The Past, Present and Future of Synth Driven Music!
June 5, 2026

Synthpop Symphony 330 Electropop Synthwave Italo Dance New Wave & Sinister POP 2!

Synthpop Symphony 330 Electropop Synthwave Italo Dance New Wave & Sinister POP 2!

Join Matt Williams for another journey through the Past, Present, and Future of Synth-Driven Music!

This week’s show features:

Duran Duran vs. Depeche Mode – Come Undone / But Not Tonight (Matt One Mashup)
Brand new music from FHE, Neon Capital, Train To Spain, Averra, Mark Santuro, and Catherine Moan
Exclusive TSF remixes of The Human League, Foreign Affair, and Front 242
A lost piece of California synth history as School of Synth revisits Fresno’s own Oh Lamour
BT’s classic “Communicate” from Emotional Technology

PLUS…

A full hour IN THE MIX with Sinister Pop Vol. 2 featuring reimagined classics from Depeche Mode, Erasure, Duran Duran, Laura Branigan, Pet Shop Boys, The Cure, Dead Or Alive, New Order, and more!

Tracklist:
Duran Duran vs. Depeche Mode - Come Undone / But Not Tonight (Matt One Mashup Remix) [Parlophone / Mute]
MS Project - Lessons In Love [Independent]
FHE - Ghosts [Five Head]

TSF Mini-Mix

The Human League - Being Boiled (TSF Remix) [Virgin]
Foreign Affair - Love, Time And Death (TSF Remix) [Independent]
Front 242 - Masterhit (TSF Remix) [Wax Trax!]

Neon Capital - LA Is Alive [Global Underground]]
Train To Spain - Likeable [Progress Productions]
Erasure - Knocking On Your Door [Mute]

Averra - Shadows On The Floor (Italo Night Mix) [Independent]
Mark Santuro - Overdrive [Independent]
New Order - Thieves Like Us (Mashup Remix) [Factory Records]

Oh Lamour - Sin [TSR Records]
BT - Communicate (Matt Williams Edit) [Nettwerk]
Catherine Moan - No Magic [Born Losers Records]

Sinister Pop Vol. 2

Depeche Mode - People Are People (Remix) [Mute]
Erasure - Chains Of Love (Marty Mar Edit) [Mute]
Level 42 - Something About You (Remix) [Polydor]
Real Life - Send Me An Angel (QH Remix) [Curb]
Taco - Puttin’ On The Ritz (Quick Kutz) [RCA]
Duran Duran - A View To A Kill (Redrum Remix) [Parlophone]
Laura Branigan - Self Control (Doffer Remix) [Atlantic]
When In Rome - The Promise (Redrum Remix) [Virgin]
Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart [Atco]
Dead Or Alive - Lover Come Back To Me (Extended Remix) [Epic]
Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities (Retro Love Remix) [Parlophone]
Erasure - Breath Of Life (Alex Djohn Remix) [Mute]
The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes [Fiction]
Ultravox & Propaganda - White China [Chrysalis / ZTT]


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You're listening to DJ Matt Williams, Los Angeles.

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Welcome to Synth Pop Soon Familiar.

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Playing the best new wave electro parts, Synth Wave, Italo Disco.

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And high-energy electronic dance music from the 80s to today.

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We'll be your host, DJ Matt Williams. Your dance musical DC starts now.

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This week on Synthop Symphony 330, the past, present, and future of synth-driven music collide. I got brand new music from Neon Capital, trained to Spain, FHE, Avera, Captain Moan, and more, plus exclusive new remixes from TSF featuring the Human League, Foreign Affair, and Front 242 in a mini mix. And we revisit the lost piece of California Synth history with our school of synth. We're gonna go back and play one more song from O Lamore. Then in hour two, we're gonna go nonstop in the mix with Sinister Pop Volume 2, featuring reimagined classics from all your favorites, new music, classic artist, future sounds. This is synthop Symphony with Matt Williams. Let's get things started right now with two of the biggest names in synth history coming together. Duran Duran meets the pesh mode in this incredible new mashup, come and done. It's turn it up right now. This is synthpop symphony.

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This is Synth Pop Symphony.

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Take my head, come back to the bed, let's get away just for one day. Might take a little pride to come on down.

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Take my glass, go back to the last everything's us all a few hours.

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Only on Synth Pop Symphony.

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I felt shall we hide him, but I love overboard. Life for lies, lies at sea. I've been trying to reach your shore, ways of that deep drowning. All the dreams we were feeling could be a better lesson of love for rest of ego, and the most hard to break. Now we've waited in to be the love is over.

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Every heart token words, all the hopes I ever had.

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All the hopes we were doing. Could be better, could be better, let's do the world, we'll for us, we should be the law. Let us be able when there's no letter. Let us know that your burn.

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New music first on Synth Pop Symphony I see the distance across the water.

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I swim a thousand miles to hear you say No it's never come When you need the most Dry your eyes out your mother's tongue, or your father's ghost, remember sticks and stones and how they broke your bones. Will you learn to fly? Will they hit you in the face? And you back them all to stop until you rose up again. And you tried your best to surrender, bow down your head. Then you looked up to the sky and said, My God, what a beautiful sea. Now I know I can make me wanna stay here forever. What a beautiful sea. Now I know I can meet me on my gateway forever. See the shadow. Just the breath in the seeds. We'll be there to love. Just to die in the tree. Don't wait. Just look up to the sky and stay like God. What a beautiful sea. Now I know what you mean. Stay here forever. What a beautiful sea. Now I know what you mean. You'll my gateway to heaven. Gateway to heaven. You're my gateway to heaven. Gateway to heaven. Gateway to heaven.

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You're listening to Synth Pop Symphony with Matt Williams, and what a way to kick off the show. We open with two absolute giants of Synth history colliding. We got Duran Duran meeting the Petra Mode with that incredible new mashup of Come Undone and Let Not Tonight giving the Matt 1 remix treatment. Today we brought you the MS Project and their fresh take on the level 42 classic Lessons and Love, followed by the brand new single from FHV.

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A stone brewing muscle, a tumbler no one. I'm not sure how long I'm best. So far, so good. How long did I take? So far, so good.

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And love and sounds it's a very good thing.

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So can we?

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So far, so good. How long is it gonna take? So far, so good.

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And so my love.

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Everything that we covet, everything that we fear not having, everything that we ultimately end up buying. It's because at the end of the day, we long for love and wish we had more time, and we fear death. Love, time, death. Let's begin there.

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Love time and death.

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The best 80s remixes only on Synthob Symphony Master in your presence But you don't seem to share my patience I rely on you to break the silence I can not understand your reluctance I feel so won't so I think Master is only I'm gonna make one in the shirt like you know we raised me sweet And all I'm on the other side Raspberry Sweet things from your own body Holding inside holding it I feel so happy on her shot DC standard the only I'm DC standard the only I'm seeing all the Wow the one and only TSF with brand new mini mix featuring three exclusive synth classics we kicked it off with an absolutely massive TSF remix of the human leagues being foiled. Then we featured another synthop Symphony exclusive brand new with Foreign Affair and Love Time and Death. I completely reimagined my TSF and a huge thanks to Steven and Steve from Foreign Affair for sending this incredible remix over to Letter Here with Literary around the world. And we're gonna have to get a freaking here in the EVM for you and after head. And then we're gonna jump right back into the new. And then we're gonna call it the thing and go back to it all the time.

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The next generation of electronic dance music.

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City of angels, but dreams take flight, palm trees sway in the electric trees, lost in a rhythm of endless streets. Stars on a sidewalk, never alone. Skyscribers reach a purple sky. In this city we breathe, there's no goodbye. Under the light, Alice alive. Hope it's beaten in the golden night. Out on the bulbs, up in the hills. The angels wait for another kill under the light.

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Happy features in the heat of the night.

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Sharks in the ocean, fires on high. Here's a dream, and the dreams can die at the pavement, fate in disguise, hopes from a canyon dressed in a lie. How do you go outside? Dancing in bars every night here is written in stars. Under the light, a light, hope it's beating in the golden night. Out on the bovars, up in the hills. The angels wait for another kill under the light.

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As a light, happy spitting in the heat of the night. Sharks in the ocean, fires on high, kids are dreaming. Dreams can die. Don't really care for friends that way. You see my picture on the screen. My face is forever, ever green. I'm always flawless, I always smile. My life is perfect, I've got style. You see my picture on your screen. I know I'm living the perfect dream. I wanna be likable, so irresistible. I wanna go that extra mile, just to be like a bow. Like a bowl to get many followers.

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I'm so likable. I wanna be likable.

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Like a boat to get many followers. I'm so likable. I'm always trending, I'm always clean. A perfect life in every scene. Beyond the pictures, there's a child longing to be a perfect bride. I wanna be likable, so irresistible. I wanna go that extra mind. Just to be like a bow. Like a bowl to get many followers. I'm so like a bow.

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I wanna feel like a bow. Like a ball to get many followers. I wanna be like a wolf.

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I wanna be like a wolf, so irresistible. I wanna go that extra mile. Just to be like a bow. Like a wolf to give any followers. I'm so like a bow.

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I wanna be like a bow. Like a ball to give any followers. I'm so like a ball.

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Synth Pop Symphony, the sound of your past, the rhythm of your future.

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Send me cross a river, take me cross the ocean.

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I just need to be somewhere to sort out my emotions. You know it's up to you, you know exactly what to do. I can't take it anymore. I don't wanna come back, knocking on your door. I don't wanna come back, knocking on your door. Breaking every law, I don't wanna come back, knocking on your door.

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You like to see me break down I just got to have my face for your satisfaction You know it's time to do, you know the stain I'm coming through.

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I can't take it anymore.

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With the incredible new Neon Capital. Their single is called Elliot's Alive, it's out now. We also feature the return of Train of Spain. Finally, with a brand new trainable.

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Then you trace in my name, then your drink. I split her like walling signs, but you smile so slow. I can't think her Your shadow on the floor for me, it's for me under Nothing too sweet, not your kiss and quiet thunder I thought it's got your shadow on the floor And dancing dancing closer, and I'm gonna go to the house. We get truth in the gaps of the beef. I feel everywhere that you don't say, but it's often lovely your shadow on the floor, pulling me in, pulling me under Nothing too sweet, not your biting your kids and a quiet under I just followed the shadow of the floor. I'm dancing I'm dancing, does that?

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I've watched your face for a long time. It's always the same. I started the cracks and post. You were always the same. Now you live your life like a shadow in the pouring rain. Always come up. Yes, it's called love.

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Yes, it's love.

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I did my life on the hill. I live my life on the hall. I did my life on hello. When love is at home, it's the best. Love it's the joy for every evil. Love it's the end of the eagle, it's all the love. And it's so That's not how it's become unable. It's all love. And it belongs to us, it's all love. It's all love.

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And it belongs to us.

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And it's called Shadows on the Floor, featuring the Italo Nightmare. And we kept things moving with the brand new music from Marcus Anturo with Overdrive Incredible. And we close out the set with a new order and a special master remix from Mat 1. It's from the Moon and the singles called No Magic. The classics, the forgotten gems, and the future of electronic music. This is Synth Bob Symphony.

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Playing the best electronic pop, Synth Bob, and the best remixes of Leon Synth Bob Symphony Street.

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I got a strength the real that keeps me at your door. I got a strength of real that keeps me coming back for more. I did the night. If I have gone so far, it's such a straight story.

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Let the punishment begin.com for past shows and special DJ mixes.

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I have to admit to myself, and then I learn. So for long for you, speak to me.

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You're so full of me.

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And stone my heart.

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So in the heart, down the sky.

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Communicate.

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So you use your words.

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Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Communicate.

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So use your words.

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Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Learn to use your words so we can communicate. Communicate.

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Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Communicate.

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Learn to use your words so we can.

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No, magic, no, magic, no, magic.

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We started the last set by going back to Fresno, California, and revisiting a band we recently featured on the School of Synth, Ola Moore. A big thank you to my listener who reminded me that we had one more important chapter in their story. Their final single from 1991 was Incredible Synth. Thank you so much for keeping me on track and helping us complete the story. Then we jump forward to 2003 with PT from his groundmaking album emotional technology and the craft called communicating. Let's get ready for another new feature and brand new editors, remixes, master, and reimagine. We're gonna bring together the legend, level 42, real life, grandma, winning room, yes, boys, the cure, ultravox propaganda, your rhythmics, and a few surprises along the way. One hour, no rules, just massive melodies, unforgettable hooks, and the songs we love completely reimagined. So turn it up. This is Sinister Volume Pop Two right here on Sin Pop Symphony in the Mix.

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Only on Sinfop Symphony.

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People want people to light it.

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You have to get a little bit of people.

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People ask, people soul, why should it be? You like to get a look for all the beats. People ask, people soul, why should it be? You like to get a loop so all the days for the ball, and with it for a green, it's it both green, boom.

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I've said no we've met for what could I have done?

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I don't understand, with a man, it's another man, that's it, understand. People swam, why should it be? You got to get a lot for the things. People want people so why should it be? You got to get a lot of the things that we're doing.

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I'm ready to not just find the seat of the feet.

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You I should get a lot of awesome things. People swallowed why should it be? You asked to get a lot of awesome things understand. Base a man, it's another man, help me understand. Understand Base and Man, it's another man, help me understand. You asked to get a lot of awesome being. You asked to get a lots of all the beats. You asked to get a lot of all the things, people. Do you remember? There was a time where people on the street were walking hand in hand in hand They used to talk about the weather, making place together, days will last forever. Come to become behold me. Together we'll break these chains of love. Don't give up, don't give up. Together with me and my baby, break the chains of life. Do you remember once upon a time? When there were open doors, an invitation to the world. We were falling in other last. Come to recover me, hold me. Together we'll break these chains of love. Don't give up, don't give up now. Together we think I baby, break the chains of love. Together we'll break these chains of love. How can it be? I should not be suffer so long from the games they must be wrong. Making mistakes.

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Is it so long? To be human every time you back with you. So I wouldn't give you back with you. Baby, I don't know. And a perfect God Friday.

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And the baby not so low, it's not so long. We're only human and baby. Do you believe in heaven above? Do you believe in love? Don't tell a lie, don't be false or untrue. It all comes back to you. Open fire on my burning heart. I've never been lucky in love. My defenses are down, a kiss or a frown. I can't survive on my own. If a girl walks in and calls her name in my heart, I'll turn away. Every day we've only let us stray.

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It's making you cry. Don't know what to do. Don't know what to do.

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You're looking for love, falling heaven above. Send me an angel. Send me an angel.

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Right now.

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Right now. Send me an angel. Send me an angel right now.

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Right now.

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You go to the bottom. You don't wear a flashlight. Have you seen the welded? On another avenu. On a famous thoroughfast. With another sending the colors, and every time. When you don't know where to go to wear fashion. And with friends, don't we go to fake it? We're rock and fellas, walk with things. Umbrella, you want to do that.

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Could it be a whole bunny wine? A secret wine. A mystery keeping inside. The weakest wine. Until we gas into the fire. A chance to find the feelings for the play. A chance to die.

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You take yourself, you take my time. I never saw myself to one number.

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You have to forget to play my own.

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You take yourself, you take my love. I live among the creatures of the light. I have the will to try and fight. I guess it's all I guess I just believe tomorrow, never come as their night.

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I've lived in the forest on the beach. I don't think you don't sound the way I plan them to be waiting around the wall.

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So it should have you know what to do always be better Sometimes if I shall watch in the end We don't got to I'm sorry but I'm just thinking of the right ones I know they don't sound the way I plan them to be if you get around the white you're supposed to be I'm sorry but I just think I'm the right must I know they don't sound the way I plan them to be And if I have to walk the world I think I'm gonna be a promise you I promise you need to tell ya tell ya I gotta tell ya but I just think we can have to ride Cause run I know they don't sound the way I want them to be if you wait around the wall they for me I want you I'm sorry but I just think they have to ride what's the same I know they don't sound the way I wanted to be And if I don't want the world that they're saying I promise you I promise you I just think we have to ride What's I know they don't sound the way I wanted to be waiting around the wild I promise you I'm sorry but I just think we're not to ride but I know they don't sound the way I wanted to be fine the world that they can save me.

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I promise you, I promise you, I'm gonna go ahead and get a lot of the best Silicon, Simply Wave, Electro Pop, and Italy Dance in the Mix. Only on the Silicon Symphony.

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Say you don't want to chance it. You've been handsome before. You lose yourself, know not what the beauty says. You got to write some tea.

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I've been wishing, you would telephone wicker. I've been wishing, you would tell it all wicker.

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I'm lying so long. I've been wishing you would tell it all wake up.

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I just got to do this, break the bring around the new sensation. Draw a combat to me, no back, not a comeback to me, take it back down, take it back down, take it back down, back down.

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My county's wants, I am as brilliant as you want.

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I like you for my love. Some fun gets things wings.

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You want to be rich?

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I love the boy I'm around. I bet you make once the money. I like the move out of you. I like to make what's the money.

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I still have this one. Time to have matches I could. I've done something, choose the perfect time. If you've got the information, I've got the one.

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I love the money on the study. See how my mind. How do you feel about it? Come take a home from me. I'm looking for contact with God's menace. Think about it, see what it's mean, don't make sense. There's a lot of children's feet.

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Take your noise, come and know. There's a lot of children's kids. If you're watching, you got the books. Let's make lots of money.

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Let's make lots of people.

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The mix continues on Synth Pop Symphony Santa Santa Santa.

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I saw all of you. Sometimes I'm salty, somebody somewhere. And all you've built around, you just tumble to the ground. With your future hands. Oh, you have a none of the mouth.

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Whether you're listening in Los Angeles, the Hog, London, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Caracas, City, Mexico City, or anywhere in between, thank you for making Synthop Symphony part of your week. I'll see you guys here next week. And remember, it's a crazy world out there. Let's keep connecting the world music until next time. Take care of yourself, take care of each other.