{"id":151204,"date":"2025-11-25T18:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=151204"},"modified":"2025-11-25T18:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T00:42:10","slug":"stranger-things-theme-on-the-banjosynth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/11\/25\/stranger-things-theme-on-the-banjosynth\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things Theme On The BanjoSynth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stranger Things Theme on the BanjoSynth #strangerthings #synth #electronicmusic\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p_MDh0GZ-iw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In celebration of the debut of <strong>Stranger Things Season 5<\/strong> &#8211; the final season of Netflix&#8217;s retro sci fi hit &#8211; F<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@foggymountainspaceship\">oggy Mountain Spaceship<\/a> shared this banjo synth cover of the now-classic <em>Stranger Things Theme<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stranger Things<\/strong> originally debuted in 2016, and features an electronic score by composers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2018\/06\/17\/kyle-dixon-michael-stein-on-scoring-stranger-things\/\">Kyle Dixon &amp; Michael Stein<\/a>. The score takes inspiration from the synth-heavy &#8217;80s soundtracks of John Carpenter, Tangerine Dream and others.<\/p>\n<p>The performance is played on the <strong>BanjoSynth Model 1<\/strong> (BS-1), an original design created\u00a0by <strong>Kyle Ussery<\/strong> in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of the debut of Stranger Things Season 5, here&#8217;s a banjo synth cover of the now-classic Stranger Things Theme.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2025\/11\/25\/stranger-things-theme-on-the-banjosynth\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stranger Things Theme On The BanjoSynth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,40,29,25],"tags":[1337,31380],"class_list":["post-151204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronic-instruments","category-music-videos","category-strange","category-synthesizers","tag-strange-musical-instruments","tag-stranger-things"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/stranger-things-logo-e1469809796642.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151276,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151204\/revisions\/151276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}