Part time producer full time creator & artist | Ro$aria interview | HIGHLIGHT:ED

It’s becoming more and more clear how authentic creativity isn’t bound by the passage of time - it’s not just about a sense of accomplishment, it’s about a sense of release. Enjoyment. Talent. Boredom.

For us & Ro$aria, most definitely.

We’ve currently reached two thousand clicks on Ro$aria’s debut release on Youtube, which wouldn’t mean much to a lot of us, yet with her it is somewhat different. She expected 200. If that.

In this now saturated space of people who are drawn to music for the dancefloor snaps & clicks we want to make clear how much we value authenticity & talent.

Baun$ & officialnycto.com is a space for these types or conversations.

Tell us about your first track, you’ve said it’s not gone completely invisible.

Yes, my first track is called “Move Interlude” & it’s one of those tracks I decided to release first because it’s my least “unusual” track & definitely more electronic than my future work. But in this context I mean production wise, not sound wise. It’s still just a baby track I had and said “fuck it, lets just go. We keep wanting let’s just go do it.”

What do you mean? Do you experiment often?”

No, not really. It’s never often. I just try to do it with no tutorials as much as possible. Or templates, of course. Or big samples - of course. I want to create based off of what I should make rather than what I vibe with the most out there.

You don’t sample?

You mean, do I take music & flip it? No, there will be words about this on the site considering how stingy that is & incredibly relative for even the biggest names in music today.

I can get bored with stock & explore safe royalty free options but ideally I’d love to not even do that, I don’t know.

What do you do, specifically?

I make music. Until I can work with others I’ll use the opportunity to include my own vocals to foremost showcase my songwriting abilities. I have certain people from my country I admire who’ve proven it’s possible with dedicated quality work to be producing/writing/doing the whole project, even so the goal is something similar. Genuinely I’d love to make music with certain people.

What’s music you like?

I like a lot of trap, rap, techno, psytrance, afrobeats etc. Any genre I like I tend to gravitate towards the “dark” & progressive sounds.

I’ll share music more, would love that because I also write for the highlight:ed column right now. Showing people good music brings some credibility, no?

Why DO you not care for financial success off of music?

I did once care & my original dream was to live off of music & visual art but the more I learned the more I noticed exposure in that way isn’t something I handle well considering the state of the music distributing factors which have risen within the last 1-2 years.

It kind of makes the making part something different. Like I’m making some easily sellable product. Whole time I need to just create music from myself, what wants to come out.

Growing on BN$ & eventually teaming up with other creatives sounds perfect to me.

What’s something you’d be doing if you had more time or for whatever reason you don’t do?

Despite DJ-ing being an option for me & us here in general it would stay as only fun considering whenever I want to dedicate time for more digging & practicing other work & BN$ things have to be done so probably for me I’ll be doing A&R, SMMA work until we find someone most suitable & to be honest would love to keep some things unsaid for now.

What’s your advice for anyone else who wants to be an artist?

You’re an artist or not. There’s no quitting. If you can’t do it naturally I wouldn’t necessarily advise to keep wanting without trying. By trying you’ll see if it’s for you or not. If I wasn’t doing what I do I still would’ve sketched, painted my walls, maybe clothes, went to dance classes you know? You have to let it out otherwise it’s like procrastination 3000.

Plus, take care of your mental health - prioritise doing good under almost all means necessary. Nobody can care for you at all times other than yourself.

Is there any tracks you want to share or you prefer to gatekeep?

Actually I’ll be making a playlist soon & most likely I’ll put it on YouTube just not BN$, rather my own. Also I$kra & I have coming tracks which I’d advise more than what we have so far.

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