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Where to start with Hiroshi Yoshimura
Start with Blink — Music for Nine Post Cards, 1982. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 23 Hiroshi Yoshimura 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 23 Hiroshi Yoshimura 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 23 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.
It is deep rather than broad: 23 tracks drawn from only 3 records.
Every dated track here falls between 1982 and 1986, so this room holds one stretch of the discography and not the whole of it.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Blink — Music for Nine Post Cards, 1982. Of the 22 Hiroshi Yoshimura 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.
Only one entry point is offered for Hiroshi Yoshimura. The knob readings across these tracks sit too close together to mark out honest opposite ends, and inventing two would be worse than admitting it.
Where Hiroshi Yoshimura 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 Hiroshi Yoshimura's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 64 | 64–70 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 20 | 20–30 | ambient → driving |
| density | 32 | 32–35 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 27 | 26–42 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Green | 1986 | 8 |
| Music for Nine Post Cards | 1982 | 8 |
| Surround | 1986 | 6 |
Every Hiroshi Yoshimura track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Blink | Music for Nine Post Cards | 1982 |
| Clouds | Music for Nine Post Cards | 1982 |
| Dream | Music for Nine Post Cards | 1982 |
| Ice Copy | Music for Nine Post Cards | 1982 |
| Soto Wa Ame - Rain out of Window | Music for Nine Post Cards | 1982 |
| Urban Snow | Music for Nine Post Cards | 1982 |
| View from My Window | Music for Nine Post Cards | 1982 |
| Water Copy | Music for Nine Post Cards | 1982 |
| CREEK | Green | 1986 |
| FEEL | Green | 1986 |
| FEET | Green | 1986 |
| GREEN | Green | 1986 |
| SHEEP | Green | 1986 |
| SLEEP | Green | 1986 |
| STREET | Green | 1986 |
| TEEVEE | Green | 1986 |
| Green shower | Surround | 1986 |
| Something blue | Surround | 1986 |
| Surround | Surround | 1986 |
| Time after time | Surround | 1986 |
| Time forest | Surround | 1986 |
| Water planet | Surround | 1986 |
| Dance PM | — | — |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Hiroshi Yoshimura's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Harold Budd — ambient, 35 tracks
- Where to start with Mary Lattimore — ambient, 20 tracks
- Where to start with Brian Eno — ambient, 18 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Hiroshi Yoshimura as a solo artist, from Yokohama, Japan and born in 1940. Its contributors tag the artist new age, progressive electronic, kankyō ongaku, minimalism and japan. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Hiroshi Yoshimura tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 23, across 3 albums. 22 of them carry a date, running from 1982 to 1986. 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. 22 of these 23 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 23 of these 23 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.