"Freaky" is an almost solved neo-psychedelia song. It was most likely recorded by The Satyr Sound Machine, a musician from Yonkers, New York.
Search History[]
2010s[]
The song was first posted to the New Wave Outpost forums by user Guglielm on August 23rd, 2012 along with multiple other unknown songs. He didn’t provide any information about the songs.
On April 13th, 2013, Guglielm commented on a WFMU.org page for a playlist made by radio DJ Terre T. He said all of the songs were recorded off of WFMU "ages ago".[1]
A week later, Guglielm commented on a WFMU playlist made by DJ Bob Brainen, specifying that the songs were recorded 20-30 years prior, specifically between 1981-1984 or 1991-1993, off of WFMU.[2]
Guglielm reposted the song to WatZatSong on July 18th, 2013, without providing any additional information about it. The song uses the Linn LM-2 drum machine that was released in 1982.
On August 1st, 2014, Guglielm reposted the song to WatZatSong again. He said it was tagged as Sator - Freaky, which lead him to believe is was an unreleased demo by Swedish band Sator Codex.
2020s[]
On December 16th, 2021, a member of Sator Codex was contacted and they confirmed the song wasn’t made by the band, but they said it was probably from around the same time period as their songs.
Over time, the song was reuploaded to YouTube by several users, such as Barni, Eccote, MistaEgg, Q, Bonemach1ne, VisualConfusion, S2h, Jcorsen, 𝑀𝑟. 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑝𝑠, and multiple others, amassing over 15k views.
On March 26th, 2023, Guglielm confirmed that he digitized all of his cassette tapes with the songs on them in the early 1990s, and no longer had any of them anymore.[3]
2024: The Satyr Lead[]
On May 26th, 2024, Discord user Marktrail discovered that the song is most likely by The Satyr Sound Machine, a musician from Yonkers, New York. It’s likely due to sounding similar to Sator, along with having a very similar voice, fitting the timeframe of the song, and having an almost identical music style, particularly his song Hex You.[4]
Satyr only released two albums, 100% Satyr and Surf Sex, and none of those albums have this song on it. So if Satyr made it, it was probably never officially released, according to this Reddit post, he was known in his community for handing out unreleased demo tapes to people on the street.
On October 30th, 2024, Discord user Murphy discovered that Satyr’s real name was Howard Gold after he found a 1985 Cocatalog entry for the album. According to him, other Discord user AzureBlast found Satyr’s phone number and Email, but he hasn’t responded.
Sometime later, Discord user Skyat managed to find and contact other musicians who knew and worked with Howard. They said that they were confident that he made the song.
Lyrics[]
[Intro]
Yeah!
[Verse 1]
I wanna do something freaky with you now, baby
I’ve waited long, but time’s come through now, baby
I’ve waited long, we’ve got the place
Waited long just to touch your face
[Verse 2]
I wanna see the lust you have for me, yeah
I see with eyes, I see with hands
With nasal passages over there
Now it shall be that you will see me
[Chorus]
I wanna do something freaky with you now, baby
I wanna do something freaky with you now, baby
[Verse 3]
We’ve got the time, we’ve got the place
Waited long just to touch your face
Now you will see the lust you have for me
[Verse 2 (repeat)]
I see with eyes, I see with hands
With nasal passages over there
Now it shall be that you will see me
[Chorus]
I wanna do something freaky with you now, baby
I wanna do something freaky with you now, baby
I wanna do something freaky with you now, baby
I wanna do something freaky with you now, baby
I wanna do something freaky with you now, baby
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