James B. Pollack · 2013

Hymn for the Dark Return

124 BPMD# major1:21Ableton Live 9.0.63 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Hymn for the Dark Return" by James B. Pollack. 124 BPM, D# major, Ableton Live 9.0.6, 3 Ableton sample references. "Hymn for the Dark Return" is part of James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system rather than a literal one-to-one citation on this page. The connection is to the way Crowley's fiction handles world-building, layered time, memory, houses, thresholds, and hidden structure. Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, so these titles also mark a personal artistic lineage, not only a literary reference.

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Production Notes

Core DJ metadata: 124 BPM, D# major, 1:21.
Ableton source: project "nov29jam1", Ableton Live 9.0.6, 4/4 time.
Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
Session shape: 3 audio tracks, 3 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 60 MIDI notes.
Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 23.
Ableton scan found 3 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Instrument tags: Drums, FX.
Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1, FabFilter Twin 2.
Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting.

Ableton Session Data

BPM

124 BPM

BPM source

ableton_project

Detected BPM

124.0

Key

D# major

Duration

1:21

Ableton project

nov29jam1

Ableton version

Ableton Live 9.0.6

Time signature

4/4

Sample references

Plugins

Sylenth1, FabFilter Twin 2

Complexity

Lean Arrangement 23

Samples and Sources

Ableton scan found 3 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.

Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Hymn for the Dark Return" is part of James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system rather than a literal one-to-one citation on this page. The connection is to the way Crowley's fiction handles world-building, layered time, memory, houses, thresholds, and hidden structure. Crowley was Pollack's writing advisor at Yale, so these titles also mark a personal artistic lineage, not only a literary reference.

Archive-level title systemJohn Crowley's fiction

Research source: Hachette: Little, Big Research source: Yale English: Endless Things / Aegypt Research source: John Crowley author site: Ka

Search Context

Keywords: Hymn for the Dark Return, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Drums, FX, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, FabFilter Twin 2, Ableton Live 9.0.6, 124 BPM.

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