James B. Pollack · 2013

Pressure Building Sweetly

138 BPMA major1:25Ableton Live 9.0.4b21 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Pressure Building Sweetly" by James B. Pollack. 138 BPM, A major, Ableton Live 9.0.4b2, 1 Ableton sample references. "Pressure Building Sweetly" 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: 138 BPM, A major, 1:25.
  • Ableton source: project "may19jam1", Ableton Live 9.0.4b2, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 4 audio tracks, 4 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 240 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 30.
  • Ableton scan found 1 sample reference.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1.
  • Listener mood tags: Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Uplifting.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
138 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
138.0
Key
A major
Duration
1:25
Ableton project
may19jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.4b2
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
1
Plugins
Sylenth1
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 30
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 1 sample reference.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Pressure Building Sweetly" 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, BigResearch source: Yale English: Endless Things / AegyptResearch source: John Crowley author site: Ka
Search Context

Keywords: Pressure Building Sweetly, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Drums, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, Ableton Live 9.0.4b2, 138 BPM.

May 19 in history
  • 1961 Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).Wikipedia: Venera program
  • 1996 Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on mission STS-77.Wikipedia: Space Shuttle program

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