Kevin MacLeod

American composer and music producer

Kevin MacLeod ( mə-KLOWD; born 1972) is an American composer and music producer. Described by The New York Times as "arguably the most prolific composer you've never heard of", MacLeod has composed over 2,000 pieces of royalty-free library music and made them available under a Creative Commons (CC BY) copyright license. One of his compositions, "Monkeys Spinning Monkeys", is among the most played on TikTok; from January through June 2021, it was played over 31.6 billion times.

The wide availability and freeness of his work have made it featured in thousands of films and millions of videos on YouTube. As of 2017, his music is featured on one of the live feeds from the International Space Station, Earth From Space. A documentary charting his career, Royalty Free: The Music of Kevin MacLeod, was released in 2020.

Read more about this composer on Wikipedia.

Works

8bit Dungeon Boss
8bit Dungeon Level
A Little Faith
A Mission
A Singular Perversion
A Very Brady Special
Acid Trumpet
Action
Aftermath
Aggressor
Agnus Dei X
Air Prelude
Alien Restaurant
All This
Allada
Almost New
Ambler
Anamalie
And Awaken
Andrea’s Theme
Android Sock Hop
Anxiety
Apero Hour
Apprehension
Arcadia
Arroz Con Pollo
As I Figure
Atlantean Twilight
Awaiting Return
Awkward Meeting
Baba Yaga
Back on Track
Backbay Lounge
Balloon Game
Basic Implosion
Bass Walker
Bassa Island Game Loop
Batty McFaddin
Beachfront Celebration
Bent and Broken
Bet You Can
Big Mojo
Black Vortex
Blipotron
Blippy Trance
Blobby Samba
Blue Feather
Blue Scorpion
Blue Sizzle
Blue Ska
Bossa Antigua
BossaBossa
Breaking Bollywood
Bright Wish
Brittle Rille
Broken Reality
Bumba Crossing
Bump in the Night
Burnt Spirit
Captain Scurvy
Carnival Intrigue
Carpe Diem
Casa Bossa Nova
Celebration
Celtic Impulse
Chase
Chase Pulse
Chase Pulse Faster
Chee Zee Beach
Chee Zee Caves
Cheery Monday
Children’s Theme
Chill Wave
Chillin Hard
City Sunshine
Clash Defiant
Classic Horror 1
Classic Horror 2
Classic Horror 3
Club Diver
Club Seamus
Colossus
Come Play with Me
Comfortable Mystery
Comfortable Mystery 2
Comfortable Mystery 3
Comfortable Mystery 4
Consequence
Continue Life
Controlled Chaos
Controlled Chaos - no percussion
Cool Hard Facts
Cool Vibes
Corncob
Covert Affair
Crinoline Dreams
Crisis
Crusade
Cuban Sandwich
Curse of the Scarab
Cut and Run
Dances and Dames
Dangerous
Dark Times
Deadly Roulette
Death and Axes
Decay
Derp Nugget
Desert of Lost Souls
Deuces
Digital Bark
Distant Tension
Dopplerette
Double O
Dragon and Toast
Dream Catcher
Dreamlike
Dreams Become Real
Driving Concern
Dvorak Polka
El Magicia
Enigma
Evil March
Exotic Battle
Fairytale Waltz
Fantasia Fantasia
Fantastic Dim Bar
Fast Talkin
Feral Chase
Fire Prelude
Flying Kerfuffle
Fretless
Frost Waltz
Frozen Star
Funky Energy Loop
Garden Music
Getting It Done
Ghost Dance
Ghost Story
Graveyard Shift
Grim Idol
Hackbeat
Hard Boiled
Harmful or Fatal
Heart of the Beast
[unknown]