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Ruins is my next single featuring Ric Wilson. London & Chicago link up. This is my first ever drop on the platform!

Backstory

Ric and I met in early-2021 when he came over to London for 2 months and ended up staying for 5. He sent me a message on IG saying he liked my music and that we should hang out and we ended up hanging out pretty much everyday for his entire trip. This is the first track we ever made when he came by my studio in West London; we also wrote loads for is album but this was one of my favourites so I was able to use it for my solo releases. Ruins was written mid-pandemic and we wanted to make a track that made people get up and celebrate even though the world is falling apart around them. Cos if we can't go crazy then what else can we do...

Beyond making music Ric and I basically spent 5 months partying cos there really is no better way to introduce someone to London. Supporting me by collecting Ruins will help set this record up for its release later this year and you'll be apart of a beautiful friendship that turned into a beautiful record. <3

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Anyone who collects this record will be get list +1 to any of my shows they want to (provided you can get there of course aha!)
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Ruins

Jay Lewn

"orunmila" - god of wisdom, knowledge, and omniscience
colors - green, yellow
primary function: to reveal self, to disseminate and teach knowledge, rules and oversees eternity

"He who seeks knowledge seeks self,
 He who seeks self seeks truth,
 He who seeks truth seeks perspective,
 He who seeks perspective seeks understanding,
 He who seeks understanding seeks eternity,
 Those who seek eternity realizes we are all self,
 And as self realizes self, so do you realize we are all one
 Realizing ourselves infinitely across time..."

 - ab

orunmila.

AbJo

otherwise known as the "orisha" of iron, of creativity, of building and destroying, ogún is one of the gods i personally and objectively resonate with the most in yoruba tradition. a former practitioner of santería myself, still devout in many ways to the spirit, to ashé, i know myself more through these orishas than in any other way. this slap here absolutely destroys as it builds, as ogún would have it no other way...

the initial collector gets a copy of this track as well as my last drop 
"ashé", and personally given access to the "The AbJonian Suite"...

ogún.

this is a facet of my production that I don't very often play around in very much, but that I draw a lot of my inspiration from. i've always been fascinated with the jungle/dnb/broken beat and high-tempo corner of electronic music, and my first attempts ever at were me incorporating these styles into my own. i was lucky to have mostly older as well as more adventurous friends early in my music career that exposed me to the kode9's, roni size's, to mark de-clive lowe, bugz in the attic or viktor duplaix, steve spacek and ig culture, and so this is a bit of an homage to them, as well as a nod to my recent contemporaries, a reminder to myself that yes, I too am fascinated with this sound, and too know that this kind of music is special in how it inspires and motivates you...

ashé

A rare oldie, but goodie, this was my feature on the 2014 Soulection x Stüssy Compilation.

Unless otherwise noted, I'm keeping this open to offers, whoever wins this drop gets the newest mix of this + a batch of audio goodies personally picked by moi,  as well as entry into the "AbJonian Suite" token-gated site and access to its treasures...

Three (Soulection x Stüssy Compilation Track)

made at a sonder stay at sxsw 2022 in a hilton king bed room at 4am in the morning after the ZORATOPIA futuristic kickback.

flipped an old beat into something fresher.

initial collector gets a goodie bag folder of random edits/slaps to themselves.

lgts.

this love.

this one is sentimental for me.

my father wasn't my idol or my hero, so much as he was my mentor, my guide, a true role model for me who I had the utmost respect for more than maybe any other man I've ever known. he and his love for music, as well as his vast collection of music, from his digital library to the stacks and stacks of vinyl, cd's and tapes that i've perused and certainly abused over time, are the source of my musical background, the source of my musical inspiration, my musical dna if you will. without him, more than anyone else, "abjo" does not exist.

if he were here today, this track definitely would've been his favorite to-date, and i imagine he knows i've embedded him into this soundpiece as a part of its dna, or else it would not have come out right.

so, this one is dedicated to him, but it's truly dedicated to, like him, my diehard fans who have gone out of their way to show their support of me, who know the true nature of my signature sound that permeates the vibe of this track...

about you.

originally track 4 of "dance like no one else exists", a short dance music project/EP I started working on in 2020.

this is unfinished, unmastered, in all its raw glory, a tap into the soundtrack playing in my mind when I wanna turn off the world and dance like no one else exists.

like the other three previous releases on-chain from the project, I'll send the whole EP in its entirety, plus versions that have not been released yet to the public to the initial collector.

"elegba" is not only my favorite orisha, or the "trickster" orisha known to some as "papa elegba" or "eleggua" in voodoo or santeria, but also in the abstract as a gateway into the other worlds and dimensions in existence, messenger also to the gods at large. in this way, my track is an aural, rhythmic gateway into my "otherworld", where I gather a lot of my inspiration and spark to create...

elegba.

track 3 of "dance like no one else exists", a short dance music project/EP I started working on in 2020.

this is unfinished, unmastered, in all its raw glory, a tap into the soundtrack playing in my mind when I wanna turn off the world and dance like no one else exists.

like the other three previous releases on-chain from the project, I'll send the whole EP in its entirety to the initial collector, plus versions that have not been released yet to the public to the initial collector...

cultura.

track 8 of "dance like no one else exists", a short dance music project/EP I started working on in 2020.

this is unfinished, unmastered, in all its raw glory, a tap into the soundtrack playing in my mind when I wanna turn off the world and dance like no one else exists.

like the other three previous releases on-chain from the project, I'll send the whole EP in its entirety, plus versions that have not been released yet to the public to the initial collector.

tap outward.

track 7 and the title of "dance like no one else exists", a short dance music project/EP I started working on in 2020.

this is unfinished, unmastered, in all its raw glory, a tap into the soundtrack playing in my mind when I wanna turn off the world and dance like no one else exists.

like the other three previous releases on-chain from the project, I'll send the whole EP in its entirety, plus versions that have not been released yet to the public.

when you need to, always remind yourself: you are born alone, and you'll die alone. so dance. dance like no one else exists...

dance like no one else exists

track 1 of "dance like no one else exists", a short dance music project/EP I started working on in 2020.

this is unfinished, unmastered, in all its raw glory, a tap into the soundtrack playing in my mind when I wanna turn off the world and dance like no one else exists.

like the other three previous releases on-chain from the project, I'll send the whole EP in its entirety, plus versions that have not been released yet to the public.

and remember: keep it ghe-tto with the plastic cups...

red plastic cups

Part of a long standing, loosely organized series of "jam sessions" I've had with myself, dating all the way back to my first Soulection release. This one is for one of my idols, rest always in power and in beats, J Dilla...