We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Alex Castro. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Alex below.

Alex, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Let’s kick things off with your mission – what is it and what’s the story behind why it’s your mission?

My mission or really what’s driving me? It’s a few things. One of them is making music. I enjoy listening to it and creating it. Not a day goes by where I don’t listen or try to make something. Secondly, is to make this into my career. If I can do that then proves to me anybody can do anything if they are keeping working towards their dreams long enough and have the same drive as they did when they began. Next, I think anybody who seeks a job within the music industry tries to be the best or one of the best. For me, I’m just trying to solidify myself within the industry. Getting awards and being praised is cool and all but being acknowledged by the best of the best and talked about years later once you have retired, I think it’s way cooler. Lastly, is having an interesting life I feel working in the music industry you get to meet interesting people and go to interesting places, and I know not everybody does that, but it can happen.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

How I got into music production. Well, I’m from Kenner, LA but around 2009 I moved to Miami, FL with my dad and lived there for about three years. Was introduced to HipHop in fifth grade from my dad’s at the time girlfriend’s youngest son and her eldest son was making beats on FL Studio, but I didn’t get into music production a year later. I was in 6th grade and had a class with her youngest son that taught us music production on Garage band, which was cool, but how his older brother was using FL and we said we’re learning about making beats. He was showing his younger brother a bit of FL Studio and I was interested in it too. Later that’s how I heard about Johnny Juliano, Wiz Khalifa, ID Labs, and a few others.

About two years have passed, moved back to Louisiana just went to school didn’t think much on making beats until at the end of High School I was like yeah this is what I want to do. Late 2019 I posted my first beat on YouTube and shortly after the pandemic happen. I felt it was a sign that I needed to get serious about making beats, getting better, and learning more. Fortunately, that’s what happened. I started making samples, loops, melodies however you want to call them and was featured in a few community packs with this producer collective call Producer Grind. I’m very grateful that I was able to participate in that. Now in the present, I’m working with a few producers with the same mindset as me. Also, working with a few artist.

Lasty, I want to say “It’s an everyday thing.” That’s a motto I have because we’re creating and learning every day. If it’s the music side or the business side of it. Also, about my crafts and services I make beats, samples, soon to be drumkits and one-shot kits, and tutorials.

Also, I don’t’ know what sets me apart from others. I like to do me if that makes any sense. I just be myself and create whatever really.

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What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

Probably being messaged on Instagram or tagged on a post and seeing what that person made with a sample I created. Seeing how they flipped it to their own sound or if they are messaging me and asking for my feedback and having an actual conversation about it. And being able to communicate with people all over the word it’s crazy.

Any resources you can share with us that might be helpful to other creatives?

At this moment and time maybe knowing about Southside, 808mafia, TM88, Lex Luger, and everybody else when I was a freshman in High School or earlier and I could have started my music producing journey earlier.

I felt everything came at the right time but would like to recommend a few for others. Will say the Producer Grind Podcast has tons of useful information for any level of producers. All You Need to Know About the Music Business by Donald S. Passman. And a bunch of beat and loops tutorials.

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