James B. Pollack · 2014

A Long Afternoon in the Wrong Century

123 BPME minor1:04Ableton Live 9.120 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "A Long Afternoon in the Wrong Century" by James B. Pollack. 123 BPM, E minor, Ableton Live 9.1, 20 Ableton sample references, samples including Quantic Soul Orchestra - Pushin' on (acapella).mp3. "A Long Afternoon in the Wrong Century" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Little, Big, Aegypt sequence, and Ka. It points toward memory, layered time, and stories moving across generations. 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: 123 BPM, E minor, 1:04.
Ableton source: project "jun2jam2", Ableton Live 9.1, 4/4 time.
Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
Session shape: 4 audio tracks, 7 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 292 MIDI notes.
Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 39.
Ableton scan found 20 sample references.
Named vocal/sample source: Quantic Soul Orchestra - Pushin' on (acapella).mp3.
Instrument tags: Drums, Vocal / Vox.
Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1, SausageFattener.
Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic.

Ableton Session Data

BPM

123 BPM

BPM source

ableton_project

Detected BPM

123.0

Key

E minor

Duration

1:04

Ableton project

jun2jam2

Ableton version

Ableton Live 9.1

Time signature

4/4

Sample references

Vocal samples

Quantic Soul Orchestra - Pushin' on (acapella).mp3

Plugins

Sylenth1, SausageFattener

Complexity

Lean Arrangement 39

Samples and Sources

Ableton scan found 20 sample references.
Named vocal/sample source: Quantic Soul Orchestra - Pushin' on (acapella).mp3.

Crowleyverse Title Connection

"A Long Afternoon in the Wrong Century" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Little, Big, Aegypt sequence, and Ka. It points toward memory, layered time, and stories moving across generations. 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 sequenceKa

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

Search Context

Keywords: A Long Afternoon in the Wrong Century, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Aegypt sequence, Ka, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Drums, Vocal / Vox, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, SausageFattener, Ableton Live 9.1, 123 BPM.

June 2 in history

1966 Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.Wikipedia: Surveyor program
2003 Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.Wikipedia: Mars