WFMU Comes Across A Mystery CD

If ever a time seemed right for me seriously use "WTF!?" this is it.

This is a story posted last week on the WFMU Radio blog by Swan Fungus.
(WFMU is a radio station at 91.1 FM in Jersey City, NJ)

It's a lot easier to head over there and read it, but too wrap it up in a nutshell and get you intrigued:

The author was hiking in California's, "Joshua Tree National Park"...a park that spans almost 800,000 acres of desert.

While hiking, the author found a CD (inside of an old floppy disc, inside of a plastic bag...) with an odd message on the cover and yes, I kid you not, a treasure map.

Upon listening to the CD, they found 11 tracks of odd noises, breathing, guitars, and voices. Some sort of sound like music, while others just sound like ethereal noises or background chatter.

There was an e-mail address listed , but no replies have been returned.
When the CD was put into itunes, the track names were revealed, but the artist came up as, "???".

Anyways, be sure to hit the jump off and get in on this mystery!
CLICK HERE

Hopefully with the help of the interweb, this case will be cracked.

UPDATE 1 "What We know so far"-
News of this "mystery CD" is spreading around the internet. A lot of message boards/forums pretty much ignoring this as someone trying to get free publicity for their band or something.

Either way, it's still fun to join in the hunt. So here's what we've figured out so far.

The e-mail address was: andernestborgnineasdominic@gmail.com

This refers to the television series Airwolf...which starred Ernest Borgnine as Dominic.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086662/

On Track 3 ("Long Stem Road") - we hear what is clearly reversed sound. I re-reversed, and...it's pretty much nothing.
You can hear, "beep bop doo doo doo" and then you'll hear a male voice say, "To me I suck"

On Track 7 ("Monied vs. Landed") - we are treated to a quote:
"When you have lost yourself in the wasteland of unending nothingness, the night things will come."
Turns out, thanks to Amazon, this is an excerpt from the book, "Necronomicon: The Wanderings of Alhazred)"
[http://www.amazon.com/Necronomicon-Wanderings-Alhazred-Donald-Tyson/dp/product-description/0738706272 ]
Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necronomicon

Update 2 "MetaFilter to the rescue" -

The metafilter community picked up on the story and immediately jumped into action.
http://www.metafilter.com/86940/The-Crazy-World-of-andernestborgnineasdominic

As I mentioned, the initial 100 or so posts are all pretty much skeptical of the whole thing, which I understand but...it's TUESDAY, have some fun!

user 'pla' posted two GREAT points:

1. The tracks have number and "of" tags, suggesting twelve tracks with #9 missing (the ninth track on the site, "Gloomsday", identifies itself as track #10).
2. The 12th track (11th as listed) identifies the band as "Musky Taint" and the album as "Tres Mellow", from 2006. It also identifies the artists as "Evan: tremelo, Ilya: Delay, Dan: bass, Ken: Drums". A quick Google search for various combinations of those turns up nothing very promising.

User 'yoyo_nyc' took this information and of course Googled it, which brought up THIS SITE as pretty much the ONLY result.

It's a blog post from 3 years ago (2006) on a blog titled...gulp...get this:

SWAN FUNGUS

Do me a favor and scroll up to the original post I made...who did I give credit to on the WFMU site for finding the mystery CD? (If you don't want to scroll, the user was, "Swan Fungus".

DING DING, looks like we have a winner, and in this case...unfortunately it appears to be some shameless self promotion. This whole thing was like a musical version of the "Balloon Boy" hoax.

Well, that was fun while it lasted!