Serious Documentary Score 2

From treasure hunts and historic research to scientific wonders and technological advancements: These tracks offer music for all serious documentaries, news programs, and informational formats.

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Grinding Gears - Steampunk Tracks

When advanced technology meets steam-powered machines: These tracks offer the perfect score for Steampunk productions. From otherworldly Science Fiction to down-to-earth mystery and action. Ticking, pulsing - often with a Victorian twist.

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Corporate & News Tension 2

Lighter tension tracks that are perfect for corporate trainings, boardroom scenes, and breaking news. Often ominous but pulsing, they offer underscore for documentaries, corporate videos, news programs and more.

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Cinematic Percussion 2

Big, percussive, epic and dramatic cues - perfect for trailers and promos, action scenes and tense invstigation dramas. Also great for sport, documentaries, and suspense.

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Serious Documentary Score 1

Unknown territories, adventurers searching for artifacts, and new scientific breakthroughs - these tracks are the perfect backdrop for any documentary. From tense to emotional, from mysterious to active.

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Corporate & News Tension 1

From tense boardroom meetings to breaking news, from world conflicts to scientific breakthroughs: These lighter tension tracks underline the urgency without being too suspenseful. Perfect for corporate videos, training material, and new programs.

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Cinematic Percussion 1

Percussive, often epic and dramatic tracks that bring action scenes and promo videos to life. From electronic to orchestral cues that drive the suspense home, bring on the fight, and get the audience to feel the suspense.

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Unsolved 7 - True Crime Tracks

From petty crime to mysterious murders, these suspenseful music cues bring the tension to life. Perfect music for True Crime shows, Reality format and Documentaries. Ominous, suspenseful and haunting.

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Dark Crimes

Ghastly murders, evil plots, and mysterious criminals are brought to life in these dark tracks. From true crimes to conspiracies, the suspense will always stay with you.

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Unsolved 6 - True Crime Tracks

Cold case investigations, detectives searching for evidence, and forensic examinations. These crime-infused tracks offer the best music for (True) Crime, Cop shows, and all Reality formats - from mysterious to supsenseful.

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Usolved 5 - True Crime Tracks

From mysterious burglaries to gruesome murders and private investigations: These tracks offer the best underscore for True Crime programs and Reality formats. Supsenseful, ominous, tense and chilling.

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Armada Approaching - Epic Cinematic Adventures

When Pirates set their sails, and daring adventurers go on perilous quests to search for mysterious artifacts. All the drama, tension and action is in these musical cues. Perfect for cinematic scenes.

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Actions Of Guilt - More Mystery And Tension

More music for mystery, fantasy and crime. This is the perfect music for suspense scenes, rising tension, mysterious quests, and ominous incidents.

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Adventures And Strategy - Cinematic Action & Tension

Music for big adventures, epic tales, and dramatic twists. These orchestral, tense tracks keep the suspense and drama going - from nervous passages to driving, energetic string moves.

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Ghoul's Night Out - More Whimsical, Eerie Halloween

From playful ghosts to eerie ghouls - these whimsical yet haunting melodies, inspired by great composers like Danny Elfman, enhance any Halloween experience. Perfect for trick-or-treating, pranks, monster comedy, and all Halloween-themed shows.

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Black Cat Lane - Whimsical, Eerie Halloween

When ghosts and ghouls walk through town, and witches and monsters go trick-or-treating, these tracks bring the perfect playful eerieness. Drawing from composers like Danny Elfman and movies like "Beetlejuice" or "The Nightmare Before Christmas," these are great for whimsical Halloween pranks, Halloween-themed shows, and light horror.

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Desert Lullaby - Even More Guitar Tension

From Daltons to Bonny & Clyde: These guitar-centered tracks give you the perfect music for old-time and modern outlaws, gunfights and deserted mining caves. All the vibes from eerie ghost towns to modern gangsters.

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When It's Dark - Acoustic Guitar Suspense

From light suspense to melancholy drama, these acousstic guitar tracks offer perfect sonic ambience - from crime to dramatic encounters, anticipation to seedy bars.

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Struggling For Evidence - Mystery And Tension

Criminal investigations, stalkers, and intruding agents - thsese are the ingredients for these dark, suspenseful tracks. Perfect music for (True) Crime, suspense scenes, and intense reality formats.

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Outlaw In Town - More Guitar Tension Volume 4

Outlaws, guns and deserted ghost towns: With these guitar-driven tracks you get the perfect music for all vintage and modern cowboys, seedy saloons, and lawless desert towns. From the city jungle to the old west, from gunfighters to lurking gangsters.

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Secrets and Evidence - Suspense Drones

Ominous figures in dark alleys, secret hiding places, and crime evidence. These minimal, droning tension cues support the suspense in (True) Crime, Documentaries, Adventure Quests, and more.

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Twist of Fate - Cinematic Tension

With a hint of classic film composers like Bernard Herrmann, these orchestral score pieces evoke drama and suspense. Often with an epic vibe, sometimes more playful and whimsical, they are perfect for drama, crime and documentaries.

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Foreboding Beats - Dark Synth Tracks

When weird creatures roam the night, and mad scientists work on dangerous potions, these dark synthwave tracks provide the perfect underscore. From harsh synthesizer to eerie and quirky sounds - always foreboding, suspenseful and driving.

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Desperado Showdown - Guitar Tension

Lawless towns and scorched deserts: These guitar-focused tracks perfectly bring high noon duels and outlaws to life. From wild west vibes to modern desperados, from deserted ghost towns to the city jungle.

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Pulsing Tension 14

When tensions rise and the suspense is unbearable, these pulsing tracks are the perfect musical cues. From dark and menacing, to nervous, dramatic and suspenseful. Perfect music for true crime, documentaries, thrillers, and reality formats.

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Are You That Somebody?

Paul Lichtenauer feat. Heather Collins

Aaliyah's hit song in a dark, Industrial-Metal infused version, that brings out the eerie vibe. Starting slow and building up to a heavy guitar-belting climax. Perfect for trailers, promos, intense scenes...

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People Are People

Rising Voices

Orchestral-Rock cover version of Depeche Mode's classic, benefitting BLM/Social Justice organizations.

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Bad Guy

echoekill

Harsh Industrial cover version of the Billie Eilish hit.

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Lovesong

no:carrier, Mills, Nadia S.

Epic, orchestral cover version of The Cure's Goth Rock classic.

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Bad Moon Rising

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Dark, eerie, electronic cover version of the Creedence Clearwater Revival hit.

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The Boys Of Summer

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Dark, eerie, electronic cover version of Don Henley's hit song.

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California

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Dark Pop cover version of Belinda Carlisle's melancholy song.

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Room With A View

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Melancholy, eerie cover version of Tony Carey's hit about being homeless in LA.

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She Moved Through The Fair

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Eerie cover version of the Irish traditional.

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Top Tracks

Some of the most licensed tracks from the Counter Communications catalog. From Dark Atmospheric cues to (True) Crime tracks to Tension and Adventure...

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Best of Pulsing Tension 1-11

Pulsing, suspenseful and tense music from Counter Communications (CNTR) - perfect for reality and crime shows, drama, and documentaries. For more check out all eleven albums in the PULSING TENSION series!

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Science & Forensics

Sterile laboratories, forensic research, and scientific drama - these tracks from Counter Communications (CNTR) are often quirky, electrifying, curious and dramatic. Everything you need for scientific formats, true crime forensic investigation, and laboratory scenes.

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Crime & Investigation

Cold cases, murder investigations, and detectives in hot pursuit - these cues are perfect for True Crime, Cop Shows, Investigative formats, and Reality drama.

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Contagion Playlist

With the Corona virus spreading, and other, still unknown dangers lurking in the shadows, this playlist offers the best music for dramatic news coverage, tense forensic investigations, science, and sterile laboratories.

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Gothic Rock and Dark Pop

Music for dark souls - from Electro to Gothic Rock and Dark Wave.

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Aliens and Ancient Cults

Emotive, tense and eerie soundtrack for everything alien, fantasy, science fiction, history, and adventure. From ancient ruins to far-away star systems - these songs take you on an exciting journey.

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Halloween Playlist 2020

Just a few more weeks until it's Halloween - and we have the perfect music for your horror movie, haunted house, and creepy nightmares.

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