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Sci Fi Music for Space, Science and Games
Sci fi music on Audiosocket is a set of mostly instrumental film and TV cues, ambient electronica and post-rock written for space, future-tech and slow-motion picture. Layered synthesizers and percussion carry most tracks, with strings and brass giving the bigger cues a cinematic lift, in the vein of Cliff Martinez, M83 and Brian Eno. Johnny Fiasco's Jupiter, Neptune and Supernova anchor the planetary side; it suits science explainers, space documentaries, timelapse and game trailers.
24 tracks1 hr 12 minUpdated Oct 8, 2026
About this Playlist
Sci fi music is score written to suggest the future, space or advanced technology, and in production libraries it usually means synth-led film and TV cues rather than a single genre. In this collection the tracks are tagged overwhelmingly as scifi film and TV cues, built from layered electronics, percussion and strings, with brass and winds on the more cinematic pieces. The reference points are Cliff Martinez, M83, Boards of Canada and Brian Eno, plus a cyberpunk edge on some tracks.
Both, with ambient in the lead. Ambient is by far the most common mood, followed by dramatic, then happy, exciting and inspiring, so a sizeable minority of the collection has the tension or lift of a trailer while the rest drifts. Filter by mood: ambient and calm for cosmic beds and study-length backgrounds, dramatic and exciting for reveals and the action adventure cues. Johnny Fiasco's planetary series, Jupiter, Neptune, Supernova and Celestial Sphere (Guitar Mix), covers both ends.
Most are: a little over four in five have no vocals, so they can run under a narrator explaining orbital mechanics without a lyric getting in the way. The vocal exceptions include FriendlierBear's Venus and A Live World and The Death Beats' Burn The Evidence (Original Mix), which are better placed in a montage or title sequence than under narration. Rosa Headley's Voyager and Collin Scudder's Galaxy are among the instrumental cues.
They average about three minutes, which is compact enough to score a single timelapse or a slow-motion sequence end to end without looping. Slow motion, future and timelapse are the three most common tags across the set, so the cues were selected for long visual takes rather than fast cutting; science and technology and automobiles also appear, which is why they translate well to product and engineering footage as well as space.
Content ID claims can happen even on properly licensed music, because rights holders register recordings with YouTube's fingerprinting system. If a claim appears on your science video, dispute it in YouTube Studio and state that the track was licensed through Audiosocket; every track here is cleared for commercial use under the license purchased, including monetized YouTube video, and that license is perpetual for the specific video it covers.