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Timelapse Music: Ambient Beats and Post-Rock
Audiosocket's Timelapse collection is time lapse background music - instrumental ambient beats, downtempo and post-rock - cleared for commercial use in aerial drone footage, landscape timelapses, travel vlogs, documentaries and product features. Electronic textures and percussion lead, with keyboards, strings, electric guitars and mallets filling the arrangement in the manner of Explosions in the Sky, This Will Destroy You and M83. Nearly every track is instrumental, so it can carry a sequence without fighting narration.
14 tracks46 minUpdated Oct 8, 2026
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Almost entirely. More than nine in ten tracks are instrumental, which is what makes the collection work as time lapse background music: there is no lyric to fight a voiceover or on-screen captions. The exception is One Night In Taipei (Chillout Mix) by Johnny Fiasco, which carries vocals. His Celestial Sphere also appears in an Alternate Guitar Mix, useful when you want the same cue with a different lead texture across two sequences.
Both, in roughly equal measure. Ambient and happy are the two most common mood tags, followed by chill and inspiring, so about half the collection floats and half moves. The floating side is ambient beats, downtempo and chillout built on electronic pads, keyboards and mallets, close to M83 or Milosh. The moving side is post-rock with electric guitars, strings and driving percussion in the vein of Explosions in the Sky, which is the better pick for hyperlapse and fast drone passes.
Tracks average about three minutes twenty seconds, which covers most social and portfolio timelapses in a single pass. Because they are instrumental ambient beats and post-rock rather than verse-chorus songs, they tend to cut down cleanly at phrase boundaries for 30 and 60 second versions, and the ambient-tagged cues tolerate a fade at almost any point. For longer aerial or documentary sequences, the electronic side of the collection holds a steady mood without a distracting climax.
It is copyrighted music licensed royalty-free, not copyright-free, and yes, you can monetize. Each track is cleared for commercial use under the license you buy, including monetized YouTube uploads, client work and social platforms. If YouTube's Content ID system flags the upload, dispute the claim by stating the track was licensed through Audiosocket. The license you hold for that finished video is perpetual, so the clearance does not lapse when a subscription ends.
Timelapse holds a level; Building climbs. This collection leans electronic ambient beats, downtempo and new age with post-rock as the secondary color, and its tracks are tagged for underscore, aerials and travel vlogs, so they sit under footage without demanding a payoff. The Building collection is weighted toward post-rock and trailer cues tagged for slow motion and reveals, designed to swell toward a peak. Transfiguration by Apalog appears in both and is a useful calibration point between them.