Lostwave is a term for music with little to no information available about its origins, including song titles, names of the musicians or bands who were involved, and recording and release dates. Lostwave songs have been the subject of online crowdsourced efforts to uncover their origins.
Lostwave is a term for music with little to no information available about its origins, including song titles, names of the musicians or bands who were involved, and recording and release dates. Lostwave songs have been the subject of online crowdsourced efforts to uncover their origins.
== History == Lostwave gained prominence from two sources. The first was the search for "Ready 'n' Steady", a song that briefly appeared on the 'bubbling under' addendum to the Billboard Hot 100 and was noted by musical historians and collectors as seemingly not existing anywhere. Decades of searching and speculations of it being a copyright trap ended when the song was found in 2016. The second was with the search for "The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet", recorded from the German radio station Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in the mid-1980s, likely in or after 1984, by Darius S. In 2007, Darius' sister, Lydia H., uploaded the song to best-of-80s.de and The Spirit of Radio, sparking widespread interest across various Internet forums. In 2024, the song was identified as "Subways of Your Mind" by German new wave band Fex.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).