Go here for music to support scenes of forensic investigations, information analysis and investigations / detective work. This music often has a sense of mystery and 'puzzles' combined perhaps with feelings of technology and cutting-edge investigation techniques and tools. Shows like CSI, Silent Witness, real-life crime documentaries, criminal investigation programs and films often use music in this genre. In some of these tracks, you can almost hear the ticking of the machinery, the thought processes that solve the conondrums and find that vital part of information that solves the puzzle.
Sneaky and darkly pensive underscore for drama or dark mystery. Perhaps crime scene investigation, criminal activity, lurking danger. Suitable for documentary, film score, TV drama or nervous tense moments of reality show etc. Sneaking pads, dark bass undertow, unnerving and twitchy strings. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A medium intensity underscore track for film or TV drama. A sense of mystery and passing time. Perhaps crime investigation, mysterious discoveries or waiting anxiously for the next development. Pensive, with a understated, slow rhythm. [Tempo: Slow / 78 BPM]
A short film or television drama cue, suitable for crime thriller, mystery or an intense. Ticking rhythm, pensive movement, building to a crescendo. Perhaps a terrible realization or a gruesome discovery. [Tempo: Medium / 112 BPM]
A subtle and transparent movie soundtrack, suitable for film or television. Somewhere between light and darkness, this track provides a slightly pensive background for personal reflection, waiting, forensic investigation, crime scene surveillance, or a time for interpersonal drama, thoughtful moments etc. Also great for reality show, emotional scenes, or piecing together clues in a mystery. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A pensive, rhythmic underscore for a dark thriller, drama, crime mystery or documentary. The percussion carries a slightly ethnic or tribal feel, while the wailing, screeching metallic pads give the track a sense of fear, anxious waiting or nervous movement. Great for film, television drama, crime scene investigation, reality show and much more. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 86 BPM]
A dark, cold and damp TV or film underscore cue. Pensive, unnerving and unsettling, this piece is suitable for a scene in a crime mystery, horror flick or perhaps a criminal documentary featuring evil or the occult, gruesome discoveries in forensics, crime scene investigation, etc. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A nice mix of Jazz, Funk and Hip Hop. Laidback, positive and cool. Featuring Rhodes, vintage synths and a terrific drum and bass groove. [Tempo: Medium / 91 BPM]
Drones and pulsating rhythm. Mystery and tension. Nice underscore for a dramatic situation. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A building and pounding action cue with driving percussion rhythms, orchestral energy, and big drums, underscoring anything from a heist getaway 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: Fast / 75 BPM]
An intense and fun action cue with driving percussion rhythms, orchestral energy, and big drums, underscoring anything from a major heist to a victorious getaway. Very much in the vein of John Powell's "Bourne" and "Italian Job" scores and the scores of Hanz Zimmer and Steve Jablonsky ("Batman Begins" and "Transformers"). [Tempo: Medium / 80 BPM]
A driving and emotional dramatic cue with a thematic interlude underscoring anything from a kidnapping search to an innocent fugitive on the run. Orchestral with rhythmic percussion, piano, strings, and brass. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
"Constructing the Machine". A pulsing and building orchestral thriller montage cue underscoring anything from working mathematical formulas to constructing a time machine. Rhythmic percussion, brass, strings, ambient fx, electronic instruments. [Tempo: Medium / 128 BPM]
A subtle comedy cue underscoring anything from a sneaky plan to a silly hideout. Sneaking around, scheming, hiding, playing spy. Pizzicato strings, clarinet, flute, and piano. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 98 BPM]
A suspenseful thriller cue with varying textures underscoring anything from hostage negotiations to a prison break. Orchestral with low piano, percussion, and and ambient fx. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 112 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a mass epidemic. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Slow / 77 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a mass epidemic. Orchestral with piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Medium / 94 BPM]
A hip psychological dramatic cue underscoring contemporary night life with sexy and dangerous undertones. Electronic and ambient instruments, urban grooves, and piano and strings. [Tempo: Medium / 79 BPM]
Uplifting and emotional rhodes piano, accordian and Cocteau Twins style guitar over a spacious and atmospheric shoegazer backing. Poignant and inspiring. Tv and Film, travel and living, documentary, drama, advertising, [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 118 BPM]
Subtle minimalist synth melodies. Great for investigations and data mining. mysterious, melodic and insightful. [Tempo: Medium / 109 BPM]
Subtle use of piano, bells and pads. Positive, inspiring and informative. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Warm, lush and evocative atmosphere, uplifting and textural synthpads, subtely syncopated and filtered white noise. Good for scenes of beauty and discovery. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Dark and mysterious soundbed, psychological terror, isolated fear, social drama, malevolent and sinister. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Chilled out ambient electronica. Spacious and warm synth melody, filtered percussion, cool tripped out beats, sliding sub bassline and uplifting strings. Atmospheric and reflective. Great for night time scenes, exploration, contemplation and much more. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 75 BPM]
Chilled out mid tempo electronica. Distorted 909 drums, lush pads, bright pulsey synth, rolling sub bassline, wide gritty beats. Atmospheric, reflective, soaring, meaningful and cool. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
This is a film soundtrack with an epic vibe. Orchestral arrangement with a lot of tension and energy. Ideal for war, battle and fight themed films with a brooding feel. Emotional and Heroic feelings that bring a lot of inspiration to the listener. [Tempo: Medium / 84 BPM]
A sci-fi oriented track that we had trouble finding the right category for, featuring sputtering, arpeggiating analogue synthesizers, space echoes, weird spacey sounds. Desolate. Isolation, paranoia, horror, space, scifi. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A slow, pulsating, rather ominous and pensive rhythm sets the scene for a track that develops into an expansive, open aural vista. It has a sense of something important happening, something amazing approaching. It keeps growing into a glorious crescendo until finally all is revealed at the climax. A great track for when you want to build expectation and excitement towards the revealing moment. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Loungy Funk Pop with a positive mood and groovy funk elements. The catchy sounds and some melodic variations fits well with advertising. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
Exciting, mesmerizing industrial sound design action underscore. Composed entirely of unique sounds. [Tempo: Fast / 127 BPM]
Urban funky coolness with muted trumpet lead. [Tempo: Slow / 68 BPM]
Repeating, downtempo electro groove. Slow, funky electronica. Somewhat spacey / dreamy / otherworldly. [Tempo: Slow / 76 BPM]
Electro-Ambient / Downtempo / Electro chill. Dreamy / floating / slow pulsating rhythm. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 50 BPM]
Electro-Ambient / Downtempo / Electro chill. Dreamy / floating / slow pulsating rhythm. Quirky. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
Downtempo Electro Chill. Dreamy / Quirky / Odd / Otherworldly. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
Downtempo electro space-grooves. Deep & funky, slowly developing electronic soundscapes with hypnotizing, downtempo beat. [Tempo: Medium / 86 BPM]
Slow, oozing and sizzling, deep soundscapes with a very slow, down tempo beat. Ambient-Electro crossing over into Relaxation or Chill-Out. [Tempo: Slow / 64 BPM]
Ethnic soul - stirring Indian music. Depicts spirit, character, attitude, outlook, approach, essence of a situation. Tabla, dholak, duff, sitars, santoor, morchang, udo pots, flute. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Smart, modish and distinctive electronic music. With a smooth and punctuating beat A.I conveys themes such as style, design, electronics, computing, new cars, future, intelligence, robotics, dynamics and fashion. Pure electronic music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Short but poignant piece with an ambient piano backed up by strings and synths, creating a sense of regret and sorrow. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A tense and threatening track that's great to use in a teaser trailer. With big percussion, synths, acoustic guitars, underlined by penetrating strings and brass. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 114 BPM]
A blast of electronics and acoustic percussion. Great to use in a chase scene, particularly if it's a chase on foot. [Tempo: Fast / 130 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]
Dramatic trailer music that mixes electronic instruments and strings. It is split into two sections: tension/build up and then a full onslaught. This makes it work well in trailers that have exposition in the first half, then fast cuts and action in the second. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 145 BPM]
A lonely wash drifts across a desert landscape. Sweltering, torrid & extra dry. Mysterious, haunting, uneasy. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Vocal ballad with piano and female vocal. [Tempo: Medium / 68 BPM]
Mid-tempo background track with a science feel. Trickling and ticking, pulses and impulses, movement and interplay between technology and organics. Great as an underscore to science lab, information flow, education, research, data presentation, movement and constant change, development. [Tempo: Medium / 92 BPM]
TV news broadcast style. Urgent, serious, news footage, latest breaking news etc. [Tempo: Medium / 85 BPM]
This track starts with subtle, mysterious bells before sweeping up to a massive, epic, grand orchestration. Suitable for fantasy, sci-fi, war & conflict, movie trailer, film or game intro scenes, getting ready for battle, etc. This track is recorded with a live philharmonic orchestra. [Tempo: Fast / 115 BPM]
Down- to mid-tempo rock grooves. Steady, excited, riffing and plenty of variation throughout. Great for sports, action, extreme sports, men & motors, outdoors, fun & daring footage etc. [Tempo: Fast / 123 BPM]
Melodic electro-rock track with elements of Science Fiction soundtrack work, progressive rock and ambient electronica. Guitar leads, epic pads, analogue synth sequences. Among many other features are a long, floating and building intro, and an guitar solo reminescent of Alan Holdsworth or Alex Lifeson (Rush) midway through. A unique track, hard to describe, but perhaps as a more rock-influenced Tangerine Dream or a more powerful Vangelis? We recommend you listen to the entire full length preview. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]