This is where you'll find music that would be suitable on the Travel Channel and, to some extent, on Discovery Channel and National Geographic. This music will have a sense of discovery and exploration and often with World / Ethnic influences. That's not to say that all the music here will be tribal or have a strong ethnic feel. There's also some music here that just has a slight Latin or Mediterranean feel, making it suitable for enjoying while chilling out on the beach or just enjoying a relaxing holiday at a fine hotel. Mostly, though, this music will convey the moods of Africa, Eastern / Middle East, Far East, South American or other exotic destinations.
Contemporary African music meets a chunky, funky Fatboy Slim style breakbeat groove. Uplifting, fun and danceable this is perfect for any project relating to modern African culture, travel or any project in need of an upbeat African vibe. NOTE: The drum sounds are deliberately distorted for mood/authenticity. This is not an error with the file. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
This track is hard to categorize. It has a melancholic but comforting feel, with fretless bass, acoustic guitar picking and pads. Melodic and somewhat dreamy. Good for drama, personal stories and more. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
A bright and pleasant track that's hard to pin down to a specific music genre. Uplifting and melodic, with elements of electronica. Good for presentations and projects about people and their lives; new technology, green values and family values, innovation and ecology, development, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Warm, soft, exotic African night time groove with multiple marimbas, piano, soft pads and african flutes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 65 BPM]
Lounging Hawaiian style with some simple pedal steel guitar, contemporary beat, ambient synth pad and bass. Subtle and laidback perfect for projects looking for an island sound with a modern groove. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Contemporary Mexican / Latin American track. Happy and bouncy, in traditional South American / Latin American feel. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 180 BPM]
Festive and yet ambient, featuring horns and traditional Latin percussion in a ambient modern electronica atmosphere. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Japan traditional. Japanese flute and oriental percussion. Eerie, mystical, historical. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
Fun and joyful with an ethnic twist. Bright and colourful. Will work well in areas such as creativity, fun and games, holiday, exploration, tropical scenes, ethnic scenes, safari, animals, children playing, making. [Tempo: Slow / 81 BPM]
Traditional Indian instruments combine with an electronic flair to create this adventurous, grooving Middle Eastern piece. [Tempo: Medium / 104 BPM]
A nice mixture of U.S. hip-hop and Indian Banghra, with a slight Turkish flavor to it as well. Very groovy stuff! [Tempo: Medium / 95 BPM]
Slow, soft, peaceful, yearning and meloncholy. Cascading synth pads keep the pulse going as chinese violins and conventional string sections play restless melodies over the top. Would suit romantic film project. Contains synths, Chinese ehru violin, double bass, drums and percussion. [Tempo: Slow / 58 BPM]
Relaxed and laid back traditional African music with a contemporary mood and feel. Great for festive moments, culture and travel. Lots of mbiras [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 83 BPM]
Action-oriented, percussive orchestral track, with a lot of African percussion and powerful blasts. Tribal and safari vibe, with an ensemble of djembes and indigenous drums combined with epic orchestral percussion. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
Easy, positive and inspiring acoustic music composition that brings the feeling of optimism and hope. Calm and relaxing melodies performed beautifully on acoustic guitars, bass, light percussion and drums. Peaceful / Hapiness / Optimistic Music. [Tempo: Medium / 126 BPM]
Ambient lounge jazz soundtrack. Chill out, spacial, funky. Well suited for the fashion show, video background, design space, fashion magazine, beautiful sexy women, evening jazz, exquisite perfume, erotic movie etc. Medium tempo, spatial, erotic/sexy, stylish, electric piano, flute, synth, sfx, funky guitar. [Tempo: Medium / 118 BPM]
Traditional Chinese music with a moderately serious edge. Good for culture and nature or documentaries. [Tempo: Slow / 57 BPM]
A melodic, feel-good, ukulele royalty free music track. Upbeat ukuele with acoustic, grooving drums. Accompanied by piano, electric guitar and bass guitar. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Jazzy, Latin-flavored, cheerful mid-tempo track, with lively percussion and an outstanding melodica melody. Suitable for positive, upbeat, happy scenes or sequences and for productions that require a rhythmic, musical soundscape. Great for commercials, movies, and other projects. [Tempo: Medium / 96 BPM]
This track features traditional African instruments along with bass guitar. It has a positive and uplifting vibe and can work in both traditional African and modern African settings. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
Latin club music, ideal for fashion shows/ads, cosmetics, beauty and lifestyle. Horns on the intro and ending are perfect for a beginning/ending logo or vignette. Cool rhodes piano over an exciting percussive bed is perfect as an underscore, or even as a main soundtrack for a nicely-edited clip. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
This track was made in an ambient ethnic style. Well suited for the movie and documentary programs and slide show about wild nature life. Ethnic percussive instruments along with acoustic guitar are creating the sensation of wild animals in the lap of Nature. Medium tempo. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A rather snakey and slinky track. Makes you envisage far off lands, camels, deserts, magic carpet rides, belly dancers etc. A heady brew of zither, bass, drum kit, zither, string section, turkish oboe, drum loops, electric guitars and piano. The mid section has big change in the mysterious mood but then the undeniable groove returns. [Tempo: Fast / 123 BPM]
A grand and inspirational musical depiction of the beauty of land and nature within the world we live in. A very Disney sounding track with joyous piano over rolling snare drums and booming bass drums with orchestral backgrounds and cutting edge synth arpeggiations. Travel media, film scores or soundtrack, contemporary, world music, similar to style of new age and Yanni. I wrote this after seeing the Grand Canyon for the very first time. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
Infectious and arresting, disco bass & guitar groove with South American flavored piano section and staccato disco strings. Laid-back and extremely funky, this simple piece is as ideally suited to fashion and clubbing as to any Latin party or night-life scenes. Dance / Fashion / 70's Music. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Fun In the sun, sand under your feet, with your shades on... It’s Limbo Time. Dance groove, Electric guitars and marimba play off each other and create an easy pop track with an Island feel. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Feelgood, smooth and luxurious chill-out / soft instrumental track. Somewhat sensual or luxurious. Breezy, with a very slight Spanish or Mediterranean feel. Imagine cruising on the ocean waves, the sea breeze in your hair and the sun on your face. A nice track for lounge, bar/cafe, relaxation, good times, vacation and travel. [Tempo: Slow / 80 BPM]
Authentic world pop features African percussion and melodies. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 104 BPM]
Combining stylistic elements of traditional Indian music and western film music, this colourful and textured track gradually builds up to an emotional yet resolute and satisfying climax. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
An ambient and dramatic soundscape with sweeping synths and melodic pulsating strings. For scenes of travel, exploration, science, space, the unknown, the universe, Planet Earth, National Geographic and Discovery Channel. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 112 BPM]
Happy and bouncy featuring harmonica and flute and Latin percussion that inspires a authentic Cuban street scene. [Tempo: Medium / 112 BPM]
A fun and lively latin track with salsa rhythms, bright latino trumpets and piano. Extravagant, party, fun, excited. [Tempo: Medium / 98 BPM]
A calm and warm Japanese koto piece, with mild electronic synthesizer elements and a laid back, grooving drum beat. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 57 BPM]
Slowly moving track with a mood of regret and misery, but also of hope. Monotonous harp and disonant ponderous pads in the background with accordion theme repeating its wailing melody. Although the track is hard to categorise, one can find here a slight feel of Middle Eastern, Semitic melody vibe. [Tempo: Slow / 56 BPM]
a contemporary percussion filled composition accompanied by a japanese picked metallic string instrument called a koto. It's weird but dancy touch would certainly be a righteous pick for any ethnic moving and dynamic footage. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
An exotic and adventureous track made with exotic percussion, synths and various ethnic instruments. Action / Exotic / Foreign / Mystical. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
Catchy, upbeat, modern African track with saxophones, guitars, percussion and bass. Happy and positive vibe great for travel, commercials, family and children, celebrations, dancing or any project looking for a fun, african themed soundtrack. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 115 BPM]
Smooth and sexy summer groove good for Fashion programs, Style Videos, beach modelling scenes and catwalk videos. Stylish music suitable as a background. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Mid-tempo, joyful, slightly jazzy waltz, featuring accordeon, acoustic guitar and saxophone. The accordeon gives the track a European feel. Feelgood, mellow but joyful. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 61 BPM]
Traditional wedding music from The Kangra region of Himachal Pradesh in India. The instruments used are the Pipdi - a reed blowing instrument some what similar to the Shenai used in other regions of India (Played by Mangal Ram from Bir Village), and the Nagara Drums - similar to the nagras in the plains (these are very old pieces) they are made of metal with skin stretched on the playing surface. The skin is tightened with straps that weave into the edge of the skin and meet at the centre bottom of the drums. Two drums are placed opposite each other and the drummer plays them with a cross stick action. The drummer here is Jondu Ram (father of Mangal Ram.) Please note: This is a genuinely live, on-the-spot recording, and as such, there may be slight flaws in the performance and recording. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 114 BPM]
This track features a traditional ethnic African ensemble. It has a dancelike tribal quality and is festive in nature. Great for documentaries, nature and cultural themes. [Tempo: Medium / 107 BPM]
Energetic and inspiring, featuring heavy synths and fast drums, with a wild / untamed element and a hint of the jungle. [Tempo: Fast / 140 BPM]
A nicely flowing and grooving, feelgood Reggae track. Fairly laid-back, without too much in the way of lead / soloing, making this track good for background use. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
Driving electronic pop track with retro electronic beats, lush synths and shimmering pads. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
An upbeat catchy Chillwave Synth Pop track about colors, with layered male vocals, with a big hookie chorus. Also available as an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 132 BPM]
Traditional instruments fused with colourful Bhangra rhythms. Alluring female vocal lines add a sense of erotic mystique. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 97 BPM]
Middle East traditional, haunting with flute, conga & percussion. Hypnotic, scary, eerie. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
India / Bollywood / Indian and Eastern / Oriental pop culture. Mystical / Exotic / Alluring. Slight Hip-Hop feel. Available with or without the Vocals. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A slow reggae track with a traditional reggae sound. Light and feelgood, relaxed and happy. Drums, bass, organ, electric guitar. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
Mysterious and haunting, an exotic middle eastern or arabic track based on acoustic guitar, hand percussion, strings and a traditional eastern woodwind instrument duduk. After an opening section with guitar, bass and hand drums, the main beat comes in at about 55 seconds into the track, and then at 1:32 the song reaches its climax. Also available “underscore” mix without the guitar, leaving only the background instruments. Culture, education, traveling, documentary and historical programming. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 104 BPM]
