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Where to start with Original Love
Start with 接吻 kiss - Single Version — ORIGINAL LOVE SINGLES BACK TO 1991-1995, 1996. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 11 Original Love 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 Original Love 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.
The collection leans hard on one record: 7 of the 11 tracks come from THE VERY BEST OF ORIGINAL LOVE alone.
Every track is filed under shibuya-kei; nothing here crosses into another genre.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
接吻 kiss - Single Version — ORIGINAL LOVE SINGLES BACK TO 1991-1995, 1996. Of the 11 Original Love 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
朝日のあたる道 — THE VERY BEST OF ORIGINAL LOVE, 1995. The lowest energy reading of any Original Love track in the room (48 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
月の裏で会いましょう - 結晶 -SOUL LIBERATION- Version — THE VERY BEST OF ORIGINAL LOVE, 1995. The highest energy reading here, at 72 out of 100 — a 24-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where Original Love 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 Original Love's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 62 | 51–73 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 60 | 48–72 | ambient → driving |
| density | 56 | 41–63 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 52 | 46–66 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| THE VERY BEST OF ORIGINAL LOVE | 1995 | 7 |
| ゼロセット | 2019 | 1 |
| ORIGINAL LOVE SINGLES BACK TO 1991-1995 | 1996 | 1 |
| Sunny Side Of Original Love | 1993 | 1 |
| SUMMER LOVE | 1995 | 1 |
Every Original Love track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 接吻 - Single Version | Sunny Side Of Original Love | 1993 |
| 二つの手のように | SUMMER LOVE | 1995 |
| DEEP FRENCH KISS | THE VERY BEST OF ORIGINAL LOVE | 1995 |
| いつか見上げた空に | THE VERY BEST OF ORIGINAL LOVE | 1995 |
| サンシャイン・ロマンス | THE VERY BEST OF ORIGINAL LOVE | 1995 |
| ヴィーナス - 結晶 -SOUL LIBERATION- Version | THE VERY BEST OF ORIGINAL LOVE | 1995 |
| 接吻 kiss | THE VERY BEST OF ORIGINAL LOVE | 1995 |
| 月の裏で会いましょう - 結晶 -SOUL LIBERATION- Version | THE VERY BEST OF ORIGINAL LOVE | 1995 |
| 朝日のあたる道 | THE VERY BEST OF ORIGINAL LOVE | 1995 |
| 接吻 kiss - Single Version | ORIGINAL LOVE SINGLES BACK TO 1991-1995 | 1996 |
| ゼロセット | ゼロセット | 2019 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Original Love's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Lamp — shibuya-kei, 18 tracks
- Where to start with Shizuka Kudo — city pop, 18 tracks
- Where to start with Suchmos — city pop, 11 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Original Love as a group, from Japan and formed in 1986. Its contributors tag the artist shibuya-kei and j-pop. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Original Love tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 11, across 5 albums. 11 of them carry a date, running from 1993 to 2019. 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.