Reddit sleuths monitor down FEX, the band behind the web’s most mysterious track

Members of Reddit’s r/ThatMysteriousSong group have lastly recognized what they name “The Most Mysterious Track on the Web,” a brand new wave tune that a teen recorded to cassette someday round 1984, as reported yesterday by 404 Media.

The mysterious track’s digital path goes again to 2004, when Darius S., {the teenager} who recorded it from a radio broadcast in Germany, posted it on a web site together with different unknown songs, hoping others might assist establish them. The seek for its origins went viral again in 2019 when a Brazilian teen uploaded the track to YouTube. 

Now we all know that the track known as “Subways Of the Thoughts” by a band named FEX. Right here’s a recording offered by Michael Hädrich, a 68-year-old former band member.

Hädrich mentioned in an interview with Munich publication TZ that the band had no thought the track had such a mythic standing on-line. He nonetheless makes music underneath the title Silk Imaginative and prescient from a music studio in Munich and informed the outlet that the band now plans to file a brand new model of the track and produce a video to go together with it.

The large breakthrough got here yesterday after members began sifting via bands listed within the archives of a Hamburg native music competition. One member referred to as Marijn1412 posted that they’d recognized the band after discovering a clue in an outdated newspaper article mentioning FEX, a bunch described as having “Rock with Wave and Pop influences.” They contacted one of many members, who confirmed he’d performed in FEX and despatched over recordings — one among which was a model of “Subways of the Thoughts.” And within the final payoff for the group, there have been two others, titled “Coronary heart in Hazard” and “Speaking Arms.”