Where to start with Dr. Dre
Start with Lolo - Intro — 2001, 1999. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 24 Dr. Dre 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 24 Dr. Dre 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 24 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 collection leans hard on one record: 23 of the 24 tracks come from 2001 alone.
The years need a caveat: 24 of 24 dated tracks land in the 1990s and come from 2 records, while the rest come from elsewhere — the mark of a reissue carrying its own date rather than the music's. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
The mood knob swings 43 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
Lolo - Intro — 2001, 1999. Of the 24 Dr. Dre 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 melancholy end
The Car Bomb — 2001, 1999. The lowest mood reading of any Dr. Dre track in the room (43 out of 100). This is as far towards melancholy as the collection goes.
If you want the euphoric end
Let Me Ride — The Chronic, 1992. The highest mood reading here, at 86 out of 100 — a 43-point swing across the collection towards euphoric.
Where Dr. Dre 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 Dr. Dre'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
| Album | Year | Tracks |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 1999 | 23 |
| The Chronic | 1992 | 1 |
Every Dr. Dre track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Let Me Ride | The Chronic | 1992 |
| Ackrite | 2001 | 1999 |
| Bang Bang | 2001 | 1999 |
| Bar One | 2001 | 1999 |
| Big Ego's | 2001 | 1999 |
| Bitch Niggaz | 2001 | 1999 |
| Ed-Ucation | 2001 | 1999 |
| Forgot About Dre | 2001 | 1999 |
| Fuck You | 2001 | 1999 |
| Housewife | 2001 | 1999 |
| Let's Get High | 2001 | 1999 |
| Light Speed | 2001 | 1999 |
| Lolo - Intro | 2001 | 1999 |
| Murder Ink | 2001 | 1999 |
| Outro | 2001 | 1999 |
| Pause 4 Porno | 2001 | 1999 |
| Some L.A. Niggaz | 2001 | 1999 |
| Still D.R.E. | 2001 | 1999 |
| The Car Bomb | 2001 | 1999 |
| The Message | 2001 | 1999 |
| The Next Episode | 2001 | 1999 |
| The Watcher | 2001 | 1999 |
| What's The Difference | 2001 | 1999 |
| Xxplosive | 2001 | 1999 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Dr. Dre'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 The Notorious B.I.G. — hip hop, 17 tracks
- Where to start with Madvillain — hip hop, 23 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Dr. Dre as a solo artist, from Compton, the United States and born in 1965. Its contributors tag the artist rap, hip hop, producer, gangsta rap and pop rap. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Dr. Dre tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 24, across 2 albums. 24 of them carry a date, running from 1992 to 1999. 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 24 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 24 of these 24 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.