It’s on iTunes. It sounds great, I added it to my KTSW playlist, but iTunes gave credit to Alvin Dean and Statues in Motion, but that’s not who created it.
It seems to me that we basically have the answer to this big question, but nobody has actually gone to the trouble of getting a solid confirmation from one of the few people who can provide it.
The song has Alvin Dean on vocals. That much is obvious to me. A song recorded after Statues In Motion split. Could’ve sworn I saw something about one of the other musicians Dean worked with during that time frame making reference to a dispute with the record label he was signed to at the time, which ended with them not allowing some of his later recorded material to be officially marketed. And that this was one of those songs, and it just somehow made its way into the hands of a radio DJ one day and got played once.
Though there has been speculation that Alvin Dean may have passed away, nobody has actually found any documentation of such. If anything, there have been a few hints that he’s still alive, and likely living in Australia.
He has a unique real name. Find him. Buy the guy dinner in exchange for talking about his music career to clear everything up. It’s probably that easy.
If you can’t find him, several other musicians he recorded with during that period are out there. A similar dinner/conversation with them could lead to some sort of confirmation.
Confirmation which… we basically already got, when the last thing Billy Knight said on the subject of the song was that “Alvin made it.” That’s a pretty confident, declarative statement. Though he initially tried to say SIM recorded it as a demo, he eventually conceded that it was actually just Alvin’s project. Someone doing a real, on the record, journalistic interview with Billy may even be enough. Pissing him off on Facebook is all that anyone has really accomplished with him yet.
Alvin Dean is the answer. Someone just needs to be the hero in this story and interview him and/or his friends. Who’s gonna follow through?
Dude, you didn't talk to me or camspiracy. Anyway: Played October 28th, 1984 by NDR2 Substitute DJ Wolfgang Hahn. The song was a new rendition of the Statues in Motion demo "Checking in/ Checking out," but re -recorded with Alvin Dean on vocals, Yannis Beltakis on the lead Guitar, and two members of Forward Music Quintet (FMQ) with the Drums played by "Von Claus" -(Alvin's Friend) and Natasha Syregella (Streuberg) who recreated Billy Knight's synth work using a DX 7; just as she did on a cover of a Parthenogenesis song from her first FMQ album. Some how, someway Alvin (or Yannis Beltakis) got it to Wolfgang Hahn for him to sneakily play it during Octoberfest.
The song itself is a banger. The guitar, synth, vocals and bass parts are fine could be modernised with better drumming and a more varied bridge. If an EP with different versions EDM, metal etc was made I'd buy it.
I read a comment under one of the videos about this song which really fits. It went something like: "If the Internet ever ends (probably along with the whole world), this song will be the ending credits song to The Internet. ". The mood of the song really fits lol.
Elvin didn't even need to move to Germany if a producer found a cut track and decided to sell it to a foreign market without knowing who or what it belonged to.
13:16 Either this guy is completely fed up with getting contacted about the song (it does look like it's a pre-made email) or it's an impersonator. Either way, you're getting trolled.
22:22 The NDR has the one of the biggest music libraries in Europe. Then there is also the DRA for the entire ARD. Sometimes programmes are shared between the member stations. The Popnacht for example shares the SWR programme with HR3, NDR2, MDR Jump, RBB, SR1 and WDR1. So sometimes it might not be the NDR directly, but the BR sends via the Stern to other stations. I wrote it under another video already that suggestion.
Ummm how the fuck you gonna say you can't play the song due to dmca, yet you don't even know who sings it? And if you did get it, wouldn't that solve the mystery?
I remember people handing out free tapes of their work at venues around Detroit 80s and 90s never to see or hear from them again , many were from guys who had an impressive investment in their basement studio . in detroit you only heard such music from college radio like whfr or Canadian CBC Late at night .
This has bound to have been examined, but the first thing that I thought of was voice print comparison with known singers. Is it possible or is the source recordings fidelity too insufficient?
Thanks for sharing this mystery to a wider audience. Has no one applied AI to this? This seems like a perfect use case for ML pattern recognition to identify instruments, vocals, etc. to at least provide some probabilistic estimates about whether or not some artist is a likely candidate or not. Admittedly it'd require collating some useful labeled data and some nontrivial coding and computation, but I imagine some obscure audiophile archives exist and would be surprised if there aren't any coders around interested in cracking this as a side project.
Good video but your speech cadence is driving me nuts. Upward inflection in english is used to end a question. Each of your sentences have like 5 upward inflections a piece…
i have a theory darius made the song and just put it ij with the other real songs he was trying to find just to troll everyone but it was so convincing that we all fell for it
The big irony here: this song would be forgotten without this mystery of who wrote and played it. Maybe someone could sell a plagiarized cover, and wait for someone to sue!
@petepyeatt6909
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
It’s on iTunes. It sounds great, I added it to my KTSW playlist, but iTunes gave credit to Alvin Dean and Statues in Motion, but that’s not who created it.
@lisalasers
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
did anyone ask richard blade?
@shiwomino5775
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
It seems to me that we basically have the answer to this big question, but nobody has actually gone to the trouble of getting a solid confirmation from one of the few people who can provide it.
The song has Alvin Dean on vocals. That much is obvious to me. A song recorded after Statues In Motion split. Could’ve sworn I saw something about one of the other musicians Dean worked with during that time frame making reference to a dispute with the record label he was signed to at the time, which ended with them not allowing some of his later recorded material to be officially marketed. And that this was one of those songs, and it just somehow made its way into the hands of a radio DJ one day and got played once.
Though there has been speculation that Alvin Dean may have passed away, nobody has actually found any documentation of such. If anything, there have been a few hints that he’s still alive, and likely living in Australia.
He has a unique real name. Find him. Buy the guy dinner in exchange for talking about his music career to clear everything up. It’s probably that easy.
If you can’t find him, several other musicians he recorded with during that period are out there. A similar dinner/conversation with them could lead to some sort of confirmation.
Confirmation which… we basically already got, when the last thing Billy Knight said on the subject of the song was that “Alvin made it.” That’s a pretty confident, declarative statement. Though he initially tried to say SIM recorded it as a demo, he eventually conceded that it was actually just Alvin’s project. Someone doing a real, on the record, journalistic interview with Billy may even be enough. Pissing him off on Facebook is all that anyone has really accomplished with him yet.
Alvin Dean is the answer. Someone just needs to be the hero in this story and interview him and/or his friends. Who’s gonna follow through?
@user-pm6sv7bj3b
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
DMCA? This is a joke
@manc4evaa
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
I thought this was Fond my Mind which has now been found?
@andrewcocos
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
0:03 and you already make factual error! There is NO clear evidence the year was 1984. Could be 1983 or 1985 as well.
@OsterreichAnimate
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
21:56 lol that is when my dad turned 1 year older
@johngarcia1340
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
Dude, you didn't talk to me or camspiracy. Anyway: Played October 28th, 1984 by NDR2 Substitute DJ Wolfgang Hahn. The song was a new rendition of the Statues in Motion demo "Checking in/ Checking out," but re -recorded with Alvin Dean on vocals, Yannis Beltakis on the lead Guitar, and two members of Forward Music Quintet (FMQ) with the Drums played by "Von Claus" -(Alvin's Friend) and Natasha Syregella (Streuberg) who recreated Billy Knight's synth work using a DX 7; just as she did on a cover of a Parthenogenesis song from her first FMQ album. Some how, someway Alvin (or Yannis Beltakis) got it to Wolfgang Hahn for him to sneakily play it during Octoberfest.
@viridianwarrior
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
This dumb as hell. The internet has not been Round for 40 years lmao. Tards.
@user-dk8qs5jp9o
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
makes me think about all the other songs lost and forgotten through time
@Isitmthrfckr
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
That was Joy Division singing in German.
@erimart63
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
The song itself is a banger. The guitar, synth, vocals and bass parts are fine could be modernised with better drumming and a more varied bridge. If an EP with different versions EDM, metal etc was made I'd buy it.
@j0kb0x
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
how do you write an email so fake that it circles right back around to being plausibly real due to the sheer madness of it?
@jamroomproduction
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
One little songs that has made quite a journey
@mathieuleader8601
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
I'm pleased we have a backstory behind the most mysterious song in the world it really fleshes things out.
@Cavi587
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
I read a comment under one of the videos about this song which really fits. It went something like:
"If the Internet ever ends (probably along with the whole world), this song will be the ending credits song to The Internet. ". The mood of the song really fits lol.
@bl0u2
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
NDR1 Welle Nord. Welcome to Germany <3
@aaronwynn8114
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
the song kinda reminds me of Dschinghis Khan a little bit
@NinjaNezumi
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
Elvin didn't even need to move to Germany if a producer found a cut track and decided to sell it to a foreign market without knowing who or what it belonged to.
@esgtsa7464
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
SIM, alvin dean… easy
@brilliant_Potato
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
13:16 Either this guy is completely fed up with getting contacted about the song (it does look like it's a pre-made email) or it's an impersonator. Either way, you're getting trolled.
@FadedPhoenix_
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
wait you said the song would get you DMCA'd on yt if you played more of it, but who would it be claimed by, if no-one knows who made it?
@ShyDigi
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
Noone gonna comment on the fact that those lyric sheets do sound like the so called "english" lyrics in spoken german-
@sinisterisrandom8537
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
People argued on the whole radio station but it doesn't seem to be entirely clear if it was.
@Canleaf08
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
22:22 The NDR has the one of the biggest music libraries in Europe. Then there is also the DRA for the entire ARD. Sometimes programmes are shared between the member stations. The Popnacht for example shares the SWR programme with HR3, NDR2, MDR Jump, RBB, SR1 and WDR1. So sometimes it might not be the NDR directly, but the BR sends via the Stern to other stations. I wrote it under another video already that suggestion.
@JaysasterGaming
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
The first one seems likely
@iplayminecraft2248
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
“I can’t play much of the song because of dmca” who the fuck is gonna claim you? God?
@TlD-dg6ug
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
Ummm how the fuck you gonna say you can't play the song due to dmca, yet you don't even know who sings it?
And if you did get it, wouldn't that solve the mystery?
@charleslalonde2324
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
I remember people handing out free tapes of their work at venues around Detroit 80s and 90s never to see or hear from them again , many were from guys who had an impressive investment in their basement studio . in detroit you only heard such music from college radio like whfr or Canadian CBC Late at night .
@Klaus293
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
This has bound to have been examined, but the first thing that I thought of was voice print comparison with known singers. Is it possible or is the source recordings fidelity too insufficient?
@ParanormalStar854
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
The singer Alvin Dean sounds pretty similar from the examples
@CYCLONE4499
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
I heard a rumor it was a east german propaganda song that was slipped in.
@stich8662
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
This sound a little bit like tmms
https://youtu.be/t4kJSoy4NY8?si=CI9P_cAiLkfbfl_Y
@lanceperfect
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
Thanks for sharing this mystery to a wider audience. Has no one applied AI to this? This seems like a perfect use case for ML pattern recognition to identify instruments, vocals, etc. to at least provide some probabilistic estimates about whether or not some artist is a likely candidate or not. Admittedly it'd require collating some useful labeled data and some nontrivial coding and computation, but I imagine some obscure audiophile archives exist and would be surprised if there aren't any coders around interested in cracking this as a side project.
@wilderhritz3454
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
❤️
@tidy5156
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
8:55 I was fully convinced he was gonna say Ronnie Radke 😂
Edit: He seems to be even more insane than Radke
@no-me6uo
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
this song is literally my goth post punk dream it sucks that no one knows it, would add to my playlist in a heartbeat
@KlukNation
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
I have a radio program in Mexico. Any way i can help?
@Hamboarding
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
13:54 😂 DCVDNS ❤
@lenayashina6777
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
For me it's not at all frustrating that I don't know who made the song and I don't care about finding out. I only want to know the correct lyrics.
@totttrax
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
Anyone ever heard of a rap album called trillmatic?
@SaltyCracker402
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
Good video but your speech cadence is driving me nuts. Upward inflection in english is used to end a question. Each of your sentences have like 5 upward inflections a piece…
@Me-wx1mt
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
i have a theory darius made the song and just put it ij with the other real songs he was trying to find just to troll everyone but it was so convincing that we all fell for it
@amyshaw893
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
10:27 "I can't play too much of the song due to DMCA"… Why not just wait for it to be claimed, see who has claimed it and there's your answer
@GladeSwope
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
The big irony here: this song would be forgotten without this mystery of who wrote and played it. Maybe someone could sell a plagiarized cover, and wait for someone to sue!
@bassblaster505
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
i thought this was going to be EKT at first, now i know of 2 possibly never to be found songs. hm
@LexusLFA554
April 25, 2024 at 6:22 pm
2:29 That is not how you spell Depeche Mode and Corey Hart. The song is also just called Sunglasses at Night.