Music for space exploration, science fiction films and futuristic / space / science related content. From the obvious "The Planets Suite" by Gustav Holst and "Also Spracht Zarathustra" by Strauss, to ethereal, spacey, ambient soundscapes that brings our thoughts to alien species and far-away galaxies. This area is by no means limited to a single music genre, but draws on classical, choral, experimental, ambient and electronic music influences.
Soft, spacey and peaceful atmospheric dreamscape. Like floating on fluffy clouds miles above the earth, not a care in the world. Would suit fantasy/romantic/dramatic projects. [Tempo: Slow / 78 BPM]
Uptempo, up-beat, energetic and sizzling electro-dance track. Exciting / Moving / Exhilarating. Swirling energy patterns, deep pumping synthesizer grooves. Techno / Trance / Dance / Workout / Energy infusion. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 152 BPM]
A very dark, futuristic, edgy and gritty track for dark sci-fi, fantasy, etc. This track has a vocal chant part that makes it feel ritualistic, or just threatening, ominous, dramatic. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 65 BPM]
Atmospheric pads over Drum & Bass style drums. Energetic, floating. [Tempo: Fast / 170 BPM]
Gliding strings and edgy electronic sounds combine with a steadily grooving breakbeat to create this dramatic EDM piece. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
Deep-trance with guitar stabs, a pumping groove and some psychedelic patterns breaking it up. Organic sound. Big lush production. [Tempo: Fast / 138 BPM]
Modern hi-tech muisc beats and pulses, evolving electronic soundscapes. A strong sense of technology, science and innovation. Precise and technical beats, glitches, sound design elements. [Tempo: Slow / 128 BPM]
Sneaky, suspicious, ambient track with a sense of future, sci-fi, space. Could be good for a scene of exploring a dangerous place, abandoned spaceship or warehouse, strange alien planet, etc. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 47 BPM]
A soaring, epic, cinematic and haunting track for fantasy, adventure, cinematic themes and epic trailers. Features actual live performed orchestral instruments in combination with samples. Grand, epic, valiant, almost heavenly, with an angelic, fragile and soaring solo vocal. Big orchestral sound with choir and a live performed solo soprano voice. [Tempo: Medium / 96 BPM]
Slow, serious underscoring for moments of vulnerability, intimacy, and love. Poignant. True. Dramatic, but minimal. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 60 BPM]
This cue is eerie and haunting with an epic and ominous, cinematic tone. It has a distinct mood that would be excellent in sci fi, espionage and projects requiring a hi tech cinema score. It features strings brass and cinematic percussion, synthesizers and action packed impacts and would make excellent a opening title, cinematic underscore or futuristic film trailer. It fuses influences from composers such as Hans Zimmer and John Powel and versatile enough to work in horror, suspense, psychological thrillers or video calling for a cue with a tense and mysterious nature. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
Strong, confident, mechanical sounding background track. Suitable as corporate underscore, high-tech presentations, mechanical or structural demonstrations, slideshows. Strength and confidence. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Inspiring / Inspirational, semi-orchestral / semi orchestral. Style similar to Vangelis. Somewhat epic, amazing, grand. Music for a grand adventure, also good for commercials, corporate presentations and more. [Tempo: Medium / 87 BPM]
An epic orchestral hybrid track that opens with a quiet electric guitar and a build-up of strings. The uplifting and inspiring chord progression gives the track a positive, yet epic feel. Amazement / Achievement / Destiny. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 161 BPM]
An ethereal, contemplative opening on synth pads leads to a hard-nosed and edgy guitar based rock track with insistent, driving percussion leading to an epic climax. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 135 BPM]
An emotional and inspirational track with wide strings and large drums. The track opens with big sordino strings and quiet underlying rhythm synth. Big synth rhythmic bass and layers of rhythmic elements along with a deeply uplifting melody build up to the main drop of the track. The main drop is an epic reveal of drums, synths, and arpeggios with prominent staccato strings. This track with work great in inspirational videos, uplifting stories, achievements, overcoming the odds, etc. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 160 BPM]
Neutral and forward-moving tech / industry / production type music bed. Active / Busy. Business, industry, science, technology, research etc. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A passionate, emotional, hybrid orchestral track, with a triumphant and heroic sound, but also with an underlying sadness and a sense of sacrifice. Pounding percussion, and guitar lead combine with orchestra and choirs. The track contains various 'Edit points', making it suitable for use in film, trailers, and interactive media. The track builds up towards a sudden drop-off at about 2 minutes, which is followed by a dark and solemn 'epilogue' towards the end. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 70 BPM]
Atmospheric horror. For dark, brooding scenes, especially sci fi. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
A mysterious cloud of sounds made up of guitar effects and synths creates a sense of subtle uneasiness. About halfway in, the action intensifies with big drums ushering in a sense of urgency. The music later dissolves to the same sense of mystery it started with. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
Big trailer style orchestra and choir. Starts small and moody and builds to an epic ending. Perfect for trailers, promos or epic battle scenes. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 120 BPM]
A poignant, fragile, introspective and reflective ballad. Touching and solemn, with subtle use of a female vocal (No words). The volume and intensity increases towards the end. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 78 BPM]
Hybrid blockbuster music track featuring a combination of symphonic orchestra, a synths and synthetic risers and whooshes. Loaded with energy, power, distortion and trailer mood. Amazement / Hero / Sci-Fi Music. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 125 BPM]
A sweeping and soaring, dark cinematic soundtrack featuring live orchestra, mezzo soprano and choir backed by powerful percussion. Pulsating orchestral adventure that rises to push your scenes towards a climax, providing a perfect backdrop for epic trailers, action/sci fi feature films or historical documentaries and more. The track is a part of “Trailer Monuments” album consisting of 10 titles. Each track in this album has multiple variations: with choir, without choir, with/without percussion as well as just strings mix or percussion mix, allowing creation of your personal customized soundtrack. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 121 BPM]
Aggressive & atmospheric Drum'n Bass. Dark, energetic and aggressive. [Tempo: Fast / 166 BPM]
Energetic dance / techno / house / trance beats. Positive, energizing, hi-tech, spacey. Uplifting, feelgood grooves and melodies. Joyful and energetic. Euphoric trance feel in the latter parts. Good for technology, future/science, media presentations, video games, dance / euphoric dance club as well as for aerobics, training / workout / exercise, sports and excitement. High tempo, high energy. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
A dark and grimy trip-hop / dub / electro hip hop track, with a deliberately "uneasy" sound. Somewhat experimental. Different, unique, quirky. [Tempo: Medium / 99 BPM]
A busy, almost frantic, techno dance track with Breakbeat elements. Good for action filled, fun adventures, sports, rave dancing, euphoric dance, and more. Chopped and processed, energetic ecstacy, different / odd and quirky. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
A slamming, hard core rock/electro crossover track. Heavy guitar impact with acidic synths and pumping drums. [Tempo: Very fast / 180 BPM]
Minimalistic Techno / Trance with a nice, moderately energetic forward drive. Good for sports footage, stylish presentations and visuals. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 134 BPM]
Mid-tempo electro beats combine with digital signals and synth leads to create an edgy, strong, somewhat futuristic track. Strong, bold, innovative, forward looking. The "underscore version" is a nice track in its own right and works really well as a Mid-tempo background track. [Tempo: Medium / 111 BPM]
Driving electronic ambience with light beats, synths and guitar. Technology music / Spacey / Design. Royalty-free stock music for background use. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 125 BPM]
An unnerving, tense and somewhat quirky soundtrack with a sense of the strange, weird, and mystical. Available with or without occasional child vocal chants, this track combines elements of the Ancient and Mystical with more modern sounds and a driving, determined beat. Good for tense and nervous scenes, perhaps building up to action. Can be set in an exotic place on earth, or even on a strange alien planet. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
A jazzy double bass and drum groove glues this tune together as soft spacey synth pads, choirs and soft lead guitar that just float over the top. Has a constant and undeniable momentum , always moving forward with hope and a hypnotic energy. Contains drums, bass, choirs, synth pads , lead guitar and strings. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 160 BPM]
A complete madness of digital sounds, sizzling screeching and wobbling. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 92 BPM]
An understated and nicely flowing electro groove, with a slightly dark side. Synth pulses with a minimalist bass and simple drum beat. Good for media use, science and technology, data flow, background / underscore use. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
A very technological / mechanical sounding, mid-tempo background track. Robot-like. Pulsating synthesizers, rigid rhythms and beats with a sense of technology, digital signals, etc. [Tempo: Fast / 120 BPM]
IMPORTANT NOTE: Also Spracht Zarathustra / "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" was written in 1896 by Richard Strauss (1864-1949), and is not in the public domain in some countries. You may not legally license this track unless the copyright has expired in your country of residence. Please consult the following link and make sure that the required length of time has passed in your country, since the death of the composer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_length Shockwave-Sound.com will not be held responsible for any copyright infringement caused by not following this advice. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Don't look behind you! A very dramatic piece. Wave upon wave of synths and sequences....All interwoven together to make one rather dark and stormy soundscape. Small pulsing verse section then a major dynamic lift-off for the chorus parts. Contains synthpads , effected drum kits , drum machines , synth basses and intense guitar melodies in the final section. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
Menacing, dark ambient sound collage. Ice cold sound texture suggesting a terrible realization or horrible sight. Suitable for horror, sci-fi, thriller or experimental material. [Tempo: Very slow / 125 BPM]
Intense bludgeoning guitar riffs bellow out as you are dragged into the ring for an all out battle with the superbeast. Truly an epic journey of enriffment that will leave you ravaged and breathless. Contains guitars , string, drums and bass. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 80 BPM]
Dark, Emotional and Exotic music track made with synths, effects, percussion, orchestra and emotional piano. A sense of mystery, perhaps an ancient secret or civilization, with a hint of world / exotic / ethnic atmosphere. Epic / Trailer / Discovery Music. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Transparent, modern deep house / EDM track with a high-tech industrial vibe. Funky arps, spacious synths, steady groove. A sense of science, technology or space. [Tempo: Medium / 124 BPM]
Energetic electronic song with a big anthem like theme. Berlin summer nights clubbing. Dreamy / Club / Urban Music. [Tempo: Medium / 115 BPM]
Glitch / Dark Dub / Funky Robot Techno. Dark Dub, Jungle and Drum'n Bass elements with Grime and Grit. Mechanoids / Futuristic / Mechanical / Hardcore. [Tempo: Fast / 150 BPM]
Atmospheric, ambient / electronic / downtempo track with a dreamy, chilled out, spacey vibe. Ethereal vocals and an air of mystery and sci-fi with laid-back grooves. Great for space exploration, the cosmos, underwater, technology or even for relaxation, chill-out. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 110 BPM]
A heavy hitting orchestral track with dubstep elements. Big hits along with epic string bring the track up to a massive drop. Main drop is heavy with low dubstep bass and distorted drums. The track builds up with a string melody to a big final hit with the distorted bass in the end. This track is good for cinematic trailers, scenes of battle and war. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
Modish, stylish. This is a production for modern flair and intelligent design. Fashionable, trendy, technological, creative and inventive. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
A somewhat bizarre, and slightly creepy, 1980's themed instrumental production with big synths and drums. Big and spacious - like travelling back in time. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 74 BPM]
Electro house track with a great quality bass drop. Building vocal that repeats “music please” asking for a massive melodic breakdown. (Also available without the vocal). Stabby square pluck with an underlining low arpeggio brings a hands up moment only to drop back into a dirty and gritty bassline. Resembles top EDM producers. Great for club scenes, DJ scenes or any action filled sequence that calls for a high quality electronic beat. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 135 BPM]
