Elegant, romantic and sexy contemporary RnB piece, with beauty piano melodies, gated synths and a slow drum beat. Some variations in the middle section make it more dynamic and vibrant. Nostalgic, smooth, dramatic, a bit melancholic. Good for drama and love film soundtrack with an urban feel. [Tempo: Medium / 72 BPM]
Dark and ethereal cinematic composition with piano and heavenly pad sound, very emotional and thoughtful music, good for drama films, documentaries, trailers and more. [Tempo: Slow / 105 BPM]
Slow, doom-ish, retro pulp / surf rock. Twangy guitars with a Mexican feel. California surf style guitar amp sound. Very slow, sensual in a 'fatal female' type mood. Good for pulp and retro styled flicks. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 92 BPM]
Pop with rock undertones. Early 2000’s feel. Acoustic guitar, guitar, bass and drums. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 142 BPM]
A tender and reflective piano track with an ambient background and a sweet string section. Subtle and cinematic. [Tempo: Slow / 76 BPM]
Orchestral hip-hop instrumental. String sets blended with straight forward drum set. [Tempo: Slow / 85 BPM]
Female power rock in the style of Evanescence. Heavy rock band instruments. Key words: Relationships, Female alternative rock. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Starting with soft acoustic guitar, gentle organ and female vocal, this song builds up into chorus with male vocal and harmonies followed by slide electric solo at 1:33. This slide electric continues through the next verse building again into big double chorus with uplifting backing vocals. Long electric guitar solo begins at 3:28. The lyrics are about the two different sides of a relationship, told with both male and female main vocals. Instrumental version also available. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 124 BPM]
This song is about seasonal depression. The lyrics describe the hopelessness involved in the changing weather and are a metaphor for a relationship that is past due. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 135 BPM]
A haunting acoustic guitar based song about “love at the first sight”, featuring male main vocal, female backing vocals, fretless bass and light percussion. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 76 BPM]
A dark and depressing soundtrack-style theme featuring orchestra, piano, and solo violin that creates a hopeless and saddening mood. A stirring melody evokes death, grief, misery, mourning, suffering and desolation. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 115 BPM]
Moody piano and Russian balalaika over a building, freely played drum and bass groove. Exotic, mysterious and melancholy. [Tempo: Medium / 100 BPM]
This track features a rock-steady drum and bass line syncing with slamming guitar lines of rock. The lyrics sing about a recent break-up and moving past the hurt and emptiness felt inside. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Medium / 121 BPM]
This song has punchy guitar riffs and solos teamed with a locked rhythm section of drums and bass with a melancholy trumpet line. The lyrics describe how the ending of a relationship brought heartache and loneliness and empty bottles of wine. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Fast, Very fast / 117 BPM]
Piano and acoustic guitar gently tell a tale of heartbreak and regret. Music builds a little throughout, perhaps indicating a sense of resolve and determination. The end lifts us up with a slightly more positive and reflective tone. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 136 BPM]
A lonely piano melody gently plays out on top of dark strings and synths. A sense of moving on from a terrible past, but not without scars. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 62 BPM]
Underscore music for drama, poignant stories, insights, movies or nature. Tension / Excitement / Mysterious. [Tempo: Slow / 65 BPM]
Soft and delicate solo piano music. Repetitive and fluid, with a odd dreamy vibe. Piano, Classical, Neo-Classical, Drama. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
Thoughtful, contemplative, reflective piece. Piano is joined by orchestral strings and then develops into a full orchestral arrangement a bit further in. Story-like, intriguing, developing. Suitable for drama and storytelling. [Tempo: Slow / 68 BPM]
A reflective, thoughtful, serious underscore for drama, mystery or documentary. Thinking time / Contemplation / Processing. [Tempo: Medium / 108 BPM]
A short koto piece that captures the essence of Japanese musical improvisation. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
The title says it all, really, this is a film soundtrack / film mood underscore with a very suspenseful nerve, in fully orchestral / symphonic arrangement. Good for thriller, horror, suspense, fantasy, Halloween, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 0 BPM]
This pop song has a hip-hop inspired beat and dark musical progression, driven by powerful strings. The lyrics have a sexy feel and speak of loveless passion. Available as a vocal version and an instrumental version. [Tempo: Slow / 100 BPM]
Tender and sorrowful, cinematic film/drama underscore. Sweeping strings, light orchestra. Touching, emotional, sad. [Tempo: Very slow / 0 BPM]
Piano solo, slow theme. Mellow, peaceful, easy, romantic, perhaps wistful or nostalgic. [Tempo: Very slow / 72 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]
Sparse, scattered piano soundtrack. Uneasy, unsettled. Suspicious, foreboding, dark. Available with two different piano tones; one with chorus effect (prepared piano sound) and one with a straight piano sound. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 0 BPM]
Is this business as usual or a front for an illegal operation? Suspenseful underscore, featuring odd-meter orchestral/electronic rhythmic vamp which gives the feeling of a working process, but at the same time of mischief, something not-quite-right. Good for mystery films and documentaries on crime. Key of D, 104 bpm. [Tempo: Slow / 103 BPM]
About a person who wants to be in a relationship but is not having any luck. An endless search for love. Ballad, acoustic, intimate, personal. [Tempo: Slow / 60 BPM]
Progressive rock music track with a dark groove and haunting melody lines. Dramatic / Passionate / Groove / Guts / Driving music. [Tempo: Medium / 125 BPM]
Emotive guitar ballad, perhaps a sense of tragedy? Slide guitar over descending chords. Second time around, high piano notes join in. The underscore version has no lead guitar and presents the composition in a different light. [Tempo: Fast / 138 BPM]
This chamber orchestra track has a balance of story-telling and cinematic drama capabilities and can be used in a wide range of media. A beautiful piano arpeggio melody to accompany this track and the soft and sudden piercing stabs and leads with the violin to really bring the most emotion and enjoyment of this beautiful melody and emotional track. Edgy, raw, close, live strings production. (Stem files available.) [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 65 BPM]
Robert Schumann, Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26, IV. Intermezzo in E-flat minor. Performed live in studio by renowned concert pianist Vadim Chaimovich, exclusively for Shockwave-Sound.com. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 0 BPM]
Mid tempo dark electronic pop with female vocals in the style of 80's new wave. Verses are in 7/4 chorus's in 4/4. Bass synths, lead synths, drum machines and live drumkit. [Tempo: Medium / 98 BPM]
Dark atmospheric film soundtrack style. Sparse, foreboding, sneaky. Slight ethnic element. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 119 BPM]
Another in the Urban Opus series, this futuristic theme music is a rich blend of classical orchestration and urban R'n'B rhythms. Suitable for urban dramas and much more. [Tempo: Medium, Fast / 95 BPM]
A sad and poignant, ambient piano piece, highly suitable for use in film or other visual media. Regretful, sorrowful. Perhaps dealing with loss, melancholy or long lost love, memories. [Tempo: Slow / 97 BPM]
Piano solo, slow and poignant. Mournful, haunting, sad. [Tempo: Slow / 111 BPM]
A warm, sensual and windswept, late-night, big band jazz piece. Saxophone, piano and string sections, jazzy drums. Swaying, intriguing, inviting, yet with a dark side. Very smooth and emotional. [Tempo: Slow / 69 BPM]
17 parts of film or TV soundtrack, underscore music. These go well together, or separately. It provides the backdrop for suspense, pensive action, sometimes dark fused with a variety of sound effects of bell tolls, haunting pads, jailhouse door slams to complete the scene. Each piece was written with a whole film in mind enabling the user with the tools to blend tracks to their own making or for each to stand alone in its own right. Mystery, intrigue, conflict, investigation, etc. [Tempo: Slow / 58 BPM]
A full sounding and easy going melodic pop-rock royalty free music track with a heartfelt and passionate feel. Interweaving guitars, drums, bass and an organ make a warm, full sound. Great for many applications. [Tempo: Very slow, Slow / 50 BPM]
A short, intense, dark track. Slightly otherworldly, with a single, solemn, female vocal. A track for a gruesome discovery.... [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 0 BPM]
Tender and delicate, fragile, with acoustic guitar and soprano sax. Regretful, sad, longing, sorrowful. Loneliness, hurt. Also available in a version with only the acoustic guitar, without the soprano sax. [Tempo: Slow / 113 BPM]
Warm, elegant and tasteful acoustic guitar with soft jazz backing. A simple, memorable and heartfelt melody line with further guitar plucking and soft strings. [Tempo: Medium / 120 BPM]
Beautiful, slow choir track building feel of sorrow with an addition of mystery with gentle pipe organ and string pads in the background. A picture of misery and wreckage or something magic by its mysterious, gloomy side. Yet also with a heavenly, angelic feel. Spiritual, perhaps worship or floating on clouds. Good for commercials, drama, strong visual presentations, exhibitions, and more. [Tempo: Very slow / 71 BPM]
A dark and ominous fantasy / adventure soundtrack, dominated by dark and moody pad textures and a muted trumpet. This track starts out sneaky and foreboding, and grows over time, gradually building up the intensity towards a climax at the end. A combination of orchestral and modern sounds, the track is gloomy, eerie and majestic. [Tempo: Slow / 97 BPM]
Softly played, mysterious underscore with harp and ethnic flute. A feel of the Middle East or North Africa. Exotic, repetitive, pulsating underscore with a slight nerve. Perpaps, Egypt, Sahara or other desert landscape. Mythology, mystery, ancient cultures, far-away places, adventure and discovery. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 118 BPM]
A heartfelt, melodic pop/rock crossover track that starts softly and then grows to a sweeping, emotional chorus part. Intense, romantic, with rock band plus orchestral strings in an arrangement similar to Coldplay etc. Heartbreak, young people, first love, loss, sorrow or just personal stories, soul searching. Would go well with youth drama, scenes of inner turmoil, thoughts and perhaps personal conflict or great love. [Tempo: Slow / 74 BPM]
Dark and doom'ish, post-apocalyptic, industrial rock. Acidic guitar riffs with a bite combine with darkly ambient textures and metal like drums. Rough and determined, hard edged. Uneasy and dangerous. [Tempo: Fast / 130 BPM]
Spacey, slow and slightly dark electronic piece. Trancey synth-piano lines are overlaid with more jagged synth and drum noises to produce an ethereal and yet quite emotive soundscape. [Tempo: Slow, Medium / 60 BPM]