Blaž

Izola

Blaž - read as Blush. Blaž Gracar, born in 1991, is a strange-hop producer from a little town called Izola on the coast of Slovenia. As a teenager he started rapping, beatboxing and making beats in a hiphop duo R.I.C., but he was already slowly creeping towards more instrumental and abstract music. At seventeen he released two beat EPs (“Sofa Bits”, “Outdoor Bits”) on Denver-based Cold Busted Records which at the time also represented his fellow inhabitant Gramatik. He then proceeded to self-publish three EPs on his own until 2014, when he found a new home at Beton Records. There he released a critically acclaimed trilogy of EPs and compilations, centred around a single letter: “b”, “The b Of” and “BMX (b Remixed)” and in 2016 he finally released his debut long-play "Don't Listen To This". "Steven" from 2018 is his latest solo album which tells a story about an instrumental sound called Steven. In 2017 he produced the new album "Emirates" by the Slovenian rapper N’toko. Blaž also works with Šuljo with whom he forms a producer super duo BAGS. He is a part of GIRO movement, which includes compilations and events. Blaž is not only a musician, but also active in film and literature: he graduated film-editing and published a poetry collection “Lahko si jabuka” in 2011, while 2017 saw the release of his novel "Tat not".