James B. Pollack · 2016

Kelley's Black Mirror

118 BPMF major1:55Ableton Live 9.2.135 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Kelley's Black Mirror" by James B. Pollack. 118 BPM, F major, Ableton Live 9.2.1, 35 Ableton sample references. "Kelley's Black Mirror" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Flint and Mirror and Aegypt sequence. It points toward the mirrored history, magic, and political imagination of Flint and Mirror and Pierce Moffett, Faraway Hills, Hermetic history, John Dee, Giordano Bruno, alchemy, memory, and nested manuscript worlds. 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: 118 BPM, F major, 1:55.
  • Ableton source: project "jan8jam1", Ableton Live 9.2.1, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 7 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 278 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 33.
  • Ableton scan found 35 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Bass.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement, Sample Heavy.
  • Plugin count: 0.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Uplifting.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
118 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
118.0
Key
F major
Duration
1:55
Ableton project
jan8jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.2.1
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
35
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 33
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 35 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Kelley's Black Mirror" sits inside James B. Pollack's Crowleyverse naming system and connects most clearly to Flint and Mirror and Aegypt sequence. It points toward the mirrored history, magic, and political imagination of Flint and Mirror and Pierce Moffett, Faraway Hills, Hermetic history, John Dee, Giordano Bruno, alchemy, memory, and nested manuscript worlds. 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 signalFlint and MirrorAegypt sequence
Research source: John Crowley bibliographyResearch source: Yale English: Endless Things / AegyptResearch source: Aegypt sequence reference
Search Context

Keywords: Kelley's Black Mirror, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Flint and Mirror, Aegypt sequence, Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Uplifting, Drums, Bass, Lean Arrangement, Sample Heavy, Ableton Live 9.2.1, 118 BPM.

January 8 in history
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