/r/obscuremusic

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For music off the beaten path, or simply forgotten. Discussion encouraged, music welcome. Please check the rules before posting.

For music off the beaten path, or simply forgotten. Discussion encouraged, music welcome.

Rules

  1. Music posted must be at least 5 years old.

  2. Obscure here means under 15,000 combined YouTube views, Spotify plays, etc.

  3. Posts must be descriptive: What are you posting (artist, song, genre, year/decade) and why?

/r/obscuremusic

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MTNS - Opportunities

This is MTNS's debut single. They were a pop-punk act from Colorado Springs; they were, since they disbanded in 2014, not even a year or so after their debut and only EP if I remember correctly. I've done quite a bit of research on their labelmate K Republic, and along the way I learned a bit about them (actually, K Republic is kinda the whole reason I know about them to begin with). They're a nice band, at least based on this song, and it's a bit of a shame they disbanded. Then again, I live on the East Coast and I wasn't even in the state of Colorado when they were active (or when Studio Novi Records was even a thing). Ultimately I'm just posting because this is related to something I'm interested in now (Studio Novi Records, and what happened to them and their acts).

Their whole discography is sub-50k, including views from YouTube and Spotify, so that's interesting.
https://youtu.be/mW-i8Bd0C7k?si=iIxNSFv-vPjvB8Iy

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2024/11/20
03:24 UTC

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Remo - Generation "Rare Xian Psych"

Don't know if this is the place to ask about this but thought I'd give it a shot.

https://youtu.be/Mqr_myvR5so

So I ran across this in my feed on YouTube. Super catchy and poppy but I can't seem to find out anything about it. When looking up "Remo Records" I can't find this release, it isn't on discogs (as far as I can tell), I cannot find anything about the musical the label says it was in, and the only R. Capra I can seem to find is Remo Capra so unless I'm glossing over it somehow I cannot find a song by them called Generation. Not to mention anything I can find by them isn't in this genre as this has a very "60's garage/psych pop" vibe to it deapite the label saying it's from 1985. This upload and a sold listing of it on eBay are the only physical traces I can find of it. I guess more than anything I'm looking to see if anyone might have any additional information as I have listened to this easily a dozen times over the last 3 or so days and it keeps popping into my head.

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2024/11/19
06:12 UTC

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Smudgie and the Pals of the Prairie

An old band by my great grandparents. Apparently they sang with famous people and knew Tex Ritter and Roy Rogers but i can’t find ANYTHING about them. If anyone can find articles, or knows anything, please comment.

ETA: They are a country band from cali

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2024/11/19
03:17 UTC

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Finch - Crystal Country Gorge [1976 Hard Rock / Heavy Metal. Sydney, Australia]

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2024/11/18
22:48 UTC

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Dome, "And Then..." (1980) - UK Experimental/Lo-Fi/Disturbing

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2024/11/18
08:19 UTC

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St. Micheal

Only two albums out, one released in 2016 (Black Swan Theory) and the other in 2020 (The Upgrade), great songs on both.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5oc5wd1VO7SNZkvNXAmxqU?si=g0Vbr4_dRSiZhkVwq-5lIQ

Personally my favorite songs are She's Watching and Last supper, but it's best to listen to the albums in order

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2024/11/18
05:47 UTC

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Mystery Band pin

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2024/11/18
00:13 UTC

4

Minimal Synth Music

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2024/11/16
22:35 UTC

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Beef Hutchins - Holdin' This Baby in 'Til the Lights of Albany [pop/indie/showtune parody?]

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2024/11/16
03:17 UTC

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What are your favourite artists with 2~k monthly or less monthly listeners on Spotify currently?

Let's focus on those with at least one LP on streaming available in your country.

Mine are

Gaë Bolg - unusual French neofolk and neo-medieval music, there's also martial industrial. And more things but on albums that are not on Spotify

Barbara Manning - indie rock singer-songwriter

Nest - Finnish neofolk and folk ambient

Faith in Jane - stoner rock

Jännerwein - neofolk

Cavity - sludge metal

About Tess - instrumental math rock

Traindodge; Bluetip - post-hardcore (the latter has disbanded many years ago as in 2002)

Cantique lépreux - black metal from Québec

Hiidenhauta - black metal from Finland

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2024/11/14
16:14 UTC

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Daniel Keane - British Boy

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2024/11/14
09:01 UTC

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Sodajerk - Unhappy Hour 2000/2001 (alternative country)

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2024/11/14
02:25 UTC

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Descriptiv Musik – Descriptiv Musik (1982) Ambient, Experimental / France

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2024/11/13
19:16 UTC

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The Outsiders - On My Magic Carpet (1968) Garage Psych from Sweden

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2024/11/13
17:46 UTC

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P.Y.T. - Something More Beautiful remixes [Pop] (1999)

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2024/11/13
06:41 UTC

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Blue Room Hero

This is a band I randomly stumbled across years ago. They are a good indie band in my opinion. But I cannot find anything about them. I was hoping someone could find out if they did anything after or who the band members were. Thanks.

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2024/11/13
04:30 UTC

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rx - for all my friends: still steadily posting music, always with an album "coming soon". Some of you may have seen this channel 18 years ago.

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2024/11/12
08:20 UTC

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Mooresy-tiro desperado

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2024/11/11
21:18 UTC

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Kage or Cage 80s rock band

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone knew of a band from the late 80s to Early 90s that went by the name Kage or Cage. They were a California rock band that were set to be the opening show for a Guns n Roses concert. The singer's name is Steven or Stephen McKeller. I do not think it is this band: https://www.discogs.com/artist/3412194-Kage-8

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2024/11/11
15:57 UTC

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Trying to locate a missing indie artist.

Unfortunately I can't post links in my thread, so I will add a comment with the links attached.

BACKSTORY

His name is Andrey Hoffman. He first released an album called "Urbantrip" on July 10, 2020 and it was sold on Amazon, Spotify, Apple Music, NetEase Cloud Music [a China based platform] and featured some tracks on Youtube. I came across one of his songs called "City My Love" in a Instagram post on the now-deleted channel artsgrami. It was a repost from an artist named Miki Akira and their douyin[TikTok] channel.

THE DISAPPEARANCE

In July 2020, I found his YouTube page, and I occasionally listened to City My Love on it. But in August, while I was listening to his song, the video suddenly had been deleted. Then I went to Google, and his Amazon page was completely gone before I could make a purchase of Urbantrip. They deleted every link to their album and videos. I have been searching over the years for this album, and the only things I've come across is a dead Apple Music page, a inactive Spotify page and NetEase Cloud Music page with the album listed but it's unable to purchase, a wiped DistroKid page [Which this could be the reason this happened so quickly if they were running everything and Hoffman didn't pay his subscription fees], and the Youtube channel with all the videos wiped.

THE SEARCH

Since then I have been searching for Andrey Hoffman and any information I could get to find City My Love and Urbantrip again. I've searched his name across all popular social media sites and came up with no results. I believe Andrey Hoffman is a pseudonym that was made up, and I'm not sure why. Hoffman released another album called "Stand Here" on his Spotify and NCM page in October of 2020. I never heard any songs from this album and I'm assuming it was the same thing: the album was released, then quickly deleted. I never seen it released and I'm guessing I missed my chance. Another song that was released was called "Bass Booster". That was also released in July of 2020. I didn't listen to it at the time, but I have since located the song on a Tiktok channel named danielosky2 or Suckoman. I reached out to the page but I haven't heard back from them. I reached out to Spotify and DistroKid to see if I could get any type of contact info and they couldn't help me. NCM is based in China and I can't get access to contact them or sign up to their site.

THE ALBUM ART

https://preview.redd.it/5wfgy6q2u80e1.jpg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6604fa14b3840654bec9ad1750960fcbac5fcfd7

I searched this album art to potentially help me find the place of origin of Hoffman, so I could get in contact with them this way to buy the album. I did a search of the restaurant "P&O Food & Drink" which lead me to a Facebook page. The restaurant is based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. I believed that this could be the potential lead. So I checked the people who liked the page and that was a dead end. I also contacted the restaurant and I never heard back from them. I also believed Hoffman to be from a country where English is not the main spoken language, specifically because of the tracks on Urbantrip. They had spelling errors or used the wrong wordings like "My Name If Hoffman". But it could be a double meaning to that, I'm not sure. Years went by of me believing this, until I learned something about this picture. This picture is a stock picture from a photographer named Markus Winkler. I was searching in the wrong direction for years. I reached out to Markus to see if anybody got in contact with him in 2020 to gain permission to use this picture. But it's a free stock picture that anybody could use, so that was another dead end. I also researched the 2 other album covers Hoffman used, and they were also free stock pictures.

WHAT I KNOW/THEORIES

So what I know is that, Andrey Hoffman most likely is a fake name used by an artist from possibly a country where English is not the primary language, and used stock pictures to sell their albums for only a month or so and then disappear. I have posted this up on other Reddit pages and some have been helpful. A possible theory is that this person who goes by Andrey Hoffman was a scammer that found different songs on SoundCloud and made fake albums to make some money and then quickly disappear without being found or called out. I can believe this one. I've searched SoundCloud and I couldn't find anything, but that is like trying to find a needle in multiple haystacks. Also anytime I used a music recognition software on City My Love, it would always come up with Hoffman being the original artist. My own personal theory is that this could have been a teenager, a music student or just a random person that was bored during the pandemic and released these albums. But when the world started to return back to normal, Hoffman abandoned the music path and went back to their normal life.

So this is where I'm at. I'm still looking and hoping one day Andrey Hoffman will see one of these Reddit posts or Youtube videos and reach out. I just want to buy the album or City My Love and put all of this to rest. So I am posting this to hopefully see if anyone has this album, if they know any sellers or any information that could help in the search?

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2024/11/11
09:44 UTC

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NATOarts // Icebreaker International – Trein Maersk: A Report To The NATOarts Board Of Directors

Electronic project released in 2000

https://preview.redd.it/pmqlo0zef70e1.jpg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7dd0ff61b34b39148ab16b144f7a823bd8f2c142

I stumbled across this album thanks to the YouTube algorithm randomly suggesting it, and it led me down a rabbit hole about the group that made it and the lore they built up around the album.

A fascinating group and story. I bought a copy of the CD off discogs that has a great booklet with story telling and world building. The two musicians apparently recorded the album aboard this container ship as it travelled the world.

Not sure if this is appropriate or allowed to be posted here, but I have a podcast episode I just put out about it. Connects some dots between this album, propaganda, and some fascinating land disputes between Japan and Russia.
https://youtu.be/JT_ZEj_Ruzk?si=nUANCzFnBDmY-tw7

Or just listen to the album, of course. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nxxNKzXV3dIl7YXKXm5i7I5jGnDdAj0xE&si=w0wCbU2udlXWVSrB

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2024/11/11
05:02 UTC

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I’ve loved this song ever since it came out!

The band is Azalea from 2014. It’s a post hardcore band and they only had 1 album and I’m so upset it’s not on Spotify!

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2024/11/10
18:40 UTC

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[ft] Standard Operating Procedure (Full Album)

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2024/11/09
11:30 UTC

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Halle Uchida - Friday Planet (warning for gore)

https://youtu.be/SrKJTvpHjZ8?si=66Apz_x-e487t48b

This is ENGLISH SUBTITLES for understanding

Originally song was released in 28 august 2015 year

This is one of these japanese songs where instrumental sounds happy/charming/positive but the lyrics are like about horrible or neither disgusting stuff

For some reason nobody talked in forums or whatever about this band, I've seen only in YouTube commenting

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2024/11/09
09:01 UTC

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Shadow & Eve: an obscure electronic band that I discovered quite a few years ago on MySpace and that nobody on earth seems to know about. The only album they have (2007) is actually pretty good. They are also on Spotify.

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2024/11/09
00:51 UTC

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Hey does anyone know more about this band? Link in the Post.( Artist: Voskresnaya Plocshadka (Sunday Playground) Album: On the Other Side of Heaven Country: USSR/Russia )

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2024/11/08
03:22 UTC

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Lyrics to a song

Does anyone know the lyrics to this song. I know the name and title but this seems to be the only upload of the song. The song came out in 1988. It sounds like post punk. The song's title is Hideaway by The Living. Thanks!

Song: https://youtu.be/vtqR2WRfCxM

8 Comments
2024/11/08
01:39 UTC

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As the world fades - one more game please mom

Idk if they go here i just never met someone who has heard of them before so maybe they are obscure

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2024/11/06
15:24 UTC

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MySpace song

Does anyone else know this song? Way back when MySpace was popular, there was a song I heard, but I don’t remember the title or the band’s name. I’ve tried searching the portion of lyrics I remember, but can’t ever find anything.

The chorus goes something like:

Outer space is no space for a girl like me to live It’s cold out there without sound*

2 Comments
2024/11/06
05:02 UTC

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