Where to start with Lamp
Start with Blue — Blue, 2018. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 18 Lamp 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 18 Lamp 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 18 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.
The energy knob swings 41 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
Blue — Blue, 2018. Of the 17 Lamp 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.
If you want the ambient end
At the night party — Her Watch, 2018. The lowest energy reading of any Lamp track in the room (27 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
空想夜間飛行 — 東京ユウトピア通信, 2011. The highest energy reading here, at 68 out of 100 — a 41-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where Lamp 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 Lamp's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 53 | 39–68 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 50 | 27–68 | ambient → driving |
| density | 41 | 32–56 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 43 | 17–57 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 東京ユウトピア通信 | 2011 | 4 |
| ゆめ | 2014 | 3 |
| 木洩陽通りにて | 2005 | 3 |
| 残光 | 2007 | 2 |
| ランプ幻想 | 2008 | 1 |
| Her Watch | 2018 | 1 |
| Blue | 2018 | 1 |
| 恋人へ | 2004 | 1 |
| そよ風アパートメント201 | 2003 | 1 |
| Place in my dream | 2018 | 1 |
Every Lamp track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 街は雨降り | そよ風アパートメント201 | 2003 |
| 最終列車は25時 | 恋人へ | 2004 |
| 今夜も君にテレフォンコール | 木洩陽通りにて | 2005 |
| 夜風 | 木洩陽通りにて | 2005 |
| 木洩陽の季節 | 木洩陽通りにて | 2005 |
| 泡沫綺譚 | 残光 | 2007 |
| 過ぎる春の | 残光 | 2007 |
| 二十歳の恋 | ランプ幻想 | 2008 |
| 冷ややかな情景 | 東京ユウトピア通信 | 2011 |
| 君が泣くなら | 東京ユウトピア通信 | 2011 |
| 君とぼくとのさよならに | 東京ユウトピア通信 | 2011 |
| 空想夜間飛行 | 東京ユウトピア通信 | 2011 |
| 6号室 | ゆめ | 2014 |
| A都市の秋 | ゆめ | 2014 |
| 二人のいた風景 | ゆめ | 2014 |
| Blue | Blue | 2018 |
| At the night party | Her Watch | 2018 |
| Place in my dream | Place in my dream | 2018 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Lamp's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Original Love — shibuya-kei, 11 tracks
- Where to start with Yuko Kanai — city pop, 11 tracks
- Where to start with Elmiene — r&b, 11 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Lamp as a group, from Tokyo, Japan and formed in 2000. Its contributors tag the artist bossa nova, indie pop, shibuya-kei, jazz pop and city pop. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Lamp tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 18, across 10 albums. 18 of them carry a date, running from 2003 to 2018. 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. 17 of these 18 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 18 of these 18 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.