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Where to start with Flying Lotus
Start with Shoreline Sus. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 36 Flying Lotus 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 36 Flying Lotus 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 36 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: 27 of the 36 tracks come from Flamagra alone.
The years need a caveat: 28 of 34 dated tracks land in the 2010s 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 94 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
Shoreline Sus. Of the 35 Flying Lotus tracks here that have actually been listened to, this one sits closest to the average of them across the four knobs the room runs on. The other 1 arrived carrying the default for their genre, and averaging a placeholder in would move the centre towards nothing. It is the least surprising thing among the tracks that were read, which is what an entry point should be. The room carries no record and no year against this track, so you will have to find it by title. That is a hole in my data rather than a statement about the music.
If you want the melancholy end
Heroes In A Half Shell — Flamagra, 2019. The lowest mood reading of any Flying Lotus track in the room (4 out of 100). This is as far towards melancholy as the collection goes.
If you want the euphoric end
Pygmy — Flamagra, 2019. The highest mood reading here, at 98 out of 100 — a 94-point swing across the collection towards euphoric.
Where Flying Lotus 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 Flying Lotus's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 42 | 4–98 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 62 | 16–93 | ambient → driving |
| density | 70 | 11–91 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 55 | 18–79 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Flamagra | 2019 | 27 |
| 1983 | 2026 | 3 |
| BIG MAMA | 2026 | 1 |
| V/A - Warp 20 (1989-2009) | 2009 | 1 |
| Big Mama EP | — | 1 |
| Cosmogramma | 2010 | 1 |
| Los Angeles | 2008 | 1 |
Every Flying Lotus track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Melt! | Los Angeles | 2008 |
| Tronix | V/A - Warp 20 (1989-2009) | 2009 |
| Do The Astral Plane | Cosmogramma | 2010 |
| 9 Carrots | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Actually Virtual | Flamagra | 2019 |
| All Spies | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Andromeda | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Black Balloons Reprise | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Burning Down The House | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Capillaries | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Debbie Is Depressed | Flamagra | 2019 |
| FF4 | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Find Your Own Way Home | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Fire Is Coming | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Heroes | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Heroes In A Half Shell | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Hot Oct. | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Inside Your Home | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Land Of Honey | Flamagra | 2019 |
| More | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Pilgrim Side Eye | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Post Requisite | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Pygmy | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Remind U | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Say Something | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Spontaneous | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Takashi | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Thank U Malcolm | Flamagra | 2019 |
| The Climb | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Yellow Belly | Flamagra | 2019 |
| Sao Paulo | 1983 | 2026 |
| Unexpected Delight | 1983 | 2026 |
| Untitled #7 | 1983 | 2026 |
| CAPTAIN KERNEL | BIG MAMA | 2026 |
| Shoreline Sus | — | — |
| Big Mama | Big Mama EP | — |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Flying Lotus's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with The Flashbulb — idm, 15 tracks
- Where to start with Charles Mingus — jazz, 21 tracks
- Where to start with Erika de Casier — alternative r&b, 13 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Flying Lotus as a solo artist, from Los Angeles, the United States and born in 1983. Its contributors tag the artist electronic, downtempo, jazz and experimental. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Flying Lotus tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 36, across 7 albums. 34 of them carry a date, running from 2008 to 2026. 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. 35 of these 36 tracks have been read that way. The other 1 arrived with the default for their genre and nobody has listened to them yet, so they are left out of the centre, the ends and the spread quoted above.
Can I listen to these here?
Not yet from this page. Zubissou Sounds is in private beta — the room itself plays through Spotify, and 36 of these 36 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.