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Groovy light happy introspective jazzy smart and cool Smooth Jazz instrumental. A soundtrack for a chill and cool spring or summer day. Great for dinner scenes or romantic sensual or loving occasions.
Composer: Ethereal Motion
A somber progressive new age song with melancholy tenor sax melody and male chorus. Song about loneliness and wondering what's on the "other side".
Composer: Melodality
This is a looped version of a light and sexy R&B theme that's great for your projects and tv themes. Mellow guitar sound and soloing accompanied by shaker sound and drumloop.
Composer: Melodality
This is a mellow and smooth R&B track. glassy piano sound accompanied by ethereal pad sound and solo saxophone. Great track for TV Themes and commercials.
Composer: Robert Wayne Johnson
Pop rock with a steady groove and lots of catchy guitar riffs and melodies. Upbeat, feel-good and positive music with a laid-back vibe. Great background music for TV, commercials and Film.
Artist/Composer: John Herberman
This is part of a collection of tracks depicting an experience of survival training, personal challenge and conquering of fear. All of the moods are captured; introspection and trepidation, fear, anxiety, striving, success and triumph. Highly editable and flexible, these are tracks that are designed to underscore and support without being too specific. Stings and alternate versions are provided for many of the tracks. Piano and guitar are featured. Many tracks share the principal themes, creating a coherent show package. Good for outdoor TV series, reality shows, lifestyle programming, documentary, nature programming, history.
KEYWORDS:fear, challenge, introspection, striving, success, triumph, outdoor, reality, piano, guitar, underscore, TV
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Composer: Emmett Cooke
A simple and elegant looped minimalist piano track. Contemporary in style it suggests a sophisticated and hypnotic mood to the listener. Lends a reflective yet passionate feeling to a project
Composer: Ethereal Motion
Soaring thematic instrumental with melodic tenor sax melody and orchestration. Likening to a seafaring movie soundtrack. Good symphonic sounds that would go well with any adventure movie.
A modern electronic corporate track with the vibe of intention movement achievement confidence and purpose. A car or product commercial . features a nice piano riff trumpet and bass over a contemporary drum and sound design bed.
Artist/Composer:Charles Bunting
time 4:20, 5.95mb, 192kbps, acoustic strings, country, tempo med
Keywords: Country video, Acoustic Guitars,Back ground, moving
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Artist/Composer:Robert Wayne Johnson
Ultra cool garage rock track with a big catchy guitar riff and a rockin' retro drum beat. Perfect music for adding an edgy and hip vibe to your production. Buddy movie, rom-com, TV commercial, movie trailer, film opening, neo-60s, nostalgic.
Keywords: Lo-Fi hipster alternative rock Pulp Fiction garage rock groovy powerful fiery hard-driving sports news chases frat parties fast cars smokey bars gritty bluesy The Black Keys T-Rex
Artist/Composer:Robert Wayne Johnson
Indie rock track with a hip and edgy sound. Steady, cool, hypnotic and uplifting. Perfect underscore to add an edgy excitement to your production. Great for radio and TV commercials, documentaries and reality TV shows.
Keywords: Indie Pop The Strokes Bloc Party Foster The People Los Campesinos Peter Bjorn and John Scenester Hipster alternative rock The Brooklyn Sound
Artist/Composer:Robert Wayne Johnson
A gentle and emotional piano and strings piece.
Keywords: Heartwarming Reflective Emotional Sweet Positive Uplifting
Artist/Composer:Robert Wayne Johnson
Ultra cool and quirky indie rock track with a catchy melody and a spacy, retro-modern sound. Perfect music for adding an upbeat and hip vibe to your production. Buddy movie, rom-com, TV commercial, movie trailer, film opening, reality show, neo-60s, nostalgic.
Keywords: Indie Pop Foster The People Peter Bjorn and John Lo-Fi Hipster alternative rock neo-psychedelia garage rock
Artist/Composer:Robert Wayne Johnson
A hip and gritty garage rock track with a face-melting bass riff and big shuffling beat. Sounds a bit like The Black Keys, Muse and Gary Glitter. A perfect track for adding an ultra cool vibe to your production! Buddy movie, rom-com, urban angst, film opening, nostalgic.
Keywords: Blues Rock Punk Rock 1960's Garage Rock Raw Lo-Fi Hipster Booker T. & The M. G. S the Sonics the Lyres the Fuzztones Jet the Yardbirds Led Zeppelin
Artist/Composer:Robert Wayne Johnson
Bass and drums lay down a big fat groove in this cool hiphop reggae hybrid. Perfect music for adding a hip and chilled out vibe to your production!
Keywords: Laid-back chill downtempo funky phat fly free and easy
Artist/Composer:Robert Wayne Johnson
The bass drops a fat riff in this cool hip hop reggae hybrid. Perfect music for adding a hip and chilled out vibe to your production!
Keywords: Laid-back chill downtempo funky phat fly free and easy
Artist/Composer:Robert Wayne Johnson
Groovy 60's rock featuring horns and the Vox organ. Sounds like music from the swinging sixties. Perfect underscore for a cool, swinging London in the 1960s vibe. Very Shagadelic baby! Super fun retro, kitschy, campy, swaggering with lots of attitude & street smarts!
Keywords: Carnaby Street Kings Road Twiggy Mods Austin Powers swingers the sexual revolution psychedelic mini skirts pop art hippies fashion cultural revolution freedom
Dear fellow creative professional,
My name is Andrew Ingkavet and I created this site as a resource for my fellow creatives.
Way back when I was an Art Director at Digitas and later Creative Director at FCB (now DRAFT/FCB), I was always looking for great music for my work. I was shocked to find few online resources for quality production music. Being a trained composer/producer, I started creating music for myself, then my teams and soon agency-wide.
An idea formed and since 2004, we’ve been serving the world great visual music that’s royalty free!
How we choose our royalty free music
Our music is all handpicked for quality in composition, structure and production
so you can get on with your work.
This will save you time instead of weeding out dozens of terrible tracks, you’ll browse stuff that already feels pretty close.
And, most important, it needs to conjure a picture or feeling in your mind.
Our production music is pure emotion that heightens and amplifies your work.
Our music is designed to captivate and build to climax without overpowering your work. It delivers an emotional subtext to your work.
Stock Music?
I’ve never quite liked the term stock music as it gives off the feeling of subpar or something is not quite as good. Our music is used in film productions, web videos, television commercials, Powerpoint and Keynote presentations, animations, student films, project films, video games, websites and more.
It is meant for creative professionals.
Our Clients Big and Small Trust Us
We’ve had the great fortune to work with several Fortune 500 and even Fortune 100 global brands including American Express, MetLife, HP, Compaq, JPMorganChase, Nike, Adobe, MTV, Clairol, Timberland and many many more.
We’ve also been part of the work of many indie filmmakers, authors, start-up entrepreneurs, DIY-ers, bloggers, podcasters, web designers, animators, corporate videos, trade shows, and YouTube videos.
We hope to have you join us.
Music makes it louder!
Hand-picked
Selected by humans, no algorithms here.
Music That Tells Stories
Emotion-soaked music that tells stories.
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Licensing from $37
Easy Licensing
4 options – based on how you use our music.
Web-Only License
Web sites, videos and streaming- Unlimited use in a single project
- Web Video like YouTube, Vimeo and websites
- Video advertising including banner ads, or popups or any other video use for advertising
- Online Wedding films and videos
- Online Slide shows, Powerpoint, Slideshare and Keynote presentations
- For further details see the full license.
Standard License
Covers most needs- Unlimited use in a single project
- Web Video like YouTube, Vimeo and websites
- Video advertising including banner ads, or popups or any other video use for advertising
- Film festivals, student films and project films
- Wedding films and videos
- Slide shows, Powerpoint, Slideshare and Keynote presentations
- Trade shows, fashion shows and point of purchase displays
- Retail kiosks
- Music on-hold
- Podcasts
- Free iPhone/Android apps and online games
- Up to 1000 copies produced of DVDs or paid apps and games
- For further details see the full license.
Mass Duplication
Physical and Digital Copies- Single project in perpetuity
- up to 10,000 copies
- Audio books
- DVDs, CD-ROMS, and other storage media
- Paid Apps and games such as IOS, Android
- Software
- For further details see the full license.
All Other
TV/Broadcast and All Other Uses- Please call to discuss your specific needs and terms.
- For further details see the full license.
What Our Customers Are Saying
Comments from real life customers over the last 10 years!
“The advantage of working with 300 Monks is that you have a wide range of composers with different specialities to choose from which makes for great speed and efficiency for your project.”
“Your Services Kick Ass”
Your site is great (fair prices and easy to use) I will go nowhere but your site for all of my music clip needs (period) (I hope you crush your competition) KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK VERY, VERY SATISFIED CUSTOMER
I would like to thank you for all your help in getting “my” music. I was a bit nervous after purchasing the music and not being able to download it , yet your quick respond to my problem was very much appreciated. Once again, THANK YOU !
– Dana R – Ontario, Canada
“This music is awesome. If I have to hear one more (Competitor’s Name withheld) track, I think I’m going to throw up!”
“First, I want to say THANKS for a great website. I’m a director-producer and I’m always looking for great tracks for projects that I’m doing. Your music is fantastic”
“Andrew’s expansive knowledge on film, television, multimedia, and advertising blows you away, and thus makes his compositions extremely relevant and evocative. I will definitely be working with Andrew again in the future.”
“Working with Andrew was a pleasure. Our creative team had a very specific theme in mind and the music and sound design he produced was thematically consistent and very close to our needs, right off the bat. Subsequent tweaks were turned around quickly and intelligently.”
“Andrew worked with us to find the right score for our animation by giving us a variety of options from talented composers. His turn around time was also impressive.” – Veena Rao, DraftFCB NY
Frequently Asked Questions
Who uses 300 Monks?
We are an online music library used by Creative Professionals such as
Advertisers
Filmmakers
Video Producers
Web Video Producers
Wedding Photographers/Videographers
Marketing Managers
Animators
Student Filmmakers
Powerpoint Presentation Creators
and many more.
What is Royalty Free Music?
You are paying for permission to use our music in your project.
Extra Details For Those Who Need To Know Everything:
We can sometimes earn extra money paid by broadcast networks if our music gets placed on television or radio in the USA and additionally in theatrical release in most other territories.
This is not something that you will have to pay extra for as a producer, director, web designer, advertiser, etc. It’s handled by organizations called Performing Rights Societies and inlude ASCAP, BMI and SESAC in the USA. In most other countries there is only one society. For example in Germany it’s GEMA. In the UK it’s PRS.
What makes your music different?
All of our music has been hand-selected for dramatic possibilities. Not every piece of music is appropriate to accompany visual storytelling.
How long can I use the music I purchase here?
After payment, your license entitles you to use the music in perpetuity. In other words, forever.
You may NOT redistribute or sell or lend or loan the music to anyone else including clients, employers or colleagues, nor can you use it alone apart from a visual medium.
You do not own the music, it is licensed to you. Please review the complete licensing agreement. If you need a multi-user license, or a multi-project license, please contact us.
How do I pay for the music?
Add your track to the cart and you will guided to the Checkout Page.
You can then pay with a credit card, or PayPal.
Then, click on your download link and receive your music in a zipped file.
What if I need an invoice for payment by my client?
Contact us for invoiced payment instead.
Do I have to credit 300 Monks in my project?
For most uses, it is not required but would be wonderful. You may also want to link to us and may want to say something like “Music by 300 Monks.” We love to give your work publicity too and may even feature it on our site.
For Broadcast, you will need to include “Music by 300 Monks.”
Where does the name 300 Monks come from?
Well, we are NOT a religious organization, and NO we are NOT really monks.
What we are is:
A brotherhood (and sisterhood) of talented Composers, Producers, and Artists living all over the world coming together to make music for moving images.
We just love the idea of a mystical temple somewhere in the forest where 300 people are making music for films, videos, etc. If we had George Lucas on our side, maybe we could do that one day…
Can I use these sounds and music to create new music to sell?
No. Absolutely not. The license agreement specifically prohibits the use of this music apart from a visual production. This is music for picture.
Why can't I hear the music?
Why can’t I hear the preview music or sound effects?
This is usually one of the following:
- Did you turn the volume of your computer on?
- External speakers plugged in and on?
- Did you plug in your headphones?
- Do have an old browser that will not accept HTML5?
(This is not common. If your machine is bought in the last 7 years or so, you should have it already.)
Where are you located?
We’re based in Brooklyn, New York City, USA.
How long has 300 Monks been in business?
The company as it now stands was started in 2004. Before that it was a single composer’s website.
What About Refunds?
There are NO REFUNDS for any purchases. Please use the preview files to confirm selection before you purchase. For full terms and conditions, see our licensing overview page.
What Is The Best Way To Reach Customer Service?
The best way to contact us is via the contact page.
However, you can also call us by telephone. Note, we are based in New York City, (Eastern Time Zone -5 GMT) and are available by phone (001-347- 788-1175) between the hours of 10am and 5pm Monday through Friday. If you do not reach us, please leave us a brief message and we will call you back.
Can I submit some music to sell here?
Please see our submission page.
Got A Question?
If we didn’t answer all of your questions, feel free to drop us a line anytime.