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Where to start with Brian Eno
Start with Some Of Them Are Old — Here Come The Warm Jets, 1973. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 18 Brian Eno 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 18 Brian Eno 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 18 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.
A caveat about the data rather than the music: 5 of these 18 tracks arrived here with no record attached, so the record-by-record table further down accounts for 13 of them and stops there.
The head/body knob swings 69 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
Some Of Them Are Old — Here Come The Warm Jets, 1973. Of the 17 Brian Eno 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 1 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.
If you want the cerebral end
Lux 3 (edit) — Lux. The lowest head/body reading of any Brian Eno track in the room (10 out of 100). This is as far towards cerebral as the collection goes.
If you want the groove end
Moonlight in Glory — My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, 1981. The highest head/body reading here, at 79 out of 100 — a 69-point swing across the collection towards groove.
Where Brian Eno 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 Brian Eno's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 53 | 37–64 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 36 | 8–71 | ambient → driving |
| density | 45 | 20–68 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 37 | 10–79 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Here Come The Warm Jets | 1973 | 5 |
| Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 1978 | 2 |
| My Life in the Bush of Ghosts | 1981 | 2 |
| Before And After Science | 1977 | 1 |
| Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy | 1974 | 1 |
| Lux | — | 1 |
| Another Green World (2004 Remaster) | 1975 | 1 |
Every Brian Eno track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Blank Frank | Here Come The Warm Jets | 1973 |
| Dead Finks Don't Talk | Here Come The Warm Jets | 1973 |
| Here Come The Warm Jets | Here Come The Warm Jets | 1973 |
| Some Of Them Are Old | Here Come The Warm Jets | 1973 |
| Burning Airlines Give you So Much Love | Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy | 1974 |
| In Dark Trees - 2004 Remaster | Another Green World (2004 Remaster) | 1975 |
| Kings Lead Hat | Before And After Science | 1977 |
| 2/1 | Ambient 1: Music For Airports | 1978 |
| Moonlight in Glory | My Life in the Bush of Ghosts | 1981 |
| Regiment | My Life in the Bush of Ghosts | 1981 |
| A Clearing - Remastered 2004 | — | — |
| Always Returning - Remastered 2005 | — | — |
| Complex Heaven | — | — |
| The Big Ship - 2004 Remaster | — | — |
| Thursday Afternoon - 2005 Digital Remaster | — | — |
| 1/1 (excerpt) | Ambient 1: Music For Airports | — |
| On Soma Faraway Beach | Here Come The Warm Jets | — |
| Lux 3 (edit) | Lux | — |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Brian Eno's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Hiroshi Yoshimura — ambient, 23 tracks
- Where to start with Mary Lattimore — ambient, 20 tracks
- Where to start with Harold Budd — ambient, 35 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Brian Eno as a solo artist, from the United Kingdom and born in 1948. Its contributors tag the artist rock, electronic, ambient, uk and britannique. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Brian Eno tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 18, across 7 albums. 10 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. 17 of these 18 tracks have been read that way. The other 1 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 18 of these 18 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.