Playlist
Ocean Music for Surf and Travel Films
Ocean music on Audiosocket is a royalty-free collection of indie rock, post rock and ambient electronic tracks chosen for surf, beach and coastal travel footage, not a set of wave sound effects. Electric guitars and percussion lead, with keyboards and electronic textures giving tracks like Louis's Hope and Sleeping Giant their slow, swelling build. Roughly two-thirds are instrumental, so the set works under surf edits, island travel vlogs, landscape documentaries and video intros and outros.
16 tracks1 hr 2 minUpdated Oct 8, 2026
About this Playlist
Composed music, not nature recordings. This collection is made up of indie rock, post rock and ambient electronic tracks chosen because they suit ocean, beach and coastal footage, with themes tagged to island and beach settings, travel vlogs, landscapes and documentaries. If you need the sound of actual surf, gulls or wind, that belongs in the sound effects side of the catalog, which holds 150,000+ sound effects and sound designs and can be layered under any of these tracks.
About two-thirds are instrumental, including Hope, Sleeping Giant and Last Breath by Louis, Ascent by Modo Stare and Origins by Sarah Schachner, so most of the collection will sit under narration or a voiceover without competing for attention. The remainder have vocals, such as This Time of Night by Wheeland Brothers and Hawaii by Blackbird Blackbird, which work better as featured moments in a montage than under speech.
Electric guitars and percussion lead, backed by electronic textures and keyboards, with acoustic guitar on a handful of tracks. The dominant sub-genres are indie rock and post rock, and the mood tags split between happy and chill on one side and dramatic and exciting on the other, so you get both sunlit beach energy and slow-building swells. Reference tags point to The Album Leaf, Saxon Shore, Fleet Foxes and Explosions in the Sky rather than to spa or meditation music.
The typical track runs just under four minutes, which is on the longer side for a licensing collection and means a single cue can carry a full surf session edit or a travel-film chapter without a loop. For a sixty-second reel you will be trimming, and the post rock tracks tend to build gradually, so start the cut where the arrangement lifts rather than at the top of the file. Check each track's length before committing.
Client work such as a tourism or surf brand film is covered under the license you purchase, and the Small Business and Large Business tiers are designed for exactly this kind of commissioned or agency project, including ads and brand films. Each license is perpetual for the specific finished piece you deliver, so the client's film stays cleared after your subscription ends, while the subscription itself gives you unlimited licensing across projects during the term.