Attention: The internet just solved a 17-year-old mystery that’s been puzzling audiophiles and Reddit sleuths alike. For nearly two decades, music enthusiasts and internet detectives have been captivated by a mysterious tune known as “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet”. This enigmatic track, which first emerged in 2007 after being digitised from a cassette recording made in the 1980s, has sparked a global hunt for its origins, leaving countless theories and dead ends in its wake.
But thanks to the relentless efforts of a dedicated, resourceful and global group of online detectives aka the Internet, the mystery has finally been unravelled: the song is titled , performed by the little-known German band FEX. Back in 2004, a teenager named Darius S. who recorded the song from a radio broadcast in Germany posted it on a website along with other unknown songs in hopes of identifying them.
The search for the song’s origins gained significant momentum in 2019, when Reddit got involved and a Brazilian teen uploaded the track to YouTube. The breakthrough came earlier this week when user Marijn1412 from discovered the band FEX while sifting through the archives of a Hamburg local music festival. He reached out to one of the band members, who confirmed his involvement with FEX and shared several recordings, including a version of .
With the mystery solved, this elusive piece of music is now set to reclaim its place in the spotlight — much to the surprise of its original .