James B. Pollack · 2014

Hills That Were Always Far Away

128 BPMC# major2:08Ableton Live 9.11351 samplesBuilt-Out Arrangement

Listen to "Hills That Were Always Far Away" by James B. Pollack. 128 BPM, C# major, Ableton Live 9.1, 1351 Ableton sample references. "Hills That Were Always Far Away" 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: 128 BPM, C# major, 2:08.
  • Ableton source: project "jan2jam1", Ableton Live 9.1, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 8 audio tracks, 17 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 154 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Built-Out Arrangement, score 56.
  • Ableton scan found 1351 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, FX, Loops.
  • Arrangement tags: Built-Out Arrangement, Audio Collage, Sample Heavy.
  • Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1, Effectrix, FabFilter Twin 2.
  • Listener mood tags: Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Uplifting.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
128 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
128.0
Key
C# major
Duration
2:08
Ableton project
jan2jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.1
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
1351
Plugins
Sylenth1, Effectrix, FabFilter Twin 2
Complexity
Built-Out Arrangement 56
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 1351 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Hills That Were Always Far Away" 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: Hills That Were Always Far Away, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Driving, Intense, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Drums, Bass, FX, Loops, Built-Out Arrangement, Audio Collage, Sample Heavy, Sylenth1.

January 2 in history
  • 1959 Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.Wikipedia: Luna 1
  • 1921 World premiere of the science fiction play R.U.R. by the Czech writer Karel Čapek in a theater in Hradec Králové.Wikipedia: R.U.R.

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