James B. Pollack · 2014

Heavy Air Before the Storm Broke

120 BPMD major1:15Ableton Live 9.0.43 samplesBuilt-Out Arrangement

Listen to "Heavy Air Before the Storm Broke" by James B. Pollack. 120 BPM, D major, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 3 Ableton sample references. "Heavy Air Before the Storm Broke" 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: 120 BPM, D major, 1:15.
  • Ableton source: project "aug3jam1", Ableton Live 9.0.4, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 3 audio tracks, 4 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 1740 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Built-Out Arrangement, score 48.
  • Ableton scan found 3 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums.
  • Arrangement tags: Built-Out Arrangement, Dense MIDI.
  • Highlighted plugins: Zebra2, FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
120 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
120.0
Key
D major
Duration
1:15
Ableton project
aug3jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.4
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
3
Plugins
Zebra2, FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener
Complexity
Built-Out Arrangement 48
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 3 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Heavy Air Before the Storm Broke" 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: Heavy Air Before the Storm Broke, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Drums, Built-Out Arrangement, Dense MIDI, Zebra2, FabFilter Twin 2, SausageFattener, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 120 BPM.

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