Reddit sleuths track down the band behind the internet’s most mysterious song

Members of Reddit’s r/ThatMysteriousSong community person yet identified what they telephone “The Most Mysterious Song connected the Internet,” a caller activity tune that a teen recorded to cassette sometime astir 1984, arsenic reported yesterday by 404 Media.

The mysterious song’s integer way goes backmost to 2004, erstwhile Darius S., the teen who recorded it from a power broadcast successful Germany, posted it connected a website on pinch different chartless songs, hoping others could thief place them. The hunt for its origins went viral backmost successful 2019 erstwhile a Brazilian teen uploaded the opus to YouTube. 

Now we cognize that the opus is called “Subways Of the Mind” by a set named FEX. Here’s a signaling provided by Michael Hädrich, a 68-year-old erstwhile set member.

Hädrich said successful an interview pinch Munich publication TZ that the set had nary thought the opus had specified a mythic position online. He still makes euphony nether the sanction Silk Vision from a euphony workplace successful Munich and told the outlet that the set now plans to grounds a caller type of the opus and nutrient a video to spell pinch it.

The large breakthrough came yesterday aft members started sifting done bands listed successful the archives of a Hamburg section euphony festival. One personnel called Marijn1412 posted that they’d identified the band aft uncovering a hint successful an aged newspaper article mentioning FEX, a group described arsenic having “Rock pinch Wave and Pop influences.” They contacted 1 of the members, who confirmed he’d played successful FEX and sent complete recordings — 1 of which was a type of “Subways of the Mind.” And successful the eventual payoff for the community, location were 2 others, titled “Heart successful Danger” and “Talking Hands.”