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Where to start with Naomi Akimoto
Start with Tonite - Tonite — POISON 21, 1984. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 22 Naomi Akimoto 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 22 Naomi Akimoto 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 22 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 track is filed under city pop; nothing here crosses into another genre.
The energy knob swings 62 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
Tonite - Tonite — POISON 21, 1984. Of the 22 Naomi Akimoto 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 ambient end
十六夜の月 — 水彩画, 1984. The lowest energy reading of any Naomi Akimoto track in the room (12 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
ジェントルじゃいられない — ゴールデン☆ベスト 秋本奈緒美, 2015. The highest energy reading here, at 74 out of 100 — a 62-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where Naomi Akimoto 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 Naomi Akimoto's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 61 | 31–71 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 50 | 12–74 | ambient → driving |
| density | 48 | 22–64 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 62 | 22–76 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ゴールデン☆ベスト 秋本奈緒美 | 2015 | 4 |
| Four Seasons | 1984 | 4 |
| 水彩画 | 1984 | 4 |
| POISON 21 | 1984 | 4 |
| ACT13 | 1984 | 2 |
| TOKYO 1980s Victor Edition (The Compilation) Boogie, Funk & Modern Soul from Japan | 2018 | 1 |
| The 20th Anniversary | 1982 | 1 |
| One Night Stand | 1982 | 1 |
| TOKYO 1980s Victor Edition (The Alternate Mix) Boogie, Funk & Modern Soul from Japan ~Non Stop Mix ver.~ | 2018 | 1 |
Every Naomi Akimoto track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Come Rain Or Come Shine | One Night Stand | 1982 |
| Bewitched (Are You Leaving Soon) | The 20th Anniversary | 1982 |
| Telepathy - 中野サンプラザ 1984.06.22 | ACT13 | 1984 |
| Tonite - 中野サンプラザ 1984.06.22 | ACT13 | 1984 |
| Capricorn Woman | Four Seasons | 1984 |
| Dance,Shall We Dance | Four Seasons | 1984 |
| Jinx | Four Seasons | 1984 |
| Sorry | Four Seasons | 1984 |
| Lion In My Pocket - Lion In My Pocket | POISON 21 | 1984 |
| Telepathy - Telepathy | POISON 21 | 1984 |
| Tonite - Tonite | POISON 21 | 1984 |
| Tricky - Tricky | POISON 21 | 1984 |
| ざわめき | 水彩画 | 1984 |
| 仮実酒 | 水彩画 | 1984 |
| 十六夜の月 | 水彩画 | 1984 |
| 過去からの情景 | 水彩画 | 1984 |
| SILENT COMMUNICATION | ゴールデン☆ベスト 秋本奈緒美 | 2015 |
| Tonite | ゴールデン☆ベスト 秋本奈緒美 | 2015 |
| Tricky | ゴールデン☆ベスト 秋本奈緒美 | 2015 |
| ジェントルじゃいられない | ゴールデン☆ベスト 秋本奈緒美 | 2015 |
| BEWITCHED(ARE YOU LEAVING SOON) - Non Stop Mix ver. | TOKYO 1980s Victor Edition (The Alternate Mix) Boogie, Funk & Modern Soul from Japan ~Non Stop Mix ver.~ | 2018 |
| BEWITCHED(ARE YOU LEAVING SOON) | TOKYO 1980s Victor Edition (The Compilation) Boogie, Funk & Modern Soul from Japan | 2018 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Naomi Akimoto'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 Mako Ishino — city pop, 11 tracks
- Where to start with Yuki Saito — city pop, 20 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Naomi Akimoto as a solo artist, from Matsumoto, Japan and born in 1963. Its contributors tag the artist city pop and techno kayō. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Naomi Akimoto tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 22, across 9 albums. 22 of them carry a date, running from 1982 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 22 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 22 of these 22 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.