{"id":6326,"date":"2025-12-28T16:45:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T20:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/?p=6326"},"modified":"2025-12-28T16:45:39","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T20:45:39","slug":"podcast-978-stranger-things-music-2512-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/?p=6326","title":{"rendered":"Podcast #978 \u2013 \u201cStranger Things\u201d Music \u2013 2512.28"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.treksinscifi.com\/images\/tsf9782.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>For today, Vartok is back with another one of his annual end of the year show&#8217;s covering some cool music. Here are some words from the man himself on his brand-new guest spot to close out 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stranger_Things\">&#8220;<em>Stranger Things&#8221;<\/em><\/a> is a Netflix American science-fiction horror series created and written by identical brothers <strong>Matt and Ross Duffer<\/strong>, debuting July 15, 2016, and running through its final season in <strong>2025<\/strong>. \u00a0It follows a group of kids in 1980s Hawkins, Indiana, who confront government conspiracies and supernatural forces from an alternate dimension called the \u201cUpside Down.\u201d \u00a0Across <strong>five seasons &#8211; <\/strong>the story blends childhood friendship, coming-of-age themes, nostalgia, and cosmic horror.\u00a0 Central to the show\u2019s atmospheric tone is the unmistakable synth score by composers <strong>Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein<\/strong> of the band Survive, whose music pays homage to 1980s electronic and horror soundtracks and anchors emotional and suspenseful moments throughout the series.\u00a0 Treks in Sci-Fi guest podcaster Vartok provides a 47-minute summary of the music to Seasons 1 through 4 of the Music of Stranger Things providing example tracks and his analysis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big thanks as always to Vartok for another great podcast. I love this TV series and the music. Looking forward to the series finale on New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s all for this week. I&#8217;ll be back next weekend with my first show of 2026 as I close in on 1000 podcasts! Until next time Happy New Year to all and stay safe and well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can support the show on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/treksinscifi\">PATREON HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.treksinscifi.com\/podcasts\/TreksinSciFi_978_Stranger_Music.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For today, Vartok is back with another one of his annual end of the year show&#8217;s covering some cool music. Here are some words from the man himself on his brand-new guest spot to close out 2025. &#8220;Stranger Things&#8221; is a Netflix American science-fiction horror series created and written by identical brothers Matt and Ross [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6328,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6326\/revisions\/6328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/treksinscifi.com\/podcast_notes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}