Royalty-Free Music for crime mysteries and crime thillers; in particular, the tracks we've put in this area represent the music that we felt would go well with Gangsters, Drug dealers, Tough guys and general Bad-Asses. The music will tend to have a slow, mean beat, sometimes Hip-Hop or Urban based music but also sometimes more Orchestral / Classic style music that can be used to illustrate the Bad Guy in your production. This music will tend to have a cold, ruthless edge to it.
Spacey, atmospheric and beaty. Synth pads and sequences fuse with broken beats and throbbing basslines to make an irresistible filmic journey to cyber-oblivion. Contains synths and drum units. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Hip Hop track with a dark edge. Deep drums, sparse instrumentation and dramatic orchestral hits. Very suitable for urban/inner city productions and teen/pop culture. Skate, snowboarding, BMX, and other extreme sports. Life in the streets. Also suitable for night clubs scenes & afro-american culture. [Tempo: Slow / 95 BPM]
Determined, cool and confident power rock with an interesting, odd time signature. Available both as a vocal version and as an instrumental version. The instrumental mix in particular is great for sports, action, extreme sports, racing, and any high impact, high energy footage. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
This Hip Hop track has an infectious hook that will catch the attention from the very beginning. With influences from Flo-Rida's "Low", it is a goodly crafted beat with heavy drums and bright synths. Good for night scenes, young people, parties. Modern, fresh and uplifting. [Tempo: Medium / 94 BPM]
An obstinate piano riff and synthesizer line, joined by electronic drums, create am atmosphere of fear, darkness, mystery and foreboding in this hip hop track. Good for use in moderate action scenes, thrillers, game shows, chase scenes and much more. [Tempo: Medium / 98 BPM]
Imagine walking through the ruins of a haunted castle at night, never knowing what night be round the next cobweb covered corner. A very black and sinister piece. Slow with a building tension. Contains synths, drum kit, guitars and bass. [Tempo: Slow / 68 BPM]
Urban beats mix with orchestral breaks for this wicked pastiche of modern culture which is both outrageous and witty. FX and scratches suggest visual cues and the various edits work together to make up an entire themed package for a modern parody. Seriously good fun! [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Retro breaks and Blues riffs in the style of Beastie-Boys / Fat Boy Slim featuring scratching & vocal refrain, 'The beat don’t stop when the baseline drop (Check the rhythm, check the flow)'. Also available without the vocal parts. [Tempo: Slow / 82 BPM]
A fast paced electronica action track featuring heavy guitars and synths. Glitchy with busy rhythmic percussion/drums. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 130 BPM]
Imagine sitting at the window of a trans-world train watching many different cultures, flavours and atmospheres go past you. A real journey of a piece. You never know quite what will happen next. Contains synth bass and pads, drum machines, ethnic percussion such as tabla and bongos and african voices. [Tempo: Medium / 126 BPM]
Urban, inner city, hip-hop with a wistful undertone. Perhaps dark days, sorrow or misery. A dark, urban edge, like a rainy day in the city. A slight feeling of something old, mixed with the new. Urban drama scene. [Tempo: Slow / 86 BPM]
Blazing hard rock guitar track, live rock band sound. Excellent for sports, action or any high adrenaline material. We have a vocal version as well as instrumental versions. Note! The vocal version has explicit lyrics and comes with a Parental Advisory notice. [Tempo: Fast / 108 BPM]
Dirty Harry meets Roni Size, synths, breakbeats and retro-cop-show licks, ideal music for stakeout, crime investigation, suspicion scenes and criminal activities. [Tempo: Medium / 140 BPM]
A hard and heavy mix of guitars and electronic music. Will work well in action, chase scenes, gaming, extreme sports, sport, fighting. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
Hip Hop track with Arab / Middle Easterm / Oriental influences and elements. Ethnic instruments, exotic melodies, traditional middle east percussion, over a typical hip hop beat. Very good for depicting urban conflicts in Arabic world. Also good for tension & suspense scenes, dangerous situations. [Tempo: Medium / 90 BPM]
Pumping and bouncing Hip-Hop / Rap Music track full of energy featuring synthesizers, percussion and claps in the powerful beat. Night clubs, fast cars, large rims, rappers and urban scenery. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A dirty and funky big-beat / urban track. Rough and tough, with a determined, gritty, slamming beat. Rock style guitar riffs, like mean guys on the street. Also good for sports, motorsports, fighting / brawling, show of force, mean machines, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Relentless pounding EDM groove, designed to provide the backdrop to the coolest of club scenes, layer upon layer of synths build this electronic monster. [Tempo: Medium / 128 BPM]
A slow Hip Hop / Urban beat. Very dramatic, the piece brings a sense of triumph and heroism. A strongly catchy melody, authentic drums. Good for urban and street scenes, perhaps fighting between rival gangs. Also good for corporate and commercial uses, tv shows with an urban appeal. [Tempo: Slow / 73 BPM]
Guitar rock track with a rather sparse bass + drums verse section and "all-guns-blazing" guitar chords on the chorus parts. Complex rhythms, contrasting sections. High energy level, but still with an almost soaring quality. [Tempo: Medium / 91 BPM]
Typical seventies Blaxploitation music or Cop Show theme. Think Starsky and Hutch, Shaft or Superfly. Funky wah guitars, lots of percussion and an epic soul brass finale. [Tempo: Medium / 92 BPM]
A huge groove mother of a track. Whammyed guitars start this giant monster bouncer, followed by an irresistible drum and bass groove. The chorus brings the real hook of the track, a monolithic bass figure backed by squelchy synth bass. Guaranteed to go repeatedly round your brain. Third time round the chorus has an insanely intense lead solo over the top. Features guitars, bass and drums. [Tempo: Medium / 86 BPM]
Dark Dub / Hard electronica. Robotic / Futuristic / Mechanical. Funky Breakbeats / Machine like / Robotic. Great for body popping, funky robots, futuristic dance club, futuristic animations, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 70 BPM]
Eerie, tense, percussive soundscape with a relentless spooky melody, dark metalic FX and flute sweeps. Atmospheric with a sense of suspense and imminent danger. Menacing and sinister. 48 hours, The Mentalist, Castle, Alien Invasion, crime drama, horror, Sci-Fi. [Tempo: Slow / 78 BPM]
A slowly sizzling, pensive and nervous underscore. Suitable for TV/challenge, mystery/thriller, police/stakeout, international conspiracies, countdown, pressure situation. Good for things liks CSI, NCIS, forensics, investigation, looking for clues, information processing. Also great for a dark, confident, corporate presentation. Future, technology, shining strength. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
Down and dirty, nasty, dark hip-hop beat with aggressive drums sounds, but more soft & friendly synth sounds. Determined, controlled aggression. Similar to the music of 50 Cent, eminem and Jay-Z. Good for scenes of fight, crime & police, forensics, analytics, TV shows, mystery, thrillers, and more. [Tempo: Medium / 92 BPM]
Smokin' riffy guitar rock, classic 3-piece. Sports, action, extreme sports, excitement, etc. [Tempo: Medium / 116 BPM]
Dark, sinister and powerful electronic track with great dynamics. Soft verses with hypnotic synth lines combine with a driving drum machine groove. The chorus comes and walls of dirty synths collide with strings, fat basslines and huge drums. [Tempo: Fast / 75 BPM]
Mysterious electronic underscore, for moments of uncertainty and problem solving. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 85 BPM]
Uptempo hip-hop with funky wah-wah guitar licks and a deep sub bass. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Great live rock track in the style of Nickelback, Soundgarden etc. Laidback intro, all-out blazing chorus part. Great for sport, action, energy, high impact footage etc. Available as a vocal version or an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium / 79 BPM]
A lone piano line signals the entrance of monster grungey guitar riffs, bludgeoning you mercilessly from the outset. Queen-esque lead lines join in before the chorus blazes into life with powerful and emotive strings overlaying the gargantuan guitars. A powerful and intense brew. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A cool, relaxed and chilled-out jazz / lounge track. Smooth bass lines, slightly dusty or smoky sound, warm and pleasant jazz chords. Soft jazz guitar solos. Note - this track has some "vinyl ticking" sounds added deliberately, to complement the mood. You will hear some slight scratching and ticking - this is not an error with the file. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 84 BPM]
Hip Hop, Rap-core, Metal-rap, Rock, Funk. Confident and aggressive metal meets rap song, in the style of Limp Bizkit or Papa Roach. Heavy guitars, funky heavy drums and some scratching. [Tempo: Medium / 96 BPM]
This Hip Hop track with middle eastern influences is a good match for depicting the recent demonstrations and protests of the "Arab Spring". A strong hip hop, urban pulse with eastern melodies and percussion. A great sense of danger, foreboding, conflict. Also great for action scenes, travel, desert. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
A funky pop / R'nB number, available either with or without vocals. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Hard hitting guitar chops. [Tempo: Fast / 115 BPM]
Alternative Metal with an industrial edge. Hard slamming guitar chops and drums, nasty riffs and at times extreme tempo makes this track suitable for destruction, war, mayhem, fighting, extreme sports and more. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
A sultry argentinian tango with a cool breakbeat. Accordion and bandoneon solos throughout. Modern and perfect for Commercials, sounds like Gotan Project. Stunning alluring & sexy as satin sheets, exotic mysterious sweet flirtatious sophisticated chic. [Tempo: Medium / 92 BPM]
Epic orchestral Hip Hop instrumental. Dramatic horns and strings mixed with a heavy gangsta beat. Powerful and overwhelming vibe, fresh and current. [Tempo: Medium / 78 BPM]
Determined, mechanical, groovy, funky Hip Hop beat. Deep drums, bass, and dramatic synth licks, very bright, gritty, energetic. Staccato, steaming hot pumping rhythms, electronic hip-hop style arrangement with a dark edge. Will fit goodly for urban/inner city productions, investigation, action. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 100 BPM]
Mixing orchestral and hip hop elements, this pensive, tense and nervous underscore is the good track for challenge, mystery, thriller, police, stakeout, international conspiracies, countdown, pressure situations. Also good for things like CSI, NCIS, forensics, investigation, looking for clues. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 116 BPM]
Fast, heavy, high adrenaline, straight for the jugular, metal bruiser. Great energy, motivation and relentless momentum. Would suit extreme sports / action / thriller projects. [Tempo: Fast / 150 BPM]
You really must hear this one. Sizzling, groovy 3-piece rock with bags of punch and chuggy riffs. Stand back! [Tempo: Fast / 109 BPM]
Unique, intensely powerful, monster riff- fuelled rock track that would suit extreme sports or action/thriller projects. Imagine Black Sabbath crossed with Satriani and you're in the right area. [Tempo: Medium / 92 BPM]
Industrial strength, slamming beats, distorted synth lines. A gritty, dirty, and downright nasty industrial electro-rock track. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
Slow, sleazy, lazy, mellow, passionate, soulful, climactic blues track. Imagine yourself in some New Orleans blues dive-audience in darkness, air thick with smoke, sweat dripping from your brow as you watch the dimly lit band bare their souls & tell of about the heartache in their lives. Baby done left me. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
A massive electronic track, a big room house tune with a lot of distorted saw bass synths. Great track for club scenes, people celebrating, party scenes etc. will also work great in edgy commercials, car and electronics commercials. Dutch influenced EDM / Trance / House / Tech. [Tempo: Medium / 130 BPM]
Fresh, downtempo hip-hop. Brass licks join in after about a minute. [Tempo: Medium / 96 BPM]
Eerie ambient Fx and an organic loop build an atmosphere of subtle tension and expectation supported by a smooth bass line. An almost nostalgic electric piano melody and a middle 'percussive' break complete this 150 sec. cut. For your Forensic lab scene or science and research project. [Tempo: Medium / 104 BPM]
