James B. Pollack · 2016

Before the First Light Broke

128 BPMD# major1:57Ableton Live 9.0.3b33 samplesLean Arrangement

Listen to "Before the First Light Broke" by James B. Pollack. 128 BPM, D# major, Ableton Live 9.0.3b3, 3 Ableton sample references. "Before the First Light Broke" 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: 128 BPM, D# major, 1:57.
  • Ableton source: project "apr5jam1", Ableton Live 9.0.3b3, 4/4 time.
  • Tempo source: Ableton project tempo.
  • Session shape: 2 audio tracks, 4 MIDI tracks, 2 return tracks, 114 MIDI notes.
  • Arrangement read: Lean Arrangement, score 24.
  • Ableton scan found 3 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
  • Instrument tags: Drums, Bass, Loops.
  • Arrangement tags: Lean Arrangement.
  • Highlighted plugins: Sylenth1, Effectrix, WOW.
  • Listener mood tags: Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Uplifting.
Ableton Session Data
BPM
128 BPM
BPM source
ableton_project
Detected BPM
128.0
Key
D# major
Duration
1:57
Ableton project
apr5jam1
Ableton version
Ableton Live 9.0.3b3
Time signature
4/4
Sample references
3
Plugins
Sylenth1, Effectrix, WOW
Complexity
Lean Arrangement 24
Samples and Sources
  • Ableton scan found 3 sample references.
  • No named vocal sample source was detected in the Ableton scan.
Crowleyverse Title Connection

"Before the First Light Broke" 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: Before the First Light Broke, James B. Pollack, John Crowley, Crowleyverse, Little, Big, John Crowley's fiction, Intense, Hypnotic, Dreamy, Uplifting, Drums, Bass, Loops, Lean Arrangement, Sylenth1, Effectrix, WOW, Ableton Live 9.0.3b3.

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