Listen "Stranger Synths"
Episode Synopsis
I'm
sure by now that most of you have seen or heard about the TV show
"Stranger Things" on Netflix. If you haven't seen it, definitely check
it out. It totally rips off Close Encounters, ET, Poltergeist, Stand By
Me, Firestarter, etc. but it doesn't matter because it's ripping them
off in a loving way.
The same is true for the
soundtrack. It's got a great analog synth sound reminiscent of
Tangerine Dream and John Carpenter soundtracks. The minute I heard the
Stranger Things theme I knew I had to make a mix featuring the new retro
sound.
Even though the music in this mix sounds like
it's from the 70s or 80s all of it is new, with most cuts being from
2015 & 2016. In addition to the Stranger Things theme I of
course had to include the Tangerine Dream remix of it. Thanks to Mike of
Ambient Music Guide
for the heads up on the soundtrack from Halt & Catch Fire by
Paul Haslinger. It's fantastic! Another soundtrack that made it's way
into the mix is from Mac Quayle music for Mr. Robot - more analog
loveliness.
I hope everyone enjoys the mix, I know had a ball putting it together.
Cheers!
T R A C K L I S T:
00:00 Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Stranger Things
01:04 Tangerine Dream - Stranger Things Theme Remix
03:17 Harry Gregson-Williams - Hexadecimals
05:30 Paul Haslinger - Macmillan Utility
06:55 Pye Corner Audio - Approach
08:40 John Carpenter - Utopian Façade
12:04 Mac Quayle - trustyourself
15:15 Prins Thomas - B
22:30 The Analog Roland Orchestra - Lay Down
24:36 20SIX Hundred - Collapse of Classical Reality
27:07 Panabrite - Sunlight Dive
29:33 Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Hanging Lights
30:48 Nonkeen - Happy Juno
33:15 Paul Haslinger - A Wolf in Unix
34:21 Jean Michel Jarre - The Heart of the Noise
36:54 Mac Quayle - m0rphine
38:40 Pye Corner Audio - Vorsicht
41:02 Cliff Martinez - Son of Placenta Previa
43:15 Qluster - von weiter ferne ganz nah
49:45 Pye Corner Audio - Sleep Chamber
52:00 Bop - Odd Meaning
55:21 Panabrite - Dune
59:15 Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein - Cops are Good at Finding
60:12 Paul Haslinger - It Speaks
64:15 end
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