TAINT/MANIA/ Everything Keith Brewer & related

Started by cr, February 23, 2024, 09:28:47 PM

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Abused Corpse


Cranial Blast

Quote from: Abused Corpse on November 02, 2025, 07:19:47 AM
Quote from: Abused Corpse on June 19, 2024, 08:12:17 PMDoes anyone know the origin of the guy with the gun on the cover of Insidious?

I found the source of the Insidious... cover

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1935102,00.html



Interesting and an interesting article to. Insidious And Alone cover artwork among some of the best.

Minus1

Quote from: impulse manslaughter on February 28, 2024, 03:24:33 PM
Quote from: Australianantichrist on February 28, 2024, 05:16:30 AMAre there going to be any official reissues coming anytime soon, maybe from Freak Animal ?


If I remember correctly Hospital had plans for a large cd-box some years ago. Not sure if this is still happening.

I have yet to be Tainted. (Sorry.)

But this thread (and other sources) has me deeply determined to immerse myself into this work. And as I look around, I see no big box-set retrospective. Surely Taint screams for such a thing.
Give Me CDs Or Give Me Death.

prelapsus

For anyone watching this thread who might have the means to make it happen... I would buy this...


Minus1

Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on March 04, 2024, 09:22:03 AMThere are handful of interviews. Usually they are very short and blunt. You'd find out more about him as person from Special Interests forum. His messages as Bitewerks posted on SI forum probably is biggest amount of "preserved" communication.

And this must surely be a goldmine...(as I try to figure out how to find Bitewerks posts)....
Give Me CDs Or Give Me Death.

Theodore

"ἀθάνατοι θνητοί, θνητοὶ ἀθάνατοι, ζῶντες τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον, τὸν δὲ ἐκείνων βίον τεθνεῶτες"

Minus1

#97
I love you.

(Sorry. I'm a Luddite.)

Edit: Damn. He posted a lot! And he posted right up until days before his passing.
Give Me CDs Or Give Me Death.

FreakAnimalFinland

#98
He was for long time 3rd most active poster on the forum... and still is! Most people are far far behind.

He was among first 30 or so posters who joined.  When SI started, it was first invite only -basis, so group of invited people started to post things before it was properly announced. It was meant to kind of set the tone of forum, give some sort of guidelines what it is meant for. Curiously, it worked and pretty much none of the flaws that was plaguing forums of the time, never was big problem at SI.

Keith did not use social media at all, so his public activity was mostly posting on forums. He was also active at Troniks/Chronditic forum when it was up and running.

One can find plenty of information about movies, noise, art, and other things from his posts. 
E-mail: fanimal +a+ cfprod,com
MAGAZINE: http://www.special-interests.net
LABEL / DISTRIBUTION: FREAK ANIMAL http://www.nhfastore.net

Minus1

Give Me CDs Or Give Me Death.

BatteredStatesofEuphoria

There were rumors that Hospital was working on a Taint box a few years back, but obviously nothing solid came of that.

Probably something that's not easy to put together, especially with his early releases being scattered over a lot of long defunct labels.

Not that I wouldn't like to see a mass rerelease, in a box or otherwise, but would this even be fitting his wishes for his work (if he made any)? Keith never struck me as a "box set" kind of guy.

BatteredStatesofEuphoria

On another note, was listening to "Sawgasm Side B" off the Gilden box the other day...

Muffled screams, a drill going off in the background, an overall feeling of listening to some demented soul losing it in a dank, dark basement...if I had just heard this without context and someone told me it was a lost Mania tape, I could believe it.

Keith had mentioned in a post having some brief contacts with Gilden back in the day, and it makes me wonder if he had ever heard the Sawgasm tape and how much of an influence that second side might have been on the later conception of Mania.

theotherjohn

Keith deleted quite a lot of his posts/replies too so his total was likely even larger. The only other forum I know that he posted in was one dedicated to mountain biking (which explains the 'MTB' on the end of his username) but noise didn't crossover into his discussions there.

Cranial Blast

I'm still hoping for a Vice CD reissue, that would be essential! I hope to see that sometime in the near future and also still holding out in hopes for a big CD compilation that consists of a series of compilation track appearances and rare tracks. In my opinion, some of his best and most harrowing stuff in both Taint and Mania have been executed very well through various compilation appearances over the years.

Cranial Blast

#104
I think one thing that rings true about Keith's work in Mania in particular, is how profound and relatable those uneasy feelings are, that are being meticulously being projected and expressed through the noise itself, through a foreboding sense of anxiety, desperation and isolation that continue to escalate. This time a year I've got terrible anxiety from season change to winter. I find myself drinking a lot earlier, a lot more often and going to bed almost always with nightmares and then waking up everyday to this depressed and anxious ridden state that makes you feel very guilty, self ridiculing, isolated and alone in those feelings and takes hours in the morning to return to a semi normal state of mind. I think Mania is the banner to those types of feelings and is precisely why it's so magnified to certain individuals, cause it feels so authentic to those types of experienced emotions. I never knew Keith, as I was late to the forum before he passed, but he's no doubt somebody I'd of easily been able to relate to on various topics. I'm glad he was able to communicate those feelings of anxiety so well with Mania to the point that it demands the listeners immediate attention.