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Track length: 3:41
Tempo: 70 bpm

Epic, dark and atmospheric instrumental track from Simon Wilkinson featuring cinematic strings, subtle piano, low horns and heavy medium-tempo Zeppelin-style drums and percussion. Inspired by the classic John Carpenter movie The Thing, the music has an epic, atmospheric, icy winter feel with a sense of impending danger or survival that would work well for geographic, nature or history TV trailers.

Keywords: atmospheric, beats, big, brave, climactic, cold, courageous, crisp, danger, dangerous, dark, drama, dramatic, drums, edgy, electronic, epic, exciting, forbidding, foreboding, freezing, frozen, geographic, grand, heavy, heroic, hostile, ice, icy, impending, imposing, instrumental, intense, John Carpenter, large, loud, melodramatic, nature, pounding, powerful, strings, survival, survivor, the thing, thrilling, valiant, vast, wind, windy, winter

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Track length: 3:10
Tempo: 125 bpm

Creepy and unsettling instrumental horror track featuring cyclic descending piano arpeggios, dark percussion and rhythmic effects. Haunting and unsettling instrumental piano music ideal for modern supernatural horror films and thrillers or documentaries needing a mysterious and eerie dramatic soundtrack or intro theme music.

Keywords: abandoned, alone, atmospheric, childlike, creepy, dark, descending, edgy, eerie, ethereal, ghost, ghostly, halloween, haunted, haunting, hiding, horror, instrumental, intro, John Carpenter, minimal, mystery, mysterious, pensive, piano, Saw, scary, solitary, sparse, spectres, spectral, spiral, spiralling, spooky, stalker, subtle, supernatural, suspense, theme, thriller, unearthly, unreal, unsettling

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Total running time: 53:26 (17 tracks)
Tempo: Various

This collection of dark atmospheric royalty-free music makes the perfect soundtrack for film & documentary makers needing dark, tense or edgy music for their videos. 17 individual tracks (over 53 minutes in total) of dark, dramatic and atmospheric piano music, ambient electronic soundcapes and pulsing contemporary beat driven tracks specially composed for use in film & TV media productions from composer Simon Wilkinson. Hear a collection of short extracts from all the tracks above or click the track details link below for full previews.

This collection focuses on music that would make an ideal soundtrack for documentaries with dark subject matter including crime, investigation, conspiracy, corruption, betrayal, murder, suspense or also for drama or thriller feature films and shorts, promotional films, art films, student films, documentaries or any film visuals that require a dark, serious, suspenseful or atmospheric feel.

This album includes a royalty-free license which allows the user to use the music in an unlimited number of film & documentary productions. Whether it’s for TV broadcast, student/feature films, trailers, personal websites, Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, Myspace etc. (and up to 1,000 physical copies for retail DVD sales) -- click here for full license details. The ideal audio resource to add to all documentary and filmmakers’ libraries for when you’re looking for the right atmospheric or dramatic music cue to complete your scene. Watch the promo video on the right.

The album contains the 17 full tracks (over 53 minutes) which will be automatically available to download as a zip file after purchase. You can select from mp3 or wav from the dropdown below but please be aware the wav zip file is quite large (500Mb) so make sure your connection is fast enough to handle large downloads. If you’re buying from a country outside of the UK, Paypal will automatically convert the amount from your currency to British Pounds so you can buy from anywhere in the world.

Keywords: ambient, atmosphere, atmospheric, background, betrayal, cheap, cinematic, claustrophobia, claustrophobic, conspiracy theory, copyright, corruption, crime, criminal, CSI, dark, decay, delusion, desolate, documentary, documentary music, drama, dramatic, edgy, eerie, evidence, film, filmic, filmmaker, forensics, grainy, gritty, homicide, horror, independent, instrumental, investigation, investigative,  library music, license, lonely, low cost, melancholy, menace, menacing, montage, moody, mp3, murder, music, mysterious, mystery, paranoia, paranoid, piano, police, production, progression, promotional, pulse, pulsing, resource, royalty free, serious, shadows, shadowy, slow, solo piano, soundscape, soundtrack, sparse, stock music, student, subtle, suspense, tense, tension, twisted, TV, underworld

Fantastic value -- most royalty-free music companies would charge you the same price for just one stock music track. Get all the 17 tracks (53 minutes) including the full license to use this music in an unlimited number of your films and projects from a dedicated film composer for just one low cost price.

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Track length: 3:10
Tempo: 120 bpm

Cyclic and ominous mysterious instrumental piano music featuring subtle percussion, harp and washes of dark background atmospheric synth. Ideal music for human interest documentaries, political thrillers, dramas or trailers needing a mood of impending trouble, danger, paranoia and subversion.

Keywords: ambience, anxious, arpeggio, atmosphere, atmospheric, cinematic, contemplative, corruption, cyclic, dark, descending, documentary, drama, dramatic, edgy, escape, fear, harp, human interest, impending, instrumental, introspective, melancholy, moody, mysterious, mystery, paranoia, paranoid, political, soundtrack, shadows, shadowy, tense, thoughtful, thriller, unease, warning

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Track length: 2:54
Tempo: 115 bpm

Exciting and dramatic fast paced electronica with heavy cinematic percussion, frantic action packed drums, big horn swells and arpeggiated stereo synth lines. Ideal action music for car chase film scenes, trailers or tense and exciting pursuit music (see it against a car chase example scene here).

Keywords: action, car chase, delay, dramatic, drive, driving, edgy, electronic, escape, exciting, extreme, fast, frantic, hunt, instrumental, pulse, pulsing, pursuit, rush, rushing, soundtrack, speed, stereo, synths, tense, track, trail, trailers

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Track length: 2:12
Tempo: 135 bpm

Dark, tense and unsettling instrumental piano music track.  Slightly off-kilter rhythmic solo piano with subtle harp plucks, staccato cello and double bass string lines. Subtly dissonant piano melodies give a nervous atmosphere of impending trouble, paranoia or drama. Dark atmospheric piano music that would work well in films, thrillers or documentaries.

Keywords: atmospheric, cello, dark, dissonant, documentary, drama, dramatic, dread, edgy, eerie, fear, harp, impending, instrumental, menacing, nervous, paranoia, paranoid, rhythmic, solo piano, staccato, strings, tense, thriller, Tim Burton, trouble, uneasy, warning

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Track length: 7:12
Tempo: n/a (slow)

Dark and eerie science-fiction themed atmospheric ambient space music. No drums, no percussion, just seven minutes of long, organic, dark & evolving washes of epic instrumental cinematic soundscapes and unearthly drones.

Perfect atmospheric and dramatic underscore or background music for documentaries and films or for fans of ambient music artists such as Brian Eno, Biosphere, Stars Of The Lid, Tangerine Dream and other ambient textural music and soundscapes.

Similar in feel and atmosphere to the hypnotic and ethereal ending of Stanley Kubrick’s classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey; put it on headphones and drift away to dark and mysterious sci-fi landscapes and galaxies. Also ideal music for meditation, study, relaxation or yoga.

Watch the promo video featuring dark and other worldly deep space video footage from the European Space Agency/Hubble Telescope in the promo video to the right.

Keywords: 2001, ambient, Apollo, atmospheric, background, beatless, binaural, calm, cinematic, cold, cosmic, cosmos, dark, deep space, documentary, dramatic, drone, eerie, epic, ethereal, evolving, floating, galaxy, hyperspace, hypnotic, instrumental, interstellar, landscape, long, meditation, metallic, minimal, minimalist, mystery, mysterious, NASA, organic, outer space, relaxing, scary, sci-fi, science fiction, slow, solitude, soundscape, space, space music, sparse, study, universe, void, Zeit

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Track length: 2:15
Tempo: n/a (slow)

Dark, ominous, slow and sparse orchestral strings fade in and out, slowly building in intensity and atmosphere with muted timpani and soft gong hits.  After the strings fade out, a combination of slow solo harp and dark piano echoes the main motif. Mysterious and atmospheric film score style music, an ideal track for looming film intro scenes.

Keywords: atmosphere, brooding, credits, danger, dark, disappear, drama, fading, fear, filmic, foreboding, harp, impending, intro, instrumental, looming, mystery, mysterious, ominous, piano, premonition, quiet, sinister, slow, sparse, strings, subtle, titles, vanishing, widescreen

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Track length: 0:30
Tempo: 132 bpm

30 second dramatic orchestral action film trailer music that builds to a frantic climax. Intense heavy orchestral drums and percussion with stabbing strings, brass and choir builds to a symphonic climax as the hordes begin their attack (think of the film ’300′). Ideal dramatic music for film trailers, adverts, video games or other short dramatic promo videos needing intense orchestral music.

Keywords: 30 second, action, assault, attack, battle, brief, carnage, choir, choral, climax, climactic, combat, drama, dramatic, drums, epic, fight, fighting, film trailer, filmic, Hans Zimmer, heavy, instrumental, intense, LA Lakers, machinima, movie, onslaught, orchestral, percussion, percussive, pounding, powerful, promo, quick, short, soundtrack, stormy, symphonic, trailer, war

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Track length: 1:30
Tempo: 115 bpm

Vibrant, uplifting and inspirational instrumental music track featuring piano, orchestra, acoustic guitar, strings and brass. Short, energetic, lively and enthusiastic, this track would make ideal inspirational background music for documentary travel videos, boat races, yachting scenes or travel footage featuring the ocean/maps/journeys etc.

Keywords: acoustic guitar, adventure, animated, bells, boats, bouncy, climactic, climax, compass, documentaries, documentary, double bass, dynamic, elegant, emotional, energetic, enthusiastic, geography, harp, hopeful, inspirational, inspiring, instrumental, journey, light, lively, map, motivational, moving, ocean, optimistic, orchestral, piano, pizzicato, playful, plucked, positive, race, rousing, sailing, sea, spirited, sporting, sports, stimulating, stirring, strings, timpani, travel, triumphant, upbeat, uplifting, waves, wayfarer, xylophone, yacht, yachting, zesty

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