with plucked santoor, staccato organ & synth pads to make a fun & slightly exotically Arabian beat-fest. Very hypnotic. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 127 BPM]
Electronic underscore with warm piano, spacey synthesizer and lush pads. Explorer, keep moving forward feel. Mystical, eerie. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Laid back mysterious and snakey country blues. Featuring smokey lap steel and electric guitar fills, underpinned with a pulsing bass and drum groove. Great for smokey country bars and scenes depicting the rural south, Americana, backwoods, swamps, moonshine and honky tonks. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 112 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]
