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Where to start with The Flashbulb
Start with Morning Run — Compositions for Piano, 2015. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 15 The Flashbulb 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 15 The Flashbulb 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 15 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.
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.
Every track is filed under idm; nothing here crosses into another genre.
The mood knob swings 89 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
Morning Run — Compositions for Piano, 2015. Of the 15 The Flashbulb 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
Steady and Downward — Compositions for Piano, 2015. The lowest mood reading of any The Flashbulb track in the room (4 out of 100). This is as far towards melancholy as the collection goes.
If you want the euphoric end
100 Swans (Prepared) — Compositions for Piano, 2015. The highest mood reading here, at 93 out of 100 — a 89-point swing across the collection towards euphoric.
Where The Flashbulb 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 The Flashbulb's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 26 | 4–93 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 14 | 3–46 | ambient → driving |
| density | 7 | 1–28 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 46 | 24–69 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Compositions for Piano | 2015 | 15 |
Every The Flashbulb track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 100 Swans (Prepared) | Compositions for Piano | 2015 |
| Arduino Hammer | Compositions for Piano | 2015 |
| Birds and Fog | Compositions for Piano | 2015 |
| Cicero | Compositions for Piano | 2015 |
| Grandfather Clock | Compositions for Piano | 2015 |
| Morning Run | Compositions for Piano | 2015 |
| Oceanesque | Compositions for Piano | 2015 |
| Solitary Living | Compositions for Piano | 2015 |
| South for Winter | Compositions for Piano | 2015 |
| Spring Cathedral | Compositions for Piano | 2015 |
| Steady and Downward | Compositions for Piano | 2015 |
| Sunday | Compositions for Piano | 2015 |
| Tap on Damen | Compositions for Piano | 2015 |
| Watching Traffic | Compositions for Piano | 2015 |
| Windup Glass (Prepared) | Compositions for Piano | 2015 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to The Flashbulb's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Flying Lotus — idm, 36 tracks
- Where to start with Linda Perhacs — eclectic, 11 tracks
- Where to start with Samba Jean-Baptiste — unfiled, 20 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists The Flashbulb as a solo artist and from Chicago. Its contributors tag the artist electronic, experimental, breakcore, drum and bass and ambient. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many The Flashbulb tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 15, across 1 album. 15 of them carry a date, running from 2015 to 2015. 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 15 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 15 of these 15 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.