Steady, understated background groove. Electro bass and drums keep a nicely flowing, subtle tech groove going, without any real development or outstanding melody. Good for background / underscore and media use, including corporate, technology and more. Masculine, with some sense of mystery / risk. [Tempo: Medium / 120 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]
A lonely wash drifts across a desert landscape. Sweltering, torrid & extra dry. Mysterious, haunting, uneasy. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Soft harp arpeggios with a sweet melody played by a flute. A soft music ideal to relax and let go. Mindfulness / Work Focus / Study Music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 70 BPM]
Fun and intensely busy groove track featuring loads of brass lines and stabs, strings and organ. Very lively , energetic and driving with a 70's retro vibe to it. [Tempo: Fast / 160 BPM]
Slow, warm and ethereal, cinematic electronica music. Downtempo grooves with lush pads. Relaxing, Fantasy, Heavenly, Futuristic, Dreamy music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 115 BPM]
A melancholy, inquisitive piece featuring electric piano and slow strings. Perfect for setting a sad, dramatic, or inquisitive mood. Contemplative, introspective and reflective. Also good for mysteries, true crime, and background music for developing a thoughtful mood. [Tempo: Slow / 91 BPM]
A dramatic track featuring string orchestra, piano, choir, percussion, electric bass synth, and pads. Beginning with a flourished opening, the track is reflective and then builds with brighter harmonies and faster tempos. [Tempo: Slow / 70 BPM]
Curtains twitching, tongues wagging & gossip spreading! Slightly dark, fun, mischievous orchestral track with an air of hidden secrets and unspoken truths. Very Desperate Housewives in vibe but could also work as Halloween / horror / thriller music. [Tempo: Medium / 129 BPM]
A determined, rhythmic, neo classical / film soundtrack for drama and storytelling. Dark and pensive, with a sense of building tension, perhaps building up to conflict or trouble. The rhythm is a slow march, and the music builds up slowly, with a sense of mystery, the pressure building. [Tempo: Slow / 104 BPM]
A mystical, ambient, ethnic / world track with a very strong World / Exotic feel, but without being tied to any particular country, culture or region. The music has a sense of deep mystery, ancient secrets, grand scenery, perhaps deep forests or wide open vistas. Good for strange worlds, fantasy / sci-fi, documentaries and nature / travel programs and more. Available with or without the vocals. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
A dark underscore cue. Pensive, unnerving and unsettling, this piece is suitable for a sci-fi or horror scene. [Tempo: Very slow / 97 BPM]
A seriously delicious, warm and sensual, downtempo chill-out electronic groove track. Beautifully understated, slightly mysterious and with a touch of true class. Understated, easy confidence. [Tempo: Medium / 82 BPM]
A sorrowful, emotional cinematic music. A simple piano melody develops into a full orchestral music track with big drums and emotional strings. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Insightful textures and layers, existential overtones and atmospheres. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 102 BPM]
Epic, spacey, ethereal & motivated modern rock track with a great sense of forward momentum. Truly Epic, grand and bombastic in mood. Grows in intensity as it goes. Would suit sports / thriller / mystery projects. Contains lots of intense guitar tones & textures. [Tempo: Slow / 130 BPM]
Subtle, but poignant, this Trap-informed Pop music track easily summons feelings of curiosity, enveloping intrigue and mystery. Like a snake, its arpeggiated synth slithers around an 808 bass and trap drums, while wispy pads and effects contribute to a rich flow between arrangement parts. This track is excellent for dramas, serious documentaries, bio/tech related content, and adverts. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
Confident, spacious electronic background music track with piano and pulsing synths. Technology / science feel music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 105 BPM]
Funky, hectic, spy thriller or crime caper bed track. Urban funk, secret agent feel. Good as chase or battle sequence in film etc. [Tempo: Fast / 125 BPM]
Orchestra with plucked guitar mutes give a sense of time ticking by in this playful, yet slightly sinister sounding track.Perhaps we are watching someone sneak around under the cover of darkness. Ironic, yet with a sense of something dark brewing. For mystery, horror or suspenseful scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 109 BPM]
A somewhat melancholic but also uplifting and very inspiring pop-rock track. Melodic and lush with a big arrangement, and weaving in and out of ambient piano parts and larger-than-life symphonic pop, this track could capture the imagination of any audience. Powerful / inspirational / aspiring / amazed / explosions in the sky. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 98 BPM]
Jupiter, from the Planets suite by Gustav Holst. Recorded exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com by D Hamilton. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
Ethereal pads with distant, echoey percussion. Cold, desolate, isolated. Lonely, dreamy, sorrowful. Otherworldly and mysterious. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 80 BPM]
An intensely suspenseful mystery cue underscoring anything from a deceitful murder to a mass epidemic. Orchestral with creepy piano, in the vein of James Newton Howard's scores for M. Night Shyamalan films (The Village, Signs, The Happening). [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A modern, spatial, mid-tempo electronic track with a sense of technology, innovation and future. Slick, streamlined, professional music. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Subtle, delicate, with bells and underlying rhythms. A sense of melancholy and intrigue. A drum beat joins in at about 1:30 for a more pulsating, slightly darker edge. The "Extended" version goes on to develop into a more intensely textured, more urgent track. [Tempo: Medium / 79 BPM]
Over the top eighties action music with lyrics about a maneater woman, made entirely with retro synthesizers and drum machines. Synthwave music inspired by television series, cartoon themes and Kung Fury theme song True Survivor. Also available as an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
A pensive, pulsating, constant subtle rhythm with light, minimalist orchestral / cinematic arrangement. Questioning, discreet, insightful. Good for drama, courtroom drama, period drama, secrets and unfolding stories. [Tempo: Slow / 120 BPM]
Traditional Australian instruments with a bass guitar and a groove. Primitive and tribal. Available in various mixes/versions with different instruments mixed in, so you can choose the mix that's right for you. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 100 BPM]
An orchestral, cinematic soundtrack for fantasy and adventure. Hollywood / Family Movie sound. Exciting, busy/bustling, slightly playful. [Tempo: Medium / 140 BPM]
Romantic Bossa Nova in the style of Antonio Carlos Jobim with simple, tender melody on acoustic guitar. A beautiful, enchanting track for any project in need of a latin/brazilian soundtrack. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
An upbeat folk pop song that draws upon vivid imagery. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Classic mystery themes in the style of popular TV series, composed by Yuri Sazonoff. Some of these are recorded entirely with a live orchestra, others with a combination of orchestral and electronic elements, like so much of television music today. Good for drama, tv mystery, law & crime, intrigue and story telling. [Tempo: Medium / 67 BPM]
A contemplative and intriguing film underscore, combining contemporary classical and atmospheric elements with flowing arpeggios, serene themes, and a reflective, quiet ambiance, ideal for moments of human drama and beauty. Also good as a background music track for science, forensics, investigative journalism, fact-finding and documentaries. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Conclusive and highly dramatic in nature, this track is made with a epic dramatic end in mind to convey a massive conclusion about to accur. Perfect for the end of a story or movie, or anything fit for an intense moment or story ahead. An arpeggio driven track with a massive multiple string sections backing this giant sounding track. Theme-worthy and versatile in every aspect, this track is perfect for cinematic demands. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 157 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]
Inspired by the Bhutan monk monastery, Tiger's Nest, this track features a diverse assortment of acoustic instruments from various flutes, bells, gongs and harps, as well as lush orchestral strings and huge synth sounds. The mixture of moods range from quiet and intimate, to grand and majestic. Oriental / Discovery / Travel Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
An upbeat, fun instrumental comedy cue with a very sneaky sound. Would work well for reality TV background music, as well as for games and apps. [Tempo: Slow / 170 BPM]
A dark dystopian landscape with a driving rhythmic bass, pounding drums and blistering feedback. Resolves at 1:10 with a huge sweeping chord. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
The clock is running down fast on this big Orchestral breakbeat number. Serious / Foreboding / Exciting music. Hip Hop influence. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
A slow and relaxing meditation music track featuring some deep male chanting, similar to those of Tibetan Monks. Other instruments such as bells and gentle synths are used underneath the vocals to add some ambience and texture. Concentration / Work / Focus Music. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 73 BPM]
Pattern based 20th Century minimalist music. Surreal, Rhythmic, Underscore, Tension. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 132 BPM]
A spacious, technological and scientific track with a hypnotic and steady beat. Technology / Science / Corporate / Future. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
Retro, mysterious, funky spy music. Tension and danger with a quirky 70s edge. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 115 BPM]
An orchestral film cue of mystery and intrigue. Sneaky, pondering, suspicious. Good for adventure, comedy, fantasy, family film. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
An Agatha Christie type of mystery theme. Sweeping string lines, suspenseful style. A bit cheeky and playful. [Tempo: Medium / 110 BPM]
Enigmatic and searching, this piece coaxes out the aura of mystery, darkness, and enchantment. The song structure is based around the marimba and made complete by glockenspiel, celeste, synth pad, acoustic bass, shaker and drums. Secret / Mysterious / Magic Music. [Tempo: Medium / 146 BPM]
Suspenseful movement. Underlying rhythm with a high-tech feel, understated guitar notes, staccato strings. Building tension. Combination of orchestral and techno soundtrack. Excellent underscore material for thriller, secret mission, secret agent, military or swat team, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 93 BPM]
Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata in D minor. Only the first two phrases played with a full pipe organ. [Tempo: Medium / 0 BPM]
An upbeat ethnic track featuring Oud, ethnic percussion and woodwinds. Middle East, North Africa. Exploration, adventure, discovery, travel to exotic places. Bright, positive, lively. Perhaps Egypt, Turkey, Marocco or other Arabic, Islamic places. [Tempo: Medium / 71 BPM]