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Where to start with PIPER

Start with Highway Of The Sun — Gentle Breeze, 1983. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 29 PIPER 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 29 PIPER 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 29 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.

It is deep rather than broad: 29 tracks drawn from only 3 records.

Every dated track here falls between 1983 and 1985, so this room holds one stretch of the discography and not the whole of it.

Every track is filed under city pop; nothing here crosses into another genre.

The head/body knob swings 73 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

Highway Of The Sun — Gentle Breeze, 1983. Of the 29 PIPER 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

Twilight — Summer Breeze, 1983. The lowest head/body reading of any PIPER track in the room (6 out of 100). This is as far towards cerebral as the collection goes.

If you want the groove end

GO BACK - 2019 Remaster — LOVERS LOGIC (2019 Remaster), 1985. The highest head/body reading here, at 79 out of 100 — a 73-point swing across the collection towards groove.

Where PIPER 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 PIPER'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

Every PIPER track in the room

Near neighbours in this room

These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to PIPER's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.

• Where to start with Yoshimi Iwasaki — city pop, 37 tracks
• Where to start with Yuki Saito — city pop, 20 tracks
• Where to start with Yumi Matsutoya — city pop, 19 tracks

What the open databases say

MusicBrainz lists PIPER as a group and from Hamamatsu, Japan. Its contributors tag the artist city pop and aor. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.

Questions

How many PIPER tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?

There are 29, across 3 albums. 29 of them carry a date, running from 1983 to 1985. 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 29 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 29 of these 29 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.