Faderhead

This electro-industrial project from Hamburg, Germany, which achieved some considerable success during the late 2000s, was the brainchild of one Sami Mark Yahya, who had also worked as a fashion photographer. Radically different from the harsh, so-called "hellektro" acts which dominated the dark scene at that time, its sound was a bold fusion of electro, big beat, and techno, with witty tongue-in-cheek, self-aggrandizing lyrics, but also an undercurrent of melancholy and longing. Signed to the influential Accession Records on the strength of just one compilation track, Faderh...