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the band behind THE MOST MYSTERIOUS SONG ON THE INTERNET was finally found!

kevboard

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Copy/Paste from the Reddit thread:
So here's the story in short:

About two weeks ago I came across an old newspaper article in the Nordwest Zeitung archive, while researching Hörfest bands. The article was about a band called FEX from Kiel, who won a talent contest in Bremen in Sep 1984 and their music was described as Rock with Wave and Pop influences. It also mentioned their members and one of them I recognised from a Hörfest 83 band called Phret. I managed to get in touch with him and asked him if he still had some old material from those bands. He then sent me some of the songs he made with FEX and Phret... and lo and behold, one of them was titled Subways Of Your Mind. It's a slightly different version from the one we know: https://vocaroo.com/19NFyeqYi7Zj

After I emailed him back that the song is actually quite a famous "lost song", he asked me not to go public with it until he spoke with his old band members. In the mean time though the song did get registered at GEMA and people found out about it. But I'm happy to say that the band members agreed for me to go public with it. So here it is.

I'm sure there will be a lot of questions and I hope the band can answer these themselves in the future. I'm just glad and relieved the search is over :)

EDIT (additional information):


Heart In Danger: https://vocaroo.com/1kAK2RMZMO3T

Talking Hands: https://vocaroo.com/15IQ8yYROCAD

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the guy who confirmed being part of the band sent an alternative recording of the song.
which is called Subways of your Mind

 
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Dacvak

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Oh cool, I remember this being a thing a few years back. It’s always neat when a longtime internet mystery gets solved.
 

Miyazaki’s Slave

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My brain recoiled instantly when reading this "About two weeks ago I came across an old newspaper article in the Nordwest Zeitung archive, while researching Hörfest bands." A brain seizure of that scale can only be caused by extreme exposure to "Hipster Shit™"

I mean the absurdity of the story aside...the song is a solid banger esp. given its recording time frame.
 
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