Heavy Hammer ADD

Heavy Hammer Sound System was born in 1999 in a small city near Lecce, south Italy, in Salento, an area called by many “the italian jamaica”. The formula was four friends united by the love for reggae dancehall music and jamaican culture, a sound system, the sea and the sun, nothing less, nothing more.

Working as promoter in Salento area, the sound plays with some of main names in the reggae business like Sentinel, Heartical, Rodigan, Soundquake, Black Chiney, Tony Matterhorn, and with almost all italian sounds such as Gramigna, Ishence, Ital Sound, Dancehall Soldiers, Yaga Yaga, Bass Fi Mass, One Love, opening concerts of artist like Buju Banton, Cocoa Tea, Michael Rose, Alborosie, Shaggy, Romain Virgo, Ward 21 and many more.
Starting from first dances in Salento area the crew is soon booked in many italian cities including Rome, Milan, Torino, Catanzaro, Firenze, Bologna, playing in every italian region often in historical yards for italian reggae scene, soon bringin his dancehall style also outside of Italy, bussin tunes in UK, Germany, Switzerland and Austria, Spain, Belgium, including festival appearances like Rototom Sunsplash (Spain), Bielawa Festival (Poland), Maremoto Festival, Salento Summer Festival and Gusto Dopa Al Sole (Italy).

Heavy Hammer is also the resident sound in the biggest italian summer yard, Mamanera Beach in S.Foca near Lecce, where the parties during summer season are usually attended by 2500-3000 people, playing alongside the best names in the reggae business like Matterhorn, Black Chiney, Pow Pow, Sentinel, Supersonic, Ward21, Romain Virgo just to name a few.

In 2007 the crew win his first official dubplate clash, killing in Rome the rome-based sound Love Massive in front of 1200 people; the audio of the clash become right away a classic for clash fanatics and get a really good fame outside of italians borderlines too, even if the clash is all italian-talked, declaring Heavy Hammer one of the more dangerous italian soundkillers.
The sound is called in 2010 in Stuttgart, Germany to represent Italy in World War 3 Soundclash, a dubplate war against Deebuzz from Germany, Captain C (ex mighty crown selector) from Japan, and Ruffpack from Switzerland: after winning almost all rounds HH bring the thophy to Italy after a high-level dub fi dub with Deebuzz sound.
Few days after the clash the crew is booked to represent Italy in the RiddimClash 2010 on 2 of october in Dusseldorf, Germany alongside sounds like Citylock from Germany, Guiding Star from France, Rootsman from Canada, Poison Dart from Antigua and Blunt Posse from New York; after winning all rounds Heavy Hammer brings for the first time the RiddimClash throphy to Italy killing Blunt Posse in the dub fi dub segment.
The 2011 see Heavy Hammer again in the war arena, first in the world temple known as Amazura in New York, in a world clash called "Sound Fi Dead" alongside sounds like Bass Odissey, Black Cat, Synemax and Tek 9: after a strong performance the crew wins the second round point and then end up at the dub fi dub with Bass Odissey placing at the 2nd place in their first clash in NY.
Just a week later they come back in europe in a one-to-one clash in Wuppertal, Germany, against the Florida' notorious Poison Dart, moving to Jamaica in april to join the Irish&chin' Worldclash R.E.S.E.T., facing off sounds like Killamanjaro, Bass Odissey, Black Blunt, Black Cat, Rootsman and Code Red: even if that's the first time the hammers touch the island they reach the third place, giving up only after a well discussed 4th round with Bass Odissey and Jaro.

Heavy Hammer crew is now formed by Raffa, Gecky, Gigi, Kwasta, Jangio, Lep, Boris, working all togheter to make heavy hammer grows everyday.
More than a decade inna di business, collaborations with the most important reggae artists and worldwide selectors, hundreds of dancehalls and stages, a not-common dubplate box give to the Heavy Hammer shows something really unique and deadly that cant be easily repeated. The dubplate masters from Italy are ready anytime to mash up your party!


Other projects:
While handling the sound, Heavy Hammer crew has created or contributed to some project to develope sound system and reggae culture in italy.
In 2001 they created www.heavyhammer.it, where togheter with the sound information and agenda there's a huge collection of projects for speaker boxes, from scoop bins to nowadays stuff to build a sound system, togheter with technical infos, suggestions and tips; the website is named as the start point of many sound system now active in italy.

From 2003 to 2008 the crew worked for www.bashment.it, that for some years has been the leading web portal for dancehall and soundclash culture in the italian area, with reports from soundclashes, articles, dubplate sessions and all concerning the dancehall and soundclashes culture.

In 2003 Heavy Hammer Dubplate Studio see the lights in the north of italy, followed soon by twin studio in the south. With over 20000 tracks recorded and hundreds of artists passed on the mics, HHS is established international dubplate link that built solid links and collaborations worldwide, working with top sounds from all over the world as with upcoming crews, recording from upcoming to world famous artists, in some cases as exclusive dubplate agent for europe.