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Tech Background Music for Science and Product Videos
Tech background music on Audiosocket is an all-instrumental collection of electronic underscore for explainer videos, product demos and science documentaries. Electronic textures and percussion lead almost every cue, with strings, keyboards and occasional mallets or brass adding warmth, and the moods run inspiring, happy and exciting rather than cold or clinical. Positive Progression by Pat Andrews and Swirling by Mark Petrie are typical: tagged as underscore and built to run under a voiceover.
15 tracks37 minUpdated Oct 8, 2026
About this Playlist
The science and technology music in this collection is entirely instrumental. There are no vocals anywhere in the set, which is why it is tagged as underscore and intellectual across the board: the music is meant to sit beneath a narrator, a presenter or on-screen text without a lyric pulling attention. Cues such as Accomplishment by Pat Andrews, Steam by Sarah Schachner and New Light by Mark Petrie are typical, built on electronic textures, percussion and strings.
Electronic textures and percussion lead almost every track, with strings and keyboards close behind and electric guitars, mallets and brass appearing less often. The stylistic references logged for this collection are Boards of Canada, Four Tet, Brian Eno and Biosphere on the ambient side and cinematic rock on the energetic side, so the range runs from soft ambient beats to driving news-promo cues. What ties it together is tone: inspiring and happy are the two most common moods.
Optimistic. Only a couple of tracks carry the sci-fi tag, and the dominant moods are inspiring, happy and exciting, with dramatic a distant fourth. That makes the collection right for innovation stories, product features and progress-themed explainers, and wrong for dystopian or thriller-style tech pieces. If you need something tense, the wider catalog covers dark sci-fi and trailer cues separately.
Chain several cues from the same artist to keep a consistent palette. Tracks average about two and a half minutes, so a ten-minute documentary segment typically needs three or four. Johnny Fiasco appears several times, with Mariah, Transoceanic (Full Main Mix) and Bordeaux, and Mark Petrie and Pat Andrews each contribute more than one cue, which gives you related textures to move between without a jarring shift. Fade under narration and let the dramatic-tagged cues carry the reveal moments.
A client's product launch or ad is covered: every track is cleared for commercial use under the license purchased, and that explicitly includes client work and advertising as well as monetized YouTube, film, podcasts and social. Agencies and brands typically license under a Commercial plan at the Small Business or Large Business tier, and every license issued is perpetual for the finished piece, so a product video keeps its clearance long after the campaign ends.