The Best Of

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After 8 albums and (almost) 20 years, the time seemed right for a best of. While primarily electro pop, Munich Syndrome has also released music in other styles and genres. This gives an overview and entry-point for the electro side of Munich Syndrome.

The Best Of opens with Come Out and Play (Just for a Day), featured on the Electro Ep portion of their debut album, Sensual Ambience. A very high-energy techno-pop dance track, it was the first release to move the vocoder front and center into the mix.

Next up is Dance (Ah Eee Ya Ya Ya Ya), which become one of Munich Syndrome’s most popular tracks, racking up hundreds of thousands of plays when the band still had music up on SoundClick. Dance was featured on the still popular Electro Pop album.

A dark horse that has racked up an impressive amount of listens on Spotify and elsewhere is Murderous (Bad Things Vocal Mix). Based on the NIMH mix from the Electro EP (Noises In My Head), this track tells the dark tale of someone who keeps pushing things too far. The end result isn’t good.

Always (Alone) follows. A very Pet Shop Boy style track (actually written in the day), this was one of the more popular tracks on the third album, Electronic Ecstasy.

2 Whom follows, which was also quite popular on the Electronic Ecstasy album. Also written back in the day, this is one of the more straightforward synth-pop numbers in Munich Syndrome’s cannon.

Endings (Rock RMX) began life in a more straightforward synth-pop mode, but over time in the studio it took on a new wave-ish rock vibe.

Nightlife was one of the songs that got buried in the dystopian epic Robotika album(s). A stark post-punk synth driven dance track, it has a timeless quality.

Tonight was a track that was the first thing out of the gate after the Electronic Ecstasy album. A driving beat, fuzz bass and some layered distorted guitars overlaid with synth lines and a vocoder, this was possibly the most upbeat fun song on Robotika.

(I Do) The Robot is the song that anchored Robotika and set the tone for the concept that followed.

Betrayal was one of the songs that jumped out for critical notice from the Atmospherics 1: Urbania album. Melodic with an air of tension, the arrangement starts to build through layers until a nearly violent climax drops to a a replay of the introduction for the outro…

Friday Nights follow from The World of Tomorrow album. A new-wave remembrance looking back to the clubs, bars and record stores (remember those?) and nightlife of the 80’s in San Francisco.

Don’t Fit In kicks off Munich Syndrome’s 8th album, Electro Pop 2. A lively synth-pop extolling the virtues of NOT fitting in.

New Wave Weekend (Radio Edit) is somewhat of a continuation of the weekend kicking off with Friday Nights.

Ghosts of the Dance Floor was one of the first tracks written for Electro Pop and the first to be released before the album came out. Written after being involved with a documentary about Armistead Maupin and spending the day in San Francisco recalling events and times now past.

Closing out the Best Of is the title track from Electro Pop 2, Electro Pop (Radio Edit). The track began life in a different tempo and arrangement, but was transformed as the sessions for the album were going on. Initially this wasn’t planned for the release, but when it was previewed, it was voted as one of the best songs on the album.

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