MUSIC

Fitzgerald's presents Gramatik. With Griz.

Good music is felt and not heard. At an early age, Slovenia-born Gramatik showed precocious signs of a musician, absorbing radio transmissions of old Funk or Rhythm & Blues joints, and taking classic piano classes. After two years of this and later private piano lessons of early Rock and Rhythm & Blues, he helped form the youngest band in history of his elementary school.

While still in middle and high school he discovered Hip Hop and left his band to become one of the first MC's on the Slovenian coast. By 1998 he and his classmate formed a duo called Bow Down and threw the first Hip Hop party in the history of his hometown.

That same year he also met his first audio sequencing software program and with humble beginnings started to produce two years later.

Captured by the craft and magic of producing he discovered sampling, which became his one true love in the music making process, chopping up all those old Funk, Soul, Blues and Jazz tracks he used to listen to all the time and making something completely new.