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Where to start with Samba Jean-Baptiste
Start with A Wish Slanted — Cardinal, 2023. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 20 Samba Jean-Baptiste 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 20 Samba Jean-Baptiste 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 20 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.
It is deep rather than broad: 20 tracks drawn from only 1 record.
The years need a caveat: every dated track comes from one record, so these years describe what is in the room, not a career. Read the year column below as the date on the copy in this room, not the date the music arrived in the world.
The mood knob swings 88 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
A Wish Slanted — Cardinal, 2023. Of the 20 Samba Jean-Baptiste 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
Window Seat — Cardinal, 2023. The lowest mood reading of any Samba Jean-Baptiste track in the room (8 out of 100). This is as far towards melancholy as the collection goes.
If you want the euphoric end
+ad — Cardinal, 2023. The highest mood reading here, at 96 out of 100 — a 88-point swing across the collection towards euphoric.
Where Samba Jean-Baptiste 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 Samba Jean-Baptiste's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 36 | 8–96 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 14 | 5–30 | ambient → driving |
| density | 11 | 6–19 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 57 | 28–82 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cardinal | 2023 | 20 |
Every Samba Jean-Baptiste track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| +ad | Cardinal | 2023 |
| A Wish Slanted | Cardinal | 2023 |
| Better Now | Cardinal | 2023 |
| Cardinal | Cardinal | 2023 |
| I Could've Cried | Cardinal | 2023 |
| Luca's Song | Cardinal | 2023 |
| Perfect & Learning | Cardinal | 2023 |
| Quick Before Something Drastic Happens | Cardinal | 2023 |
| Running to the Nearest Body of Water | Cardinal | 2023 |
| Seven Less Functions | Cardinal | 2023 |
| Signs | Cardinal | 2023 |
| Song 6 | Cardinal | 2023 |
| Storytime | Cardinal | 2023 |
| Talk / Pleasure | Cardinal | 2023 |
| Texas Sundial V1 | Cardinal | 2023 |
| The Primate | Cardinal | 2023 |
| Umlaut | Cardinal | 2023 |
| Uptown Lovebug | Cardinal | 2023 |
| Window Seat | Cardinal | 2023 |
| Windows | Cardinal | 2023 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Samba Jean-Baptiste's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Hana Stretton — unfiled, 11 tracks
- Where to start with Recycled J — unfiled, 15 tracks
- Where to start with Linda Perhacs — eclectic, 11 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Samba Jean-Baptiste as a solo artist. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Samba Jean-Baptiste tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 20, across 1 album. 20 of them carry a date, running from 2023 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. All 20 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 20 of these 20 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.