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Where to start with YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA
Start with BEHIND THE MASK. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 13 YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA 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 13 YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA 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 13 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: 11 of these 13 tracks arrived here with no record attached, so the record-by-record table further down accounts for 2 of them and stops there.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
BEHIND THE MASK. Of the 13 YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA 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 ambient end
SHADOWS ON THE GROUND — Service, 1983. The lowest energy reading of any YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA track in the room (47 out of 100). This is as far towards ambient as the collection goes.
If you want the driving end
君に、胸キュン。-浮気なヴァカンス- — Naughty Boys & Instrumental, 1983. The highest energy reading here, at 77 out of 100 — a 30-point swing across the collection towards driving.
Where YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA 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 YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 70 | 62–71 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 68 | 47–77 | ambient → driving |
| density | 60 | 41–62 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 66 | 49–68 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Naughty Boys & Instrumental | 1983 | 1 |
| Service | 1983 | 1 |
Every YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 君に、胸キュン。-浮気なヴァカンス- | Naughty Boys & Instrumental | 1983 |
| SHADOWS ON THE GROUND | Service | 1983 |
| BEHIND THE MASK | — | — |
| CHAOS PANIC | — | — |
| DAY TRIPPER | — | — |
| PERSPECTIVE | — | — |
| THE MADMEN | — | — |
| イエロー・マジック (東風) | — | — |
| キュー | — | — |
| バレエ | — | — |
| ファイアークラッカー | — | — |
| 東風 | — | — |
| 東風 - 2018 Bob Ludwig Remastering | — | — |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with Hermeto Pascoal — jazz, 31 tracks
- Where to start with Bappi Lahiri — bollywood, 15 tracks
- Where to start with Shiro Schwarz — vaporwave, 23 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA as a group, from Tokyo, Japan and formed in 1978. Its contributors tag the artist synth-pop, electronic and technopop. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 13, across 2 albums. 2 of them carry a date, running from 1983 to 1983. 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 13 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 13 of these 13 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.