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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 318

Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.

You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.

If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise. I read them with both eyes and, on special occasions, a third one.

The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.

Now. Each of these episodes is a two-set outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread. Unless you look. Don’t look.

I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.

Steps that refuse to announce themselves, then a forest that arrived a year early.
Side A counts silent steps so quietly the floorboards agree not to tell, loses a microlith before you notice, sketches four corners with no furniture, hides a small modernist house in the woodland, skims the surface and refuses the basement, and runs a film that never quite developed. Side B ties up under its own wind at a jetty grown on purpose, sees space invaders double and misses them, builds a reef from harmonics no one may stand on, leaves a green needle that will not say which word it is, threads blood through a low-lit labyrinth, and dates a midnight forest 2025 inside timestreams dated 2026.
Overall mood: Quiet, slightly uncanny, and carefully unfinished — full of small stones, half-cleared paths, and trees that have not been told which year they are in. Perfect for dusk listening, houses hiding in woods, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.

Mood mist: steps that refuse to announce themselves, stones smaller than a minute, squares that have given up being rooms, a house hiding in trees, land seen only from above, a film that never quite developed.

00:00:00 hershel – 16
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/16
From the album: silent steps for a better way. Label: whitelabrecs
Silent steps for a better way, counted so quietly the floorboards agree not to tell.
00:09:43 zakè, Ossa, ASC – Microlith 5
https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/track/microlith-5-3
From the album: Microliths and Momentary Drifts.
A stone you could lose in a pocket, drifting for less time than it takes to notice you dropped it.
00:10:36 Nick May – Minimal Squares
https://nickmaymusic.bandcamp.com/track/minimal-squares
From the album: Sketches: Ambient Works.
Sketches that declined to become paintings. Four corners, no furniture, the light doing all the talking.
00:14:08 Enofa – Slate
https://enofa.bandcamp.com/track/slate
From the album: Small Modernist House in Woodland Setting. Label: Subexotic Records
A small modernist house in a woodland setting, roof the colour of an unsent letter, Subexotic leaving the path half-cleared.
00:19:10 Olio Flux – Land, The Surface
https://olioflux.bandcamp.com/track/land-the-surface
From the album: Selected Frequencies.
Selected frequencies skimming the crust and refusing the basement. Everything interesting is happening one millimetre down.
00:23:12 Akira Film Script – Jeno
https://etherealprojector.bandcamp.com/track/jeno
From the album: Holo. Label: Ethereal Projector
A projection that needed a screen. Ethereal Projector running the reel anyway.

Mood mist: a ship coming back under its own wind, a mouse seeing double in orbit, a reef built from harmonics, a needle that may also be a brain, a labyrinth that kept the lights low, a forest that arrived a year early.

00:25:26 Anubis Rude – Homecoming
https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/track/homecoming
From the album: Windjammer. Label: Ingrown Records
Tying up at a jetty Ingrown grew on purpose. The dog on the porch may be a god.
00:29:51 Letters From Mouse – Stereo Vision
https://tripfm.bandcamp.com/track/letters-from-mouse-stereo-vision
From the album: Triplicate Tapes Vol. 2: Space Invaders. Label: TRIP FM, Triplicate Records
Space invaders seen with both eyes, which is how you miss them. Triplicate printing the postcard three times.
00:33:20 Coda Nautica – Coral
https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/track/coral
From the album: Intricate Harmonics 2. Label: Neotantra
Intricate harmonics building a reef no one is allowed to stand on. Neotantra leaving the snorkel by the door.
00:38:31 Time Rival – Green Needle
https://timerival.bandcamp.com/track/green-needle
From the album: stay safe out there.
Stay safe out there — advice from a record that has already left the house. Laurel or yanny. The tape will not say.
00:41:44 Boards of Canada – Blood In The Labyrinth
https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/track/blood-in-the-labyrinth
From the album: Inferno. Label: Warp Records
Inferno filed under Warp, the thread you were told not to look at.
00:46:19 Mark Ellery Griffiths – Midnight Forest (2025)
https://markgriffiths.bandcamp.com/track/midnight-forest-2025
From the album: Timestreams (2026).
Midnight forest, dated 2025, living inside timestreams dated 2026. The trees have not been informed which year they are in. They seem fine.

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 318.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 317

Silent Rooms

Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve-track virtual cassettes that flips themselves at the halfway mark.

If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.

The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies.

Now imagine each episode as a colossal rotating stage — a great mechanical blooming lotus. You, the audience only ever glimpse a sliver of it at a time. Every artist is allotted the exact time it takes them to perform their piece. Then they rotate out of view, and the next act glides in. The stage spins at whatever speed the track demands.
The names of the artists and labels I’ll mention before each set — or “side,” as the cassette alchemists call them. Six little incantations per set, plus a general mist of what mood to expect.
Now the stage begins to turn.

A sea of grey that arrives before the coastline decides to be there, then a planet that kept the heating off.
Side A fogs the unlit lighthouse, files the middle of nowhere under the average of the average, watches a building take the hint, holds its breath in a Marienbad corridor that will not let you leave, asks if it is conscious now at the altitude where the light stops answering, and leaves the missing puzzle piece missing. Side B keeps the silent water from rippling on cue, leaves wormcasts on the lawn as agriculture and omen, notices the getaway too late and closes the car door very softly, skims a stone across a garden pond that remembers Atlantis, approaches a curve it is never allowed to touch, and dims the cabin lights on a cold planet with a bowl left by the airlock.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly uneasy, and quietly unfinished — full of silent rooms, almost-arrivals, and maps that share a shoreline they should not. Perfect for dusk listening, corridors that will not end, or sitting still while the lotus holds its breath for the title of the night.

Mood mist: pieces that will not fit, a sun too white to look at, hotel corridors that forget the year, a structure agreeing to fall, the average of nowhere, a grey sea that learned how to fog a window.

00:01:55 Sven Laux & Logic Moon – The Fog
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/sea-of-grey
From the album: Sea of Grey. Label: whitelabrecs
The Fog. Sea of Grey doing what grey seas do — arriving before the coastline has decided to be there. Whitelabrecs leaving the lighthouse unlit on purpose.
00:05:25 Mike Hans STEFFL – middle of nowhere
https://mikehanssteffl.bandcamp.com/track/middle-of-nowhere
From the album: average of the average. Label: Aural Films
Middle of nowhere, filed under the average of the average. Aural Films scoring a place that exists only because the map got bored.
00:09:26 BUNKR – Construct Collapse
https://bunkr-music.bandcamp.com/track/construct-collapse
From the album: Signs. Label: VLSI Records
Signs that pointed at a building, then watched the building take the hint. VLSI keeping the rubble in tune.
00:14:39 Simon Heartfield – Silent Rooms
https://simonheartfield.bandcamp.com/track/silent-rooms
From the album: Last Year At Marienbad.
Last year at Marienbad, which may also be this year, which may also be a corridor that will not let you leave. Title of the night. The lotus holds its breath.
00:18:21 HAWKSMOOR – Into The White Sun
https://hawksmoor.bandcamp.com/track/into-the-white-sun
From the album: Am I Conscious Now?
Am I conscious now? The question asked at the altitude where the light stops answering.
00:22:03 Möe – Incierta
https://secuenciastemporales.bandcamp.com/track/m-e-incierta
From the album: Möe – Once you Have the Pieces (ST023). Label: Secuencias Temporales
Once you have the pieces, the puzzle declines to be finished. Secuencias Temporales letting the missing bit stay missing.

Mood mist: water that will not speak, soil turned by something without a face, a getaway noticed too late, a garden pond that remembers a drowned city, a curve that never quite arrives, a planet that kept the heating off.

00:28:16 Luca Longobardi – GMM1 (Bonus Track)
https://luca-longobardi.bandcamp.com/track/gmm1-bonus-track
From the album: Aqua Tacita. Label: Seil Records
GMM1, the bonus the silent water didn’t advertise. Aqua Tacita — still water, Seil holding the surface so it doesn’t ripple on cue.
00:34:14 Screaming Alice – Wormcasts
https://meansmag.bandcamp.com/track/wormcasts
From the album: Label: MEANS
Grass roots doing the quiet work underground, then leaving the evidence on the lawn. MEANS filing it under agriculture and under omen.
00:41:19 Unterm Rad – They’re On To Us
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/theyre-on-to-us
From the album: The Getaway. Label: Mahorka
They’re on to us. The getaway already photographed. Mahorka closing the car door very softly.
00:45:01 Snufmumriko – Trädgårdsdammen och Atlantis
https://le-mont-analogue.bandcamp.com/track/tra-dga-rdsdammen-och-atlantis
From the album: Talisman. Label: Le Mont Analogue
The garden pond and Atlantis, sharing one shoreline. A talisman you can skim a stone across. Le Mont Analogue keeping both maps.
00:49:59 pollsign – Emergence
https://pollsign.bandcamp.com/track/emergence
From the album: Asymptote. Label: Triplicate Records
The line the curve approaches and is never allowed to touch. Triplicate printing three copies of almost.
00:53:27 Dionisaf – Cold Planet
https://dionisaf.bandcamp.com/track/cold-planet-2
From the album: Spacetrip. Label: Ambient Cat
Spacetrip with the cabin lights dimmed. Ambient Cat leaving a bowl by the airlock, just in case.

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 317.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

Posted by trevlad | October 2, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: Sven Laux, Logic Moon, whitelabrecs, Mike Hans STEFFL, Aural Films, BUNKR, VLSI Records, Simon Heartfield, HAWKSMOOR, Möe, Secuencias Temporales, Luca Longobardi, Seil Records, Screaming Alice, MEANS | Leave a comment

Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 316

there is no tomorrow

If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.

A shadow planet named I, then a Kyoto summer asked to keep its voice down.
Side A holds the Kármán line where atmosphere gives up and space takes the shift, fogs a Mahorka pane so it does not fall, learns the ocean’s temperature and refuses to hurry, turns only because the title says Turning, scores the belt and the bin for people who never board, and shares one letter between the eclipse’s head and tail. Side B lets Yasaka stay open if she lets it quiet, declines the next page for two minutes of distant particles, steps out of the flock into tape smear, presses a golden tree between other people’s leaves, keeps the receipt for work done in vain, and poses for a sixth painting that will not sit still long enough to be framed.
Overall mood: Contemplative, analog, and quietly high-altitude — full of silent motion, small mercies, and calendars that simply decline the next page. Perfect for dusk listening, airport corridors after hours, or sitting still while the lotus holds for the title of the night.

Mood mist: a shadow planet named I, a security lane dreaming of flight, a record that turns because it is called Turning, chill that crossed an ocean to sit down, glass remembering a face, jazz written at the altitude where the sky stops being sky.

00:03:30 Outer Worlds Jazz Ensemble – Kármán Cantata
https://outerworldsjazzensemble.bandcamp.com/track/k-rm-n-cantata
From the album: The Kármán Line. Label: ATA Records
The line where atmosphere gives up and space takes the shift. Chip Wickham and Neil Innes keeping the higher planes they put aside in Tokyo, then found again in a room.
00:09:29 4T Thieves – Reflection
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/reflection
From the EP: Glass. Label: Mahorka
Doors closing, wood scraped into percussion, Boards of Canada still fogging the corridor. Mahorka holding the pane so it doesn’t fall.
00:14:23 The Bird’s Companion – Pacific Chill (feat. Glenn Moores)
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/the-birds-companion-pacific-chill-feat-glenn-moores
From the compilation: Imaginary North Transmission 012. Label: Imaginary North
A bird that learned the ocean’s temperature and refuses to hurry the forecast.
00:17:42 Rhucle – Turning
https://rhucle.bandcamp.com/track/turning-2
From the album: Turning. Label: Silent Songs
Silent Songs naming the motion and then doing only that. The stage agrees to spin at the speed of the title.
00:19:18 Keith Hanlon – TSA Dreamer
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/tsa-dreamer
From the album: Music for Airport Workers. Label: Cyclical Dreams
Music for the people who never board. Cyclical Dreams scoring the belt, the bin, the small mercy of a green light.
00:23:01 Brandon Locher – I
https://brandonlocher.bandcamp.com/track/i
From the album: Rahu Ketu.
The eclipse’s head and the eclipse’s tail — sharing one letter and calling it a whole self.

Mood mist: a sixth painting that never dried, work done in vain and kept anyway, a gold tree from a book of leaves, a flock left on purpose, particles too far apart to share a calendar, a Kyoto summer asked to keep its voice down.

00:28:39 Josaleigh Pollett – Yasaka, Natsu
https://josaleighpollett.bandcamp.com/track/yasaka-natsu
From the album: If I Let It Quiet.
If she lets it quiet, the shrine gate stays open and summer does not announce itself.
00:31:10 SanelliX & SpoonBeats – there is no tomorrow
https://valleyviewrecords.bandcamp.com/track/there-is-no-tomorrow
From the album: Distant Particles. Label: Valley View Records
Distant particles from Caracas and Mexico, filed in Stockholm. Two minutes in which the calendar simply declines the next page. Title of the night. The lotus holds still for it.
00:32:49 Spirit Unwell – Devine
https://spiritunwell.bandcamp.com/track/devine
From the album: Leaving the Flock. Label: Mystery Circles
Spelled the way a leaving sounds. Nic Fit stepping out of the flock into tape smear. Mystery Circles keeping the door from slamming.
00:36:25 Kat Emma – Laurelin
https://ambientcuration.bandcamp.com/track/kat-emma-laurelin
From the compilation: Compilation vol. 3. Label: Ambient Curation
The golden tree, borrowed from a wood that only exists when someone is reading. Ambient Curation pressing it between other people’s leaves.
00:38:28 Arbee – Exigu
https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/track/exigu
From the album: En vain. Label: Chitra Records, Ambient Cat
Small on purpose. En vain — what we do without being asked, and sometimes it matters, and sometimes the modular just keeps the receipt.
00:43:12 Alex Ringess – Tableau #6
https://alexringess.bandcamp.com/track/tableau-6-2
From the album: Analog Abstractions.
Analog abstractions posing for a painting that will not sit still long enough to be framed.

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 316.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

Posted by trevlad | October 1, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: Outer Worlds Jazz Ensemble, ATA Records, 4T Thieves, Mahorka, The Bird's Companion, Glenn Moores, Imaginary North, Rhucle, Silent Songs, Keith Hanlon, Cyclical Dreams, Brandon Locher, Josaleigh Pollet | Leave a comment

Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 315

Gathering Moss

If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.

Moss collecting light before the record exists, then tour days that travel only as far as their own shadow.
Side A gathers moss on a lotus that has not officially opened, parks Sol in the cat’s window, breaks Kerala dawn against industrial dusk, coils organisms above the weather, circumnavigates on a borrowed lighthouse, and smears 1982 until the hair still looks like a forecast. Side B lives in the umbra that remembers what cast it, opens water with no coastline drawn on it, retires speech for the evening, keeps a 2012 hold tone wearing pearls, jams Golden Acres until the punchline clocks out, and packs IDM for a journey only a shadow completes.
Overall mood: Contemplative, prismatic, and quietly migratory — full of exclusive October light, borrowed signals, and harbour lamps left on anyway. Perfect for dusk listening, hold music that never connects, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.

Shout out to my new subscriber Vivid Stars Forgotten. One more subscriber and we hit the Mixcloud minimum for a payout — the kind that keeps the channel’s lights on after dark. If you’ve been hovering at the door, this is the hour to step in.

Mood mist: moss collecting light before the record exists, a sun parked in the cat’s window, dawn as deconstructed club, organisms coiled above the weather, a borrowed lighthouse for a full orbit, 1982 seen through a lens that will not sharpen.
00:04:33 Ocean Moon & Silver Ley – Gathering Moss
https://oceanmoon.bandcamp.com/album/prismatic-fields
Exclusive track.
From the album: Prismatic Fields. Label: Open Universe. Releases: October 16, 2026
Gathering moss on a lotus that Open Universe has not officially opened yet. Metaphysical pop from a Cornish hill, waiting for October to switch the prisms on.
00:07:15 John Louis Kluck – Sol
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/sol
From the album: Ethereal Space. Label: Ambient Cat. Year:2026
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/ethereal-space
Sol hanging in ethereal space like a coin no one has spent. Ambient Cat leaving the curtains open for people and for the neighbouring households.
00:13:22 Sunken Cages – Kerala
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/kerala
From the album: Neram Pularumbol (As The Dawn Breaks. Label: Mahorka. Year: 2026
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/neram-pularumbol-as-the-dawn-breaks
Kerala at the hour the title names — as the dawn breaks. South Indian folk arguing with industrial dusk until neither will admit who started it.
00:16:34 øjeRum – Recurring Dream of Coiled Organisms in the Sky
https://amuletoftears.bandcamp.com/track/recurring-dream-of-coiled-organisms-in-the-sky
From the album: Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers. Label: Amulet of Tears. Year: 2022
https://amuletoftears.bandcamp.com/album/butterfly-tongues-more-ancient-than-flowers
A recurring dream of coiled organisms in the sky. Butterfly tongues older than the flowers drink from. The stage turns very slowly here.
00:26:10 Rising Galaxy, Arcane Trickster – Circumnavigation
https://cosmicleaf.bandcamp.com/track/circumnavigation
From the release: Borrowed Signal. Label: Cosmicleaf Records. Year: 2026
https://cosmicleaf.bandcamp.com/album/borrowed-signal
Circumnavigation on a borrowed signal. You complete the circle using someone else’s lighthouse and call it your own weather.
00:32:20 Craig Aalders – Soft Focus ’82
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/craig-aalders-soft-focus-82
From the album: Imaginary North Transmission 012. Label: Imaginary North. Year: 2026
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-north-transmission-012
Soft Focus ’82. The year smeared just enough that the hair still looks like a forecast.

Mood mist: songs that live in the shade, water with no map drawn on it, speech retired for the evening, a hold tone wearing pearls, a jam in the golden acres, tour days that travel only as far as their own shadow.
00:39:59 Hiram – Umbra
https://matthewhiram.bandcamp.com/track/umbra
From the album: Shade Songs. Year: 2026
https://matthewhiram.bandcamp.com/album/shade-songs
Umbra. The part of the shade that still remembers the object that cast it. Shade Songs filing the silhouette under “unfinished business.”
00:46:06 maps and diagrams – open water
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/track/open-water
From the album: returning light. Label: Home Normal. Year: 2026
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/returning-light
Open water. Returning light that forgot to bring the coastline. Home Normal leaving the harbour lights on anyway.
00:51:18 David Cordero – Sin necesidad de palabras
Exclusive track.
From the album: Más allá de las palabras. Label: Noray Records. Year: 2026
https://norayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m-s-all-de-las-palabras
Without need of words. Beyond them, even. Noray handing you a minute that refuses to be subtitled.
00:52:20 luxury elite – your call is very important to us
https://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/your-call-is-very-important-to-us
From the album: Split LP. Label: Ailanthus Recordings. Year: 2012
https://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/split-lp
Your call is very important to us. 2012 hold music still waiting for an operator who retired to a mall fountain.
00:53:41 Adel Music Club – TDC Jam (Remix)
https://adelmusicclub.bandcamp.com/track/tdc-jam-remix
From the album: Golden Acres. Label: FRBH Recordings. Year: 2026
https://adelmusicclub.bandcamp.com/album/golden-acres
TDC Jam, remixed across Golden Acres until the original punchline clocks out. The lotus spinning at club speed
01:01:57 SURVEY CHANNEL – Tour & Shadow Days
https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/track/tour-shadow-days
From the album: Along the Wind Spear. Label: Triplicate Records. Year: 2020
https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/along-the-wind-spear
Tour and shadow days along the wind spear. IDM packed for a journey that only a shadow complets.

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 315.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

Posted by trevlad | September 30, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: Adel Music Club, Ailanthus Recordings, ambient, Ambient Cat, Amulet of Tears, Arcane Trickster, atmospheric, øjeRum, Brighton And Hove, Bulgaria, chill-out, Cosmicleaf Records, Craig Aalders, David Cordero, Denmark, drone, drone ambient, electroacoustic, electronic, England, ethereal ambient, experimental, field recording, field recordings, FRBH Recordings, Greece, Hiram, Home Normal, Imaginary North, John Louis Kluck, Leeds, Lithuania, luxury elite, Mahorka, Maps and Diagrams, meditative, Minneapolis, Minnesota, nature, noise pop, Noray Records, Ocean Moon, Ontario, Open Universe, organic, pop, Rising Galaxy, Silver Ley, soundtrack, space ambient, space music, Sunken Cages, Survey Channel, synthpop, synthwave, Toronto, Triplicate Records, UK, Vilnius | Leave a comment

Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 314

Breathing and Vibrant

If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.

Roads that remember their own headlights, then loneliness painted in two colours that match the Earth.

Side A drives Mulholland in 1937 with the windows down, borrows names for unknown places the way lungs borrow air, lives in the comma of a virga that never lands, otherizes you into a pleasant hum, steps into a Toronto river that has already left for the lake, and works the grove after hours at the speed of sap.

Side B opens the other six petals: an altostratiform spirit message from Cloud School, Haku drawing a thin white line across Vespera, autumn filing unopened wishes so they can fall unnoticed, a serenade from a field that forgot its stars on purpose, a Brasstown Bridge baptism you did not schedule, and pale blue and white echoing until loneliness looks like a planet.

Overall mood: Contemplative, watery, and quietly migratory — full of Imaginary North hush, Passed Oceans dunkings, and weather that keeps the certificate. Perfect for dusk listening, dry shoes beside the river, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.

Mood mist: roads that remember their own headlights, places without maps, rain that never quite reaches the ground, a buzz turned into a stranger, water that refuses to be the same twice, a grove that works the field after hours.

00:04:20 Elijah Fox – Mulholland Drive 1937
https://elijahfox1.bandcamp.com/track/mulholland-drive-1937
From the album: Ambient Works for the Highways of Los Angeles. Year: 2025
Mulholland before the billboards learned to talk. 1937 still driving with the windows down, the city below not yet sure it is a city.
00:04:53 Absence – Breathing and Vibrant
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/breathing-and-vibrant
From the album: Names of Unknown Places Label: Imaginary North. Year: 2026
The episode title track of tonight’s weather. Unknown places borrowing names the way lungs borrow air.
00:11:50 Eluvium – Microfauna
https://eluvium.bandcamp.com/track/microfauna
From the album: Virga III. Label: Temporary Residence Ltd. Year: 2026
Microfauna under a virga that never lands. Whole kingdoms living in the comma between cloud and dust.
00:13:57 Tim Story – Otherize
https://curiousmusicia.bandcamp.com/track/otherize
From the album: Buzzle. Label: Curious Music. Year: 2025
Otherize. Buzzle sanding the edges off “you” until “you” becomes a pleasant hum in the next room.
00:16:45 Kilometre Club – This River I Step In Is Not The River I Stand In
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/kilometre-club-this-river-i-step-in-is-not-the-river-i-stand-in
From the compilation album: Lake Effect: Quiet Music From Toronto. Label: Imaginary North. Year: 2026
Heraclitus in Toronto. The river you stepped in has already left for the lake. Quiet music keeping its shoes dry.
00:18:37 Willebrant – Grove
https://willebrant.bandcamp.com/track/grove-4
From the album: Fieldworks. Year: 2025
Grove. Fieldworks filed under trees that do not clock off. The stage turns at the speed of sap.

The lotus folds. The other six petals open.
Mood mist: mid-level cloud sending post, dusk wearing a white mask, autumn keeping the unopened envelopes, a field that sings back, a bridge that dunks you anyway, loneliness painted in two colours that match the Earth.

00:24:14 Towering Vertical – Altostratiform Spirit Message
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/side-2b-altostratiform-spirit-message
From the album: Cloud School. Label: Relics of the Eternal City, The Dream Journal Institute. Year: 2025
Cloud School leaving a note on the desk you cannot reach without becoming weather.
00:37:11 The Green Kingdom – Haku
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/haku
From the album: Vespera. Label: whitelabrecs. Year: 2026
Haku. Vespera drawing a thin white line across the evening and calling it a kingdom.
00:39:32 Ed Herbers – Wishes That Never Came True
https://herbers.bandcamp.com/track/wishes-that-never-came-true
From the album: Season Cycle: Autumn. Label: Passed Recordings. Year: 2026
Wishes that never came true, filed under Autumn so they can fall without anyone noticing they were granted.
00:42:41 Vivid Stars Forgotten – Serenade
https://vividstarsforgotten.bandcamp.com/track/serenade
From the album: The Resonant Field. Label: EC Underground. Year: 2026
A serenade from a resonant field. The stars vivid, then forgot on purpose.
00:48:47 New Battalions – Baptism at the Brasstown Bridge
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/baptism-at-the-brasstown-bridge
From the compilation album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings. Year: 2026
Baptism at the Brasstown Bridge. Passed Oceans offering a dunking you did not schedule. The water keeps the certificate.
00:53:51 Heÿkla – Pale Blue And White
https://driftworks.bandcamp.com/track/pale-blue-and-white
From the album: Echoes of Loneliness. Label: Driftworks. Year: 2026
Loneliness echoing until it looks like a planet seen from too far away. Driftworks closing the spool before the color dries.

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 314.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 313

Portal Reload

If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.

A doorway that reboots itself, then a planet showing you the face it keeps away from the sun.

Side A coughs the portal awake, paints Milan limb by limb in grey-cheek library jazz, docks Ishtar’s goddess-ship, waits for Blue Bell Hill to switch from black-and-white to blossom, folds a desert peacock that rarely leaves the room, and hums a 7-inch bodega under fluorescent strip-light.

Side B parks godhead in the sprawl, waltzes a chest-pain name you cannot pronounce, pours top brass that refuses to complicate, walks the talk until it grows bass strings, holds the only hands that exist to be held, and ends on the dark side of the earth — the hemisphere the dying star never got around to lighting.

Overall mood: Playful, cinematic, and quietly cosmic — full of Clay Pipe colour, Batov half-shut eyes, and infrastructure filed under prayer. Perfect for late listening, bodega aisles after hours, or sitting with the drawbridge down while the next spool still waits.

Mood mist: a doorway that reboots itself, Milan painted limb by limb, a goddess-ship docking on the lotus, a council estate coming into colour, a desert peacock that rarely leaves the room, a 7-inch bodega humming under fluorescent strip-light.

00:03:30 DaoLogic – Portal Reload
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/portal-reload
From the album: Source Vive Label: Mahorka
The portal coughs, then remembers its password. Warm crispy beats walking you through without extrasystoles. You enter. The source is still alive.
00:07:27 Barigozzi Group – Grey Cheeks
https://fourfliesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/grey-cheeks
From the album: Woman’s Colours Label: Four Flies Records
the last colour on a body mapped in library jazz. Wurlitzer blushing while the flute keeps the secret.
00:09:34 Gong – Ship Of Ishtar
https://gongband.bandcamp.com/track/ship-of-ishtar
From the album: Unending Ascending.
Venus at the tiller. Sacred cargo under the sails, clocks not yet reset. Climb aboard — the guitar is already a spaceship, but tonight the ship is Ishtar.
00:17:50 David Boulter – Blue Bell Hill
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/blue-bell-hill
From the album: St Ann’s Label: Clay Pipe Music
Blue Bell Hill before the demolition learned its manners. Black-and-white streets waiting for the cherry blossom to switch the world to colour.
00:20:04 Taftir – Tavasim
https://taftir.bandcamp.com/track/tavasim-2
From the EP: Od Layla Ba Ayara Label: Batov Records
Desert town, five players, a soul ballad they almost never play live. Feathers folded. The groove keeps its eyes half-shut.
00:23:05 East Side Supply – The Bodega
https://eastsidesupply.bandcamp.com/track/the-bodega
From the single: DELICATESSEN / THE BODEGA Label: Sonor Music Editions
Harpsichord and flute shopping the aisles. Axelrod hits between the tinned peaches. The bodega closes the side before the lotus can blink.

Mood mist: sprawl praying to itself, a chest-pain waltz with a name you cannot pronounce, brass that refuses to complicate, Watt walking the talk into orbit, hands that only exist to be held, a planet showing you the face it keeps away from the sun.

00:27:57 boycalledcrow – godhead
https://boycalledcrow.bandcamp.com/track/godhead
From the album: the sprawl Label: Mortality Tables
Godhead parked in the sprawl. Mortality Tables filing the prayer under “infrastructure.”
00:29:59 Angine de Poitrine – Tohogd
https://anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com/track/tohogd
From the album: Vol.1 Label: Republic of Music
a syllable that arrived before the translation. Vol.1 still catching its breath.
00:33:53 Matt Berry – Top Brass Two
https://mattberry.bandcamp.com/track/top-brass-two
From the album: Simplicity Label: Acid Jazz Records
Top brass, second helping. Simplicity wearing a tie it does not need. Acid Jazz pouring the good stuff and leaving the bottle.
00:36:50 Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio – Walk the Talk
https://galecstasy.bandcamp.com/track/walk-the-talk
From the album: Wattzotica Label: Mystery Circles
Walk the talk until the talk grows bass strings. Wattzotica: the stage spinning at walking pace, then suddenly not.
00:40:15 The Mistys – A Hand Is To Hold
https://themistysband.bandcamp.com/track/a-hand-is-to-hold
From the album: Situations | Useless Mouths Label: Castles In Space
A hand is to hold. Useless mouths taking the night off. Castles In Space leaving the drawbridge down.
00:43:46 Martin Solos – Dark Side of the Earth
https://martinsolos.bandcamp.com/track/dark-side-of-the-earth
From the album: Heart of a Dying Star.
the hemisphere the dying star never got around to lighting. Heart still beating in the shade.

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 313.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 312

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If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.

A luminous, slightly forensic ambient journey through corridors of evidence, papery lanterns, and planets that have not finished burning.
Side A opens an investigation the cameras invent as they roll, then cracks a cosmic oval, grows emerald armour between patio bricks, combs strings into sand that will not stay, squeezes two minutes of smear-test whimsy, and ends on a wind prayer written for people and cats.

Side B walks dry iron valleys toward utopian lullabies, cuts others from the seventh gemstone tray, argues a Messiah into demo clothes, wires splendour so slowly it can curve, refuses to hurry its illusions, and keeps Batov’s ten-year sun turning with all it can do.
Overall mood: Contemplative, analog, and quietly jewelled — full of evidence the ghost leaves behind, sand still deciding, and light that knows which pocket it came from. Perfect for late listening, slow wiring, or sitting with the corridor while the next spool still waits.

00:03:06 Department of Light – Investigation #1
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/investigation-1
Album: ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆
Label: The Dream Journal Institute
Sofia walks a corridor that only exists when the cameras are rolling. Five triangles of evidence. The library fund gets whatever the ghost leaves behind.
00:09:07 Michael Brückner – Coda (A Pure Oval Shape)
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/coda-a-pure-oval-shape
Album: The Egg in the Cosmic Crack [CYD 0165]
Label: Cyclical Dreams
An oval so clean it could be an eye or an Ei. The cosmic egg cracks, then politely puts itself back together for the coda.
00:13:06 Soda Lite – Emerald Armour
https://soda-lite.bandcamp.com/album/011-soda-lite-cape-gooseberry
Album: 011: Soda Lite (Cape Gooseberry)
Label: Music To Watch Seeds Grow By
Cape gooseberry armour — a papery lantern grown between patio bricks. The plant singing on a cliff that did not invite an audience.
00:16:05 Trem 77 – Staers
https://trem77.bandcamp.com/track/staers
Album: Textural Colour Spectrum Sandpainting
Henrik’s strings combed into sand. A painting you are not allowed to keep; only to notice while the grains are still deciding.
00:22:47 Daily Mail Comments Section – A Short Song About Sex
https://enofa.bandcamp.com/track/a-short-song-about-sex
Album: Now That’s What I Call Smear Test
Two minutes of smear-test pop that arrived in a dream before Charli could steal the name. Whimsy wearing steel-capped boots.
00:23:37 Frank Pels – Wind Prayer
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/wind-prayer
Album: Voyager
Label: Ambient Cat
A wind prayer written for people and for cats. Voyager opening a window the size of a synth trail and calling it home.

00:29:07 Fallen – From Dry Iron Valleys to Utopian Realms
https://touched.bandcamp.com/track/from-dry-iron-valleys-to-utopian-realms-2
Album: Stars are Crashing, Home are Burning, Hearts are Changing-Notes from a Distant World/Detuned Lullabies for the Old Planet
Label: Touched Music
Dry iron valleys emptying into a realm that believes in lullabies. Forty-one records walking toward a planet that has not finished burning.
00:39:15 AeTopus – Others
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/aetopus-others
Album: Gemstones VII [CYD 0166]
Label: Cyclical Dreams
Others, cut from the seventh tray of gemstones. Berlin School light bouncing off a stone that knows which pocket it came from.
00:43:25 SPTW – Messiah (demo version)
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/messiah-demo-version
Album: EUTHYMIA
Label: Mahorka.
Messiah in demo clothes. SP-404 and an MPC arguing with pencils and bottles until euthymia agrees to sit still.
00:45:02 Dirk Serries – Slowly Wired
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/
Album: Curves of Splendor
Label: Projekt Records
Guitar wired so slowly the splendour has time to curve. VidnaObmana’s cousin taking the long way around the intrusive world.
00:56:21 DUSQ – Illusions
https://daydreamerslabel.bandcamp.com/track/illusions
Single: Illusions.
Label: Daydreamers
Illusions that refuse to hurry. Belarus folded into Daydreamers’ fourth quiet continuation.
00:58:55 Wax Machine – All I Can Do
https://batovrecords.bandcamp.com/track/all-i-can-do
Album: Around The Sun – Batov Records – 10 Years
Label: Batov Records
All they can do is keep the ten-year sun turning. Batov’s suitcase still unpacked on the rotating floor.

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 312.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 311

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The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies.

Right then, my glittering cassette moths…
It’s time I had a quiet word with the universe about this Virtual Cassette Library lark of mine. Lately it’s been drifting off like a helium balloon made of old mixtape innards, floating away from the original bonfire of my intentions. I need to yank it back by its magnetic tape tail before it disappears into a cloud of forgotten B-sides.
I’ve just been bathing in the first episode of The Signal by Wall of Ambient — Harry Towell and James Osland swimming through the ambient oceans like two elegant seahorses in velvet capes. Go and drink it in on Substack. And while you’re there, follow me like a loyal moth to my flickering neon sign.
Anyway, Harry said something that pinged my third eye: concept is the beating heart of an album. And I suddenly realised that even though I pluck these tracks from their original conceptual wombs, my shows are actually stitched together with their own secret concepts. Lately I’ve been chattering between tracks like a magpie on a telephone wire and the concept has been leaking out like cheese from a toasted sandwich.
So what’s the concept, you ask, while adjusting your imaginary pipe?
Well, I’ve spent my entire working life lurking on and around stages like a quiet caretaker with glitter under his nails. I see each episode as a colossal rotating stage — a great mechanical blooming lotus. The audience only ever glimpses a sliver of it at a time. Every artist is allotted the exact time it takes them to perform their piece. Then they rotate out of view like a peacock into fog, and the next act glides in. The stage spins at whatever speed the track demands — slow and syrupy or frantic and glittering.
I still want to whisper the names of the artists, the albums and the labels, so I’ll do that before each set — or “side,” as we cassette alchemists call them. Six little incantations per side, plus a general mist of what mood to expect.
Now… shall we let the stage begin to turn?
So episode 311 is a weathered, slightly spectral ambient journey through closing dive bars, overlapping canopies, and monuments that have already begun to kneel.
Overall mood: Contemplative, analog, and quietly dilapidated — full of forgotten light, phase transitions, and sockets still whispering in the dark. Perfect for late listening, empty stages, or sitting with the ivy while it finishes the sentence.

Side A lets shadows clock off at the edge of the universe, waves from a missed railway cutting, shares a stereo canopy, opens a December jar six months late, weathers the ivy through human architecture, and climbs dilapidated monuments only to accept itself.

00:05:30 Kh3rtis – As Shadows Fall Away
https://kh3rtis.bandcamp.com/track/as-shadows-fall-away
A dive bar at the edge of the universe closing its curtains. Shadows clocking off. You are left holding the light they forgot to take.
00:10:28 Sunshine Playroom / Prozapine – The Ultimate
A MicroKorg dressed as 1974 television, waving from a railway cutting that only exists when you miss it.
00:12:06 Chihei Hatakeyama & Jupi/ter – Canopy
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/track/canopy
Two canopies overlapping until the stereo field forgets which tree belongs to which country. Peace wearing someone else’s coat.
00:19:04 Matt Lowery – 12-13-24
https://mattlowery.bandcamp.com/track/12-13-24
The thirteenth of December kept in a jar and opened six months later. Modular dust that still remembers the day it was captured.
00:20:20 The Microgram – Weathered
https://kaisekidigital.bandcamp.com/track/weathered
Human architecture kneeling so the ivy can finish the sentence. A facility learning how to weather.
00:24:05 Blank Embrace – Dilapidated Monuments
https://kaisekidigital.bandcamp.com/track/dilapidated-monuments
Dilapidated monuments on a tundra that ends in a mountain you climb only to accept yourself. The stage turns very slowly here.

Side B argues in black and white until a drop becomes a drum, leaves the singers behind in Midas plumbing, hands in exam music before the piece ends, leaks a green chorus through melted glass, takes on new Beagle waters, and coils after midnight on a Yamaha four-track.

00:33:21 Amotken – Gota
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/gota
Black and white arguing inside a twenty-year-old Mexican machine. A drop of water deciding it is also a drum.
00:37:39 El Michels Affair – Anticipate (Instrumental)
https://elmichelsaffair.bandcamp.com/track/anticipate-instrumental
The singers have left the building. What remains is the Midas plumbing — brass, choir-shaped air, a saxophone ghost clocking in for overtime.
00:40:31 The Sound Catelouge – Phase Transitions
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/phase-transitions
Exam music found inside a textbook sleeve. Phase transitions for students who must hand in their papers before the piece ends.
00:42:50 Phil Geraldi – Chorus in Green
https://chakrawhip.bandcamp.com/track/chorus-in-green
Alien country radio leaking through melted glass. A chorus in green that never quite reaches the hook.
00:45:35 Tim Stebbing – New Waters
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/new-waters
HMS Beagle still taking on new water in 2026. Sequencers collecting specimens the Atlantic has not finished naming.
00:52:28 DOMOTIC – Serpenting
https://domotic.bandcamp.com/track/serpenting
*A Yamaha four-track recorded after midnight, coiling like fur that learned to hiss. Vintage sockets whispering to each other in the dark.
*

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 311.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 310

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Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 310. Twelve-track virtual cassettes that flips themselves at the halfway mark.

If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
Tips and subscriptions keep the reels turning. Every little helps the library stay open after dark.
A humid, analog journey through Chicago weather, dub earth, and a looking-glass that still grows.
Side A drifts through Bitchin Bajas organ-tape zones, Album Leaf story frames, Laswell’s lowered Marley devotion, Young Gun silver-fox chrome, Eels in a small room of memory, and Quiet Village pool-light haze. Side B drops into Coki’s ruff lovin’ pressure, FSOL mango-tree humidity, Röyksopp’s Late Night bounce, Tellier’s tender river, a brief Kendall Miles afterglow, and ends at Jefferson Airplane’s white rabbit.
Overall mood: Warm, cinematic, and slightly psychedelic — full of analog silk, sub-bass weather, and neon that refuses to cool. Perfect for late drives, pool-side dusk, or sitting with the credits while the mushroom keeps growing.
This is episode 310 which makes it a best of show. Where I’ve chosen 12 favourites from over the years.
The best of shows remain free but everything else slips quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers after 7 days. Subscribers currently have 1,135 other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. They also receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, and get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.

00:00:00 Bitchin Bajas – Zone 4
https://bitchinbajas.bandcamp.com/track/zone-4-2
Organ, tape and analog drift. Chicago psychedelia as weather.
00:04:56 The Album Leaf – Story Board
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GcS8kyabKA
Jimmy LaValle’s guitar and electronics paint frames in sequence.
00:09:05 Bill Laswell – Is This Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJyjCidPTiY
Marley melody lowered into dub earth. Low-end devotion.
00:13:07 Young Gun Silver Fox – Better
https://younggunsilverfox.bandcamp.com/track/better-2
West-coast silk. Harmony and chrome sunset.
00:16:54 Eels – Manchild
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCsiIn-VNDs
Mark Oliver Everett’s voice in a small room of memory.
00:20:46 Quiet Village – Victoria’s Secret
https://quietvillageofc.bandcamp.com/track/victorias-secret
Balearic library haze. Perfume and pool light.

00:24:19 Coki – Ruff Lovin’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2u91BJc5vM
South London pressure. Sub-bass as body weather.
00:27:47 The Future Sound Of London – Mango Tree (Original)
https://readdork.com/music-videos/the-future-sound-of-london-mango-tree-dvuecpx0
Humid electronics. Fruit hanging in machine air.
00:32:34 Röyksopp – Daddy’s Groove
https://latenighttales.bandcamp.com/track/daddys-groove-exclusive-new-track
Late Night Tales exclusive. Scandinavian bounce and soft neon.
00:35:16 Sébastien Tellier – Le Long De La Rivière Tendre
https://sebastientellier.bandcamp.com/track/le-long-de-la-rivi-re-tendre
A tender river. French hush and analog shimmer.
00:37:46 Kendall Miles – Life (bonus outro)
https://kendallmiles.bandcamp.com/track/life-bonus-outro
Brief afterglow. Credits rolling.
00:38:25 Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJM_jC7j_4
Grace Slick at the looking-glass. One pill, one bottle, the mushroom growing.

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 309

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A wounded, oceanic ambient journey through blinking cellars, wild roses, and depths that never learned the names of fish.
Side A teaches green cellar walls to blink, then breathes through a Mersey scar, keeps a dolphin spare room, waits for a poppy to bloom, writes Hosono’s letter to the planet’s mother, and holds forty-nine seconds of sunset. Side B rains on Caladan, folds a week into a lobby between lives, climbs a twelve-minute Tucson staircase, keeps Batov moving at the gate, sits bathyal until the feeling grows gills, and ends with a piano-fed bird between two machines.
Overall mood: Tender, slightly raw, and deeply watery — full of Passed Oceans, analog compassion, and rooms that refuse to close. Perfect for late listening, sitting with a scar, or letting the rain read you while the next spool waits.

The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.

The tape unspools its visions.

00:01:20 Altus – The Pulse of Protocols
https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-pulse-of-protocols
From the album “Echo Bloom” on Altus Music.
A cellar full of green light teaching the walls how to blink. Eight small machines agreeing, for once, on the same heartbeat.
00:06:02 autumna – the surgery and scar
https://autumna.bandcamp.com/track/the-surgery-and-scar
From the album “oxygen and light”.
Liverpool as an open wound that breathes. Scouse vowels drifting over the Mersey like stitches that won’t close
00:09:17 purplekairi1312 – dolphin sanctuary
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/dolphin-sanctuary
A noise in the hall that was only ever a dream. The ocean keeping a spare room for things that never learned to walk.
00:13:32 Martin Pyne – And Then A Poppy Blooms
https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/
An exclusive track from the forthcoming album “Trios” out on Discus Music 25 September.
Vibraphone petals opening on a chalk hillside. Three players standing still enough for a flower to decide it is safe.
00:15:33 Haruomi Hosono – To A Wild Rose
https://haruomihosono.bandcamp.com/track/to-a-wild-rose
From the album “Yours Sincerely” out on Ghostly International.
A seventy-eight-year-old man writing a letter to the planet’s mother and signing it with an oceanside hum. Compassion trying on an English coat that fits.
00:16:40 Fran Carlyon – Sunset
https://francarlyon.bandcamp.com/track/sunset
From the album “Growing Towards The Light”
Forty-nine seconds of a fallen tree still reaching. Chaos in the heartlands pretending it’s found a window.

00:17:44 Akinetic – Rains of Caladan
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/rains-of-caladan
The second of three pieces from the “Passed Oceans” compilation.
You are a protein complex reading the weather. Sacramento rain falling on a planet that only exists in the margins of a novel.
00:22:04 Petridisch x Jude Kerr – L’infantile (Alprazolam Mix)
https://rakurecords.bandcamp.com/track/l-infantile-alprazolam-mix
From the album “7 Days in the Fast Lane” out on Rakū Records
A week folded into a single pill. Boston stems stretched until they forget their names and wake up in a lobby between life and the afterlife.
00:32:21 Neglect – Escala III
https://neglectsound.bandcamp.com/track/escala-iii
Self released single. Neglectsound are from Tucson, Arizona.
Longest piece at 12:53
Tucson dust climbing a twelve-minute staircase made of delay pedals. The longest piece tonight, refusing to look down.
00:43:51 Kolonel Djafaar – Movin’
https://batovrecords.bandcamp.com/track/movin
From the compilation album “Around The Sun – Batov Records – 10 Years”
Ten years of Batov grooves packed into one suitcase that will not sit still. Ethio-jazz tapping its foot at the departure gate.
00:49:16 spectral void – Bathyal
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/bathyal
The third piece from the compilation album “Passed Oceans”.
Not to be confused with the black metal band of the same name.
The part of the ocean that never learned the names of the fish in it. An Indian composer sitting with a feeling until the feeling grows gills.
00:57:00 Jogging House – Beak
https://jogginghouse.bandcamp.com/track/beak
From the album “Really”.
Piano phrases sent through the post, then fed to tape like breadcrumbs. A bird dwells in the space between two machines.

The visions complete their circle.
The oxide continues its quiet journey until the end of the spool.

Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, release date 26 September.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that stir anything?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name, and a link to other work.
Deadline: 24 September.

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 309.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

Posted by trevlad | September 21, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: afrobeat, Akinetic, Alprazolam, alternative, Altus, Altus Music, ambient, ambient electronic, ambient music, Antwerp, Antwerpen, Arizona, atmospheric, autumna, Batov Records, Belgium, brass, brass band, cinematic, diy music, downtempo, electronic, electronic music, ethio-jazz, experimental, folk, Fran Carlyon, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, Ghostly International, global funk, Haruomi Hosono, home-recording, instrumental, Japan, Jogging House, Jude Kerr, Kolonel Djafaar, lo-fi, Martin Pyne, minimal, musique concrète, Neglect, Ontario, Ottawa, Passed Recordings, peaceful, Petridisch, piano based, purplekairi1312, Rakū Records, Scotland, soundscape, Southend On Sea, spectral void, Sweden, synthwave, Tucson, UK, Uppsala, weirdo, Wishaw, world | Leave a comment

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