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Sept. 1, 2025

Synthpop Symphony 290 Electropop Synthpop Synthwave + 80's & Matt Pop Megamix 2K25!!

Synthpop Symphony 290 Electropop Synthpop Synthwave + 80's & Matt Pop Megamix 2K25!!

Synthpop Symphony 290 Get ready for another incredible journey through the past, present, and future of synth-driven music on Synthpop Symphony 290! This week’s show features: ✨ A stunning new Depeche Mode Megamix by Mr. Harris ✨ A fresh Italo set with Roger Meno, Peter Wilson, and Sally Shapiro ✨ Classic 80s favorites reimagined by Rhythm Scholar, including Exposé, The Police, and Talking Heads Plus — brand-new remixes and retro-futuristic gems from Red Flag (2025 J Mix), Nicholias Rixon, an...

Synthpop Symphony 290

Get ready for another incredible journey through the past, present, and future of synth-driven music on Synthpop Symphony 290!

This week’s show features:

✨ A stunning new Depeche Mode Megamix by Mr. Harris

✨ A fresh Italo set with Roger Meno, Peter Wilson, and Sally Shapiro

✨ Classic 80s favorites reimagined by Rhythm Scholar, including Exposé, The Police, and Talking Heads

Plus — brand-new remixes and retro-futuristic gems from Red Flag (2025 J Mix), Nicholias Rixon, and Matt Williams himself makes a HI-NRG debut with Synthetic Saints, plus new FHE, and Sunset Wave.

✨ And to close it all out — the massive Matt Pop Megamix, refreshed for 2025, featuring Erasure, Ace of Base, Italove, Candy Apple Blue, Ross Alexander, Peter Wilson, and more!

It’s two hours of the best in synthpop, Italo, new wave, and electronic classics — only on

Synthpop Symphony.

Red FlagRussian Radio (2025 J Mix) [Plan B]

Synthetic SaintsAnthem for the Dancefloor (Produced by Matt Wiliams) [Independent]

Nicholias RixonMirabell (Blue Book Project Remix) [Retro Reverb Records]

Mr. HarrisDepeche Mode Megamix [Mashups & Megamixes]

FHEThe Calling [Indie]

Nik KershawThe Riddle (Rafael Gusti Remix 2025) [MCA]

Sunset WaveHighway [Synthwave Release – Label TBA]

Roger MenoTBA (Roubix Remix) [ZYX]

Peter WilsonTwo Hearts Collide [Energise Records?]

Sally ShapiroA Local Italo Disco DJ Has a Crush on Me [Paper Bag]

MINI MIX 80’s 290ExposéPoint of No Return (Rhythm Scholar Remix) [Arista / Rhythm Scholar]

The PoliceWrapped Around Your Finger (Rhythm Scholar Remix) [A&M / Rhythm Scholar]

Talking HeadsBurning Down the House (Rhythm Scholar Remix) [Sire / Rhythm Scholar]

Matt Pop Megamix (2023 refreshed for 2025) [Matt Pop Productions]

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Tonight on Synth Pop Symphony, get ready for a brand new depeche mode mega mix, a massive Map Pop Mega Mix, and a fresh 80s mini mix all coming your way tonight.

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Welcome to Synth Pop Symphony of Symphony. Playing the best new wave electropop, synth wave, italo disco, and high-energy electronic dance music from the 80s to today. With your host, DJ Matt Williams. Your dance music Odyssey starts now.

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Welcome to another edition of Synth Pop Symphony where the past, present, and future of synth-driven music come together. I'm your host, Matt Williams, and tonight I've got an incredible lineup, including a stunning new Depeche Mode Mega Mix, a fresh Italo set with Roger Mennow, Peter Wilson, and Sally Shapiro, plus some classic 80s favorites reimagined by Rhythm Scholar, including super remixes from Expose, The Police, and The Talking Heads for all you 80s fans out there. Then an hour two, we're gonna close it out with the Mat Pop Mega Mix. This was remastered and refreshed for 2025. And it features hits from Erasure, Ace of Bass, Peter Wilson, Ross Alexander, Breathe My Leaves, and so much more. And it's all served up only as Mat Pop can deliver. But first, I'm gonna kick things off with a brand new 2025 remix from JMix of Red Flags Russian Radio. We're also gonna have the debut of a brand new band to the show, The Synthetic Saints, and a gorgeous remix from Nicholas Rixen. Turn it up! Wherever you're listening around the world, this is Sinpop Symphony, episode 290.

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Sinpop Symphony. The past, present, and future of Sin Driven Music.

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It's on the ground. I have no voice. From ten thousand miles away, I have no choice. All love was meant to stay with or without. It's easy for me, without a doubt. As I spend my days searching for ways, love is overgo, so is radio, rushing radio. How will we ever believe you? Radio now that we've learned to deceive you. There is a sound bits on the ground Moving Abbott miles around. There is a sound bits on the ground.

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I hear a voice from 100 miles away.

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Getting so much closer every day. With no doubt, it's easy for me, without a doubt. As I spend my days searching for ways, love is overgo, so it's radio, rush and rail how we ever believe you rainio now that we've learned to see you down the doubt, but I don't know. Let's move without the words. With or without it's easy for us, without a doubt. As we spend our days searching for ways, love is all the go, so it's ready to go.

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Underneath the surface, evolution in this sky.

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The blue book project remix, and absolutely stunning, and you can find that on his brand new album. Again, his brand new album is called The Ravishing of Nicholas Rixon. It's available right now on Bandcamp. Also, before that, we had a brand new band here on Synthop Symphony called Synthetic Saints with their brand new debut single called Anthem for the Dance Floor, and that song was produced by me. And will be available on Bandcamp next Friday, August 29th. And we kicked off tonight's show with the amazing red flag with Russian radio, the brand new 2025 J Mix that was just released today. I told you earlier I had something special lined up, and that is the Pesh Mode Mega Mix. So why keep you waiting? Let's dive in right now on Synth Pop Symphony.

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The mix continues on Synth Pop Symphony.

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Don't you know the next room? Don't you know the next room?

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All I want to do is see All I wanna do is see the whole people, so why should it be? You I should get a lost so all the ring. People all people so why should it be? You I should get a lump so all the rings. So with different gold, and with different things, and different people, and different leaks.

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It's obvious to make me know I've done nothing wrong. I've never even met you, so what could I have done?

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There's another man, let me understand.

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You like should get a lot so all to me. You like should get a look so all to me. I do out of my hair, and I just can't get enough, I just can't get enough.

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All things you teach me and everything you say.

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I just can't get enough, I just can't get enough. We slip and fly that we fall in love, and I just can't see you get it.

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And when it greens your shining up to me, and I just can't get enough, I just can't get enough. Just like a rainbow, you know you settle free.

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I just can't get enough. I just can't get enough.

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I'm not going down on my knees, making you to adopt me. Don't you see it's deserved? Don't you follow me? When I misunderstood. Try as hard as you can.

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I tried as hard as I could to make you see. I'll be wanted it as for me.

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Nobody knows me.

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Understand. Understand. Understand. Understand.

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Words like violence, break the silence. Come crashing into my little world. Painful to me, it is right through me. Don't you understand? Oh my little girl. All ever once dead, whatever needed is here. It's my arms. Words are very unnecessary.

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Understand until demand compromise sometimes alight.

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The world's play, Master Service.

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That was the brand new Mr. Harris mashups and megamixes. His incredible new DePesh mode Megamix. Absolutely fantastic work. Alright, folks, coming up in the next set, I've got a lot of treats for you. Brand new track from FHE called The Calling, an amazing new remix of Nick Kershaw's classic The Riddle, and some fresh Sunset Way with a killer new synth pop track called Highway. It's all coming up in just a moment, and don't forget, in the second hour tonight, we'll have the massive Matt Pop Mega Mix, so stay tuned.

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Experience the evolution of electronic dance music only on Synthpop Symphony.

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But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done.

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You can't fall, so stand up tall. The firing side is igniting. Breaking your heart, you stop falling. Now pick yourself up, gotta fill up your cup. Facing the truth, here we call you. Just don't give up. When you keep on falling, don't lose your mind.

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Where the things I fall in, just don't give up. When you keep on falling, don't lose your mind.

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Well, things are falling, you lost your way. Hide away in your heart. Never show how you're feeling. Dreaming up a brand new style. Believing life has a meaning. You do from the start, it will tear you apart. Breaking your heart, you stop falling. Now pick yourself up, gotta fill up your cup. Facing the truth, here become Just don't give up. When you keep on falling, don't lose your mind. Don't give up.

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When you keep on falling, don't lose your mind. Life will start them, don't lose your mind.

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Let the stone don't lose your mind. Don't give up.

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Let the stone the sound of the heart combined with the sound of the beauty.

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Blessing the baby on time to carry on the tried, the things and water. So to America.

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Why's men a tree? I look in the hole. And it's my needs of people often for a strange kind of fashion that's a wrong and right.

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Never, never fight.

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I don't fashion everyone and a light.

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Never never find I got time to do.

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Alright, next up we're gonna go into a three-track Italo set with new music from Roger Mennow, remixed by Rubik's. And then the latest from Peter Wilson with Two Hearts Collide. And we'll wrap up the set with a brand new Sally Shapiro track that has one of the most incredible names for a track you could ever have. It's called a local italo disco DJ. It has a crush on me. Let's go right now on Scentpop Symphony with the Italo set.

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Connect with Matt Williams by logging on to synthopsymphony.com for past shows and special DJ mixes.

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I know I don't want you to go.

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I love you. Take me back in your arms again. You feel it's no game. Nobody else can ever take your pain. Cause you'll know your friend. And you ain't more than the word you mean.

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All I'm gonna come to I love you, I find a way. You feel me? I find it hard to sleep tonight. Just the season burning right. There was too much too changed, I know. But I don't want you to go. I love you, I find a way, cause you have to stay.

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Take me back in your mouth again. You feel me? It's no great. Nobody out take it. Take in control when to hear the light. Feel the energy into your soul. When to the heart alive, you're going to feel that you're going to be all out of the two. Well to hear the light. Don't be supply. Out of the two, don't you stay?

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It's a magic moment, moment in the night.

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When you call it Shining like a spotlight, spotlight in the night. When to be honest, to ask the line. You feel the rivers beating fast when two hearts collide. A simple patient energy know it will last when two hearts collide. A false nature taking hold of you so unexpectedly You know the one only thing to do is let it's energy free It's a magic moment in the night Win to be honest to ask for a light Shining like a spotlight spirit in the night Win to be honest to ask for the light Can you feel the magic of the night When two beating hearts collide Just like a spotlight burning bright It gives you love It gives you lighting It's a magic moment moment in the night When to be the hearts to Oscar Light Shining like a spotlight spotlight in the night When to be the heart to Oscar Light seated please Permanecer sentados for favorite Friday night in the town and the disco getting done It's late on the party so redisco beans on the floor Bleeding hearts that long for more The DJ is showing me floor Hello hip hogs I thought his cups and shows that's so bad that he wants me so dance and have fun, give the chase and back for better, the baseline goes through the fool Now that I saw the tree, miss the DJ's next to me, and silently looks in my eyes.

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Show me a dream, and we can protect this the other thing.

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I make up my mind, and I wanna walk alone.

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Some wanna miss something like this, I made up my mind. This time I wanna dance on my job.

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Sure we can drink, and we can float like this, but I think that I say my kiss, and I'm not gonna do it.

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Before that, we had the brand new Peter Wilson with two hearts collide, and we kicked off the Italo set with Roger Minnow, remixed by Rubik's. There's so much great new Italo coming your way in 2025, alive and kicking, just like the classics. And speaking of classics, let's shift gears into some remix magic. I was just handed a copy of the incredible expose track Point of No Return, and you'll hear that next. After that, we're gonna slide into the police with wrapped around your finger, and we're gonna finish off this 80 set with the legendary talking heads and burning down the house. These are all fresh rhythm scholar remixes packed with all the eighties flare you can handle coming at you now for the next 15 minutes in a mini mix.

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Oh, baby Tipsy and Blue Reaction.

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I wanna take you and mama.

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Oh, baby case.

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I wanna take you in my own. Stare it at the ring on your fingers.

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Come here seeking all in things that you wouldn't teach me a bit of knowledge. I can see just I need you so shining back, grab surround your free.

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When the body's over, we'll be for the still be away, burning on the house, burning, burning, burning, burning, burning, burning on the house. I'm gonna jump in all the boards. Close it up and not you from me, you know where you are. Sometimes I listen to myself.

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Same as it ever was the ball, and you have that in the game.

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You expect the ready to let me tell you.

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X was A with a point of your return, the police with wrapped around your finger, and talking heads with running down the house over all three remixes by rhythm scholar. Now we're gonna move into our two. I've got something very special to call out the show. This is a film that was originally released in 1994 by an artist called Great. The Map Hop version brings it right back to life, and the fact that it feels so fresh 30 years later just shows how timeless this track really is. So let's get into it right now. The Map Hop Mega Max right here on Sinfop Symphony.

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Maybe a grim magnifique to what's true.

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You watch you want me to cry for you, my teeth for sure that I can make you a lot of people.

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Don't you forget? Don't you forget?

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Sonic's fashion leaders to the sky.

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Lo secreto embelleza, pero luego inquieta y nos viene mal. Vivir a mesa puesta, no sabes lo que cuesta en esta ciudad, si tanto te molesta, ahí tienes la puerta, decírtela. Te vuelvo a preguntar si dices la verdad o es mentira, todo, te escucho contestar y sin pestañar, me lo niegas todo, todo, todo.

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Todo me lo crea todo. Better than hair.

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Just like smile on the dog, you don't start around your heart. Now you're running asleep. I wish you never had to be keeping my doing simple every time. Dream of sights, of slaveries and seasons Where feelings are reasons Can make you decide And we scroll down Sprachio and Gardens As colder as autumn lift the lights And I love you Just like smiling in the dark, shooting stars around your heart, dreams come back to your head, pure and simple every time. Now you're crying if you sleep. I wish you'd never learn to weep. Don't tell the dreams you should be keeping pure and simple every time. Look at me with starry eyes, push me up to starry skies. There are stylos in my head, pure and simple every time. Red from deep assumptions for you, keep right beside them.

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I'll sing a soft june, pure and simple over you.

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I find a place I'll never leave.

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Shut my mouth and just believe Love is a dream that I realize not a stream or a free life.

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To use yourself on the waste, our time symphony, the next generation of electronic dance music.

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You can rely on us because whenever you're lonely, we'll be reaching out to you. But you close your mind. Happens every time. And you're falling faster. I, I, I can help you, and even if I go You, you, you choose danger on the something good. Storm is descending, the end is beginning. Who can save you now? You better off for your life. Cause it's crazy to stay. There's a firestorm coming that is heading your way. If you like the few, stand back. There's not a before It's a matter of life, not the trick of the heart. The emotional explosion that would tear you with more. If you drop the phone, stand back.

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There's not a before.

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This is the time. So don't try to escape the body so you can logic. If you drop the ball, stand back. There's a fire small coming that is getting your way. If you like the few standard, it's a man. If you drop the ball, stand back. Cry for some one, two night. And I know it's you for freedom. And I know you can fill the space in me. I can't see the cuts in the town of the shadows. I shall find out from the nice skin.

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The sun doesn't always shine. Sorry to fall apart sometimes. I am always you.

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Sorry to fall apart. Sometimes you all stay alive.

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One in one seeds when we cry, when we laugh.

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I am happy.

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The heart is always true. I am not always fine. We don't have an angry heart. Sometimes you are still when we cry, when we laugh.

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Look how far we are in God.

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What in one still is one I love for all death still inside.

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I wanna be neat, baby. I wanna kiss you, baby. I wanna be baby. I wanna kiss you, baby.

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And I want you let me inside your head. I'm stronger to know that you care. I love you to disgust, gas, gas, guys.

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I tell you that, you can be my summer moment. Say it's not a moment. Tell me that you want me. I love you to disgust, gas, gas, guys. I tell you that, they say it's me, I'm only speaking that you can't stop you and all day.

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You know that I just wanna touch you whenever you close to me. I always have to love where we go, I always wear ill. You know that I just wanna show you just how much you mean to me. Like we all do once we are lost in the room inside the tell the truth Before this turn to drama Before we lost our lost in the crowd of the street, like to see the boats in the scene Sometimes we're building and burning down We are lost our own We lost and we fell on the runa We are lost in the runa Breakfast I love Breakfast I love We never steps, we never said the love, we spest in the manas and we found a runaway.

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So beautiful out into the sun, you might beautiful, so beautiful, I don't know why you make me cry beautiful, so beautiful out of inside in heart and mind, you're beautiful, so beautiful, I don't know why. You made me cry.

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I need to know my death.

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Standing waiting, I complaining. I need to know my bell.

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Never give it in.

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I make a big decision, so I won't see you again. The best synth pop, synth wave, electro pop, and italo dance in the mix. Only on synth pops contain. It's too late to cry.

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The music can stop, but I want to dance. You still make me eye.

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I need one chance and I will survive. It's too late to cry.

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Cry, cry, it's too late to cry. Open the breath, cry, for the brother breath, put the cry, cry, ride, cry. Open the breath, it's too late to cry. It's too late to cry. The music can't stop, but I don't want to dance, you still make me high.

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I need the full chance, and I will survive, it's too late to lie. The music can't stop, but I don't want to dance, you still make me high. I need the full chance, and I will survive, it's too late to lie. Cry, crypto. Dancing broken hard, you're on the way you are tonight.

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I'll blind me. I'm dancing with my broken home. This is in thoughts in front of the Dancing broken heart in the new light. Dancing broken heart where you are tonight. Oh my emotions wrong. Where did all go wrong? Don't control my heart of fire.

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How can the heart of fire? Just in broken heart, it's fine.

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I'm dancing with my broken heart.

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What a way to close out Synpop Symphony 290. A huge thanks to all of you listening around the world tonight. We had everything. Brand new synthop, a tello disco, classic remixes, and of course, that massive Mega Mix finale. I'll be back next time with even more of the past, present, and future of synth driven music. It's a crazy world out there. Be good to each other and let's connect the world through music. This is Synthop Symphony signing off. Good night.

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You are signing off.