A thread about one of Alona’s best friends Jelacee

Author: Альона ꑭ Шевченко
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While the drug cartel with tanks AKA 🇷🇺 is busy killing 🇺🇦 civilians, my friends from London @stookisound and @OutlawTheArtist are preparing to drop the kind of bomb that I like - will be released next week.

In this 🧵 I'll tell you about one of my best friends - Jelacee 💚 pic.twitter.com/y1sG1QpfGn

I knew @stookisound way before I even came to the UK for the first time in 2013. Like a lot of young people in Ukraine, I was really into trap/EDM music and they were the people behind the absolute trap anthem - a lot of you may recognise this track. open.spotify.com: Ball so Hard

I connected with Jelacee when I was still in 🇺🇦 Once I came to 🇬🇧, he brought me to one of his shows in Brighton and we've been friends ever since 💚

@stookisound were in Ukraine in 2014 when 🇷🇺 invaded and got escorted from the venue to the airport with a 🇺🇦military convoy

Jelacee has a hilarious story about how he got detained at the airport when vigilant Ukrainians wondered why two black guys from London came to visit 🇺🇦 for just 1 day - the night before 🇷🇺 invaded. I'm sure @johnsweeneyroar with his @brokenpixelua adventures can relate.

He was also the first friend I onboarded to Web3 🌱

He's hella smart and a couple weeks later was telling me about some blockchain projects I've never even heard of 😂

Here is Jelacee's Instagram, btw instagram.com: jELACEE.'s (@jelacee) profile on Instagram • 12 posts

Sharing 📷 of him from Sasha's bad hair days 💔

Once he brought a mini-speaker with him to show me the new tracks. A day later I got an email from my building manager saying that the music we were listening to on the fourth floor, the neighbours could hear on the ground floor 🤣🤣

Jelacee wrote intro music for our YouTube channel where we'll start uploading videos soon (thank you to @jjamesfinnertyy for help ❤️)

Here's one of my favourite tracks from his solo project 💚 open.spotify.com: fEEL. pic.twitter.com/Q5pP5YgDt2

Next week he's coming back from 🇺🇸 and we're doing an event for @Ukraine_DAO together ❤️‍🔥

⏰ Date/time TBC but most likely it'll be Wed 22 June, 15:00 TBC

💚 Format not finalised yet - we'd love to hear suggestions.

📆 Sign up to our calendar:

ukraine-dao.notion.site: Events

Confirmed. 💚 @stookisound @OutlawTheArtist

❤️‍🔥 www.outlawtheartist.com: Links

❤️‍🔥 www.stookisound.com: Stööki Sound

Super grateful for your help, @jjamesfinnertyy 💙💛

@jelacee #UKDQuotes @Ukraine_DAO