Where to start with CASIOPEA
Start with Asayake — Oriental Jazz elementals, 2011. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 13 CASIOPEA 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 13 CASIOPEA 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 13 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: 10 of the 13 tracks come from Asian Dreamer alone.
Every track is filed under jazz fusion; nothing here crosses into another genre.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Asayake — Oriental Jazz elementals, 2011. Of the 13 CASIOPEA 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
Space Road — Asian Dreamer, 2010. The lowest head/body reading of any CASIOPEA track in the room (30 out of 100). This is as far towards cerebral as the collection goes.
If you want the groove end
The Soundgraphy — Asian Dreamer, 2010. The highest head/body reading here, at 63 out of 100 — a 33-point swing across the collection towards groove.
Where CASIOPEA 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 CASIOPEA's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 55 | 39–70 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 48 | 30–62 | ambient → driving |
| density | 48 | 29–60 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 53 | 30–63 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Asian Dreamer | 2010 | 10 |
| Oriental Jazz elementals | 2011 | 1 |
| Oriental Jazz Essentials | 2011 | 1 |
| Freshness | 2010 | 1 |
Every CASIOPEA track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Asayake | Asian Dreamer | 2010 |
| Coast to Coast | Asian Dreamer | 2010 |
| Domino Line | Asian Dreamer | 2010 |
| Galactic Funk | Asian Dreamer | 2010 |
| Hoshizora | Asian Dreamer | 2010 |
| Misty Lady | Asian Dreamer | 2010 |
| Space Road | Asian Dreamer | 2010 |
| Swear | Asian Dreamer | 2010 |
| The Soundgraphy | Asian Dreamer | 2010 |
| Kagerou (Heat Haze) | Freshness | 2010 |
| Asayake | Oriental Jazz elementals | 2011 |
| A Place in the Sun | Oriental Jazz Essentials | 2011 |
| Midnight Rendezvous | Asian Dreamer | 2017 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to CASIOPEA's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with T-SQUARE — jazz fusion, 12 tracks
- Where to start with Billy Cobham — jazz fusion, 11 tracks
- Where to start with PIPER — city pop, 29 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists CASIOPEA as a group, from Tokyo, Japan and formed in 1976. Its contributors tag the artist jazz fusion, jazz, fusion, contemporary jazz and city pop. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many CASIOPEA tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 13, across 4 albums. 13 of them carry a date, running from 2010 to 2017. 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 13 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 13 of these 13 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.