Mysterious German pop song finally identified after 17 years of internet research

The mystery is finally solved. The pop song nicknamed “the most mysterious song on the internet” was finally identified, after 17 years of research by online enthusiasts. In particular thanks to a user of the social network Reddit, who found one of the former members of the FEX group, at the origin of this piece, reported this week The mirror and other German media, spotted by theAFP.

Dubbed “the most mysterious song on the internet”

The mystery began in 2007, when a German brother and sister digitized and posted online a track that the former had originally recorded on cassette, from the radio, more than 20 years earlier. Music fans who are fans of “lostwave”, the search for the origins of songs that have fallen into oblivion, then try to identify the piece in different ways, for example by trying to determine the instruments or the accent of the singer. Initial attempts to identify the song, classified by many as belonging to the “new wave” genre, were largely unsuccessful.

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In 2019, the Reddit platform rebroadcast the song which unleashed enthusiasts, and was quickly nicknamed “the most mysterious song on the internet”. The Reddit forum dedicated to this research attracts tens of thousands of Internet users, with the German media in turn taking an interest in this hunt.

Performed by a little-known German band from the 80s

This week, a user who presents himself under the pseudonym “marijn1412”, explained that he had reached the goal by chatting with one of the former members of FEX, a little-known German group from the 1980s, who revealed to him the name of the title so sought after. The latter was eventually recognized as “Subways of Your Mind”.

The sleuth tracked down Michael Haedrich, now 68, by searching for groups that had participated in a concert organized by a public broadcaster in northern Germany in the 1980s. Michael Haedrich said At Spiegel that he had never been aware of the ” hunting “ online and the group was “absolutely overwhelmed” by this late recognition.