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Where to start with Phil Gerus
Start with One More Button Down — Now Is Gone EP, 2015. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 13 Phil Gerus 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 13 Phil Gerus 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 13 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.
Every dated track here falls between 2012 and 2017, 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.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
One More Button Down — Now Is Gone EP, 2015. Of the 13 Phil Gerus 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
Finding Nash — Based On Misunderstandings 05, 2012. The lowest mood reading of any Phil Gerus track in the room (36 out of 100). This is as far towards melancholy as the collection goes.
If you want the euphoric end
Make Time — Make Time, 2017. The highest mood reading here, at 74 out of 100 — a 38-point swing across the collection towards euphoric.
Where Phil Gerus 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 Phil Gerus's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 60 | 36–74 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 52 | 35–65 | ambient → driving |
| density | 56 | 51–60 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 66 | 47–76 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Based On Misunderstandings 05 | 2012 | 4 |
| Make Time | 2017 | 4 |
| Now Is Gone EP | 2015 | 3 |
| Nothing Twice EP | 2015 | 2 |
Every Phil Gerus track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Don't Kiss Me While I'm Swimming | Based On Misunderstandings 05 | 2012 |
| Finding Nash | Based On Misunderstandings 05 | 2012 |
| Lust Escort | Based On Misunderstandings 05 | 2012 |
| Surfing The Wave | Based On Misunderstandings 05 | 2012 |
| I Need You More Than He | Nothing Twice EP | 2015 |
| My Soul Eats Twice | Nothing Twice EP | 2015 |
| Better Sing It To Me First | Now Is Gone EP | 2015 |
| One More Button Down | Now Is Gone EP | 2015 |
| She Rides Shotgun | Now Is Gone EP | 2015 |
| Detective From Kamakure | Make Time | 2017 |
| Make Time | Make Time | 2017 |
| She Is Wearing Her Black Boots Again | Make Time | 2017 |
| The One You Need | Make Time | 2017 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Phil Gerus's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Mélonade — vaporwave, 10 tracks
- Where to start with Maitro — vaporwave, 41 tracks
- Where to start with Shiro Schwarz — vaporwave, 23 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Phil Gerus as a solo artist and from Moscow. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Phil Gerus tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 13, across 4 albums. 13 of them carry a date, running from 2012 to 2017. 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 13 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 13 of these 13 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.