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Matt Williams Synthpop Symphony 299 HALLOWEEN SPOOKY 2025 SHOW!! Electropop Synthpop Synthwave + Spooky Mixes!

Matt Williams Synthpop Symphony 299 HALLOWEEN SPOOKY 2025 SHOW!! Electropop Synthpop Synthwave + Spooky Mixes!

🎃 Synthpop Symphony 299 – The Halloween Show! 👻 It’s that time of year again This week’s episode is packed with chilling remixes, cinematic reworks, and retro club anthems that blend classic 80s nostalgia with modern darkwave energy — the perfect soundtrack for your Halloween weekend. 🕯️ We open with a Halloween Mini-Mix featuring De Soffer’s stunning cinematic remake of “Thriller”, Rockwell’s eerie classic “Somebody’s Watching Me,” and a deep remix of Dave Gahan & Soulsavers — setting th...

🎃 Synthpop Symphony 299 – The Halloween Show! 👻

It’s that time of year again

This week’s episode is packed with chilling remixes, cinematic reworks, and retro club anthems that blend classic 80s nostalgia with modern darkwave energy — the perfect soundtrack for your Halloween weekend.

🕯️ We open with a Halloween Mini-Mix featuring De Soffer’s stunning cinematic remake of “Thriller”, Rockwell’s eerie classic “Somebody’s Watching Me,” and a deep remix of Dave Gahan & Soulsavers — setting the perfect tone for what’s to come.

👁️‍🗨️ Later, we bring Thriller back in a whole new light — a dark, futuristic Scandroid remix that transforms the classic into a modern synthwave storm. Two versions, two moods — both unforgettable.

💀 The second Mini-Mix dives into full retro horror mode with extended club cuts from Oingo Boingo, Ramones, and A Flock of Seagulls — resurrecting three icons of 80s Halloween energy.

🌑 The Dark Synth Set pulses with today’s underground power — Blaklight, Church Fire, KMFDM, and Jay Wires deliver haunting vocals, moody textures, and industrial beats that define the new dark generation.

🌕 And to close the night… DJ Robert Anthony’s “Spooky Nights Like This” takes us into the after-hours with a cinematic, atmospheric finale that perfectly captures the Halloween spirit.


Halloween Show Playlist

De Soffer – Thriller [De Soffer Music]

Rockwell – Someone’s Watching Me (Ministry of Funk Disco Mix) [Motown / Ministry of Funk]

Dave Gahan & Soulsavers – All of This and Nothing (Remix) [Columbia / Mute]

Fun Spooky Tunes

Scandroid – Thriller [FiXT Neon]

Dead or Alive – Something in My House [Epic Records]

Machine X – Every Day Is Halloween [Independent]

Blaklight – Paranoid (Klack Mix) [Independent / DISTORTION Productions]

Mini-Mix

Oingo Boingo – Dead Man’s Party (Extended Mix) [MCA Records]

Ramones – Pet Sematary (Extended Mix) [Sire Records]

A Flock of Seagulls – Nightmares (Extended Mix) [Jive / BMG]

Spooky Dark Tunes

Duran Duran – Psycho Killer [BMG]

KMFDM – Lust [Metropolis Records]

Church Fire with Curse Mackey – Small Seed [Negative Gain Productions]

Jay Wires – Ghost [Independent]

Happy Death – All of Me [Independent]

Spooky Nights Like This - DJ Robert Anthony

Vince Clarke – White Rabbit [Mute Records]

Depeche Mode – My Favourite Stranger (Boris Remix) [Columbia / Mute]

Candyland – La French Toast & Julian Sanza [Spirit Soul Records]

Kraftwerk – Radioactivity (SNYL Remix) [Kling Klang / SNYL Edit]

Thorn – Damon Jee [Correspondant Records]

Bonnie Spacey – Guilty [Independent]

Underworld – And the Color Red (Rebuke Remix) [Smith Hyde Productions / Rebuke Edit]

Armonique – Bad Talk [HouseU Records]

Jake Shears – Too Much Music (Lauer Remix) [Mute / Boys Noize Records]

SNYL – Ghosts of the Dark Room [SNYL Records]

Darlyn Vlys – Shivers [Polymath Records]

Machinegewehr – Sans [Bordello A Parigi]

Sasha – Fused [Last Night On Earth]


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Welcome to Halloween 2025. We're diving straight into the mix tonight with three dark and spooky tracks from Dave Gahan of Dehesh Mode. Rockwell and this incredible gym from Michael Jackson. This is Thriller, the Sofa Remix right here on Synpop Symphony Halloween special, episode 299.

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And grizzly goose from every tomb are closing in to seal your doom. And though you fight to stay alive, your body starts to shiver. For no mere mortal can resist the evil of the forever.

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I call it just a tree, I call it the five. I call it feeling.

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I don't think that's the five.

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I call it the five, tell me, just the two I call it be a man, I think. I call it be a fan. I call it be a man, it's fine.

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Only pop and sing your song for me.

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Your home for new wave, electrode pop, dark wave, and high-energy electronic dance music from the 80s to today, with your host, DJ Matt Williams.

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Welcome to a very spooky Halloween episode of Synth Pop Symphony, playing the best in dark, spooky synthpop, a new wave ghoulish musical delight from the 80s until today. I'm your host, Matt Williams, and I put together two hours of really, really fun for you. I've got Dark Tunes tonight from Get Alive. Black Light with Machine X, Alex Brown, Kurt Fire with Kurt Magic, Doran, Duran, and more. The Remote Cemetery Extended Mix. And Nightmares by Lock of Feagles with the Extended Remix. And that's not enough. Second hour, Robert Anthony comes to you with spooky night like this. He's got all kinds of great stuff lined up in the mix for you, folks, in the second hour. Let's start the show with one of the best Halloween remakes in years. This is Scandroid with Thriller right here.

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Your body starts to shiver, resist It's close to midnight, something evil's looking in the dark.

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Under the moon light, see a sight that almost talks about me. But terror takes the sound before you make it You start free and overlook you right between the eyes.

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You're paralyzed, can't do it, and no one's gonna save you from the beast of bug strike. You know it's light You're fighting for your life inside of Hill, kill up to life You hear the door slam, realize there's nowhere left to run You feel a cold hand Wonder if you'll ever see the sun You close your eyes and know that this is just imagination Oh wow, oh wow You hear a creature creeping up behind You're at the time Computer There ain't no second chance for the eye So I'm fighting for your life inside up Hill up you feel more than he goes for let me hold you tight and tell her darkness falls across the land The midnight hour is close at hand Creatures crawl in search of blood to terrorize your neighborhood shall be found without the soul for getting down and face the house of hell And rise inside of close to shell The foul pitch is in the air The fog of 40,000 years And clearly go from every tomb Closing in to steal your tomb And throw you fight to stay alive Your body starts to give up For no immortal can resist the evil of the thriller Hi Georgie Well I'm Petty Wise beyond the dog The darkest day of horror the world has ever known everything about you Why can't I But you're not I'm all good It's four o'clock in the morning that time on my day It's a man's bang around the bedroom even No I know there's no one there I am here all by mass else when you're somewhere else when it's the one else else I am There is something that's not out It's just a dog something comes up I really gotta say it too, yeah. You showed me a good time I remember it be spent time with hours that I cry I have think about what might I mean if I'd never spent that wicked wheel it's a wee space at midnight on Hollow There is something in my house my house It's just a ghost of belong down there is something in my house my house I just keep appearing you run it But you're not there It's just a ghost of belonging There is something in my off my house But you're not dead double I like the double split I bite the double I bite the double I bite the double I am behold by myself Can you somewhere else with someone else I am being all with her love that isn't there is something in my house my house It's just a ghost of a long long dead of bear There is something in my house my house I just keep hearing you and I love my dear But you're not there It's just a ghost of a long long dead of bear There is something in my house my house But you're not there.

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So I wasn't me every day Halloween Halloween but the high started fighting bum bum bum bum bum in a time and a place everywhere that I go All the people seem to stop and scare They say why I dress and how are we You look so upset you look so upset Why can't I live like for me?

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Why should I say you said Why can't they see they just like me?

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It's the same, it's the same in love, I'm bum, back-ma-ba, bac, ma-bum, bac ma bum, bac ma bum, bac ma bum, bat ma bum that team I stay that you're dealing with someone who is all on the brain.

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Just to keep the metal in the same Bac ma bum, back my bum, back my bum, back my bum, back my bum, back my bum, back my bum.

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Why can't I live like on me? Why should I say you said, sir? Why can't they see it just like me?

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It's the same, it's the same, and I hope I'm gonna Why can't I ever like for me?

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Why should I take the specter? Why can't they see it just like me? I love the one that's so upset. Why I live? Why is it?

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That's the stuff you like, three titles, it's the same, it's the same, and I'm allowed to buy my things dark in the sky, I'll never get out.

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Everything's dark, even the sky, I'll never get out.

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They just let me alone. Everything's hard, even the sky, I'll never get out. Even the sky, in the sky, everything everything starts, everything everything starts, even the sky, even the sky, get out, all the girl.

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In this place, we go. It's a that's not the eyes. Can you hear me? I've been too done on my own. Are you every sign?

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Can you hear me at all?

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I've been too dark, we're home. Are you everyone like me?

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Why we alright? They just like me alone. Why we alright? They just let me alone. You can't fool me. I know you're in one.

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Why be alright?

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They just let me alone.

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If I have two is something, it's a bad team. When we try to go to something we are feeling, it's a bad thing.

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It's a bit there will be so much.

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Look into my eyes. Can you hear me? I've been too long on my low. Are you every like me? Do you see the sights? Can you hear me at all? I've been too long, we will know. Are you everyone like me?

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Never every right you are. Never know it like me.

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In the sky, every time you are never going like me.

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Can you give me?

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I am too long. I am never going like me. Do you see the sights?

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Can you give me a home? I mean too gonna be well. Are you paranoid? Are you everyone?

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Wow, what a great set to start our Halloween show. We just heard from Black Light with Paranoid. That was the clack mix. Before that, we had Machine X with the remake of Ministry's Everyday Halloween. We also had from 1986 something in my house from General Alive. That's mad and dangerous to know. And we started the show with a brand new hit from Android we actually played a few months ago called originally.

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Going to the party with no one who's still alive for the invitation to a ride going to the party with the wood still alive I was still fighting Walking down the street I was in a sound party who could ask for more Everybody's coming up to the toss the genome the game to ride the gentleman to the gym I have my best and my chance to lie to the shoot to the two by two This is the super maybe just one more I was so fast like this Walking down the street I was hit by something that's not in my sea It's deadless party Who could ask for more Everybody's coming at the store at the doorway is all the way what is to see It's all to me away What do you call it?

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I'm gonna be off the book with a steamboat. It's your gowls and wild nose. Come at the ground life making a stand. The smell of death is all around. And I've let the moment flow. No one can move by me more. I don't wanna be dead.

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In the bed for cemetery.

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I don't want to live my life with you. I don't wanna be dead.

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In the bed for cemetery. I don't wanna live my life with you. I'm a bit better to see it flare.

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The sea dream, I can't escape. More of the fans, but picking up the phones. I'm on the tombstones.

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And then I wanna move and fry. Some surprise for the red. I don't wanna be there. In the bed for sympathy. I don't want to live my life with you. I don't wanna be there. In the best sympathy. I don't want to live my life with you The mood full All of a sudden I feel like you find a way. And then I want the books and you can be there. I don't want to live my life. I don't want to be there. I don't want to live my life.

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But now it's different you are holding. There's no one here to hold your hand.

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Come on, it's gonna be under the veil joke.

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There's no one left to understand I make my friends.

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A fading dream, a fitness memory, a shooting star that had to fall.

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Alright, you just heard the first of our two Halloween mixes tonight. That was Flock of Seagulls, you just heard Nightmares before that. We had Ramones with Head Cemetery. And Wingo Blingo started the whole set with Dead and Party. Next up, we've got the brand new track from Durand Duran and Flico Killer, the Talking Head remake. So you definitely gotta check it out.

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Run run away Psycho Killer Up.

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Run run away You start a conversation, you can't even finish it.

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You're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed. You say something once, I say it again.

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Psycho killer, Kiss K-Fun Run, run, run, run, run, run away. Oh Psycho killer, Kiss Kissing, run, run, run, run, run, run away.

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Oh, ay, a couple of years.

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Jamais l'homme est la croix en fait. Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away. Oh, yeah.

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Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away.

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So I want a floor for eyes on him on the hell that's dirty, but even fest Light also I'm gonna tell you for best I don't want loses on my lip. Babies are mine's on my best, I wish that's the loss.

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I spent here before the kiss the sky on earth. Tell me your secret secret, the babies I might be.

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So don't you worry about these questions in my mind. How could you do this to the one who loved you most? Have you done months of calmity since stole my heart and never gave it back to me? Not for every since you threw away the key and ran away from all response to me.

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That is the Galactic Aura remix. Before that, we had Jay Wyers with his brand new spooky song called Ghost. Church Fire and Curse Mackey did Small Seed. KMFDM brought you lust from their Angst album in 2006. And Durand Duran, brand new, just came out today. Psycho Killer, the Talking Heads cover. Let's get into the spooky nights like this. He's got Vince Clark with the brand new White Rabbit off his brand new album. Depeche Mode with my favorite stranger. Brand new remix that just came out today. This is gonna be the Boris remix. We have a brand new mix from craft work of radioactivity, fused, thorn, bad talk, Jake Shears, and more. It's all coming up for the next hour with Robert Anthony's spooky nights like this. Let's get right into it.

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The very best in the mix of the Syncope Symphony.

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Oh broken bitter.

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Some perfect stranger, my emancipation drops my name, my conversation, some perfect stranger speaks when I speak, walks in my footsteps and talks in my sleep.

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Puts words in my mouth, all broken bitter.

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Some perfect stranger, my imitation, drops my name in my conversations. Some perfect stranger speaks when I speak, walks in my footsteps and talks in my sleep. Some perfect stranger, my imitation drops my name in my compensation. Some perfect stranger speaks when I speak.

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The best sip box, sip wave, electric bump, and the topic dump in the mix.

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But only to use me. You blamed me, but only you should worry. Do you feel sorry for feeding me lies? Now you've lost me. You should have been wise. You're guilty, look.

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You're guilty, look not free.

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But I'm in control. Do you feel sorry for feeding me lies? Now you've lost me. You should have been wise.

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You're guilty, you're guilty of being a fool, of being a fool.

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You're guilty, you're guilty, you're guilty, that I need control, that I need control.

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My eyes go crazy. My eyes go crazy. My eyes go crazy. My eyes go crazy.

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The next continues of Sis Pop Symphony.

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My eyes go crazy. My eyes go crazy. My eyes go crazy. My eyes go crazy. But you don't want to say that loud because you're kind of afraid that it's not going to be really true, and we'll spoil the whole thing for you, you know.

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But when somebody makes you say it, then it's true, then it just makes it more beautiful as well. Well, not, you know, not that. Well, how many times have you talked about the feeling?

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No, I don't want to hear about, I don't want to hear about about, you know, what makes it sound very clinical, like you so like it's so um well, if you talk this will be trying to pop it down, it's not that way at all. You can take it once, but never happened. You know, I really think this is the funny thing but if all the people that check out, you know, people that I remember have taken out like we can look out at the other people that have and they can they can tell us we're crazy. So we can say what you have to think because you're our thing that all of you are? Who are you?

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But you don't want to say it out loud because you're kind of afraid it's not going to be really true and I'll spoil the whole thing for you, you know. But when somebody makes you say it, then and it's true. Then it just makes it more beautiful. Well, not, you know, not like well, how many times have you taken it in on the feeling? No, I don't want to hear about, I don't want to hear about about, you know, it doesn't make it sound very clinical, like it's oh, like it's so um, well, if you take different types of people that it's not that way at all. You can take it once and never happen. You know, I really think this is a funny thing, but if if all the people that took acid, you know, the people that I know that have taken acid, we can look out at the other people that haven't. And they can they can tell us we're crazy, and we can say, well, you haven't seen anything yet.

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The sound of your past, the rhythm of your future.

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You get inside and maybe know something you know. But you don't want to say out loud because you're kind of afraid it's not gonna be really true, it'll throw the whole thing for you, you know? But when somebody makes you say it, then it's true. There, it just makes it more beautiful. Well, how many times have you changed, you know? Kind of healing, no, I don't want to hear about I don't want to hear about about, you know, it that makes it sound very clinical, like it's so like it's so um, well if you count this many times that it's not that way at all. You can take it once but never happen. You know, I really think this is a funny thing, but if if all the people that took at it, you know, the people that I know that have taken acid. We can look out at the other people that have it. And they can they can tell us crazy. And we can say, well, you haven't seen anything yet.

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Later in November, during Thanksgiving weekend, we'll have two incredible 100% in the mix episodes with nonstop music to keep you company while you're carving your turkey. So enjoy the holidays. We'll stay tuned, stay spooky, and we'll see you next week right here on Sinfob Symphony.

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You are signing off Sinfob Symphony with DJ Max Williams.