James B. Pollack · 2017

Shaggy Guardian at the Gate

116 BPMD# major1:10Ableton Live 9.2.12 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Shaggy Guardian at the Gate" by James B. Pollack. 116 BPM, D# major, Ableton Live 9.2.1, 2 Ableton sample references. "Shaggy Guardian at the Gate" 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: 116 BPM, D# major, 1:10.
Ableton source: project "jan10jam1_wookie", Ableton Live 9.2.1, 4/4 time.
Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 5 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 70 MIDI notes.
Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 23.
Ableton scan found 2 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, Piano / Keys, Loops.
Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
Plugin count: 1.
Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting.

Ableton Session Data

BPM

116 BPM

BPM source

ableton_project

Detected BPM

116.0

Key

D# major

Duration

1:10

Ableton project

jan10jam1_wookie

Ableton version

Ableton Live 9.2.1

Time signature

4/4

Sample references

Complexity

Lean Arrangement 23

Samples and Sources

Ableton scan found 2 sample references.
No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.

Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Shaggy Guardian at the Gate" 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, Big Research source: Yale English: Endless Things / Aegypt Research source: John Crowley author site: Ka

Search Context

Keywords: Shaggy Guardian at the Gate, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Hypnotic, Atmospheric, Uplifting, Drums, Bass, Piano / Keys, Loops, Lean Arrangement, Ableton Live 9.2.1, 116 BPM.

January 10 in history

1927 Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany.Wikipedia: Fritz Lang
1901 The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.Wikipedia: Texas