Ziggy Has Ardeur is an independent (electronica) composer, producer, singer & live artist from Mannheim / Germany. He was born in 1983 in Villach/Austria, named Andreas Siegfried Hammer.
The musician is composing for live performances, theatres, installations, media, achitecture, film & series from his Mannheim-based studios, which he’s sharing with long-time friend and composer Konstantin Gropper ( Get Well Soon ). They’ve made the original soundtracks for Netflix’s „How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast)“ (2019-2021) and „King Of Stonks“ (2022) together. Ziggy also wrote and produced the Soundtrack for Netflix’s Documentary „Shiny_Flakes – The Teenage Drug Lord“ and „Cyberbunker – The Criminal Underworld“. „How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast)“ was in the Top 10 Netflix Charts in over 50 countries worldwide.
In 2019 Konstantin Gropper and Ziggy Has Ardeur did a first conceptual composition & live performance called „The Humming Womb“ to honor the unique brutalism architecture of Frei Otto’s Multihalle and exclusively made for its acoustics . For the official BUGA 2023 Mannheim Opening Event, Gropper and Has Ardeur were asked to compose a concert for a full Haifa Symphony Orchestra and to perform it live with them – „RHIZOM“ is a Symphony for Orchestra, Electronica, Voices and a Plant and was tv broadcasted live.
Ziggy was the mastermind of former renowned art-rock band MBWTEYP (2005-2013) and indietronica duo CUCUC (2014-2018) and has written and produced 20 extraordinary & genre-crossing soundtracks for fashion shows between 2011 and 2023 (Berlin & Paris Fashion Week, New York, Moscow). The catalogue of couture compositions adds up to more than 5 hours. Single tracks were extracted from all these 20-minutes long original runway mixes and well-arranged into 3 LPs . The Fashion Weeks (’11-’21) Beauty Is Always, Dark Side Of Couture and I M ¶ U R were released in 2021 & 2022.
Releases:
2023 • EP „PUR“ by Piya – first official 4 Songs by Singer/Songwriter Piya (Pia Bornitz) _ produced by Ziggy Has Ardeur
2022 • „The Fashion Weeks (’11-’21): I M § U R“ are three full-length, more classy, kind of functional and mixtapy fashion tracks from recent period.
2021 • „The Fashion Weeks (’11-’21): Dark Side Of Couture“ is collecting the best of runway soundtrack synth wave & idm – mostly instrumental tracks.
2021 • „The Fashion Weeks (’11-’21): Beauty Is Always“ is a selection of Synth Pop tracks. Songwriting & singing framed by beats & harmony.
2021 • EP with Konstantin Gropper – „How To Sell Songs Online (Fast)“ – 7 track EP of some of the Songs, we made for Netflix Series „How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast)“ Season 3, next to our score.
2020 • EP with Konstantin Gropper – „Songs From A TV Show About Teenage Drugdealers“ – 6 track EP of some of the Songs, we made for Netflix Series „How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast)“ Season 2, next to our score.
2012 • Album MBWTEYP – „Writ Of Eskort“ – is a 10 track conceptual album by MBWTEYP and •written&produced by Ziggy Has Ardeur.
2010 • EP MBWTEYP – „Grace Is A Beautiful Thing To Lose, My Friend“ – was studio-recorded all live and without any edits. •written by Ziggy Has Ardeur
2008 • Album MBWTEYP – „Ignorance & VIsion“ – is a bombast of a debut album with 18 tracks and more than 60 guest musicians. •written by Ziggy Has Ardeur
2005 • EP MBWTEYP – „Don’t Tell A Soul“
Soundtracks:
- 2024 – Original Soundtrack – Netflix Series „t.b.a“
- 2023/24 – Original Soundtrack – Netflix Series „t.b.a“
- 2023 – Original Soundtrack – Netflix Documentary „Cyberbunker – The Criminal Underworld“
- 2022 – Original Soundtrack – Netflix Series „King of Stonks“
- 2021 – Original Movie Soundtrack – Netflix Movie „Shiny Flakes – The Teenage Drug
- 2021 – Original Soundtrack – Netflix Series „How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast)“ Season III
- 2020 – Original Soundtrack – Documentary – Kurhaus Prod. „Koenig Bansah und seine Tochter“
- 2020 – Original Soundtrack – Netflix Series „How To Sell Drugs Online (Fast)“ Season II
- 2019 – Theatre Music – Badische Landesbühne Bruchsal – „Amerika“ (Kafka)
- 2019 – Theatre Music – Staatstheater Stuttgart – „Jugend Ohne Gott“ (Horvath)
- 2018 – Theatre Music – Badische Landesbühne Bruchsal – „Misery“ (King)
- 2018 – Theatre Music – Nationaltheater Mannheim – „X“ (Alistair McDowall)
- 2018 – Theatre Music – Nationaltheater Mannheim – „Der Tresen“
- 2017 – Original Movie Soundtrack – Documentary – „No Fucking Iceream“
- 2017 – Soundtrack -Short Film – „Orbita
References:
Netflix, Bildundtonfabrik, Constantine Television, Basis Berlin, Irene Luft Couture, Kurhaus Productions, Gallion Film, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Badische Landesbühne Bruchsal, Fashion week Paris, Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, Loyal Kaspar (USA), TNT(USA), BMW, L’Oreal, Lufthansa, Lufthansa Group, Geberit, Sunexpress Airline, AMD, Cosmiccat Group, Supreme Music, Stadt Mannheim, ANNY Kosmetik, Car2Go, Dennerlein Brands, Infravserv, Popakademie Baden-Württemberg, Technoseum Mannheim, RNV Mannheim, Karakter Management, British Council, Goethe Institut, Zeitraumexit e.v., Christina Stihler, Agnes Lisa Wegner, Illuminale Frankfurt, Maifeld Derby Festival