Music for space exploration, science fiction films and futuristic / space / science related content. From the obvious "The Planets Suite" by Gustav Holst and "Also Spracht Zarathustra" by Strauss, to ethereal, spacey, ambient soundscapes that brings our thoughts to alien species and far-away galaxies. This area is by no means limited to a single music genre, but draws on classical, choral, experimental, ambient and electronic music influences.
Bold and heavy Big Beat tune, with a repetitive guitar riff and powerful drums. Intro builds tension and prepares to the pounding beat that drops afterwards. Works beautifully with action and fight scenes, military, radical sports, auto racing and anything that needs that ass-kicking vibe. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 85 BPM]
A cut-to-the-wire royalty free breakbeat music track with an ominous undertone and a strong forward drive. 165 BPM. This track exists in a 60-second version, a 30-second version and a 15-second version. There is also an alternative "drums and bass only" mix of the 30-second version. [Tempo: Fast / 166 BPM]
A smooth, energetic and light electronic track with a cool and laid back vibe. It features simple and fun synth melodies, a funky beat, and a loopable structure. The track creates a positive and relaxing mood, suitable for background music, chillout lounge, or modern corporate projects. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
A powerful, epic composition of war, struggle, battle or amazing feats. Rhythmic and rousing, this track has a strong sense of determination and overcoming. It builds to a crescendo twice - once in the middle and once towards the end. Epic, amazing and valiant. This recording features actual live symphonic orchestra, combined with samples. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 180 BPM]
Funky electronic / house / dance track with a science and technology feel. Nice and solid, determined, forward drive. House / techno beats with varied synth arpeggios and melodics throughout. Good energy level, but not too over-the-top. Good for video games, futuristic / hi-tech racing / driving, sports and workouts, exercise / fitness, any high energy on-screen visual presentations etc. [Tempo: Medium / 132 BPM]
Long-playing (34 minutes 11 seconds), ethereal, ambient music. Available with or without nature soundscapes mixed in with the ethereal pads. Suitable for hypnosis, therapy, relaxation, as well as for sci-fi, fantasy, underwater, otherworldly projects. Mystical, deep, elemental. [Tempo: Very slow / 0 BPM]
Epic huge drums with evolving digital blips and blops, glissando brass-like sounds joins at 0:47. Danger / Tension / Threat / Futuristic. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
Uplifting, grooving, pumping with an infectious groove and a steadily high energy level. Occasional soaring guitar notes. There's also a version without the guitar, as well as an "underscore" version with all lead/high instruments removed. Finally, there is the faster, longer and more intense "Mighty Rubber Remix version". [Tempo: Medium / 128 BPM]
Atmospheric pads over Drum & Bass style drums. Energetic, floating. [Tempo: Fast / 170 BPM]
A high-energy cinematic piece. Its sweeping, soaring and emotional. Featuring live orchestra, mezzo soprano and background choir. A lush orchestral adventure slowly rises to push your scenes towards an epic climax, providing a perfect backdrop for feature film, epic trailer, history documentary and more. This track has multiple variations: with choir, without choir, without percussion as well as just strings mix or percussion mix, allowing you to create your personal, customized soundtrack of any duration. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
A cold and creepy horror soundscape. Twitchy drones with uneasy rumblings. Haunted house / Grisly Murder / Uneasy, Scared. Ends with a big crescendo and scary moment. Also available as a seamlessly looping version. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Driving electronic ambience with light beats, synths and guitar. Technology music / Spacey / Design. Royalty-free stock music for background use. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 125 BPM]
Touching and modern synth-based music track intensifying with piano and percussion. Great for relationship or family moments, travel and documentaries. Heartfelt, positive, yearning music. [Tempo: Medium / 112 BPM]
Modern hi-tech muisc beats and pulses, evolving electronic soundscapes. A strong sense of technology, science and innovation. Precise and technical beats, glitches, sound design elements. [Tempo: Slow / 128 BPM]
Aggressive & atmospheric Drum'n Bass. Dark, energetic and aggressive. [Tempo: Fast / 166 BPM]
Exotic, futuristic and atmospheric track made with various synths, percussion and erhu. Mystical and Eerie, with a sense of ancient history meets distant future. [Tempo: Slow / 90 BPM]
A hybrid orchestral / electronic, cinematic film score music track. Epic, soaring. Foreboding and edgy music. Big drums, staccato synths and big orchestral brass. A heroic, determined and awe inspiring choir joins in from about 01:30. Dramatic / Tense music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Streamlined, uptempo, feelgood electronic dance track. Not too hard, and with a nice and even drive. Occasional scattered space voices. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Inspired by film maker and composer John Carpenter, this is a homage to his masterpiece The Thing, starring Kurt Russell. Ominous blend of synthesizers and orchestral horns, with a repetitive tense motif. [Tempo: Slow / 93 BPM]
A relaxing and calm ambient piece, with cool and collected synth sounds that glide over a solid drum and bass groove. [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
This chill, downtempo trip hop track has a nice ambient atmosphere that is chic and remeniscent of artists like Thievery Corporation and DJ Cam. It has a late night mood that is elegant with a nice soulful groove. It would work well in nightclub scenes to commercials and promos, reality clips and web video. [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
A cinematic and inspirational track. Pleasing piano chords open the track with softly layered vocal notes. Uplifting chords and arpeggiated synth in the main drop give the track a positive and joyful feel. The track winds down with the simple piano and vocal to a quiet end. This track is suitable for scenes of accomplishment or positive transformation, awakening. Available with or without the edgy drums. [Tempo: Medium / 130 BPM]
Slow temp, spacious guitar instrumental. Features a sparse echoing guitar melody, melodic echoing lead lines and reversed guitar swells. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 80 BPM]
A grand, heavenly, orchestral music track available with or without female solo vocals in the second half of the track. Sweeping, Emotional, Angelic, Heartfelt Music. Real live orchestra recording with live vocals. Available with or without lyrics in the second half of the track. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Dramatic rising cinematic track driven by powerful percussion. The track begins calmly and builds to a powerful conclusion. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
Ambient, experimental music created with Fractal patterns. Tibetan bells, soft synth pads, and various nature sounds / soundscapes. This is a long playing track; the full length version plays for 17 mins 50 secs continuous. Suitable for hypnosis and ambient music, installations, underwater, sci-fi. Trance inducing. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
An epic and rousing track for fantasy, adventure, epic trailers. Emotional and lively, this track features big percussion, full orchestra, choir, and a live solo soprano vocal. Valiant and heroic. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 73 BPM]
Saturn from The Planets suite by Gustav Holst. Recorded exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com by D Hamilton. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Minimalistic Techno / Trance with a nice, moderately energetic forward drive. Good for sports footage, stylish presentations and visuals. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 134 BPM]
A powerful, booming heroic epic trailer track. Begins with emotional cello and choir, moving into thumping drums and strings at 0:20, with heroic horns entering at 0:33. A breath in the music at 0:59, then the second sections begins which is more relaxed and pulled back. 1:30 sees the music move back into the powerful and epic style once again with the penultimate section beginning at 1:50 which builds until 02:03 when the most epic part begins. Powerful strings, horns and drums dominate this track. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 75 BPM]
An epic, rousing, dramatic and heroic track. Mystery / Amazement / Wonderment / Grandeur. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Strings and choir are accompanied by high-tech synth and drums. Later, piano and acoustic guitar provide an organic contrast. Would work great for a documentary about the environment, or as an opening sequence for a spy or other tech based thriller. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 78 BPM]
A slowly rising suspense royalty free music track orchestrated as a hybrid, combined with pulsating synths and symphonic orchestra. Ending as a loud trailer piece. Epic / Blockbuster / Futuristic Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 112 BPM]
An epic and rousing track for fantasy, adventure, scifi, epic trailers. Relentless pounding rhythm, with an ever increasing intensity and ever building, growing chords, rising towards a crescendo / climax. Big orchestral sound with battle percussion and choir. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 90 BPM]
Cinematic style track built from loops. Cold piano is layered with percussion, horns, strings, and organ to create a driving mood. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 99 BPM]
Cinematic retro synth wave; this track was created using only two vintage hardware synthesizers; a Moog Minimoog model D and a Prophet 5. Strangely futuristic and vintage at the same time. Ambient / Eerie / Synthetic / Retro / Mystery. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
An understated and nicely flowing electro groove, with a slightly dark side. Synth pulses with a minimalist bass and simple drum beat. Good for media use, science and technology, data flow, background / underscore use. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
Pulsating and sizzling, spacey electronica. Sinus synth patterns, strings section backing, urgent bass line, electronic drum groove builds as the track develops. Space signals, futuristic, energy, energizing. [Tempo: Fast / 150 BPM]
An epic and rousing track for fantasy, adventure, epic trailers. Features actual live performed orchestral instruments in combination with samples. Passionate, soaring, emotional, eternal, great love. Amazement / Wonderment / Magic. Big orchestral sound with choir and a live performed solo soprano voice. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 91 BPM]
Atmospheric piano intro growing in epic powerful music and percussive orchestral theme. Dark / Strong / Epic music / Powerful. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 150 BPM]
Imagine going on a magic carpet ride high up in the stratosphere... All the soaring highs and dipping lows over a hypnotically powerful beat. A real journey and an adventure of a track. Dramatic, intense and full of drive and energy. Would suit action project or computer game. Contains drums, bass, synth and electric guitars. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
Neutral and forward-moving tech / industry / production type music bed. Active / Busy. Business, industry, science, technology, research etc. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Big trailer style orchestra and choir. Starts small and moody and builds to an epic ending. Perfect for trailers, promos or epic battle scenes. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Dystopian, sinister steampunk dubstep track with dark synthesizers and brutal beats. [Tempo: Slow / 140 BPM]
Chilled, sparse, spatial, cinematic ambient music with a hint of mystery, wonderment and anticipation. Piano, synths, electric guitar, light percussion. Aerial / Floating / Positive tension music. [Tempo: Slow / 75 BPM]
A slamming, hard core rock/electro crossover track. Heavy guitar impact with acidic synths and pumping drums. [Tempo: Very fast / 180 BPM]
Mid- to Up-tempo, technology oriented underscore track. Use of pulsating synthesizers and vocal pads create a slightly dreamy atmosphere. Good forward drive, a sense of excitement and development. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A very dark, futuristic, edgy and gritty track for dark sci-fi, fantasy, etc. This track has a vocal chant part that makes it feel ritualistic, or just threatening, ominous, dramatic. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 65 BPM]
A background beat of electronic drum machine and methodical synth patterns combine with an ethereal and almost dreamy piano melody. This is a relatively subtle and restrained track, that has a sense of reliability, innovation, reflection. Slightly futuristic and mystical. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
An epic modern hybrid orchestral track with massive layers of soaring strings, blasting brass and huge percussion. Ideal for dramatic uses involving science, the wonders of space, science fiction adventure, cosmic documentaries, discovery of the universe and alien arrivals on planet Earth. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 156 BPM]
