Where to start with Bohannon
Start with Run It On Down Mr. D.J. Part 1 - Bonus Track — Stop & Go, 1973. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 11 Bohannon 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 11 Bohannon 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 11 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.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Run It On Down Mr. D.J. Part 1 - Bonus Track — Stop & Go, 1973. Of the 2 Bohannon tracks here that have actually been listened to, this one sits closest to the average of them across the four knobs the room runs on. The other 9 arrived carrying the default for their genre, and averaging a placeholder in would move the centre towards nothing. It is the least surprising thing among the tracks that were read, which is what an entry point should be.
Only one entry point is offered for Bohannon. The knob readings across these tracks sit too close together to mark out honest opposite ends, and inventing two would be worse than admitting it.
Where Bohannon 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 Bohannon's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 62 | 60–65 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 75 | 70–80 | ambient → driving |
| density | 58 | 55–60 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 89 | 88–90 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Let's Start to Dance Again | 1981 | 3 |
| Stop & Go | 1973 | 2 |
| Keep On Dancin' | 1974 | 2 |
| Summertime Groove | 1978 | 2 |
| Too Hot To Hold | 1979 | 1 |
| Insides Out | 1975 | 1 |
Every Bohannon track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Run It On Down Mr. D.J. Part 1 - Bonus Track | Stop & Go | 1973 |
| Save Their Souls | Stop & Go | 1973 |
| Dance With Your Parno | Keep On Dancin' | 1974 |
| South African Man | Keep On Dancin' | 1974 |
| Foot-Stompin Music | Insides Out | 1975 |
| Let's Start The Dance | Summertime Groove | 1978 |
| Me And The Gang | Summertime Groove | 1978 |
| Andrea | Too Hot To Hold | 1979 |
| A Happy Song for You, Pt. 2 | Let's Start to Dance Again | 1981 |
| Let's Start II Dance Again | Let's Start to Dance Again | 1981 |
| Take the Country to New York City - Instrumental | Let's Start to Dance Again | 1981 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Bohannon's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with James Brown — funk, 56 tracks
- Where to start with Fela Kuti — afrobeat, 13 tracks
- Where to start with Little Richard — rock and roll, 73 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Bohannon as a solo artist, from Newnan, the United States and born in 1942. Its contributors tag the artist funk, disco and soul. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Bohannon tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 11, across 6 albums. 11 of them carry a date, running from 1973 to 1981. 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. 2 of these 11 tracks have been read that way. The other 9 arrived with the default for their genre and nobody has listened to them yet, so they are left out of the centre, the ends and the spread quoted above.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 11 of these 11 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.