James B. Pollack · 2014

Once a Day the World Reversed

124 BPMC major1:17Ableton Live 9.0.436 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Once a Day the World Reversed" by James B. Pollack. 124 BPM, C major, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 36 Ableton sample references. "Once a Day the World Reversed" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Engine Summer. It points toward Rush That Speaks, Little Belaire, and the far-future oral-history frame of Engine Summer. 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: 124 BPM, C major, 1:17.
  • Ableton source: project "jul8jam1", Ableton Live 9.0.4, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 0 audio tracks, 8 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 130 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 29.
  • Ableton scan found 36 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement, Sample Heavy.
  • Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1, Massive.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
124 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
124.0
Key
C major
Duration
1:17
Ableton project
jul8jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.4
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
36
Plugins
Sylenth1, Massive
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 29
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 36 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Once a Day the World Reversed" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Engine Summer. It points toward Rush That Speaks, Little Belaire, and the far-future oral-history frame of Engine Summer. 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 signalEngine Summer
Research source: Subterranean Press: Engine Summer
Search Context

Keywords: Once a Day the World Reversed, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Engine Summer, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Drums, Lean Arrangement, Sample Heavy, Sylenth1, Massive, Ableton Live 9.0.4, 124 BPM.

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