The Past, Present and Future of Synth Driven Music!
June 26, 2026

Synthpop Symphony 333 Electropop Synthwave Italo Dance New Wave & Sinister Disco 22!

Synthpop Symphony 333 Electropop Synthwave Italo Dance New Wave & Sinister Disco 22!


Synthpop Symphony 333R1 a special repeat of EP300 – The Past, Present & Future of Synth-Driven Music

It was a milestone in November 2025 when Synthpop Symphony celebrated Episode 300 — featuring the past, present, and future of synth-driven music. We kick things off with releases from Depeche Mode with “In The End”, Duran Duran - “Shadows on your Side” on the Dance Macabre album, and Marina with “Key to the Castle”, plus an ’80s Mini-Mix packed with classics from Yazoo, Prince, and Simple Minds.

Then it’s all about the next generation of new music from Positronic, De/Vision, Anna Marx, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns and Foreign Affaire along with the not so classic 2022 standout from Piston Damp. And in the second hour, get ready for Sinister Disco Vol. 22 — a high-energy, one-hour mix exploring the future of synth-driven dance music, featuring Italo Dance, Synthwave, and Electropop favorites from Hazell Dean, Italoconnection, Kasablanca, Linda Jo Rizzo, and more.

Hour 1 – New Music Spotlight

Depeche Mode – In the End (Maverick Remix) [Columbia Records]

Duran Duran – Shadows on Your Side (DJ Funky 2025 Remix) [BMG / Tape Modern]

Marina – Key to the Castle [Atlantic Records] (Bonus track from “Princess of Power”)


Mini-Mix – 80s Remixed Classics

Yazoo – Situation (Extended Mix) [Mute Records]

Prince – When Doves Cry (Remastered) [Warner Bros. Records]

Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me) (12” Extended) [Virgin / A&M Records]


Modern Synth Set

De/Vision – Synchronize [Popgefahr Records]

Anna Marx – You Never Really Cared [Independent]

Piston Damp – Something in Me (Technomancer Remix) [Sub Culture Records]


Retro Revival Set

Brighter Than a Thousand Suns – Falling Into You [Independent / TikTok Discovery]

Foreign Affaire - Love, Time and Death (Machine MAde Pleasure Mix) [Independent]

Positronic – Strangelove [Retro Synth Records]


Sinister Disco Vol. 22 – The Future of Synth-Driven Dance Music

(Mixed by Matt Williams)

Blixx 86 – Pull the Trigger [NewRetroWave]

Ballet Mecanico – Primera Secuencia [Blanco y Negro Music]

Project K feat. Magenta Soulstar – R [Independent]

Hazell Dean – Searchin’ (Italoconnection Remix) [Energise Records]

De Soffer – French Kiss [M-Sol Records]

Linda Jo Rizzo – You’re My First, You’re My Last [ZYX Music]

Torrevado feat. Linda Jo Rizzo & DJ V – Desire [ZYX Music]

Solarstone – I Found You (Extended Mix) [Black Hole Recordings]

Kasablanca – Better Today, Better Tomorrow [Anjunabeats]

Jordan Nocturne & Velvet Velour – Midnight Emotion [Shall Not Fade]

Thessla feat. SirPaul – The Sun & The Rain [Sub Culture Records]

Dead or Alive vs. Marthe & Think Positive – You Spin Me Round (Lethal Remix) [SP Music]

TDWS – Boy Senior [Independent]


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Playing the best new wave electropop, synth wave, italia disco.

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

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With your host, DJ Matt Williams. Your dance music Odyssey starts now.

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Welcome to Synth Pop Symphony episode 300. This is Matt Williams here, and I can't believe since 2017, I produced over 225 shows, plus more than a hundred underground lounge episodes on various stations over the years. I want to sincerely thank each and every one of you for taking the time out of your busy day to spend two hours with me every week. I'd also like to thank all of the station owners, operators, and program directors who took a chance on this fledgling Sent Pop show, helping it reach listeners in over 100 countries around the world. From the USA to Taiwan, welcome and thank you for your support. On tonight's episode 300, I thought what better way to celebrate the past, present, and future of synth driven music than with a show that captures each of those eras. We'll kick things off with present-day artists, some of which also define the past, but also continue to release incredible new music. So, up first, the brand new DePesh mode track in the inn. This song was one of four recorded during the Memento Mori sessions, but never released until now. It's featured in their brand new concert film, M, and is currently playing in theaters worldwide. Then we're going to move into Duran Duran with a stunning reimagined version of Shadows on Your Side. This was from the 1983 classic Seven and the Ragged Tiger, and it's been remixed and reimagined for you tonight. And rounding out our opening set is the latest from Marina. She's got a brand new track called Key to the Castle. It's a brand new bonus track added to Princess of Power album. Also, tonight you're gonna hear Sinister Disco 21, an all-new one-hour mix showcasing the future of synth driven music plus, an 80s mini mix, and plenty of new and classic tracks throughout the night. It's all new, it's all now, and it's all right here on Synth Pop Symphony episode 300.

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Experience the evolution of electronic dance music only on Synth Pop Symphony Going nowhere in the air weightless floating headlessly.

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Are you forever looking back at the past between the cracks? In venting sense when that is out, throwing spots into the blast. I use these words without belief. I don't think so anyway. On the lines she laid away, it's a makeup gate supply, second section of the lines, all this emptiness inside, nothing shiny out of eye. For hope to come away, something to believe, Janet, looking for sight to guide the blind, save us from the close with no one, going nowhere through nothing.

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Let the music movie on Synth of Symphony.

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Shadows around your side go down. In the darkest place you can't find the light. That the shadows are on your side. You can all the hands overnight. The shadows on your side Shadows on your mind.

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The shadows on your eye.

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Shadows on your side. The shadows of your eyes.

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Looking for love in the center of a voice. Now it's so easy to identify. But you're never gonna be the given choice. This is in love on a silver screen. You want a woman, but you can't play games with me. Go get the cavalry before you show your cards right in away on your stallion. Make your escape up in two. Could have been lovers, yeah.

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We could have had a lot of fun.

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Fresh this week from Marina, that's brand new bonus track. That was added to her Princess of Power album, and if you haven't had a chance to check that record out yet, it's easily one of the best synthpop dance albums of the year. We also heard Duran Duran with Shadows on Your Side, the DJ Funky 2025 remix. And we kicked off the show with a brand new defension mode track in the end of the Maverick Remix. And speaking of remixes, let's dive right into the mix tonight. We got a mini mix with three absolute classics. We got a hand of situation.

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This is DJ Matt Williams, Los Angeles, the main company on Central Symphony.

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You and I engage to the kids. Can you find out? Can we change? Ocean fire so blue. And the most like carry floating.

unknown

Maybe I'm just too many.

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Maybe I'm just like my father. Maybe I'm just like my brother.

unknown

She feels that it's sad. Why do we have each other?

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This is what it sounds like we love Christ. You have the trouble inside up. You got the butt fly all tied up.

unknown

Maybe I'm dust to be that day.

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Maybe I'm dust like my father.

unknown

Maybe I'm dust like my mother.

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This is what it sounds like the crystal. Alone in the world is so cold. World is so cold. She never said why.

unknown

Are we alone? Tell me, you're your hold down.

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Giving you everything inside.

unknown

So you will compete things that you working on.

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Spoonie, baby wanna put more.

unknown

Wanna get in your heart, baby?

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Don't you don't don't mean you stand above me? My way never love me. Win keeps going, rain keep scrolling, down to me.

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Oh my kids going, Win kids for me down you try and pretend you like you will show you the dancing banner insecurity Don't you forget about me?

unknown

Don't you want?

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I'm gonna fight to get a heart, baby. Don't you forget about me? Don't don't forget about me.

unknown

Stop a shedded care for what we held so dear.

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It's stocky dark all around the clock. Possible to stop the planet that's completely say I close my eyes and synchronize with a tempting world outside. Yes, stay in life. Let's redefine it not enough to fall behind. There's no right, there's no in this world you're on your own. You will always be alone. If you want to stay alive, in this morning gotta fight from your birth until the day you die, the show must go on. Play the same old song, everybody sing along, costume or die under a black sky, the don't dare to define all you and just I close my eyes and synchronize with the mindless work outside Always all the love with my everyone and all my God was up.

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Feel so cold here since you left the room Intoxicated by your perfume. How never bewilder than a secret? Yo cake, yo came. Oh, how could you be so deceived? I see never eat a mic Could never lose my like me.

unknown

Now I don't know why.

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You never make right away with me. Just one taste is everything I need. How is the theme with any secret? Yo cave, yo gave. Oh, how could you be so deceived? I see how she never really cared about me. Cause you could never lose a bad me, but I don't know.

unknown

You never really care about me.

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Why you looking at me like that? Is it something I've said? Is it something I have done? Why you looking at me like that? Everybody can disgust me. Why you talking to me like that? Why did you please I'm sorry to find it? Why you talking to me like that? Why are you touching my soul like that? What's believing why I came here in the first place? Why you touching my stone like that? Surprise to me. Surprise to me. Surprise to me. Surprise to me. Don't move in something to me.

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I think I'm not gonna be something to me.

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Such an amazing track. And speaking of amazing, how about that brand new Anna Mark single? It was called You Never Really Cared. We also kicked off this set with another slammer. Brand new, finally, from Division and their latest track synchronized. I don't think Division had a new track since 2018, so definitely happy to hear from them. Synchronized is all about the minutes. We got a minute one coming up in the 15 minutes from the track. This is the third track on their album. And this is the machine like your remakes coming up too. So we got two great tracks here. A third one. We've got positronic brand new Strange Love all coming up right now on this set.

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The next generation of electronic dance music.

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The pool that your horizon makes. I surrender tonight. It's all too all my secrets in die. So far away, you radiate a light that will keep me safe. When stars come by, you can deny a science we can recognize. Falling past two stars of love. You make a fastness there move. So far, so good. How long's it gonna take? So far, so good. Love, time and death. Love, time and death.

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I like the thousands of time to manage the life and the colour.

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Sometimes fast and sometimes so can you feel it? It's all inevitable. So far, so good. How long is it gonna take? So far, so good. Love, time, and death, always, love, time, and death. Now so engaging. I like the thousands of time. I'm so game. I like the thousands of time.

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Every moment is we near.

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In this rhythm, my love is clear.

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Whisper through the night, melodies and through light, hearts entwined under grace, floating through this boundless place. Strange love is all around me, keeps me guessing endlessly. In this game of hearts we play. Through the dark we chase the light, silent echoes in the night. Every touch of cosmic spark, guiding us beyond dark, softly calling through the stars. We hear the whispers near and far. Lost within an endless flight. Strange love is all around me, keeps me guessing endlessly. Endless game of hearts we play. In this game of hearts we play. Oh strange love. And it's strange.

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That was Strange Love off his brand new EP, which also features a slick cover of Lamal's never-ending story out now on RetroSend Records. So head over to Man Camp and grab yourself a copy! We also heard Foreign Affair with Love Time and the Machine Made Pleasure Make. If you'd like to support the way you're ready to dance like nobody's watching, right here.

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Pull the trigger on my gun, come, give me some, feel me you're the only one, give me some, pull the trigger on my gun, come, give me some, ride me to the moment, come, give me some, pull the trigger on my gun, come, give me some, ride me to the moment.

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The best Sith Pop, Sith Wave, Electro Pop, and it'll dance in the mix, only on Sith Pop Symphony.

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Enterrar tus sueños para ser una persona normal, ser individualista y siempre querer competir.

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Nunca se cantas y siempre recordarte Hay que seguir las reglas, hay que vivir caña, estaré os dilación, pero yo no sé Yo nunca seré Yo no sé las fuerzas los alí a progresar Cabrera las mentiras del modelo me obligará Pero no me arrancan toda la seguridad La pisar a cabezas para que se lanzó Yo no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no sería libertad Y ahora son los que sin futuro y sin paz Y el progreso prometido nunca lo vimos venir Pero solo se libera el que dice No más seguir las reglas The best Sin Pop, Synth Wave Electro Pop, and Italo Dunce in the Mix Only On Sin Pop Symphony We lay away Silent in the dark You don't have to hide a trace emptiness that small ring the vice, ring the vice, around Ring the Vice, bring the vice, break up on We are lonely people We're in a ring of lights Just let it to light behind Coward empty light We're in a ring of light I walk alone searching for a sign Someone else must be alive with war behind the eyes ring the vice around you all lonely people wearing a ring of mice to disguise all the lies behind how it's empty life wearing a ring of ice ring the voice ring the voice around all the lonely people wearing a ring of vice to discuss me I surrounded by the ring of life to discuss life we eyes around it by the ring of life we're we're in a ring of light Matt Williams Los Angeles Searching and seeking never sleeping I've got to find a name I want new disguises who just surprises someone who I understand I'm the only guy who spent lonely one night and tell me he's got no more time I'm looking for someone to share my life I bet I'll move on down the line Sarcha looking for love all the time Sarcha looking for love I've got to find a man excite me but don't invite me they don't even notice it seems Oh I'm always waiting anticipating I long for the man of my dreams He needn't be handsome and thought you love pain You just gotta be sweet and trying But there's so many wanting on need in the same I gotta move on down the line such a looking for love all the time I can such a look at love I got to find me a man such a look at love Everybody's okay such a look at I got to find a man to live my life with just one man I thought by now I had the love I always wanted but things are not the way I play such for love all the time I get looking for love I don't need a guy who spent one night and tell me he's got no more time I'm looking for someone to share my life I better move on down the line such as looking for love all the time okay such a looking for love I got to find me a man such as looking for love everybody's okay such a looking for love the very best in high energy dance music only on Sith Pop Symphony

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Was like it came so it tempted me and looked so night. I wanted more. And when you came into my life, it wasn't dreaming come true. I was a little girl I get.

unknown

You felt the truth. Can't you see a break in a pen?

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And tried to walk away. But when you ask me that, okay, I had to say I can believe in all your night. You still say why do we have to keep the silver?

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I don't wanna feel so lonely. I don't wanna feel so lonely.

unknown

I can't get out I can't get up around I can't feel up around the way alone. I no longer wanna look for my other half of the sky. Right now, I have to turn around right now.

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I can feel around, round, round. This we can go way alone. Want to open my mind by walking on the shore.

unknown

I can't feel, I can't feel, I can't feel every round.

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I can't feel that around around, I can't go, I can't we go, I can't fill up around, I can't fill up around, get away the null, I don't know, I can't find out around, I took it always by walking on the show.

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I can't fit up around, I took out away a name You're listening to DDJ Matt Williams, Los Angeles, San Francisco.

unknown

We can be who we have. All the ladies how you want you live your life.

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Taking the chili with you, and now did everybody start with the features I gotta feel.

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You can hear us with your soul, so I know you gotta know that it was in your snow.

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I get to know your name. When I can trace your private number, baby.

unknown

All I know is that's me to look like that one. Come and up, you love and down. I want the sound, want the sound.

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I said my sights on you.

unknown

I know what you do. I've got you all my way, no way. All I know is that's me. You look like you're having fun. I've been not your love along shake down.

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You spin me, right, round, baby, ride, round. Like your record, baby, ride, round, round, round. You spin me, right, round, baby, ride, round.

unknown

Like your record, baby, ride, round, round, round, right, down, right, down, right, right, right, run, right, bound. I got to feel friendly. Would like to move and just a little bit closer. All I know is that you look like you're having one. I'm not gonna love a lot. This every male ride, room, play, rise, roll. I can rip a baby, right, round, round, round. This baby male, ride, roll, play, right, roll. I can rip a baby, right?

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You look like you're having fun, but not your love and what shall you?

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We're gonna be 100% in the mix with special guest DJ Matt D and myself spinning 80s and 90s classics alongside today's best new Synth Pop. Have an amazing week, and I'll see you right here next time. This is Matt Williams signing off from Synth Pop Symphony.

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You're signing off, Synth Pop Symphony with DJ Matt Williams. Signing off.

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Signing off.

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