SINISTER NEW YEAR’S MIX 2026

ALL NEW MIX

This is not a rerun.

This is not a replay.

This is a brand-new Sinister Disco mix, created specifically to close out the year and usher in 2026 the right way — on the dancefloor.

Sinister New Year’s Mix 2026 blends funky nu-disco, synthpop classics, Italo energy, and extended club reworks into a late-night journey built for New Year’s Eve and beyond.

Featuring New Order, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, OMD, Yazoo, Cerrone, Level 42, Talk Talk, The Flirts, and more — classic melodies meet modern disco muscle and retro-futuristic atmosphere.

🔊 Turn it up

🕺 Lose the old year

✨ Welcome 2026!!!

New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle (2K Funky Nu Disco Mix)

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Secret (Funky Nu Disco Mix)

Pet Shop Boys – Domino Dancing (Funky Nu Disco Mix)

Depeche Mode – Enjoy the Silence (De Soffer Remix)

Purple Disco Machine vs. Yazoo – Situation / Don’t Go (Remix)

Cerrone – Supernature (Andrea Grando Remix)

Gigi D’Agostino – L’Amour Toujours

September – Cry For You (Extended Mix)

Level 42 – Lessons in Love (Da Lukas Remix)

Talk Talk vs. Retro Disco Machine – (Stefano Boot Mix)

New Order – Blue Monday (De Soffer Extended Mix)

The Flirts – Danger (Roy Roa Remix)

The Beatles – Get Back (Beat Studio Remix)

Earth, Wind & Fire – September (C-Mireles 54 Nu Disco Remix)

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Synthpop Symphony returns with a special two-part End of Year Spectacular, celebrating the best synth-driven music of 2025. Hosted by Matt Williams, Episode 308 (Part One) highlights the year’s strongest original releases alongside standout remakes and remixes — from modern synthpop and Italo to darkwave, electropop, and club-ready reworks. The show blends new artists with legendary names, focusing on impact, longevity, and the tracks that truly defined the year.

Synthpop Symphony continues to connect the past, present, and future of electronic music. With a curated, knowledgeable approach and a global audience, this special edition showcases why synthpop remains one of the most influential and evolving genres in modern music. Episode 308 is Part One of this year-end event, with Part Two airing next week.

BEST OF 2025 – END OF YEAR SPECTACULAR! PART ONE

Alison Goldfrapp – Find Xanadu [BMG]

Andy Bell – Breaking Thru The Interstellar [Crown Recordings]

Pet Shop Boys – It’s Alright (Matt One 2025 Remix) [Indie]

Benjamin Russell – Gentle Man (Energy Mix) [Indie]

Cold Connection – Forever And A Day [Indie]

Neon Capital – Midnight Lovers [Indie]

Imbermind – A Thousand Miles [Indie]

Isaac Howlett & A State of Flux – Spiralling [Indie]

Yota – The Hunger [NewRetroWave]

Beyond Obsession – Deadline [Scanner]

BlakLight – Buried Alive [Indie]

Eckotrigger – Endless Fall [Indie]

Christopher Anton & Nick James – Russian Radio [Emergency Hearts]

Candy Apple Blue – Images of Heaven (Matt Pop Extended Mix) [Mrix Muzik Records]

Depeche Mode – Dangerous (Sommer Lounge Mix by TSF) [Indie]

Lady Gaga – Abracadabra [Interscope Records]

Marina – Princess of Power [BMG]

St. Lucia – Falling Asleep [Nettwerk]

Italoconnection – Why (VeGo Remix Edit) [Bordello A Parigi]

Mind Enterprises – The Magician [Time S.p.A.]

Peter Wilson – When I Turn On The Radio (Radio Edit) [Analog Language]

Men Without Hats – I Love the ’80s [Indie]

Kon Kan – Machine X / I Beg Your Pardon (2025 Version) [Indie]

Munatix – Love & Pride [Indie]

Soft Cell & Bronski Beat – Sex Dwarf / Why (Matt One Mashup) [Indie]

Ultravox & Propaganda – White China / The Chase (Matt One Mashup) [Indie]

Rob Rowe of Cause & Effect & VXHRR – Shenandoah [Indie]

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This holiday season, Synthpop Symphony presents a special unhosted 2-hour Holiday Synthmas Show — a nonstop journey through classic and modern synth-driven Christmas music.

No chatter.

No interruptions.

Just pure holiday synth, start to finish.

From iconic ’80s anthems to darkwave, Italo, and modern electronic Christmas cuts, this show blends nostalgia, atmosphere, and dancefloor energy into one immersive seasonal experience.

Vogon Poetry – Xmas Again (Reborn)

Mayah Camara & Sellorekt LA Dreams – Christmas Wish

Modern Talking – It’s Christmas (2025 DB Bonus Mix)

Wham! – Last Christmas (George Tallipakos Remix)

Erasure – She Won’t Be Home (TSF Remix)

Von Kaiser – Happy Christmas

Bananarama – Baby It’s Christmas (Extended Mix)

Cosmicity – Trepak

Eurythmics – Winter Wonderland

Ernest Kohl – Happy New Year (DJ Brian Howe & Jeff Thomas Club Mix)

Pet Shop Boys – It Often Doesn’t Snow at Christmas (DB Remix 2024)

Nicolas Rixon – We Three Kings

Obsession of Time – Last Christmas

Clan of Xymox – Blood of Christ (Isaac Howlett Remix)

ABC – A Christmas We Deserve

Book of Love – We Three Kings

Cher – DJ Play a Christmas Song

Dead or Alive – Blue Christmas

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SYNTHPOP SYMPHONY – SHOW 306 | PRE-XMAS SPECIAL

We’re officially in the final stretch before Christmas, and Show 306 of Synthpop Symphony is all about celebrating the music, the artists, and the moments that defined the year — while setting the tone for what’s coming next.

I’ve carefully curated this episode to blend iconic synthpop and new wave classics with fresh modern releases, exclusive remixes, and high-energy mixes you won’t hear anywhere else.

This week’s show features music from Erasure, Soft Cell, New Order, Depeche Mode, Pete Burns / Dead or Alive, Duran Duran, Wham!, Company B, Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder, and more — artists whose songs helped shape generations of electronic and synth-driven music.

We also spotlight some of today’s standout producers and remixers, including Color Theory, with a stunning Matt Mancid Remix, De Soffer with the best Bronski Beat Smalltown Boy remix in years!, Plus NEW Moda Makina, Mello, Alec Le Roche, with classics from Roubix, Purple Disco Machine, and KON KAN, proving that the future of synth-based music is as strong as ever.

Special segments in Show 306 include:

• A De Soffer mini-mix re-imagining absolute classics like “Smalltown Boy,” “Blue Monday,” and “Shake the Disease” — done with most respect.

• A nu-disco powerhouse rack from Alec Le Roche and IMO inspired by Purple Disco Machine & Chromeo vibes

• My Pre-Xmas Synth Classics Mix — packed with sing-along favorites (and absolutely no holiday songs… (because sometimes that’s the real gift )

• And to close out the night, a guest EDM mix from DJ Cianppy\ Barcelona, Spain, making his Synthpop Symphony debut with a high-energy, vocal-driven set EDM Mix!

Erasure – Loving Man (from Snow Globe) [Mute Records]

Soft Cell – Monoculture [Some Bizzare / Phonogram]

Color Theory – The Last Time (Matt Mancid Remix) [Independent]

De Soffer Mini-Mix

Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy (De Soffer Re-imagining / Remix) [London Records / Independent Remix]

New Order – Blue Monday (De Soffer Remix) [Factory Records / Independent Remix]

Depeche Mode – Shake the Disease (De Soffer Remix) [Mute Records / Independent Remix]

Electropop & Nu-Disco Selections

Moda Makina – Wasted [Independent]

Mello – Young Again [Independent]

Roubix – In Your Head [Independent]

Alec Le Roche – All Together [FiLO FX]

Purple Disco Machine feat. Hurts – Wonderful Life (Purple Disco Machine Remix) [Columbia / Sony Music]

Kon Kan – I Beg Your Pardon (Machine X Remix) [Atlantic Records]

Matt Williams – Pre-Xmas Synth Classics Mix

Pete Burns w/ Glam – Sex Drive [Epic Records]

New Order – Round & Round [Factory Records]

Company B – Fascinated [Atlantic Records]

Depeche Mode – Strangelove [Mute Records]

La Bouche – Sweet Dreams [RCA Records]

Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder – Good Times [Virgin / WEA]

Duran Duran –

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Synthpop Symphony — Episode 305 The Past, Present & Future of Synth-Driven Music

What a night on Synthpop Symphony. Episode 305 is packed with exclusive remixes, rare 80s/90s gems, and incredible new music from across the synthpop, electropop, and synthwave worlds.

Tonight’s Highlights

• Exclusive TSF Remix of the new Depeche Mode track “Survive,” plus fresh TSF reworks of “Strangelove” and “Soft Touch / Raw Nerve.”

• Blaklight returns as a trio with “Cruel” from their brand-new album The Haunting of Us.

• Andy Bell of Erasure opens the show with a killer Rob Dust remix of “Electrostatic.”

• School of Synth features two rare dance tracks:

– Newton – “Sky High” (1994 Eurodance remake)

– The Buckbeats – “Daydream” (PWL Beat Boys Mix)

• New Arcades deliver a stunning synthwave remake of “I Want It That Way.”

• David Adavi debuts “Falling for You,” out December 12.

• Sally Shapiro surprises us with a new remix from the upcoming Live a Lie EP.

Sinister Disco: Future Past Mix

A high-energy blend of Italoconnection, Cerrone, Tee Webb, Lucca Leeloo, Trans-X, Mozzart, Malcolm J. Hill, The Communards, Cathy Dennis, and more.

Andy Bell – Electrostatic (Rob Dust Remix) [Mute Records]

Pet Shop Boys – In the Night (DB Remix) [Parlophone]

Blaklight – Cruel (Album Version) [Independent]

Depeche Mode – Survive (TSF Remix) [Columbia / Mute]

Depeche Mode – Soft Touch / Raw Nerve (Album Version) [Columbia Records]

Depeche Mode – Strangelove (TSF Deeper & Deeper Remix) [Mute Records]

School Of Synth Nineties

Newton – Sky High (Eurodance Version) [ZYX Music]

School Of Synth Eighties

The Buckbeats – Daydream (PWL Beat Boys Mix) [PWL International]

Italove – Burn This City (Milo Blue Remix) [Flashback Records]

David Adavi – Falling for You (Original Mix) [FiLO FX Records]

New Arcades – I Want It That Way (Synthwave Version) [New Arcades Music]

Sally Shapiro – Did You Call Tonight (Armonics Remix) [Paper Bag Records]

Sinister Disco Future/Past 17.5

Italoconnection – Like a Star (Extended Mix) [Blanco y Negro]

Cerrone – Dancing Back to Life (Original Mix) [Malligator / Because Music]

Tee Webb – Here Comes The Rain Again [ZYX]

Lucca Leeloo – Solitude [Independent]

Trans-X – Living on Video [Unidisc Music]

Mozzart – Money [ZYX Records]

Malcolm J. Hill – Take a Chance [Flea Records]

The Communards – Don’t Leave Me This Way [London Records]

Cathy Dennis – Touch Me (All Night Long) [Polydor Records]

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Synthpop Symphony Show 304 is here — and this week’s episode is absolutely packed.

This week's show dives into the world of new electropop, featuring fresh tracks from underground and emerging artists including X Marks the Pedwalk, Savage, Helavox, JXNS, Ranchel Santos, and Synthwave Siren, plus a timeless classic from Book of Love.

We’re also dropping a special De Soffer Mini-Mix, including his Beatport-exclusive extended mix of his new track “Set You Free”, along with recreations of September – “Cry for You” and Nadia Ali – “Rapture.” Nu-disco and Hi-NRG fans — this one’s for you.

Our featured artist this week is Blaklight, the Los Angeles dark-synth trio with one of the strongest sounds in modern electronic music. We’re spotlighting “Buried Alive” from their upcoming album The Haunting of Us, and sharing their Kickstarter campaign as they aim to perform at Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Germany.

And to close out the episode, the massive Symphony Mix 304 brings together brand-new dance tracks from Alexander Price, Italoconnection, Babert & Mell Hall, alongside essential classics from Depeche Mode, Dead or Alive, Bananarama, Blondie, Red Flag, and more.

Two hours of synthpop, electropop, Italo, darkwave, and electronic brilliance — all in one show.

Book of Love – Modigliani (Lost in Your Eyes)

X Marks the Pedwalk – Bury Me

Fonzerelli – Fading Pictures

Savage – Dancing in the Dark

Helamox – First Bite

JXNS – Bridge of Sorrow

De Soffer – Set You Free

September – Cry for You

Nadia Ali – Rapture

Blaklight – Buried Alive

Synthwave Siren – Autumn’s Embrace

Ranchel Santos – Night Is Loud

Alexander Price – Tonight

Babert & Mell Hall – Can’t Stop Now

Italoconnection – All I Want Is You

Depeche Mode – Enjoy the Silence

Oxygen feat. Andrea Britton – Am I On Your Mind

Dead or Alive – My Heart Goes Bang

Bronski Beat – Hit That Perfect Beat

Peter Schilling – Major Tom (Coming Home)

Bananarama – Venus

Red Flag – Pretty in Pity

Blondie – Good Boys

HUNTRIX – Golden

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**“This week on Synthpop Symphony — get ready for a global journey through the past, present, and future of synth-driven music!

We’ve got brand-new tracks from Haute & Freddy, Phantogram, Cannons, Sombr, and Andy Bell… plus a classic mini-mix featuring Tears for Fears, Real Life, and The Twins.

And don’t miss our Synthpop History Moment featuring Divine’s legendary Bobby O–produced track Love Reaction — the controversial synthpop classic that drew comparisons to New Order’s Blue Monday.

Then in Hour Two, we turn up the neon with Sinister Retro Vol. 3 — a full hour in the mix packed with retro remixes, Italo heat, and synthpop legends from the 80s to now. Savage, Sabrina, Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Madonna, Bronski Beat, OMD and more…

All remixed, re-imagined, and mixed live.

It’s all happening this week on Synthpop Symphony — the past, present, and future of synth-driven music.”**

Danielle Aiello – Never Let Me Down Again (Depeche Mode Reimagined) • [Independent]

Haute & Freddy – Freaks (Original Mix) • [Atlantic Records]

Andy Bell feat. Tim Rice-Oxley – The Chance Won’t Come Again (Album Version) • [Independent]

🎵 15-MINUTE MINI MIX

Tears for Fears – Pale Shelter (Brothers & Ale Salles Remix) • [Phonogram / Mercury]

Real Life – Send Me an Angel (Dindell Remix) • [Wheatley / Curb / MCA]

The Twins – Face to Face, Heart to Heart (Rossini Revibe Remix) • [Independent]

🎵 SYNTHPOP HISTORY MOMENT

Divine – Love Reaction (Original Bobby O Production) • [Independent]

🎵 NEW MUSIC SPOTLIGHT

VH x RR – Adrenochrome (Original Mix) • [Independent]

Cannons – All I Need (The Magician Remix) • [Independent]

🎵 HI-NRG / ALT-DANCE MINI SET

Maryn Charlie – Are You Bored Yet (Original Mix) • [Independent]

Eighth Wonder – I’m Not Scared (AlemHouser Disco Feeling Remix) • [Independent]

Sombr – 12 to 12 (Devolve Remix) • [SMB / Warner Records]

Lights of Euphoria – The Panic (Original Mix) • [Infacted Recordings]

Neon Capital – Chasing Stars (Original Mix) • [Neon Capital]

Phantogram – Fall In Love Again (Original Mix) • [Casablanca Records / UMG]

Savage – Dancing in the Dark (AP Mono Remix) • [Nova Extra]

Sabrina – Boys (Summertime Love) (Da Club Remix) • [Baby Records / Universo]

Pet Shop Boys – Always On My Mind (Modern Remix) • [Parlophone]

Mind Enterprises – Burn It! (Original) • [Mind Enterprises]

Depeche Mode – Just Can’t Get Enough (Remix) • [Mute Records]

Yazoo – Don’t Go (Dirty Disco Classic Mix) • [Mute Records]

Madonna – Into the Groove (Iván Santana Mix) • [Sire / Warner Bros.]

Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy (Stereo Remix) • [London Records]

Cetu Javu – Situations (Together Mix) • [JB Records]

Camouflage – The Great Commandment (Montag Studios Remix) • [Montag Studios GmbH]

Red Flag – Broken Heart (Razormaid Mix) • [Augustine Road]

OMD – Locomotion (Razormaid Version) • [Virgin Records]

Boytronic – Don’t Let Me Down (Extended DJ Daryen Mix) • [Independent]

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This week on Synthpop Symphony Ep. 302, we’ve got a wild lineup for you:

👉 First up — a killer new mashup! Pet Shop Boys & Eight Wonder’s I’m Not Scared turned into a duet, thanks to DB Music. You’ve never heard it like this before!

🎶 We’re also spinning brand new bangers from Andy Bell (yes, that Andy Bell from Erasure), plus fresh tracks from Causeway, SONO, Nicholas Rixon & Vintage Voltage.

💜 Oh—and we’re paying tribute to 80s band Resolution with their first-ever official release, honoring the late Shae Green. It’s emotional, it’s beautiful, and it’s finally here.

📀 Digging into the vault too—with a deep cut from Hohokam, a band signed to Gary Numan’s label back in the day.

🔥 And to top it all off, DJ TSF from Buenos Aires is back with insane remixes & mashups featuring Erasure, Depeche Mode, Covenant, Anything Box & more.

Main Set

Pet Shop Boys & Eighth Wonder – I’m Not Scared (DB Remix) [Parlophone]

Andy Bell – Don’t Cha Know (Single Mix) [Mute]

Rob Rowe of Cause and Effect – Shenandoah (Single Mix) [Retrosynth]

Christopher Anton – Russian Radio (Red Flag Cover) [Retrosynth]

Vison – Lucifer’s Friend (Vic 20 Remix) [Independent]

Peter Wilson – I Heard It on the Radio (Matt Williams Extended Edit) [Independent]

Causeway – Human (Album Version) [Independent]

Nicholas Rixon – Belladonna (Extended Mix) [Independent]

Vintage Voltage – Into the Void (Single Mix) [Independent]

Hohokam – Don’t You Know (Extended Edit) [Numa Records]

Sono – 1984 (Album Version) [Sono Music]

Eric C. Powell + Andrea Powell – My Portrait (Single Version) [Retrosynth]

Lady Gaga + New Order – Dance to New Order (Mashup) [Factory]

TSF Disco Symphony Mix 302 – One Hour in the Mix

Cosaquitos en Globo – Humanum [Eternal Sunday]

Wolfsheim – Künstliche Welten (TSF Club Mix) [Metropolis]

Melotron – Der Kosmonaut (TSF Club Mix) [Metropolis]

Covenant – Bullet (Synthmix by TSF) [Metropolis]

Depeche Mode – Blasphemous Rumours (Winterlounge Mix by TSF) [Mute]

Modern Talking – Who Will Save the World (Synthpop Rework by TSF) [Hansa]

Anything Box – Dead Stars (The Synthwave by TSF) [Endpop]Prophets on TV – Forever Dreams (Retrofuture Mix by TSF) [MBM]

Erasure – She Won’t Be Home (Mashup by TSF) [Mute]

Propaganda – P:Machinery (TSF Remix) [ZTT]

Benny Benassi & Anabel Englund – Lightwaves (Extended Mix) [Ultra]

Anyma feat. Iverson – Now or Never (Extended Mix) [Interscope]

Cause & Effect – Into the Light (Dave Audé Extended Club Mix) [BMG]

De/Vision – Life Is Suffering (TSF Remix) [Popgefahr]

Plastikman – Ask Yourself (TSF Remix) [Minus]

The Overlords – Organic! (Flodub by TSF) [Universal Music]

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