This is our place for music aimed at city youth, inner city subcultures and urban culture. In the U.S., the word 'urban' usually refers to black culture / African American culture. But for us, Urban Culture also represents UK / European youth movements, the UK underground club scene, inner city life, as well as urban issues and problems such as gangs and more. The music represented here will often be in the genres of Hip-Hop, Funk, Dance, Trip-Hop, Drum'n Bass, Dubstep and related styles.
A dreamy, trippy LoFi hip-hop / indietronica song that explores the mind state of achieving the creative “flow state”, with lush chords behind a slow beat and vocal stylings ala Brandon Boyd (Incubus). Available as a Vocal version and an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 102 BPM]
A funky, upbeat hip hop song that features drums, guitar, bass, and male vocals. It is in the vein of Pharrell, Daft Punk, and Robin Thicke. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 124 BPM]
Distorted heavy bass themed dark pop. The cadence is fast with a sultry female vocal. In the style of Garbage. Distorted bass guitar, drum machines, acoustic drums, bass and lead synth pads. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 145 BPM]
Pounding guitar riff combined with a Industrial Dubstep beat. Metallic and glitchy tones, with an actual wobble Dubstep section. Lots of balls and an evil spirit. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow, Medium / 125 BPM]
Romantic and emotive track, with a high sense of love and hope. Mellow and touching, almost innocent. Warm and heartfelt. Strings, flutes, modern electronic drums, and synth arpeggios create the beautiful and sweet atmosphere. Family ties, love, eternal friendships, good times and happy memories. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Instrumental Hip Hop meets dramatic Orchestral music featuring a tense, dark verse followed by lighter, funkier chorus with tremelo guitar, strings, marimba, sub bass, synth arpeggios, electric piano and smooth hip hop beat. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 95 BPM]
Thoughtful and mellow Hip-Hop royalty-free music track with chopped flute melodies and turntable scratches creates a chill and dreamy, urban atmosphere. [Tempo: Medium / 92 BPM]
Head-bopping and funky beats with gospel vocals and a 1970's funk music vibe. Works great with community, dance and urban scenes. Party music feel. Also available without the vocals. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 110 BPM]
Dark, downtempo experimental track with hip-hop synth feel. Slow, methodical groove. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 84 BPM]
Romantic and sexy RnB piece in a contemporary style. Beauty synth pads and a slow but powerful drum beat. Piano joins in some moments. Variations in the middle section make it more dynamic. Nostalgic, smooth, dramatic, a bit melancholic. Excellent for drama & love film soundtrack with an urban feel. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 69 BPM]
Clean/dirty electric guitars, Ampeg bass guitar, and live drumkit with plenty of cowbell! Female vocals describe the age old habit of getting together with good friends to do absolutely nothing. Modern rock with a touch of classic rock style rhythm guitar parts. In the style of Indie Rock, Black Keys, Led Zeppelin, the Ting Tings. Also available as an instrumental version. Indie / Punky. [Tempo: Medium / 96 BPM]
Nice hip-hop track with a slight sense of the past and the future. Cool chorus part, mid-tempo beatz. [Tempo: Medium / 83 BPM]
A pure drum track. Syncopated drum beats, performed live in a studio by professional drummer Silvio Centamore. Cool and swanky, this drums only music track has a sense of sophistication, with some suspense and expectancy. A great track for when you need something different, cool and hip - maybe a little daring, audacious, and provocative. The drumming goes through changes throughout the track and can easily be edited to fit various events on the timeline of your project. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 140 BPM]
Hip-hop beatz with rap. Fast scat rap style. Downtempo electronic hiphop swing beat with male rapping vocals. Also available as an alternate version without the vocals. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 150 BPM]
Indie pop/rock influenced by the likes of American Authors, Ed Sheeran and more. Understated and somewhat pensive verse parts contrasts against a big, sweeping chorus part. This track features many "edit points" that you can use to your advantage, to make it fit the timing of your own production. Uplifting, inspirational and unique. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
A mid- to up-tempo Electro / Progressive Tech track with a somewhat hypnotizing, swirley feel. The solid beats foundation combines with floating and ethereal pads to create a somewhat dreamy Tech feel. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Driving track with breakbeats, melancholic piano and emotive strings. Great for scenes dealing with the sea, weightlessness and liberty, but also for technology and product presentations. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
Groovy alt-indie hybrid song with a funky bassline and elements of pop, hip hop and EDM. Available as a Vocal version and an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium / 130 BPM]
A fast tempo track that continually builds. The song deals with heart-break, coming close to having something, but never actually attaining. It's fast paced, upbeat intro is perfect for the start of any segment or transition. Male vocals. [Tempo: Fast / 154 BPM]
A catchy, World Pop party song about living in and feeling the moment. Available in a vocal version, another darker vocal version, and an instrumental version. [Tempo: / 120 BPM]
Soulful female vocal line over heavy drumloops & swooping chords. Vocal repeats the line ‘I could fly, like a bird, in the sky, so high’. Also available as an instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 86 BPM]
Authentic & fresh, up to date Hip Hop / Urban track. A steady piano harmony is the basis for the piece, joined by synths melody and rather soft electronic drums. For gangsters, crime fighting, life in the streets, cop show, thrillers. Films and video game scores, action, dangerous situation. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 76 BPM]
Raw hip-hop space adventure. Hypnotic synths laid over rough drums with rhythmic organ lines. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Chilled out, relaxed Trip-Hop / Chill out beats music. Slightly hypnotic, trippy, swirley and blissful feel, with a melody created from chopped vocal samples. [Tempo: Slow / 82 BPM]
Upbeat and uplifting hip hop track. Confident, motivational, successful. An epic synth line creates a strong positive and optimistic feel. Energetic, celebratory, uplifting. Great for presentations, tv commercials, achievement and confidence. Also nice as a background track for sports & commercials. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 153 BPM]
Edgy and relentless electro house/future-funk. Bass throbs drive stripped-back four-on-the-floor grooves, pulsing synths with processed vocal stabs. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
An energetic hybrid or electro and EBM. It has a little bit of attitude and sexy edge that would work nicely in fashion or nightclub footage as well as film, television, commercials and promos. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
Futuristic electronic breakbeats, looping synth stabs and a punchy bass help create an unknown suspense and sense of separation from reality. [Tempo: Medium / 128 BPM]
Dark heavy pulsating alternative synth rock with female vocals in the style of Ladytron and Phantogram. Mid tempo with bass synths, lead synths, drum machine, live drum kit and acoustic guitar for atmosphere. [Tempo: Medium / 78 BPM]
Dark electro / electronica cue with a sassy and urban edge. It’s fashionable, sexy, edgy and full of attitude and would be excellent in high energy promos, advertising that’s impactful and trendy, as well as film and tv. It would be excellent for nightclub scenes, modeling clips, video games, reality shows, fitness, in store music or phone on hold. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 132 BPM]
Chilled, funky, old school Hip Hop groove with Russian balalaika, electric piano, synth bass and strings. Great for urban and exotic themed projects. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 90 BPM]
Fast, uplifting indie / synth rock music with chimey electric guiatrs, live drums, bass, and piano recorded in a big room. Modern Synths, claps and swells between sections really push this track forward. Fully arranged with verse, pre chorus, chorus, and bridge. This track is celebratory and perfect for exciting moments that need a synth pop and rock edge music. Available as a Vocal version and an Instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 141 BPM]
Breakbeats and electro house / Dubstep music elements combine to create a futuristic, urban feel reminiscent of Justice, Daft Punk or Skrillex. Ideal as music for use in advertising or urban fashion, hi-tech and computers. Underscore version has a more chilled-out feel. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
This track is a driving, cool and feel good dubstep / electro tune reminiscent of artists such as deadmau5, daft punk, newer Chemical Brothers and Kaskade. It features a memorable hook that is inspiring, uplifting and hard to forget, but maintains an energetic dance groove with a thumping beat and funky bassline. It's exciting and fresh, very current, and fashionable. It would work nicely in tv, video games, film, in store music or a phone on hold track that is memorable and fun. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 125 BPM]
Progressive Tech / Dance with a Funky feel. Positive, fresh, uplifting. Mechanical, a bit robotic. Good for hi-tech, fresh and sparkling presentations, as well as for exercise, workout and more. Good, moderately high energy level. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 128 BPM]
Driven and determined electronic track featuring hard and edgy synth sounds. Constantly moving with a tense and dramatic feel, perhaps for spy, undercover mission, action, chase etc. 130 BPM. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
Soulful pop song. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium / 127 BPM]
Fresh and innovative, modern sounding urban piece. Representing the future of Hip Hop, this track uses unusual sounds to create a futuristic piece of music, but still very groove and sexy. Good for sci-fi, science, high technology, urban scenes, adult content. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 82 BPM]
Futuristic dance beat with pop and Hip Hop influences. Synth arpeggios, drums and percussion. Bright and positive. High technology, youth, party. games, films, corporate presentations, bar and night club scenes, as well as for workouts, exercise, aerobics, training, spinning and sports. [Tempo: Medium / 105 BPM]
A funky House / Dubstep / Progressive Tech track with pumping and oozing synth wobbles, sparse but effective electro beats. Available with or without "ragga" type vocals spelling "U.K. FUNKY". [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Heavy-hitting, almost nasty disco/dance track combining funk guitar with huge electro house synths and drums. Fast-paced, crescendo filled and creating an upbeat feeling of success, triumph or just great fun, this track can move a scene or a dance floor alike and is good for use with extreme sports, gaming, urban night life scenes or future technology. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
Laidback, funky Hip Hop groove with vintage sounding Jazz piano chords, upright bass, spoken vocals and horn section. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 88 BPM]
An upbeat, guitar riff driven pop rock track with layers of scratchy distorted guitars. Fast, swung, jangly rhythms with a melodic bridge make this track ideal for sports, teens and rock anthem cues. Fun and energetic in the style of All American Rejects, Paramore, Blink 182 and Fall Out Boy. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 145 BPM]
An infectious and funky EDM tune with crisp synthesizers and a nice energy level. A melodic breakdown leads to a full-on bass drop that will definitely make them move. Deep square bass with twisted elements and great punchy drums. This track is suitable for club scenes, DJ scenes, technology commercials, fun and sports footage, and more. Check out the funky drop at 01:14. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
Dubstep / Electro. Futuristic, technological, dirty and glitchy. Robotic / Breakbeats. [Tempo: Slow, Fast / 140 BPM]
This song starts low-key and intimate with acoustic and vocals. The band comes slamming in hard and provides a heart pounding drive throughout the rest of the song. This track is a very current sound, and is perfect for everything from love scenes, to action footage. Very dynamic and genuine. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium / 116 BPM]
An unpolished, rowdy and unruly track, somewhere between Indie-rock, Punk-rock and Pop. Rebellious, maybe party girls. [Tempo: Fast / 173 BPM]
A Rock / Dubstep hybrid groove preceded by a long, building electronic intro. As the name suggests, this is the kind of track monsters listen to while smashing through sky scrapers and causing major panic on city streets! Great for use with any kind of action scenes. [Tempo: Slow, Medium, Fast / 130 BPM]
A full tilt bassline and dance riff with glitchy interludes and a ‘Drop It’ vocal snatch. Suitable for high octane visuals or modern techno music bed. Nasty & exciting but with a sense of fun. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
An cool urban funk track with a style and feel reminiscent of Bruno Mars' Uptown Funk, James Brown or Prince. Exciting and uplifting. A version without the voices is also available. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 118 BPM]
