Live Set: Synthpop

 


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A Flock of Seagulls Wishing (If I Had A Photograph) A-ha Take on Me Alphaville Forever Young Berlin Sex (I'm a) Blancmange Don't Tell Me Book of Love You Make Me Feel So Good Bronski Beat Smalltown Boy Camouflage The Great Commandment CHVRCHES Clearest Blue Cut Copy Need You Now Dead or Alive Lover, Come Back to Me Depeche Mode Just Can't Get Enough Erasure Oh L'amour Eurythmics Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) Frankie Goes to Hollywood Two Tribes Gary Numan Cars Goldfrapp White Horse Grimes Oblivion Heaven 17 Let Me Go Hot Chip Ready For The Floor Howard Jones New Song Kajagoogoo Too Shy Kraftwerk Pocket Calculator La Roux Bulletproof LCD Soundsystem. I Can Change M83 Midnight City Men Without Hats The Safety Dance MGMT Time to Pretend Missing Persons Destination Unknown Moev Cracked Mirror Naked Eyes Always Something There To Remind Me Nation of Language The Wall & I Neon Indian Polish Girl New Order Blue Monday Orchestral Manuevers in the Dark Electricity Passion Pit Sleepyhead Pet Shop Boys Suburbia Real Life Send Me An Angel Soft Cell Tainted Love St. Vincent Prince Johnny The Aluminum Group Motorcycles The Art of Noise Close (to the edit) The Human League. Love Action The Human League. Keep Feeling Fascination The Human League. Mirror Man The Postal Service Such Great Heights Thomas Dolby Radio Silence Thomas Dolby Windpower Thompson Twins In The Name Of Love Ultravox Vienna Visage Fade to Grey When in Rome The Promise Yaz Only You Yello Oh Yeah


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