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Where to start with Digable Planets
Start with Agent 7 Creamy Spy Theme / Dial 7 (Axiom Of Creamy Spies) / NY 21 Theme — Blowout Comb, 1994. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 13 Digable Planets 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 Digable Planets 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, and where two sit equally close the one on a named record wins. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
The years need a caveat: every dated track comes from one record, so these years describe what is in the room, not a career. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Agent 7 Creamy Spy Theme / Dial 7 (Axiom Of Creamy Spies) / NY 21 Theme — Blowout Comb, 1994. Of the 13 Digable Planets 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
9th Wonder (Blackitolism) — Blowout Comb, 1994. The lowest head/body reading of any Digable Planets track in the room (55 out of 100). This is as far towards cerebral as the collection goes.
If you want the groove end
The Art Of Easing — Blowout Comb, 1994. The highest head/body reading here, at 78 out of 100 — a 23-point swing across the collection towards groove.
Where Digable Planets 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 Digable Planets's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 58 | 58–62 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 57 | 45–58 | ambient → driving |
| density | 61 | 48–62 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 76 | 55–78 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Blowout Comb | 1994 | 13 |
Every Digable Planets track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 9th Wonder (Blackitolism) | Blowout Comb | 1994 |
| Agent 7 Creamy Spy Theme / Dial 7 (Axiom Of Creamy Spies) / NY 21 Theme | Blowout Comb | 1994 |
| Black Ego | Blowout Comb | 1994 |
| Blowing Down | Blowout Comb | 1994 |
| Borough Check | Blowout Comb | 1994 |
| Dog It | Blowout Comb | 1994 |
| For Corners | Blowout Comb | 1994 |
| Graffiti | Blowout Comb | 1994 |
| Highing Fly | Blowout Comb | 1994 |
| Jettin' | Blowout Comb | 1994 |
| K.B.'s Alley (Mood Dudes Groove) | Blowout Comb | 1994 |
| Slowes' Comb / The May 4th Movement Starring Doodlebug | Blowout Comb | 1994 |
| The Art Of Easing | Blowout Comb | 1994 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Digable Planets's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with J Dilla — hip hop, 45 tracks
- Where to start with Marc Ribot — latin, 10 tracks
- Where to start with Shiro Schwarz — vaporwave, 23 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Digable Planets as from the United States. Its contributors tag the artist funk, hip hop, jazz and rap. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Digable Planets tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 13, across 1 album. 13 of them carry a date, running from 1994 to 1994. 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.