Break Down Those Walls
ⓘ This lostwave is classified as solved. | |
| Break Down Those Walls | |
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| Genre | New wave, Rock |
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| Year | 1984 |
| Status | Solved |
| Original poster | NY80sTapes |
| Search duration | July 2023 - May 2024 |
Break Down Those Walls is a solved lostwave by the band Dolce Vita. The track was formerly known by the placeholder name Uptown People. It was posted on Watzatsong by NY80sTapes in July 2023. The snippet is 22 seconds long but a longer version on Youtube is 26 seconds long. It
Origins and Search
Uptown People was posted to Watzatsong by the user NY80sTapes on the 2nd of July 2023. They said that it sounded like something ABP (a Scottish funk rock band) would make. A longer snippet was subsequently uploaded to Youtube.
In late 2023, the conversation moved to r/lostwave where more information about the song was clarified. User Cynicalcleaning said they had spoken to the OP of the first Youtube upload who placed the song around 1984 in terms of time period. In early 2024, the community received follow-up clarification from NY80sTapes that the song may have been aired on the WFMU, WDMU or WNYU college radio stations in the New Jersey or New York area.
Former Leads
When the station WFDU was contacted about the song, they said it was likely the song was played on their station as it sounded very familiar. They said they probably wouldn't have the cassette tape for the song anymore, so users decided to contact WFMU. They received a similar response - the song was familiar and sounded like it was from the early 80s but wasn't immediately identifiable.
Previous action to take to broaden the search was trying to find recordings of the three main stations from the time period and listening to them to see if there are similar or identical songs. Another avenue was definitively ruling out artists mentioned as leads to narrow the search pool down
Discovery
On the 29th of May, Reddit user TriPork shared that they had found the song by searching "post punk albums 1984 site:youtube.com intext:1984". It was a track in a long video of the full self titled album by Dolce Vita.