Where to start with T-SQUARE
Start with CHANCES (Live Version) — THE LEGEND / THE SQUARE Reunion -1982-1985- LIVE @Blue Note TOKYO, 2017. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 12 T-SQUARE 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 12 T-SQUARE 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 12 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.
Every dated track here falls between 2015 and 2017, so this room holds one stretch of the discography and not the whole of it.
Every track is filed under jazz fusion; nothing here crosses into another genre.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
CHANCES (Live Version) — THE LEGEND / THE SQUARE Reunion -1982-1985- LIVE @Blue Note TOKYO, 2017. Of the 12 T-SQUARE 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
BARBARIAN (Live Version) — THE LEGEND / THE SQUARE Reunion -1982-1985- LIVE @Blue Note TOKYO, 2017. The lowest mood reading of any T-SQUARE track in the room (35 out of 100). This is as far towards melancholy as the collection goes.
If you want the euphoric end
CHANGE YOUR MIND (Live Version) — THE LEGEND / THE SQUARE Reunion -1982-1985- LIVE @Blue Note TOKYO, 2017. The highest mood reading here, at 73 out of 100 — a 38-point swing across the collection towards euphoric.
Where T-SQUARE 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 T-SQUARE's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 58 | 35–73 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 58 | 47–67 | ambient → driving |
| density | 57 | 46–62 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 48 | 22–59 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Paradise | 2015 | 4 |
| THE LEGEND / THE SQUARE Reunion -1982-1985- LIVE @Blue Note TOKYO | 2017 | 3 |
| THE SQUARE Year End Live 20151226 | 2016 | 2 |
| T-SQUARE Year End Live 20151219-24 Best Take Complete Selection | 2016 | 1 |
| Rebirth | 2017 | 1 |
| Treasure Hunter | 2016 | 1 |
Every T-SQUARE track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Kanojo to Mugiwaraboushi | Paradise | 2015 |
| Mystic Island | Paradise | 2015 |
| Night Cruise | Paradise | 2015 |
| Paradise | Paradise | 2015 |
| Open the 35th Gate (Live Version) | T-SQUARE Year End Live 20151219-24 Best Take Complete Selection | 2016 |
| Breeze and You (Live Version) | THE SQUARE Year End Live 20151226 | 2016 |
| Radio Star (Live Version) | THE SQUARE Year End Live 20151226 | 2016 |
| Pearl of Arriatic | Treasure Hunter | 2016 |
| Change by Change | Rebirth | 2017 |
| BARBARIAN (Live Version) | THE LEGEND / THE SQUARE Reunion -1982-1985- LIVE @Blue Note TOKYO | 2017 |
| CHANCES (Live Version) | THE LEGEND / THE SQUARE Reunion -1982-1985- LIVE @Blue Note TOKYO | 2017 |
| CHANGE YOUR MIND (Live Version) | THE LEGEND / THE SQUARE Reunion -1982-1985- LIVE @Blue Note TOKYO | 2017 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to T-SQUARE's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with CASIOPEA — jazz fusion, 13 tracks
- Where to start with Billy Cobham — jazz fusion, 11 tracks
- Where to start with DREAMS COME TRUE — j-pop, 10 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists T-SQUARE as a group, from Japan and formed in 1976. Its contributors tag the artist jazz fusion, jazz and contemporary jazz. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many T-SQUARE tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 12, across 6 albums. 12 of them carry a date, running from 2015 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 12 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 12 of these 12 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.