List of Lostwaves: Difference between revisions

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Lostwave is a term for music with little to no information available about their origins, including song titles and names of associated musicians.

This list is about known and searched Lostwaves at the moment, you can help us expanding the page.

Note: The songs must be placed in alphabetical order.

Unsolved

Placeholder name	OP	Possible year	Note
American Daydream	Acidbeats9	1984-1986
Back To Bed File:BackToBed.mp3	daqva	before 2011
Bronx Stories	Da Cream Hunter	1993-1994
CIA	DJFormaldehyde	c. 1985
Curly Toes File:Curlytoesmusic.mp3	Irwin Chusid	1970s	Song found on the disk "Songs in the key of Z".
Factory For Love File:FactoryForLove.mp3	wurlitizer18	unknown
Forgive And Forget File:ForgiveAndForget.mp3	Slymukk	1970s-1980s
Just A Game File:JustAGame.mp3	Gabor72	unknown
La Cancion De Alicia File:LCDA.mp3	Jitomate Triste	unknown	Song uploaded to a Spanish Lost Media Facebook group by a now terminated user. Famously covered by lead singer of the band Gin and Tonic "RichardVox".
Light The Lanterns	Windows to sky	1985
See U Dancing	FM120	2000s
Stay By My Side	konstantinos	c. 1985	The song was first posted to WatZatSong on December 23, 2008 by the aforementioned user. Konstantinos describes that he found it at a flea market, while searching for tapes dated between 1982 and 1988.
Stop Making Me Cry File:Stop Making Me Cry (SMMC).mp3	pilo	2001-2002
One Love File:OneLove.mp3	Samira Kocheni	c. 2013	The song has very little information attached to it [will be filled soon]
Punch	Not Applicable	before 2019
Tension Rising In The Air	LORRAIN	1985-2000	This song, uploaded in 2006, is among the very first posts (#90) in the entire history of WatZatSong. The OP is presumed to be French, and has posted several samples of the same genre in 2006.
The Fallen King	sled1025	1987-1989	The search has been going on since 2009
The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet File:TMS-new 32-bit PCM.wav	Darius S. and Lydia H.	c. 1984	Most likely recorded from the German radio station NDR1 in the year mentioned. First posted to the Internet in 2007, on CFNY's "Spirit of Radio" site, in their song identification category.
The Squid Song	Not Applicable	Late 2000s - Early 2010s	From a small web forum from around 2013, was mistaken for as a song by Beaverloop
Treadmill Of Time	Jacob Morgan	1980s-1990s
''Unknown Techno Song'' File:HELP ME FIND THIS TECHNO SONG!.wav	plasmalabtv	1996-1997
Uptown People	NY80sTapes	c. 1984
Waste My Time File:WasteMyTime.mp3	morback	2010
Your Eyes	DaRioXYK	2000-2003	Song posted for the first time on a Chinese music website similar to real2000.org, as part of a compilation named "新歌热舞专辑 359".

Partially solved

Placeholder name	Image	OP	Possible year	Note
Edge of a Dream		anikinvitaly	1998	Found in the 1998 movie "Nightmare Street". Although the sample was posted to WatZatSong in 2016, the search has been reportedly started in 2005. A mention of the song was found in a thread on the russian forum iXBT, dating from 2011.
Imagination Lives		KatePevensie	2003	This song was verifiably aired on the channel Sci-Fi in 2003, as a bumper presenting the films that would air in 2004. Some of the searchers think this song is a mashup of samples created by Sci-Fi, while others believe it is an original song. Likely made by Sci-Fi channel itself.

Solved

Name	Placeholder name	Year	Artist
2night	Bend The Rules	2012	TWNKL
Bravely	Try To Smile Again	1992	Beatboy
Corona	Swahili Dance	2020	Nicholas Busienei
Dizzy		c. 2011	Tova Litvin
Dizzy	Amigos Míos	1984	The Flying Lizards
Feels Like a Wish File:FeelsLikeAWish.mp3	Fond My Mind	1990	Station K.
Funky File:Funky.mp3	Dance For Hours a Day	2005	Royal Treatment Plant
How Long File:HowLong.mp3	How Long Will It Take	2005	Paula Toledo
Johnny in the Middle of the Park	Johnny	1983	Pierro Cotto
Just Passin' By File:Justpassinby.mp3	The World Was So Easy	1994	Big Picture
Katonda Alinawe File:KatondaAlinawe.mp3	Kenya Dance	2011	David SonJC
Maniac Laugh	Ha Ha Ha Ha	1992	Jonny Cohen
Oceania	The Endless Longing of Sea Doves	1988	Dead Can Dance (without Brendan and Lisa)
Rhythmatic Viruskus	Extra Terribrial	1990	Wisconsin Conservatory of Noise
Ulterior Motives File:Everyone Knows That.wav	Everyone Knows That	1986	Christopher Saint Booth
Zoltan File:Zoltan.mp3	Zoltan	2007	Zoltan Lantos, Vincent Barrès and Marc Beacco

For Lostwaves without extensive searches see Minor Identified Lostwaves

Hoax

Name	Placeholder name	Note
Digital Girl	Digital Girl
Girl Talk		AI-generated
I'm A Demo	3w0e9wm_mxMDZ01m904_121nmsam0.mp3	AI-generated
This One’s Gonna Fly	Above The Clouds

Unconfirmed

Here's list of music, so far existence of which is highly disputable and/or the OP remade the music from their memory.

Placeholder name	OP	Possible year	Note
"Lostwave August 2019"	IntelligentBread5	Unknown	Possible hoax
Raspberry144mb's gore	Raspberry144mb	Unknown	Possible hoax
''Unknown Drum and Bass Song''	Supra935	c. 2010	Most likely the song is "Enya - Only Time (Drum n Bass Remix)"
''Unknown Trance Song''	DK88	1998-2001 c. 1999

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