Invada Records present Stranger Things 5—Original Score from the Netflix Series, featuring music by two-time Grammy®-nominated and Emmy®-winning composers Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein.

Stranger Things 5 will be released as two volumes which include the original score to Season 5 as well as the music from the finale.

Music has been an integral component of the series from the first season when it set a perfectly vintage and sinister tone. Each season Dixon and Stein’s music has evolved with the show reflecting a deep connection with the lives of the characters and the ever more intense storylines.

In the annals of film and television, certain musical themes manage to transcend the moving image, memorable scores have the uncanny ability to sum up an epoch, an entire aesthetic.

Prolific Texan musicians Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein are responsible for a body of work that’s synonymous with the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, the supernatural everytown at the center of the Netflix hit Stranger Things.
But as the small town becomes the unlikely site for a supernatural battle within the hit series, Dixon and Stein’s soundscapes, too, have expanded in lockstep. In the meantime, Stein and Dixon compose music for feature films, documentary series, large-scale installations and play in the band S U R V I V E.

Working in the lineage of predecessors like John Carpenter and peers like Oneohtrix Point Never, Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein use a lifelong obsession with synthesizers and electronic music as a vehicle

TRACK LISTING

1. Holly The Heroic
2. Starr
3. Double How
4. Like I Could Fly
5. WSQK
6. We’re Friends, Good Friends
7. Preppers
8. With a Second to Spare
9. 8 Hours
10. Running to Lucas
11. Even Comes with a View
12. Mr. What’s It?
13. Will The Wizard
14. Mac-Z
15. Andy and his Goons
16. Eventually They’ll Get Bored
17. Barely Missed The Jugular
18. Too Many Names
19. Miller
20. Humvees
21. Another Crawl
22. Like a Sorcerer
23. Smoke Em if You Got Em
24. Keep Your Trap Shut
25. Wolfpack
26. Psychic Interrogation
27. Gooey Creamy Core
28. D.O.E.
29. Safety Lock
30. Engage
31. KK-GO
32. The Wall
33. Unrecognizable Carcass
34. Psionic Blast
35. Heavens to Betsy
36. pale brown mist
37. Situation: Not Great
38. Mist Engulfs the Lab
39. Red Lightning Scorches the Sky
40. Isolation Tank
41. Nosebleed
42. Camazotz Woods
43. Super Shredder
44. Red Portal Opens
45. Sisters
46. Never Forget
47. End Credits

Invada Records present Stranger Things 5—Original Score from the Netflix Series, featuring music by two-time Grammy®-nominated and Emmy®-winning composers Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein.

Stranger Things 5 will be released as two volumes which include the original score to Season 5 as well as the music from the finale.

Music has been an integral component of the series from the first season when it set a perfectly vintage and sinister tone. Each season Dixon and Stein’s music has evolved with the show reflecting a deep connection with the lives of the characters and the ever more intense storylines.

In the annals of film and television, certain musical themes manage to transcend the moving image, memorable scores have the uncanny ability to sum up an epoch, an entire aesthetic.

Prolific Texan musicians Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein are responsible for a body of work that’s synonymous with the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, the supernatural everytown at the center of the Netflix hit Stranger Things.

But as the small town becomes the unlikely site for a supernatural battle within the hit series, Dixon and Stein’s soundscapes, too, have expanded in lockstep. In the meantime, Stein and Dixon compose music for feature films, documentary series, large-scale installations and play in the band S U R V I V E.

Working in the lineage of predecessors like John Carpenter and peers like Oneohtrix Point Never, Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein use a lifelong obsession with synthesizers and electronic music as a vehicle for larger-than-life visions.

TRACK LISTING

1. Don’t Be a Stubborn Punk Ass Like You?
2. Hawkins Hitmakers
3. Hide in the Light
4. Karen’s Back
5. You Die, I Die
6. Chaotic Good, Chaotic Bad
7. Just Us and the Crickets
8. Life Has Been So Unfair To You
9. Map to a Secret Location
10. Telemetry Tracker
11. He’s Still Human
12. Operation Beanstalk
13. Move Worlds
14. Zone G1
15. Dead Wrong
16. Scorched Sky
17. The Tunnels
18. The Abyss
19. Turnbow Trap
20. November 6th 1983
21. The Order of the Black Hand
22. Shield Generator
23. Just a Memory
24. 50,000 Watts
25. Meet me at the X
26. Memory Go Round
27. Real Life Honest To God Sorcerer
28. Secret Government Program
29. Seeing in Technicolor
30. Evil Planet Descending
31. Shower of Black Blood
32. Fourth & Final Gate
33. Hiding in the Sky
34. Darkness Spread Around the World
35. Afraid To Look For You
36. A Love Supreme
37. She Has Corrupted Your Mind
38. Exotic Matter
39. Vessels
40. Darkside Of The Wall
41. Siege in Dimension X
42. I Don’t Like Girls
43. Make Sure This Never Happens Again
44. You are the Curse
45. New Numbers
46. Three Waterfalls
47. What’s on the other side of the wall?
48. I Need You to Believe in Me

‘Stranger Things 4 (Original Score From The Netflix Series)’ by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, is now available.

Split over two volumes - this is Volume 2.

“A pretty spectacular score from Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein” - Collider

“A stunningly creepy original score by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein” - Billboard

Score written, performed and produced by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein (‘Native Son’, ‘Valley Of The Boom’, ‘Spheres’, ‘Butterfly’, and their band S U R V I V E).

‘Stranger Things’ has won seven Emmy Awards, and has been nominated for 216 various awards, with 77 wins.

Starring Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers), David Harbour (Sheriff Jim Hopper), Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler), Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin Henderson), among many others

‘Stranger Things 4’ is Netflix’s most-viewed English language series of all time.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: You synth soundtrack fans are ALWAYS in safe hands with Dixon & Stein (aka Survive). With rich oscillator throbs and tense pads akimbo, it's yet another suite of perfectly manicured soundtrackery that's perfect for the series (obviously) and just as good on the home stereo. Lovely.

TRACK LISTING

A Proper Thump
Hiiiiiiiii
Still Dizzy
Reign Fire From Above
Religious American
Surf That Tasty Pie
Follow Me Into Death
Project Nina
Being Different
Undressing
I Want You To Watch
A Realm Unspoiled By Mankind
Four Gates
Sleeping Dracula
Praying Something Will Happen To me
Stained Glass Roses
One
Gates Of Kamchatka
Top Secret Location
You're The Heart
Sleepyhead
Skull Rock
Spellcaster
You Should Go East
Unfortunate Development
Slashing The Tires
Soteria
ELVIS CLONED BY ALIENS
[delicate, Intense Music Playing…]
Demogorgons In Tanks
The Cure
Patient Confidentiality
Stay Calm, Focus On The Game
It’s Time Max
All Evil Must Have A Home
Flashlights, Flashlights
You Have Already Lost

‘Stranger Things 4 (Original Score From The Netflix Series)’ by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, is now available.

Split over two volumes - this is Volume 1.

“A pretty spectacular score from Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein” - Collider

“A stunningly creepy original score by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein” - Billboard

Score written, performed and produced by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein (‘Native Son’, ‘Valley Of The Boom’, ‘Spheres’, ‘Butterfly’, and their band S U R V I V E).

‘Stranger Things’ has won seven Emmy Awards, and has been nominated for 216 various awards, with 77 wins.

Starring Winona Ryder (Joyce Byers), David Harbour (Sheriff Jim Hopper), Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler), Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven), Gaten Matarazzo (Dustin Henderson), among many others

‘Stranger Things 4’ is Netflix’s most-viewed English language series of all time.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: You synth soundtrack fans are ALWAYS in safe hands with Dixon & Stein (aka Survive). With rich oscillator throbs and tense pads akimbo, it's yet another suite of perfectly manicured soundtrackery that's perfect for the series (obviously) and just as good on the home stereo. Lovely.

TRACK LISTING

What's The Internet?
I Wouldn’t Remember Me Either.
Teens
Journalistic Instinct
100% Convinced
In The Closet (At Rink O Mania)
Does That Make Us Friends?
My Boobs Hurt.
Unambiguous True Love
Stuck In 1983
Hawkins National Lab
Hellfire Club
Buried Memories
Fancy Bomb
We Are Not Heroes
Nine Feet Tall
Hail Lord Vecna
Powerful Psychic Connection
Ruth, Nevada
Hellfire Isn’t A Cult
I Know What I Saw
Curfew
You’re Regressing Eleven
Letter To Willy
Palm Tree Delight
Musso
Brenner’s Little Pet
Mr. Fibbly
It’s Just A Clock, Right?
Welcome To Kamchatka
A Nightmare Far Worse
Caught A Body At The Munsen Trailer
A War Is Coming To Hawkins
The Elephant
Hurtling Towards A Gruesome Death
Barefoot In The Snow
Kills You In Your Dreams
The Shire Is Burning
Blood Balloons
Burning Baby
Mugshot
There Are Some Things Worse Than Ghosts...
A Memory Within A Memory

Grammy nominated ‘Stranger Things’ composers and S U R V I V E members Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein return to score three part British drama ‘Butterfly’.

Housed in a heavyweight spined sleeve and pressed on 180g black vinyl with digital download card included.

“We had just come off our first project that had established us as these retrosynth/80s producers, and we wanted to do something that helped get us out of that box,” Dixon and Stein said in a press release. “Obviously there are still synths being used, and coincidentally some of them are from the 80s, but hopefully this score won’t be received as such.”

The music to ‘Butterfly’ sustains Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein’s proclivity for locating humanism in their electronics. The signals they send have some sort of uncanny correlation with core feelings. More uncanny is their tonal grasp of what it is to be young and curious.

‘Butterfly’ is the story of 11-year-old Max who identifies as a girl and wants to live her life as Maxine. Her estranged parents Vicky and Stephen attempt to work out how best to cope with and support this huge life decision.

LP includes digital download code.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: AARGH. I always loved the throbbing synths and intense atmospheres in Dixon & Stein's work under their own names (soundtracking Stranger Things for example), and as 'Survive', but this soundtrack takes all of that oscillator knowledge and inject it with a healthy dose of hazy 80's reverie (despite their insistence to the contrary), all saturation and arps. Completely on-board.

TRACK LISTING

Butterfly
Blue Eyes
Taking In Lodgers
Daughters
Comfort
Just Make Up Your Mind
I Don't Know How Happy I Am Anymore
Accusations
School Troubles
Introducing Maxine
Cut Wrists
Tickle Gods
Dress Up
Mermaid
Arrested
Family
Maxine's Groove
Making The Choice
Interrogation
Truths
What Was The Point Of Me?
Dancing With The Girls
A Long Way To Go

‘Spheres’ is a celestially immersive experience focusing on the human connection with the cosmos - with music composed and performed by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein.

Written and directed by Eliza McNitt (‘Fistful of Stars’, ‘Without Fire’), ‘Spheres’ will be released on the Oculus Rift and is presented by City Lights and Protozoa Pictures. Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel are executive producers.

Grammy nominated Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein need no introduction as two of today’s most highly regarded film score composers, having worked on ‘Stranger Things’ series 1 and 2 and ‘Butterfly’, as well as being members of S U R V I V E.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Two D&S scores in one week?! This one is equally as excellent, but a little more geared towards the ambient end of the spectrum, with cavernous echoing reverb and subtly panned swirls of industrial machination, this is equally as superb as their previous work but considerably darker. A perfect flipside to the coin.

TRACK LISTING

Accretion Disk
Solar System
Ecliptic Planes
In The Dark
Birth Of A Star
Auroras
Cosmic Microwave Background
Burning Star Core
Uranus
Planetary Cruise
Black Holes Collide
Spheres
Gravitational Waves
Earth Song

Dixon and Stein return for the latest addition to their overwhelming spate of excellence over the past couple years. Following on from the first series waas never going to be easy for anyone involved, with it's 80's buddy-movie hauntology vibe being perfectly accentuated by Survive's less shadowy alter-ego on soundtrack duties, but series 2 has lived up to that expectation in every way. I know, that episode was pretty ridiculous, but you don't have to listen to it do you. 

We kick things off with the haunting melancholy beauty of 'Walkin In Hawkins', perfectly capturing the eerie ambience of the city streets after the discovery of an analogue hell, hidden behind a bit of your local school. It's a moment we're all familiar with i'm sure, but Dixon & Stein manage to make its duality seem alluring, pressing forwards with paddling apreggio's and swelling pads.  Pieces like 'Eulogy' and 'On The Bus' talking things slowly forwards, opening the filters into an edgy benzoed bliss.

As we move onwards, things shift from a resolved optimism, into the inevitable downturn of a threatened society, with pieces like 'Descent Into The Rift' and 'Escape' providing a darker edge to things, moving towards the inevitable crescentic audiovisual finale. It's a brilliant companion to the programme, and just as much a divine pleasure in it's own right. Impeccable. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Brilliant pulsing synths, eerie atmospheres and soaring, crackling pads. An equal amount of pastoral, suburban meanderings, and supernatural, hellish drive. Stunning stuff once again.

TRACK LISTING

Walkin In Hawkins
Home
Eulogy
On The Bus
Presumptuous
Eight Fifteen
The First Lie
Scars
I Can Save Them
Descent Into The Rift
Chicago
Looking For A Way Out
Birth / Rescue
In The Woods
Digging
Symptoms
Eggo In The Snow
Soldiers
Choices
Never Tell
She Wants Me To Find Her
Shouldn’t Have Lied
It’s A Trap
Crib
The Return
Escape
We Go Out Tonight
Connect The Dots
The Hub
On Edge
What Else Did You See?
Run
Levitation
To Be Continued