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Where to start with Broadcast

Start with Colour Me In [Demo] — Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000 - 2006, 2024. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 19 Broadcast 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 19 Broadcast 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 19 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: 13 of the 19 tracks come from Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000 - 2006 alone.

Every track is filed under dream pop; nothing here crosses into another genre.

The head/body knob swings 58 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

Colour Me In [Demo] — Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000 - 2006, 2024. Of the 19 Broadcast 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

Minus One — The Noise Made By People, 2000. The lowest head/body reading of any Broadcast track in the room (10 out of 100). This is as far towards cerebral as the collection goes.

If you want the groove end

The Little Bell [Demo] — Distant Call - Collected Demos 2000 - 2006, 2024. The highest, at 68. Same artist, opposite corner — a 58-point swing from the track above.

Where Broadcast 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 Broadcast'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 Broadcast track in the room

Near neighbours in this room

These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Broadcast's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.

• Where to start with Ryuichi Sakamoto — japanese classical, 24 tracks
• Where to start with Harold Budd — ambient, 35 tracks
• Where to start with R. D. Burman — bollywood, 33 tracks

What the open databases say

MusicBrainz lists Broadcast as a group, from Birmingham, the United Kingdom and formed in 1995. Its contributors tag the artist indietronica, dream pop and electronic. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.

Questions

How many Broadcast tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?

There are 19, across 7 albums. 18 of them carry a date, running from 1997 to 2024. 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. 19 of these 19 tracks carry an individually placed coordinate rather than the room's 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 19 of these 19 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.