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Yesterday I found a USB stick in Hampstead Heath, loaded with heavy electronic tracks that seem to be part of an unfinished project. The tracks have quite weird titles (which hopefully helps) and are now on SoundCloud for anyone to listen and possibly identify – [https://on.soundcloud.com/gK7yF](https://on.soundcloud.com/gK7yF)

I’m trying to find the owner to return it, or at least get some clues about who it might belong to. If anyone has any ideas as to who this belongs to, could you please help me get this back to its owner?

by SilentAlarming

24 comments

  1. Can’t tell you shit about the music, and whilst you’re trying to do a nice thing, definitely don’t plug in random USBs you find and if you do, definitely don’t open files.

  2. Do the files have any artist metadata you can look at? Did you try using Shazam on the songs to see if it can find a match?

  3. You actually checked whats on the device? This is not a good idea because of hidden trojan software.

  6. Why are all the tracks all 6min38 long with long periods of silence in them, is that something you’ve done?
    Are we sure the owner didn’t just miss the bin?

  7. Just checked, not mine. We are narrowing down the list though.

  8. You found a random USB and you were crazy enough to plug it into one of your devices. What…no don’t do that!

  10. You should be careful – random USBs can harm your computer and also massively elongate your fingers.

  11. Those people pointing out that it’d not wise to stick a USB drive of unknown provenance into your computer are dead right, of course, but you’re trying to do a nice thing and that’s great.

    **UNLESS**

    You made these tunes yourself and you’re just doing some kind of jedi marketing trick to get us all listening to them. In which case, also well done. For different reasons.

  13. I do a bit of music production and i can tell you those are stems for a track, basically different elements split into their own audio files which is most useful for collaborating with another artist. If you combined these all together and played them at the same time then they would form one coherent track

  14. Can anyone recommend an antivirus for mac? bit scared now

  15. WHY THE FUCK WOULD U WANNA PLUG IN A RANDOM USB. You are just asking to be hacked lmao.

  16. Ehh I get the sentiment that this guy could be hacked, but is this really the newest tactic of cyber scammers? Leaving a USB in a park in the hopes that some randomer will pick it up?

  17. Its stems (different layers that make up a song). I put all the tracks together and sounds like some kind of hardstyle / techno / breakcore sort of vibe

  18. How to get a virus 101

    Basic job training to not plug random shit in lol, if I was still feeling nosey I’d have visited a library

  19. So you published someone else’s music without permission on sound cloud?

  20. Never ever plug a random USB device in to a computer you care about. USB devices are ‘smart’ and so can, while innocuously showing you some interesting files, simultaneously represent themselves as a keyboard and type malware download commands in to your computer with no visible indication that it’s happening.

  21. As this has now been confirmed to be stems from a new Squarepusher track, you should make those tracks on Soundcloud private.

    I believe Squarepusher’s booking agent can be contacted here for you to arrange its return: [cris.hearn@teamwass.com](mailto:cris.hearn@teamwass.com)

  23. Don’t plug in random USB sticks dude. :/ I understand you were trying to help but it’s a very popular attack vector and more common than you think.

  24. Very brave of you to put an usb pendrive that you found on the street that in your laptop

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