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Where to start with Hiroshima
Start with Stay Away — Another Place, 1986. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 24 Hiroshima 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 24 Hiroshima 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.
Every track is filed under smooth jazz; nothing here crosses into another genre.
The head/body knob swings 63 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
Stay Away — Another Place, 1986. Of the 24 Hiroshima 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
Ren — Third Generation, 1983. The lowest head/body reading of any Hiroshima track in the room (12 out of 100). This is as far towards cerebral as the collection goes.
If you want the groove end
The Game — Another Place, 1986. The highest head/body reading here, at 75 out of 100 — a 63-point swing across the collection towards groove.
Where Hiroshima 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 Hiroshima's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 59 | 27–74 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 43 | 8–69 | ambient → driving |
| density | 47 | 20–62 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 53 | 12–75 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hiroshima | 1979 | 6 |
| Best Of Hiroshima | 1994 | 5 |
| Another Place | 1986 | 5 |
| Go | 1987 | 3 |
| Third Generation | 1983 | 2 |
| Songs With Words | 2016 | 2 |
| J-Town Beat | 2013 | 1 |
Every Hiroshima track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Da-Da | Hiroshima | 1979 |
| Kokoro | Hiroshima | 1979 |
| Lion Dance | Hiroshima | 1979 |
| Long Time Love | Hiroshima | 1979 |
| Roomful of Mirrors | Hiroshima | 1979 |
| Taiko Song | Hiroshima | 1979 |
| From the Heart | Third Generation | 1983 |
| Ren | Third Generation | 1983 |
| One Wish | Another Place | 1986 |
| Stay Away | Another Place | 1986 |
| The Game | Another Place | 1986 |
| Undercover | Another Place | 1986 |
| What's It To Ya | Another Place | 1986 |
| 311 | Go | 1987 |
| Hawaiian electric | Go | 1987 |
| No. 9 | Go | 1987 |
| Hawaiian Electric | Best Of Hiroshima | 1994 |
| I've Been Here Before | Best Of Hiroshima | 1994 |
| Island World | Best Of Hiroshima | 1994 |
| One Wish | Best Of Hiroshima | 1994 |
| San Say | Best Of Hiroshima | 1994 |
| State of Mind | J-Town Beat | 2013 |
| Roomful of Mirrors | Songs With Words | 2016 |
| Tabo | Songs With Words | 2016 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Hiroshima's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Shakatak — smooth jazz, 10 tracks
- Where to start with Ahmad Jamal — jazz, 28 tracks
- Where to start with Thelonious Monk — jazz, 23 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Hiroshima as a group, from Los Angeles, the United States and formed in 1974. Its contributors tag the artist jazz fusion, jazz-funk, contemporary jazz and smooth jazz. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Hiroshima tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 24, across 7 albums. 24 of them carry a date, running from 1979 to 2016. 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.