Parents got him taking piano lessons in the elementary music school when he was in 2nd grade, but he dropped out 2 years later because he wasn't feeling that whole classical music thing as that was the only genre they were teaching. He later got some private piano lessons, learning the stuff he wanted to learn to play like Beatles and Rhythm & Blues in general. He and a few of his 4th grade classmates formed a band and became the youngest band in the history of his elementary school, playing school events on the regular. When he got to 7th grade he discovered Hip-Hop and felt totally overtaken and compelled by it's elements, especially by the power of the rhythmically accented poetry(RAP). He soon left the band, started writing and became an MC. His friends were amazed by his flow and delivery since there were no hip-hop artists in his home town Piran(Slovenia) at the time, except him and one of his classmates and they were dope on top of it! They formed a duo called Bow Down and threw the first hip-hop party in the history of their home town. In 1998, Gramatik met his first audio sequencing software on the computer of his classmate's older brother and felt like he got struck by lightening, totally overwhelmed by it! His parents were financially struggling at the time, so they couldn't afford a computer, so he was hanging out at his friend's house all the time, messing around with the sequencer when his older brother wasn't home. 2 years later his parents bought him a computer and the first thing he did was install that audio sequencer! He started producing his first beats and day by day felt more and more compelled by the craft & the magic of it. It wasn't long untill 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 out of it was the best feeling ever. All of a sudden his life started to make perfect sense.
In 2006, he and 2 of his friends, fellow MC's, released their debut hip-hop album as a group called 5th Element, which was critically acclaimed throughout the country as one of the best hip-hop albums in Slovenia. After the album, Gramatik felt hip-hop just wasn't enough, that he was limiting himself with doing only one genre while he enjoyed listening to so many of them so he started producing House, Techno, Breakbeat, Electro, Drum'n'Bass, basically any genre that he liked which was anything that evolved from Blues, Jazz, Soul and Funk, as those ''father genres'' were all embedded deep in his style, whatever he would do. He realized that to him, music is much bigger than a genre name and their specific categorization, it's all about embracing what moves you and rejecting what doesn't. He released his first ever track on Beatport.com in june 2008, which was an Electro House track, a remix he did for DJ Vitamin D's track entitled Motherfuckers Know Whos The Best. The track ended up 24 on the Electro House Top 100 chart, a nice surprise and an excellent quality validation for this newcomer. Soon after that he ended up on 40 of the House Top 100 chart with his tribal banger Letz Get Ill while his Dreams About Her EP topped the Chil Out top 100 chart for 3 weeks. He kept releasing different stuff on various labels all owned by DJ Vitamin D which he became good friends with. Not long after his first release stroke the chart, Vitamin D suggests to him that he should scrap up those 20 hip-hop beatz he had sitting in a flash player on his myspace for over 2 years and release them as an album on the new Chill Out/Trip-Hop/Instrumental Hip-Hop label he's about to open inspired by those same beatz he was listening to. So Gramatik does that(thinking he won't sell more than 3 tracks off the album since they were just 2:30 minuets long hip-hop beatz, which are not commonly sold on beatport) and the album he entitled Street Bangerz Vol.1 get's released in december 2008 on the fresh new label Cold Busted. little did he know that the album was gonna catapult straight to the 1 spot on the Top 100 Chill Out chart and has been holding hostage the first 20 spots ever since. Street Bangerz Vol.1 has been a total success, completely unexpected, selling over 50.000 tracks world wide in less than 6 months on beatport alone. It made him realize that quite often, the things that you expect to work the least, usually work the most. Gramatik is now working on various projects while determined to keep up the SB series, dropping one a year, perfecting them volume after volume and hopefully tour the world in due time.
Portorose in July
Gramatik Lyrics
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Mother of the stars, gonna leave me like a bus stop
Mother of the stars, gonna leave me like a bus stop
Must stop, must stop, must stop
The lyrics in Gramatik's song "Portorose in July" are full of depth and emotion. The repeated phrase "Mother of the stars, gonna leave me like a bus stop" is a powerful metaphor for the feeling of abandonment and loss. The mother of the stars represents a higher power, whether it is a deity or the universe itself, and the singer feels as though this power has forsaken them. The comparison to a bus stop adds another layer to the metaphor, suggesting that the singer's connection to this power was temporary, fleeting, and perhaps ultimately insignificant.
The lyrics become even more poignant as the phrase is repeated multiple times, almost as a chant. The repetition adds weight to the theme of loss and gives the listener a sense of the raw emotion the singer is experiencing. The final line "must stop, must stop, must stop" could be interpreted in multiple ways. Perhaps the singer is urging themselves to stop dwelling on this feeling of loss, or maybe they are begging the Mother of the Stars to stop abandoning them. Whatever the interpretation, the line adds to the intensity and urgency of the song.
Overall, Gramatik's "Portorose in July" uses beautiful and impactful lyrics to convey a sense of loss, abandonment, and the search for meaning in a tumultuous world.
Line by Line Meaning
Mother of the stars, gonna leave me like a bus stop
The person who is responsible for creating and sustaining everything in the universe is going to abandon me like how people leave a bus stop.
Must stop, must stop, must stop
The singer is feeling overwhelmed and needs to stop their current train of thought/behavior.
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Thitoss
Easily one of the best beats ever made
LadyMarrero
Listening to this in 2021!!!
moonshot008
🔥🔥🔥😏👌💯
HalfPrime
Funkyyy
Candy Coated Poison
ALISTAIR UBEREEEEEEEEEM
jonathan bowen
yeah man you know me just smokin me some weed maybe flowin with the homies over dope beats dont compete you aint complete like a fraction lifes a theme park and im the main attraction just sittin wishin it was back then when shit was so easy gotta call ur mommy baby phonin home like et on the black and white tv rap frees me its creative and relative like the theory just listen up an hear me observe from the telescope help me obi wan your my only hope free me from the death star in a place so far and long ago open up ur mind and youll feel my flow i rhyme like the tide and im repin for that oside you know side so cali take another hit as i cruise thru the ally phat cats make stacks as the piece gets packed one more time as i rhyme and spit flows in the 760 area code eatin bitches ala mode party life aint no strife cuz my
lyrics sharp like the knife take a sip feel a fade kick it with the homie vague makin visions a reality we got that 3rd eye mentality on the mic always spittin what you like showin how we flowin and bumpin the beats that knock u right off ur feet have a seat class a begun ur bells been rung
moonshot008
Spot on my brotha 😏✌️