Editing The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet

The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet (also known as “Like The Wind”, “Blind The Wind”, “Check It In, Check It Out”, “Take It In, Take It Out”, and “The Mysterious Song”) is the name given to a recording of an unidentified song, recorded by Darius S. likely sometime around 1983-1984 from the North German radio station Norddeutscher Rundfunk. He recorded the song onto a cassette tape and also made a mixtape with other songs on it. He removed DJ chatter from the song to get a cleaner recording, which is why the date of recording and song details are unknown. On March 18, 2007, Darius’ sister, Lydia, asked for help in identifying the song on best-of-80s.de and Spirit of Radio. The song slowly gained prominence, being uploaded to WatZatSong in 2009 and to YouTube in 2011. In 2019, Gabriel Pelenson uploaded the song to his YouTube channel and to many lostwave subreddits, also founding the r/TheMysteriousSong subreddit. On July 12 of that year, u/Johnny me too posted a complete version of the song, obtained from one of Lydia’s posts before deletion. On July 21, 2019, after being asked to do so by searchers, Paul Baskerville played the song on his radio show “Nachtclub”. This made Darius and Lydia aware of the search, and Lydia became involved with the subreddit. After extensive investigation, searchers have discovered that the song was not ever played on Baskerville’s Music Für Junge Leute. When analyzing various songs that played on North German radio during that time period, searchers could not find the song. In late 2020, a searcher found that the recording had a 10 kHz line. This was present on all NDR broadcasts at the time, except for Hilversum radio broadcasts. On November 2, 2021, Lydia posted on Reddit the discovery of a higher-quality recording of TMS, found in a box of tapes while her son was renovating her apartment. 


It is widely thought that the singer has a European accent. Some searchers have theorized that a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer was used, which was released in late 1983 and could possibly narrow down the date of recording. The song is widely considered to have been recorded in 1984, since that is when most other songs on the cassette tape were released. Paul Baskerville suspects it was an NDR demo that was thrown away. One article claims the song is by Christian Brandl and Ronnie Urini, recorded in Vienna, 1983. Urini claimed the song was his and tried to manufacture false evidence, but this was debunked. An associate of Brandl said it did not sound like Brandl or Urini.