🎃 Synthpop Symphony 299 – The Halloween Show! 👻

It’s that time of year again

This week’s episode is packed with chilling remixes, cinematic reworks, and retro club anthems that blend classic 80s nostalgia with modern darkwave energy — the perfect soundtrack for your Halloween weekend.

🕯️ We open with a Halloween Mini-Mix featuring De Soffer’s stunning cinematic remake of “Thriller”, Rockwell’s eerie classic “Somebody’s Watching Me,” and a deep remix of Dave Gahan & Soulsavers — setting the perfect tone for what’s to come.

👁️‍🗨️ Later, we bring Thriller back in a whole new light — a dark, futuristic Scandroid remix that transforms the classic into a modern synthwave storm. Two versions, two moods — both unforgettable.

💀 The second Mini-Mix dives into full retro horror mode with extended club cuts from Oingo Boingo, Ramones, and A Flock of Seagulls — resurrecting three icons of 80s Halloween energy.

🌑 The Dark Synth Set pulses with today’s underground power — Blaklight, Church Fire, KMFDM, and Jay Wires deliver haunting vocals, moody textures, and industrial beats that define the new dark generation.

🌕 And to close the night… DJ Robert Anthony’s “Spooky Nights Like This” takes us into the after-hours with a cinematic, atmospheric finale that perfectly captures the Halloween spirit.

Halloween Show Playlist

De Soffer – Thriller [De Soffer Music]

Rockwell – Someone’s Watching Me (Ministry of Funk Disco Mix) [Motown / Ministry of Funk]

Dave Gahan & Soulsavers – All of This and Nothing (Remix) [Columbia / Mute]

Fun Spooky Tunes

Scandroid – Thriller [FiXT Neon]

Dead or Alive – Something in My House [Epic Records]

Machine X – Every Day Is Halloween [Independent]

Blaklight – Paranoid (Klack Mix) [Independent / DISTORTION Productions]

Mini-Mix

Oingo Boingo – Dead Man’s Party (Extended Mix) [MCA Records]

Ramones – Pet Sematary (Extended Mix) [Sire Records]

A Flock of Seagulls – Nightmares (Extended Mix) [Jive / BMG]

Spooky Dark Tunes

Duran Duran – Psycho Killer [BMG]

KMFDM – Lust [Metropolis Records]

Church Fire with Curse Mackey – Small Seed [Negative Gain Productions]

Jay Wires – Ghost [Independent]

Happy Death – All of Me [Independent]

Spooky Nights Like This - DJ Robert Anthony

Vince Clarke – White Rabbit [Mute Records]

Depeche Mode – My Favourite Stranger (Boris Remix) [Columbia / Mute]

Candyland – La French Toast & Julian Sanza [Spirit Soul Records]

Kraftwerk – Radioactivity (SNYL Remix) [Kling Klang / SNYL Edit]

Thorn – Damon Jee [Correspondant Records]

Bonnie Spacey – Guilty [Independent]

Underworld – And the Color Red (Rebuke Remix) [Smith Hyde Productions / Rebuke Edit]

Armonique – Bad Talk [HouseU Records]

Jake Shears – Too Much Music (Lauer Remix) [Mute / Boys Noize Records]

SNYL – Ghosts of the Dark Room [SNYL Records]

Darlyn Vlys – Shivers [Polymath Records]

Machinegewehr – Sans [Bordello A Parigi]

Sasha – Fused [Last Night On Earth]

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🎶 Synthpop Symphony 298 is out now — and this one’s packed from start to finish.

This week I drop a Classic New Wave Mini-Mix featuring refreshed remakes from A-ha, The Twins, and Erasure — blending those timeless 80s melodies with a modern club edge.

Then things get darker (in the best way) with a Female Dark-Synth Spotlight featuring some seriously powerful artists from around the world — Agency-V, Violentene, Dreadful Savior, Ladytron, and Synthetic Saints feat. Alisa bringing sleek, emotional electro energy.

We wrap up the first hour with fresh, high-energy releases from Fragrance., JXNS, and Dollar, proving that synthpop isn’t just alive — it’s thriving.

Hour two cranks it all the way up with Sinister Nu-Disco Vol. 2, a full-length mix built around De Soffer’s incredible reworks. Tel Aviv producer Omri Soffer takes 80s and modern icons — Moby, Alphaville, Depeche Mode, New Order, Dua Lipa, Lady Gaga, Queen, and more — and turns them into pulsing, late-night Nu-Disco anthems.

An hour of pure, analog-meets-digital magic that captures everything I love about this show — the past, present, and future of synth-driven music colliding on one dancefloor.

Hour 1 – New Music Spotlight

• Ayria – Burning Up (Madonna Cover) [Artoffact Records]
  
  
  
• Cicero – Don’t Hide Away [Spaghetti Records / Polydor (original affiliation)]
  
  
  
• Blackbook – Wait Until Midnight [darkTunes Music Group]
  
  
  

Mini-Mix – Classic New Wave Remakes

Mixed by Matt Williams

• A-ha – Hunting High and Low (Seashore 12” Remix) [Warner Music / Reprise]
  
  
  
• The Twins – Not the Loving Kind (Collini Nu Disco Remix) [Original: Hansa International / BMG]
  
  
  
• Erasure – Stop! (TSF DiscoMix) [Mute Records]
  
  
  

Female Dark-Synth Spotlight

• Agency-V – House of Sin [Distortion Productions]
  
  
  
• Violentene – The Other Side [Independent / Self-Released]
  
  
  
• Dreadful Savior – Shades of Crimson (Bruja Remix) [Independent / Self-Released]
  
  
  
• Ladytron – I See Red [Cooking Vinyl]
  
  
  
• Ladytron – Runaway (2008) [Nettwerk Records]
  
  
  
• Synthetic Saints feat. Alisa – Dreams in the Night [Independent]
  
  
  

High-Energy New Music Set

• Fragrance. – Burning the Mold [Artoffact Records]
  
  
  
• JXNS – Remember the Days [Independent / Self-Released]
  
  
  

Dollar – The Train That Never Comes [Cherry Red Records / Classic Pop Reissues]

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This week on Synthpop Symphony 297 — we’re diving deep into the heart of synth-driven sound with a lineup that spans decades and dimensions.

We’ll start with Andy Bell of Erasure and his stunning new remake of “Xanadu” — originally by Olivia Newton-John and ELO — followed by his collaboration with Claudia Brücken of Propaganda on “Love Oneself” from the Electric Blue LP.

Then we turn back the clock with Boxcar’s classic “Freemason (You Broke the Promise)” from 1990 before jumping into a massive Mini-Mix featuring A-ha’s “I’ve Been Losing You,” the brand-new Nine Inch Nails remix from Tron: Ares, an electrifying “Blue Monday” remake by DeSoffer, and the timeless Pet Shop Boys anthem “Always On My Mind.”

The new music keeps coming — with Lights of Euphoria and their incredible track “Machines of Light,” Epriin with “Boy Before,” and a retro flashback from Michael Cretu on “Samurai” in the DJ Plastikk Retro Disco Remix.

We’ll also revisit Echo Image and their 2021 standout “Walk My Mind,” plus Steven Kimber — also known as Vanello — with “I Wanna Be the One” (Project Radio Mix), and wrap the hour with a newly extended remix of *Madonna’s “rare track Gambler.”

All that and more — in one power-packed episode blending 80s legends, modern innovators, and future classics.

And in hour two — it’s Sinister Nights: In the Mix, a full hour of deep, dark, and beautifully cinematic synth and disco energy.

This is Synthpop Symphony 297 —

🎧 Where the Past, Present, and Future of Synth-Driven Music Collide.

Hour 1

Andy Bell – Xanadu (Olivia Newton-John & ELO Cover) [Mute Records / Independent Release]

Andy Bell & Claudia Brücken – Love Oneself (2005 Remastered 2017) [SFE / Cherry Red Records]

Boxcar – Freemason (You Broke the Promise) [Volition Records / Arista]

Mini-Mix – Retro Cinematic Energy

A-ha – I’ve Been Losing You [Warner Bros.]

Nine Inch Nails – As Alive As You Need to Be (Andrew Ektom Remix) [Walt Disney]

New Order – Blue Monday (DeSoffer Remix) [Factory]

Pet Shop Boys – Always on My Mind [Parlophone]

Lights of Euphoria – Machines of Light [Infacted Recordings]

Epriin – Boy Before [Independent]

Michael Cretu – Samurai (DJ Plastikk Retro Disco Remix) [Virgin / Enigma Records]

Echo Image – Walk My Mind [A Different Drum]

Steven Kimber (Vanello) – I Wanna Be the One (Project Radio Mix) [Vanello Music / Time Machine Productions]

Madonna – Gambler (2025 Extended Remix Re-Release) [Warner / Sire]

Hour 2 – Sinister Nights: In The Mix

Ernest Kohl – Come Alive at Night (Steve Franklin Extended Remix) [EMG / TRAX Records]

Cerrone – The Impact [Because Music]

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