Synthpop Symphony 322R1 Electropop, Synthwave, Italo Dance + Sinister Disco Future Past!

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Synth Pop Symphony, Los Angeles, San Francisco. Welcome to Synth Pop Symphony of Symphony. Playing the best new wave electric pop, synthwave, guitar 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 Synth Pop Symphony, your global destination for the finest synth pop, electropop, and modern electronic dance music. From the timeless hits of the 80s to today's cutting-edge synth-driven releases. We've got it all. As always, I'm your host, Matt Williams, on the decks and ready to move you with some serious dance energy from Black Light, Vital, New Arcades, Tet Shop Boys, Synthwave Siren, David Agabi, and new Sally Shapiro. Tonight we've also got something really special: a Depeche Mode mini mix featuring the brand new studio bonus track from the Memento Mori sessions of Depeche Mode. Something most fans haven't even heard yet. We're gonna play the exclusive TSF remix of this track, plus two additional TSF reworks seamlessly woven into the mix. We're also diving into a brand new School of Scents segment where I uncover two extremely rare dance tracks, including one I completely forgot about existed until this week. That's how rare we're going tonight. These deep cuts come from Newton and the Buckbeats, two artists who delivered standout club tracks that vanished from the spotlight almost as quickly as they hit the dance floor. And to finish out the show tonight, we've got the Sinister Disco Future Pass Set, a high-energy journey featuring the latest new track from a Tower Connection with Like a Star, the new Cerone anthem Dancing Back to Life, and a run of serious retro inspired club classics. And since I'm catching Andy Bell of Erasure's live show this week in Los Angeles, this is gonna be the first of two California dates. I know many of you listening on the West Coast have tickets as well. So we're gonna start things off with something special in his honor. This is Electrostatic, the Rob Dust remix showcasing Andy Bell's deeper, darker electronic side. Let's get into it right now on Sinpop Symphony 305.

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Fill it up to the brim. I'm not your unholy twin. Don't you call me ever or tell me what I cannot do? Fill my head with pointless stories. I'm never gonna get with you. When I I walk into the room You can look, but you cannot touch me. I'm over my crush on you. I've had my fill of asking for you to factor me in To the light that you bask in, seduced by a life of sin.

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Cut your stack Electric Can can a reservation in your perpendicular world.

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You cover me in purple, you're a ridiculous girl. Don't wanna live in indulgence. Give me more than a kiss. We are all born immortal. There's gotta be more than this.

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Dark glasses, long hair, it takes his time. See us at man, some of the people want revenge. Sips his drinks, orders more, says what he thinks and so craps in. A lock on the door And when the soldier stood, all he cares about is love. When the flies are out, all he cares about is love. And then we situation, a fleeing line between love and crime, and collaboration, and then you can't get a little bit more. What you gonna do? There's a lot of people coming for you. Come on, television, knock on the door and not Now everybody's under somebody's spell, unless they've already gone too In the streets. You can hear the people to perceive That Zazu, you should be locked away when the soldiers start, all he cares about is about When the friends are out, all he cares about is about line between love and crime, and in the situation, a thing line between love and crime and collaboration.

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Your voice looks like a drifting in between. Receiving ones and electric gold, but I still feel your hands like gold.

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Everyone twisted grit Tied around me to the bit Whispers tremble on six time Singing slow as dream three time, screen that nightwe's the night, and you won't make the bones you say you're on me, which are on the ghost when we stand on the same, which are on the ghost Whitney just a few times I'll make a diagonal six I'm also drowning sounds, Jackson will be sound, everyone's a big spicy one calling some belly on sweetness and before the woods before me, which all around the gold.

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Taken from their brand new album called The Haunting of Us, and it's now out on man cam. I've listened to the whole album, folks, and you have to get your ears on this one either. Black Light is now officially a trio with the addition of Omar Community for the main machine, and the result is a full powerful emotional ride from start to finish. Fun fact with the V-side. Opportunities left to make lots of money. And the Patreon Boys V sides are so legendary that they're actually planning a concert of only V Sides. And of course, we started the show with Andy Vale of Erasure, currently touring in the US. We had a rare cut called ElectroStatic. This is the ROMDAS remix. And I love that a remixer, best known for his darker fan productions, gets his hands on an Andy Vale track, and he absolutely delivered. Alright, next up is the brand new Dimensional Track Survive, and I gotta say, I'm surprised this one didn't make it into the Memento Mori album because it's such a strong track. We've got the exclusive TSF remix for you tonight, along with two more DM tracks woven into the mix. Strange Love and Soft Touch Raw Nerf. That D cut is from Delta Machine, and TSF works some real magic there, so I'm looking forward to hearing that one. Okay, let's do this. The new Depension track survive exclusively on Synth Pop Symphony.

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The best new electronic dance music only on Synth Pop Symphony I can feel the temperature rising burning tonight.

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I could wait a thousand years to say something right. Behind all your sad intentions, we're just the same. Try to make it wrong. We'll survive, we'll survive, we'll survive, we'll survive, we'll still survive loaded contracts.

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Do you want to ever?

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Is my radar that off? Is my radar that off?

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I'm thinking you're sinking when I'm on trail.

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I got a confession, your depression take me telling Am I on the right track? Am I on the right track? Have I fixed a bad sign? Have I fixed a bad sign?

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It's seen it with your dreaming through my eyes. Uh oh.

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Give me a helping day I'll brother.

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Tell me you want to say Have I hit a wrong nose? Have I hit a wrong nose? Have I got a soft touch? Have I got a soft touch?

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I'm taking the sake of suspicion, young positions.

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Out brother.

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Have I eaten along now? Have I hit a wrong name?

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Have I got a sound touch? Have I got a sound touch? Have I hit a wrong now? Have I hit a wrong? Have I got a soft such?

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Have I got a soft such? Give me a help me.

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You're listening to Synthop Symphony where the beat is unstoppable There'll be times with my crimes seem almost done.

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Forgive up all, I give in to save Because you have to make this life liveable. But when you think I'm bad enough from the sea I'll give I'll take more than another river, yes, and I'll make it all work. I'll make your heart fly. Baby, baby, baby, pain, pain. Baby, baby, baby, pain, baby, take up pain.

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I will give to you the game and the game.

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I'll be case when I strain I may appear to be constantly out of breach. I came in to see I like to practice what I preach, I'm not trying to say, I have it all my way. I'm always willing to look when you've got something to teach. Oh and I'll make it all a while. I'll make it halfway, will you return it? I'll say it again, pay, will you return it? I'll say it again, pay, do you explain it?

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I'll say it again, pain, pay, pay, pay, you explain it, I won't say it, you insert it, I'll say it okay, pay, stay, you witness it, I'll say it again, pain, the face, you insert it, I'll say it again, pain.

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I want it to give the game and game.

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Three brand new Depeche Mode remixes tonight, including one completely new song from the band. We just heard Strange Love, the TSF remix before that, Soft Touch Raw Nerve from Delta Machine, and we kicked off the set with Survive, the brand new studio track told from the Memento Mori sessions. That was a gorgeous work across the board from TSF. And now before we jump in, we got tonight's School of Synth. We're gonna feature not one, but two rare tracks I've dug up for you. Let's see if you've heard of either of them.

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Welcome to the Synth Fox Symphony School of Synth!

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Tonight's School of Synth takes us back to the mid-1990s when Euro Dance collided with a forgotten 70s hot classic. The track is Sky High by Newton, released in 1994. And while many assume Newton was a band, it was really a studio project printed by singer Billy Myers and produced by Mike Stock and Matt Aiken. Two-thirds of the legendary production powerhouse Doc Aiken Waterman, the hit factory behind Rick Afflee, Netter Alive, Kylie Minogue, Banana Rama, and dozens of late 80s high-energy smashes. But here's the twist most people miss. Sky High was actually a Eurodance remake of the 1975 hit by Jigsaw. A song that was originally charted worldwide, but instead of playing it as a novelty, the PWL team wrapped that three chorus and a sleek 90 cent, hopping beat and pure hand in the air club energy. The vocals, a new version, were sung by Jack Dyer, the original singer from Jigsaw. And nearly 20 years later, he returned to re-record his own hit for a new generation, this time under a completely different name, and even appeared in the video. The result was a sleeper success, hot hand in Australia, a club favorite across Europe, and a defining example of the brighter, popular side of mid-90s Euro dance. So if you've ever danced to this track and wondered who was Newton, now you know a 70s hit, a nineties makeover, and the same legendary voice soaring all over again. Let's get into it right now. Newton and Sky High on the School of Scent.

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Welcome to the Scent Plump Symphony School of Syntheso, and I'm not sure.

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I gave you love, I thought that we made it to the top. I gave you all I have to give. Why did it have to stop?

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You broke the box.

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Just dressed in a brighter high-energy production. Next up is another rare track in the world of synpops. Tonight's second school of scent spotlights a lost club gem from the tail end of the 80s in 1988. The song is Daydream by the Buckbeats. The Buckbeats weren't really a band at all, but a short-lived studio dance project created for 12-minute singles and nightclub curation rather than radio play for charge success. What makes Daydream especially noteworthy is who worked on it. One of the standout versions of the PWLB voice makes was crafted by a remixer connected to the legendary PWLP. Yeah, that's the same head factory behind Kylie Node and some other high-energy thing-driven hot fashion. That remix crew specialized in turning underground tracks into polish high-energy floor fillers. The lucky never broke into the mainstream, but Daydream survived as a DJ secret weapon, circulating only on vinyl, popping up in the cloud, and then finally disappearing as the nineties took over. Today it stands as a reminder of an era when anonymous studio projects could drop absolutely synth magic, even if nobody remembers the name behind it. So here you guys go.

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No doubt that your love's gonna change my life, lost my car. Slow motion pictures and a single spark. Put my head on the skies with your eyes.

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You just heard the buck beat from 1988 with Daydream, the PWL Beatmaster Mix fronted by the legendary Pete Hammond on our School of Sand segment. A true late 80s dance floor jam and one of those tracks that you guys ever only really know about. Alright, let's get into some new music first after the track from 2019. And one of my personal favorites, by Talon. The original was already fast and energetic, but this one updated it to 2025 and take it up another night. We're also fighting into the brand new Final Effect record release from David Adobe. This one's really strong. It's got a great production and great hook. And then something completely unexpected. London Senthwave Group, a new arcade. I wanted that way. Now before you even think about touching that dial or skipping ahead, I highly recommend you give the synthwave version a listen. Trust me, this one's gonna surprise you. Let's get into it right now. Starting with a new version of a Hello Love to Burrinous City on Zenclop Symphony.

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And this place is never really free. Everything's a mistake. It's not what it used to be. Everything is so wonder when the big man turns to go. Walking on the dream, my old friend, what we never need again on our way, no more water. Where the dolly doesn't we don't want to do the night on the night where the dog will never meet again.

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All the way, no more waiting, burn the bridge, we don't put it down, put it down, put it down, to put it down, put it down, we don't think it doesn't work.

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You are dead, the room lit up.

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I couldn't help but notice us The way you move, the way you smile, you got me going for a little while. Every glance, I lose control. You're pulling me in deep and I so the rhythm is low, up the beats go high. I can't look away, can't deny.

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I'm falling for you, I can't fight for much. Every moment I can ever touch. I'm falling for you, don't make me wait. Every second feels like faith, your eyes are wild, I'm hypnotized.

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Caught up in the spark of your disguise.

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I can't escape the way you make me feel. This chemistry is more than just real. Every step we're getting close. I can't resist your word, I want the most. You got me moving, it's hard to stay. But I don't want to find away. I'm falling for you. Every moment like a level stretch. I'm falling for you. Don't make me wait. Every day it feels like the rush.

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Every moment's like a leather's touch.

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I've fought it for you, don't make me wait for you. Every second feels like faith.

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I've fought for you I fall in for you, just that much. I fall in for you, don't take away. It's like a lovely touch. I've fallen for you. Don't make me wait.

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New music first on Synth Pop Symphony.

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You are the fire the wise. When I say I want it that away once you want, can reach to your heart when you say that I want it.

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Tell me why not. Tell me why not. Tell me why I never want it. But the way that it used to be no matter the distance, I want you to know that it's out inside my six.

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I want it that way. We also heard David Adobe with Falling for You. That drops December 12th on Vancamp from Philo FX Records, and we also opened the set with a brand new Milo Blue remix of Cal Of City. Absolutely fantastic. We're just a few minutes away from Sinister Disco Future Half. We're remixing new and classic. We don't go anywhere. And before we get into the next, a quick reminder if you support if you can. We don't have to wait for anything. We can't be in the new and a lot of people. If you enjoy what we do, we can't for whatever you can do. Let's get into it right now, and then we'll get into sinister disco future past.

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You make it solid, square. Maybe I don't play the sun yet. So I think that I played a deep. So did you go tonight? Or was it just a dream, a dream, a dream? Maybe every day in the corridors and maybe someone's dreaming. Did you start seeing the spoke and cue? Maybe I don't play 'cause something space. Someone within I play the different kids.

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Just teach me some things with me.

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That is the harmonics remix, and now it's time for Sinister Disco Future Path. We're kicking things off with a brand new track from Metallic Connection. Their latest single is called Like a Star, followed by the brand new Sharone kind of dancing back to life, and from there we're diving into a blend of you and classic tunes from across the central disco universe. Extract music from T Web, Luka Lelu, Trans X, Mozart, and that Test Fancy Lineage, Malcolm J. Hill, the communist, Kathy Dennis, and so much more. The future, the path, the retro, it's right now, it all comes together in the mix.

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I don't know if I'm dreaming but my heart is dreaming if I leave it all around the story I don't know if I'm right I'm right in the tightness who you are. I don't know if I'm dreaming about my heart is dreaming for me all around the story. I don't know if I'm right. I'm riding through the diet.

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So we'll have the blue can touch the sky. Close your eyes like getting closer to the edge. This could be the end, but with dancing with the game It's unreal, we just can't okay. So we'll let them touch the sky. Close your eyes with baby close up to the edge.

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This could be the end of the butt.

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We dancing with the light okay It's a real goal, we just can't okay. We can be together with some with sex in life, okay.

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We dance in the light okay.

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Falling on my head like a memory, falling on my head like a new emotion. I want to walk in the open wind. I want to talk like lovers do. Want to dive into your ocean. Is it raining with you?

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So, baby, talk to me, like lovers do you talk with me, like lovers do you want to talk to me like lovers do you Here comes the rain again, raining in my head like a tragedy, tearing me apart like a new emotion?

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I want to breathe with I want to kiss like the lovers do. Want to dive into your ocean? Is it raining with you? So, baby, talk to me, like lovers do me like love and stuff, talk to me like lovers too.

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She likes to be able to do it.

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Falling on my head like a memory, falling on my head like a new shot.

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And teaching all that impression tonight, and that you free. I'm the mission that I know it's counts on you. And you're in explosion, I got in my mind. Each and every eye. I'm ready again, to me to be a man. I'm the military, I can know when it comes out. Yeah, my feeling. I'm your expression, I've got a skin my mind. It should never bring my eyes. You're ready as success I'm ready again to me to be a bit company.

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I'm looking for some fresh air and a living blessed free.

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Holy, forget about you. When nothing to do, just won't be a five. Forget about you. There's nothing to do, just gonna be a good one.

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Lion on this back door, disappointing and in the station. I'm lazy on the back door of four seconds. I'm tired on the back line when nothing so missing happen. I'm looking at some pressure and free.

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There's nothing that you just don't need. There's nothing that you just need to be.

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So take a change.

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I want you feel like a bit, move your body, JP, take your change. Or you take your chance. On the table, on the light, take your chance. Just give me a side.

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You got money.

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You know how I feel. I'll make a real shot.

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Shoot, you're gonna stop.

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Shoot.

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No matter what, it's for you to make the mate.

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Shoot your shot.

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You really got a lot of shot. Shoot your shot. Should you stop?

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We're starting it over. We're making way for destiny.

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A time to turn over a better life for you and me.

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A new recreation. Channel all this energy.

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It's all the equation. I need to be close to me.

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So baby, let your conscience go, go. There's no turning back when love takes poor.

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Hold me, baby. Drive me crazy. Touch me, touch me, all that long. Make me love you. Yes, I'll hold you. Touch me, touch me, all that long. Oh The more I see you, the more I know that that will Will you remember, boy?

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I wouldn't know what's right from wrong. Cause love will take over and leave you outside of mine. You gotta go with the feeling And trust me to be kind. And maybe let your conscience go, go.

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There's no turning back when love takes food. Hold me, baby, drive me crazy. Touch me, touch me, all that long. We make me love you, yes, and hold you. Touch me, touch me, all that long. Hold me, baby, drive me crazy. Touch me, touch me all that long. We make me love you, yes, I love you, touch me, touch me, love me.

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It's good. It's good.

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And maybe let your conscience go, go. There's no turning back when love is home. Hold me, baby, come in crazy. Touch me, touch me, all that more. We make it big, love you, yes, and okay, touch me, touch me, all that more. Hold me, baby, come crazy.

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We make three love.

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Don't leave me this way, baby. I can't live out, I can stay alone without your love. No, baby, don't say, leave me this way, I can explain stuff showing this. You're tempted, so don't leave me this way. Don't go now and do what you gotta do.

unknown 1:56:45

It's not easy, but you're gonna make myself I can see the bow. I can't try now this.

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Don't you leave me this way No understand me? Now I love your command. Don't be with me. Don't you leave me this way? No, no, no, no, no, no, don't you leave me this way? I can expand it. I will show the miss. You'll turn the kiss. Don't you leave me this way? Come down, do what you gotta do. Just put in the fire down in my soul. Don't get me the spirit out of control.

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Come down, so me to me. So you all know it, but some management, what do you think?

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And synthpop symphony is the past, present, and future of synth driven music. I'll see you guys next week.

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You are signing off synth symphony with DJ Max Williams.