![]() ![]() That was pretty fun, to be cut off and then get totally ransacked by everybody I know.” “I came back to town and my cell phone had, like, melted when I got reception again. “It came out Friday and I left town Friday and was without cell phone service,” he says. Speaking on the phone from Portland, OR, Dixon says he went camping last weekend, leaving on the same day that the show debuted. ” For “Stranger Things,” the Duffer Brothers hired Dixon and Stein to write all original music.ĭixon and Stein have been on the road since “Stranger Things” came out and the immediate fandom is throwing them for a loop. But they didn’t land their first Hollywood opportunity until they were approached about licensing two songs off their eponymous full-length record for the 2014 thriller “The Guest. Their music already contains a bold cinematic quality, their records pulsing with droning hums and glitchy outbursts over layers of icy melodies. ” The Austin-based musicians have turned their longtime love for Tangerine Dream and John Carpenter scores into a burgeoning new soundtrack career.Īs Survive, the duo has been bringing moody synth soundscapes to life since 2008. it set the whole mood for the show and immediately made it clear we were watching something different” and “The synth WAS the movie. There’s already a Reddit thread dedicated to the “Stranger Things” original soundtrack, and older posts on Survive’s Facebook page are littered with new testimonials about the show, while the Facebook page for “ Stranger Things ” contains raves like “ You just killed it with that synth score …. As a result, they now have an avid social media following posting about their work. Dixon and Stein wrote the spectral theme song and the show’s spine-chilling synth score. But the musicians who really set the tone for “Stranger Things” are Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein of the synth band Survive. The Clash’s “Should I Stay or Should I Go” is a repeated theme here, and other nuggets such as New Order’s “Elegia” and Modern English’s “I Melt with You” encapsulate key scenes. Watching “Stranger Things” immerses you in the sounds and the soundtracks of the ‘80s. They do this narratively (with winking nods to things like “Tales from the Darkside,” “E.T.,” “Poltergeist,” “The Goonies,” “Aliens,” “Altered States” and “Under the Skin ,” as well as with actors Winona Ryder, Matthew Modine and River Phoenix doppelgänger Charlie Heaton ), but they also really nailed their musical references. But it’s also a noteworthy series because twin showrunners the Duffer Brothers effortlessly disperse so many clever meta references throughout each episode. I gorged on all eight episodes in two days after its July 15 release, in part because the show - about the odd disappearance of a little boy and the discovery of a suspicious government lab, slimy creatures and a stoic little girl in a small Indiana town in 1983 - is riddled with cliffhangers. Netflix’s new streaming series “Stranger Things” is a fantastic voyage through ‘80s sci-fi, horror, teen romance and paranormal tropes. ![]()
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