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Music for Car Videos and Racing Edits
Music for car videos on Audiosocket is a curated collection of mostly instrumental racing and motorsport cues licensed for car channels, automotive brand films and race-day recaps. Film and TV scoring dominates, with action-adventure, sci-fi and suspense sub-genres beside heavy metal and industrial cuts, so titles such as Indigoe's Full Throttle and Mark Petrie's Lead the Charge hit with percussion, electronic drive and electric guitars. Angry, dramatic moods suit a reveal or hard lap.
19 tracks49 minUpdated Oct 8, 2026
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Three quarters of the tracks are instrumental, including Tachyon by Atlas Mars, Ride Out by Justin Marcellus, Power Struggle by Brad Hill and My Team Winning (inst) by Heavy Vision, so most of the set runs cleanly under engine audio and commentary. A few cuts carry vocals, such as Feathers (Prefekt Remix) by Nutronic and Slow it Down (feat. Gontar) by Gambino Sound Machine, and those are better placed as a highlight-reel song than as a bed.
The selection leans on cinematic film and TV scoring with sci-fi, suspense and action-adventure sub-genres, then adds heavy metal and industrial cuts for grit. Percussion and electronic production sit under nearly everything, electric guitars on more than half, and brass on a handful for the trailer-sized moments. Angry is the second most common mood after exciting, and curators' sounds-like notes include cyberpunk, Hans Zimmer's Gladiator and Transformers, which fits track-day aggression and futuristic car reveals.
Editors tagged slow motion, automobiles, future and sci-fi among the themes, so the cinematic and sci-fi cues with dramatic and dark moods are the reveal choices, where a long build lets the camera drift over bodywork. The heavy metal and industrial tracks with angry and exciting moods belong on laps, drifts and race recaps. For a scenic cruise this set is too aggressive; look for a calmer cinematic collection instead.
Tracks average about two and a half minutes, which is cue length rather than full-song length, and short enough to cover a 60 second race recap without needing an edit. For a 15 second reveal on social, take the final hit and work backward. Because the cues are mostly instrumental, the cut points are rhythmic rather than lyrical, so cutting on a percussion accent keeps the edit tight.
A track licensed through Audiosocket is cleared for commercial use under the tier purchased, which includes paid ads, client work and monetized video for a dealership or automotive brand. Small Business and Large Business tiers scale to the advertiser, and every license issued is perpetual for the specific finished spot, so a launch ad stays cleared after the subscription term.