2017-10-27
11 分钟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.
The show Stranger Things is a Netflix original series.
The first season was released in July 2016.
Season 2's release date, October 27th, 2017.
After the first season, the show was nominated for 18 Emmys.
It won the Emmy for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music.
The theme music, along with the rest of the show's score,
was composed by Michael Stein and Kyle Dixon of the band Survive.
In this episode, they break down how they made that main title theme.
Stranger Things was created by Matt and Ross Duffer, a.k.a. the Duffer Brothers,
and the story begins with an email the Duffer Brothers sent to Michael and Kyle.
My name is Michael Stein.
I'm Kyle Dixon.
We are in a band called Survive,
and the Duffers reached out to us
because they used our music in a mop trailer when they were pitching the TV show.
The Duffers used a song called Dirge.
It's the closing track of our first full length.