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Sci Fi Mystery Music and Synth Suspense
Audiosocket's sci fi mystery collection is largely instrumental mystery music and sci fi suspense scored mostly on synthesizers, cleared for film, games and podcasts. Rather than orchestral horror, it leans electronic and procedural: pulsing percussion and ambient textures under dramatic tension, with reference tags pointing to Cliff Martinez, The Knick and Stranger Things. Cues like Rules Of Deduction and Europa to Tyrestapol (Cyberpunk Mix) suit investigation scenes, tech explainers, timelapses and near-future game worlds.
24 tracks1 hr 3 minUpdated Oct 8, 2026
About this Playlist
Nearly all of it: about nine in ten tracks are instrumental, and the collection is built for picture, with film tv the dominant genre tag. Cues such as Rules Of Deduction and Cause And Effect by Emlyn Ellis Addison, Reboot by Jonathan Headley and Nothing To Fear by Flares have no vocals, so they sit under dialogue, narration or a podcast host without competing. Preview the few vocal exceptions before placing them under speech.
Electronic, mostly. Synths and electronic textures lead almost every track, with percussion on most, while strings appear on only a few and there is no full orchestra here. Electric guitar shows up on a handful of cuts, and a few tracks are tagged new wave 80s rock, with keyboards and mallets adding detail. The reference tags point to Cliff Martinez, The Knick, Stranger Things and M83, which places the sound in retro-synth and cyberpunk territory rather than orchestral thriller scoring.
It is suspense built on curiosity and tension rather than fear. Dramatic and ambient are the dominant moods, dark appears on a minority of tracks, and the sub-genres split between sci fi, crime mystery and suspense tension with no horror tag at all. Titles like Rules Of Deduction and Contingency Plan - A point to investigation and procedure, and the Cyberpunk Mix of Europa to Tyrestapol to near-future world building. Use it for detective reveals, tech mysteries and space settings; look elsewhere for jump scares.
Anything with a technological or futuristic subject. Beyond sci fi itself, the theme tags on this collection include science technology, future, automobiles, timelapse and slow motion, so it fits product and tech explainers, car content, timelapse sequences, game menus and level ambience, and true crime or science podcast intros. Tracks average around two and a half minutes, long enough to score a full scene or podcast segment and easy to trim for a shorter cutaway.
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