Lost Video Island

Charlies_Innocence · Expert Vidder Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 4410

I'm planning a vid with a lot of voiceovers and such in it, so I need instrumental music, but I hardly ever listen to instrumental music, so I'm not even sure where I'd find anything.

I don't even know what, exactly, I'm looking for - something epic, but not, like, too loud? Anyone have any suggestions, or an idea of where I could browse around? I suppose I could use Spotify or something, but I've never used Spotify so I'm not quite sure how it works, lol.

Brooke · Expert Vidder Joined: 01 Jul 2008 Posts: 24129

The best place to look is movie scores.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzIK5FaC38w

This band is an instrumental music band and they oven provide pretty beautiful and epic music.

Moby often does instrumental music; and his stuff is really beaitiful.

This song is one of my favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdgXcHejNuI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC_3alnTE9g

Mogwai is another good instrumental band.

Alexander Desplat, Hans Zimmer, James Horner, Thomas Newman are all really good film composers.

Im1oftheOceanic6 · Expert Vidder Joined: 23 Jun 2008 Posts: 3705

The instrumentals from the Lost Soundtracks are always good.

David Michael Frank (The Mole Soundtracks) is one of my favorite composers. Here's an example of one of his songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7GiGv52w-U

This is my personal playlist of Instrumentals. Some are instrumentals of pop songs, other are by independent artists.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL31A2F71136CB2B33&feature=mh_lolz

This guy has alot of really good instrumental music:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Miika153/videos

Macaila

Belle MacFarlane · Expert Vidder Joined: 02 Sep 2009 Posts: 7771

I also reccomend movie soundtracks. I've found the Doctor Who and Torchwood soundtracks are the best

eloramoon · Council Member Joined: 24 Feb 2008 Posts: 9077

Two Steps from Hell is another group that specializes in scores. Their stuff is really epic. A lot might be too loud for what you want, but check them out because some of their stuff is quieter.

http://www.youtube.com/user/TwoStepsFromTheMusic

Kevin Macleod is another one that does these types of songs, and his are actually up for grabs with credit. I couldn't find his YT channel, but a lot of it is on YouTube and here's his web site: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/

Also, video game soundtracks are great sources. Assassin's Creed is one that I've heard lately that has some pretty/epic music.

Charlies_Innocence · Expert Vidder Joined: 24 Nov 2007 Posts: 4410

Thanks, guys, this is really helpful!