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"!)
Electro-funk track with stabbing synthesizers, undercover detective type horns, retro style funk drums and a funky bass riff. Has a certain debonaire, undercover spy, crime or police chase feel. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 127 BPM]
Soft, melodic, acoustic instrumental fantasy-rock? It's a bit hard to describe this track. It starts softly with piano, strings and acoustic guitars, and later builds to a big sound with soaring guitars and emotional melodies. Slightly retro, inspired by progressive rock groups like Genesis, Yes, Saga, Rush, Barclay James Harvest, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
Groovy funk/disco track with a cool live bass line. 1970's or 1980's feel. Cool, confident and strutting. [Tempo: Medium / 106 BPM]
Uptempo, cool and fresh pop-funk with funky guitar licks and a positive forward stride. Great for sports, games, fun challenges, fresh & moving web sites and other presentations. [Tempo: Medium / 121 BPM]
Uplifting, bright, lively, joyful and energetic rock theme. Intense guitar riffs and solos. [Tempo: Fast / 150 BPM]
Slightly retro feel, house/disco vibes. Sampled guitar riff, slowly opening filter sweeps. Confident and cool. [Tempo: Fast / 125 BPM]
Retro funk drums and funky clav are joined by futuristic electronic sounds, to create an unusual & eclectic form of urban jazz groove. [Tempo: Fast / 105 BPM]
Genuinely retro sounding jazz-lounge piece. This track has a wonderful 1970's or early 80's smooth jazz sound, reminescent of "Love Boat" and countless other dearly held 1970 and early 80's productions. Great for retro, fashion, commercials, speciality TV-shows, etc. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
Positive and uplifting electro-pop with an 80's feel, melodic synths, cool bassline, smooth beats and gated pads. good for clubbing, culture, sports, tv show, travel and living, youth tv, fashion, advertising, multimedia, videogames and corporate. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 113 BPM]
Contemporary funk, with a strong retro accent. Groovy and cool. Synthesized bass, live drums, funk guitars and clavinet. [Tempo: Medium / 104 BPM]
A playful and cheeky 1980's style track with drum machine, synth bass line and retro sounds. [Tempo: Medium / 132 BPM]
A sneaky, downtempo funk track in the style of 1980s cop films like Beverly Hills Cop and many others. Synth bass, gated drums, wah-wah guitar. Suitable for scenes of investigating, stalking, sneaking around, stakeout and more. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Cheesy retro 80s' commercial underscore. Perfect for eighties spoofs and those "call now!" adverts! [Tempo: Fast / 142 BPM]
Heavily inspired by Chic's "Good Times", this track's got that bright 70s/80s turn of the decade groove and sound. Tight drums and bass line, over witch a clean Nile Rogers' styled guitar and typical disco strings set the vintage/retro mood. Perfect for dancing spoofs, or even dance lessons! [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 116 BPM]
A fat and funky groove somewhere between funk and disco. 1970/1980 funk sound, similar to George Clinton, General Caine, Rick James, Prince and more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
Cheesy but cool 1980's style funk/disco track. [Tempo: Medium / 112 BPM]
Fresh funk grooves with electric piano and bass. Retro funk sound, upbeat but also with a chilled, suave feel. [Tempo: Fast / 125 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]
Grooving breakbeat pop tune, with funky guitar riffs and a very positive vibe. Lot of attitude and ultra radio-friendly. [Tempo: Fast / 107 BPM]
Cool Pop R&B instrumental. Sexy beat, retro 80s keyboards and some synth hooks. [Tempo: Medium / 112 BPM]
Sexy Pop R&B instrumental. Driving club beat, retro 80s keyboards and a catchy pop synth hook. Somewhat minimalist, in the style of Timbaland. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 119 BPM]
Slow, ethereal, slightly dark, bluesy, space-rock. Guitar textures combine with synths & hypnotic beats to make atmospheric blues-rock music that would suit cinematic / dramatic / mystery / thriller projects. Hints of Hendrix or Satriani. [Tempo: Very slow / 55 BPM]
Retro style, sexy and punchy electronica, in the style of Kraftwerk and others. Swinging tight beats, robotic analogue synth bassline, dirty synth lead and warm synth parts build underneath. Fashionable and confident. Great for fashion, culture, products, videogames, infomercials, technology and much more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 122 BPM]
Cool 1980's style electropop with a modern flavour. Tight beats, filtered loop, cool synth bassline and staccato casio tones underneath a warm piano and euro synth melody. Positive and insistant. Great for fashion, pop culture, youth, technology, night life and much more. [Tempo: Medium / 129 BPM]
A sound similar to 1980's electro-pop groups like Human League, Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk and others. [Tempo: Fast / 127 BPM]
Uptempo, retro funk drive. Lively bass and drums. Busy, fresh. [Tempo: Fast / 133 BPM]
Beaty, fun, electronic track mixing synths, piano, retro-vibe organ and drum machines. Lively, motivating and with great forward momentum and energy [Tempo: Medium / 103 BPM]
A huge great bouncy meatball of a tune. Pulsing synth bass and syncopated drum groove make this one swing large. Various parts come and go but the beat must and will go on. Contains synths, drums, choirs and eastern oboes. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 133 BPM]
Groovy retro funk track. You can just see the huge collars, bell bottoms and massive fros. Phattt bass, loads of organ, bluesy guitar lines, laid back drums. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Groovy, driving, uptempo electro-pop track with a retro feel. Funky synth basses and an intense beat drive the tune together with simple synth and retro organ lines. Crisp, punchy and with great forward momentum. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Jazz-funk in the style of Chick Corea electric band and others, with slap bass, horn section, funky clav and rhodes etc. Good forward drive, slight retro feel. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 92 BPM]
Bass groove with clean electric guitar riffs, occasional vibraphone and a synth lead later. Slight 1980's feel. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Somewhere between R'n'B, Disco and Jazz, this is a fresh and sensual piece featuring strings and jazz, with a slight retro feel. Highly polished, with commercial appeal. There are various Underscore versions, to give you options to use the track with or without the sax, and with or without the voice at the beginning. [Tempo: Medium / 91 BPM]
Very electronic, slight retro sound like Kraftwerk or other minimalist electronica acts. Mysterious and robotic, a bit industrial. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
A very slow, downtempo ambient electro chill. Lo-fi elements are used for a slightly grainy and warm retro feel. Soft, jazzy trumpet licks used together with electronic synth bass and minimalistic, dry drums. [Tempo: Medium / 79 BPM]
Funky beats with an urban flavour and a slight retro feel. Down-tempo and jazzy with a hip-hop element as well. [Tempo: Medium / 100 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]
Funky vibrations, perfect for dynamic retro presentations / slideshows as well as TV and multimedia. Funky. Lively, Bright, Happy, Energetic, Moving/Driving, Groovy. Electric Piano/Rhodes, Electric Guitars. Retro, Commercials/TV themes. [Tempo: Medium / 123 BPM]
House/Disco style pop. Good vibrations, nice and catchy. Slight retro disco feel. Useful for fashion and style projects. General Pop. Dancing. Strings, Piano, Drum Grooves. General Backgrounds. [Tempo: Medium / 97 BPM]
Four to the floor rhythmic track which has modern nu-jazz style with a little bit of retro feeling. Acid Jazz, Modern Jazz. Lively, Playful, Optimistic, Energetic, Positive. Organ, Electric Guitars, Jazz Band, Trumpet, Contrabass. Fashion/Style, Commercials/TV themes. [Tempo: Fast / 132 BPM]
A super smooth and creamy chill-out track. A sensual bass line with relaxing textures and funky summerly vibes. Oozing, swaying chill-out lounge vibes with beautiful rhodes chords and dreamy electric piano riff in chorus. Relaxing, appealing, slightly jazzy, Second part introduce very calm, mellow trumpet solo. Real late night track and summer chill music. The 'Vinyl FX version' deliberately adds subtle scratching and popping like from a vinyl record, for added retro feel. [Tempo: Medium / 94 BPM]
Mid-tempo Ska with Russian or Eastern European overtones. A ska is a music style closely related to reggae. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 121 BPM]
A jolly and naïve, happy-go-lucky, melodic pop track. Suitable for kitch, quirky, ironic productions. A little bit silly, cheesy listening. Also good as a kids track. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Smooth rock with a cool riff guitar. Great great for underscore any type of competition or sport. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
Live jazz band playing a mid-tempo swing jazz, cool and strutting with cheeky and playful melody lines interspersed with solos. Jazz drums, upright bass, piano, sax and trumpet. Classic 'jazz club' style. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 136 BPM]
Groove laden Retro-rock. Energetic, aggressive, groovy with guitar riffing. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
A fun Mozart remix that's made to sound like a retro computer game. Has a strong feeling of classic video game music from the 80's or early 90's. Fun, playful, whimsical, cheeky. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 125 BPM]
Mid-tempo electronica track based on strong melodies and variation with some electric guitar interludes. Synthesized, slightly retro but also with a space-age futuristic, optimistic and bright view. [Tempo: Medium / 96 BPM]
Classic TV sport/football, similar to the famous 'Match of the Day' soccer theme from UK television. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
1980's soft-rock sound. Big, positive AOR bed. Rock, blues rock. Achievement, inspirational, determined. [Tempo: Medium / 81 BPM]