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Ambient Electronic Music with a Downtempo Pulse

Ambient electronic music in this Audiosocket collection is downtempo and trip hop with a pulse: chill tracks that keep a beat rather than drifting beatless, so they hold pace under fast-cut visuals. Electronic textures, percussion, keyboards and guitars set a chill, swagger-leaning mood in the lane of Chet Faker, Milosh and Massive Attack, with over half the tracks carrying vocals. It suits fashion vlogs, product features, timelapses, study streams and city or travel vlogs.

28 tracks1 hr 52 minUpdated Oct 8, 2026
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Beat-driven. Percussion appears on nearly every track alongside electronic textures, keyboards and electric guitars, and the dominant sub-genres are trip hop, chillout, downtempo and lounge rather than pure ambient drone. A minority of tracks carry an ambient mood tag and ambient-beats styling, so softer moments exist, but the collection is curated for edits that need a steady pulse: timelapses, product features and fashion vlogs where beatless ambient would feel static.
Just under half are instrumental. Wordless cues include The 64 Lounge by Eric Bolvin, Bittersweet (Instrumental) by Evoke, Paradox by Michael Ayars, Mariah by Johnny Fiasco and Mirage by Christopher Norman, which are the picks for voiceover-led product videos and tutorials. The rest feature singers, such as Wake Me Up feat. Lime Kid by Fademan & Oleg K, Late Night Love featuring Jessica Endara by The Gremlin, and Body Speak and Bones by Leo Islo, suited to fashion and travel vlogs without narration.
It is downtempo and trip hop with a rock and singer-songwriter streak rather than looped lo-fi hip hop. Electric guitars appear on a large share of tracks, a new wave and 80s rock sub-genre tag runs through the set, and the sounds-like references are Chet Faker, Milosh, James Blake and Massive Attack rather than lo-fi producers. The result is smoother and more produced than crackly lo-fi loops, with vocals on more than half the tracks, which suits study streams that want a mood with some character.
Tracks average close to four minutes, long enough to carry a full product feature, shopping haul segment or timelapse without looping. The themes tagged most often across the collection are fashion vlogs, product features, study, timelapse, shopping and make up, which is why the energy stays chill and swaggering rather than dramatic. For short-form cuts, trim to the beat; the steady percussion gives clean edit points.
These tracks can be used in monetized YouTube videos: every track is cleared for commercial use under the license purchased, and monetized YouTube video and social content are specifically covered, so ad revenue on a vlog or product review is fine. A subscription gives unlimited licensing while it is active, billed monthly or annually, and each license is perpetual for the specific finished video it covers, so older uploads remain cleared. If you also stream live, check the terms of your license tier for the platforms it covers.