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HLZ - ALL MY LIFE - THE ALBUM
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All My Life - The Album
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METALP31
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Drum n Bass / Jungle /
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Drum N Bass / Jungle - HLZ delivers his debut album for Metalheadz with 'All My Life', a project shaped by patience, experience and a deep rooted connection to the label's sound.
The album began with the title track, first played during Goldie's residency at XOYO before eventually making its way to the label, and it was from that moment that the idea of a full-length record started to take shape.
Around the same time HLZ moved back to Italy, embracing a slower pace of life that gave him the space and focus to bring the project together. Rather than following a fixed concept, 'All My Life' grew naturally in the studio. HLZ approached the process with what he calls a sense of humble confidence, trusting his instincts while staying grounded in the culture that shaped him. The aim was simple: to make music that could last beyond the short cycles that often define modern releases. Across the album, HLZ moves between soulful depth with a classic Metalheadz twang, into moments that push beyond his usual territory. From the title track's unmistakable Headz spirit to more exploratory pieces like 'Roadblock' and the introspective 'Solitary', 'All My Life' captures an artist fully settled in his voice. More than anything, the album reflects HLZ's deep connection to the music and the sound that has influenced him from the very beginning.
HLZ aka Emilio Dimitri moved to London over ten years ago after a fated Goldie connection made in Rome; he would hold up one half of Need For Mirrors before going solo, building a release history across Symmetry, Shogun and and Digital Soundboy. His holy-grail Metalheadz moment arrived in 2014, and he's enjoyed many a banger-unleashing from there. Now back in Italy, All My Life took shape after a road-test at Goldie's XOYO residency before getting the greenlight: 16 tracks make for dangerously infectious digital soundbath, checking a spaced-up rap feature from d&b jazzmaster Cleveland Watkiss on 'The Genie', and Bipolar on 'It's Going Wrong'. There's an unrushed, dubby quality running the thing, tending dreamy when it can and tearout when it can't. 'Love Is Strength' is an unusual mood of dubious euphoria, and has classic potential.
The album began with the title track, first played during Goldie's residency at XOYO before eventually making its way to the label, and it was from that moment that the idea of a full-length record started to take shape.
Around the same time HLZ moved back to Italy, embracing a slower pace of life that gave him the space and focus to bring the project together. Rather than following a fixed concept, 'All My Life' grew naturally in the studio. HLZ approached the process with what he calls a sense of humble confidence, trusting his instincts while staying grounded in the culture that shaped him. The aim was simple: to make music that could last beyond the short cycles that often define modern releases. Across the album, HLZ moves between soulful depth with a classic Metalheadz twang, into moments that push beyond his usual territory. From the title track's unmistakable Headz spirit to more exploratory pieces like 'Roadblock' and the introspective 'Solitary', 'All My Life' captures an artist fully settled in his voice. More than anything, the album reflects HLZ's deep connection to the music and the sound that has influenced him from the very beginning.
HLZ aka Emilio Dimitri moved to London over ten years ago after a fated Goldie connection made in Rome; he would hold up one half of Need For Mirrors before going solo, building a release history across Symmetry, Shogun and and Digital Soundboy. His holy-grail Metalheadz moment arrived in 2014, and he's enjoyed many a banger-unleashing from there. Now back in Italy, All My Life took shape after a road-test at Goldie's XOYO residency before getting the greenlight: 16 tracks make for dangerously infectious digital soundbath, checking a spaced-up rap feature from d&b jazzmaster Cleveland Watkiss on 'The Genie', and Bipolar on 'It's Going Wrong'. There's an unrushed, dubby quality running the thing, tending dreamy when it can and tearout when it can't. 'Love Is Strength' is an unusual mood of dubious euphoria, and has classic potential.
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Matter Of Time
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Origins
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Bad Boy Sound
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The Genie (Ft. Cleveland Watkiss)
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Solitary
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Last FM Information on HLZ
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Emilio grew up in Milan where alongside his crew "Hertzquake" they managed to push dnb and became a big influence on the Milano music scene. Promoting parties with the likes of dj Hype, Andy C, Roni Size, Commix to name a few... This is when Hellraizer first got into the studio and it wasnt long before he was djing alongside some of the biggest names in dnb as a resident dj at Pergola..
Keen to push his sound hellraizer decided to move to London and right away he started working on a number of tracks...
In 2007 Hellraizer released the track "Lock" on Caution recs (uk) ''Lock'' generated good exposure for hellraizer on the London scene and later in 2007 HLZ followed by producing "Punchball". The track was played regularly by dj Hype and meant that Caution recs authorized HLZ to give the track to Digital, who wasted no time by signing HLZ for his first 12" on Timeless Recs ''Punchball/My Hero'' OUT NOW and getting massive support from the likes of dj Storm, Gridlok, Bassline Smith, Digital, dj Hype amoung others. His new track "Lunar fields" featured on 'Blu mar ten Ministry of sound Radio Show.
Outside of the Studio HLZ dj's at some of the top spots around London and has become a regular crowd favourite for 'Flame' @ Herbal. HLZ's dj style of managing to play for the crowd wherever he is has lead to bookings across europe.. Still popular back in Italy, so much so he has been asked to dj at the upcoming Metalhead's show in Rome later this year.He has upcoming tunes on 36 hertz recs,nu massive dj Vapour label, 31 records(doc scott label), influenza ltd(nu fresh deep french label), sonorous music and caution recorrdings.His tracks are getting support of Vapour, dj Storm, Goldie , Doc Scott, Ed Rush,Randall,Mosus,Bryan Gee, Resound and many more.At the moment he's even doing some collabs with Kiat and Mosus. Hellraizer is going from strength to strength both in the Studio and behind the decks so be sure to see even more of him during 2009... Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.