The Deaf Mute

The Death Mute (previously known as Spooky Synthpop 1) is a formerly unidentified instrumental synthpop/minimal song by Tennesseean musician R. Stevie Moore. It was released in 1983 on the album Subject to Change. This version is presumably a live version done at WFMU radio station.

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On June 10th, 2023, YouTube user Kenny Cathead posted a one hour and 25 minute video titled “Unknown” to the website. It featured many snippets recorded off of the radio in the 1980s. The song played sometime during the video. Kenny reposted the song to his WatZatSong account NY80sTapes on June 18th, 2023, giving it the placeholder name “Spooky Synthpop 1”. He said it was recorded off of a New York or New Jersey radio station in 1983, and the snippet was 12 seconds.

On November 24th, 2023, on the Fond My Mind Discord Server thread for the songs he posted, Kenny said that he wasn’t the person who recorded the tapes, but instead a friend who was trying to make a sound collage, but he recorded a few things.

On July 14th, 2024, the song was identified by YouTube user MaxManyMix as an alternate version of The Deaf Mute by R. Stevie Moore after finding it on a WFMU playlist. It’s most likely a live version made when he worked as WFMU.

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Kenny Cathead’s Lostwave Songs
Identified	(No 467) Spielplatz • All The Way (by Bohemia) • And Many, Many More • Angels • At Night • Autobahn • Baby Happy • Boogie • Break Down Those Walls • Breakaway • Carving The Future From Soap • Chelsea • Chemistry • Dancing In A Trance • Der Tag Schlägt Zu • Different View • Electric Gnome Dance • Étude In Sine • Find Her • Flesh And Steel (Extended Version) • Four Minutes With God • Gdansk • Grey At Present • I Am A Vapour • I Go So Low For You • I'm Not Your Doormat • Iron Curtain • Jenny's Doin' Fine • Jericho • King’s Gambit • Love Dance (Love Mix) • Middle Class • Music Machine • No Stranger To Glenda J. • Paradise Eyes • Poland • Rain (by Art Fleury) • Sixes And Sevens • Someone's Changing • Somewhere in New York • State St. • Stranger (by Shöx Lumania) • Synthetic Pleasure • Terra Nova • The Biggest One • The Deaf Mute • The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter • The Iron Compass • The Lesson • The Merger • The Station I'm In • Tribes • Violate the Video • Waiting For The Night • Woman • You Make It Hard
Unidentified	Above Me • Bruce Haack-Like Song #1 • Bruce Haack-Like Song #2 • Chiptune Track • Classical Electronic Piano Piece • Country Rock Oriented Excerpt • Dream Infinitely • Dream Through The Door • Dissonant Trombone • Dramatic Pipe Organ • Echoey Drums • Electronic Barking Dog Sample • Early 80s Post-Punk Excerpt • Energetic Power Pop • Experimental Guitar • Fairlight Demo • Fashion Hurts Remix • Frightful String Quartet • Funhouse Electrp • Happy Pure Electronic • How Happy Life Can Be • I'm Only Dreaming • I’m Just A Boy • Intense Electronic Piece • Klaus Schulze-Like Song • Liminalist Spacey Ambient • Mannheim Steamroller-Like Song • Melancholic Synth • Mid 80's New Wave Excerpt #3 • Mid 80's Synthpop Excerpt #1 • Mid 80's Synthpop Excerpt #2 • Minimal Synthwave • Minimal Wave #1 • My Uncle Pete • New Age Piece Ending • New Wave Guitar Riff • Nothing Had Changed • Ominous Electronic Piece • Progressive Rock Excerpt • Prolonged Guitar Strum • Psychedelic Folk Tune • Pure Electronic Piece • Pure Electronic Piece #4 • Radical Synthpop • Rapid Minimal • Rapid Spooky Synthpop • Rockin’ Garage Tune • Screaming Punk Rock • Scratching Electro • Silly Synth • Skipping Punk Rock • Smooth Jazz Excerpt • Soft Piano Ballad • Spacey Electronic Pieces • Spooky Electro • Suspenseful Electronic Piece #2 • Tangerine Dream-Like Song • Twangy Pop Rock
Verification Needed	Dark Synthpop [Chemistry Set - Carpe Diem?] • Walls Of Fire [Armand Zone - Walls Of Fire (Demo)?]