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Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein have been doing this for a few years now as part of a group called Survive. If you love that Carpenter-esque stuff check their LP SURVIVE on Bandcamp:
https://mannequinrecords.bandcamp.com/track/a2-floating-cube
Thanks for posting this - not familiar with these fellows, but enjoying this music right now on Spotify!
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Jul 17, 2016 - 1:09 PM
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i got through an episode and a half and had to quit. I'm interested in the score, might be interested in a release, but everything about the show is tropes, without very much weight to them, then fleshed out to feel even emptier because apparently its okay to repeat -in essence- the same scenes over again if you need to pace for a tv series.
it's of a good enough standard that plenty of people will and should enjoy it, but if you're going to evoke E.T. and Close Encounters, and namedrop Poltergeist immediately, THE textbook examples of endearing family set-ups, then proceed to postpone the plot so you can spend way too much time falling short of those marks, then you've got me mildly annoyed.
Abrams had better skill with the kids in Super 8 (the main kid in ST is not a natural actor and it kinda sucks for the other two, who are good), he got the endearing part right, but even then it couldn't make up for how stale the film was at its core. Feels similar here.
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Jul 17, 2016 - 4:00 PM
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Love the show! I have two episodes to go and it might very well be the best acted 'hero kids' film/show I've ever seen.
Unfortunately, the score is quite possibly the most disappointing score I've heard in a long, long time. Sure, the synthy 80's vibe fits with the time but this is a show that desperately needed a classic, 80's thematic fully orchestral score with some synth colours.
If you look back at the 80's 'hero kids' movie, the scores are all (except for maybe Flight of the Navigator and The Russkies) thematic, big orchestral scores. E.T., Explorers, The Goonies, The Monster Squad... hell, even Mac and Me got a big score from Alan Silvestri.
And it's not so much the synths that bother me, it's the actual composition. It's not good at all. It's totally forgettable, droning, non-thematic, loop based music which is, for the lack of the better word, boring. I can't believe it took TWO guys to create this.
IMO, the producers dropped the ball on this one.
-Erik-
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Jul 17, 2016 - 4:52 PM
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I don't have Netflix, so will have to catch this on Blu Ray eventually.
The main title music is nice, but it kinda grinds my gears how it's "in" to have a synth score and go on about how it's like a Carpenter score, but, the actual score...isn't. People raved over the It Follows score, but...it doesn't hold a candle to most of Carpenter's stuff. Not to single that one out but...lemme single that one out 
The recent score to Cold In July however, was VERY much inspired by John Carpenter, and it works very well in the film.
And with respect to the composers , they say " we were just into synth ... what Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were doing for [David] Fincher" . Um, guys, I really hope that ain't your frame of reference for electronic scores. Damn, go get a copy of Thief or Sorcerer !
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Really like the show, but feel like someone should have put a gentle hand on Winona Ryder's military jacket-clad shoulder and said "what you did there, that's too much."
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Love the show! I have two episodes to go and it might very well be the best acted 'hero kids' film/show I've ever seen.
Unfortunately, the score is quite possibly the most disappointing score I've heard in a long, long time. Sure, the synthy 80's vibe fits with the time but this is a show that desperately needed a classic, 80's thematic fully orchestral score with some synth colours.
If you look back at the 80's 'hero kids' movie, the scores are all (except for maybe Flight of the Navigator and The Russkies) thematic, big orchestral scores. E.T., Explorers, The Goonies, The Monster Squad... hell, even Mac and Me got a big score from Alan Silvestri.
And it's not so much the synths that bother me, it's the actual composition. It's not good at all. It's totally forgettable, droning, non-thematic, loop based music which is, for the lack of the better word, boring. I can't believe it took TWO guys to create this.
IMO, the producers dropped the ball on this one.
-Erik-
Nope.
This is Stand By Me by way of Firestarter. The score is perfect. Pitch perfect. This is not ET or Monster Squad.
MV
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Love the show! I have two episodes to go and it might very well be the best acted 'hero kids' film/show I've ever seen.
Unfortunately, the score is quite possibly the most disappointing score I've heard in a long, long time. Sure, the synthy 80's vibe fits with the time but this is a show that desperately needed a classic, 80's thematic fully orchestral score with some synth colours.
If you look back at the 80's 'hero kids' movie, the scores are all (except for maybe Flight of the Navigator and The Russkies) thematic, big orchestral scores. E.T., Explorers, The Goonies, The Monster Squad... hell, even Mac and Me got a big score from Alan Silvestri.
And it's not so much the synths that bother me, it's the actual composition. It's not good at all. It's totally forgettable, droning, non-thematic, loop based music which is, for the lack of the better word, boring. I can't believe it took TWO guys to create this.
IMO, the producers dropped the ball on this one.
-Erik-
Nope.
This is Stand By Me by way of Firestarter. The score is perfect. Pitch perfect. This is not ET or Monster Squad.
MV
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