Non Toxique Lost — 026750,9
Non Toxique Lost stand as one of the lesser-known, though still important bands to appear from Berlin’s early 80’s industrial scene. 026750,9 is the bands thirty fifth album, which appeared in the latter part of last year on Klanggalerie as a CD.
The album takes in eleven tracks- each of which have runtimes between two and six minutes. Things kick off with “Seit Gestern” which blends murkily stabbing textures, drifting/ eerily mumbled Germanic vocals, and sinister yet reverberating tonal stretches. As we move through the first half of the album, we come to eerily pumping/ hissing beat work, junk metal unease, and the wavering tonally buzz of “Sing Einfach Mit”.
As we move into the second half, we have the track “10” which mixes drifting feedback wails, loose electro stabs, baying harmonics, and building galloping ‘n’ pumping skeletal beats/ distant- yet-distressed vocal ranting. There’s the cluttering junk tones, out-of-tune guitar choppiness, loose cold percussive stabs, and slightly reverbed/ hissing male vocals of “Le Roi”. With the album playing out pulsing bass lines, knocking percussive elements, and mumbled male vocals of “Auch Nur Ein Name Von Vielen”.
As an album 026750,9 sits at the murky/ more noise-bound side of the industrial scene, with a decidedly abstract/slightly bleak sci-fi edged to proceeds. Always great to see a project with this sort of history still plugging away at it.