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Mendelsson


Under the label Mendelsson – unlike the Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn the name here is being written without the h – Norbert Grandl and Leonhard Lorek subsumed their works which had been realised in the Berlin based Setalite Studio from the year 2000 on. Already in the 80ies they had been taking active part in various bands of East Berlin’s subculture. Among others Grandl was involved in Expander des Fortschritts, Lorek in z.art and la deutsche vita. Both were involved in teurer denn je – where Grandl was drumming as a seventeen-year-old –, in the avant-garde group fett, and also in the 1994 album Musik Wird Niemals Langsam together with Michael Dubach, Nino Sandow and Max Goldt (45/Indigo), and two years later in brauchen (45/festland, Indigo) by Dubach Deut. For the first time the band’s name Mendelsson appears in 2003 on the occasion of the release of Storagemanagementadministrationssuitesalesm on the CD compilation Neue Berliner Initiative 02 put together by the Berlin based NBI Club. The video to the music had been filmed by Anna Wagner in the following year. At the same time the piece White Canary – sung by Holger Lehmann and Laura Waschkeit – had been released on the eponymous 12 EP on the Berlin based label Fein Raus. It features remixes by Jahcoozi, Kyborg, Brigade Mondaine and Trike. Lehmann – initially involved in the studio work as guest vocalist – had become a full member of the band by that time. However, diverging visions of appro...

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