Non Toxique Lost
Line-up in 2004: C. Reichelt, Sea Wanton, A. Türpitz In
1983, D. Hegemann, the current director of the TRESOR (techno club in
Berlin), had booked NTL as an opener for the „Berlin Atonal 2„ festival
(top act had been PSYCHIC TV with GENESIS P-ORRIDGE). NTL's electronic,
angry experiments, often combined with tape-collages quickly got her
the reputation of a so-called „primal-industrial punk band„. Others saw
the band (with A. Wollscheid on guitar and synthesizers, S. Schütze on
violin and bass, and Sea Wanton on vocals / electronics) in the
„atmosphere „ of the „Neue Deutsche Welle"(short name NDW = the „new
german wave„) or even as part of the „Berliner Krankheit„ (= „the
„Berlin insanity„, which was strongly proclaimed by K. Maeck and the
EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN at this time). Afterwards the new songs were
created in very fast sequence as the soundtrack for the shrill 80s in
Germany (the former FRG). Nevertheless, and only for a short time,
artists, punks, hippies, old-fashioned marxists and neo-liberals could
accept NTL's "style is irrelevant" concept of life. The production of
their music / sounds / noise on „compact-cassettes„ made it possible
for the NTL-members to trade their ideas with many (NON)musicians all
over the world. GEN82 was the moniker for Sea Wanton and he wrote about
the „cassettte-production„ of bands like THX113, NURSE WITH WOUND,
SPRUNG AUS DEN WOLKEN, SAVAGE REPUBLIC or "S.Y.P.H." (very demanded by
collectors, at the moment !) in the german music magazine the SOUNDS.
In 1986 however, NTL released their first long play album, as well. It
was called „WANTON„ and E. Dittewig (female vocals with SUENO SUENO)
played the saxofon.
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