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The 40 Year Hunt for the Most Mysterious Song on The Internet

Chill Fuel | April 19, 2024
The 40 Year Hunt for the Most Mysterious Song on The Internet

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  1. @johngarcia1340

    April 19, 2024 at 3:55 pm

    Dude, you didn't talk to me or camspiracy. Anyway: Played October 28th, 1984 by NDR2 Substitute DJ Wolfgang Hahn. The song was a new rendition of the Statues in Motion demo "Checking in/ Checking out," but re -recorded with Alvin Dean on vocals, Yannis Beltakis on the lead Guitar, and two members of Forward Music Quintet (FMQ) with the Drums played by "Von Claus" -(Alvin's Friend) and Natasha Syregella (Streuberg) who recreated Billy Knight's synth work using a DX 7; just as she did on a cover of a Parthenogenesis song from her first FMQ album. Some how, someway Alvin (or Yannis Beltakis) got it to Wolfgang Hahn for him to sneakily play it during Octoberfest.

  2. @erimart63

    April 19, 2024 at 3:55 pm

    The song itself is a banger. The guitar, synth, vocals and bass parts are fine could be modernised with better drumming and a more varied bridge. If an EP with different versions EDM, metal etc was made I'd buy it.

  3. @Cavi587

    April 19, 2024 at 3:55 pm

    I read a comment under one of the videos about this song which really fits. It went something like:
    "If the Internet ever ends (probably along with the whole world), this song will be the ending credits song to The Internet. ". The mood of the song really fits lol.

  4. @Canleaf08

    April 19, 2024 at 3:55 pm

    22:22 The NDR has the one of the biggest music libraries in Europe. Then there is also the DRA for the entire ARD. Sometimes programmes are shared between the member stations. The Popnacht for example shares the SWR programme with HR3, NDR2, MDR Jump, RBB, SR1 and WDR1. So sometimes it might not be the NDR directly, but the BR sends via the Stern to other stations. I wrote it under another video already that suggestion.

  5. @TlD-dg6ug

    April 19, 2024 at 3:55 pm

    Ummm how the fuck you gonna say you can't play the song due to dmca, yet you don't even know who sings it?
    And if you did get it, wouldn't that solve the mystery?

  6. @charleslalonde2324

    April 19, 2024 at 3:55 pm

    I remember people handing out free tapes of their work at venues around Detroit 80s and 90s never to see or hear from them again , many were from guys who had an impressive investment in their basement studio . in detroit you only heard such music from college radio like whfr or Canadian CBC Late at night .

  7. @Klaus293

    April 19, 2024 at 3:55 pm

    This has bound to have been examined, but the first thing that I thought of was voice print comparison with known singers. Is it possible or is the source recordings fidelity too insufficient?

  8. @lanceperfect

    April 19, 2024 at 3:55 pm

    Thanks for sharing this mystery to a wider audience. Has no one applied AI to this? This seems like a perfect use case for ML pattern recognition to identify instruments, vocals, etc. to at least provide some probabilistic estimates about whether or not some artist is a likely candidate or not. Admittedly it'd require collating some useful labeled data and some nontrivial coding and computation, but I imagine some obscure audiophile archives exist and would be surprised if there aren't any coders around interested in cracking this as a side project.

  9. @Me-wx1mt

    April 19, 2024 at 3:55 pm

    i have a theory darius made the song and just put it ij with the other real songs he was trying to find just to troll everyone but it was so convincing that we all fell for it

  10. @GladeSwope

    April 19, 2024 at 3:55 pm

    The big irony here: this song would be forgotten without this mystery of who wrote and played it. Maybe someone could sell a plagiarized cover, and wait for someone to sue!

  11. @outerzevin1366

    April 19, 2024 at 3:55 pm

    My uncle worked at the studio this was recorded in. He doesnt remember the band but does remembre that thos song was written as the end credits them to an mature anime called "saki Sanobashi". Does anyonechave a copy? Its probably in the credits.

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