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Where to start with James Blake
Start with I Am Sold — Overgrown, 2013. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 17 James Blake 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 17 James Blake 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 17 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: 10 of the 17 tracks come from Overgrown alone.
The years need a caveat: 11 of 17 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 density knob swings 78 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
I Am Sold — Overgrown, 2013. Of the 17 James Blake 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 sparse end
DLM — Overgrown, 2013. The lowest density reading of any James Blake track in the room (8 out of 100). This is as far towards sparse as the collection goes.
If you want the wall end
Voyeur — Overgrown, 2013. The highest density reading here, at 86 out of 100 — a 78-point swing across the collection towards wall.
Where James Blake 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 James Blake's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 22 | 5–42 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 42 | 17–70 | ambient → driving |
| density | 38 | 8–86 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 46 | 20–94 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Overgrown | 2013 | 10 |
| Trying Times | 2026 | 4 |
| Assume Form | 2019 | 1 |
| You're Too Precious | 2020 | 1 |
| Big Hammer | 2023 | 1 |
Every James Blake track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Walkd Out Music | Trying Times | 1993 |
| Digital Lion | Overgrown | 2013 |
| DLM | Overgrown | 2013 |
| I Am Sold | Overgrown | 2013 |
| Life Round Here | Overgrown | 2013 |
| Our Love Comes Back | Overgrown | 2013 |
| Overgrown | Overgrown | 2013 |
| Retrograde | Overgrown | 2013 |
| Take A Fall For Me | Overgrown | 2013 |
| To The Last | Overgrown | 2013 |
| Voyeur | Overgrown | 2013 |
| Don't Miss It | Assume Form | 2019 |
| You're Too Precious | You're Too Precious | 2020 |
| Big Hammer | Big Hammer | 2023 |
| Days go By | Trying Times | 2026 |
| Death of Love | Trying Times | 2026 |
| I had a dream she took my hand | Trying Times | 2026 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to James Blake's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with King Krule — r&b, 22 tracks
- Where to start with Fleetwood Mac — classic rock, 11 tracks
- Where to start with Aphex Twin — electronic, 49 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists James Blake as a solo artist, from Enfield, the United Kingdom and born in 1988. Its contributors tag the artist electronic, dubstep, experimental, singer-songwriter and minimal. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many James Blake tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 17, across 5 albums. 17 of them carry a date, running from 1993 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. All 17 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 17 of these 17 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.