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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 12 Yellow Magic Orchestra tracks in Zubissou Sounds — a listening room of 15,847 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 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 12 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: 12 of these 12 tracks arrived here with no record attached, so the record-by-record table further down accounts for 0 of them and stops there.
One caveat worth stating: the knob positions across these tracks barely move, which usually means they were set in a batch rather than one at a time. Treat the coordinates below as approximate.
Three ways in
The one track, if you only play one
BEHIND THE MASK. Of the 11 Yellow Magic Orchestra tracks here that have actually been listened to, this one sits closest to the average of them across the four knobs the room runs on. The other 1 arrived carrying the default for their genre, and averaging a placeholder in would move the centre towards nothing. It is the least surprising thing among the tracks that were read, which is 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.
Only one entry point is offered for Yellow Magic Orchestra. The knob readings across these tracks sit too close together to mark out honest opposite ends, and inventing two would be worse than admitting it.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| No album titles recorded. | ||
Every Yellow Magic Orchestra track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| BEHIND THE MASK | — | — |
| CHAOS PANIC | — | — |
| DAY TRIPPER | — | — |
| PERSPECTIVE | — | — |
| THE MADMEN | — | — |
| TIGHTEN UP (JAPANESE GENTLEMEN STAND UP PLEASE!) | — | — |
| 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.
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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 12, across 0 albums. 0 of them carry a date, running from 0 to 0. 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. 11 of these 12 tracks have been read that way. The other 1 arrived with the default for their genre and nobody has listened to them yet, so they are left out of the centre, the ends and the spread quoted above.
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.