James B. Pollack · 2017

Past the Last Familiar Landmark

120 BPMD# minor4:26Ableton Live 9.520 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Past the Last Familiar Landmark" by James B. Pollack. 120 BPM, D# minor, Ableton Live 9.5, 20 Ableton sample references. "Past the Last Familiar Landmark" 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# minor, 4:26.
  • Ableton source: project "sep9jam1_northofthewall", Ableton Live 9.5, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 9 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 206 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 36.
  • Ableton scan found 20 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Piano / Keys.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Effectrix.
  • Listener mood tags: Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Dark.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
120 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
120.0
Key
D# minor
Duration
4:26
Ableton project
sep9jam1_northofthewall
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.5
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
20
Plugins
Effectrix
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 36
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 20 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Past the Last Familiar Landmark" 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: Past the Last Familiar Landmark, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Melancholic, Dark, Drums, Piano / Keys, Lean Arrangement, Effectrix, Ableton Live 9.5, 120 BPM.

September 9 in history
  • 1892 Amalthea becomes the last moon to be discovered without the use of photography.Wikipedia: Amalthea
  • 2014 The album Songs of Innocence by U2 is digitally released at no charge to all customers of the iTunes Music Store, appearing automatically in the "purchased" section of over 500 million users worldwide.Wikipedia: Songs of Innocence

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