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NON TOXIQUE LOST:::founded in 1982 in Mainz/Germany, based in Berlin since 1995 - political, electronic, experimental music ...the following people contributed to NTL: Achim Wollscheid, Alex Türpitz, A. Laaf, Christian Reichelt, DJ Vrhovny, Elke Dittewig, Heiko Wöhler, Jammin' Unit, Peter Klum, Peter 'Pogo' Prieur, T.poem, Tony Bullock + Sea Wanton T.poem, thanks for being with us for such a long time. We had been friends. Sea Wanton, Berlin, 2018 I moved to Berlin in 1997 and got in contact
with him and P. Klum again. T.poem and I now met regularly to talk
about new music releases. It had been a long time since he had made
something musical for 'Non Toxique Lost'. However, I was still
convinced of his graphic and artistic skills. So I proposed an
artistic collaboration to him and he took over the complete production
of some 'NTL' releases. Only once (namely in 2008 at the 'Klangbad'
festival) did he again use the laptop for 'Non Toxique Lost'. His
musical interest now went more to the publications from the field of
'power electronics'. At some point in 2015 he decided to become
musically active again. Thus the two songs 'five organs of hysteria'
and 'five organs of hysteria_reverse' were created. He dubbed me the
'audacity' versions of the songs, but somehow these versions came to
me in oblivion. It was not until 2018 that I discovered the files
again on my harddisk, arranged my musical part and 'hyst',
'Guess that NTL was the first (and only) band I played with,
never heard of NON TOXIQUE LOST ? NTL appeared on the 'Q.E.D.'
d-lp-album, international bands compilation featuring: Blurt,
Chris
and Cosey, Club Moral, Code Public,
Der Plan, Die Form, Einstürzende
Neubauten, Etant Donnes,
Het Zweet, Kleg, Konrad
Becker, Monoton, Laibach,
Marie Kawazu, Michel Banabila,
Non Toxique Lost, P16.D4, Peter Zegveld,
Radio Rabotnik
TV, S.B.O.T.H.I., S.P.K.,
Sprung aus den Wolken, Test
Department, The
Hafler Trio, The Legendary Pink Dots,
Zero Kama, Z'ev
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"amusement means agreement...to have fun means (in any case): not thinking about it, forgetting the
suffering, anywhere it appears. the reason herefore is powerlessness. it is indeed escape, but not as
(the amusement) affirms, the escape from a bad reality, but from the final thought of resistance, which
it (the reality) has still left remaining." (T. W. Adorno /
M. Horkheimer).jpg)
a founding member of 'Non Toxique Lost', passed away in february, 2017, all of a sudden. We miss him ...
the new album was born. It is dedicated to T.poem. Sea Wanton, Berlin
20181026
that
didn't require identification of sorts - neither with a name, nor a
principle, nor a style. What probably united those associated with
that name was a shared unease within a cultural rule, that after
the political ossification of the 70s began to spread throughout art
and music - the need to even design protest or subversion. A reaction
to this was NTL's 'non'- style - no rock, no punk, no experiments, no
recycling and no improvisation...- or bits of each, condensed in a
thick amalgam, if needed. Though most of NTL's pieces didn't entirely
cross the borders of the 'song-principle', the virus of disintegration
was pretty much alive. Within, and sometimes even without...'
liner notes by
Achim
Wollscheid (2003), image courtesy of 'alternation.pl',
live at the 'Wroclaw Industrial Festival IX', (Wroclaw, Poland),
2010-11-13 20:30
