Sunday, 24 May 2026

New Synthetik FM Album "Undercover 80s (Volume 2)"

Synthetik FM are back with another wonderful 80 covers album "Undercover 80s - Volume 2".


As with the first volume of 80s cover versions, this album avoids the really classic well known songs and concentrates on songs that a rarely covered, and that is the beauty with these albums, expect the unexpected! Bobby Clark, has reached out to various, well respected vocalists from the independent electronic music scene, such as, Gary Flanagan, Cosmicity, Bit Pixel, Halovox, Eloquent, Pacific Deep, to create fabulous and fresh takes on songs like "That's Entertainment" (The Jam), "Wonderful Life" (Black), "Touched By The Hand Of God" (New Order), "Goodbye 70s (Yazoo), "Living By Numbers"  (New Musik), "Hit That Perfect Beat" (Bronski Beat) and much more! Once again, as with the first album, Bobby has worked with Michael Kauzlarich (X-Sonic), who has assisted with the arrangement of songs as well as mixing and production duties.  

The album features 17 songs in total:

01. Synthetik FM Ft Hyperbubble - That's Entertainment

02. Synthetik FM Ft Cosmicity - I Want A New Drug

03. Synthetik FM Ft X-Sonic - Touched By The Hand Of God

04. Synthetik FM Ft Gary Flanagan - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

05. Synthetik FM Ft Y-my-R - We Run

06. Synthetik FM Ft David Mahr - Goodbye Seventies

07. Synthetik FM Ft C.C. - Maria Magdalena 

08. Synthetik FM Ft Tycho Brahe - Hanging On A Heart Attack

09. Synthetik FM Ft Bit Pixel - Wonderful Life

10. Synthetik FM Ft Wave in Head - Japan Ist Weit (Big In Japan)

11. Synthetik FM - Magic Fly

12. Synthetik FM Ft X-Sonic - Elstree

13. Synthetik FM Ft Eloquent - Hit That Perfect Beat

14. Synthetik FM Ft Halovox - Time Will Tell

15. Synthetik FM Ft Pacific Deep - Kiss Me

16. Synthetik FM Ft Gary Flanagan - En Route

17. Synthetik FM Ft Subimage - Living By Numbers 

The album is available via Bandcamp:

https://synthetikfm.bandcamp.com/album/undercover-80s-volume-2 

We will be featuring tracks from the album on the June edition of i-Select and we will also be reviewing the album.

My thanks to Bobby Clark, who was kind enough to send me a copy of the album.

Re-live the 80s with this wonderful set of songs!! 

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