From 2007 until 2024, a mystery worthy of Columbo confounded online music lovers on Reddit, Discord, and elsewhere.
It inspired organized, long-term team investigations; multiple YouTube video series; an endless array of fruitless searches; and a whole lot of head-scratching. The thing that all of those intrepid investigators were looking for was a song by the German group Fex — they just didn’t know it. Neither did the members of Fex, who had disbanded in 1985 without ever officially releasing the track that would eventually go viral as “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet.”
At the dawn of the ‘80s, Germany’s NDW (Neue Deutsche Welle) movement was blossoming, with bands like Pyrolator, Die Krupps,…
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As a co-founder of the electronic label Faktura, Artem Dultsev is a champion of left-field sounds from Russia’s Ural region. The austere press photos for his project 
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…The record has been lovingly remastered and cut from the original tapes by John Baldwin at Infrasonic Sound in Nashville, TN.
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In 2023, a Wisp song became the first overnight success in the almost four-decade history of shoegaze. Recorded using iPhone earbuds over a YouTube producer’s instrumental, ‘Your Face’ was immediately beguiling, like a lost Deftones song tinged with sweet alt-pop yearning. Natalie Lu, then just 18, had a viral TikTok hit on her hands. She’s since signed with Interscope, opened for Slowdive, played Coachella, and on last year’s debut EP Pandora, proved that ‘Your Face’ was no fluke.
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In the fertile atmosphere of the 1960s, a genre emerged in Germany that borrowed from the electronic, hypnotic, repetitive, and psychedelic trends of the time – albeit in a rough style that some might consider typically German. This genre, dubbed ‘Krautrock’ by the British music press, influenced not only rock musicians but artists across other genres as well. Thousands of miles westward, in the United States, another trend known as ‘drone music’ developed built on sustained low-frequency repetitions that created a meditative effect, a feature naturally found in many Asian and Middle Eastern instruments. Imagine these two trends combined, with a stronger emphasis on the latter, and you get an experimental album made in 2025 with…
To understand Thank You Kirin Kiki, the ambitious and stunning debut album from jazz and ambient multi-instrumentalist 
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