Genres

Overview of all Royalty-Free Music genres

• A

  • African
    
    Cheerful and strongly rhythm-shaped music, often with steel pans and wide pad sounds to reflect the African joie de vivre.
  • Ambient
    
    Relax, but not as a couch potato, with ambient chill-out music, treat yourself or your target group to a calming and stimulating fantasy journey. This royalty-free music is ideal as background music for your film project, for slide shows, or as musical accompaniment to deep emotions and meditations. Whether you let someone take a journey into space or whether you are showing the spring awakening of nature as a time-lapse: listen, select, design!
  • Asian
    
  • Atmospheres
    
    Expansive, spherical pad sounds, which convey different ambient moods, from warm, comforting sounds to galactic cosmic sounds.
  • Audio Logos / Jingles
    
    Short and catchy, our short tracks will grab your attention. When matched to the character of your message, they get your viewers attuned to it: cheerful or playful, alarming or soothing. Some give clear auditory signals, others provide a slight echo that gives everyone a moment to breathe. Skillfully place your message in the silence that follows. Royalty-free music that gives you all the freedom to be creative.

• B

  • Blues
    
    Discover our handpicked selection of instrumental blues songs! They are perfect as background music for your videos and podcasts. With their powerful and energetic rhythms and the authentic instrumentation you create a robust and atmospheric aura. Let your audience swing along with the groove of the blues harmonica or be carried away by the sound of the acoustic and electric guitars. Whether for vlogs, podcasts or documentaries - our blues songs give your media projects a unique touch.

• C

  • Chill Out / Easy Listening
    
    Our chill-out section is the perfect choice as relaxed, understated background music for a variety of video and audio projects. With soft melodies, soothing sounds and relaxed beats you create a harmonious and pleasant atmosphere. Whether you are producing an image film, a travelogue or an art exhibition, our selection of chill-out songs fits perfectly into many different formats. Enjoy the diverse instrumentation and sound textures and create an inspiring "understatement" atmosphere in your media projects.
  • Christmas
    
    Typical-sounding Christmas titles with bells and jingles, but also traditional Christmas songs like "Silent Night" and "White Christmas."
  • Christmas carols - Funk
    
    The most famous Christmas carols in a groovy and funky version that encourages you to dance
  • Christmas Carols - Lounge
    
    The most popular Christmas carols in a relaxed, chilled-out version.
  • Christmas carols - Orchestral
    
    The most beautiful Christmas carols classically arranged in orchestral versions
  • Christmas carols - Rock
    
    The most popular Christmas carols rearranged in powerful rock versions.
  • Classic Hip Hop
    
  • Classic Jazz
    
    Classical jazz music with a lot of improvisation and feeling. In the foreground are organic instruments such as piano and acoustic bass.
  • Classic Pop
    
    Radio-friendly, commercial pop music with mid-tempo beats and various instruments such as synths, piano, guitars, etc.
  • Classic Rock
    
    Mid-tempo rock songs with rugged guitar riffs and loud drum kits. Many songs with string accompaniment or piano motifs.
  • Corporate
    
  • Country
    
    If you're looking for an energetic and no-frills background music for your videos or podcasts, country music is a perfect choice. With their melodic guitar sounds, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, rhythmic acoustic drums and emotional harmonies you create a lively and motivating atmosphere. Whether you're producing a road trip film, a cooking video, or a podcast, our selection of country songs are ideal for many different formats. Give your projects a rustic and authentic touch with our dynamic country music!

• D

  • Dance
    
    Pop dance tracks with stimulating drumbeats and striking synthesizer motifs as well as catchy hooklines.

• E

  • EDM
    
    Away from the mainstream to the pure adrenaline rush: instrumental music from the dubstep / drum and bass category will take your audience on a musical roller coaster ride. Action-packed and suspense-packed images are experienced more intensively, and even in podcasts or radio plays, the thrilling sense of adventure can be significantly increased. This music is ideally suited for crazy types, futuristic motifs, and all scenes in which the anti-hero is hatching an evil plot.
  • Electronic
    
    If everything goes as you imagine it, our royalty-free music in the Electronic category mostly fits. With your pictures and videos that offer surprising insights or invite you to new perspectives. Rhythms and melodies create both distance and fascination for viewers. Electronic is therefore excellently suited to present supposedly familiar things from a new perspective, for example, drone videos.

• F

  • Folk
    
    Smores around the campfire, cycling through the cherry blossoms, or gazing into the distance from the highest mountain: folk creates an authentic atmosphere as background music. Folk music grounds your videos and podcasts in everyday life and experience. Travel videos, documentaries, or reports can be enriched by folk music usually played on acoustic instruments that locals or the traveler have readily on hand.
  • Funk
    
    Bright and serene like a summer flirt by the sea, smooth as silk, and groovy to the point of waving: if you want to add a good vibe to your video presentation or image/business film, if your heroes or your products invite you to dance your way through life, the instrumental music in the funk/soul category is just right.

• G

  • German
    
    Traditional German folk music with classical rhythms, powerful brass sections, delicate plucked instruments, and happy, but also yearning melodies.
  • Greek
    

• H

  • Heavy Metal
    
    Broad, powerful, distorted guitars meet some brutal drum kits, with everything from low tempo to up-tempo.
  • Hip Hop
    
    Cool beats with analog and digital instruments like guitars, synthesizers or pianos, always accompanied by deep, pumping basses.
  • House
    
    These house tracks are characterized by driving beats and punchy basses, plus both analog and digital sounds from guitars and synthesizers.

• J

  • Jazz
    
    A gentle shudder, a tingling experience, or the iconic conclusion to a clever story: our royalty-free jazz music tells stories about unique characters. Often set in a smoky bar, but not necessarily. If the crook sneaks around the corner like a fox, forcing the detective to ask the final question, or the best of friends are going on a cruise together again, jazz music from Dixie to Swing is also a great companion.

• K

  • Kids
    
    Jumping cadenzas and a merry ringing of well-known melodies: the children's section provides whimsical background music for all videos relating to kids and their lives. For toddlers or tweens already into rock or even desperate parents who just wanted to sneak out of the room... discover the child inside and let your imagination run wild!

• L

  • Latin
    
    Spirited, high energy from the first note to the last: if you want to ignite the passion and enthusiasm of your target audience with instrumental music, Latin should be the first choice. With an Argentine tango you lead them passionately through your recordings, salsa evokes the memory of sunny days and danced nights or can accompany your journey through distant lands. Sensual, fiery, and always with a mysterious flair, your protagonists will dance their way through life with a smile on their faces.
  • Lo-Fi
    

• M

  • Manouche Jazz
    
  • Middle Eastern
    
    The sounds of the Middle East with its rhythmic peculiarities and multi-faceted melodies of a thousand and one nights.
  • Movie Soundtrack
    
    Great feelings, small gestures, liberating moments: our royalty-free music in the film music category is perfect for makers of epic films and all those who value excellent sound quality. The musical motifs are reminiscent of great legends and success stories, get the attention of your audience, and give the actors the opportunity to work with all their skills for your mutual success.

• P

  • Percussion
    
  • Pop
    
    Discover our varied selection of instrumental pop songs! They are perfect as background painting for your videos and podcasts. With their crisp hooks, fresh sound and modern arrangements you create a lively and inspiring atmosphere. Whether you are producing a presentation, an image film or an explanatory film - our instrumental pop songs fit perfectly into many different formats; they are almost an all-rounder. Let yourself be inspired by the charismatic instrumentation and driving rhythms and take your projects to a new level!

• R

  • Reggae / Dance Hall
    
    Rhythms the ear picks up and a big-up for your videos which are perfectly accompanied with our reggae and dance hall music. Friendly, cheerful, or playful, the melodies and rhythms invite you to enjoy life, if not today, then perhaps tomorrow. Don't worry, be happy, but always in the middle of the action: that's reggae, as we know and love it. Available as royalty-free music here for your productions.
  • Retro Rock
    
    Surfer songs with pure drum sounds, dry bass runs, and vibrating, distorted tremolo guitars.
  • Rock
    
    Open convertibles or the roar of a Harley: rock is the music of the street, gets down to business, makes things straight. As background music, rock is always popular when showing a rapid change of scenery and landscapes. But each coin has two sides, which is why you'll find soft rock and rock ballads here, too. After all, the easy rider has to lean on someone sometimes, too.

• S

  • Score
    
  • Southern Rock
    
  • Swing
    
    Care-free, happy music with smart melodies and sympathetic sound; mostly piano, marimba, guitars and acoustic bass.
  • Synthwave
    
    These songs are reminiscent of the early days of synthesizers and bring back the digital sound of the 80s with distinctive melodies.

• T

  • Trap
    

• U

  • Underscore
    

• W

  • World Music
    
    Sirtaki on the beach, a wistful view over the Bosphorus, or a mysterious path that leads through the jungle: if you are looking for royalty-free music for your videos that addresses mysticism, myth, or multiculturalism, the world music section is the place to go. Open in spirit, collective in action, this is music for world travelers who appreciate a bouzouki as well as a marimba or darbuka.