The digital trail «of the most mysterious song on the Internet» goes back to 2004, when Darius S. from Germany posted digitized recordings of tracks he recorded as a teenager in 1984 from a radio program.
Eventually, his sister Lydia, burdened with curiosity, began publishing excerpts of the songs on various fan sites «music seekers» under the pseudonym Anton Riedel. At that time, there were many assumptions about the author: some noted the German (sometimes Polish) accent of the performer; others assumed that the song was not complete, but only a demo version that accidentally fell into the hands of a DJ who loved independent music and experimentally launched it on the air.
During this time, «the most mysterious song on the Internet» became very popular online, and even became the soundtrack of the MyHouse.wad mod for Doom.
The solution came in 2019, when a teenager from Brazil uploaded a video of the song to YouTube, shared it in several Reddit groups, and even created a separate subreddit, r/TheMysteriousSong, where it was eventually identified.
It is now known that the song is called «Subways Of the Mind», and was written by the band FEX — the editors contacted one of its members, Michael Hedrich, and he even provided a full recording:
Hedrich, who still creates music under the name Silk Vision in a studio in Munich, said in an interview with German media that the band had no idea about the «mystical» status of their song, but now plans to record a new version of it, possibly with a video.
The breakthrough in the search occurred after r/TheMysteriousSong members began looking through the lists of bands in the archives of a music festival in Hamburg. One of the participants, Marijn1412, wrote that the band was identified after a clue found in an old newspaper article that mentioned FEX, described as a rock band «with a wave and pop influence».