Sami Mark Yahya , professionally known by his stage name Faderhead or also under the pseudonym Sam Nordmann , is a German electronic music producer and vocalist from Hamburg , Germany .
33-568: After releasing the track "The Protagonist" as a one-off compilation entry on the Advanced Electronics Vol. 3, Faderhead received a deal with Accession Records/Indigo to release his debut album FH1 in 2006. Positive reviews made FH1 an instant debut-success with standout tracks like "The Protagonist", "Vanish" and "O/H Scavenger". The album peaked at #5 on the German Alternative Charts (DAC) and ranked #46 on
66-493: A green space with a total surface area of 190 hectares (470 acres). The combination of a natural area and an event complex originated from the concomitance of a horticultural exhibition and an agricultural fair in the early years of the German Democratic Republic . The GDR agricultural fair named Agra gave its name to the site. With a covered exhibition area of 13,000 square metres (140,000 square feet),
99-459: A tunnel instead of that. To the west of the park is the city of Markkleeberg and to the south is Markkleeberg Lake . The 190 hectares (470 acres) of land are divided into two zones: The origin of the current site, shared and co-managed between Leipzig and Markkleeberg, dates back to the 19th century. In 1889, Paul Herfurth (1855–1937), a liberal publisher and politician, acquired a meadow between Städtelner Strasse (today Raschwitzer Strasse) and
132-524: A 10-show-tour in Germany which sold-out venues in Hamburg, Hannover, Erfurt, Stuttgart, Krefeld and Frankfurt. The "Anima In Machina"-EP occupied the number 1 position in the German Alternative Charts (DAC) for 6 weeks in a row. 2017 opened with the release of the single “Know Your Darkness”, which debuted at number 1 in the German Alternative Charts (DAC). The ninth studio album "Night Physics" (including
165-498: A 4-week European co-headlining tour with Aesthetic Perfection and music videos to “Stand Up” and “When The Freaks Come Out” were released. After that Faderhead took a 1.5 year break from producing and performing. 2016 Faderhead released “FH-X” on February 12 and toured the UK and Germany. In October he also released the 10 song EP “Anima In Machina” [1] which featured 8 reworked old songs and 2 new tracks. Then Faderhead supported Covenant on
198-613: A car park with 250 spaces and an annual attendance of 750,000 visitors, it is the second largest event complex in Leipzig after the Leipzig fairgrounds of the Leipzig Trade Fair in the north of the city. The landscaped park includes a number of monuments distributed between meadows , gardens, bodies of water and groves. The park includes museums , for example, the Deutsches Fotomuseum (German Photo Museum),
231-408: A compilation album Moments of Bloom appeared, containing two reworked tracks from each album. The next two albums One of 18 Angels and Freak Perfume (plus its companion EP PaniK Manifesto ) made greater use of electronic rhythms, resulting in greater club play and wider recognition for the band. Their 2004 Nigredo (a concept album inspired by a mythology the band designed themselves) saw
264-512: A greater variety of moods and concepts than previous works. The ninth album entitled (if) was released on 13 March 2009. On March 26, 2010, Hates released A Collection Of... which is a best-of compilation album. On November 12, 2010, the single Echo in Me from the upcoming album Ego:X was released. On August 26, 2011, the album arrived in Europe in four different versions. The US release date
297-633: A move back towards the more subtle, sparse concepts of old, but still featuring bursts of their more recent, dance-oriented sound. Songs from the Nigredo tour were later released on the live CD Alive and the companion DVD Nine In Numbers . Alive peaked at #2 on the German Alternative Charts (DAC), ranking #13 on the DAC Top 50 Albums of 2005. In 2005, the EP Menschfeind was released. The next full album Nekrolog 43 came in 2007, offering
330-581: Is a German darkwave band. The lead singer and founding member Adrian Hates has produced most of the albums by himself or with minimal help from others. He rarely uses a full band, except when on tour. Adrian Hates is a classically trained guitarist and pianist who started out as the guitarist for Garden of Delight. He initiated the Diary of Dreams project in the late 1980s, taking the name from one of his early classical guitar compositions, "Tagebuch der Träume." The first album, Cholymelan , appeared in 1994 on
363-579: The M'era Luna Festival (Germany), the Exit Festival ( Serbia ) as well as shows in the Netherlands , Italy , Greece , Great Britain , Belgium and Mexico . In October 2009, Faderhead released the "Horizon Born" EP, which was well received. 2010 saw the release of Trilogy . Since FH1, FH2 and FH3 had been sold out and were not reprinted, Faderhead decided to compile the most popular 18 tracks from that release onto one CD. In October 2010,
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#1732802008902396-718: The "Fistful of Fuck You" music video was released by Trev Nethers of industrial electronic group Social Autopsy. Built on OpenBOR , an open-source variant of the Beats of Rage game engine, it includes official pixel-art sprites used in the video. It was re-released as "Faderhead 2.0" in 2018 including bugfixes and a two-player mode, tournament mode, and a "reverse mode". Added playable characters include members of industrial bands such as Andy LaPlegua of Combichrist , Steve Naghavi of And One , Chris Pohl of Blutengel , Daniel Graves of Aesthetic Perfection and Brian Graupner of The Gothsicles . Diary Of Dreams Diary of Dreams
429-480: The Agra events welcomed up to half a million people, including more than 10,000 foreigners from around a hundred different countries. In 1969 alone, the Agra received 750,000 visitors. Dozens of mobile halls and pavilions were erected each year. After German reunification , the site lost some of its importance. Several fairs and exhibitions have moved to the newly built Leipzig exhibition grounds (opened 1996), including
462-533: The DAC Top Albums of 2006. The year progressed and saw Faderhead play shows alongside bands like Diary Of Dreams , SITD , Painbastard and others. 2007 saw the release of the FH2 CD which featured the club hit "Dirtygrrrls/Dirtybois". Faderhead released a music video for the track "Girly Show" and played festivals like Wave-Gotik-Treffen ( Germany ) and Infest ( UK ) among other shows. 2008 started with
495-541: The Dion Fortune label. Encouraged by this success, Hates formed his own label called Accession Records and released a series of albums over the following years, building a loyal fanbase each step of the way. The second album End of Flowers was released in 1996, expanding on the darkwave sound of the debut. Bird Without Wings followed a year later, whilst the more experimental work Psychoma? arrived in 1998. The first sign of consolidation came in 1999, when
528-715: The Dölitz gatehouse and the watermill on the Mühlpleiße river. The site is intended for different types of fairs, exhibitions as well as festivals. It notably hosts the Wave-Gotik-Treffen , one of the largest Gothic festivals in the world, the medieval festival named Mittelalterlich Phantasie Spectaculum , the Tattoo & Lifestyle exhibition as well as the Fest der 25.000 Lichter (Festival of 25,000 lights), where
561-506: The Pleiße and settled there with his family. His family remained there after his death but the land was expropriated from them in 1945. The first horticultural exhibition of local horticulturists was organized in 1948 on the site, which expanded significantly in the years that followed. Under the leadership of the agronomist Oskar Baumgarten (1907–2008), the first agricultural exhibition in the GDR
594-477: The US with Aesthetic Perfection and Everything Goes Cold and ended with a download-only EP release called “The Way To Fuck Clubs”, which showcased remixes of “The Way To Fuck God” as well as an acoustic version of “Hot Bath And A Cold Razor” and “The Moth And The Fire”. The biggest show of 2011 happened at Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig when the festival organizers had to close the venue to prevent overcrowding. In 2012,
627-495: The departure from Accession Records and the signing to L-Tracks Recordings. This decision led to serious speculation regarding the future of Faderhead by press and fans, but the free song/video release of the piano ballad "Exit Ghost" revealed that the project would continue. Only a few months later the club anthem "TZDV" was released, and on October 10, the FH3 album was released and again gathered top reviews. In 2009, Faderhead played
660-427: The end of the year and Faderhead reached the no. 7 spot of MusicNonStop's best-selling releases of 2012 in the UK, tying And One and coming in ahead of legacy-acts like Fields Of The Nephilim, De/Vision, Suicide Commando and Hocico. Because "The World of Faderhead" sold out so quickly, Faderhead also released the double-CD-compilation "Two Sides To Every Story" which features Faderhead's most popular clubtracks on CD 1 and
693-414: The fifth album, The World of Faderhead , was released alongside three 360° panoramic images and 3 music videos. The video to “Fistful Of Fuck You” became popular, due to its original style and content. Faderhead headlined a 14-show US tour and played all over Europe including a set at the M'era Luna Festival hangar stage. The European pressing of “The World of Faderhead” was already almost sold out before
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#1732802008902726-489: The fourth full-length album, Black Friday , was released. The concept album tells the story of a night gone wrong. It was accompanied by a 15-minute short movie and quickly garnered reviews as Faderhead's most mature album. Faderhead played a European club tour as well as the Christmas Ball Festival tour with Laibach, Project Pitchfork, Fields Of The Nephilim and Agonoize. 2011 began with a 15-show tour in
759-442: The live stage at solo gigs and festivals like Unter Schwarzer Flagge 2022, M'era Luna 2022, E-Tropolis 2022 and Dark Storm 2022. He also released the single "Dark Water" from the "Years Of The Serpent" album. For Halloween 2022, Faderhead did another remix of "Halloween Spooky Queens", this time 48bpm faster than the original version. Before Christmas 2022, Faderhead released an EP of acoustic versions of 4 of his songs. This EP
792-669: The most popular pop-songs/ballads on CD 2. 2013 saw Faderhead releasing the "FH4" album, which spawned the single and video to "Dancers" , a collaboration with Techno MC Shawn Mierez ("I Like It Loud") and Shaolyn ("Face Down"). Worldwide touring (including 14 shows in the US) followed and Faderhead returned to the Amphi Festival in Köln/Germany. In 2014 the “Atoms & Emptiness”-album was released in February. Faderhead went on
825-570: The public comes equipped with lanterns, candles or any other sources of light. Every year in October, a historical reenactment of the battle of Leipzig takes place. The agra is located in the Leipzig borough of Dölitz and in its western and southern parts in Markkleeberg . The exhibition center is accessed from the east side, via Bornaische Straße. The Bundesstraße 2 traverses the agra as an elevated roadway . There are discussions to build
858-574: The release of the tenth studio album "Asteria", which included the single "From His Broken Bones" that reached number 2 on the German Alternative Charts (DAC)). The band played an album release show at Kulttempel in Oberhausen/Germany. In spring of 2020 Faderhead played only one show of the "Asteria"-Germany tour (on March 7, 2020 in Mannheim) before the tour was cancelled due to the worldwide Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic. Faderhead released
891-473: The single "Better" with guest vocalist Chris Harms ( Lord Of The Lost ). Despite the on-going pandemic, the "15 Years Of Faderhead"-anniversary show took place at Circus Probst in Gelsenkirchen/Germany. In 2021 success also came as songwriter for other bands: the band Eisbrecher entered the official German album charts at #1 with their album "Liebe. Macht. Monster." for which Faderhead co-wrote
924-534: The single "I Did Not Know" with guest vocalist Sven Friedrich of Solar Fake and the Halloween-single "Halloween Spooky Queens". In December Faderhead released the "2077"-EP, which was music meant for playing the Cyberpunk 2077 game that was released shortly after. Faderhead also created an electronic remix for "Gesegnet & Verflucht" a song by German singer Nino DeAngelo. In 2021 Faderhead released
957-548: The single "Know Your Darkness") was releases in late 2017 and reached number 1 in the German Alternative Charts (DAC), followed by a 10-show-tour of Germany and a concert at the sold out Agra-Halle at Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2018. Faderhead then went on another tour of Germany with Project Pitchfork. In 2019 Faderhead played the main stage at Amphi Festival in Cologne/Germany as well as NCN Festival in Deutzen briefly before
990-580: The song "Nein Danke" and the band Lord Of The Lost entered the official German album charts at #2 with their album "Judas" for which Faderhead co-wrote the song "2000 Years A Pyre". Faderhead also remixed "Halloween Spooky Queens" and released a 2021 version along with an official lyric video. In December 2021 Faderhead released the full-length album "Years Of The Serpent" with the singles "All Black Everything" and "Too Dead For Life", both of which were released with music videos. 2022 at saw Faderhead return to
1023-751: Was September 11, 2011. On March 14, 2014, the studio album Elegies in Darkness was released. Hates has claimed to have been influenced, both lyric wise and artwork wise, by the German 1909-1935 expressionism and the "beauty of ugliness" in the course of his work. Diary of Dreams announced for 2019 a brief and rare US tour: Hell in Eden, with dates in May 2019. Agra (site) The Agra site south of Leipzig in Germany includes an exhibition center as well as
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1056-813: Was called "Therapy For One". In April 2023, Faderhead released a 5 song EP called "The Ascender". The EP comes with a 60 page graphic novel, available for free download. Faderhead released "Noise Night" from that EP as the single, along with a music video. Faderhead's live shows are currently supported by either Danny "The Delta Mode" Bernath or Yannick Waldner and Raphael Fischer (Dancefloor Gladiatorz). He has also previously been supported live by Joel & Daniel Meyer (Project SAM) or Jörg Lütkemeier (Straftanz). The Hamburg producer/vocalist uses different musicians for live performances and has collaborated on stage with musicians like Daniel Myer (Haujobb), Shawn "Ultimate MC" Mierez or with Marco Visconti (formerly XP8 ) - nicknamed “The Lord”. In 2014 an arcade beat 'em up based on
1089-402: Was opened on site in 1952. Building on its success, the exhibition under the name of agra Markkleeberg will be repeated every year. The exhibition center was then developed. After the horticultural exhibition moved to Erfurt in 1960, its site was transformed into a public park, which represents the center of today's park. Various fairs and exhibitions multiplied there and success was assured:
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