James B. Pollack · 2013

The Room That Wasn't There Before

138 BPMD# minor0:55Ableton Live 9.0.61 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "The Room That Wasn't There Before" by James B. Pollack. 138 BPM, D# minor, Ableton Live 9.0.6, 1 Ableton sample references. "The Room That Wasn't There Before" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Little, Big. It points toward Edgewood as a many-housed house on the magical border of an otherworld. 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: 138 BPM, D# minor, 0:55.
  • Ableton source: project "sep17jam5 ", Ableton Live 9.0.6, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 5 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 122 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 24.
  • 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, Dreamy, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
138 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
138.0
Key
D# minor
Duration
0:55
Ableton project
sep17jam5
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.6
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
1
Plugins
Sylenth1
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 24
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 1 sample reference.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"The Room That Wasn't There Before" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Little, Big. It points toward Edgewood as a many-housed house on the magical border of an otherworld. 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, Big
Research source: Hachette: Little, Big
Search Context

Keywords: The Room That Wasn't There Before, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Driving, Intense, Dreamy, Melancholic, Drums, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, Ableton Live 9.0.6, 138 BPM.

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