FEX - Subways of your Mind - Edison wax cylinder

[@feeeyniac]

"Will it run doom?" "Can it play bad apple?" Now we will have "Can it sound like the wind"

[@spp-s9l]

we need to expand it, it would be cool to have a "Can it play Subways of your mind?"

[@Nausicaafan-go6lq]

Wow, a lost experimental recording made in Dresden Germany in 1883! This is way more mysterious than the 1888 Handel festival recordings!

[@hri7566]

makes sense, subways were brand new then

[@A_mnesiak]

historians in 80 years finna find this and wonder why there was a rock song on a record dated from the early 1900s

[@IconOfSin88]

That's a mystery for future generations to solve 👍

[@TheAechBomb]

and then they radio-date the wax and realize they got trolled lmao

[@lucasterable]

Oopart

[@danieljoybaguio7975]

​@@TheAechBomb radiocarbon dating ain't that accurate lol. it has margins of error ranging centuries to millenia bruv

[@autumn702]

It's obviously aliens.

[@four_hours]

Screw "can it play doom" it's "can it play like the wind"

[@dukedragon28]

Bad Apple for Video Like the Wind for Audio Doom for Processing and Input

[@SFSVHS]

Yes. I’m all for this

[@vos7619]

I'm so old...I remember when it was "but can it play crisis?"

[@spaceacepl4636]

​@@dukedragon28 i was going to say this lol

[@dukedragon28]

@@vos7619 that was more to see if a computer was powerful, while doom is just for anything. Morden Equivalent of asking if you can play any AAA game on highest graphics

[@ThyBluebell]

This is how I found out the mystery had been solved "Oh man I love when people put new music on cylinders it's hilarious- wait a minute"

[@Jonnywiseguy]

"I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your Grandkids are gonna love it."

[@ibji]

Great song, what's a subway? - "Thomas Edison"

[@MrRemi6464]

well technically speaking, the london underground already existed in 1863, about 14 years before Edison invented the phonograph. but to be fair, I doubt they would've called it subways back then

[@athenathegreatandpowerful6365]

​@@MrRemi6464 Edison, being American, would have waited on the platform for another 45 years for a subway car.

[@HeeminYT]

This is freakin awesome no digital filters pure 1800s analog sounds

[@RennieAsh]

Recorded onto cylinder from digital source, recorded with digital device and played back through digital device

[@HeeminYT]

@@RennieAsh nah I meant something like `retro filter`, `80s filter` `classic filter`

[@pyra9345]

Oh hi heemin

[@HeeminYT]

@@pyra9345 yoo

[@OnlyHumanYT]

I like that you went with the acoustic version. Kinda fitting since acoustic music was all that existed at the time when the phonograph was invented.

[@matthewrichards88]

@@OnlyHumanYT it is really lo fi like the song has been teleported back 100+ years! :)

[@christopheralthouse6378]

This song hibernated in ice for 41 years, got thawed out in the modern day to go mega viral and now is time traveling back to the earliest days of recorded music…we’re finally experiencing time travel thanks to this song! 😅

[@Mauricio-Saucedo]

@@christopheralthouse6378It’s crazy the new levels of creativity the discovery of the authors of the song have make! The song already is a timeless classic of the internet era.

[@GravityTrash]

Its insane to hear the audio quality comparison, imagine all the insanely good performances from the 1800s that we can barely make out now.

[@andrewbarrett1537]

EXACTLY

[@promaster424]

Playing this song an different types of speakers and devices really should become a trend or a type of videos people make like the "will it run doom?". That would be awesome!

[@dydysh99]

Can it play FEX? 😁 Like this, right? ;)

[@IMMACUTMAN]

Needs an old time announcer at beginning saying: "Subways Of Your Mind as sung by the FEX Quartet!"

[@dauncannyfiles]

''guitar solo, edison record''

[@Teteu_3511]

WE'RE LEAVING VAULT 101 WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@tubetube7025]

this

[@Alexthefancollector]

This will be the new "will it run doom?" Next person will probably play it on a calculator or microwave beeper.

[@tomlombardo6051]

I mean someone did play ulterior motives on a calculator

[@aljoshuahell131]

I can offer floppy drives but I would have to redo the wiring as I did not use the floppy orchestra in some years

[@zach9999]

this will be the will it run doom for audio stuff

[@TransistorBased]

If I ever get the motivation I could make it on a Game Boy

[@attag_ua]

Imagine if magnetic storm hit earth and destroyed all digital data on planet and people that this song is lost again, and then some guy shows up and says that he has wax cylinder recording

[@matthewrichards88]

It blows my mind that this device playing with no electricity. Just imagine if everything got destroyed and this ancient artefact was discovered :)

[@Ribulose15diphosphat]

No Digital Data is easy mode, as you still have casettes. Also Vinyl Records (1950s tech) are mechanical lice wax cylinders, they are just typically used with electric amplifiers.

[@sam_64]

@@Ribulose15diphosphat actually they came into prominence in around the 1940s

[@arandomsupra]

From lost song to immortal song

[@mitchelliott8915]

imagine if this was the only physical media left....a song lost for 40 years to us becomes the anchor point for the redevelopment of music

[@BackToTheStart47]

Something magical about a lost song played on a phonograph from a long forgotten time.

[@-throat-]

Send this to FEX I wanna see their reaction

[@bluepearl9075]

All it needs is an intro. “Subways of your mind, written and performed by the recently rediscovered FEX!”

[@matthewrichards88]

@@bluepearl9075 just noticed at the beginning the count in they do has been captured! :)

[@dguy0386]

somehow the fade out at the end because the cylinder ran out of recording space is really fitting

[@zhet]

When I was younger I had an idea of a comic. The premise was that there had been the nuclear war that humanity survived, and the remnants of people saved old and simpler technologies of early industrial era but has to reinvent the more exquisite technologies. This feels just like the vibe I wanted to create in that comic

[@Mr.Obongo]

Sounds like you must’ve been playing a lot of fallout when you were younger

[@princemegahit]

I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it.

[@carloscollomps1552]

Your grand-grand kids

[@SimonJ57]

I like how the vocals are what's reproduced the best, even cutting through the guitar.

[@spottySTC]

It sounds... weirdly authentic for the time. It could pass as some depressive song of some young poet of a time.

[@noahplaysgames3748]

Girls with time machine: "I'm your granddaughter." "Really?" Boys with time machine:

[@SchardtCinematic]

Ok now we need to send this back in time 100 years and put it with other wax cylinders to be discovered and Truly start the most mysterious song much much earlier long before the internet. Lol

[@3rdalbum]

Hell, send it back in time 12 months and it would confound everyone

[@Dissonancemusicoffical]

Историки будущего были в ужасе, услышав это...

[@faillblogkeyboardcat]

This is a level of ingenuity that the internet was made for.

[@rakusko33]

Slowly this song is taking over the Internet

[@dialupdude]

I didn’t know They Might Be Giants covered this song!

[@jadsi]

AYYYY TMBG FAN SPOTTED 🤩 (and ja I know what you’re referencing lmaoo XD)

[@andrewbarrett1537]

ROTFL

[@forzenny]

Can’t wait for the Tefifon version

[@RepriseYT]

finding a song from the 1980s on 1880s recording equipment would be downright unreal to experience

[@CoolCademMAnimates-fz1ui]

This is the single greatest achievement done by mankind

[@professionalvr]

And this has happened, because I made a comment that someone will probably make a recording of Subways of Your Mind on a Edison wax cylinder. I can't believe that this is real. Mind blown.

[@matthewrichards88]

@@professionalvr this song really is something like time travel or from another parallel universe! I'm seriously glad you mentioned this and made it happen :)

[@RennieAsh]

ah ha so it was you lol

[@professionalvr]

@RennieAsh yep. I was the one who suggested that idea.

[@NickEter]

i recognised the melody and saw that the video title has the actual name of the song and almost jumped in my chair

[@cac_deadlyrang]

My favorite thing about this is that Subways of Your Mind was sampled for Nowhere at the Millennium of Space, and the inspiration media for NATMOS, Everywhere at the End of Time, had a song recorded from a wax cylinder sampled in the _same stage correlating with Stage 4 of the Reisberg scale_ (Stage 3).

[@PixelZyxelPH]

Can't wait for the Phonautograph version🔥🔥🔥

[@GUNUFofficial]

I really want this with the original found version.

[@silverpapyrus]

That is one of archiving this newfound song for good, this could last even decades and maybe has to be rediscovered agian.

[@DrachronianDefender]

Every single song you guys have released is I love!!! I think your music captures absolutely everything I love about the music of the 80s. You guys certainly would've been one of my favorite bands. Guess it's a good thing I was born too late 🤣

[@SillyLilFella]

What a surreal experience this video was

[@BeachioSandschannel]

Imagine if this was the lost version. Then there would’ve been a guaranteed 0% chance of finding it!

[@miketandy6329]

mid 1880s, acoustic song about a windy haven or hell (supposed) 156 year long search

[@Ken-n1z1e]

very cool. The creativity this community shows is amazing!

[@РусланЗаурбеков-з6е]

Now I want to listen to bootleg record on X-ray film!!!

[@worldcomicsreview354]

Spoiler: The actual song was from the 1880's the whole time, the version we know was a cover

[@matthewrichards88]

@@worldcomicsreview354 😂😂

[@19spearking93]

Only 1883 kids will remember

[@jamesrocket5616]

Imagine someone centuries from now thinking that rock music existed in the early 1900s 😂😂

[@VicMordeth]

Imagine the morale boost if soldiers heard this kinda stuff during World War I.

[@eemeli7093]

found the ww1 autistic

[@BlackFlagHeathen]

Subways Of Your Mind, extra crunchy version.

[@Artcurus]

I was laughing so hard on this! Nice job! I should run this song through my 1950 RCA radio/phono just for the lulz. At least the tube amp would smooth things out and sound sweet.

[@eswarjuri]

The audio in this is so weird... I thought it was coming from my laptop speakers instead of my headphones by accident! Lmao

[@Rslb7.]

You...just caused the same exact thing to happen to me. Funny how suggestion works.

[@ultg7]

crazy how they had this audio quality before the 1900's

[@Xstation8tio]

You are hero.

[@stalker4474]

WE FINDING LOST MEDIA WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🗣️✋🏻✋🏻✋🏻

[@wingsandbladesreal]

WE MAKING OUT OF THE SOPWITH FACTORY WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🛩️

[@PulfaNimeme]

Really awesome!!!

[@carloscollomps1552]

Absolutely amazing

[@alexanderkrolikowski8776]

No way! It is a New Wave! Totally different head, totally.

[@RVMOriginal]

the WoOoOoOooooOOW and FlUuUUuUUuuUUuuUUuUUuuTTeEEeEEeEEeER is crazy

[@feluto7172]

ultrakill vibe

[@wondermenel2811]

so thats how our grandparents used spotify

[@andrewbarrett1537]

No unlike spotify, those post-1909 records with "mechanical rights" to the song, meant the record (or roll) company had to pay a royalty to the copyright owner (usually the publisher) for each legit copy made/sold of their tune. Then, if the songwriter(s) (composer(s)/lyricist(s)) had any royalty agreement/contract with the publisher for that tune, they would get residual royalties on it as well. However very often in those days, a songwriter would sell their tune outright and get no further profit for it (although in some cases, if the tune became a big hit in the meantime, savvier composers and/ir their family members, would renegotiate a new contract with a new publisher with royalties, when it came time to renew the copyright). As for the artists (who were seldom the same as the songwriters in those days), they would only get royalties from their recording if they had such an arrangement with the record company. In the earliest days, many studio musicians were simply salaried and paid a flat fee. Guest star musicians (from vaudeville, opera etc) might get a better deal with royalties.

[@noahplaysgames3748]

what's next, Subways of Your Mind on a Phonautograph?

[@RubyChocoCookie]

Now I wonder If this will be more indecipherable than Au Clair De La Lune itself-

[@eagle-eyes777]

I'm all for this

[@oskar9182]

WOW, you madlad haha!!

[@ZatsuneMikuWorld]

Subways of 1800's

[@richardwetzeliii4195]

interesting...

[@Mauricio-Saucedo]

This is just amazing! Thanks for making it possible! The levels of creativity from now on knowing the authors of the song will become really cool.

[@onewantsboy]

this is legendary

[@nate_river_]

I don't know why you did this, but I like that you did.

[@uhhhhhyea]

we got when i come around and now this......

[@ricardlupus]

This is so bizarre on so many levels.

[@Rslb7.]

I tried to think of something else to say, but I'm simply just impressed.

[@loneknight3357]

Thats insane!

[@mojeminifilmy1973]

HOLY SHIT YOU ACTUALLY DID IT

[@porshprix4286]

Impressive.

[@duglife2230]

Imagine Arthur Morgan listening to this.

[@SnapshotOfASoul]

You should team up with the guy who hooked up his wax cylinder to a guitar amp on here. It sounded actually really good.

[@JohnSmith-jd4qm]

Do you remember the name of the account? Sounds like an interesting video but I couldn't find it.

[@AZTEK2011]

Railways of your cranium

[@ragnarostbrok1254]

okay this is wild

[@Peepimus]

Extra crusteh…!

[@realvirtuality4574]

Круто! Это как раз то, чего мне не хватало :)

[@SrVerataro]

Hark! Joy must be bravely sought and won

[@cellytron]

Holy shit this is incredible, I LOVE it

[@DukLoverEKT]

Subways Of Your Mind morse code

[@beckys.8897]

Waiting for the phonautograph version

[@TransistorBased]

Oh my god I forgot the sound these make when they're turning. That weird whirring noise, I'm assuming that's probably the governor or whatever keeps the speed where it needs to be

[@jc5c515]

If u play It at 0.75 speed sounds more authentic

[@professionalvr]

This wax cylinder is alegedly made by Theo Wangemann, a sound recordist, employed by Thomas Edison, during his 1888-1890 European Tour in Dresden, Germany.

[@SilverSpoon_]

Historians post apocalypse after all digital mediums will be blanked by EMPs will be SO confused retracing the whole history of music and will discover this, and estimate this circa 1912-1920.

[@GramophonicReevolution]

Brilliant Matthew 😊 it's getting some likes too 😂

[@matthewrichards88]

@@GramophonicReevolution cheers Paul! :)

[@jonathanr12394]

Tape and mini disk and mp3 and cd next lol xxx

[@matthewrichards88]

@@jonathanr12394 watch this space. I got a mini disc player and reel to reel machine. Shall we try it see how it comes out?

[@That0neJellyfish]

I don't even know what to say at this point 😭 But yeah this is pretty awesome

[@Fitzroyfallz]

That’s so cool!

[@ideegeniali]

I peeked in the near future with my time machine and could already hear C64 SID chiptune and amiga tracker sampled versions of this song

[@lyssandrefinge4721]

Can you do it with the first version we got ? I would be very curious to see what an electric guitar sounds like in this jewel

[@Charliecomet82]

If it weren't for the modern lyrics you could've passed this off as a long-lost Vess L. Ossman recording!

[@matthewrichards88]

@@Charliecomet82 we can just think of Ada Jones and Billy Murray recording Subway's of your mind ;)

[@et0t]

yo u should upload this to the ucsb cylinder archive or atleast upload a higher quality recording of this somewhere

[@goldenphonautogram6141]

It was only a matter of time

[@RennieAsh]

Someone said that it'll be played on an Edison wax cylinder soon, and here we are!

[@desuretard8654]

Now do Weird Al's "Albuquerque". I dare you to try and fit the whole thing on there.

[@jadsi]

One would probably have to make multiple cylinders

[@DJFrenchiemusic]

Now Try Digital Girl and Ulterior motives