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Where to start with Ryuichi Sakamoto
Start with Aoneko no Torso. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 24 Ryuichi Sakamoto 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 24 Ryuichi Sakamoto 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 24 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.
A caveat about the data rather than the music: 13 of these 24 tracks arrived here with no record attached, so the record-by-record table further down accounts for 11 of them and stops there.
The density knob swings 92 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
Aoneko no Torso. Of the 24 Ryuichi Sakamoto 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. The room carries no record and no year against this track, so you will have to find it by title. That is a hole in my data rather than a statement about the music.
If you want the sparse end
20220302 - sarabande — 12, 2023. The lowest density reading of any Ryuichi Sakamoto track in the room (1 out of 100). This is as far towards sparse as the collection goes.
If you want the wall end
RISKY — NEO GEO, 1987. The highest, at 93. Same artist, opposite corner — a 92-point swing from the track above.
Where Ryuichi Sakamoto 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 Ryuichi Sakamoto's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 35 | 4–76 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 29 | 2–82 | ambient → driving |
| density | 32 | 1–93 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 49 | 12–73 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia | 2022 | 1 |
| ウラBTTB | 1999 | 1 |
| /05 | 2005 | 1 |
| 12 | 2023 | 1 |
| L.O.L. (Lack Of Love) | 2000 | 1 |
| CHASM | 2004 | 1 |
| Sweet Revenge | 1994 | 1 |
| NEO GEO | 1987 | 1 |
| L.O.L. | 2000 | 1 |
| 1996 | 1996 | 1 |
| Ongaku Zukan -2015 Edition- | 2015 | 1 |
Every Ryuichi Sakamoto track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| RISKY | NEO GEO | 1987 |
| Sweet Revenge | Sweet Revenge | 1994 |
| Rain - Version for Piano Trio | 1996 | 1996 |
| energy flow | ウラBTTB | 1999 |
| Dream 〜夢のパピー | L.O.L. | 2000 |
| Dream | L.O.L. (Lack Of Love) | 2000 |
| War & Peace | CHASM | 2004 |
| Amore | /05 | 2005 |
| M23 BALLAD | Ongaku Zukan -2015 Edition- | 2015 |
| Field Work | Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia | 2022 |
| 20220302 - sarabande | 12 | 2023 |
| ADELIC PENGUINS | — | — |
| Aoneko no Torso | — | — |
| Bibo no Aozora | — | — |
| Field Work (feat. Thomas Dolby) - London Mix;2009 Remastered Version | — | — |
| Kachakucha nee | — | — |
| Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence | — | — |
| Movement, 3 | — | — |
| opus | — | — |
| PLASTIC BAMBOO - 2016 リマスター | — | — |
| Riot In Lagos | — | — |
| riot in Lagos (2019 Remastering) | — | — |
| solari | — | — |
| Tell'em To Me | — | — |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Ryuichi Sakamoto's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Broadcast — dream pop, 19 tracks
- Where to start with R. D. Burman — bollywood, 33 tracks
- Where to start with Wayne Shorter — bebop, 36 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Ryuichi Sakamoto as a solo artist, from Nakano, Japan and born in 1952. Its contributors tag the artist ambient, film score, art pop and electronic. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Ryuichi Sakamoto tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 24, across 11 albums. 11 of them carry a date, running from 1987 to 2023. 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. 23 of these 24 tracks carry an individually placed coordinate rather than the room's 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 24 of these 24 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.