I Can Still Feel The Earth Turn
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. 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-part 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.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A harbour drawn in soft pencil, then a cloud school ringing a horn of greeting.
Side A keeps the seaweed’s appointment with the tide, still feels the earth turn under autumn leaves, dwells in holds large enough to stay, leaves an uncatalogued card in the drawer on purpose, lets silent water hold its breath so you can hear the room, and insists the clock has already spoken. Side B prefers the present tense inside a mutual blur, arrives as “we” with the nights already longer, receives a sincere note from the mothership, pauses between acts with the curtain half-raised, clips the verbs of quiet figures so the meaning stays intact, and lets the low cloud say hello in its own register.
Overall mood: Slightly seasonal, and quietly precise — full of soft harbours, open scores, and sentences shortened but still whole. Perfect for dusk listening, houses that are still listening, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a harbour drawn in soft pencil, an earth still turning under autumn, holds large enough to dwell in, a card left out of the catalogue, water that keeps its counsel, a clock that insists on the hour.
00:02:18 From A Harbour Softly Drawn (Fraser McGowan) – Seaweed
(Exclusive Track)
Album: Shepherds. Label: DRONARIVM
Shepherds, DRONARIVM. The green that keeps the tide’s appointment, soft as the harbour that drew it.
00:08:23 Ed Herbers – I Can Still Feel The Earth Turn
https://herbers.bandcamp.com/track/i-can-still-feel-the-earth-turn
Album: Season Cycle: Autumn. Label: Passed Recordings
Season Cycle: Autumn, Passed Recordings. Title of the hour. The ground still doing its quiet work under the leaves.
00:10:04 Many Pretty Blooms – Immense Holds
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/immense-holds
Album: Dwell On Beauty. Label: whitelabrecs
Dwell on beauty, whitelabrecs. The climb that prefers to stay, and the view that agrees.
00:15:32 Ümlaut – Uncatalogued
https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/mlaut-uncatalogued
Album: [VA #46] – SOURCE UNKNOWN. Label: Camembert Électrique
Source unknown, Camembert Électrique. Jeff Düngfelder’s card left in the drawer on purpose. The house still listening.
00:24:27 Luca Longobardi – Aqua Tacita
https://luca-longobardi.bandcamp.com/track/aqua-tacita-2
Album: Aqua Tacita. Label: Seil Records
Silent water, Seil. The surface holding its breath so you can hear the room.
00:31:17 Portland Vows – Cuckoo
https://portland-vows.bandcamp.com/track/cuckoo
Album: Cuckoo. Label: Third Kind Records
Third Kind. Everything is the case, and the case is the clock, and the clock has already spoken.
Side B
Mood mist: a blur that prefers the present tense, a we that arrived with the nights drawing in, a note from a mothership, an interval between acts, quiet figures with their verbs trimmed, a cloud school ringing a horn of greeting.
00:34:43 Charlatan – No Longer Believing in Permanence
https://thejewelgarden.bandcamp.com/track/no-longer-believing-in-permanence
Album: The Mutual Blur. Label: The Jewel Garden
The mutual blur, The Jewel Garden. The present tense doing all the work, and doing it kindly.
00:55:08 Oceanographer – We
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/track/we
Album: Orctalox (bc102). Label: Bricolage
Bricolage. Shimmering and cloudy, the nights already longer. The score still open.
00:59:55 Haruomi Hosono – Note of Mothership
https://haruomihosono.bandcamp.com/track/note-of-mothership
Album: Yours Sincerely. Label: Ghostly International
Yours sincerely, Ghostly. A postcard from the larger vessel, signed in a familiar hand.
01:02:31 The Metamorph – Entr’acte
https://themetamorph.bandcamp.com/track/entracte
Album: Entr’acte. Label: Moolakii Club Audio Interface
Moolakii Club leaving the curtain half-raised so you can hear the stage breathe.
01:22:44 Trevlad – Bubble Verbs Clipped
https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/track/trevlad-bubble-verbs-clipped
Album: Quiet Figures.
Quiet Figures, the compilation still on the shelf. The sentence shorter, the meaning intact.
01:27:22 Towering Vertical – Nimbostratus, Horn of Greeting
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/side-1c-nimbostratus-horn-of-greeting
Album: Cloud School. Label: The Dream Journal Institute
Cloud School, The Dream Journal Institute. The low cloud saying hello in its own register.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 332.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 329
Fascinate
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-part 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.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A cruise along a signposted road, then a heart lit in a place still waiting for its name.
Side A follows the signs with the construct still standing and happy to drive, keeps the face continuous from one frame to the next, files a polite plea under the smear-test disasters, numbers the first fluid from dust to dawn, lets the shade learn a lyric behind a half-drawn curtain, and fascinates with the fungus that holds the wood together. Side B glows umber between brown and light, posts a New Penzance Island from the film, keeps the last note of a reef in its feathers, chirps a zither small enough for a beak, leans into petrol and jasmine on the same camber, and leaves the light on in a town the map has yet to label.
Overall mood: Slightly luminous, and quietly named — full of half-drawn curtains, open lanes, and places still waiting for their labels. Perfect for dusk drives, roads that know the way, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a cruise along a signposted road, a mask that keeps the face continuous, a helpdesk in the comments, a fluid numbered one, shade singing its own name, wildlife that has decided to fascinate.
00:00:00 BUNKR – Cruisen
https://bunkr-music.bandcamp.com/track/cruisen
Album: Signs. Label: VLSI Records
Signs pointing the way, VLSI keeping the lane. The construct still standing, for now, and happy to drive.
00:07:29 survey channel – Mask of Continuity
https://surveychannel.bandcamp.com/track/mask-of-continuity
Album: Macrozones.
The large rooms where the face stays the same from one frame to the next. The survey already under way.
00:12:25 Daily Mail Comments Section – Hello? Can You Help Me, Please?
https://enofa.bandcamp.com/track/hello-can-you-help-me-please
Album: Now That’s What I Call Smear Test.
Enofa filing the plea under volume one of the polite disasters.
00:14:27 TRAINDEER – Płyn I
https://traindeer.bandcamp.com/track/p-yn-i
Album: From Dust To Dawn.
Fluid, the first of them. From dust to dawn, the deer already on the track.
00:16:50 Hiram – Tsel
https://matthewhiram.bandcamp.com/track/tsel
Album: Shade Songs.
The shadow learning a lyric. Matthew Hiram leaving the curtain half-drawn on purpose.
00:19:28 Polypores – Fascinate
https://auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/track/fascinate
Album: Wildlife. Label: Aural Canyon
The fungus that holds the wood together, and the title of the hour. Look closely. The thread is there.
Side B
Mood mist: an umber that has learned to glow, an island named after a film, a last song from a reef, a zither chirping under the canopy, petrol and jasmine sharing a camber, a heart lit in a place still waiting for its name.
00:25:08 Ocean Moon & Silver Ley – Glowing Umber
(Exclusive track)
Album: Prismatic Fields. Label: Open Universe
https://oceanmoon.bandcamp.com/album/prismatic-fields
The colour between brown and light, happy to be both.
00:27:43 Mensa Group International – New Penzance Island
https://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/new-penzance-island
Album: Split LP. Label: Ailanthus Recordings
The tree of heaven. The island from the film, now with its own postcode.
00:29:02 Coda Nautica – Swan Song
https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/track/swan-song
Album: Intricate Harmonics 2. Label: Neotantra
Neotantra letting the last note keep its feathers.
00:36:01 Beymer – Tsitern (Chirp)
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/tsitern-chirp
Album: Beneath The Trees. Label: Imaginary North
A zither small enough to fit in a beak, and still in tune.
00:37:54 Aidan Baker – Petrol / Jasmine
https://aidanbaker.bandcamp.com/track/petrol-jasmin
Album: Adverse Camber. Label: Broken Spine Productions
The bend that asks you to lean. Broken Spine keeping both scents in the same bottle.
00:43:23 Absence – Glowing Heart
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/glowing-heart
Album: Names of Unknown Places. Label: Imaginary North
The light still on in a town the map has yet to label.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 329.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Posted by trevlad | October 14, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: Absence, Aidan Baker, ambient, ambient drone, ambient electronic, Aural Canyon, Berlin, Beymer, Brighton, Broken Spine Productions, Buffalo, BUNKR, Coda Nautica, Daily Mail Comments Section, dark ambient, dreamcore, electronic, electronica, etheric pop, field recording, Germany, Hiram, idm, Imaginary North, Italy, Johnstown, kosmische, London, Mensa Group International, Minneapolis, Minnesota, nature experimental, nature sound, Neotantra, New York, noise, Ocean Moon, Ontario, Open Universe, Pennsylvania, Polypores, postrock, psychedelic, shoegaze, Silver Ley, soundscape, soundtrack, Survey Channel, synthpop, synthwave, techno, Texas, Toronto, TRAINDEER, UK, VLSI Records | Leave a comment