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Ticking Clock Countdown Music
Audiosocket's Ticking Clocks collection is countdown music: short, almost entirely instrumental cues built around a clock-ticking pulse for suspense, deadlines and timers. Electronic elements and driving percussion carry nearly every track, with brass and string stabs adding trailer weight, from Veaceslav Draganov's Action Clocks and Dark Time to a lone hip hop instrumental beat. Averaging under two minutes, they fit trailer builds, on-screen countdowns, heist and deadline scenes and sci-fi or mystery sequences.
8 tracks13 minUpdated Oct 8, 2026
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These are short cues, averaging just over a minute and a half, which is unusual for a music collection and deliberate for this one. Several tracks ship as explicit short edits: Veaceslav Draganov's Action Clocks (Short) sits next to the full Action Clocks, and his Clock Trailer (short) is already trimmed for trailer use. That means you can drop a pre-cut version onto a brief countdown graphic or timer overlay without editing the music yourself.
Nearly all of it. Every track except one is instrumental, and the exception, William French's The Watchmaker, is the only cue with vocals, so audition it separately if your scene has dialogue. The remaining cues are pure score: electronic programming and percussion in almost every track, with brass and strings on about half, in the style of trailer music and suspense underscore.
Generally no; this is tension music, not celebration music. Every track is tagged dramatic, and the next most common moods are angry, exciting, scary and dark, with sub-genres spanning trailer music, suspense and tension, sci-fi, dark and haunting and crime mystery. That makes it right for a bomb-timer scene, a heist clock, a deadline montage or a trailer build, and wrong for a festive ten-second countdown, which needs an upbeat pop or party collection instead.
Electronic programming and percussion lead nearly every cue, with brass and string hits supplying trailer-style impacts on roughly half the set. Keyboards, world percussion, claps and stomps, mallets and a lone hip hop instrumental beat round out the textures, and M83 is cited as a reference point. Veaceslav Draganov composed the bulk of the collection, so the clock cues share a consistent palette, while Johnny Fiasco's Bravura and Out To Get You offer a different flavor within the same dramatic brief.
A countdown cue licensed for a trailer does not expire. Every license Audiosocket issues is perpetual for the specific finished work it covers, so a trailer, promo or timer sequence you complete under an active subscription stays cleared after the subscription ends. The subscription itself, billed monthly or annually, gives unlimited licensing while it runs; you only need it active to license new projects, and each new finished piece receives its own perpetual license.