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Most of its ethereal electronic-pop score was composed by Cliff Martinez, past drummer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, whose ambient work on the Sex, Lies, and Videotape soundtrack Refn was a particular fan of. The score contains tracks with vintage keyboards and bluntly descriptive titles. Refn wanted electronic music for the film and to have the music occasionally be abstract so viewers can see things from The Driver's perspective. He gave composer Martinez a sampling of songs he liked and asked Martinez to emulate the sound, resulting in "a kind of retro, 80ish, synthesizer europop". Editor Matt Newman suggested Drive's opening credits song – "Nightcall" by French electronic musician Kavinsky. Two modified songs from The Social Network soundtrack, written and produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are used in the movie. They are not credited in the movie and not included on the released soundtrack. One is a piano-less version of "Hand Covers Bruise". The other is "3:14 Every Night". Brian Eno's "Ascent (An Ending)" is also used periodically during scenes between Ryan Gosling and Carey Muligan. As Winding Refn was going through mixer Johnny Jewel's catalog, he picked out "Under Your Spell" and "A Real Hero" because he thought of Drive being a fairytale. During Drive's climax, "A Real Hero"'s keynote melody, about becoming "a real human being, and a real hero", refrains because that is when The Driver changes into both those statuses'. At first, Jewel worried that the latte
