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Sept. 7, 2025

Synthpop Symphony 291 Electropop Synthpop Synthwave + 80's & Sinister Italo!

Synthpop Symphony 291 Electropop Synthpop Synthwave + 80's & Sinister Italo!

This week on Synthpop Symphony 291 we’re bringing back one of the most beloved episodes ever — our Sept 1 2024 Weekend special (Show 237).

It’s two full hours of synthpop, Italo, remixes, and dancefloor anthems — a mix so good, we had to give it an encore!

🎶 Featured highlights include:

✨ Janet Jackson – Control (Parallox Remix)

✨ Bronski Beat – Why (Superchumbo Remix)

✨ Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down Again

✨ Yes – Owner of a Lonely Heart

✨ Talking Heads – Psycho Killer

Plus, fresh energy from Sophie and the Giants, Ashbury Heights, Genix & Flowanastasia, Silent Audience Music, Vanello, and many more.

And don’t miss the exclusive Sinister Italo Vol. 1 mix, packed with pure retro-futuristic fire.

It’s one of the best shows I’ve ever done — and I’m thrilled to share it again this week as Synthpop Symphony 291.


Janet Jackson – Control (Parallox Remix) [A&M / Parallox]

Sophie and the Giants – Shut Up and Dance [Polydor]

Francesca e Luigi – Make Me Sad [Italo Moderno]

Turbo Knight – Le Planet Destroyer [NewRetroWave]

More – Fall Behind Sometimes [Independent]

Nikkon – Lows and Highs [Label: TBA]

Ashbury Heights – Lights Out [Out of Line]

eLxAr – Dust [eLxAr Productions]

Bronski Beat – Why (Superchumbo Remix) [London / Superchumbo]


De Soffer vs Matt Williams – Eighties Mix [Independent]

Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down Again [Mute]

Yes – Owner of a Lonely Heart [Atco / Atlantic]

Talking Heads – Psycho Killer [Sire]

Queen – Another One Bites the Dust [EMI / Elektra]

Blur – Girls and Boys [Food / Parlophone]

Madonna – Into the Groove [Sire / Warner Bros.]

Desireless – Voyage, Voyage [CBS / Epic]


Sinister Italo Vol. 1

Lucca Leeloo – Sometimes You Make Me Happy [Italo Moderno]

Linda Jo Rizzo – You’re the One [Zyx]

September – Cry for You [Robbins Entertainment]

Genix & Flowanastasia – Lights, Sound, Camera, Action [Anjunabeats]

Nick Schilder – Up All Night [Armada Music]

De Soffer – Rapture [Independent]

Dua Lipa – Dance the Night Away [Warner]

Rational Youth – Flash in the Night (Octolab Remix) [Artoffact]

Silent Audience Music – Don’t Talk Just Drive (Stick Shift 7” Radio Mix) [Silent Audience Music]

Felix Jaehn – Ready For Love [Virgin / Universal]

Together – Hardcore (TuffClub Remix) [Independent]

Purple Disco Machine – Substitute My Heart [Columbia / Sony]

Vanello – Spark (Moderno Remix) [Italo Moderno]



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SPEAKER_19

Synth Bob Symphony, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Welcome to Sith Bob Symphony. Playing the best new wave electronic bob. Synthwave, Italo Disco, and high-energy electronic dance music from the 80s to today. With your host, Matt Williams. Your dance music or the C Dance now.

SPEAKER_00

Welcome to Sith Pop Symphony episode 237. I'm your host, Matt Williams, and folks, have I got a show for you. Not only is it all new, but I've got some of the best new artist releases of the year. And on top of that, I have a brand new 80s mix coming your way in just 30 minutes. And I also have a new Italo mix with Sinister Italo Volume 1 featuring brand new the Italo Connection produced single from Luca Lilu titled Sometimes You Make Me Happy, along with one hour of brand new Italo remixes. On this first set to kick off the show, I've got brand new Sophie and the Giants, brand new Francisca E. Luigi, new Cinnamon Chasers, and this brand new remix from Paralox of Janet Jackson's control to kick it all off right here on Sin Pop Symphony.

SPEAKER_19

Your source for modern electronic dance music.

SPEAKER_09

I want to be the one in control.

unknown

I'm being stuck.

SPEAKER_08

And make your heart beat, shut up and dance.

SPEAKER_09

Shut up and dance like you're invisible. Shut up and dance, and move your body, shut up and dance, and make your heart beat, shut up and dance. Shut up and dance like you're invisible.

SPEAKER_08

Can you feel the pulse running through your soul?

SPEAKER_09

Right by the lights and the chemicals. I can hold you tight when you lose control.

SPEAKER_08

Get the taste out your mouth. Take the pain, scream it out like I love it. Like I love it. Lose yourself in the sun, like there's no one around. Let it go, let it go, let it go.

unknown

Shut up and test. I move your body, shut up and dance.

SPEAKER_09

I make your happy, shut up and test. Shut up and dance like you're a visible. When you love the door, open the door, make the heart, jump down, jump down.

SPEAKER_08

When you love the door, open the door, make the heart, jump down, taste out your mouth, take the pain, scream it out like I love it. Let it go, let it go, let it go.

unknown

Shut up and dance. Shut up and dance.

SPEAKER_09

Shut up and dance.

SPEAKER_19

Shut up and dance, like you guys are Pop Symphony, the next generation of electronic dance music.

SPEAKER_06

It's not just, it's just me sometimes.

unknown

Oh the time acting selfish, so unkind.

SPEAKER_06

With eyes like that, you'll make every one line in the storm in the eye.

SPEAKER_09

Take one more look and you will find I gave it all.

SPEAKER_05

I chose it all for what it's worth to me. What's the point of doing anything at all?

SPEAKER_06

Just it all of them just leave. One step forward, two steps back. It's not fair, it's just a fact. Sometimes you found me high, I gave it all.

unknown

For what it's worth to me. What's the point of doing anything at all?

SPEAKER_00

That song is called Fall Behind Sometimes, and they have a very cash mode-ish feel to them. Really, really love that track. Before that, Turbo Knight with Lay Planet Destroyer, brand new music from Francesca Eluigi with Make Me Sad. Sophie and the Giants with Shut up and dance. We started this whole set with parallel, the remix of Janet Jackson's control. Alright, folks, we're gonna have another great set coming up. We got some new Ashberry Heights, got some new elixir, and now we're just gonna play some Nikon with lows and highs right here on the one and only Synth Pop Symphony.

SPEAKER_24

It's fine between the darkness and life.

unknown

Come on and shake it. We're rolling here, just throw a fit, we're getting there.

SPEAKER_03

And all the shit that you won't admit is killing me. All the things you really oughta see. You think I'm going on my own volition. When all the troubles you can see, also stations. You think I'm moving up my own vision.

unknown

Suckers by something nobody but you envision Tell me, do you want pressure?

SPEAKER_03

And apply a pressure To my castle also threshold Can you do better? Is the file Can I just go and you see We can make it if we talk about it But you can't talk without breaking glass and letting out The demons of your past Are the demons we can't seem to get past You think I'm difficult to break it down I was broken long before the first time We left town You kept accounting each light In the gaslight You used to light to align my sight Now tell me Do you unfresh our fly and pressure To my cat so I was on the threshold Can you do better?

SPEAKER_19

Oh what's up Is the file is yours so I just know when you see how I can so I just know when you see how I can so I just know when you see we have my castle And I just don't let you see how I so wall I just know when you see Connect with Matt Williams by logging on to Stenbopsymphony.com for past shows and special DJ mixes the face You saw one of the days Vanas wonder I dreamed You pretend that's if you want to burn my turn on the Legacy With the Innocence didn't all the inside never to be revealing Flower never to be revolved from the never movie Let me go to the very listen to dance music experience with Mount Williams in the Pope Symphony Can you tell me why?

SPEAKER_11

Can you tell me why?

unknown

Can you tell me why? Can you tell me why? And you tell me what you tell me, what you tell me what you tell me what you tell me to be what you'll be what you did.

SPEAKER_16

Told me a sin. Never feel guilty. Never get in. Tell me why.

unknown

You together. I take a law You and me together. I take for all you and me together. I fight you and me together. I fight.

SPEAKER_00

Your ears did not deceive you. That was Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop Boys singing alongside a Bronsky beat with a brand new Super Chumbo remix of Why? Before that elixir of brand new adjust, Ashra Heights New with lights out, and we had a classic from Nikon with lows and highs. Alright, folks, it's now time to get into the mix. In fact, this show will be entirely in the mix for the rest of the show. First up, we've got DeSopher versus Matt Williams with the 80s mix. It's gonna be a 30-minute mix. We've got Madonna Depeche Mode, Queen, Talking Heads, Yes, Desire Less, and more all coming up in the next 30 minutes. And then at the top of the hour, we're gonna have Sinister Attalo Volume 1 coming out. So let's get into it right now with Kapesh Mode. Never let me down again. The Sopher Remix right here on Synth Pop Symphony.

SPEAKER_19

Experience the evolution of electronic dance music only on Synth Pop Symphony I'm taking a ride.

SPEAKER_15

I'm taking a ride. I'm taking a ride with my best friend. I hope he never lets me down again.

unknown

I hope he never lets me down again.

SPEAKER_15

Taking me where I want to be.

unknown

I am taking a ride with my best friends. We're lying guy, we're watching the world as a spine. Never want to come down, never want to put my feet back down on the ground.

SPEAKER_15

I take a ride with my best friend.

unknown

I hope he never lets me down again. Promises me I'm a safer house. As long as I remember who's wearing the trousers. I hope he never lets me down again. Never want to put my feet back down on the ground. We're flying high, we're watching the world, passes by. Never thinking of the future. Prove yourself. You are the move you make.

SPEAKER_09

Kick your chances when I lose. You are the step you take. You and you and that's the only way.

unknown

Shake, shake yourself for every move you make.

SPEAKER_09

So you don't want to chance it.

unknown

You've been hurt before. Watch it now. Eagle in the sky. How he dancing water. You lose yourself. Don't know for me to say. There's no real reason to get over there. Be yourself. Give every real a chance. You got to want to succeed. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_19

Symphony. I can't seem to face up to the facts I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax I can't sleep cause my bed's on fire Don't touch me, I'm a real life wire Psycho killer K Cha fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa better Run run Psycho killer K Cha fa fa fa fa fa fa better Run run all right You start a conversation you can't even finish You're talking a lot But you're not saying anything When I have nothing to say My lips are sealed Say something once why say it again Psycho killer Kiss Kissy Run run away Cycle killer Kiss Kiss better Run run away Oh we are pain and we are playing I hate people in that multiple light We are pain and we uplaws I hate people in the master light We are pain and we apply I hate people in the master light We are pain and we are playing I hate people in the mask for light first Symphony the past, presence, and future of synth driven music dusting dust for dust down the street with our local Big Burst down on the side of speech machine guns ready to go Are you ready?

SPEAKER_11

Are you ready for this? Are you hanging on the edge in the seat? I look down with the bullish to the side of the beat, yeah.

SPEAKER_09

Another one has the dust Another one, that's the best, and another one, and another one, another one pass the dust, one has the dust, hey, no one passed the dust for dust, the dust, but I don't know what to dust without two and take me for the presentation, that one, that one.

SPEAKER_17

I'm something for the cause, it's got the voice, poisonous I need a flop to replace and go someone to be full I think it's not famous like this Only we project You can also be blessed How we have to be voice in the gallery, poisonous, like some pop, synth wave, electro pop, and it's aloud dance in the mix.

SPEAKER_19

Okay on the Safe Pop Symphony to the crew.

unknown

Get a bug to be stuck to be, oh the beauty, got you, boy, you got to be a body, guess that to be on the free. Music can be such a revelation. Can't turn around, you feel the sweet tentation. We might be lovers if the real comes right. I hope this feeling never ends too nice. Only when I'm dancing, can I feel too free? At night, I like the doors that no one else can see. I'm tired of dancing all by myself. Boy, you got the two being on the beat, yes, that you can be, boy, yeah.

SPEAKER_09

Get it to the bill, boy, you got the too, got to be a ball to be the beat, boy, you can take a look at that.

SPEAKER_07

Well, you're fancy here with me, just let those things set you free. Touch my body, move in time. Now I know your mind.

SPEAKER_09

You can take it.

SPEAKER_24

And you can take it for you.

SPEAKER_00

We had the pitch mode, Queen Talking Head, yes, and desireless. Now, it is time for Sinister Attalo Volume 1. And you may ask yourself, what's the difference between Sinister Attalo and Sinister Disco? I'm not quite sure. Anyway, let's get things started right now. We have the brand new Italy Connection produced track from Luca Lilu called Sometimes You Make Me Happy, and that's gonna kick off this entire mix, along with music from Linda Joe Rizzo, September, Genix, Nick Shoulder, Rational Youth, Silent Audience Music, Felix, Tough Club, Triple Disco Machine, Vanilla and Steven Kimber, and Dualipa. It's all in the mix right now with Sinister Italo Volume 1, right here on your home of modern electronic dance music, Synth Pop Symphony.

SPEAKER_19

Timeless Synth and Found. The mix continues on Synth Cop Symphony. Sometimes you make me happy.

SPEAKER_23

You excit me by choosing me. And sometimes I make you happy. You adopt a Mr. Ray. It's like game that will sell free. And it keeps my changes in the way.

SPEAKER_09

It will handle it and only It's all about taking a chance and chicken it out. Feeling great and feeling proud. Be coming with all about I think for now and it's brought down. Searching the truth within that crowd. We gotta shout it out.

SPEAKER_19

Only on Synth Pop Symphony.

SPEAKER_10

How I needed to hear. And my thoughts had concluded what I said that you and me. And my thought had been free. How are we here to love?

unknown

I never had to say goodbye.

SPEAKER_07

You must have known that word. While you were talking about our life, you keep the beauty of forever and ever. Life is now and never, forever, never come throughout.

unknown

People love. Life is now and never. Forever's gonna slow it down. You'll never see me again. Someone who's gonna come You'll never see me again. You'll never see me again. Someone who's gonna call me again No I don't know what you want to do.

SPEAKER_07

You never heard me break your heart. You didn't wake up when you die. Since I was lonely from the side, I think the end is fine.

unknown

For I was gonna slow it down. Someone who's gonna cry free. You'll never see me again. Somehow who's gonna cry free, you'll never see me again.

SPEAKER_07

No matter what you do and never, life is now and never, forever love it, come to well. Forever and never, life is now and never. Forever's gonna slow you down.

unknown

You're the main attraction. Take the stage, watch a crowd reaction. You're working hard, got the glow like a light in the dark. Light in the dark. Wanna make your mind steady now, ready and out, climbing up hard to hit the top. Hit the top. Gotta find a spot as sweet as hell. Now I'm coming around, but shouldn't stop being okay, okay, okay.

SPEAKER_09

You can feel it in your eyes. And then you give it all you can shine.

SPEAKER_22

You got your mind on it, I got my mind on you. No place I'd rather be, nothing I'd rather do. Just let me take your hand, just let me take the strain. I'll be your shelter from the pain. Don't let it keep you up all night, all night. Cause you know it's gonna be alright, alright. By the time you see that early born in light, that you know it's gonna be alright, alright. Gonna be, gonna be alright. Gonna be, gonna be alright. Still figuring out how to find my way through every twist and turn. Maybe I found how that in the end I got a lot to learn. You got your mind on it, I got my mind on you. No place I'd rather be, nothing I'd rather do. Just let me take your hand, just let me take the strain. I'll be your shelter from the rain. Don't let it keep you up all night, all night. Cause you know it's gonna be alright, alright. By the time you see that early morning light, then you know it's gonna be alright, alright. Cauna be gonna be alright, gonna be gonna be alright. Must be something we can do about it. If there's nothing we can do about it, why worry about it? Don't worry about it. Don't let it keep you up all night, all night. Cause you know it's gonna be alright, alright. By the time you see that early porn in light, then you know it's gonna be alright, alright. Don't let it keep you up all night, all night, cause you know it's gonna be alright, alright. By the time you see that early porn in light, then you know it's gonna be alright, alright. Couldn't be gonna be alright, couldn't be gonna be alright, couldn't be gonna be alright, couldn't be gonna be all right.

SPEAKER_04

Felt everything around me move, got nervous when you looked my way, but you knew all the words to say, Then you laugh, slowly move right in all this time. Oh my love where you've been I wouldn't, don't you know? My love, I want you so you make my soul complete So rapture taste so sweet La mesmerized in every way You keep me in a I'm always melting in your heat. Like a burning away. Oh, I died on fire forever. I want it, don't you know? I love I want you so you make my soul complete. The rapture taste so sweet. I want it, don't you know? I love I want you so you make my soul complete, the rapture tastes so sweet, what you know, I love I want you to so that sounds like a lot of people.

SPEAKER_07

Turn the real the mouth, don't you want to just come up with a ride? You can see my heartbeat tonight. I can take the heat, baby, best belief. That's the moment I shall every romance tricks and bells, don't give a hell.

SPEAKER_08

Well in the night fear, I don't do twigs, baby, no jails.

SPEAKER_09

I could dance, I could dance, I could dance. Watch me right away. I still put the body burning a button, watch me away, burn in buttons, face watch me do I cross the edge, still be looking at this.

SPEAKER_07

I say on the people can get on me, I am a stand of steps. Everyone else shakes in your bones, don't give a hell.

SPEAKER_09

When on the next year, I don't do tears, baby no choose. I could dance, I could dance, I could dance. Watch me I don't think don't mean I could dance, I could dance, I could dance the best and later in the church on the face, just watch me. I'll still keep the body burning on what a place I'm a whole trade I'm a wall straight I don't like to say on to the I could dance, I could dance, I could dance. I'm ready for your hands, I'm ready for your heart, I'm ready for your touch, it's tearing me apart. I'm ready for your love, laugh, la, la, la I'm ready for your love, I'm ready for your I'm ready for your life, I'm ready for your like the strings on a violin. You make my mind and my body sing, I sing, I sing, I sing, I sing, I sing. You can let me mind. I wasted so much time I'm ready for your love. I'm ready for your hand, I'm ready for your heart, I'm ready for your touch, it's tearing me apart. I'm ready for your heart, no, no, no, no, no. I'm ready for your heart, I'm ready for your hand, I'm ready for your heart, I'm ready for your touch, it's tearing me apart. I'm ready for your love, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm ready for your love, I'm ready for your love. I'm ready for your love. I'm ready for your love.

unknown

I'm ready for your love.

SPEAKER_09

Let's go, let's go, it's gonna be a good one.

SPEAKER_20

That's the end of the race.

unknown

Going up for the weekend race. It's all about the ones we create the great line and the books. I'm on a dance floor, what I found like I sit back, and I remedy sometimes Real people, real music, no chest code, no excuses. I just wanna get down all night till the sun comes up. Get them on and light, all set, ready for the highlight on the top floor, till the highlights, beatful, jump to the dance floor, I something ready for the pop floor.

SPEAKER_20

Sneeping on our room Take me to the clothes, baby higher Snaping to the summer Stop and some back in Sleeping Hollywood, baby higher source Going back to the old school days, going back to the old school ways. Everybody get down on a dance floor, DJ can you play what I asked for? All set, ready for the night light on a drop floor to the white lights, people drop to the dance floor, and so get ready for the ones down, going back in time.

unknown

Just start it up, shake and shake it. Calling on to you, are you dragging through storming with?

SPEAKER_13

I know that I can't get you out of my head. And I'm not cannot be away.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, I know when I wake up with her instead. Well, there ain't no one replacing you. Tell me that she needs everything.

SPEAKER_09

Tell me that she's sorry, take that time, tell me, cast it, speak up, since apologize.

SPEAKER_12

Just start it up, shake and shake it. Cause I can feel it in every single thing that you will not see.

SPEAKER_13

I know that I can't get you out of my head. And I know cannot be away.

SPEAKER_14

Yeah, I know when I wake up with her instead. Well, there ain't no one replacing you.

SPEAKER_09

Tell me that she's heavy, you won't come in down, take a teeth. Tell me that she's sorry to take that time, so we know what you're for sure, too.

SPEAKER_19

Yeah, looking for some shot, losing eye, for some shot, there ain't no one looking You're listening to Cinema Symphony where the heat is unstoppable.

SPEAKER_09

My life is stronger. Dancing by my side The music louder, everything's turning apart. Do you want to love tonight? Something old. Can you tell me why are we waiting for? Now we won't belong to everyone.

unknown

I'm gonna lie.

SPEAKER_09

Love is like a spark, it ignites your heart. Stop being shot. Love is like a spark, it ignites your heart, see it every way. Shiny Stock beat me, shine. It ignites your heart. Music's louder, everything's turning a cry.

SPEAKER_19

Now we love to let you talk in the pop symphony with Jack Matt Williams.