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Where to start with Yoshimi Iwasaki
Start with 青春 — タッチ, 1985. That is the track sitting closest to the centre of all 37 Yoshimi Iwasaki 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 37 Yoshimi Iwasaki 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 37 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 track is filed under city pop; nothing here crosses into another genre.
The head/body knob swings 67 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
青春 — タッチ, 1985. Of the 37 Yoshimi Iwasaki 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 cerebral end
Toki Sae Iro Aseru Hodo ni — Kuchibiru ni Yume no Ato, 1982. The lowest head/body reading of any Yoshimi Iwasaki track in the room (8 out of 100). This is as far towards cerebral as the collection goes.
If you want the groove end
What's Love? — Wardrobe, 1984. The highest head/body reading here, at 75 out of 100 — a 67-point swing across the collection towards groove.
Where Yoshimi Iwasaki 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 Yoshimi Iwasaki's average coordinates and the range they cover.
| Knob | Average | Range | Low → high |
|---|---|---|---|
| mood | 59 | 28–71 | melancholy → euphoric |
| energy | 50 | 17–73 | ambient → driving |
| density | 47 | 22–61 | sparse → wall |
| head · body | 53 | 8–75 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wardrobe | 1984 | 9 |
| Save Me | 1983 | 6 |
| Weather Report | 1980 | 5 |
| Ring-a-Ding | 1980 | 3 |
| Cruise | 1986 | 3 |
| Kokoro no Atelier | 1980 | 3 |
| Kuchibiru ni Yume no Ato | 1982 | 3 |
| Half Time | 2017 | 2 |
| タッチ | 1985 | 2 |
| Blizzard | 1987 | 1 |
Every Yoshimi Iwasaki track in the room
| Track | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Ano Toki... | Kokoro no Atelier | 1980 |
| Giniro Hoshiakari | Kokoro no Atelier | 1980 |
| Hurry Up | Kokoro no Atelier | 1980 |
| Gakusei Tachi no Mori | Ring-a-Ding | 1980 |
| Watashi no Na wa Alice | Ring-a-Ding | 1980 |
| 赤と黒 | Ring-a-Ding | 1980 |
| Good-Day Sunshine | Weather Report | 1980 |
| Habit Rouge no Ikizukai de | Weather Report | 1980 |
| Higashi Kaigan East Coast | Weather Report | 1980 |
| Konya no Watashi wa Rich na Kibun | Weather Report | 1980 |
| Shiki | Weather Report | 1980 |
| Toki Sae Iro Aseru Hodo ni | Kuchibiru ni Yume no Ato | 1982 |
| Who! | Kuchibiru ni Yume no Ato | 1982 |
| Yasashii Kankei | Kuchibiru ni Yume no Ato | 1982 |
| Blue Night Serenade | Save Me | 1983 |
| Mayonaka no Fantasy | Save Me | 1983 |
| Mirai Ai | Save Me | 1983 |
| Oshare ni Kiss Me | Save Me | 1983 |
| Save Me... Onegai | Save Me | 1983 |
| Stardust | Save Me | 1983 |
| 10 Gatsu no Photo Mail | Wardrobe | 1984 |
| 10月のフォト・メール | Wardrobe | 1984 |
| Congratulation | Wardrobe | 1984 |
| Fire | Wardrobe | 1984 |
| Heel to Stajan | Wardrobe | 1984 |
| What's Love? | Wardrobe | 1984 |
| くちびるからサスペンス | Wardrobe | 1984 |
| ヒールとスタジャン | Wardrobe | 1984 |
| 愛はどこに行ったの | Wardrobe | 1984 |
| タッチ | タッチ | 1985 |
| 青春 | タッチ | 1985 |
| Aishuu Cruise | Cruise | 1986 |
| Yakusoku | Cruise | 1986 |
| ビキニな夏がやってくる | Cruise | 1986 |
| Slope ni Koi wo Shite | Blizzard | 1987 |
| Hohoemi ni Sayonara | Half Time | 2017 |
| Omoide wa Half Time | Half Time | 2017 |
Near neighbours in this room
These are the artists whose average knob position sits nearest to Yoshimi Iwasaki's in this room. It is a coordinate match, not a claim that they sound alike.
- Where to start with PIPER — city pop, 29 tracks
- Where to start with Yuki Saito — city pop, 20 tracks
- Where to start with Mako Ishino — city pop, 11 tracks
What the open databases say
MusicBrainz lists Yoshimi Iwasaki as a solo artist, from Koto, Japan and born in 1961. Its contributors tag the artist idol kayō and pop. These are the open database's facts, not mine — you can check them against the MusicBrainz entry.
Questions
How many Yoshimi Iwasaki tracks are in Zubissou Sounds?
There are 37, across 10 albums. 37 of them carry a date, running from 1980 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 37 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 37 of these 37 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.