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A Custom Score For Your Film—Without The Price Tag

Retro Grade Volume 1: A Fully Customizable, Synth-Driven and Immersive Score For Films and Documentaries.

$197
Only $97 For First 100 Sold or Until 5/5/25
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A Custom Score for Your Film—Without the Custom Price Tag

Retro Grade Volume 1: A Fully Customizable, Synth-Driven and Immersive Score For Films and Documentaries.

Stop digging through royalty-free music libraries, trying to piece together a cohesive score for your film.

This custom scoring pack lets you shape the emotion, action, and pacing of the music without the cost of hiring a composer.

Meet Retro Grade Volume 1

You finally sit down to edit your film.

You know the score will play a big role in telling your story, so you head to your favorite music library and start scrolling...

Hours go by. You’ve gathered a small collection of songs, but they feel disjointed. They don’t flow well, and you know you’ll have to edit them heavily to make them fit the picture.

You wanted to hire a composer for a custom score—but the budget just isn’t there.

Sound familiar?

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That is why I created Retro Grade. 

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Retro Grade is a Themed, Fully Customizable Score in One Easy to Use Pack

This is not just a music and sound design toolkit. It's a fully developed, synth-driven, atmospheric film score, ready to be customized to fit your edit. 

Musical Themes for Story Telling

10 cinematic themes, each with 4-5 variations (cues) so you can weave recurring melodies throughout your film. Use them for characters, emotional moments, or key scenes—just like a custom score.

Full Control of the Emotion

Seamlessly flow between themes, pads, drones, and sfx to give your film an emotional score that tells your story.

Sound Design

Sound design elements like booms, risers, whooshes, hits, pads, drones, and rhythms to add depth and impact to your film.

Crafted For

Sci-Fi/Fantasy

True Crime

Dystopian Fiction

Drama

Horror

Unexplained Phenomena

Thriller

Existential Drama

Social Commentary

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It just has that boutique polish that makes it sound instantly placeable in your best gigs. 

Wes L.

Inspired by Film Scores Like These

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Listen For Yourself

Over 8 GB of Assets - 50 Cues - 86 Sound Design Elements - 92 Pads, Drones, and Rhythms

Theme 1 - Cue 1
00:00 / 02:54
Theme 1 - Cue 2
00:00 / 01:20
Theme 1 - Cue 3
00:00 / 00:28
Theme 1 - Cue 4
00:00 / 01:27
Theme 1 - Cue 5
00:00 / 00:47
Theme 1 - Cue 6
00:00 / 01:07
Theme 1 - Cue 7
00:00 / 01:53
Theme 10 - Cue 1
00:00 / 02:50
Theme 10 - Cue 2
00:00 / 02:49
Theme 10 - Cue 3
00:00 / 02:51
Theme 10 - Cue 4
00:00 / 00:35
Theme 10 - Cue 6
00:00 / 00:37
Theme 10 - Cue 7
00:00 / 01:35
Theme 2 - Cue 1
00:00 / 03:43
Theme 2 - Cue 2
00:00 / 03:42
Theme 2 - Cue 3
00:00 / 00:49
Theme 2 - Cue 4
00:00 / 01:21
Theme 2 - Cue 5
00:00 / 02:30
Theme 3 - Cue 1
00:00 / 04:05
Theme 3 - Cue 2
00:00 / 02:18
Theme 3 - Cue 3
00:00 / 03:33
Theme 3 - Cue 4
00:00 / 02:32
Theme 4 - Cue 1
00:00 / 03:25
Theme 4 - Cue 2
00:00 / 01:04
Theme 4 - Cue 3
00:00 / 01:43
Theme 4 - Cue 4
00:00 / 00:55
Theme 4 - Cue 5
00:00 / 01:28
Theme 5 - Cue 1
00:00 / 03:02
Theme 5 - Cue 2
00:00 / 02:16
Theme 5 - Cue 3
00:00 / 01:30
Theme 5 - Cue 4
00:00 / 01:21
Theme 6 - Cue 1
00:00 / 04:00
Theme 6 - Cue 2
00:00 / 01:21
Theme 6 - Cue 3
00:00 / 01:19
Theme 6 - Cue 4
00:00 / 01:49
Theme 7 - Cue 1
00:00 / 02:30
Theme 7 - Cue 2
00:00 / 01:14
Theme 7 - Cue 3
00:00 / 01:14
Theme 7 - Cue 4
00:00 / 01:31
Theme 8 - Cue 1
00:00 / 02:36
Theme 8 - Cue 2
00:00 / 02:41
Theme 8 - Cue 3
00:00 / 02:39
Theme 8 - Cue 4
00:00 / 02:26
Theme 9 - Cue 1
00:00 / 03:12
Theme 9 - Cue 2
00:00 / 03:18
Theme 9 - Cue 3
00:00 / 03:33
Theme 9 - Cue 4
00:00 / 03:03
Theme 9 - Cue 5
00:00 / 03:07

What's included?

sonic BOOMS, HITS, RISERS, SFX, WHOOSHES

10 high-quality music tracks
(+ a bonus trailer version)

PADS, RHYTHMS, AND DRONES

Customize your score!

Perpetual License

Pay once and use forever. Covers all commercial uses (broadcast, advertising, and corporate use).

LOVE IT OR GET YOUR MONEY BACK

The Score

High-quality, Emotionally Driven Music 

10 full tracks all with separated instrument groups (STEMS) so you have full control of the music. There is a wide range of emotions in the music but together the themes are cohesive. They are in complementing keys, A minor and C major which will flow seamlessly as you tell your story through the music. 

ECLIPSE

OBSIDIAN
 

DAZE

NIGHTFALL

FAR AWAY IMPACT

 BUZZ LANDING
 

FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS

SPIRITS IN THE AIR

The Sound Design

154 SFX, risers, sonic booms, whooshes, pads, textures, and drops

These sound effects are guaranteed to give your project more impact and help you create a vibey soundscape for your film. All of the assets are designed to work well with the full tracks. 

A MESSAGE FROM STEPHEN KEECH

Thanks for checking out Retro Grade Volume 1!

My name is Stephen Keech.  I'm not a big company like some of the subscription based licensing companies out there. I'm just an artist and an actual person who loves making authentic music. For both myself and the filmmakers who use it. 

My music has been used by brands like Marvel, Mazda, Dollar General, Lego and more. 

You can also hear my music in films and tv shows on Netflix, Hulu, MTV, Amazon, A&E, CBS, and more. 

I wanted make something that is more accessible to every type of creative.

Everything in this pack is created with artful intention. Crafted from my own experience scoring films, documentaries, and advertisements. 

I hope these sounds inspire you to create great visual art and you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed creating them. 

Go make something great!

Stephen

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Cost of Hiring a Composer 

Short Film

$5,000

Feature Film

$20,000+

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Limited time offer for the first 100 sold!

$49
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Give Your Film the Score It Deserves

$197
Only $97 For First 100 Sold or Until 5/5/25

30 DAY MONEY BACK GUARANTEE

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