James B. Pollack · 2017

Oakley Carried by the Warm Updraft

120 BPMD# major2:07Ableton Live 9.57 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Oakley Carried by the Warm Updraft" by James B. Pollack. 120 BPM, D# major, Ableton Live 9.5, 7 Ableton sample references. "Oakley Carried by the Warm Updraft" 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, D# major, 2:07.
Ableton source: project "jul21jam1_float", Ableton Live 9.5, 4/4 time.
Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
Session shape: 4 audio tracks, 7 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 124 MIDI notes.
Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 35.
Ableton scan found 7 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Instrument tags: Drums, Piano / Keys, Strings, Loops.
Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
Highlighted plugins: Effectrix.
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

2:07

Ableton project

jul21jam1_float

Ableton version

Ableton Live 9.5

Time signature

4/4

Sample references

Plugins

Effectrix

Complexity

Lean Arrangement 35

Samples and Sources

Ableton scan found 7 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.

Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Oakley Carried by the Warm Updraft" 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: Ka Research source: Simon & Schuster: Ka

Search Context

Keywords: Oakley Carried by the Warm Updraft, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Drums, Piano / Keys, Strings, Loops, Lean Arrangement, Effectrix, Ableton Live 9.5, 120 BPM.

July 21 in history

1969 Apollo program: At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon, followed 19 minutes later by Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.Wikipedia: Apollo program
1961 Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).Wikipedia: Mercury program