Total running time: 44:53 (14 tracks)
Tempo: Various

The second volume of royalty-free cinematic piano music and dark atmospheric soundtracks for film and documentary makers. 14 more tracks (45 minutes in total) of dark, dramatic and atmospheric music and ambient soundtrack beds specially composed for use in film & TV media productions from film and documentary composer Simon Wilkinson. See the promo video or click the track details link below for full track previews.

Following on from the dark atmospheric sounds of Vol.1, this collection focuses more on atmospheric ambient instrumental tracks and underscores, but also features some piano and strings. The music is ideal for films, documentaries, time lapse, dramas, student films, thrillers or any visuals that require a dark, serious, suspenseful or melancholic and atmospheric soundtrack. This filmic music complements Vol.1, but also stands alone from it with styles ranging from sparse piano pieces, floating strings, atmospheric underscores, Blade Runner-style warm synths and gentle picked acoustic guitar.

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, art and photography gallery slideshows, 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. Click the promo video clip to the right to hear extracts against atmospheric visuals.

The album contains the 14 full tracks (45 minutes) of piano music and atmospheric soundtrack beds which will be automatically emailed to you 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 (420Mb) 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.

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Fantastic value -- most royalty-free music companies would charge you the same price for just one stock music track. Get all the 14 tracks (45 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 price.

Full track details:

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Dark and dramatic modern action music by Simon Wilkinson. Big Zeppelin-style drum breaks, strings, piano, dulcimer, bass and synth. A repeating solo piano riff brings in heavy drums followed by a dramatic explosion of sound and a hammered dulcimer theme.

Would work well for exciting TV or film intro music, sports footage, library or trailer music (see it against some time lapse video footage from dakotalapse.com below or also against the Watchmen trailer in my visuals section).

Keywords: action, big, beats, brave, climactic, danger, dangerous, dark, drama, dramatic, drums, dulcimer, edgy, electrifying, epic, exciting, explosive, grand, heroic, impending, instrumental, intense, loud, melodramatic, mystery, piano, pounding, powerful, scorpio, sports, spy, strings, sub zero, sudden, superhero, theme, thrilling, vast

Buy the mp3 or instantly license this music track for immediate use in your film, trailer, documentary or video production by selecting the relevant option from the dropdown menu below. Please ensure you add both the mp3 and the license to your cart when licensing, as the license does not include the mp3.

Please note: A license must be bought before the music is used in any video or production (even not for profit, Youtube etc.) Any unlicensed use is an infringement of copyright and will be legally pursued.

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Track length: 3:42
Tempo: 60 bpm

Slow and atmospheric instrumental music track with warm organic washes of ambient background sound, sparse but deep bass, gentle melodic percussive beats and lush Blade Runner style synths. A hypnotic, atmospheric and dreamlike visual soundscape that would make ideal underscore for night time city scenes, documentaries and film music, background music for relaxation, study, yoga or meditation. Watch the promo video below against stunning atmospheric photography of cityscapes.

Keywords: ambient, atmosphere, atmospheric, background, Blade Runner, calm, chill, chilled, cinematic, city, cityscape, Cliff Martinez, dark, deep, documentary, dream, dreamlike, dreamy, drone, dusky, esoteric, ethereal, floating, gentle, hazy, heartbeat, hypnotic, instrumental, landscape, lush, meditate, meditation, minimal, minimalist, misty, moody, mystery, mysterious, nature, night, nighttime, nocturnal, organic, relaxation, relaxed, relaxing, shadowy, sleep, slow, solitary, solitude, soundscape, sparse, study, Tokyo, traffic, tranquil, underscore, warm, zen

Buy the mp3 or instantly license this music track for immediate use in your film, trailer, documentary or video production by selecting the relevant option from the dropdown menu below. Please ensure you add both the mp3 and the license to your cart when licensing, as the license does not include the mp3.

Please note: A license must be bought before the music is used in any video or production (even not for profit, Youtube etc.) Any unlicensed use is an infringement of copyright and will be legally pursued.

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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

Buy the mp3 or instantly license this music track for immediate use in your film, trailer, documentary or video production by selecting the relevant option from the dropdown menu below. Please ensure you add both the mp3 and the license to your cart when licensing, as the license does not include the mp3.

Please note: A license must be bought before the music is used in any video or production (even not for profit, Youtube etc.) Any unlicensed use is an infringement of copyright and will be legally pursued.

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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.

Full track details:

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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

Buy the mp3 or instantly license this music track for immediate use in your film, trailer, documentary or video production by selecting the relevant option from the dropdown menu below. Please ensure you add both the mp3 and the license to your cart when licensing, as the license does not include the mp3.

Please note: A license must be bought before the music is used in any video or production (even not for profit, Youtube etc.) Any unlicensed use is an infringement of copyright and will be legally pursued.

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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

Buy the mp3 or instantly license this music track for immediate use in your film, trailer, documentary or video production by selecting the relevant option from the dropdown menu below. Please ensure you add both the mp3 and the license to your cart when licensing, as the license does not include the mp3.

Please note: A license must be bought before the music is used in any video or production (even not for profit, Youtube etc.) Any unlicensed use is an infringement of copyright and will be legally pursued.

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Track length: 4:38
Tempo: 80 bpm

Pulsing, driving and exciting contemporary electronica with synths, drum breaks, dramatic violin string stabs, piano riffs, sitar lines and a dusty yet modern electronic feel. Imagine James Bond set in the North African deserts: exciting, dangerous and atmospheric instrumental action music. Would work well for exciting TV or film intro music, sports footage, library or trailer music or as part of an ethnic drama/thriller soundtrack.

Keywords: action, Africa, Arabic, beats, breaks, chase, climactic, danger, dark, desert, drama, dramatic, driving, edgy, electrifying, electronic, epic, exciting, exploding, explosive, heroic, instrumental, intense, James Bond, melodramatic, Middle East, Middle Eastern, modern, Morocco, mystery, piano, powerful, pounding, pursuit, rush, rushing, sexy, sitar, spy, strings, synths, thrilling

Buy the mp3 or instantly license this music track for immediate use in your film, trailer, documentary or video production by selecting the relevant option from the dropdown menu below. Please ensure you add both the mp3 and the license to your cart when licensing, as the license does not include the mp3.

Please note: A license must be bought before the music is used in any video or production (even not for profit, Youtube etc.) Any unlicensed use is an infringement of copyright and will be legally pursued.

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Track length: 2:11
Tempo: 100 bpm

Dark and tense atmospheric music suitable for dark documentaries, urban thrillers or crime dramas. Sparse, stalking and brooding dramatic electronica with minimal bass, haunting piano and atmospheric cinematic trip-hop beats. Imagine snipers or spies stalking a target, with a similar menacing feel to modern cop/spy film soundtracks, e.g. Miami Vice, Heat, The Town, 24 etc.

Keywords: anxious, assassin, atmospheric, bass, brooding, cinematic, crime, dark, downtempo, drama, edgy, electronic, gunman, Harry Gregson-Williams, impending, instrumental, menace, mystery, mysterious, ominous, piano, sniper, sparse, spy, suspense, tense, threatening, thriller, urban, unease

Buy the mp3 or instantly license this music track for immediate use in your film, trailer, documentary or video production by selecting the relevant option from the dropdown menu below. Please ensure you add both the mp3 and the license to your cart when licensing, as the license does not include the mp3.

Please note: A license must be bought before the music is used in any video or production (even not for profit, Youtube etc.) Any unlicensed use is an infringement of copyright and will be legally pursued.

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Track length: 3:37
Tempo: 84 bpm

Late night laid back mellow instrumental music featuring Fender Rhodes keyboards, gentle wah wah and acoustic guitar, warm bass and subtle electronica in a similar style to downtempo artists like Air and Zero 7. Cool, relaxed and atmospheric medium tempo instrumental groove ideal for background music in film scenes.

Keywords: acoustic guitar, bass, breakbeats, chilled, city, cool, cruising, deep, dinner party, downtempo, electronica, funky, groove, guitar, instrumental, laid back, late night, lazy, mellow, mp3, positive, relaxed, Rhodes, shadowy, smoke, smoky, smooth, soulful, soundtrack, trip hop, upbeat, vibe, wah wah, warm

Buy the mp3 or instantly license this music track for immediate use in your film, trailer, documentary or video production by selecting the relevant option from the dropdown menu below. Please ensure you add both the mp3 and the license to your cart when licensing, as the license does not include the mp3.

Please note: A license must be bought before the music is used in any video or production (even not for profit, Youtube etc.) Any unlicensed use is an infringement of copyright and will be legally pursued.

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