Swedish woman finds her long lost mixtape in an art exhibition

Feb. 14 (UPI) – A Swedish lady visiting an artistry display made a startling disclosure – she found a tape mixtape she lost during her holiday trip to Spain over 20 years ago.

Stella Wedell said she was traveling with her family in Spain in the mid-1990s when she was just 12 years of age when she lost her mixtape. She said the tape was lost on the Spanish island of Mallorca or in Empuriabrava.

Wedell said she was watching the Fotografiska Gallery in Stockholm over 20 years after the incident when she recognized the water-harmed tape and a tracklist.

English craftsman and picture taker Mandy Barker, whose Sea of Artifacts display was about plastic contamination, said that the tape was washed up in 2017 on the seashore at Playa de Barlovento de Jandia on Fuerteventura, a Spanish island off the shoreline of Africa. The island is around 1,200 miles from where Wedell accepts she lost the chronicle.

Barker said she enrolled the assistance of an expert sound restorer, who had the option to list the tracks, which included melodies by Bob Marley, Shaggy, and the Wailers, Soul Asylum, the Pet Shop Boys and different Disney tunes.

Wedell said she snapped a picture of the tracklist at the presentation and compared it with the blend CD she used to make the tape. It had the entirety of similar tunes, aside from the initial two on the CD, which Wedell said she left off the tape deliberately.

“I constantly made tapes from my CDs at that time to hear them on my Walkman, particularly for holidays, and to imagine that a tape I could have lost over 20 years back had been found was mind-blowing,” Wedell told CNN.

Barker said she was stunned when Wedell reached her.

“She said she was stunned to discover it, and when I read her email, I was unable to trust it either. It was surprised all around,” she disclosed to Sky News. “The melodies toward the beginning were harmed, however further in the tunes were as clear as they would be today. It shows to what extent plastic can exist in the ocean.”

Barker said the tape would be returned back to Wedell once the show has finished.