Composer Dan Pound creates ambient electronic, shamanic space music sound worlds that take the listener to other worlds and beyond. Primarily visceral and always visual this music is dark and mysterious yet hypnotic and serene. Perfect accompaniment to a variety of visual media as well as mind slowing/altering activities including yoga, meditation and dreaming practices.
Dan was classically trained on piano, guitar and double bass at an early age and started writing songs soon after. He went on to be in the local honor orchestra and was soon writing pieces for the entire ensemble. Besides performing and composing, Dan has earned degrees in recording engineering and electronic music technology, and has received credits as 1st engineer and mixer for an indie jazz release, "Crusin’ Some Grooves" by the Steve Wolfe Quartet.
Over the last several years, Dan has developed a home project studio where he does most of his work now recording and producing his music independently. He specializes in music for film and multi-media, as well as recording and producing his own CD’s on his newly developed label, Pound Sounds.
Dan has earned numerous top 10 positions in various categories on Broadjam.com 's top 10 lists, and many of his pieces have been included in monthly top charts for the FM ambient radio programs, Secret Music, Stars End, and Morning Fog among others. Dan’s Cd, "Solar Nexus", was named one of the top ten Cd’s reviewed in 2006 on the ambient music review webzine, "Melliflua."
Intergalactic pulses and atmospheric synth sound worlds collide in this hypnotic, mesmerizing space voyage. Repetitive loops of electronics and hyper gamma pulses. Instrumental, Electronic Music, Experimental
Pulsating bass pulses, Native American Flute, and atmospheric synth sound worlds make up this. Hypnotic, spacious, dreamy, ethereal. Good for nature docs, travel scenes, space, oceanic scenes or a variey of dramatic visuals. Instrumental, New Age Music, Ethnic Fusion
Low breathing drone with theramin type whistle synth, piano accents and subtle arrpegiating looping pulse make for this meditative, atmospheric piece.
Good for nature, or scenes of space, deep ocean or many emotive dramatic visuals and scenes. Instrumental, New Age Music, Atmospheres
Swirling, spiraling synthetic waves drift and soar along with atmospheric synths and distant didgeridoo. Intergalactic time warp space music. Instrumental, Electronic Music, Experimental
Obscure piece with fast percolating synth glitch pulses, spacious atmospheric sound world happenings and deep bass pulse. Mood is threatening, eerie, unsettling, mysterious, tense but all in a subtle way. Strange yet hypnotic.
Good for sci-fi, nature docs, scenes of strange creatures, space visuals, Instrumental, Electronic Music, Experimental
Spacious, swirling drone textures meet with distant, deep bass pulses, atmospheric sound world creations, and a subtle, chirping type rhythm track.
Very other worldly. Good for nature docs, scenes of expanse and space, moody, dramatic sci-fi, or anything that requires a slight edgy tension emotion, Instrumental, Electronic Music, Ambient
Trippy, mysterious and strange undercurrent piece with looping electronics, swirling textures, and psychedelic happenings. Good for bizarre nature scenes or disturbing , tension Halloween type visuals. Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Production | Mysterious Music
Slow, atmospheric, spacious drone with theramin type whistle synth, and accenting piano are heard in this very deep space type of floating new age ambient piece. Instrumental, New Age Music, Space
Fast paced, busy, up-lifting electronic piece...sounds like Tangerine Dream. Hyper groove with layering/weaving percolating synth arppegiation and warm textures. Didgeridoo adds a shamanic flavor.
Good for Nature or or scenes of movement, wheels, train, car-driving etcc... Electronic Music, Progressive Electronic
Long fade in reveals the medicine bag contents. Fiery ethnic/tribal percussion, deep droning soundworlds, didgeridoo, shamanic vocal chants and Lakota Red Hawk flute. Perfect for nature docs, cultural, mysterious, jungle, fire dance atmosphere. Trance inducing, smokey, exotic. Pacific Islands, Australian Music
More mysterious, surreal and expansive than beautiful as far as meditation music goes. Shamanic vocal chant loop is heard with tibetan singing bowls, frame drum and obscure but trance inducing synth soundworlds. Would work well in mysteries, sci-fi, docs, nature, even scary/horror scenes. Exotic, New Age Music, Meditation
although dark and brooding, this ambient electronic, new age work is meditative and hypnotic as well. Spacious and cinematic, this would work with mysteries, docs, nature, drama, and history scenes. Atmospheric textures weave with intricate arpeggiations and shamanic vocal chants. Dramatic Music, Production | Dark Music
Star gazing, meteor shower watching type atmosphere. Slow breathing, expanding pads and chords layered with intricate cold weaves of light refracting. Good for any science, nature, travel, underwater or space scenes/concepts. New Age Music, Atmospheres
Percolating, repetative inter-weaving synths make for this quiet tension type piece. Very mechanical, yet spacious and moody. Dark, mysterious, ethereal, other worldy sci-fi scenes. Planetary, meteor celestial scenes or many other nature visuals would benefit, Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Production | Electronic Music
Flowing swirling soundcurrent with new age bells and pads with angelic voices and Native Ameican Flute calls.
Perfect for nature, space/stars, celestial, angel, flying type scenes. New Age Music, Atmospheres
Slow building electronic marching rhythm/bass track with dreamy, atmospheric analog soundworlds & synthesized voices make for this ethereal, feeling, passion filled stirring track. great as a final movie scene soundtrack as it has a feeling of loving resolve. Electronic Music, Ambient
After a slow build, this work has a military, desert, fire, dramatic, cinematic flavor to it. Artilary type drum track with swirling pads/chords/layers and also didgeridoo for primal sound make for a good opening soundtrack for many action visuals. Dramatic Music, Production | Action Music
Slow fade-in opens to a mysterious drone & rain. Soon, atmospheric soundworlds take off with Native American Lakota flute, ethnic tribal percussion, swirling synth pads, & gutteral shamanic voices. Primal, exotic, tense, surreal, ethereal, and hypnotic. Good 4 nature docs, cultural, history, travel, Instrumental, Americana Music, Native American music
Very atmospheric, dreamy work with dissonant chords and angelic voices in this haunting, serene piece. Spacious and open this would work well with many nature scenes or visuals of space, stars, celestial happenings. Mysterious, meditative, but somewhat dark and unsettling. Dramatic Music, Production | Mysterious Music
Starts with ethnic/tribal rhythm track. Gradually a dramatic soundworld unfolds with rich chord/pads, lush, spacious textures, and shamanic vocal chant calls. Very dreamy, ethereal and primal. good for Nature docs, history, travel, jungle, desert scenes. New Age Music, Ethnic Fusion
Ambient electronic new age piece with ethnic/tribal percussion and flute,
Electric guitar and spacious synth sound worlds. Mysterious, ethereal, exotic, erotic and lush. Perfect for scenes of nature, space, ocean, docs, mystery and dramas, New Age Music, New Age Electronic
Slow to build but very climactic is this Tangerine Dream / Vangelis like piece. Lush, mysterious, spacious synth soundworlds with electric piano accents, sequencer driven rhythm track and distant "wet" electric guitar. Good for chase scenes or moods of mystery, tension, climax. Edgy, primal & erotic, Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Production | Action Music
Beautiful atmospheric new age piece with textural synth pads and drones to make up this romantic, pastoral, sentimental, meditative music.
Good background for nature scenes (stars, planets, ocean depths) or adult drama/spiritual visuals. New Age Music, Atmospheres
Atmospheric new age, ambient electronic piece with mysterious arrpegiating synth, spacious, other worldy pads/layers, and deep droning undercurrent.
Dreamy, ethereal, surreal, mysterious, quiet tension, dark but hypnotic and meditative. Nature, space, stars, planets, ocean, docs, nature, science, New Age Music, Atmospheres
Sinister dark pad chords linger with atmospheric ambient electronics, a tribal-shamanic rhythm track, & mysterious voices and whispers. Exotic, erotic, sensual, sexy, ominous, looming, surreal, scary & tense yet hypnotic & meditative.
other worldy space aliens touching. Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Production | Dark Music
sci-fi type new age piece with swirling textures, strings, and heavenly spaces/atmospherees. hypnotic, dreamy,, ethereal, slightly mysterious and other worldly. Dramatic Music, Production | Calm Music
Mysterious, x-files typer piece with an ethnic quality. Pads, textures and atmospheres along with tribal frame drum pulses and shamanic vocal chants.
Dark, spacious, ominous but meditative and surreal. Dramatic Music, Production | Mysterious Music
Gritty, atmospheric, edgy ambient electronic tension piece. Starts with mysterious, serene pads, then drums, bass & electric guitar R added. Good 4 action, mystery, nature, sci-fi, thriller. Night driving chase scene visuals & more. Instrumental, Electronic Music, Ambient
Surreal, dreamy, atmospheric, hypnotic, atonal sound world with sensual flavor.
Modulating, swirling synth drones and tones with textural glides and lush, moody electronics. New Age Music, Atmospheres
Ambient atmosphere with atononal chord/pads, haunting didgeridoo and X-files type sounds.
Foreboding, shifting, somewhat suspenseful this dark ambient piece is perfect for a variety of soundtrack uses incl. drama, sci-fi, documentaries, mystery, goth, horror, thrillers etc. Dramatic Music, Production | Mysterious Music
Frankenstein meets the alien.
Starts with John Carpenter type bass pulse rhythmic loop. Very atmospheric. Then a tribal electronic rhythm track comes in. Added is electric guitar and didgeridoo. Becomes a primal/techno other worldy piece that ends with a bang. Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Halloween Horror Music
Dark, primal-shamanic, ambient electronic work with brooding, dissonant chords/pads, heavy tribal rhythm track, Native American Lakota Flute, sinister bass pulses, and atmoshperic electronics. Good 4 horror, mystery, drama, nature docs, sci-fi or anything dark and other worldly. Dramatic Music, Production | Dark Music
Expansive, spacious atmosphere. Slow moving mysterious, somewhat obscure, slow tension piece. A little meditative and serene, yet filled with ominous forebodence. Would work for any nature film or science fiction or scene where a slow subtle tension is needed. Dramatic Music, Production | Mysterious Music
Mournful, new age electronic piece meant for serene background with poignant moments.
Evokes moods of loss, love, beauty, spirtuality, grief, family and mourning. Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Production | Tragic Music
Slow moving, atmospheric, spacious soundworld soundtrack. Think th opening scene in Kill Bill at the old church in the desert country. Distant western type guitar with dark pads/strings and rattle snake type percussion accents. Good for western, desert, mystery, smokey hazy visuals, Electronic Music, Ambient
Space-age, new age atmosphere with percolating synth and airy pads make this meditative, nostalgic type piece.
Think longing and dreaming. See the ocean and the stars with this music. Instrumental, New Age Music, Atmospheres
ambient electronic atmosphere and sound world. Spacious, cavernous dense layers and textures make up this dreamy, hypnotic, other worldy piece.
Good for sci-fi, nature, docs, scenes of space and stars, planets. Instrumental, Electronic Music, Experimental
mysterious & ominous atmospheric soundscape with deep, dark drones/textures/chords/pads/layers of a surreal nature, booming distant drum pulses, shamanic vocal chants, & didgeridoo. Mystical, dreamy, disturbing, tense, hypnotic and meditative. Good for nature, cultural, mystery, sci-fi, or horror. Dramatic Music, Production | Mysterious Music
Ambient electronic, tribal/shamanic, new age piece with subtle rhythm groove, lush, atmospheric synth layers/pads, and shamanic vocals. Dreamy, mysterious, meditative, surreal, and serene. Would work with nature docs, anything tribal/shamanic, or cultural scenes, New Age Music, New Age Electronic
Dark, ambient, tribal/shamanic, electronic/organic piece with Taiko drum pulses and dense, textural atmospheres, Native American Flute, didgeridoo and other ethnic sounds and percussion. Very primal and surreal. Mysterious and ominous, Dramatic Music, Production | Dark Music
Dark, looming pads/chords & mysterious flute tones are met with a slow, steady primal rhythm track & thunderous undercurrent soundscape. Brooding, ominous, yet hypnotic, tranquil & somewhat meditative. Great for nature, docs, sci-fi, mystery, travel, night & planetary scenes. Atmospheric, spacious. Instrumental, Dramatic Music, Production | Contemplative Music
Swirling textures, percolating synths, and rhythmic drum track make this new age, corporate, industrial sound current/atmosphere.
Good for car commercial or spinning wheels of sorts. Electronic Music, Ambient
