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Where to start with Brian Eno

Start with On Soma Faraway Beach — Here Come The Warm Jets, 1973. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 32 Brian Eno tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 15,847 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 32 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 32 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 head/body knob swings 73 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

On Soma Faraway Beach — Here Come The Warm Jets, 1973. Of the 32 Brian Eno 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

1/2 - Remastered 2004 — Ambient 1: Music for Airports, 1978. The lowest head/body reading of any Brian Eno track in the room (7 out of 100). This is as far towards cerebral as the collection goes.

If you want the groove end

Regiment — My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, 1981. The highest head/body reading here, at 80 out of 100 — a 73-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.

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

Every Brian Eno track in the room

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 Michael Brook — ambient, 12 tracks
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• Where to start with Mary Lattimore — ambient, 20 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 32, across 9 albums. 27 of them carry a date, running from 1973 to 2012. 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 32 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 32 of these 32 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.