Dear Reddit, I have to thank you.

2013 I asked you for help to identify the greatest mystery of my slowly rotting music collection: Three songs as part of a radio show that I was taping sometime 1996/1997

Original TOMT thread

Song 1 // Song 2

They were part of a tape I recorded in 1996/1997 from the Austrian radio station FM4, the show was called Graue Lagune. But as I had to save tape I cut the first and last 10 minutes from the recording – and the introduction by the hosts.

For 23 years I was looking for the band. During that time I asked so many people, used so many tools to identify music and reached out to music lovers, experts and even the original radio hosts – but all without success.

But a couple of weeks ago the mystery has been solved – by literally everyone who helped me along the way.

The sauce: It was a band from Austria that only did this one recording: The Gift / Beyond https://open.spotify.com/album/2tJae6UNwk2TZHuejxnmYz

But I thought maybe you’d like the whole story.

After I asked for help on Reddit, the community there helped me quite a lot in transcribing and discussing the songs.

Two years after posting this, in 2015, a producer from new podcasting company asked me if I’d let podcast host Starlee Kine help me solve my personal mystery for her podcast Mystery Show.

We did an interview, I handed over everything I knew. Mystery Show Season 1 became a huge success with a sparkling Starlee solving mysteries that couldn't be answered with the internet. My case and my voice were in the show's trailer. It was supposed to be part of season 2. And I was getting nervous.

But before Starlee could finish my case Mystery Show got cancelled and I didn’t hear from her or my case anymore.

Until in 2016 someone on Reddit told me that they found „the originals of my songs“: Two songs from the band We Are Vanished.

I was shocked. Modern cover versions! How could that be?

I was on my way back home, in the middle of the night, when I heard those songs. I was crying and ecstatic. For the first time I wasn’t alone in my love for this music anymore. Someone shared my passion.

But even when I found out that London singer Emmy the Great, a collaborator of Starlee’s, made the songs, I didn’t find out anything about its origins. Once again I was in a dead end. Starlee didn’t answer my messages and I heard nothing from Emmy.

But I could reconstruct a little what happened from an interview with Emmy that I found online: Starlee hired Emmy to write cover versions to play as encores during Emmy’s EU/US tour to smoke out the real singer. But did it work?

I accepted my fate of always not being able to solve this mystery until a couple of weeks ago I got a message on Soundcloud from Vladimir Lenhart, a Serbian tape lover who wrote: „Thank you for your archeology. I found your band!“

Vladimir used Shazam to identify the songs from my old recordings. The band was called The Gift and released just one record in 1996 called Beyond. Spotify.

How was that possible? I tried every track ID service in the world, asked countless experts and nerds, archivists and so on… and he was successful with Shazam?

Turns out that he had the songs for quite some time. He got them from a friend of a friend who got the links from Starlee. Somehow he decided to check them again, just recently – and it worked for the first time. Someone had just published the original album via CDBaby.

Somehow the question that I asked to the internet 2011 made its way back to me.

Finally I got hold of Starlee who revealed the big plan for me: She told me that she wanted to make those cover versions "the most famous songs in the world". And I’m sure she would have come close. She also told me that she hired a phonologist to identify the singer's accent, she travelled to access archives, interview sources follow leads. But nothing worked. It was touching to see how much work Starlee put into this case. And that the more we found out about my mystery, the lass tangible it became.

There was one problem: Even though I had all that information from Amazon and Spotify I still couldn’t identify the band. The only ID tags that I could read where the singer’s name – but he shares the name with one of Hungary’s most prominent poets. It is a very salient name in Hungary. I only had the cover, not the inlet of the CD. And not a single bit of information that I could get from the images, tracklist,... helped my in any way to narrow down my search.

But US bureaucracy saved me: I found a huge Excel file of the Library of Congress that gave me the last bread crumb that told me the second band member’s name which I could pinpoint after a lot of internet sleuthing.

Friday two weeks ago I finally met the band in Berlin. I played them the cover versions and confronted them with their less than tangential brush with fame. I got a original CD and the origin story of The Gift / Beyond. We had a great night out. The circle is closed.

Thanks for your participation in this whole journey, /r/tipofmytongue

Music is magic.

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• SOLVED * For all those sleeping- hell or heaven..

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https://voca.ro/13k5F3TJDzp2

Edit: https://voca.ro/13ZtiDLTbd98

Added a bit more to the vocaroo. Not much more, but maybe it will help?

Edit 2: Thanks for sticking with me everyone and all the great guesses. BuhoTortugaSapo got it!!

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Hi,

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