Where to start with Mélonade
Start with Dream Cafe — Dream Plaza, 2018. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 10 Mélonade 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 10 Mélonade 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 10 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: 6 of the 10 tracks come from Dream Plaza alone.
Every dated track here falls between 2016 and 2018, so this room holds one stretch of the discography and not the whole of it.
Every track is filed under vaporwave; nothing here crosses into another genre.
The head/body knob swings 54 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
Dream Cafe — Dream Plaza, 2018. Of the 10 Mélonade 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
Dream Plaza — Dream Plaza, 2018. The lowest head/body reading of any Mélonade track in the room (28 out of 100). This is as far towards cerebral as the collection goes.
If you want the groove end
Crest — Dream Plaza, 2018. The highest head/body reading here, at 82 out of 100 — a 54-point swing across the collection towards groove.
Where Mélonade 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 Mélonade's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 58 | 35–72 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 51 | 30–70 | ambient → driving |
| density | 47 | 30–60 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 64 | 28–82 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dream Plaza | 2018 | 6 |
| Rosy Retrospect | 2016 | 2 |
| Solo | 2017 | 2 |
Every Mélonade track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Midnight Visit (with Funktimizer) | Rosy Retrospect | 2016 |
| Not Just Good | Rosy Retrospect | 2016 |
| Feelings Fade | Solo | 2017 |
| Out There - Smokazzi's Unplugged Edit | Solo | 2017 |
| ...And It Was All a Dream | Dream Plaza | 2018 |
| Amongst the Crowd | Dream Plaza | 2018 |
| Crest | Dream Plaza | 2018 |
| Dream Cafe | Dream Plaza | 2018 |
| Dream Plaza | Dream Plaza | 2018 |
| Old But Gold | Dream Plaza | 2018 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Mélonade's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Phil Gerus — vaporwave, 13 tracks
- Where to start with Maitro — vaporwave, 41 tracks
- Where to start with luxury elite — vaporwave, 16 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz holds a record for Mélonade. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Mélonade tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 10, across 3 albums. 10 of them carry a date, running from 2016 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 10 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 10 of these 10 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.