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Where to start with Haruomi Hosono
Start with BODY SNATCHERS/ボディー・スナッチャーズ. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 20 Haruomi Hosono 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 20 Haruomi Hosono 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 20 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 dates here run from 1978 to 2025. They are the dates attached to the releases in this room rather than recording dates, so the later ones are likely reissues — but 47 years is still more than one version of the artist.
A caveat about the data rather than the music: 16 of these 20 tracks arrived here with no record attached, so the record-by-record table further down accounts for 4 of them and stops there.
The mood knob swings 48 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
BODY SNATCHERS/ボディー・スナッチャーズ. Of the 19 Haruomi Hosono 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
HONEY MOON - 2020 Remastering — MEDICINE COMPILATION (2020 Remastering), 2020. The lowest mood reading of any Haruomi Hosono track in the room (17 out of 100). This is as far towards melancholy as the collection goes.
If you want the euphoric end
Saigono Rakuen — Pacific, 1978. The highest mood reading here, at 65 out of 100 — a 48-point swing across the collection towards euphoric.
Where Haruomi Hosono 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 Haruomi Hosono's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 46 | 17–65 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 33 | 15–36 | ambient → driving |
| density | 36 | 9–48 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 49 | 38–55 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coincidental Music | 2008 | 1 |
| Pacific | 1978 | 1 |
| MEDICINE COMPILATION (2020 Remastering) | 2020 | 1 |
| Tropical Dandy | 2025 | 1 |
Every Haruomi Hosono track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Saigono Rakuen | Pacific | 1978 |
| Memphis, Milano | Coincidental Music | 2008 |
| HONEY MOON - 2020 Remastering | MEDICINE COMPILATION (2020 Remastering) | 2020 |
| Hurricane Dorothy | Tropical Dandy | 2025 |
| BODY SNATCHERS/ボディー・スナッチャーズ | — | — |
| Cow Cow Boogie | — | — |
| Going To The Sea | — | — |
| LAUGHTER MEDITATION - 2020 Remastering | — | — |
| No Smoking | — | — |
| PLEOCENE - 2020 Remastering | — | — |
| あくまのはつめい | — | — |
| はらいそ - 2019 Remastering | — | — |
| スポーツマン - 2019 Remastering | — | — |
| ノルマンディア/Normandia | — | — |
| 住所不定無職低収入 - New ver. | — | — |
| 四面道歌 - 2019 Remastering | — | — |
| 東京ラッシュ - 2019 Remastering | — | — |
| 福は内 鬼は外 - New ver. | — | — |
| 終りの季節 - New ver. | — | — |
| 薔薇と野獣 | — | — |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Haruomi Hosono's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Kiyotaka Sugiyama — city pop, 39 tracks
- Where to start with Yuko Kanai — city pop, 11 tracks
- Where to start with Akira Inoue — city pop, 21 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Haruomi Hosono as a solo artist, from Minato, Japan and born in 1947. Its contributors tag the artist electropop, exotica, j-pop and japanese rock. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Haruomi Hosono tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 20, across 4 albums. 4 of them carry a date, running from 1978 to 2025. 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 20 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 20 of these 20 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.