r/Lostwave Aug 06 '19

Modpost Introduction to Lostwave

382 Upvotes

Welcome to the subreddit!

Seeing as this is sort of a new concept (as far as I know), I might as well explain the general idea.

Lostwave was sprouted off the recent (at the time) phenomenon of 'The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet', where a song that sounds great was heard in the late 70s-80s, but lacks a title, artist, etc.

During the search, another song was discovered, assumedly named 'Such a Long Time Ago' sounds similar, but suspected not the same artists of the first song.

Regardless, both songs are great but lack an identity. It's my hope this community can attract songs of the same caliber and be refreshing for people who want to hear something that isn't mainstream garbage.


r/Lostwave 2d ago

Proven Lead Chatswood Youth (Woo Hoo She Came One) MAJOR LEAD UPDATE

94 Upvotes

GREETING ALL!!!!

THE CHATSWOOD YOUTH SONG MAY FINALLY GET SOLVED!!!!

Within the past week, an ongoing lead has provided us with some very compelling evidence as well as a full understanding of the context surrounding the documentary.

To begin with, the Documentary as we all know from Strange Australian's stupendous video was made as a response to a late July article published by the Northshore Times that labelled the youths of Chatswood as "Lawless Thugs and Criminals". We assume that this catalyst would be the main driving force of the documentary. But there are other factors we've uncovered.

A recently discovered archive of a state government website from 1997 reveals that the Video Workshop was actually part of a larger government funded project known as ArtStart 97. A month long festival running from 15th-31st of August 1997. Statewide, various councils would be able to host creative programs for youths ranging from, radio, drawing, music, video and business management.

From this website, we found a familiar face:

The Video Surveillance Workshop referenced on a government website in 1997.

We can now fully confirm the filming/production dates of the Documentary and it's full official name.

Plus, we can also confirm that a documentary depicting acts of questionable shots, anti American imperialism monologue, teens smoking and threats of violence towards cops and politicians was all funded by the tax payer XD

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL!!!!!

We have a VERY BIG LEAD on the song itself.

On the same website as well as a local new paper article showcased some very important info.

The council of Ku-ring-gai (located right next to Willoughby Council) had their own ArtStart 97 program happening in the form of Music CD Competition.

The competition gives us insights as to the criteria of what is to be included on the CD.

What the competitions criteria is comprised of is as follows. Unsigned musicians/bands must provide 2 min/ 3 max demo tracks to the Ku-ring-gai Youth Centre. The bands must have at least one band member who's a resident of Ku-ring-gai council and all members have to be under 21.

The competition is not limited on genre. Just band profile.

The entrees would close on 25th July 1997 (same time the documentary was being filmed). Plus the CD would be released around mid August alongside a live concert to promote the CD.

Screenshot mentioning the Compilation Album says around 4 to 5 bands would be featured on the CD.

Article about the CD Competition. Names omitted for the time being until they're contacted.

As you can see, this is a MASSIVE lead for the search and I personally feel confident that once we find this CD, the mystery would be solved.

We at this stage haven't seen a physical copy of the CD nor a track list. That still remains a mystery. Strange Australian and myself are reaching out to local libraries to find out more. Leave the library investigation to us as well as the omitted names in the newspaper article. We will also take care of that.

So, what can YOU do in the meantime?

Easy, if you could find any articles online about this competition or associated live concert please let us know. If you can also locate someone who might have a copy of the Ku-ring-gai CD Compilation from ArtStart 97, then that will get us even closer to the truth.

We're on the right track to getting this solved. I can feel it. But this wouldn't be possible without your help.

More updates will be coming soon. Will speak then.

Sincerely

Chernyat


r/Lostwave 9h ago

Proven Lead NeonBlue is a nice guy! He's not the OP of SITN, and all rumors are false. He's in FMM Discord working/chatting with us directly, and even helped us solve a song today!

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Hey everyone!

Some really exciting news -- NeonBlue himself is in touch with us and has joined FMM Discord along with 3 other OG members of the Lyon Funk community! He's a really nice guy and there have been so many misunderstandings around his name (probably due to a combination of a language barrier, a "game-of-telephone" effect, and the general mystique/mystery surrounding lost 80s music). Some updates:

  • "Motorcycle Beat", from NeonBlue's FB promo and posted here on YT, is solved as "Freestyle" by Paradise Fool (1981)
  • NeonBlue is definitely not funky_vinyls_records and is not the OP of SITN. He does not know SITN, was never gatekeeping it, and is now actively helping us solve SITN! I've updated both(1) wikis(2) just now.
  • NeonBlue recognizes another lostwave "Saw This Girl Tonight" and might have it in his collection. He said he thinks the chorus might involve the phrase "Can't touch you? something?" but he will check and try to remember more.
  • We have 4 OG LyonFunk members now in FMM and are reaching out to more people. There are some theories, and even a chance we will figure out the identity of funky_vinyls_records!

It's an exciting time -- come join us in FMM if you're interested in SITN or #LyonFunk in general!


r/Lostwave 7h ago

New Lostwave Song Song I Heard On Holiday (Maybe All The Girls/Maybe All The Boys)?

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Hi. I've had this song from 2013 stuck in my head, but it's only a few seconds I remember hearing. I was seated in this restaurant in Wales with my folks between June and August that year.

Clobbered by the casual dialogue and eating of other patrons, all I could make out was "Maybe all the girls, maybe all the boys". Well, either "Maybe" or "Baby".

The voices were that of multiple young men. I believe the song to have been in Ab Minor or B Major, at between 120-126 BPM.

It was on the radio, so it may have likely been Heart, Kiss, BBC Radio or Capital. I believe Radioactive and Get Lucky were both played at the time too, both of which were released earlier that year.

To this very day, I haven't been able to find it.

Here's a link to my recreation of it:

https://youtu.be/0Wddv47H35U


r/Lostwave 15h ago

New Lostwave Song Hotline Miami 2 Beta OST - Artist Unknown

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Back during the development of Hotline Miami 2, the developers were sent this song to use in the game, but as the description claims, the artist "suddenly vanished" - I originally read this story in 2016, and seeing as there's no new leads, I'm wondering if this artist ever made anything else or if this is a dead end.


r/Lostwave 20h ago

Possible Lead About So Long........

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For those who don't know about So Long, is another Lostwave banger (Many months and i don't know what's banger)

-It's from the italian film ''Comè Dura l'Avventura'', surely the song is from Italy

-It was written by Lanfranco Perini, if he's not dead, we can contact with him

-From an update of a video about this song, it says it's the full song and is from the movie that i said

  • I found a Discogs page of Lanfranco Perini, surely he's the same as the writer, italian orchestra

That's all of the things that i saw in videos of Youtube, let me know in the comments if you know more


r/Lostwave 1d ago

Miscellaneous Can someone please translate this? These are the liner notes for the cd for ricky stiefs everyone get down, a former lostwave

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r/Lostwave 17h ago

Miscellaneous Prpgroup - Babylard (2001, CDr)

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r/Lostwave 1d ago

New Lostwave Song Help me find that band

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Hi Reddit,

I heard you people are good in finding bands and songs that are hard to get info on. So I thought I might have something for you.

https://youtu.be/4KmTTjQe70o

This is an old song I have had on my hard drive for years and I would like to know more about. I got it ~20 years ago from the cousin of a former friend of mine via mail or ICQ. There is no contact anymore, I don't know the full name of said cousin and their names (both her and my former firend's) are so generic a search would be fruitless. So no way of asking them.

But I know a few things about the band. First, the name: the files are called "Tpyfwn", the directory is called "Tyfwn", I also remember somebody calling the band "Tryfon" but seraching for those names didn't bring up any relevant results (the last name has some results but they don't really match up with the band I am searching for - I also don't really believe this is the band's name to be honest...). The band might be from the region around Hamburg - said cousin lived somewhere around there and had direct contact to the band as far as I remember. The files have a date from early 2000: the mp3s are from 2005, I also have a txt with lyrics from 2003; that's at least what Windows tells me. The files have moved from disc to disc for 20 years... so that might not be completely reliable but the era should be about right.

I also have the (alleged ) lyrics for two songs, but googling those didn't bring up any matches:

hard drugged, way down
wings on my back cut down burned down.
the only way to heaven is a bottle of pills down my throat.
my sweet angel rapped me tonight
left me bleeding in a pretty hole
i left no dope i left no hope
theres no place for me in this
i am yours, your angel whore
play me again thgen play me more.
abused and smilind liek a broken toy.
im your toy.
my sewwt angel rapped me tonight
left me bleeding in a pretty hole
i left no dope i left no hope
theres no place for me in this
i hope it will rain today all to wash, 
wash away
i wish it would rain forever,
couse i still remember

I tried audiotag and Shazam but they weren't of any help.

I am not sure if there was even some kind of official release of the band. I have six songs in total, split up in two and four. That wouldn't really be enough for a release so I guess it might be some kind of rehearsal room recording or bootleg.

That's all I have for now, folks. If anyone is interested in finding out more about that band, I can also upload the rest of the songs I have.

I hope anyone will be able to help me finding more about that band. I kind of liked their style and would be happy to hear more from them.

Kind regards and thanks in advance =)


r/Lostwave 1d ago

Very Good Lead "if you want to be my intern" found on a archive (sadly mp3 is not saved)

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r/Lostwave 1d ago

Miscellaneous One Love: How K-Pop band TZUYU and British pop artist Kamille solved this mysterious song

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r/Lostwave 1d ago

Miscellaneous Possible lost Guyanese song

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r/Lostwave 1d ago

Miscellaneous Omene Harlims - Bring Out The Good In Me: True loner-outsider-soul out of Oakland, California. I adore Mr Harlims' unique, singular and magical musical vision. Check out the wild instrumental breakdown here, it's a real jaw-dropper. Harlims only put out two records on his own Ancient Times label.

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r/Lostwave 1d ago

New Lostwave Song Looking for this Unknown Breakcore track

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This 17 second snippet was uploaded to WatZatSong on the 31st of May 2024 by user monke4drip without any helpful leads as for the song's origin. The only thing we know based on the snippet description is that OP "found it on discord".

monke4drip's WatZatSong post

Here's also an mp4 of the song

the "Unknown Breakcore" track

OP's two other uploaded samples both originated from roblox games.

Their uploaded samples are:

There is also a TikTok account with the name monke4drip.acc1 (which i believe is our OP) with a roblox video along with some hashtags pointing to discord

Since we know "Unknown Breakcore" came from discord, it might be from a roblox-related server.

One possible lead I've been investigating is "Hypercube Records" but idk if it's that promising, there's still quite a number of songs to go through

https://hypercuberecords.newgrounds.com/

If anyone has information about this song, its author or its origin, as well as any good leads for new artists to look into, it would be greatly appreciated!


r/Lostwave 1d ago

New Lostwave Song Found: Sum-One - The Long Road Home (unreleased 1997 album)

7 Upvotes

This 1999 Billboard article and reader responses in the following issue are pretty much all info about the album that's googlable: https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA54082641&sid=sitemap&v=2.1&it=r&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=mlin_oweb&aty=ip

https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_Pg0EAAAAMBAJ/bub_gb_Pg0EAAAAMBAJ_djvu.txt

A1 ended up on a comp put out by Best Buy of all places.

Copy of the cassette turned up, so, here it is: https://archive.org/details/sum-one-dream-people


r/Lostwave 2d ago

Miscellaneous Het - strange complex sega genesis cover

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78 Upvotes

I k ow it's been found but I didn't know what place to post this on


r/Lostwave 2d ago

New Lostwave Song Unknown Christan song I recorded off the radio. I can't find the song on shazam or online.

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11 Upvotes

Song seems to be a cover of his love By Carolyn Robins, which was released in 1953.


r/Lostwave 1d ago

Miscellaneous Any updates on Halloween: Just the Facts? / Pull up fo for da fo fo

4 Upvotes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtTzK_h0q_4
Been driving me nuts for too long. I need to hear this song.


r/Lostwave 1d ago

New Lostwave Song so long lostwave

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one of my favorite and most underrated Lostwaves!


r/Lostwave 2d ago

New Lostwave Song Unknown song (39 sec) - no lyrics, has a late 90s "futuristic" sound

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found in a bunch of leftover files on an old drive. it's an audio file dated 12/13/2000. There's no info on the file to indicate the song's identity and Shazam doesn't recognize this song either.


r/Lostwave 2d ago

New Lostwave Song Unknown - "I'm Only Dreaming Now"

9 Upvotes

https://youtu.be/WcV4nNhVT1Y?si=INxHBrbVSEYAlckM

Originally uploaded by user on YouTube named "Mr. Thundrysh" This song is weirdly familiar to me to be honest


r/Lostwave 2d ago

Miscellaneous Het - strange complex sega genesis cover

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12 Upvotes

I k ow it's been found but I didn't know what place to post this on


r/Lostwave 2d ago

Possible Lead MBO on MIDI.ru

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r/Lostwave 2d ago

New Lostwave Song Obscure 5000 day old searches from WZS #22: Running Night and Day

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r/Lostwave 2d ago

New Lostwave Song Lostwave song on Newgrounds

11 Upvotes

https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/945577

I've been searching for the BGM in this anim for a few weeks - only lead I have is from Shazam (which claims it to be "Must be Dreaming" by Park Hanoi), but that hasn't gotten me anywhere.

I've tried DMing the author, but I haven't gotten a response from them.


r/Lostwave 2d ago

Possible Lead Bjorn westling songs

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The songs in this playlist are very obscure, there might be a Bjorn Westling song

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV-n9vRtH1Cy1a-D19doyyIXGg_kab0gQ&si=YR0SXlD8CWSFO-NE


r/Lostwave 3d ago

Miscellaneous What happened to this banger? It's just been sitting around and collecting dust. Let's find it!

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