Abstract Jones- "a humble confidence is an honorable virtue....."
Once described as "a warm breeze during a sunset, speakers & headphones bumpin and thumpin' in unison, provoking a sort of euphoria that can only be described as a walk through the mind of the city-faring, hood-dwelling, vertically-advantaged and intellectually gifted Aaron J. Nash, ambiguously known as "A-Roc The Flow"", the beats created by Aaron, who is now known as Abstract Jones, are continuously developing into something truly "euphoric". The 19-year old collegian, hailing from the Southeast parts of San Diego, is just a simple individual with a complex state of mind, which involves a hopeless addiction to "dope ass music". The name, Abstract Jones, pays homage to that sentiment in that it aims to acknowledge the oxymoron that is considering the "everyday Jones" to be abstract.After graduating from high school, AbJo officially began the grind that is beat-making, working with a Mac G4, Logic, Garageband and a Yamaha keyboard. Soon after, during his first week at SDSU, he got a Macbook Pro, a copy of Reason 3.0 and an M-Audio Axiom MIDI controller, and within weeks, he had 2 albums worth of work to show for. With no job, a growing disillusion with his major focus at school (music performance), and a legitimate hunger to create bumpticious noise, he continued the everyday hustle of goin' to class and making beats in the bedroom of his school-governed apartment. The focus over the next year and a half became learning the ins and outs of digital mixing, recording and sequencing, as well as making beats everyday for the sake of making beats. Currently, AbJo has amassed over 350+ unfinished and finished beats, more than half of which are finished products that make up to about 18 completed albums worth of beats.
The music he creates, though initially created with a clashing mood of smooth and gracefully abrasive intended to have you nodding your head with some sort of vigor, is really meant to make you think, which involves the listener actually listening to a beat repeatedly. Over time, his music is meant to grow on you, inviting an understanding of a higher meaning of things, not excluding his own music. A culmination of the revamped classic hip hop sound, electronic ambiance, heavy sampling of several genres of music and a blatant obsession with rhythm, specifically involving his drums, AbJo's music seemingly has no boundaries, though he will be the first to tell you that he is far from crossing any real borders musically. The result he hopes to come out of listening to his music? "To evoke thoughts about life as if you were living a movie". To say the least, there is a cinematic essence to the bump created by the signature vintage quality sound of his beats, which makes them all the more interesting to listen and vibe to. Nothing is out of reach for him, as he samples everything from Sun Ra to Phyllis Hyman, Dexter Wansel, The Dramatics to the Delfonics, Grant Green, Herbie Hancock, psychedelic soul to early smooth jazz, mystic jazz to funk rock, and even video game music, for which he has a mindful affinity for. Needless to say, it's all just a mash of sounds, different eras of musics and genres, and unforgiving rhythms that create a soundscape for your mind to glide through the day with, hopefully leaving a mark on one's thought processes about music...All one could ask for in the end is that their work is recieved well by all. All Abstract Jones could ask for, which at first would seem to be complicated and intense in forethought, is in the end, actually, very simple: to listen and imagine...
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