James B. Pollack · 2013

Hours Dealt Like Cards

120 BPMF# minor1:00Ableton Live 8.46 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Hours Dealt Like Cards" by James B. Pollack. 120 BPM, F# minor, Ableton Live 8.4, 6 Ableton sample references. "Hours Dealt Like Cards" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Little, Big and Aegypt sequence. It points toward calendar magic, seasonal recurrence, and symbolic systems. The source connection is literary and thematic rather than an official adaptation: John Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, and the title system treats the catalog as a set of linked rooms inside that influence.

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Production Notes

Core DJ metadata: 120 BPM, F# minor, 1:00.
Ableton source: project "march2jam6", Ableton Live 8.4, 4/4 time.
Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
Session shape: 1 audio track, 6 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 74 MIDI notes.
Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 23.
Ableton scan found 6 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, FX.
Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1, Effectrix.
Listener mood tags: Driving, Intense, Dreamy, Melancholic.

Ableton Session Data

BPM

120 BPM

BPM source

ableton_project

Detected BPM

120.0

Key

F# minor

Duration

1:00

Ableton project

march2jam6

Ableton version

Ableton Live 8.4

Time signature

4/4

Sample references

Plugins

Sylenth1, Effectrix

Complexity

Lean Arrangement 23

Samples and Sources

Ableton scan found 6 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.

Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Hours Dealt Like Cards" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Little, Big and Aegypt sequence. It points toward calendar magic, seasonal recurrence, and symbolic systems. The source connection is literary and thematic rather than an official adaptation: John Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, and the title system treats the catalog as a set of linked rooms inside that influence.

Motif signalLittle, BigAegypt sequence

Research source: Hachette: Little, Big Research source: Yale English: Endless Things / Aegypt

Search Context

Keywords: Hours Dealt Like Cards, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Aegypt sequence, Driving, Intense, Dreamy, Melancholic, Drums, Bass, FX, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, Effectrix, Ableton Live 8.4, 120 BPM.

March 2 in history

1978 Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Soviet or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.Wikipedia: Czech
1972 The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.Wikipedia: Pioneer 10