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It sounds like a hit single half-remembered from your childhood. Eighties-style synths and electronic handclaps lead into a ghostly new-wave vocal. If it wasn’t for the tape hiss, you could be listening to an early Roxette tune or a version of Kim Carnes’s Bette Davis Eyes from an alternate universe.

With streaming, the world’s songs are at our fingertips – with a few exceptions. But online sleuths are cracking these final mysteries