Quiet Husband: The Ransom Note Mix

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‘Techno and Noise are more important to me.”

In the barren industrial landscape where noise meets techno, Richie Culver’s Quiet Husband project continues to carve out a landscape that’s as uncompromising as it is compelling. Following the raw, unflinching ‘Religious Equipment’ album, Culver is back with ‘RAGING HABITS 2’.

This sophomore EP signals a subtle shift in approach for Culver. Where ‘Religious Equipment’ dug deep into the harrowing depths of addiction through brutal rhythms and spoken word confessionals, ‘RAGING HABITS 2’ introduces Chicago influences with ambient elements and dark, textural explorations.

Culver’s music is like “being punched in the gut with a scrap-metal fist” and captures that raw, pure feeling without thinking. Neural rushes. Claustrophobia’s exit door.

A mix you say? OK then. How’s a frenetic industrial techno mix then? Good stuff.

Here’s an industrial techno mix that doesn’t fuck around.

Listen and read the interview below:

Ransom Note · Quiet Husband – The Ransom Note Mix

Who are you, where are you, and what version of Quiet Husband are we hearing in this mix?

I am Quiet Husband- I am in Pirate Studios atm writing this. This is a a fairly hard Quiet Husband mix.

Your sound has been described as “squalling, screeching industrial techno that emanates a stained aura.” Can you draw what you think this mix sounds like?

How does your brain work when making music that transitions between “unsteady VHS moodpieces” and “high-velocity trance-techno rinseouts” we hear in your productions?

Techno and Noise are more important to me.

What was the first industrial or noise record that influenced your Quiet Husband project, and how did it make you feel?

Probably T G when I was a teenager. Being from Hull it was something I could relate to.

Where was this mix recorded?

Pirate Studios Camden.

What would be the ideal setting to listen to this mix?

Driving down village roads at night in the UK somewhere.

What should we be wearing?

Your usual clothes

Your dream setting to record a mix: Drowned By Locals’ studio, Berghain’s system, or somewhere along the “danker than the Humber in midwinter” landscape?

Berghain

Which track in the mix best represents where you’re at right now.

D.Dan

If you could go back to back with any artist, who would it be and why?

Probably Rothko or Bacon – I’d love to see what kinda stuff they would play.

If this mix was an edible thing, would it taste like “Dream Pills” or something altogether more visceral?
Coal.

One record in your collection that’s unmixable or too difficult to mix into anything else?\

Probably something by Straight Panic

What’s more important in your sets, the track that opens “the gates of hell” or the one that provides “empty solace” at the end?

Always the first track for me is the most important one.

If it was an animal, what would it be?

If it were an animal, it would be a Boar.

How does this mix represent the evolution from the “industrial collage of techno and noise” on “Religious Equipment” to that of “Raging Habits II”?
It’s dance floor friendly. Religious Equipment was not.

If you were trapped on a desert island with one other artist from the industrial/noise scene, who would you choose? How long before you create a collaborative EP using only found objects?

Climax Denial – We would start collaborating after a few days.

Your doctor says you need more exercise… what do you take up?

5 aside football

If you could travel in time to any moment in time, where would you go and why?

My funeral to see if everyone is crying and then to see how long it takes for everyone to get over it and get in with their lives.

Upcoming in the world of Quiet Husband…

The occasional DJ set in Berlin mainly.

LISTEN TO THE FULL EP HERE – SPOTIFY