Win a KORG Monologue from Norelco Mori (UPDATED)

You could be our next unlucky listener and the proud owner of a brand new KORG Monologue.

If you don't know, the Monologue is an analog-voiced monophonic synthesizer with a 16 step sequencer, unique wave folding capabilities, custom scales and presets created by Aphex Twin. These are a lot of fun, hugely versatile and I use one myself.

For your chance to win, donate $6.66 (per entry, no limit) to Norelco Mori via the Donate page or via PayPal (to norelcomori@icloud.com). Multiple entries mean better odds - enter as many times as you'd like. 1 grand prize winner will be selected at random to win a black Monologue. In addition, 2 runners up will be chosen to receive a t-shirt and a tape. Winners will be announced on an upcoming episode of the show. 

Enter the contest.

Each entry helps pay for things like monthly hosting costs, new music and general "keeping the lights on" expenses. Best of all, it helps support your ad-free listening experience on the show.

This one's mine. Winner will receive a brand new, sealed package... 

Congratulations to our Unlucky Listeners. Nicoli Vargas is taking home a KORG Monologue, Richard Laverde and Yuri Yamaguchi are both getting Norelco Mori t-shirts.

Top 5 Tapes: 2016

Another year starts to wind it's way down, and again, our attention turns to reflect up on the previous months' releases. There were quite a few that really stood out for me this past year. Several albums required a resting place in close proximity to my decks. These 5 cassettes are the ones with the most wear.

• Tim Gray - Sandstone (Ethernet Music).
  Hypnotic and addictive synthesized ambient pieces that bring to mind the classic, Selected Ambient Works Vol. II. Copies of this tape are, oddly, still available.

• Joel Danielsen - Lines Of Withdrawal / The Possibility of Resonance (Total Black).
  I had the rare opportunity to play alongside Joel a new years ago. I played, in my mind, a terrible set that evening and that was even before he took the stage. His performance that night was elegant and showed much restraint. Like that performance, this cassette exemplifies the close attention he pays to every detail. 

• XAKATAGAWA - Vol. 2 (Nostilevo).
  This tape is described as "Ambient delirium disintegration playing very far away, under water, or from behind walls." by the label, and I'd say that's apt. Nostilevo fails to mention just how haunting and punishingly sad the tone is overall. Highly recommended.

• Grozny Penthouse - The Death Of Objects (Muza Muza)
  Minimal reptition. Heavy and deafening techno from Newcastle Upon Tyne artist Grozny Penthouse. 

• Cinema Perdu ‎- A Perfect Negative (Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere.)
  This double CS clocks in at just under 2 hours of music. Field recordings and manipulated classical music used as source audio for this beautifully negative collection of work. 

Inbox: Hylé Tapes

Jefferson Aircrash - Large Hadron Collider (Hylé Tapes).

Anders Brørby - Mulholland Drive, 1984 (Hylé Tapes).

Inbox: Paperbark & Fernlodge, Skittish Arc

Paperbark - Forgotton Narratives (Black Box Tapes).

Skittish Arm - The Outside Inflation (Psi Lab).

Fernlodge & Paperbark - Remote Feed (Cave Recordings).

Inbox: Heejin Jang

Heejin Jang - Vista Point (Ultra Violet Light).

Heejin Jang - Binary Breath (Heavy Mess).

On Deck: Total Black

Getting started on a 2 part Total Black feature. 

Inbox: Chondritic Sound

New stuff in from Chondritic Sound:

Max Kupper and Thorsten Soltau - Amini Sub Volpe Latentes.
Alone - Unyou.
Enema Syringe - Flapper.

Inbox: Hylé Tapes & The Tapeworm Presents...

Benito & Birdy Earns - Reality Check (Hylé Tapes).

Logan-Decay - Flux EP (Hylé Tapes).

Nikita Villenueve - Tocka EP (Hylé Tapes).

former_airline - Our Fantasies to Science And Pornography (Hylé Tapes).

Acid Fountain - Sabina (The Tapeworm Presents...).

Inbox: Black Horizons

The latest from Black Horizons:

• Brown Snake Kills Dog - Sorry, I Failed Too...
• Michaël Idehall / Edgar Kerval.
• Ashburn County's Freakshow.
• Ecferus - Pangaea.
• Jute Gyte / Ecferus.
• L'Acéphale - Decollate.

Inbox: Total Black

Just in from Berlin. 

New releases from Total Black: 

• Entertainment Club Ibiza.
• Joel Danielsson - Lines Of Withdrawal / The Possibility Of Resonance.
• Desroi - Voi.
• Tourist Gaze - Lounge Lover.
• Various Artists - New Brutalism III.

Limited Interest.

I'm excited to announce our new, in-house label, Limited Interest. 

Curated by Alessandro Cortini (Skarn, SONOIO, Nine Inch Nails) and myself, Ted Butler (Head Dress, Norelco Mori), Limited Interest is a Los Angeles label featuring new experimental and electronic recordings from artists both familiar and not yet known. 

First up is LTD-2: Delible. This self titled cassette sees founding Jane's Addiction member, Eric Avery, explore less traditional sonic territory with modular synthesizers and some pretty gorgeous effects chains. Limited to 75 numbered copies.

LTD-3 features new solo work from Montreal's Karl Fousek, who has sold out several stellar releases on Denmark's Phinery Tapes, Canada's Adhesive Sounds, and most recently, his collaborative effort as Fousek / Hanson / Tellier-Craig for LA's Spring Break Tapes. Another edition of 75 numbered copies. 

Both cassettes are hand-dubbed in realtime on chrome tape. 

Exclusive Stream: Grøn - Nye Ritualer

As heard on Episode 031....

Exclusive to Norelco Mori, a digital stream of Grøn's brand new Nye Ritualer released on Infinite Waves. If you like what you hear, pick up a copy from the Infinite Waves web store. The cassette release is limited to 50 copies so grab one while you can.   

Unlucky Listener #5: Monte Burrows - Fantasy Living, Auxiliary Priest - In The Last Days Of The Sutro Fog

This week’s Unlucky Listener was chosen, at random from a list of our mailing list subsribers. Congratulations to Jason Shanley, of Chicago, IL. who has won a copy of Monte Burrows’ Fantasy Living and Auxiliary Priest’s In The Last Days of the Sutro Fog care of Spring Break Tapes.

Jason Shanley might be better known as Cinchel. He’s got a number of self released recordings available his latest physical release is a great tape called Worry. 

Unlucky Listener #4: Phinery - Somehow Commissioned: # 2 TEXTURE

If you listened to last week’s episode, you may have heard that someone’s getting a copy of Phinery’s sold out double cassette and zine limited to 50 copies called Somehow Commissioned #2 TEXTURE. That someone is David Whittemore from Los Angeles CA, of all places. Congratulations to you.

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Unlucky Listener #3: Black Horizons - Frozen In Time II: Music To Accompany The Films of Ingmar Bergman

Thea Stamatelos our Unlucky listener for this week. Thea will get a copy of the lavishly appointed Frozen in Time II: Music to Accompany the Films of Ingmar Bergman released by Black Horizons. 

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Submissions Welcome

Norelco Mori is a cassette-only podcast with a penchant for dark and difficult music.

Analog recordings. Minimal talk. 

Episodes average an hour in length and are encoded in 320kbps mp3. The show is reaching thousands of listeners, now 22 episodes deep. On any given episode, you'll hear anything from harsh noise and ambient drone to black metal and folk, industrial and techno to musique concrete and other experimental oddities. Subscribe to the show in the iTunes Music Store or via your favorite podcast application or RSS reader.

If you or your label would like to hear your tapes on the show, send a quick email to norelcomori@icloud.com for the address. I'm especially interested in your weird rock 'n roll, post metal, depressing bedroom compositions and minimal synth recordings. I encourage you to get in touch.

Unlucky Listener #2: Scant - Contrary To Reason

Congratulations to Christopher Feltner of Strasburg, VA. Christopher is this week’s unlucky listener and will be getting a copy of Scant’s Contrary To Reason cassette as well as some Norelco Mori stickers. You can learn more about his work here. If you’re in the Greenville, NC area on March 21, 2015 you can catch his next live show for Spazz Fest VI at The Art House.

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Unlucky Listener #1: Paralelo - Vestir El Luto, Feels / Death Club - Split

Congratulations to Max Gambol of Newark, Delaware. Max won a copy of Paralelo's Vestir El Luto cassette released by Conjunto Vacio and FEELS / Death Club's split demo on Limited Interest. Max heads up a short run noise label called Spirit Throne Tapes and performs as Winter Ritual. 

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Top Tapes for 2014

Some really great tapes came out in 2014 and I've compiled a list of things I really liked. A lot of these might not have made it my way if it weren't for the podcast, so thanks to everyone who made suggestions and sent submissions. This list is based on which tapes got the most plays on my home system this year. 

• Listening Center - Cycles / Other Phenomena. This is real good. Perfect tape to put on for mixed company. Nicely arranged electronic music with a retro futurist feel to it. Looks like a few more copies just became available.

• Karl Fousek - Relative Position of Figures (Phinery) Contemporary concrete, if that's even a thing. Tape delay and modular synthesizer. Minimal compositions are quick and to the point.

• øjeRum - There is a flaw in my iris (A Giant Fern). Quiet guitars, field recordings and the occasional soft vocal appear on this outstanding collection of recordings. Perfect music for a quiet afternoon or evening. Paw Grabowski is also the visual artist responsible for the 12 pieces that grace the covers of this 4 tape batch from A Giant Fern.

Timeghost - Cellular (Chondritic Sound). Exploratory noise from Providence, RI. Very interesting and original compositions. Multi color, splatter painted clear shells. Just a few copies left on the Chondritic Sound site.

• Lower Tar - Torrid Fields (Night Gaunt Recordings). Dark and synth heavy industrial electronics with stark vocals from L.A.'s Lower Tar (great name, right?). First offering from new label Night Gaunt Recordings. 

• Anji Cheung - Angelic Black. A haunted collage of vocals, drones and field recordings in this edition of 93 cassettes from Anji Cheung. Quiet and chilling. Highly recommended.