Synthpop Symphony W/Matt Williams
About Synthpop Symphony
Electronic dance music (EDM) shows are among the most exciting ways to experience your favorite DJs spinning the latest beats. However, there’s a glaring issue: nearly all of these programs cater exclusively to house, trance, and Top 40 pop hits.
Currently, there are no radio programs that celebrate the burgeoning indie appeal of Synthpop, Synthwave, and Electropop, while also paying homage to the iconic music of the 1980s with reimagined remixes and modernized covers. This is despite the fact that thousands of artists across more than 60 countries are actively creating music in these genres.
In addition, many legendary 1980s artists continue to release new music, embark on tours, and sell out venues worldwide. For example, in Los Angeles alone between 2022 and 2025, Depeche Mode, Howard Jones, Duran Duran, New Order, Gary Numan, Tears For Fears, and a Flock of Seagulls all unveiled new albums and performed to packed audiences over multiple nights. Even niche Italo Disco artists like Thomas Anders of Modern Talking sell out two-night engagements in Los Angeles every year.
The fanbase for this music is alive and thriving, hungry for new sounds, fresh artists, and nostalgic classics reminiscent of radio stations like KROQ, Live 105, and 91X in California. Yet, as electronic music has ascended to dominate the mainstream, this passionate audience has been left behind.
Worse still, the general public lacks an easy way to discover this music. The solution lies in bringing it directly to listeners—meeting them where they are. Affordable streaming, FM radio and satellite options are the most effective ways to connect with these audiences.
While companies like XM Satellite Radio honor classic new wave and indie rock, there is currently no equivalent radio program for electronic music fans to hear the latest from these dynamic artists. It’s time to fill this void and give this genre, and its dedicated listeners, the platform they deserve.
Synthpop Symphony W/Matt Williams
Synthpop Symphony 246 R1 Repeat of EP 218 Synthwave Synthpop New Wave Italo and Sinister Disco 12!
This is a great show and a repeat of episode 218 from 2023!
New Bananarama off their new Greatest Hits album Glorious, New @Permer,New Francesca e Luigi, plus new Dead Or Alive, with a fresh Pete Hammond Remix, New Peter Wilson , Tycho Brahe, New Die Sexual , and New Kim Lunner.
I've also got some cool classics from Bronski Beat, FAKE Erasure Fanclub [Official Group] Alphaville, Go West and Day Behavior!
At the top of the 2nd hour I debut the New Sinister Disco 12 kicking off the mix with the new fantastic track "Getaway" from Eric C. Powell Music with Andrea Powell plus the new TORREVADO PROJECT with Fred Ventura , Curses, AFFKT,
FREAK ON with a remake of Let The Music Play by Shannon! Plus a remake by Jon Van Dee with a remake of Mad World! Also RedSole Space Echo, and Die Sexual.
1 | Bananarama | Masquerade
2 | Permer | Behind the Wheel
3 | Permer | Tiger Never Lion
4 | Francesca E Luigi | Forget about The Past
5 | Bronski Beat | Hit That Perfect Beat
6 | Dead Or Alive | Total Stranger Pete Hammond Remix
Peter Wilson,Imagine That AP Mono Remix
7 | Tycho Brahe | Suffer Well
8 | Die Sexual | Need To Sin
9 | The Foghorn | RainMode
10 | Kim Lunar | Dream Of Mine
11 | Voyou | Radio Bostitch
12 | Eric C. Powell + Andrea Powell | Getaway
13 | Moustache | Tending Tropic
14 | TORREVADO PROJECT | Time of our Life
15 | Die Sexual | Need To Sin
16 | James Harcourt | Timespan
17 | Space Echo | Wake Up
18 | Jon Van Dee | Mad World
19 | Slushii | Sapient Dream
20 | FREAK ON | Let The Music Play
21 | Red Sole, | Thinking Straight
22 | Curses | Ghost Of Arms(TERR Remix
23 | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Slylvia Says
24 | Fake | Another Brick
25 | Erasure | Sometimes
26 | Alphaville | Jet Set(DMX Remix)
27 | Go West | We Close Our Eyes
28 | Day Behavior | It’s a Game