After 17 years, 'the most mysterious song on the internet', used in esoteric and rad Doom mod MyHouse.wad, has been found

pcgamer.com:

«The most mysterious song on the internet»—called so because it was, well, mysterious—is no longer a mystery. A backrooms-tier secret, the song, now apparently ID'd as Subways Of the Mind by FEX, saw consistent use across the information highway precisely because of its enigmatic nature.

So enigmatic, in fact, that it had a whole article written about it in music mag Rolling Stone, which claims that a German by the name of «Darius S.» recorded it back in the '80s from a radio program called Musik für junge Leute (Music for Young People) on Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). «It was just one of many songs I recorded and didn’t know the artist,» he told magazine back in 2019: «I believe I didn’t hear an announcement. Maybe I heard it partially and missed the artist’s name. Everything is possible.»

Eventually, his sister—burdened by curiosity—posted a clip to the internet in 2007, where it stayed dormant for a decade and a half. Then, in 2019, the thing went viral, kicking off a voracious hunt for any info.

Its cryptic nature (and the fact that it's kind of a banger) saw it used in a bunch of liminal space-adjacent media, including DOOM mod MyHouse.wad, where you can find it playing from the open door of a lonely car, several layers deep into the inception-style madness that plagues the mod—anything else I say on the subject would constitute a spoiler for the thing, so my lips are sealed.

Now (as spotted by 404media), it looks like the hunt is at an end. Using Hörfest, an annual music contest with lists of local musicians in Hamburg whose work would then be played on NDR, TheMysteriousSong's subreddit compiled a list of potential attendees for its 1984 show. The group's thousands of members would then engage in deep-dives angled towards the featured bands—and one of said dives brought up gold.

«About two weeks ago I came across an old newspaper article in the Nordwest Zeitung archive, while researching Hörfest bands,» user marijn1412 writes, «The article was about a band