Inside Origins Inconclusive: The Music Company Cadyn Lewis Is Building

Distinctive records, close creative relationships and a growing business around the music. Inside the approach shaping Origins Inconclusive.

Origins Inconclusive’s identity lives in the records. Clarissa Mae’s intimate songwriting, Bootie Grove’s warm house productions, Justin Magnaye’s pop-and-soul sensibility and the experimental collaborations of Mosez Jones and Jon Rivera each bring something distinct to its catalogue. Every artist arrives with their own references, visual language and sense of place.

Founded in 2023 by Cadyn Lewis, the independent record label has developed around a carefully chosen roster and an increasingly connected approach to releasing music. Artist development sits alongside publishing and catalogue licensing, with the tools and relationships behind the company growing through its day-to-day work.

For Lewis, that work remains closely connected to making records. He produces Clarissa Mae’s music and masters Bootie Grove’s releases, alongside his own practice as KDYN. His involvement moves between the creative detail of individual recordings and the decisions shaping the company around them.

Experience on both sides of a release

As KDYN, Lewis’s music draws on UK garage, soul, funk and gospel, combining production with songwriting and instrumental performance. His background includes past signings to Island Records and EMI, as well as releases through Monstercat, including his Elevate EP. Read the background to Origins’ founding and explore Elevate.

His wider experience includes programming and mixing on Jess Glynne’s “Easy (Garage Extended Mix)”, alongside work with Idris Elba. Those connections are documented in Universal Music’s release credits and Hot Press’s coverage of Origins.

Running Origins brings that experience into a different kind of relationship with music. A release involves decisions about the recording, its presentation, its timing and the work that follows. Keeping the roster focused gives those decisions space, allowing the label and its artists to develop an understanding over successive projects.

A meeting that became a creative partnership

Lewis first encountered Clarissa Mae’s music at a BBC Introducing event in London Bridge, where the two met. That connection developed into an ongoing creative partnership, with Lewis producing her work as it found a home at Origins Inconclusive.

Her forthcoming debut EP brings that relationship into focus. “love songs” opened the campaign, followed by “shy” and then “anyway”. Across those releases, listeners have been introduced to different aspects of her songwriting while becoming familiar with the atmosphere surrounding the collection.

The lightly guitar-led, bossa nova-influenced “anyway” added another texture. Its camcorder-shot video matched the intimacy of the recording, giving the song a visual character that felt personal and closely connected to its subject. Explore the “anyway” release story.

Clarissa’s live experience also includes opening for BINI at their sold-out Wembley Arena show in 2025. It is a significant achievement within a career developing across recordings and performance, now entering another chapter with her first EP. Clarissa Mae’s artist biography.

For Origins, the continuity between those individual releases matters. Each song contributes to a body of work that becomes more recognisable as listeners spend time with it.

Different artists, different creative worlds

That continuity takes another form in Bootie Grove’s catalogue. The Toulouse-based producer and multi-instrumentalist’s me. EP gathered a run of singles into a six-track collection, connecting his instinct for house music with a warm, reflective atmosphere.

Lewis’s role here is mastering: working on the final sound of Bootie Grove’s productions. It is a different contribution from his production work with Clarissa, reflecting the different creative relationships within the label. Bootie Grove’s next project is already taking shape through “Jazz Spot Intro”, the first single from his forthcoming Japan Trip EP. Explore Bootie Grove’s releases.

Mosez Jones and Jon Rivera’s PSEUDO TONES brought another kind of experience to Origins. Released in November 2025, the six-track collaboration extended into a listening event and interactive art installation at Montreal’s Velours Studio.

The artists used projected visuals to carry the record into the room, inviting listeners to engage with its imagery as well as its sound. The project received coverage from EARMILK and The Source.

These differences give the catalogue its character. Each project can retain the detail of the people who made it while contributing to a label whose selection listeners can get to know.

Looking after the work

As the catalogue develops, so do the responsibilities around it. Royalty reporting, reconciliation and artist communication are recurring parts of running a label, and they have directly informed Lewis’s approach to building useful tools.

RosterRoyalties grew out of royalty administration at Origins Inconclusive and OI Publishing before launching publicly in 2026. Origins integrated the platform in February that year, enabling monthly artist statements, faster reconciliation and connections with its existing backend systems.

Lewis owns both Origins and RosterRoyalties. The relationship connects the software to firsthand operating experience, while giving the label a more consistent way to manage reporting as its catalogue grows. Read about the RosterRoyalties integration.

Music discovery has also become part of the wider business. Origins partnered with DiscoverNü in December 2025, following the platform’s announcement that it would close, and acquired the full platform in February 2026. DiscoverNü brings its own archive, audience and editorial identity to that relationship, with a distinct purpose centred on emerging music. Read the acquisition story.

Alongside new releases, Origins’ publishing and catalogue licensing work—including its licensing relationship with Gucci Dassy—extends the company’s attention to music that already has an audience. Supporting a catalogue involves ongoing work, well beyond its first release.

A company taking shape through its records

Studio Inconclusive gives this approach a physical focus in Chichester, West Sussex: a recording studio designed for writing, production and close creative work. It connects the wider business to the room where records begin. Explore Studio Inconclusive.

Meanwhile, the release programme continues. Clarissa Mae is preparing her debut EP, Justin Magnaye has released “No Hesi”, and Bootie Grove is introducing the next chapter of his catalogue.

The direction of Origins Inconclusive is visible in that work: a focused roster, sustained creative relationships and a company developing the capacity to look after both. Cadyn Lewis’s role connects the practical experience of making music with the responsibility of releasing it.

The ambition is to keep building a catalogue with character—and give its artists, records and ideas room to develop.

Published 14 September 2026