This is where we keep the music that makes us think of the 1980's. This music wasn't actually composed or recorded in the 80's, but it has an 80's feel and sound, making these tracks suitable for Retro 1980s productions. Historical, even. (Even though, for those of us who grew up in the 1980s with Bon Jovi, Alice Cooper, Grandmaster Flash, Human League and New Order's "Blue Monday", it feels really weird to talk about that era as "Historical"!)
A chip-sound led melody backed by a strong techno drum beat, also featuring synths and driven electric guitars. This track would be at home in an 80’s video game arcade or likewise a modern ‘retro’ game. Has a slight industrial feel with some synth arpeggiators. A well produced mix of old-school and new. [Tempo: Fast / 137 BPM]
Laidback electronic funk with a heavy 80's influence. Retro, carefree and uplifting with shimmering synths, vintage drum machine and cool guitar licks. Great for laidback party scenes, youthful commercials, fashion, make-up, vacations and films set in the 80's. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
80’s influenced track that would work well for an intro. This track is geared towards video games and apps. Cool 1980's retro sound. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Piano driven 80's style Rock perfect for your motivational montage. Atmospheric piano and synths compliment dynamic and driving drums with some nice builds and drops. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A driving vintage synth music track with sequenced bass. Rhythmic and punchy, with a sound and flow inspired by 1980's movies and TV series. Electronic / Sci-Fi / Futuristic Stock Music. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Uptempo synth heavy dark pop in the style of Ladytron. Atmospheric and moody female vocals. Synths, drum machines, acoustic drums and electric guitar. [Tempo: Fast / 172 BPM]
Head back in time with this uptempo electronic track featuring eighties synthesizers and a drum machine. Great for TV, Film and Video Games in need of that retro sound. [Tempo: Fast / 180 BPM]
80's influenced dance track with a funky House groove. Synthesizers, guitar and a Disco beat capture the uplifting party vibe of the era. Perfect for youth, fashion, party and nightclub scenes or any project with a young, trendy vibe. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 118 BPM]
Over the top eighties action music, made entirely with retro synthesizers and drum machines. Synthwave music inspired by television series, cartoon themes and Kung Fury. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Powerful and Strong Modern Rock/Metal Track featuring distorted guitars, drums, bass guitar and turntable scratches. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
An high intensity 80's rock jam, with shredding guitar and an epic electronic string section. The overall vibe is exciting, dark, and reminiscent of 80s hair metal. [Tempo: Very fast / 156 BPM]
Laidback and Funky House track with various retro elements including 70s style guitar riffs, 80s synths and modern club beat. Great for fashion, lifestyle, advertising campaigns, promos or any project in need of a fun, urban and sexy soundtrack. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
This track is hard to pin down to a single genre. It draws on punk and indie rock, retro rock, electronica and retro video game styles, to create an energetic, quirky, colourful mash-up of styles and pop culture. Think "The Ting Tings" meets Metroid Prime. [Tempo: Fast / 160 BPM]
Atmospheric, downtempo electronic space-rock. Synth- and guitar patterns wash up with a slight retro space age progressive rock sound. Great for imagery, spacey visuals and more. Features a progressive part in 7/8 time signature and occasional Rush like guitar solos. [Tempo: Medium / 64 BPM]
A short, victorious 8bit video game sound. [Tempo: Fast / 0 BPM]
Retro 80’s dance track. Female vocals in the style of Bananarama. Girl looks forward to a summer of romance that can only lead to heartbreak once again. Drum machines, bass synths, synth pads and leads. Keywords: Summer romance, Girls and boys, 1980’s. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 124 BPM]
Uplifting Disco Pop with a fun 80's vibe. Features synths, drum machine and funky guitar. Great for commercials, party scenes and 80s throwbacks [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A grooving 8-bit chip tune, with a mysterious, science fiction vibe and a funky 1960s rock flair. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 160 BPM]
Retro video game soundtrack style, with a rough and mysterious edge. Reminescent of 8-bit video games with an action hero. A few more modern sounds are used in combination with authentic 8 bit chip sounds. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 90 BPM]
Sensual and cheesy sexy soul cliche, with an expressive saxophone phrase. The type of tune to set the mood for a sexual scene, or even a spoof of an eighties porn movie. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 80 BPM]
Synth pulses with a cinematic feel. Retro electronica with a nod back to the 1980's. Moody and contemplative. Eighties / Vintage / Cinematic Stock Music. [Tempo: Medium / 127 BPM]
An aggressive and driving synth track with a retro 1980's feel. Distorted guitars and gritty drums add an energetic, uptempo feel. aggressive, energetic, dark. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 126 BPM]
Cute, innocent, retro video game style. Happy and carefree. 8-bit sound influenced by Nintendo, Sega, Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum type sound. For for retro and novelty productions, cute games etc. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A bright and care free synth pop music track with an 80's feel. Sparkling synthesizers, drum machine. Sweet, retro, nostalgic stock music. [Tempo: Medium / 124 BPM]
Retro 8-bit / 16-bit computer gaming style music, inspired by the sounds of 1980's and 1990's arcade video game machines and home video game systems such as Nintendo, Commodore Amiga, Sega, Atari, etc. This track has a melodic action feel, like an agent on a mission. Good for retro projects and chic contemporary projects looking for a stand-out sound. [Tempo: Medium / 132 BPM]
Jingle Bells in a cute chiptune arrangement. Lo-fi, retro 8-bit sound similar to 80s’ computers like Atari, C64, Nintendo etc. Happy, playful and a bit quirky. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 187 BPM]
A fusion of Jazz, Funk and Soul, featuring a lazy, syncopated drum groove, funk bass, funk guitar and a live horn section. Classic jazz-funk sound of the 1970's. Cool and groovy, with attitude. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
A playful and mischievous 8bit chiptune, with jazz influences. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 216 BPM]
Let's go back to the 1980's with this funky and varied electro-pop track with a typical sound from that era. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A short but intense 8-bit video game sound. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
Retro 8-bit computer gaming nostalgia. Bjorn actually composed and produced this track entirely using the built in 8-bit sampling sound chip in the Amiga 500 computer, back in about 1991, back when he was going under the tongue-in-cheek nickname "Dr.Awesome of Crusaders". [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 94 BPM]
Fun and action-filled retro video game style soundtrack. Retro chip music sound combined with modern elements. Good for retro, novelty, historical video game type productions etc. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 150 BPM]
Dynamic 80's Disco with a driving four-to-the-floor beat, smooth piano chords, funky guitar, retro synths and soaring strings. Inspired by Daft Punk, Michael Jackson, SOS Band and Quincy Jones, perfect for any project looking for that Disco revival sound. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
An energetic and motivational 8-bit chiptune, with funky drum, bass, and synth tracks. The overall feel is bold and adventurous. [Tempo: Fast / 145 BPM]
A cute and charming track in Retro Video Game / 8-bit sound. Fun and appealing melody, with sounds that bring you back to the classic video games from the 1980's and 1990's. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A highly intense 8-bit chiptune in retro video game sound. The quick, driving drum beat and heavy synth sounds provide a sense of frenzied urgency. [Tempo: Very fast / 236 BPM]
A retro disco-funk track with a modern, futuristic feel. Familiar shades of Madonna, Nile Rogers and classic 80’s groove agents. Works well with catwalk fashion, urban, uptown night-life, daytime tv, cosmopolitan and fabulous darling! [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 122 BPM]
A retro flavored track about a man who's having a hard time in his life. Nevertheless, it's funky and catchy as hell! The chorus is like an earworm, you can't get it out of you head. Don't even try. Great for mildly sad scenes in movies, series. Very good as a theme song and perfect for lounging. Also available as an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium / 124 BPM]
A cinematic electronic/orchestral hybrid. Heavy synth tracks combine with a quick drum beat and intense orchestral strings to create a sense of driving urgency. Retro / Classic video game influence. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 179 BPM]
This track takes you back to the early days of House music from the mid 80s to the early 90s. Featuring pounding drum machine, classic piano riff and various synthesizers this is great for old school rave nostalgia, fashion, sports, flashbacks or any project in need of that retro club sound. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A mysterious synth arpeggio with lush, reverberant pads and a minimalistic electronic drum. A nod back to the 1980's TV and film mysteries. Future / Sci-fi influence stock music. [Tempo: Medium / 109 BPM]
Positive electro song in 80s mood and nice melody. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 104 BPM]
Retro 8-bit computer gaming nostalgia. Bjorn actually composed and produced this track entirely using the built in 8-bit sampling sound chip in the Amiga 500 computer, back in about 1991, back when he was going under the tongue-in-cheek nickname "Dr.Awesome of Crusaders". [Tempo: Medium / 124 BPM]
A happy and bright electro-pop track with a nod back to the 1980's and 1990's video games culture. Cheeky, fun and funky. [Tempo: Medium / 124 BPM]
Fun, quirky and cute, this 8-bit music track is inspired by early 1980’s arcade games. The instrumentation is 100% synthesizers which create the enjoyment, danger and elation of passing through a game level. Great music for comedy, sports and commercials. [Tempo: Medium / 121 BPM]
A track Inspired by the Stranger Things TV series music. A calm, soothing and hypnotic vintage electronica featuring warm, analogue synthesizers sound. Atmospheric, dreamy and subdued mood. [Tempo: Slow / 63 BPM]
A grooving EDM piece, with rich, funky slap bass and multiple instrumental solos that provide a jazzy, improvisatory vibe. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A funky, robotic synth-pop track, with a strong retro feel. Typical 1980's groove, cheesy and retro, yet very funky and cool. Makes you 'rock it' like a breakdance expert. The eighties are back! [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
Cute, innocent, retro video game style. Happy and carefree. 8-bit sound influenced by Nintendo, Sega, Commodore 64, Sinclair ZX Spectrum type sound. For for retro and novelty productions, cute games etc. About a minute into the track there's a faster, more action filled part which can be edited to a separate file and used for a different scene/stage in your production. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
A short, victorious retro 8-bit video game sound. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
