James B. Pollack · 2014

Dar Oakley Descending into the Land of the Dead

120 BPMF minor1:20Ableton Live 9.0.445 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Dar Oakley Descending into the Land of the Dead" by James B. Pollack. 120 BPM, F minor, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 45 Ableton sample references. "Dar Oakley Descending into the Land of the Dead" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr. It points toward Dar Oakley, named crowhood, impossible lives and deaths, and repeated descents into the land of the dead. 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, 1:20.
  • Ableton source: project "nov14jam1", Ableton Live 9.0.4, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 5 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 288 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 32.
  • Ableton scan found 45 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement, Sample Heavy.
  • Highlighted plugins: Zebra2, SausageFattener.
  • Listener mood tags: Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Melancholic.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
120 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
120.0
Key
F minor
Duration
1:20
Ableton project
nov14jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.4
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
45
Plugins
Zebra2, SausageFattener
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 32
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 45 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Dar Oakley Descending into the Land of the Dead" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr. It points toward Dar Oakley, named crowhood, impossible lives and deaths, and repeated descents into the land of the dead. 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.

Direct title or character signalKa: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr
Research source: John Crowley author site: KaResearch source: Simon & Schuster: Ka
Search Context

Keywords: Dar Oakley Descending into the Land of the Dead, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Drums, Lean Arrangement, Sample Heavy, Zebra2, SausageFattener, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 120 BPM.

November 14 in history
  • 1680 German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.Wikipedia: Gottfried Kirch
  • 2003 Astronomers discover Sedna, a distant trans-Neptunian dwarf planet.Wikipedia: Sedna

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