Taint

Keith Brewer (aka Taint) is a Texas-based power electronics artist. Keith Brewer is old school. The name might not ring any bells, but if you had your ear to the high-end harsh noise and power electronics underground during the 1990's, you'll have heard of Taint, the notoriously sleazy electronics project that Mr. Brewer was operating under since way back. A kind of juiced up, pure-hate version of Whitehouse on steroids, Taint discharged a vicious stew of screaming high-end feedback, grinding distorted scrape, and caustic ranting vocals that are overlaid with sheets of white noise across a prolific output of cassettes, 7"s, CDs, and LPs. These hostile, antagonistic noise outbursts always came with interesting packaging but the visuals and themes that Taint explored were disturbing to say the least, filled with psychosexual violence and grim, hateful observations on humanity, and the combination made for some of the more intense hardcore noise coming out of the American electronic underground.

This isn’t your average run-of-the-mill power electronics assault though; rather than bludgeoning the listener with totally unbearable noise and excruciating
digital whine, although these elements are there, he creates a subtly unnerving and discomfiting effect, using minimalist and sparse instrumentation combined with voice samples and distorted vocals. It’s the sonic equivalent of the quiet twinkly-eyed next door neighbour who gives sweets to kids and helps out in the community but who actually turns out to be a twisted sadistic serial killer who has a dark secret in his basement....

Keith now operates as Mania and keeps on releasing awesome PE/noise ... including some stellar collaborative work with Sam McKinley (aka The Rita). Keep your eyes open for this stuff and buy it all....

The Misogynistic Lust cd uses the original tape as source material to turn it into a different beast altogether. There are no decent vids of Taint out there as far as I can tell.

1993 - Smell & Quim - Taint - Split (7'') [red stream inc]
1993 - MSBR & Taint - Scopotophilia (7'') [msbr records]
1993 - Taint - Killing For Company (C90) [open wound]
1993 - Taint - Strange Feeling, Shit Coming (C50) [g.r.o.s.s.]
1994 - Black Leather Jesus & Taint - Sex Acts On A Child In A Full Body Cast (cass) [deadline recordings]
1995 - Taint - Indecent Liberties (lp) [praxis dr. bearmann]
1995 - Taint - Justmeat (C45) [slaughter productions]
1995 - Taint - Piece-Meal Dissection [taint entertainment]
1996 - Taint - Perverse [taint entertainment]
1996 - Taint - The Untimely Silence (C45) [sounds for consciousness rape]
1996 - Taint - Whoredom [praxis dr. bearmann]
1997 - Taint - When You Meet A Stranger (7'') [self abuse records]
1997 - Taint & Strict - Split (7'') [the ajna offensive]
1998 - Taint - Misogynist Lust (C45) [taint entertainment]
1999 - Taint - Dau Ghter - Victimilogy 2 [freak animal records]
1999 - Taint - Where Are The Whores (7'') [spite]
2001 - Taint - Harmed Live 2000 [biteworks]
2001 - Taint - Harming Obsession [freak animal records]
2001 - Taint - Vice (lp) [self abuse records]
2001 - Taint & Skin Crime & Sickness - Behind The Smile [self abuse records]
2002 - Nicole 12 & Taint - Candyman [freak animal records]
2002 - Taint - ...I'm A Whore (bcard) [pacrec, troniks]
2002 - Taint - Hel-lo (bcard) [pacrec, troniks]
2004 - Taint - Misogynist Lust (CD) [freak animal records]
2003 - Taint & Grunt - Schoolyard Bruises (lp) [antihumanism records]
2007 - Taint - Sex Sick [the ajna offensive]

Taint - Recycled Music (cass) [rrrecords]