‘It’s Benji Casino
music, ain’t nothin’ like it’
Benji Casino was in
elementary school when he started making table beats in the lunchroom when he
was bored.
Now he produces music
professionally that is like no other in the industry.
Now his latest
singles, “Mm Mm Mm” and “Moon Walking” celebrate and demonstrate his
stream-of-consciousness style of writing and cross-genre sound that define
“Benji Casino music.”
“When it comes to my song selection, if you listen to all
my music, everything sounds different,” Benji Casino said. “There’s not just
one sound. I did promo recently and I told the publicist ‘it’s Benji Casino
music.’ It doesn’t sound like any other music but what it is. Only I can make
music like this, it’s Benji Casino music.”
And
Benji Casino music comes from a unique headspace shaped by growing up in the
city of Cleveland, then moving to rural Ohio.
“I used
to get into a lot of trouble up there so I moved out here,” Casino said. “It’s
really in the middle of nowhere, I'm not gonna lie to you. I grew up in the
city life but then I moved out into the country life and when I moved out here
I found a different type of headspace, a more peaceful, enlightened headspace.
I got to thinking about my life and how I can do better in the space that I’m
in. I had to accept those and it just put me on a whole different plane.”
The
single “Mm Mm Mm” is a song with deep personal meaning to Casino.
It’s a
song about people who seemed to appear in his live when they wanted or needed
something, but disappeared when he needed someone to lean on.
The
song talks about how the singer is looking for authentic people who really care
for him.
“At
that time I felt like I had nobody,” Casino said. “And ‘Mm Mm Mm’ is the hook,
me vocalizing is really just the hook and that’s how the whole song came
together. I heard the beat and said ok, this is fire, let me really run this
through the pro tools. I was singing Mmm Mmm, Mmm, and that’s where all the
other lyrics came from.”
The
song ‘Moon Walking’ came from a stream of thought that came to Casino after a
night of heavy partying.
“I got
home and I heard the beat and said this is different,” Casino said. “It’s slow
but it hits. And I just started writing lyrics. Usually I don’t write songs but
the way I see it, it comes how it comes. Honestly, I just like going in the studio
with no plans, nothing ready because that’s when you come up with the most
authentic songs. You come up with stuff lime ‘Mm Mm Mm,’ you can’t write shit
like that down and deliver it the same way. But I do believe when it comes to
creative inspiration, it comes how it comes, it comes and it goes.”
Casino
said he’s working on an EP called “Perfect Timing” that will come out in a few
weeks.
In the
meantime he encourages his fans to check out his catalogue of music and find
the singles that touch them.
“I
believe with the music that I've already released there’s something for
somebody,” Casino said. “You may not like ‘Choker Girls’ but you may like
‘Maria.’ I believe right now there’s so much versatility across the whole
catalogue there’s something for everybody. I know people in my personal life
that don’t like certain songs but they like other songs. Benji Casino Music,
what I'm making is me, it’s the things I go through, things that have happened
in my life.
“I want
people to know that everything that’s been released on my catalogue I've done
myself. Besides the beats, all the production was me. Everything sounds how
it’s supposed to sound, I wanted people to hear it how I heard it when it just
popped into my head. That’s why everything on my catalogue sounds different.”
Please
follow Benji Casino on the following social media and streaming sites:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/2YYBrPq9TP9BiixpDdytSa
https://www.instagram.com/benjicasino/
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