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Feb. 25, 2025

Synthpop Symphony 263 Electropop Retro New Wave Synthpop Synthwave and DJ Matt D!

Synthpop Symphony 263 Electropop Retro New Wave Synthpop Synthwave and DJ Matt D!

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Get ready for an electrifying episode of Synthpop Symphony! This week, Episode 263 brings you brand-new music from Olly Alexander, who teams up with synthpop legend Vince Clarke of Erasure, alongside fresh tracks from Simple Minds, Silverhook & Elliott, Torul, Hollywood Brown, AlimkhanOVA, Noemi Aurora, Tonoso, and Imbermind. Plus, I’m spinning timeless classics from Kon Kan, Shubostar & Terr, and Cause and Effect.

For this week’s ’80s Retro Mini-Mix—which isn’t so mini—I’ve packed in 25 minutes of nonstop energy! Kicking off with a rare gem from Colm III, the mix powers through remixed classics from Information Society, Talk Talk, Pet Shop Boys, and New Order, all with a Dominatrix Remix twist.

Then, in the second hour, DJ Matt D takes over with Underground Lounge 2025, delivering a guest mix packed with deep, dark synthpop and Italo beats—guaranteed to transport you straight to the heart of the dancefloor.

Don’t miss it! 🎶✨


Tracklist:
Kon Kan & Machine X-I Beg Your Pardon [Atlantic]

Silverhook & Elliot-Like a Flame [Amour Records]

Shubostar & Terr-Strange New World [Live at Robert Johnson]

Olly Alexander & Vince Clarke-Make Me a Man [Polydor]

Torul-Just Go [Infacted Records]

Cause & Effect-Goodbye Horses [Nasty Mix Records]

Colm III- You Take Me HIgh (Mansion Mix) [Indie]

Information Society-What’s on Your Mind (DMX Remix) [Tommy Boy]

New Order-True Faith (DMX Remix) [Factory]

Pet Shop Boys-It’s a Sin (DMX Remix) [Parlophone]

OMD-Maid of Orleans (DMX Remix) [Virgin]

Talk Talk-Talk Talk (DMX Remix) [EMI]

Hollywood Brown-Heaven Help Me [Filo FX Records]

AlimkhanOV A-Run Away (Long Version) [Italo Box Records]

Noemi Aurora-Malicious Logic [Spleen + Records]

Tonoso-Fairytail [Indie]

Simple Minds-Your Name in Lights (Pyramid Music Mix) [Virgin]

Imbermind-Imbernation [Indie]

Matt D- Underground Lounge Mix 2025 [Indie]

AFFKT-Jastem (Phunkadelica Remix) [Sincopat]

Rebrn-Underwater (Extended Mix) [Generation Hex]

Local Suicide-Moustache (Andre VII Mix) [Iptamenos Disco Records]

Rex The Dog-Do You Feel What I Feel (Original Mix) [Kompakt]

Royksopp-Breathe (Royksop Remix) [Dog Triumph/PIAS]

Phas3r- After Burner (Arkademode Remix) [Melopee Records]

Maur-Disco Tool (Extended Mix) [Tool Room]


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Synth Bob Symphony, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Welcome to Synth Pop Symphony. Playing the first new wave electronic. With your host, DJ Matt Williams.

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And then an hour two, I've got a special DJ guest mix with Matt D with his brand new Underground Lounge 2025 mix. Alright, let's get this show started right now with a classic from Con Can and Machine X. This is I beg your pardon on the home of Modern Electronics Dance Music, Scentpop Symphony.

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There once was a time and there once was a way. And when we're alone, since there's nothing to say. I bring out the topic, you push it away. But I think it's just you don't care. Why do I feel you're using me? Are we an item or we just do? I need some commitments, all I ask of you. Your lifestyle can change, don't be afraid what you think in store. I know what's on your mind, you've got lots to lose.

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What's there to choose?

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You won't get to be even though I'm with so much more. So think about it carefully. That's how you want it, that's how it'll be. There's no use in trying on making it seem. That love don't come easy. You don't know what it's about. You get things together, won't take any pain. Don't need to see here from you never again. You know it's your time that I'm now to find someone too.

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The very best in high-energy dance music only on Synth Pop Symphony Wake up in the land of gold We crystallize so heavy and all time is running still.

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We love to forget to feel we pretend We leave the end.

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We're starting to get the show all we're starting in the snow. We're dancing in despair, we're breathing in thick air, we're silenced by our fears, mixing the eyes with tears.

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We are snowballs, not melting by the sun. We're learning to obey as we raise our hands and pray for our freedom But we're tightening a chain.

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We gotta run away. Let's run away. We gotta run away. Let's run away.

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Keep changing all the rules till it's madness complete oblivion. There's nothing more to say. Now we are hunting for our brain.

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We are snowboards, no melting by the sun.

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We gotta run away. Let's run away. We gotta run away. Let's run away. Let's run away. You break them out, they will rise and go. They will rise and go.

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Bridge and screams from all the pride, only make it worse. You break them hard, they will rise and burst.

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They will rise and burst. They will have a price and come.

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That was also re-released as an edit, which you just heard in 2024. Also, Elliot and Silverhook, brand new with Like a Flame. That is the edit. There's also an extended remix out there. Fantastic. And Con Can and Machine X. Did I beg your pardon? That's from 1989's album called Move to Move. It's got a bunch of other good songs on there from Con Can as well. Next up, his former years and years frontman Ollie Alexander. His new album is called Hallari, and it's pretty great with everything from Hin Falk to a colour. The standout track is called Make Me a Man. It was written and co-produced and programmed by Vince Clark of Erasure. And not only that, but Vince also contributed to the guitars as well. So here it is, folks, brand new with Vince Clark and Oli Alexander with Make Me a Man right here on FinnFlop Symphony.

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The best new electronic dance music only on Synth Cop Symphony.

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Nothing to prove, nothing to lose. What it would mean, you let it happen. Making me wait, making me pray. He opened his eyes and looked up to the stars. Tell me, won't you feel this so in my heart? He's okay, you keep a secret, you know the way I'm feeling. Won't you make me a man? When I wake up in the morning, will you have something for me?

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Won't you make me a man waiting for love?

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I listened to you cry Ready for tonight. How I make him flesh and bone. All that you wanted, all that you wanted It will be no He said, can you keep a sequence you know how feeling? In the morning, do you have a thing for me? Won't you make me a man? Can you keep a sequence in the hell feeling?

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Do you have me?

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Won't you hate me a man?

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Synth Pop Symphony record of the week.

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This is Tarole, brand new with Just Go off their new album, Superposition.

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I'm eating lows the show. I'm feeling bored.

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I wanna fall down from the sky into the snow.

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Not feeling low. Let's take a blow. You try to raise my mind with a thread. You're going to go.

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With no control.

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I have to know. Soon I just fall down from the sky to be unknown. I'm over toe. I've got my clothes. I'm gonna run ahead and miss the show.

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I see you. I see it come. I see it go. He said, all things pass into the night. That's it. Oh no, sir. I must say you're wrong. I must disagree. Oh no, sir. I must say you're wrong. I've seen it all before. I've been there. I've seen my hopes and dreams alight on the ground. I've seen the sky just begin to fall. He said, All things pass into the night. That's it. Oh no, sir. I must say wrong. I must disagree. Oh no, sir. I must say wrong.

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Before that, amazing new music from Troll with Just Go, and that is off their brand new album called Super Position that just dropped this week, and that track earns the track of the week. Incredible. And I started the set with the new Vince Clark produced track, Make Me a Man by Ollie Alexander. Next up, it's time to get into the mix, and I'm going to be playing the first track from a band called Cole 3, who released this track in 1987, which became a huge underground classic in the early 90s from a San Francisco DJ named Yano, who played this track back to back with other house tracks of the time in San Francisco. This song is also featured in a new documentary film about the 90s house scene called Between the Beasts, which is available now on all streaming platforms, and I highly recommend it. So I'll be starting with that with Take Me High by Comb 3, and then I'm going to continue in the mix with Information Society, New Order, Home Dad Boys, and Talk Talk. It's all in the mix right now with Home 3, and you Take Me High, the Mansion Mix on Hip Hop Simphony.

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I want the bow. I've got another I don't care with my hands in the morning. I used to think that's wind, but I want to bring the big death I used to think that I want to play with my buttons, with small buttons on to me Now that we want to get up one big thing, we pop it. I've done that, no, you take that. Now I think that means that I will let I used to think that the time I bring it up, my mind, I must have I used to think that I like I used to take that one every point when you try to play back I used to take that one

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Yeah, they don't want to cut the head in the week.

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The sound of the past combined with the sounds of the future, only on Synth Fox Symphony.

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I try not to try it. Whatever you told me, I didn't believe it. Why do you follow me? Because I've been to care. I've always been the one to blame For everything I want to do.

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No matter when I went on to me in the common two.

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It's up, it's up, it's up, it's the same.

unknown

It's the same Everything I ever done, everything I ever do, everybody I ever made, everybody I do, it's a sin. So you and force I would be quite like sea for everything I want to do. That's one thing that I want to, it's a sin, it's a sin.

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Everything I gotta do, everything I gotta do, everything I forget, everyone I went to It's a sin, all forgive me. I tried not to do it to know what I knew then so I threw it. Whatever you taught me, I didn't believe it. Why you told me? Cause I didn't care and I still don't understand my life.

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I've always been on so lame for everything I want to do. Everything everything, it's a sale, it's fun, it's fun, it's a very good idea.

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What did I tell you before I went out? Anxiety was bringing me up I'm tired of listening to you attacking on rugs. Twisting will make me think you straight down the line. I am reading this, tie, taut, I think it's time, ta, I think it's time If ever said what I see, it's coming in. Tell them I'm a fool when you can hear. All you wanna do is tell me your lies, don't you the other side? You just win still a time. I do miss time. I do miss time. Don't you ever stop to think you're gonna be? I'm not that promise. See that you can cheat on me. I see you when you dwell, we all know you. I see you when you live, we all know. I see you when you twel, I'm just taught to miss time, taunt, I think it's tough, I'm gonna be taught, I just want to be used to be a little bit more than a lot of money.

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Alright, you just heard all dominatrix remixes in the mix. That was hard, talk, talk, talk before that was interesting by Henry Boy. This is a green full heaven helping from Hollywood ground, right here.

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Did you have a school? What I just don't like that's gonna start me.

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Experience it with Matt Williams on Cin Pop Symphony.

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Your life has to reach point of knowledge It's time just to run all the things with a fire I give you my love and you'll try and make it turn, make it turn. Come back here, we can run around. Take my head on it for sick. Come with me, make it back instead of staying. Don't you know I was hiding Your mind had to choose how the man's life I had all my feelings and no one looking finding Trust, trust me, my faith never break us apart, break apart Come grab me, we can run away Take my sake Come back me, make a badest bad state, got a lot of way to love it. Come with me, we can run away, run away with my head come on it, just say Come with me, make it mad as the brothers do not just make no run away. Step to the light that ran away. There is a gun to stay. We gotta make no run away. Step to the light that ran away.

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Stay connected with DJ Matt Williams on all podcasting platforms, including MixCloud, Apple Music Podcasts, TuneIn Radio, and Pandora for past shows and special DJ mixes I told my tell my dreams to a frequency from another world How did we, how did we make what we love those terrible Maybe time to dig up the sea Let's show that's guilty We look each other in the eyes on day Free down if it was just a interference all the wrong way So turn the baby God and chill The leech is logic as logic I'm the Sir Cause you buy critical voice on the Maria You try to see us but it's so much real So anti delight like a cry of sea So do we could be rolling the That was new music from Naomi Aurora I was just on her listening party last week for his brand new album called Kantsugi and I was just blown away by the production quality and the remixes.

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That was Malicious Logic, and that is on the new album, it's available now on Bandcamp. Also, Alan Kanoff, also brand new with a new Italo Disco track called Runaway. That was the long version. And we started the set with Hollywood Brown off his new album called Reverberator, and that was HeavenHelp Me. And don't forget, we've got DJ Mad D in the mix with his underground round 2025 mix featuring Dark Hand and Dark Italo tracks that are super fresh and super groovy. And also I announced last week the show now has a website at www.finhopinfany.com featuring all of these shows. Radio station listings and time. You can also reach out to me on my contact form there. I'm also on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and more. So please friendly there. And let's take the thin pop journey together each and every week. Let's get back into some incredible thin pop with Los Angeles Tonoso. Their 2022 album is called Artificial Dreams, and it's an album packed with one synthop gem after another. But there was one track that really stood out to me. It's called Fairy Tale, and there's also a great video for it as well on YouTube.

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I'm giving in a fairy days.

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You and I forever.

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You know that I met you. I know we would survive. Just you and I. You and I vers the worst. I can't control myself. I'm giving in to parent days.

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You can't stash well. I can defend myself.

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We're living in a very tale. When I met you, now it's what I'm being saying. Just you and I, you and I forever.

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You know what I met you.

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I know we want to die. Just you and I, you and I first worry now that I married you. Now think what it be to say. Just you and I, you and I know we're so fine.

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Just you and I was This is the brand new Simple Mind, your name and light, the pyramid mix.

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Was it something that you dreamed up? Something that you bring your naming lights always seem to be a bottle frame with your name lights.

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You need from the get-go, ridden in your plan. Lighting in a bottle no time for some rest. Never be a victim, never choose to lose. Standing at the crush for smoking for news.

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That must be both. And you never fail through live. So the break is the flight may end your bones. The love seems to be dance.

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Don't need more time to your ways.

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I have played the last three tracks from Ember Mind as they have been releasing the last three weeks, and this is called Ember Nation, which is their third single. Great stuff. Also, brand new Simple Mind with your name and lights. That is the official pyramid music mix. And Simple Mind is touring, and I've got my ticket. So do you and Tenoso also from Los Angeles with Fairy Tale. Alright, it's now time to get into the mix with DJ Magic. He's lined up a set of Dark Sand and Dark Halo tracks from Right Skyer from a Hello Label record. And the singles have been getting a lot of airplay and many of our mixes.

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You're in the mix on Synth Pop Symphony with DJ Matty on Synth Pop Symphony.

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I know the love of my head, I'm on the water. I've got the love for my head. I've never wanted some of the hat, eat on the light. I lose your massage.

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I think I have a crush.

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You lose it so meeting I really suspect I want you all for me. You don't stand me. That's how you let me let me know.

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I think I have a crush.

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You lose some meat. Your moves are so smooth. He only does for blues.

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I want you all for me Your mustache and me.

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You're in the mix on Synth Bob Symphony with DJ Matsy on Synth Bob Symphony.

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I don't want a snap. If that's what I say, I don't want a car. Don't jump when I say it's not what I want.

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I'm one of the people they never agree.

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I'm one of the people and never agree. Just a teeth on able to fish.

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Playing the best electrodes on Simply and the best remixes only on Simplong Symphony.

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And I'll see you next week right here on Synth Pop Symphony.

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You are signing off Synpop Symphony with DJ Matt Williams.