You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
This episode contains explicit language.
There's a Netflix original series called Dark that debuted in December 2017.
It's a German show, and I'm constantly recommending it to anyone who likes science fiction.
It's a really mysterious, mind-bending series with a tone that feels unique to me.
And a big part of that tone is announced every episode with the music in the show's opening title sequence.
It's the song Goodbye by German electronic artist Apparat.
Apparat is the solo project of Sasha Ring,
and this song actually came out years ago on his 2011 album The Devil's Walk.
Before it was used as the theme song for Dark,
It's been featured in a bunch of films and commercials.
The thing that really put it on the map was when the song was featured in the season four finale of Breaking Bad.
Vince Gilligan, who's the showrunner and the creator of Breaking Bad,
he described it as one of his favorite music moments in Breaking Bad up to that point.
That's Thomas Golovich.
I'm the music supervisor for Breaking Bad.
He's the person who placed the song in a crucial scene near the very end of the finale.
We knew that we wanted something that had a grand quality to it and an epic quality to it.