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	ⓘ This lostwave is classified as unsolved.
	The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet
	; Track list for the song.
Alternative name(s)	Blind The Wind, Like The Wind, "Check It In, Check It Out", "Take It In, Take It Out", The Mysterious Song, TMMSOTI, TMMS, TMS, LTW, BTW
Genre	Post-punk, New Wave
Year	c. 1984
Status	Unsolved; Almost full version available
Original poster	Darius S
Search started	2004
Search community	various (mostly r/TheMysteriousSong)
	File:The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet.mp3

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The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet (also known as "Like the Wind", "The Sun Will Never Shine", "Blind the Wind", "Check It In, Check It Out", "Take It In, Take It Out", and "Summer Blues) is an unidentified song recorded by Darius S. It was recorded between 1982 and 1984 at the North German radio station "Norddeutscher Rundfunk," also known as NDR.

On August 1st, 2024, the community discovered an extremely promising lead while researching an NDR competition called Hörfest 1984, which aimed to promote emerging artists. It aired on NDR on November 28th, 1984, exactly when researchers predicted the song would air prior to Hörfest's discovery.

Origins (1980s-2004)[edit | edit source]

Between 1983 and 1984, Darius S, a teenage music fan from Wilhelmshaven, Germany, taped a radio program on a BASF Chromdioxid II 90 cassette tape^[1] from the North German public radio station Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). The original tape before adding it to any mixtapes included new songs from XTC and the Cure. He believes he recorded the song in 1984 based on the release dates of other songs on the tape and the Technics tape deck he had at the time.^[2] The synthesizer used in the song is a Yamaha DX7, which was released in May 1983.^[3]

Darius' older sister, Lydia H, bought him a website domain for his birthday in 2004, which he used to raise awareness about the 25 unidentified songs in his personal collection. He then digitized his radio recordings, saving the songs as alif and m4a files, and uploaded them to his website, Unknown Pleasures, which is named after the 1979 album of the same name by English rock band Joy Division.^[4]

Early Search (2007-2017)[edit | edit source]

On March 18th, 2007, Lydia requested assistance by posting the song under the pseudonym "Anton Riedel" on the websites best-of-80s.de^[5] and spiritofradio.ca^[6] where user Jugge suggested that it sounded like "Statues in Motion" or "Metro Decay".

The song spread around the internet, first posted to WatZatSong on December 17th, 2009 by user Konstantinos,^[7] and on April 16th, 2011, Spanish user Redalfo first uploaded the song to YouTube.^[8]

The search received a surge of popularity in 2017, with it being reuploaded several times to WatZatSong that year^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12] and on September 17th, 2017, the Spanish independent record label Dead Wax Records uploaded Anton's snippet of the song to YouTube, which would catch the attention of the person who would finally bring the search to mainstream attention.

Mainstream Attention and Current Search (2019-Present)[edit | edit source]

From April 20th to June 29th, 2019, Gabriel da Silva Vieira, a 16-year-old from São Paulo, Brazil, posted the song 44 times on various subreddits with the title "THE MOST MYSTERIOUS SONG ON THE INTERNET!".^[13], eventually forming his own subreddit for the song on June 30th, 2019.^[14] User newacountz quickly discovered Lydia's original uploads of the song, scrolling through the post history and determining that the uploader recorded it from the NDR2 radio station, most likely off the program Musik für junge Leute (Music for young People).^[15] They also discovered NDR presenters Peter Urban and Paul Baskerville. Paul was focused on because he spoke English and was known for playing completely unknown independent new wave music.^[16]^[17]

On July 9th, 2019, popular YouTuber Justin Whang discussed the search for the song on an episode of his YouTube series called Tales From the Internet.^[18] The next day, after searchers posted on the r/germany subreddit, a user named johnnymetoo claimed to have downloaded the full version of the song from Lydia's UseNet post^[19], uploading it to r/TheMysteriousSong two days later.^[20] On July 21st, 2019, Paul Baskerville aired the song on his radio program "Nachtclub" after requests from the song's rapidly growing search team.^[21] On August 20th, 2019, Radio1 interviewed Paul Baskerville and played the song on the air,^[22] which alerted Darius and Lydia to the search,^[23] with Lydia joining the subreddit and Discord the next day.^[24]

On September 22nd, 2019, Lydia uploaded the first known tape of the song, known as BASF 4|1, to wetransfer.com.^[25]^[26], containing songs from the United States,^[27] United Kingdom,^[28] Scotland,^[29] Canada,^[30] Germany^[31] and the Netherlands^[32] ranging from 1982 to 1984. Numerous mainstream news publications began covering the story at this time, the first being Rolling Stone on September 24th, 2019.^[33]

On June 26th, 2020, Lydia uploaded a mixtape containing the song, known as Compilation A, which had the song in lower quality than the previous tape^[34]^[35]

On July 9th, 2020, reddit user u/FlexxonMobil received a list of every song Paul Baskerville played on Musik für Junge Leute from 1982 to 1984^[36], but after searching through the available playlists^[37], the song could not be found, even after receiving the partial 1984 playlists from other shows including Der Club and Nachtclub.^[38] Through this, searchers were able to estimate that the song aired in September or November 1984 based on several discovered playlists containing songs Darius had to have recorded during that time period.^[39] There are still several missing Nachtclub and Der Club playlists that could contain the song, spanning August to October 1984.^[40]

On December 22nd, 2020, user fliere discovered a 10 kHz line in the song via spectrogram analysis, which was present on NDR broadcasts at the time. It is also confirmed that the 10 kHz modulation scheme was only used by NDR, because Darius recorded from other stations, like Hilversum, which did not have the 10 kHz line, effectively ruling out the possibility of the song being aired on any station other than NDR.^[41]^[42]

On November 7th, 2021, Lydia posted the final mixtape known as N01, which contains the highest quality version of the song, after discovering it in a box of tapes while renovating her apartment with her son.^[43]^[44]

On April 3rd, 2024, reddit user Successful-Bread-347 discovered that the Stasi, a German government agency that managed the archives of the former German Democratic Republic and kept an enormous amount of data on life in Germany,^[45] may have archived information about some NDR shows.^[46] As of July 25th, 2024, the archives are still being searched through.^[47]

On July 18th, 2024, the search team discovered that NDR held an event called Hörfest, which was a competition designed to promote new bands and was held in September 1984, matching the likely recording date of the song.^[48] Additionally, the Hörfest broadcast aired in Lower Saxony, where Darius and Lydia lived at the time of the recording, on November 28th, 1984,^[49] and it was previously suggested that the song was most likely played on this date based on the other songs on Darius' tapes.^[50]

On August 1st, 2024, Discord user Beko discovered information that the festival involved a person named Uwe Sandhop, who was also a bassist that played in five different obscure bands,^[51] and potentially has a song registered under his name in the GEMA database from May 1984^[52] called "Like The Wind", though its details are incomplete and only lists the artists first name.^[53] However, this was debunked on August 4th, 2024, when the owner of the GEMA listing, Uwe, was contacted and confirmed that he did not create the song.^[54]

Lyrics[edit | edit source]

Presumed Lyrics

Like the wind (originally presumed as "Blind" by Darius)

You came here running'

Take the consequence of livin'

There's no space,

There's no tomorrow,

There's no sense communication (or, "sense for 'munication", "sense communicating", "sense for new dictation". This is one of the most debated lines, with multiple interpretations)

Check it in, check it out, for the sun won't ever shine,

Paranoid anyway, in the subways of your mind,

Like the wind, you're gone in summer (gonna suffer, going somewhere), let a smile be your companion

There's no place, and there's no sorrow, hear the young and restless dreamer (dreaming)

Check it in, check it out, but the sun won't ever shine,

Paranoid anyway, in the subways of your mind,

Check it in, check it out, but the sun won't ever shine,

Paranoid anyway, in the subways of your mind,

Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues (song of youth, psalm of youth)

Check it in, check it out, it's the real excuse (it's the real in you)

Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues

Tear it in, tear it out, it's the real excuse

Leads[edit | edit source]

A constantly changing list of categorized leads can be viewed here.

Major Leads

Key Milestones[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

[1] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/eny5lg/year_of_basf_cassette/

[2] ttps://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/most-mysterious-song-on-the-internet-885106/

[3] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/j05psy/just_a_video_for_those_who_dont_think_that_the/

[4] ttps://www.spontis.de/musik/most-mysterious-song/

[5] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20190706172927/http://www.best-of-80s.de/80er-80s-musiksuche-sound-search-27/gesucht-80er-indie-wave-song-15895/

[6] ttps://spiritofradio.ca/SongComments.asp?SongID=1737

[7] ttps://www.watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/31435.html

[8] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qus5eOALnMY

[9] ttps://www.watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/489269.html

[10] ttps://www.watzatsong.com/fr/name-that-tune/530509.html

[11] ttps://www.watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/511126.html

[12] ttps://www.watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/520694.html

[13] ttps://www.reddit.com/user/gabgaskins/submitted/

[14] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/c7l2dw/themysterioussong_has_been_created/

[15] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/c7l8az/comment/esh7mf0/

[16] ttps://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Baskerville&oldid=157447844&useskin=vector

[17] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/c7l8az/comment/esii4e2/

[18] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90JvgNQicp0

[19] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/cbb2xv/comment/eteguvs/

[20] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/cc8bhe/heres_the_complete_song_downloaded_it_in_2007/

[21] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFPST7GgTgI

[22] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwvnRZob3Gc

[23] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/idayxm/anniversary/

[24] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/ct570y/comment/exkycuv/

[25] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/d7wgk4/update_6_from_lydia_full_tape_recording/

[26] ttps://archive.org/details/basf41

[27] ttps://www.discogs.com/master/85613-Ray-Parker-Jr-Ghostbusters

[28] ttps://www.discogs.com/master/63022-Heaven-17-Sunset-Now

[29] ttps://www.discogs.com/master/58954-Simple-Minds-Up-On-The-Catwalk

[30] ttps://www.discogs.com/master/84580-Corey-Hart-Sunglasses-At-Night

[31] ttps://www.discogs.com/release/971774-Willem-Wat-

[32] ttps://www.discogs.com/master/125615-Golden-Earring-Twilight-Zone

[33] ttps://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/most-mysterious-song-on-the-internet-885106/

[34] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/hghkee/another_mixtape_containing_tms/

[35] ttps://mega.nz/file/fb4hGaxS#p0HATOWeaUyMSaxmW-Xxaq4taiZvVU9Z97_nG_BRz-0

[36] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/hofedh/world_exclusive_i_have_obtained_the_1984_song/

[37] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/hp0iam/breaking_paul_baskerville_likely_did_not_play_the/

[38] ttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SGKnBTvV7aBSM5Gi0BwUydxXkNooK6ZIVDfYvKUGJ68/edit?gid=274459647#gid=274459647

[39] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1bhdizt/tmms_likely_played_on_sept_28_1984_or_november_28/

[40] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1d9cmz8/a_few_crucial_playlists_missing_tms_could_be_on/

[41] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/kidd3m/update/

[42] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/l80581/the_10khz_line/

[43] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/qkwo2x/higher_quality_version_of_the_song_thanks_to/

[44] ttps://mega.nz/file/mGpUTCZa#UczM2QtoS8k5UUH5PEcosQ7Obu52WZ0kMRePWHLj2J4

[45] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi_Records_Agency?useskin=vector

[46] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1bv2d70/stasi_archives_have_ndr_radio_recordings/

[47] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1ebvdrr/stasi_update_7/

[48] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1e66o30/ndr_h%C3%B6rfest_1984/

[49] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1ehutqk/ndr_h%C3%B6rfest_1984_broadcast_date_fits_previous

[50] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1bhdizt/tmms_likely_played_on_sept_28_1984_or_november_28/

[51] ttps://www.rockinberlin.de/index.php?title=Uwe_Sandhop

[52] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1ehqmpm/comment/lg1bqro/

[53] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1ehqmpm/uwe_sandhop/?sort=top

[54] ttps://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1ek9xpw/gema_listing_like_the_wind_has_been_ruled_out/

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-'''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 an unidentified song, recorded by Darius S.  It was recorded sometime around 1983-1984 from the North German radio station "Norddeutscher Rundfunk," or NDR for short.
+'''The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet''' (also known as "'''Like the Wind'''", "'''The Sun Will Never Shine'''", "'''Blind the Wind'''", "'''Check It In, Check It Out'''", "'''Take It In, Take It Out'''", and "'''Summer Blues''') is an unidentified song recorded by Darius S. It was recorded between 1982 and 1984 at the North German radio station "Norddeutscher Rundfunk," also known as NDR.
-== Origins and Search ==
+On August 1st, 2024, the community discovered an extremely promising lead while researching an NDR competition called Hörfest 1984, which aimed to promote emerging artists. It aired on NDR on November 28th, 1984, exactly when researchers predicted the song would air prior to Hörfest's discovery.
-Around 1982 to 1984, Darius recorded the song off radio and onto a cassette tape, leaving out DJ chatter, and thus important info, for a cleaner recording.  This recording was copied onto several mixtapes, and the original source tape remains lost.
-On March 18, 2007, Darius' sister Lydia asked for help, posting the song on the websites best-of-80s.de and [https://spiritofradio.ca/SongComments.asp?SongID=1737 Spirit of Radio.]
+== Origins (1980s-2004) ==
+Between 1983 and 1984, Darius S, a teenage music fan from Wilhelmshaven, Germany, taped a radio program on a BASF Chromdioxid II 90 cassette tape<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/eny5lg/year_of_basf_cassette/</ref> from the North German public radio station Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). The original tape before adding it to any mixtapes included new songs from XTC and the Cure. He believes he recorded the song in 1984 based on the release dates of other songs on the tape and the Technics tape deck he had at the time.<ref>https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/most-mysterious-song-on-the-internet-885106/</ref> The synthesizer used in the song is a Yamaha DX7, which was released in May 1983.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/j05psy/just_a_video_for_those_who_dont_think_that_the/</ref>
-In April 2011, redalfo uploaded the song to his YouTube channel, with title [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qus5eOALnMY “Unkonow Song - Cancion Desconocida - Track Id.”]
+Darius' older sister, Lydia H, bought him a website domain for his birthday in 2004, which he used to raise awareness about the 25 unidentified songs in his personal collection. He then digitized his radio recordings, saving the songs as alif and m4a files, and uploaded them to his website, Unknown Pleasures, which is named after the 1979 album of the same name by English rock band Joy Division.<ref>https://www.spontis.de/musik/most-mysterious-song/</ref>
-In July 2017, the song was uploaded to WatZatSong by user [https://www.watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/511126.html azthriller.]
+== Early Search (2007-2017) ==
+On March 18th, 2007, Lydia requested assistance by posting the song under the pseudonym "Anton Riedel" on the websites best-of-80s.de<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20190706172927/http://www.best-of-80s.de/80er-80s-musiksuche-sound-search-27/gesucht-80er-indie-wave-song-15895/</ref> and spiritofradio.ca<ref>https://spiritofradio.ca/SongComments.asp?SongID=1737</ref>  where user Jugge suggested that it sounded like "Statues in Motion" or "Metro Decay".
-In 2019, Gabriel Pelenson started the search in earnest, posting the song to many Song Identification and investigative subreddits, including [https://reddit.com/r/helpmefind r/helpmefind], [https://reddit.com/r/rbi r/rbi], and [https://reddit.com/r/tipofmytongue r/tipofmytongue], as well as creating a new subreddit [https://reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong r/TheMysteriousSong].  Not long after, on July 12th, u/Johnnymetoo posted a complete version of the song, downloaded from one of Lydia's earlier posts before the post was removed.
+The song spread around the internet, first posted to WatZatSong on December 17th, 2009 by user Konstantinos,<ref>https://www.watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/31435.html</ref> and on April 16th, 2011, Spanish user Redalfo first uploaded the song to YouTube.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qus5eOALnMY</ref>
-On July 9th, 2019, [https://www.youtube.com/@JustinWhangYt Whang!] posted the first of many [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90JvgNQicp0 videos about the song] on his Tales from the Internet series.
+The search received a surge of popularity in 2017, with it being reuploaded several times to WatZatSong that year<ref>https://www.watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/489269.html</ref><ref>https://www.watzatsong.com/fr/name-that-tune/530509.html</ref><ref>https://www.watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/511126.html</ref><ref>https://www.watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/520694.html</ref> and on September 17th, 2017, the Spanish independent record label Dead Wax Records uploaded Anton's snippet of the song to YouTube, which would catch the attention of the person who would finally bring the search to mainstream attention.
-On July 21, 2019, after requests from the song's researchers, Paul Baskerville played the song on his Germand radio program "Nachtclub".  This alerted Darius and Lydia to the search, with Lydia joining the subreddit and Discord.
+== Mainstream Attention and Current Search  (2019-Present) ==
+From April 20th to June 29th, 2019, Gabriel da Silva Vieira, a 16-year-old from São Paulo, Brazil, posted the song 44 times on various subreddits with the title "THE MOST MYSTERIOUS SONG ON THE INTERNET!".<ref>https://www.reddit.com/user/gabgaskins/submitted/</ref>, eventually forming his own subreddit for the song on June 30th, 2019.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/c7l2dw/themysterioussong_has_been_created/</ref> User newacountz quickly discovered Lydia's original uploads of the song, scrolling through the post history and determining that the uploader recorded it from the NDR2 radio station, most likely off the program Musik für junge Leute (Music for young People).<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/c7l8az/comment/esh7mf0/</ref> They also discovered NDR presenters Peter Urban and Paul Baskerville. Paul was focused on because he spoke English and was known for playing completely unknown independent new wave music.<ref>https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Baskerville&oldid=157447844&useskin=vector</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/c7l8az/comment/esii4e2/</ref>
-On September 20, 2019, digitizations of the original mixtapes, including cassette tape BASF 4|1 containing TMS, were uploaded to Youtube by [https://www.youtube.com/@plasmalabtv plasmalabtv] . On December 24th, videos of the digitization process were uploaded to [https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbWtmRnppd3JDWlFqX0wwT2htaGNWSWMwOHFMQXxBQ3Jtc0tsQVVDVDFOWWFNZlYyNHIyYURWWklfZ0UxQ0ZPd003cGJLaUNyRHpER2FOc3Voa0N3XzIzR0d6eFJUS09tY2lRWUhzMENjRDJWMHRVM0hwbC1YSXFFbUFCdkxmWEJ6V3Z1ODhibG9XdnRQY2VvamlnSQ&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2FTheMysteriousSong%2Fcomments%2Feezppr%2Fhappy_christmas_from_lydia_and_darius%2F&v=jPKjgKHZyJ8 Reddit] by Lydia. The recording session was uploaded to [https://youtu.be/jPKjgKHZyJ8?si=J8PQKrwl8EhCZdd9 YouTube] and [https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPq5a-DS7JPukIMAdnBqhzjHdq75izJaWjhWAORsb7GChRVAhlog9zUm47EfDwqSg?pli=1&key=bVNXSnFTV2xSU1NlZTQyM2xSRHRzUDMyckZsYlB3 Google Photos].
+On July 9th, 2019, popular YouTuber Justin Whang discussed the search for the song on an episode of his YouTube series called ''Tales From the Internet.''<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90JvgNQicp0</ref> The next day, after searchers posted on the r/germany subreddit, a user named johnnymetoo claimed to have downloaded the full version of the song from Lydia's UseNet post<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/germany/comments/cbb2xv/comment/eteguvs/</ref>, uploading it to r/TheMysteriousSong two days later.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/cc8bhe/heres_the_complete_song_downloaded_it_in_2007/</ref> On July 21st, 2019, Paul Baskerville aired the song on his radio program "Nachtclub" after requests from the song's rapidly growing search team.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFPST7GgTgI</ref> On August 20th, 2019, Radio1 interviewed Paul Baskerville and played the song on the air,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwvnRZob3Gc</ref> which alerted Darius and Lydia to the search,<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/idayxm/anniversary/</ref> with Lydia joining the subreddit and Discord the next day.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/ct570y/comment/exkycuv/</ref>
-On September 24, 2019, The Rolling Stone's David Browne posts the article [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/most-mysterious-song-on-the-internet-885106/ "The Unsolved Case of the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet."]
+On September 22nd, 2019, Lydia uploaded the first known tape of the song, known as BASF 4|1, to wetransfer.com.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/d7wgk4/update_6_from_lydia_full_tape_recording/</ref><ref>https://archive.org/details/basf41</ref>, containing songs from the United States,<ref>https://www.discogs.com/master/85613-Ray-Parker-Jr-Ghostbusters</ref> United Kingdom,<ref>https://www.discogs.com/master/63022-Heaven-17-Sunset-Now</ref> Scotland,<ref>https://www.discogs.com/master/58954-Simple-Minds-Up-On-The-Catwalk</ref> Canada,<ref>https://www.discogs.com/master/84580-Corey-Hart-Sunglasses-At-Night</ref> Germany<ref>https://www.discogs.com/release/971774-Willem-Wat-</ref> and the Netherlands<ref>https://www.discogs.com/master/125615-Golden-Earring-Twilight-Zone</ref> ranging from 1982 to 1984. Numerous mainstream news publications began covering the story at this time, the first being Rolling Stone on September 24th, 2019.<ref>https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/most-mysterious-song-on-the-internet-885106/</ref>
-Searchers eventually got hold of full playlists for multiple NDR broadcasts in 1983-1984; however after combing through these playlists the song couldn't be found.
+On June 26th, 2020, Lydia uploaded a mixtape containing the song, known as Compilation A, which had the song in lower quality than the previous tape<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/hghkee/another_mixtape_containing_tms/</ref><ref>https://mega.nz/file/fb4hGaxS#p0HATOWeaUyMSaxmW-Xxaq4taiZvVU9Z97_nG_BRz-0</ref>
-In late 2020, one of the researchers discovered that the recording had a 10 kHz line, present on most NDR broadcasts of the time, with the exception of Hilversum's broadcasts.
+On July 9th, 2020, reddit user u/FlexxonMobil received a list of every song Paul Baskerville played on Musik für Junge Leute from 1982 to 1984<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/hofedh/world_exclusive_i_have_obtained_the_1984_song/</ref>, but after searching through the available playlists<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/hp0iam/breaking_paul_baskerville_likely_did_not_play_the/</ref>, the song could not be found, even after receiving the partial 1984 playlists from other shows including Der Club and Nachtclub.<ref>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SGKnBTvV7aBSM5Gi0BwUydxXkNooK6ZIVDfYvKUGJ68/edit?gid=274459647#gid=274459647</ref> Through this, searchers were able to estimate that the song aired in September or November 1984 based on several discovered playlists containing songs Darius had to have recorded during that time period.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1bhdizt/tmms_likely_played_on_sept_28_1984_or_november_28/</ref> There are still several missing Nachtclub and Der Club playlists that could contain the song, spanning August to October 1984.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1d9cmz8/a_few_crucial_playlists_missing_tms_could_be_on/</ref>
-On November 2, 2021, [https://new.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/qkwo2x/higher_quality_version_of_the_song_thanks_to/ Lydia posted a higher quality copy of the song] found on a separate cassette known as "[https://mega.nz/file/mGpUTCZa#UczM2QtoS8k5UUH5PEcosQ7Obu52WZ0kMRePWHLj2J4 N01]".  It was in a box of tapes found while she and her son were renovating her apartment.
+On December 22nd, 2020, user fliere discovered a 10 kHz line in the song via spectrogram analysis, which was present on NDR broadcasts at the time. It is also confirmed that the 10 kHz modulation scheme was only used by NDR, because Darius recorded from other stations, like Hilversum, which did not have the 10 kHz line, effectively ruling out the possibility of the song being aired on any station other than NDR.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/kidd3m/update/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/l80581/the_10khz_line/</ref>
-== Darius & Lydia's Mixtapes ==
+On November 7th, 2021, Lydia posted the final mixtape known as N01, which contains the highest quality version of the song, after discovering it in a box of tapes while renovating her apartment with her son.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/qkwo2x/higher_quality_version_of_the_song_thanks_to/</ref><ref>https://mega.nz/file/mGpUTCZa#UczM2QtoS8k5UUH5PEcosQ7Obu52WZ0kMRePWHLj2J4</ref>
-We currently know of 3 mixtape cassettes created by Darius and Lydia, containing the song:
-* Cassette "[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/d7wgk4/update_6_from_lydia_full_tape_recording/ BASF 4|1]", the first recording widely available on the Internet ([https://archive.org/details/basf41 audio])
+On April 3rd, 2024, reddit user Successful-Bread-347 discovered that the Stasi, a German government agency that managed the archives of the former German Democratic Republic and kept an enormous amount of data on life in Germany,<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi_Records_Agency?useskin=vector</ref> may have archived information about some NDR shows.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1bv2d70/stasi_archives_have_ndr_radio_recordings/</ref> As of July 25th, 2024, the archives are still being searched through.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1ebvdrr/stasi_update_7/</ref>
-* Cassette "[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/hghkee/another_mixtape_containing_tms/ Compilation A"], a lower-quality found by Lydia in June, 2020 ([https://mega.nz/file/fb4hGaxS#p0HATOWeaUyMSaxmW-Xxaq4taiZvVU9Z97_nG_BRz-0 audio])
-* Cassette "[https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/qkwo2x/higher_quality_version_of_the_song_thanks_to/ N01]", a higher-quality recording found by Lydia on November 1, 2021 ([https://mega.nz/file/mGpUTCZa#UczM2QtoS8k5UUH5PEcosQ7Obu52WZ0kMRePWHLj2J4 audio])
-== Key Findings in the Search ==
+On July 18th, 2024, the search team discovered that NDR held an event called Hörfest, which was a competition designed to promote new bands and was held in September 1984, matching the likely recording date of the song.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1e66o30/ndr_h%C3%B6rfest_1984/</ref> Additionally, the Hörfest broadcast aired in Lower Saxony, where Darius and Lydia lived at the time of the recording, on November 28th, 1984,<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1ehutqk/ndr_h%C3%B6rfest_1984_broadcast_date_fits_previous</ref> and it was previously suggested that the song was most likely played on this date based on the other songs on Darius' tapes.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1bhdizt/tmms_likely_played_on_sept_28_1984_or_november_28/</ref>
-== Key Findings in the Search ==
+On August 1st, 2024, Discord user Beko discovered information that the festival involved a person named Uwe Sandhop, who was also a bassist that played in five different obscure bands,<ref>https://www.rockinberlin.de/index.php?title=Uwe_Sandhop</ref> and potentially has a song registered under his name in the GEMA database from May 1984<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1ehqmpm/comment/lg1bqro/</ref> called "Like The Wind", though its details are incomplete and only lists the artists first name.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1ehqmpm/uwe_sandhop/?sort=top</ref> However, this was debunked on August 4th, 2024, when the owner of the GEMA listing, Uwe, was contacted and confirmed that he did not create the song.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1ek9xpw/gema_listing_like_the_wind_has_been_ruled_out/</ref>
-==== Key Milestones: ====
-<div style="display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap;">
-  <div style="flex: 1 1 100%; max-width: 600px; margin-right: 10px;">
-* '''Recorded on German Radio''': Most likely on [[NDR Radio]] in late 1984.
-* '''Initial Search''': First queries about the song are posted to Usenet in 2007.
-* '''Full recording''': July 12, 2019 - the full song was [https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/cc8bhe/heres_the_complete_song_downloaded_it_in_2007/ rediscovered and uploaded].
-* '''Original Poster Located''': 2019 - the original seekers, Lydia and her brother Darius, are located.
-* '''Technical Analysis''': [[10khz line|A distinct 10 kHz line]] was found in the song's spectrum, typical for 1980s FM broadcasts from NDR Radio, supporting its origin from that radio station. The line was very recently found to be broadcast at exactly 10khz and differences on the frequency found on the tapes are [https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1bqlr47/10khz_was_always_exactly_10khz_tms_as_broadcast/ mostly due to tape copying and wear]-- this has been helpful in identifying airdates.
-* '''Radio Playlists''': [[NDR Playlists|Obtaining playlists from NDR radio]] gave hundreds of pages of bands, and narrowed down potential air dates, but failed to locate the song.
-* '''November 1, 2021:'''  A new tape, with a higher quality version of the song was found by Lydia, and is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQk1IH9Trsg now on YouTube].
-* '''Possible Air Dates''': As of 2024, research points to the likely airdates of [https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1bhdizt/tmms_likely_played_on_sept_28_1984_or_november_28/ September 28, November 28], December 2, or [https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1980yqv/is_the_recording_date_of_tms_possibly_17091984/ September 17], 1984.
-* '''Current Research''': A search is currently underway through the [https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1bv2d70/stasi_archives_have_ndr_radio_recordings/ Stasi Archives] for any recordings from surveillance data.  It's suspected East Germany might have recorded or transcribed the broadcast of the song, given their extensive media monitoring during the Cold War era.
-</div>
-<div style="flex: 1 1 100%; max-width: 370px;">
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-ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:2 start:1980
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-  bar:Events color:gray width:45 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:L
-  from:1982 till:1984 text:"Radio recording (1982-1984)" color:red shift:(45,0)
-  from:1984 till:2007 text:"No significant events" color:gray shift:(45,0)
-  from:2007 till:2007 text:"Online post by bluuue (2007)" shift:(45,0)
-  from:2011 till:2011 text:"YouTube upload by redalfo (2011)" shift:(45,0)
-  from:2017 till:2017 text:"Upload to WatZatSong (2017)" shift:(45,0)
-  from:2019 till:$now text:"Subreddit search begins (2019)" color:blue shift:(45,23)
-  from:2020 till:2020 text:"10 kHz line discovery (2020)" shift:(45,-10)
-  from:2021 till:2021 text:"New tape (N01) found (2021)" shift:(45,-10)
-  from:$now till:$now text:"Today" shift:(45,0)
-}}
-</div>
-</div>
 == Lyrics ==
@@ Line 102: / Line 55: @@
 | <strong>Presumed Lyrics</strong>
 |-
-| Like<ref>originally presumed "Blind" by Darius</ref> the wind,
+| Like the wind (originally presumed as "Blind" by Darius)
 You came here running'
@@ Line 112: / Line 65: @@
 There's no tomorrow,
-There's no sense communication<ref>or, "sense for 'munication", "sense communicating", "sense for new dictation", etc.  This is one of the most debated lines, with multiple interpretations.</ref>
+There's no sense communication (or, "sense for 'munication", "sense communicating", "sense for new dictation".  This is one of the most debated lines, with multiple interpretations)
 Check it in, check it out, for the sun won't ever shine,
@@ Line 118: / Line 71: @@
 Paranoid anyway, in the subways of your mind,
-Like the wind, you're gone in summer<ref>or, "gonna suffer", going somewhere</ref>, let a smile be your companion
+Like the wind, you're gone in summer (gonna suffer, going somewhere), let a smile be your companion
-There's no place, and there's no sorrow, hear the young and restless dreamin'<ref>or, "dreamer"</ref>
+There's no place, and there's no sorrow, hear the young and restless dreamer (dreaming)
 Check it in, check it out, but the sun won't ever shine,
@@ Line 130: / Line 83: @@
 Paranoid anyway, in the subways of your mind,
-Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues<ref>or, "song of youth", or "psalm of youth"</ref>
+Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues (song of youth, psalm of youth)
-Check it in, check it out, it's the real excuse<ref>or, "the real in you"</ref>
+Check it in, check it out, it's the real excuse (it's the real in you)
 Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues
 Tear it in, tear it out, it's the real excuse
-|-
-|<references />
 |}
-== TMS Leads ==
+== Leads ==
 A constantly changing list of categorized leads can be viewed [[TMS Leads|here]].
@@ Line 147: / Line 98: @@
 '''Major Leads'''
-* [[Artistic control|Artistic Control]]
-* [[Blue Light]]
 * [[Christian Brandl]]
 * [[Ronnie Urini]]
 * [https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/1bv2d70/stasi_archives_have_ndr_radio_recordings/ Stasi Archives]
 * [[Statues in Motion]]
-* [[Wild Angels]]
-== Notes ==
-The synth in the song is a Yamaha DX7, [https://new.reddit.com/r/TheMysteriousSong/comments/j05psy/just_a_video_for_those_who_dont_think_that_the/ using several presets, like Syn Lead 5.]  This means the song couldn't have been released any earlier than 1983.
-Brandi and Urini have both tried to claim the song, but an associate of theirs says it sounds nothing like them.
+== Key Milestones ==
+{{#tag:timeline|ImageSize = width:370 height:600
+PlotArea = left:50 right:0 bottom:50 top:10
+DateFormat = yyyy
+Period = from:1980 till:{{CURRENTYEAR}}
+TimeAxis = orientation:vertical order:reverse format:yyyy
+ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:10 start:1980
+ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:2 start:1980
+Colors =
+  id:gray value:gray(0.8)
+  id:blue value:blue
+  id:green value:green
+  id:orange value:orange
+  id:red value:red
+Define $now = {{CURRENTYEAR}}
+PlotData=
+  bar:Events color:gray width:45 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:L
+  from:1982 till:1984 text:"Radio recording (1982-1984)" color:red shift:(45,0)
+  from:1984 till:2007 text:"No significant events" color:gray shift:(45,0)
+  from:2007 till:2007 text:"Online post by bluuue (2007)" shift:(45,0)
+  from:2011 till:2011 text:"YouTube upload by redalfo (2011)" shift:(45,0)
+  from:2017 till:2017 text:"Upload to WatZatSong (2017)" shift:(45,0)
+  from:2019 till:$now text:"Subreddit search begins (2019)" color:blue shift:(45,23)
+  from:2020 till:2020 text:"10 kHz line discovery (2020)" shift:(45,-10)
+  from:2021 till:2021 text:"New tape (N01) found (2021)" shift:(45,-10)
+  from:$now till:$now text:"Today" shift:(45,0)
+}}
-Paul Baskerville thinks it could have been a demo that aired on NDR, but was thrown away afterwards.
+== References ==
+*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WDtZaXuQ-XadFgS2ah0mC0lzB_xcCC6-uolcHECxi0k/edit?gid=0#gid=0 Lead Document]
+*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SGKnBTvV7aBSM5Gi0BwUydxXkNooK6ZIVDfYvKUGJ68/edit?gid=1759222071#gid=1759222071 Playlist Analysis]
+<references />
 [[Category:Unidentified]]
 [[Category:The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet]]
+[[Category:Post punk]]
 [[Category:New wave]]