Trip To Rio

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Trip To Rio
Genre New Wave
Length 1:26 (snippet)
Year 1987
Original poster René (DeDiniDevil)
Search started 2002
File:TripToRio.mp3

Trip To Rio is an unsolved lostwave that was recorded from German radio in 1987, and was first uploaded to YouTube in November 2021

Background[edit | edit source]

In 2002, René uploaded a snippet of the song to his website DeDiniDevil.de. He claims to have recorded it off the radio in October 1987 and remembers the artist's name as Base Bazaar.[1]

On November 25th, 2021, the OP uploaded the full recording to YouTube, and adds that he possibly recorded the song from Radio ffn in Lower Saxony, Germany, or HR 3 in Hesse, Germany.[2]

As of May 26th, 2024, Reddit user MJIgaz4 is searching through the archives and obtaining recordings from digiandi.de, which hosts archives of Radio ffn and HR 3 broadcasts.[3] On May 29th, 2024, MJIgaz4 received two full recordings of HR 3 broadcasts from October 4th and 9th 1987, but they did not include the song.[4][5]

Leads[edit | edit source]

Possible[edit | edit source]

  • Jörg Christian Petershofen: Radio ffn DJ who broadcasted in October 1987 and whose voice matches the one heard at the end of the snippet, died in 2013.[6][7]

Debunked[edit | edit source]

  • Markus Hertle: Radio HR 3 DJ who matched the voice heard at the end of the snippet, confirmed to have never heard of the song.[8]
  • 1st Avenue - Back To Rio[9]: Not the same song[10]
  • Bill Potts - Trip To Rio: Not the same song[11]
  • Faction - Space Bazaar: Not the same song, debunked by OP[12]
  • Soul Bazaar: Did not record the song[13]
  • Blaze Bazzali - In, In Rio: Hoax post[14]

Lyrics[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]