Where to start with JJ DOOM
Start with Dawg Friendly — Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition), 2013. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 23 JJ DOOM 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 JJ DOOM 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. Nothing here calls any record better than any other.
It is deep rather than broad: 23 tracks drawn from only 1 record.
The years need a caveat: every dated track comes from one record, so these years describe what is in the room, not a career. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
Every track is filed under alternative hip hop; nothing here crosses into another genre.
The mood knob swings 77 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
Dawg Friendly — Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition), 2013. Of the 23 JJ DOOM 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 melancholy end
Guv'nor - BADBADNOTGOOD Version — Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition), 2013. The lowest mood reading of any JJ DOOM track in the room (9 out of 100). This is as far towards melancholy as the collection goes.
If you want the euphoric end
The Signs — Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition), 2013. The highest mood reading here, at 86 out of 100 — a 77-point swing across the collection towards euphoric.
Where JJ DOOM 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 JJ DOOM's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 47 | 9–86 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 67 | 51–95 | ambient → driving |
| density | 76 | 47–95 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 58 | 36–80 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 | 23 |
Every JJ DOOM track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Banished | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Banished - Beck Remix | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Bite the Thong | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Bookfiend - Clams Casino Version | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Bookhead | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Borin Convo | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Bout the Shoes | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Dawg Friendly | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Gmo | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Guv'nor | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Guv'nor - BADBADNOTGOOD Version | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Pause Tape | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Retarded Fren | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Retarded Fren - Thom Yorke & Jonny Greeenwood Version | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Rhymin Slang | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Rhymin Slang - Dave Sitek Remix | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Snatch That Dough | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Still Kaps | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| The Signs | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Viberian Son | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Wash Your Hands | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Waterlogged | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
| Winter Blues | Key to the Kuffs (Butter Edition) | 2013 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to JJ DOOM's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Captain Beefheart — avant rock, 71 tracks
- Where to start with Flying Lotus — idm, 36 tracks
- Where to start with Charles Mingus — jazz, 21 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists JJ DOOM as a group, from the United States and formed in 2011. Its contributors tag the artist hip hop. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many JJ DOOM tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 23, across 1 album. 23 of them carry a date, running from 2013 to 2013. 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 23 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 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.