The normal reverb makes it sound like it’s in an enclosed space or room.
If it was double, or even triple the “delay” speed would make it fit more in the range that would be better to my ears.
Favorite track: Dead End (with Ilona Rückwardt).
thehispanicslav
If it's from FEX, it will obviously be so good. It's such a crime that this band wasn't popular in its time.
Favorite track: Promise (with Ilona Rückwardt).
Contains 2 unissued tracks by FEX with Ilona Rückwardt:
Dead End & Sarah
- Limited Edition Vinyl Single
- Yellow vinyl only!
- Thick high quality picture sleeve with hype sticker
- Fully licenced from the band
- Previously unissued
Includes unlimited streaming of Dead End
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Download available in 24-bit/48kHz.
shipping out on or around January 23, 2026
edition of 1000
Purchasable with gift card
€15.90EUR
Streaming + Download
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Purchasable with gift card
Download available in 24-bit/48kHz.
€2.90EUR
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Bundle offer for two FEX 7"s!
This bundle contains:
- Dead End 7" (Yellow Vinyl)
- Subways of Your Mind (TMMS Version) (Black Vinyl)
Includes unlimited streaming of Dead End
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
Walking down the street
And no one really needs me
Sleeping on the pavement
It's life and it's dead end
Feelings of a danger
Feelings but the strangest
kind of emotion
It's one but it's two
A lie and really true
A nameless face
A game which makes a difference
Between reality and dream
Truth is amazing
Hoping is like waiting
Dead end, no one will be called
Dead end, in 1984
Mad man, don’t get too close
Bad man, where the evil goes
I want to be free – I cry out
It happened to me and Sarah
One night in the crowd of horror
When we get afraid another
We took secret fruits of pleasure
and devour the news of fancy
Exited and risks – fanatic
We want the world – immediate
Sarah, Sarah, Sarah
We`re shattered and real disgusted
by watching the sights of sadness
People are strange und hustled
but when we awake it's really
Our nightmare today is winning
We don't want this world – it's paining
It happened to me and Sarah
Welcome at future's bazar
Sarah, Sarah, Sarah
I want to be free – I cry out
It happened to me and Sarah
One night in the crowd of horror
When we get afraid another
Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, Sarah,
Sarah, Sarah, Sarah
It's a promise
It's a promise
It's a promise,
that my heart belongs to yours
It's a promise,
let the girls be all ignored
It's a promise,
that I call you not my own
It's a promise,
feelings must been shown
Silent steps - what they want is you
Drink that wine - let me burn my fire
Dance the midnight dance
Dance the midnight dance
Dance the midnight dance
Dance the midnight dance
about
FEX - Dead End
Were FEX the Wildest, Weirdest German New Wave Band in 1984?
Few cult mysteries in modern music have captured the internet’s imagination quite like “The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet.” Eventually identified as “Subways of Your Mind” by the elusive German band FEX, the track became a viral sensation decades after its creation—and even made its way into a recent Hollywood blockbuster (Black Phone 2).
Now, two more lost FEX recordings have emerged from an old demo cassette: “Dead End” and “Sarah.” And they’re every bit as electrifying as the legend suggests.
On both songs, guitarist and main songwriter Ture Rückwardt joins forces on lead vocals with his former wife and musical partner Ilona Rückwardt, forming a vocal pairing that channels raw energy and eerie chemistry. What they deliver are two of the most urgent, adrenaline-fueled post-punk artifacts you’re likely to hear this year—even if they were recorded more than forty years ago.
Opening with a sharp, melodic guitar solo, “Dead End” bursts forward with uptempo drive—catchy, fierce, and full of momentum. Apparently inspired by Orwell’s 1984, its lyrics depict urban desolation—loneliness, homelessness, hopelessness—yet still shimmer with defiance in lines like, “Truth is amazing – hoping is like waiting.”
The second track, “Sarah,” dives even deeper into darkness. Mixing post-punk intensity with psychedelic textures, Rückwardt tells an imaginary story of a couple lost in drugs and spiraling through a bad trip, only to wake and realize that sobriety offers little comfort—the real world itself can be just as brutal and offers no easy escape.
Neither song makes the slightest concession to commercial trends. Instead, they feel utterly uncompromising—wild, strange, and defiantly timeless. In a world obsessed with polish and playlists, “Dead End” and “Sarah” sound like transmissions from a different planet.
Both tracks were originally recorded as demos in 1984 in the band’s rehearsal room, with Hase engineering. The newly restored versions preserve the raw spirit of the original tapes while adding subtle layers to enhance their atmosphere without losing the authentic 1980s sound. FEX hint that the untouched demo versions might surface later, possibly on a second volume of their archival EP “More Waves from the Past.”
The artwork—a 1985 photograph of a ship trapped in ice - found at the Startarchiv Kiel, perfectly mirroring the themes of isolation and endurance that flow through both songs.
Four decades later, FEX still sound like outsiders from the future. Here’s hoping they’ve got more buried treasures waiting to be released on The Outer Edge label.
credits
released December 19, 2025
FEX on Dead End is:
Ture Rückwardt (Vocals, Guitar)
Ilona Rückwardt (Vocals)
Michael Hädrich (Keyboards, Guitar)
Norbert Ziermann (Bass)
Hans-Reimer Sievers (Drums)
Music composed by: Ture Rückwardt, Michael Hädrich
Lyrics written by: Ture Rückwardt
Both tracks previously unissued, originally recorded 1984.
Cassette Transfers by Ture Rückwardt & Günter Stöppel
Restauration, Post-Mix and Master by Zoey Cairns
Executive Production and Project Coordination by Günter Stöppel
Front picture: Zugefrorene Förde im Winter (January 1985)
Photographer: Friedrich Magnussen (1914-1987)
Provided by Stadtarchiv Kiel, Gesellschaft für Kieler Stadtgeschichte (Signature 75.030)
Copyright: CC BY-SA 3.0 DE
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The Outer Edge is an independent record label from Berlin, Germany. Focused on rare and lost recordings, unissued songs from master tapes or music that never received the attention it deserved.
Cinematic indie rock fused with brooding post-punk and a bit of drama, its moody tones a match for our current moment. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 26, 2025
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