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[ryansupak]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clGM7ShxWnw

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This is an Unknown Song, that I am seeking ID and Lyrics Translation to English for. (:

* History of the Recording

My friend from Boarding School dubbed this onto a cassette from another guy in the dorms sometime in late 1996-early 1997. (We can't currently locate the ‘original guy’, or anybody who knows him. Last contact I personally had with 'original guy' was in 2002).

The remainder of the cassette besides this track is audio recordings of MOD files, and my friend who recorded it remembers recording it all straight from the output of 'original guy's' MOD Tracker software running on his PC (probably Fast Tracker 2). The rest of the cassette is mostly 'Techno/Hardcore Techno' tracks done in the style of the few years preceding (~1992-1995). (I could identify a MOD cover of the classic "Plastic Dreams" by Jaydee, as another track on this same cassette.)

* My Own Speculations

Speech Detection seems to imply that the language is Finnish or Swedish. My friend and I have always called it "Olamu" because that's what it sounded to us like the vocalist says on the 'Chorus'.

Besides the fact that my friend remembers the entire cassette besides this track being audio recordings of MOD files, I have other specific reasons to believe that it was sourced from a MOD: there are certain sonic signatures of MOD trackers that come through, such as the extreme low pitch bend artifacts on the ends of the 'Tom Fills'.

* Technical Info

This recording is of the entirety of the song as my friend has ever had it. All I did to it technically was noise-reduction and conversion to Mono, as in Stereo the entire recording was moving erratically from channel to channel, leaving noise in the 'empty channel'. (I'm not a cassette expert but it sounds to me like this was probably the result of the original being dubbed on a consumer-grade cassette deck, then add in 28 years of grime and decay.)