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Where to start with Akira Inoue
Start with レティシア — PROPHETIC DREAM-予言者の夢, 1982. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 21 Akira Inoue 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 21 Akira Inoue 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 21 tracks, it is the one nearest the average position on the four knobs the room runs on. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The collection leans hard on one record: 11 of the 21 tracks come from PROPHETIC DREAM-予言者の夢 alone.
The years need a caveat: 21 of 21 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 head/body knob swings 65 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
レティシア — PROPHETIC DREAM-予言者の夢, 1982. Of the 21 Akira Inoue 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 cerebral end
Le Plongeur — SPLASH, 1983. The lowest head/body reading of any Akira Inoue track in the room (6 out of 100). This is as far towards cerebral as the collection goes.
If you want the groove end
ヒンデンブルグ号へようこそ — PROPHETIC DREAM-予言者の夢, 1982. The highest head/body reading here, at 71 out of 100 — a 65-point swing across the collection towards groove.
Where Akira Inoue 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 Akira Inoue's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 51 | 33–67 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 47 | 13–70 | ambient → driving |
| density | 49 | 23–59 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 52 | 6–71 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| PROPHETIC DREAM-予言者の夢 | 1982 | 11 |
| SPLASH | 1983 | 10 |
Every Akira Inoue track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| CALAIDOSCOPIO | PROPHETIC DREAM-予言者の夢 | 1982 |
| COSMONAUT | PROPHETIC DREAM-予言者の夢 | 1982 |
| DOUBLE-CROSSING | PROPHETIC DREAM-予言者の夢 | 1982 |
| GRAVITATIONS | PROPHETIC DREAM-予言者の夢 | 1982 |
| LOST PASSENGERS | PROPHETIC DREAM-予言者の夢 | 1982 |
| SUBWAY-HERO | PROPHETIC DREAM-予言者の夢 | 1982 |
| バルトークの影 | PROPHETIC DREAM-予言者の夢 | 1982 |
| ヒンデンブルグ号へようこそ | PROPHETIC DREAM-予言者の夢 | 1982 |
| ユヴェスキューレ | PROPHETIC DREAM-予言者の夢 | 1982 |
| リンドバーグ物語 | PROPHETIC DREAM-予言者の夢 | 1982 |
| レティシア | PROPHETIC DREAM-予言者の夢 | 1982 |
| ELEVEN ISLANDS | SPLASH | 1983 |
| Le Plongeur | SPLASH | 1983 |
| さまよえるオランダ人のように | SPLASH | 1983 |
| アドリアン・ブルー | SPLASH | 1983 |
| オンディーヌ | SPLASH | 1983 |
| サファリ・オスティナート | SPLASH | 1983 |
| リンダ・ラルー(ラムの大通りにて) | SPLASH | 1983 |
| ロプ-ノール | SPLASH | 1983 |
| 海底2万マイル | SPLASH | 1983 |
| 異星の女 | SPLASH | 1983 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Akira Inoue's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Kiyotaka Sugiyama — city pop, 39 tracks
- Where to start with PIPER — city pop, 29 tracks
- Where to start with Yuko Kanai — city pop, 11 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Akira Inoue as a solo artist, from Setagaya, Japan and born in 1953. Its contributors tag the artist session. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Akira Inoue tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 21, across 2 albums. 21 of them carry a date, running from 1982 to 1983. 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 21 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 21 of these 21 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.