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Where to start with 1986 OMEGA TRIBE
Start with North Shore — Navigator, 1986. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 13 1986 OMEGA TRIBE tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 14,971 tracks placed one at a time by hand, not an algorithm.
This page is not a discography and not a ranking. It describes exactly one thing: the 13 1986 OMEGA TRIBE tracks that one person put in one room, and where they sit relative to each other. The starting point above is chosen by a rule you can check — of the 13 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The collection leans hard on one record: 7 of the 13 tracks come from Navigator alone.
The years need a caveat: 13 of 13 dated tracks land in the 1980s and come from 2 records, while the rest come from elsewhere — the mark of a reissue carrying its own date rather than the music's. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
Every track is filed under city pop; nothing here crosses into another genre.
The energy knob swings 43 points across these tracks, the widest of the four — it is the axis this artist actually travels along in this room.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
North Shore — Navigator, 1986. Of the 13 1986 OMEGA TRIBE tracks here, this one sits closest to the average of all of them across the four knobs the room runs on. It is the least surprising thing in the collection, which is exactly what an entry point should be.
If you want the ambient end
Aquarium In Tears — Navigator, 1986. The lowest energy reading of any 1986 OMEGA TRIBE track in the room (28 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
Older Girl — Navigator, 1986. The highest energy reading here, at 71 out of 100 — a 43-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where 1986 OMEGA TRIBE sits in the room
Zubissou Sounds does not have playlists or genres you click. It has knobs. Every track carries a position on each one, set by hand when the track was added, and you find music by setting the room to a state rather than by searching for a name. These are 1986 OMEGA TRIBE's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 66 | 57–74 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 48 | 28–71 | ambient → driving |
| density | 49 | 37–61 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 54 | 38–60 | cerebral → groove |
All four run 0–100. They are placed by a person, not derived from audio analysis or from any streaming service's feature data.
What is here, record by record
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| Navigator | 1986 | 7 |
| Crystal Night | 1987 | 6 |
Every 1986 OMEGA TRIBE track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Candles | Navigator | 1986 |
| Aquarium In Tears | Navigator | 1986 |
| Blue Reef | Navigator | 1986 |
| North Shore | Navigator | 1986 |
| Older Girl | Navigator | 1986 |
| You Belong to Him | Navigator | 1986 |
| 君は1000% | Navigator | 1986 |
| Counterlight | Crystal Night | 1987 |
| Crystal Night | Crystal Night | 1987 |
| I'll Never Forget You | Crystal Night | 1987 |
| Lady Free | Crystal Night | 1987 |
| Phoenix | Crystal Night | 1987 |
| Super Chance | Crystal Night | 1987 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to 1986 OMEGA TRIBE's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Yoshimi Iwasaki — city pop, 37 tracks
- Where to start with Yuki Saito — city pop, 20 tracks
- Where to start with Naomi Akimoto — city pop, 22 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists 1986 OMEGA TRIBE as a group, from Japan and formed in 1980. Its contributors tag the artist aor and city pop. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many 1986 OMEGA TRIBE tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 13, across 2 albums. 13 of them carry a date, running from 1986 to 1987. That is the whole of what this room holds — it is one person's collection, not a discography.
Is this a best-of, or a ranking?
No. Nothing here is ranked and no track is called better than another. The starting point is picked by arithmetic — the track closest to the centre of all the others on four measured axes — and the rule is printed above so you can disagree with it.
Where do the knob numbers come from?
They are set by hand, one track at a time, by the person who added the track. They are not audio analysis and not a Spotify feature. Mood, energy, density and the head/body balance each run 0 to 100. All 13 of these tracks have been read individually — nothing on this page is running on a default.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 13 of these 13 tracks are matched to a Spotify ID and ready to play the moment you are in. The waitlist form is at the bottom of this page.