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Where to start with Mako Ishino
Start with 私のしあわせ — 彼が初恋, 2018. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 11 Mako Ishino 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 11 Mako Ishino 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 11 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 dated track here carries the same year, 2018 — one moment of the discography rather than the shape of it.
Every track is filed under city pop; nothing here crosses into another genre.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
私のしあわせ — 彼が初恋, 2018. Of the 11 Mako Ishino 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
海色のパセティック — ガラスの観覧車, 2018. The lowest mood reading of any Mako Ishino track in the room (43 out of 100). This is as far towards melancholy as the collection goes.
If you want the euphoric end
ハートで勝負 — ハートで勝負, 2018. The highest mood reading here, at 68 out of 100 — a 25-point swing across the collection towards euphoric.
Where Mako Ishino 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 Mako Ishino's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 58 | 43–68 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 55 | 44–68 | ambient → driving |
| density | 49 | 43–59 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 57 | 49–69 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| めまい | 2018 | 2 |
| 彼が初恋 | 2018 | 2 |
| ガラスの観覧車 | 2018 | 2 |
| ハートで勝負 | 2018 | 1 |
| 思いっきりサンバ | 2018 | 1 |
| わたしのしあわせ MAKO・V | 2018 | 1 |
| TWENTY MAKO・VI | 2018 | 1 |
| 恋のサマー・ダンス | 2018 | 1 |
Every Mako Ishino track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| きらめく季節 | TWENTY MAKO・VI | 2018 |
| VIVA! サンシャイン | めまい | 2018 |
| めまい | めまい | 2018 |
| 涙もろいから | わたしのしあわせ MAKO・V | 2018 |
| ガラスの観覧車 | ガラスの観覧車 | 2018 |
| 海色のパセティック | ガラスの観覧車 | 2018 |
| ハートで勝負 | ハートで勝負 | 2018 |
| 彼が初恋 | 彼が初恋 | 2018 |
| 私のしあわせ | 彼が初恋 | 2018 |
| 雨の日のジュテーム | 思いっきりサンバ | 2018 |
| 恋はおしゃれに | 恋のサマー・ダンス | 2018 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Mako Ishino's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Yumi Matsutoya — city pop, 19 tracks
- Where to start with PIPER — city pop, 29 tracks
- Where to start with Yoshimi Iwasaki — city pop, 37 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Mako Ishino as a solo artist, from Hyogo, Japan and born in 1961. Its contributors tag the artist idol kayō, kayōkyoku and pop. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Mako Ishino tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 11, across 8 albums. 11 of them carry a date, running from 2018 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. All 11 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 11 of these 11 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.