Zubissou Sounds — The Listening Station

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00:00:00 TUE · MAY 26

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ON AIR

MODEL · D ZS-001 · 2026

ZUBISSOU LISTENING STATION

analog inputs · digital soul

VUdecibels

Silent until you act. Press PLAY to begin.

CANON —

WEATHER

RADIO

L · ZS Monitor

R · ZS Monitor

Taste Profile

last 50 tracks · connect Spotify to light up

Taste Map

your canon plotted by feel — mood × energy

driving ambient melancholy euphoric

dot color = head ◀▶ body (cerebral → groove) · size = density · hover a dot for the album

Across Time

your canon by decade, colored by genre

World of the Canon

where your music comes from

My Fingerprint

top artists across the sources I curate · color = how many of my sources cross-spin them

The Charts

from Spotify · personal

4 WEEKS

6 MONTHS

ALL TIME

TOP TRACKS

— connect Spotify to load —

TOP ARTISTS

— connect Spotify to load —

My Spotify Playlists

connect Spotify to load · overlap with canon glows amber

— connect to load —

Listening Times · Heatmap

day-of-week × hour-of-day

          shaded by your last 50 plays · long-tail builds session-by-session via local telemetry
        

Canon · Cross-Reference

your top-100 × your spotify activity

RECENTLY TOUCHED · CANON

— connect Spotify —

DUSTY · NOT RECENTLY PLAYED

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Trusted Curators

— shows, — tracks · via XRAY.fm

The Vinyl Wall

— albums · top-100 + birth-year ·

The Manual

The ManualHow to operate Zubissou Sounds — The Listening Station

1 · The Console

The home screen is a listening station. Silent on arrival. Press PLAY and trust the Model, or tune the knobs first to override.

2 · The Seven Knobs

MOOD — melancholy ◀──▶ euphoric
ENERGY — ambient ◀──▶ driving
FAM ◀▶ EXP — songs from your canon ◀──▶ songs you've never heard
ERA — pre-1950 ◀──▶ today; snaps to whole decades (shown bold) and landmark single years (1969, 1991…)
DENSITY — sparse ◀──▶ wall of sound
HEAD ◀▶ BODY — cerebral / lyrical ◀──▶ physical / groove-driven
PLACE — spin the dial through ~22 musical regions (Brazil, Mali, Japan, UK…) and one secret planet

Drag a knob up to increase, down to decrease. Double-click to send it back to AUTO (the model decides). Untouched knobs are open to interpretation.

Knobs stack — turn a few together and the station scores across all of them. What that feels like, in practice:

energy + groove up → The Rapture, Fela Kuti, Idris Muhammad, Talking Heads
mood down + sparse → Brian Eno, Erik Satie, Aphex Twin ambient
euphoric + body → Madonna, Prince, Chuck Berry
density maxed → My Bloody Valentine, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Bitches Brew
PLACE → 🪐 Saturn → an Easter egg: nothing but Sun Ra

3 · The Intent Bar

Above the knobs. Free-text. Type the soul of the moment: "Sunday morning rain", "their Beatles", "new contemporary Brazilian", "something I'd cook to". The intent bar refines or overrides the knobs.

4 · DAY / NIGHT

The silver bat-handle switch top-right. Pull down for DAY (gallery-white room, focus mode). Pull up for NIGHT (kissa lounge — amber lamps, tubes glowing). Same room, different lighting. Auto-defaults to night after 6pm.

5 · The Codex

Tap any album cover, top-track, or tracklist item. A drawer slides up with everything we know — release date, country of origin, your notes, links to Spotify / Discogs / Genius. Over time the Codex deepens: lyrics, chord progressions, production credits, Zubissou's commentary.

6 · Trusted Curators

The Listening Station leans on real humans. Episodes from twelve XRAY.fm shows — Beats & Pieces (Steven Cantor's mix), 80lb Cardstock, Hot Fudge Sunday, On The Corner (jazz), Get Outta Town (world) — sit in the database as a curator corpus. When you push EXPLORE high, the Model draws from these tracklists before falling back to Spotify recommendations.

7 · Promote to Canon

Find a 10/10 piece anywhere — your Codex, a XRAY tracklist, a top-tracks chart? Press + PROMOTE TO TOP-100. It enters your canon. When canon exceeds 100, open MANAGE CANON to reorder — only the top 100 count for the Vinyl Wall.

8 · Sharing With Friends

The Console is yours. To share a moment: take a screenshot when something perfect is playing. Or grab the URL parameters from the address bar — they encode the knob positions and intent bar so a friend can load your Sunday morning rain on their own page.

9 · Zubissou

Your DJ-curator voice. In Phase 2 they speak between tracks — short interludes about song meaning, where the artist is from, why a piece was chosen. ElevenLabs synthesis, voice trained on a personal corpus. For now they write — the line below the play button is theirs.

Coda

Music means something here. Treat the station like a hi-fi you respect: take time to dial in, listen on good speakers, sit with one album before moving to the next. — Z.