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Where to start with Medeski Martin & Wood
Start with Sugar Craft — Combustication, 1998. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 15 Medeski Martin & Wood tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 15,847 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 15 Medeski Martin & Wood 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 15 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 collection leans hard on one record: 12 of the 15 tracks come from Combustication alone.
Every track is filed under jazz; nothing here crosses into another genre.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
Sugar Craft — Combustication, 1998. Of the 15 Medeski Martin & Wood 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
Malach Ha-Sopher — Zaebos: Book of Angels Volume 11, 1996. The lowest head/body reading of any Medeski Martin & Wood track in the room (50 out of 100). This is as far towards cerebral as the collection goes.
If you want the groove end
Where's Sly — It's A Jungle In Here, 1993. The highest head/body reading here, at 80 out of 100 — a 30-point swing across the collection towards groove.
Where Medeski Martin & Wood 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 Medeski Martin & Wood's average coordinates and the range they cover.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Combustication | 1998 | 12 |
| Zaebos: Book of Angels Volume 11 | 1996 | 1 |
| Let's Go Everywhere | 2014 | 1 |
| It's A Jungle In Here | 1993 | 1 |
Every Medeski Martin & Wood track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Where's Sly | It's A Jungle In Here | 1993 |
| Malach Ha-Sopher | Zaebos: Book of Angels Volume 11 | 1996 |
| Church Of Logic | Combustication | 1998 |
| Coconut Boogaloo | Combustication | 1998 |
| Everyday People | Combustication | 1998 |
| Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho | Combustication | 1998 |
| Hypnotized | Combustication | 1998 |
| Just Like I Pictured It | Combustication | 1998 |
| Latin Shuffle | Combustication | 1998 |
| No Ke Ano Ahiahi | Combustication | 1998 |
| Nocturne | Combustication | 1998 |
| Start-Stop | Combustication | 1998 |
| Sugar Craft | Combustication | 1998 |
| Whatever Happened To Gus | Combustication | 1998 |
| Where's The Music | Let's Go Everywhere | 2014 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Medeski Martin & Wood's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Sun Ra — jazz, 53 tracks
- Where to start with Weather Report — jazz, 14 tracks
- Where to start with Squirrel Nut Zippers — jazz, 25 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Medeski Martin & Wood as a group, from Brooklyn, the United States and formed in 1991. Its contributors tag the artist jazz, jazz fusion, acid jazz, avant-garde jazz and contemporary jazz. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Medeski Martin & Wood tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 15, across 4 albums. 15 of them carry a date, running from 1993 to 2014. 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 15 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 15 of these 15 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.