Trailer Music

Our fantastic music directors pick the top five tracks from various genres each week to make your search much easier. This week, we are featuring our top trailer music tracks from our music director, Sarah Ponder. 

If we plot the story arc of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the entertainment industry, it would be easy to say that the last five years have been its climax. The mainstream T.V. show Fresh Off the Boat cast its sails wide and traveled deep into viewers’ hearts, while music stars like H.E.R., Japanese Breakfast, and Mitski landed on the charts and grabbed pop culture by the horns. And just this year, the film Everything Everywhere All at Once made history and dominated the Academy Awards. So, is this truly the peak of the mountain? For up-and-coming film composers like Brandon Lau, however, this is just the tip of the iceberg.  

Each week, our fantastic music directors pick the top five tracks from various genres to make your search a lot easier.  

Liquid Cinema, one of the best trailer music libraries in the world recently released an album called Euphoria: Motivational Inspirational Trailers. Check it out!

The art of making movie trailers has vastly evolved in the past 30 years. When a movie was about to hit the theaters, the movie trailer would usually consist of scene highlights scored with the original film score or by the main popular song licensed in the movie. Oh, how times have changed! The movie trailers of 2023 are built to thrill and drastically raise your heart rate. 

Cezame Trailers’ newest release Northguard – Viking & Warlike Themes, is an exciting and powerful album that combines traditional Scandinavian instruments like the hardanger fiddle, munnharppe, and zither with modern trailer percussion and dramatic elements

In January, APM released a brand new trailer album from Red Matter simply called Vox. But after listening to it, it's anything but. The massive 140-track album sounds gigantic, cinematic, and epic, which, according to APM's music director Keiko McTingley, is perfect for horror trailers and intriguing dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. Meet the "Mann" behind the music.

APM Music has an enormous library of music for films and trailers. For this particular collection, we have Twisted Cinema. A series of spine-tingling tunes that is sure to give your viewers a bad case of nightmares. 

As the world begins to refer to the pandemic in the past tense, large and small production companies have accelerated their output at break-neck speed. And with this comes the need for more production music for in-film and trailers. 

This trailer album is perfect if you are working on movies like Knives Out or its sequel Glass Onion.