THE MYSTERIOUS SONG / Recording session of tape (sept 20, 2019)

Videos uploaded by Lydia (Darius sister) to Reddit, on dec 24th, 2019.
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Happy Christmas from Lydia and Darius ✨
Hello everybody!
As the year comes to an end, we still haven't found the band behind TMMS. I am not worried about that because I heard of several other lost songs which had to be investigated for a much longer time than it is in our case.
Today I want to share something with you, even if I know, it won't be useful in any case to the search. But since I have been asked very kindly lately about it, I decided to post it here as a sort of a very small Christmas gift.
Hope you enjoy it. I have recorded it back in September when I visited my brother. It's the moment we played the tape for the first time after many years and were happy as can be that it still was in a somehow good condition and didn't get messed up during playing. Since we were not sure if it would survive another play, we decided to record it from the beginning. (The strange sound at the beginning of the first clip comes from the tape deck which had to change to the other side of the tape). The audio from this recording was posted here.
Have a wonderful Christmas time everyone. Since many of us will be busy within the next days, please accept that there may be not as much activity or real news as it is usual.
So here is the link to the google album: photos.app.goo...
All the best,
Lydia

[@manuelmusic5101]

The song was found!! It's called "FEX - Subways Of Your Mind"

[@ElYahvecinLang]

Its amazing to listen to the original tape with the direct radio recording

[@hawktalon7890]

Pretty amazing that the tape still plays that well.

[@DaXande135]

Thats nothing special, cassettes sound better and last longer than many people think. I have prerecorded cassettes from the 70's that still play as they were new

[@PkmariO64]

@@DaXande135 - Same here, I have some 40 and even close to 50 year old tapes that work just fine. It all comes down to whether or not you take good care of them, as well as your tape deck.

[@DaXande135]

@@PkmariO64 Looks like I have already watched one of your cassette rips :D But you're right! When bothering with analogue media you always have to take care and service your playback device as well as your playback media.

[@CZghost]

@@DaXande135 Cassettes dating all the way back to late 60's actually sound decent today. It's a marvelous invention to be honest. Vynil is vynil, but let's be honest, you don't actually usually carry a vynil record player around when you're going on a trip somewhere. Tape cassette is a solution for this - it is of a compact size, which is ideal for transportations and it is ideal for travelling. You have discmans that can play CDs and are mobile, but there is a chance that it will skip the CD, scratch it, or worse it may damage or dislocate the laser lense (making it not function properly - that's what actually happened to my DVD burner in my laptop when I accidentally dropped it in a bus - it wasn't on, so HDD was pretty fine, but DVD burner didn't work after that). That just won't happen to a cassette. Both CDs and cassettes are outdated now, replaced by streaming services and/or downloaded music on a USB stick - MP3 portable compact player is still considered a USB stick, because it is essentially the same storage media as conventional USB sticks, just has some more buttons, its own battery, earphones output and a display and controller giving it a function to play the audio media stored on it - but you can store pretty much anything on it. It doesn't have any moving parts, which is always a plus for travelling. Though, I still consider cassettes a marvelous invention because cassettes were somewhat revolutionary. You could store data on it, you could record your favourite music, and you could also use it to record voice (dictaphones). Music and other audio signals were analogue, which if used proper tape and proper equipment, you could make it sound really good.

[@epicCoolgiytryhsrfsea]

there's literal recordings from 1860 (and 1878) and they still sound good

[@hntr_official]

This track sounds wonderful. I hope it gets discovered and solved. As a music producer myself it makes me very sad to see artists put so much work into their stuff only for their works to become lost and unremembered

[@hypercrite]

FEX - Subways of your Mind

[@vincentus420]

You can clearly see that the beginning was cut off / theres no fade in, not even a little bit. Im an audio engineer myself and the beginning looks just so strange.

[@plasmalabtv]

So...you mean this was made on purpose?

[@vincentus420]

@@plasmalabtv maybe, or may another intro part is missing

[@denial1004]

maybe the person who posted thisb actually was the one who record it, and he just wants to mess around with the internet

[@Muskateering]

@@denial1004 It's probably Boards of Canada 😉

[@SergeESC]

Vincentus well maybe the guy only started the recording after it started. He said that he didn’t record the radio DJ and is very annoyed at himself for not doing so

[@magichands135]

Just listening to this song today and reading some comments. The thing I noticed is people not knowing if the singer is german or english. Then this came up and the number played before is The Golden Earrings, a dutch band. A singer that sounds both german and english could be dutch, that kinda makes sense. Also if this the oroginal playlist, as a dj it makes sense to play 2 dutch songs one after the other as you want to link the songs. Or one song reminds you of another, or maybe its from the same source. From my experience, there is always some connection between songs on a playlist. My 1 cent of input.

[@robg9048]

Good theories but this is a mixtape taken from different broadcasts

[@imcarly]

german band called fex

[@geckorider]

this tape'll be worth millions in a dozen years

[@7uhyschannel723]

i'd kill for a copy of that tape lol

[@japanfanatic1415]

@TomAnimation It is.This was uploaded by the original owner's sister.

[@RennieAsh]

There's a flac of it uploaded somewhere. BASF tape

[@Izlemder]

FEX - Subways of your mind

[@GregGreene000]

At least we know it's not something crafted by an AI or computer generated eitherway! Thank you for sharing!

[@Da.Liar-Pig]

Well kid. This song was first mentioned few years before ai was now a thing, first posted on 2007

[@sammytimgaming2947]

I wish this song was popular again like in 2020 if not time travel existed in the near future

[@NKWTI]

Here's a great cover of it kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZOck5Wsgq9ph68

[@markshipyt343]

SammytimGaming I know that strange, but I see your comment to this song in soundcloud

[@RennieAsh]

Is the song popular in 2024? ;-)

[@norman157]

1:43 *LIPSMACK INTENSIFIES*

[@pietro_tino]

Hi

[@ratimirdragelj1250]

at the end of song it sounds like lipsmack

[@notDonaldFagen]

At the beginning of next song it sounds like smack lip

[@Jordanninja09]

Next time you go to your brothers house can you please to a direct rip from the Cassette players line out? That would give us a higher quality version and we could probably hear more detailed version. Thank you!

[@yonnerz2507]

I found a band called Lowlife, and the voice of vocalist it's like in that music. i am brazilian, my english is bad, sorry :)

[@InfestedLice]

PerinZL it’s not them. There’s a reddit group for this mystery and they’ve been debunked.

[@yonnerz2507]

@@InfestedLice i see this yesterday

[@RennieAsh]

I'd assume you have discovered that they found an artist

[@NoKudos]

plot twist: he was in the band that made the song.

[@bravesonly]

Can we talk about what an absolutely mad electronic beat do we have at 0:45?

[@moxie9695]

ikr its a banger

[@imw1de]

thats Heaven 17 - “Sunset Now” (Maxi)

[@stevepritchard7891]

The sun will never shine

[@NiyazxAcid]

Так, что я слышу как музыкант говорит одно, то что ударная установка AMATI, или Super AMATI которые производились в Чехословакии, и широко использовались в СССР в ГДР и прочих околосоветских странах. Маленькие томы очень по звучанию похожи на Амати, только вот рабочий барабан явно не от него, так как от Амати сложно заставить звучать его так, по крайней мере у нас это не получалось.

[@morepiexd6417]

Причем по теориям песня написана в Германии что если он написан именно в ГДР?

[@gabrielecesaro]

Does anyone know the model of that Yamaha cassette player? I can't read it very well.

[@gabrielecesaro]

@Mewmew Thank you!

[@bravesonly]

Alright then. Keep your secrets

[@WingsandBlades257]

Chromdioxid II. CR 60 BASF Tape.

[@WingsandBlades257]

OH SORRY THE PLAYER

[@WingsandBlades257]

KX-E100

[@JK-gm6kk]

The song is pretty decent, but the synth in the verses and outro drives me bananas

[@specialprojectsdevgroup]

Something about this one sounds more complete tbh

[@baberoot1998]

That is just the sound of Belgian monks, making Belgian beer. No mystery there.

[@Spoon97]

imagine if "?" is the actual name of the artist

[@imcarly]

it turned out to be cooler... "FEX"

[@Spoon97]

@@imcarly fpund

[@milojkokitic6991]

what is the model of this yamaha tape deck you are using?

[@roykale9141]

KX-E100

[@egorowitaliy]

It doesn't look like it was recorded from the radio at all. The songs start smoothly and end smoothly, with no overdubbed radio station jingles or DJ fills. There is also no clicking sound, which was typical on magnetic tape, when the record button was pressed each time at the end of the previous song in order to record the next one. It looks very much like it was re-recorded from some other source.

[@imcarly]

turned out to be real FEX - Subways Of Your Mind

[@egorowitaliy]

@@imcarly Thank!

[@RennieAsh]

Maybe it was a recording of the radio recording tape so they could have 2?

[@MCDreng]

From what i remember, Darius would pause the recordings until the DJ stopped talking.

[@tygical]

i think it says light the way

[@Monolycus]

It sounds to me like “like the wind” in the first verse and “locked away” in the second verse.

[@imcarly]

official lyric is saying "Like the wind"

[@alexmasse6563]

you are all so naive,this song was never played on german national radio. the regulations were very strict back than and the presenters of the show were obliged to mention the name of the band andtitle of the song. also for gema reasons (copyright issues),nobody would ever have dared to play a song without knowing the origin of the song. in ndr radio stations history,there wasnt one case were a demo tape was and could be played !!!! until the full radio show from back than isnt uploaded,you can be sure,that this song was never played on this particular or any station,since private radio still didnt excist back than in Germany !!! also,you would rarely listen the full version of a song back than,the presenters would always interupt the song by the end,so the listeners wouldnt duplicate the songs on tapes....

[@quagmiretv2514]

Dude Paul Baskerville himself said It might have been a demo tape, so I think they also played demos from time to time

[@quagmiretv2514]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaO5ZGdsed92lac&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE 1:48

[@RealNovgorod]

It's been proven that it was recorded off the radio because of the NDR 10kHz dip. Whether it was registered with gema is a different issue.

[@meliksahgulmez9664]

Boy do I have some news to share

[@RennieAsh]

​@@meliksahgulmez9664videos lie dormant, for years. Then , on November 2024 you came here running

[@CheriH-4321]

It's almost like a poppy/dance music song played by Laibach

[@perdrohenrique5058]

Plot Twist: "?" Is the name of the band.

[@imcarly]

it turned out to be cooler... "FEX"

[@perdrohenrique5058]

@imcarly REAL

[@phoenixmysthol7938]

This is demonical made in my language i hear '' oni samo zele krv" what means "they only want blood"

[@Menjac]

Gde cujes to jebote

[@SenidOptimises]

Ja je preslusao 100+ puta nisam cuo jednu nasu rijec hahaha

[@jojoball444]

ahahaha i ja necujem ništa na naš

[@Страхиња-ж5ж]

Gde to cujes

[@hl5217]

Toga nema.

[@VielenDank]

Crying at the Discoteque (Alcazar)

[@MX_REPRODUCCION16]

The name song in 1:12?

[@robg9048]

Golden Earing - Twilight Zone

[@Technoboltroz]

Peter Steele???

[@Neon-Starship]

Are you Darius?

[@挑戦し続ける]

.

[@racheleprincipato3209]

What is the song at 1:24??

[@RocasRocks]

Twilight Zone by Golden Earring

[@CheriH-4321]

Peter Murphy in his earlier career?

[@imcarly]

a band called FEX

[@Rocky2000258]

Do you have any idea when it's recorded?

[@plasmalabtv]

September, 20, 2019

[@sammytimgaming2947]

plasmalabtv I know this song not a Mandela effect

[@qreues-alt7672]

@@sammytimgaming2947 What's it called?

[@sammytimgaming2947]

-Insert Username- how do I know the name all I know is the whole music in the song not the vocals words or the title

[@socratesbandeira]

@Manol Atanasov, if you mean the recording of the mix tape itself, the legend states that it was somewhere between 1983-84, though the release of the song lies unknown.

[@Exploits2]

What tape player is that?

[@elgatodecafe4725]

Alvin dean autor song

[@WingsandBlades257]

you just taping the radio and this banger comes on: (react in the replies)

[@eniogiannini8970]

Plz, do not move my comment, read this comment! The name of the band is............. THE SINKING SHIPS!!!! I have the proofs! If you search "the sinking ships" on youtube, will appear a playlist with all the songs of the sinking ships, if u click a video of that playlist or you search on KZbin "the sinking ships - strangers" youtube will show you a video named strangers and if you click the video, you can hear a song, singed by a man with the same voice of the most mysterious song on the internet!!

[@sobbs2283]

It's not, they said so themselves that it wasnt them that made this song.

[@RennieAsh]

Well, that ship has sunk

[@vasiliansotirov6976]

Looks very fake. Other songs besides TMS don't have Wow and Flutter, but TMS has TONS of Wow and it's just like on the internet version.

[@Dohnjoe5940]

What does wow and flutter mean on it being fake? Legit question

[@zaimkarii1756]

@@Dohnjoe5940 the sound like warp record or the speed the tape plays not consistent.

[@tenny_tenten]

this is not fake.

[@tenny_tenten]

the 10 kHz line has found on that tape, meaning it must be come from NDR radio stations at the time

[@calebrutto]

about that

[@captianmurphy6207]

why in the FUCK do people keep calling the damn song LIKE THE WIND when it clearly says on the track label blind the wind inless they brother and sister thought thats what it was called and maybe it could be like the wind but more likly blind the wind like it says on the sheet

[@plasmalabtv]

Hey, easy boy 😝😝😝

[@framhm]

like the wind makes more sense if you pay attention to the lyrics

[@imcarly]

the lyric is actually saying like the wind but the song name is subways of your mind by fex

[@RennieAsh]

They called it blind the wind or like the wind, but in the end, it doesn't even matter

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

Confirmed fake. From the shaman of knowledge. -Legion.

[@plasmalabtv]

Give proofs or GTFO

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

Give proofs this is actually Lydia and not some random Austrian dude.

[@zetaeerre0]

let me guess : flat earther, 9/11 inside job, Qanon, BigPharma, 9/5/20, which are you part of?

[@TheManInBlueFlames]

Qanon is not one of them. Good theory about the flat Earth and 9/11 and big pharma though. You only have to look at my account to see that we are Legion.

[@zetaeerre0]

@@TheManInBlueFlames mh ok, is it a special kids ed program?