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 Herway.

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's Survive.

In this episode, they break down how they made that main title theme.

Stranger Things was created by Matt and Ross Duffer, aka 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 Durg.

It's the closing track of our first full length.

The Duffers reached out through email.

It's what it'd been 2015.

It was out of the blue just a random email with some cool words in it.

Like Netflix, sci-fi, horror, Winona writer.

And are you interested in scoring it?

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