ANW Core

A composer and multi-instrumentalist celebrated for her colourful, eclectic film and TV scoring, Amit May Cohen’s dark, uneasy strings and urgent pulsing synths create building tension, drama, suspense and intrigue.

Pressure Points

Dark, uneasy strings & urgent pulsing synths create building tension, drama, suspense & intrigue.

Amit May Cohen

Uneasy strings with pulsing synths, relentless industrial percussion rhythm & dark textures. Tension builds throughout

Audio Network Rights Limited

A producer, composer and guitarist for over 800 TV shows and films, Devin Powers’ and Hyung Rae Lee have created mysterious, sinister drama builds with pulsing synth rhythms, dark drones, atmospheric textures, big drum hits and kalimba.

Redacted

Sinister drama builds with pulsing synth rhythms, dark drones, atmospheric textures & big drum hits.

Mark Devin Powers Adao

Hyung Rae Lee

Mysterious ambient kalimba motif with menacing synth pulse, drones & atmospheric textures. Builds to tense climax

Criminal Mindset

Composer and producer, Dario Forzato blends brooding electric guitar and dobro slide with minimalist piano melody, ambient pads, arpeggiated synths and guitar motifs, to create mysterious, tense and suspenseful moods. 

Pulse Perceptions

Blending brooding electric guitar, piano, and synths to create tense, and suspenseful moods.

Dario Forzato

Brooding dobro slide melody over pulsing guitars, driving light electronic percussion & arpeggiated synths 

Turn In Time

Blockbuster expert Luke Richards’ perfect mix for classic crime and psychological thrillers has intriguing strings and sinister percussion, ambient pads, pulses and tense, ominous orchestra builds with a nail-biting climax. Cinematic suspense: guaranteed.

The Five Boroughs

Nail-biting thrills with intriguing strings and sinister percussion, pulses and ominous orchestra.

Luke Richards

Atmospheric hybrid orchestral crime thriller simmers with tension, mystery & intrigue throughout

Manhattan John Doe

Playful pizzicato and mischievous dramedy strings from furtive to funky join electrobeat grooves with marimba, celeste and quirky synths. When you want drama with a comedic touch, Terry Devine-King has you covered.

Candid Reality

Playful pizzicato & mischievous dramedy strings, electrobeat grooves, marimba & quirky synths.

Terry Devine-King

Playful pizzicato strings with plucked synth pattern, marimba & metronomic clicks. Light tension build in middle

Less Is More

Brass takes centre stage, from medieval-style fanfares to a mischievous quintet, noble and dignified to fearsome and dramatic. Rousing timpani and thunderous percussion round out the mix.

Forged In Brass

Brass takes centre stage, from medieval-style fanfares to a mischievous quintet, noble to fearsome.

Chris Warner

Medieval-style brass fanfares with dramatic war drums 

Ancient Fortress

Build menace and tension with ominous drones and dark textures, eerie bowed marimba, ethereal pads and driving percussion. Philip Guyler’s music is used by film, TV and brands. Percussionist Paul Clarvis works with artists and on film soundtracks.

Transcendent

Menace & tension with ominous drones & dark textures, eerie bowed marimba & driving percussion.

Philip Guyler

Paul Clarvis

Dark bass drone & bullroarer build with expansive pads, bright keys, big drums & textures to a powerful ending

Dystopian Machina

Atmospheric, emotional moods from orchestral expert and Grammy/Ivor Awards nominee Debbie Wiseman OBE. Melancholy piano and ominous orchestral join wistful clarinet and chamber strings, rumbling percussion and heartrending cello.

Forgotten Lands

Melancholy piano and ominous orchestral join wistful clarinet, percussion and heartrending cello.

Debbie Wiseman

Melancholy piano develops with wistful clarinet & poignant strings

Dark Dimensions

Hypnotic textural electronic sequences build, with powerful drums, epic synths and big menacing drums. Dark and distorted, tense and mysterious – channel the dark side of electronic music.

Greyscape Expanse

Hypnotic electronic sequences & ominous electronic textures, with menacing drums & epic synths.

Noah Sorota

Hypnotic electronic sequence develops with dark distorted textures, big percussion & epic synths to a dramatic climax

Solar Uplift

Film and TV experts Paul Clarvis and David O’Brien’s atmospheric, undulating bass drones join with mysterious celestial textures and ominous percussion to create otherworldly, dreamlike, mystical moods and a spiritual feel.

Theology

Atmospheric, undulating bass drones, celestial textures & ominous percussion for otherworldly moods.

David O'Brien

Growling & atmospheric drones beneath mysterious celestial textures & motifs

Incubator

Multi-instrumentalist and successful film and TV composer Noah Sorota builds dark, mysterious string ostinatos and brooding synths with driving electronic beats to create mysterious melodies and sinister endings.

Nordscapes

Dark, mysterious string ostinatos and brooding synths with driving electronic beats.

Dark synths & strings build with driving electronic beats & string ostinatos to a moody final section

Talus Traverse

Noah Sorota is an arranger and programmer who writes for TV and film. His piano moods, from mysterious to optimistic and playful, are accompanied by evolving string patterns, bustling percussion, quirky musical motifs and marimba.

Panglossian Patterns

Piano moods, from mysterious to optimistic, are accompanied by strings, percussion, quirky motifs.

Mysterious piano & mallet interplay gives way to playful string ostinatos & mischievous patterns

Cautious Mischief

Build dramatic tension from light peril & anxiety to suspenseful, dark tracks taking you to the edge of your seat. From primetime drama to big-screen blockbusters, reality or true-crime podcasts, it's the music you need to get your heart pumping harder...

The Tension Code

Kes Loy

Tense guitar with distorted piano, haunting drum beats and synth motifs.  

They Don't Sleep

Tense bass & beats with tremolo guitar, piano & synth motifs 

Broken Home

Tense bass & insistent beats with acoustic guitar & distorted piano 

Spectre

Sparse bass & tense beats with haunting acoustic guitar & distant piano

Still Alive

Hypnotic & mysterious acoustic guitar with infectious drum beats, synths & bass groove

Stolen

Spanish guitar & driving rhythms with tense bass & synth motifs

Stretched

Ominous acoustic guitar with tense bass, beats, synths & electric guitar motifs

Album ANW 3271They Don't Sleep

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