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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 321

The Eternal

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 town happy to say its name twice, then dreams tied up and happy at the dock.
Side A points at the same corner until it smiles back, leaves a Sylvian junction open on every side, blows a gemstone rather than cutting it, scores the nights drawing in with a title that has not quite arrived, fills its eyes with moss and lets the ground read along, and finds a lost horizon again at whisper volume. Side B keeps the root when the other two panels have bowed, holds distant blue on a spine with both names, touches the sea once and keeps the salt, draws a bath for someone very small, paginates an inland ocean so you can stop at the paragraph, and moors its dreams with the rope left slack.
Overall mood: Gentle, slightly elegiac, and quietly domestic — full of repeating towns, unlit next rooms, and water that agrees to stay inland. Perfect for dusk listening, houses that have agreed to be smaller, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.


Mood mist: a town happy to say its name twice, a junction in the brain, a flute sent out to sea, a score for the nights drawing in, a burial with moss for eyes, a horizon found again at whisper volume.

00:02:19 Nonturn – Indicate
https://nonturn.bandcamp.com/track/indicate
Album: Repeating Town. Label: Audiobulb
Pointing at the same corner until the corner smiles back. Audiobulb letting the loop finish itself.
00:07:39 HDRF – The Sylvian Intersection
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/hdrf-the-sylvian-intersection
Album: IHN019 // Gone in 60 Seconds – Vol. 5. Label: I Heart Noise
Gone in sixty seconds, which isn’t enough. I Heart Noise leaving the turning open on every side.
00:08:34 Kirk Monteux Mysoftmusic – Flute Ocean Peace
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/kirk-monteux-mysoftmusic-flute-ocean-peace
Album: Gemstones VII [CYD 0166]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
A gemstone from the seventh tray, blown rather than cut. Cyclical Dreams holding the tide at a polite distance.
00:12:55 Oceanographer – The Eternal
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/
Album: Orctalox. Label: Bricolage
Shimmering and cloudy, sprawling and compact, bright and fading. A score for the nights drawing in. Title of the hour. Pre-order from the 9th, the record itself on the 23rd.
00:18:55 Grey Malkin – Burial Song
https://fennycompton.bandcamp.com/track/burial-song
Album: Label: Fenny Compton, Woodford Halse
Our eyes filled with moss, the ground reading along in a kind voice. Fenny Compton keeping the hymn in the shed.
00:20:06 midorinozu – quiet spectrum
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/track/quiet-spectrum
Album: lost horizons. Label: Home Normal
Lost horizons, found again at a volume the house can sleep beside. Home Normal leaving the lights on in the next room.


Mood mist: a root under a painting in three panels, blue far enough to keep its name, a sea touched once and remembered, a bath drawn for someone very small, an ocean that lives inland, dreams tied up and happy at the dock.

00:26:53 ambalek – Root
https://ambalek.bandcamp.com/track/root
Album: Triptych. Label: Oskar Karlström
The panel that stays when the other two have bowed. The thing under the thing.
00:31:16 David Cordero & Aiko Takahashi – Distant Blue
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/track/distant-blue
Album: Night’s End. Label: Home Normal
The colour of a window still deciding to be morning. Home Normal keeping both names on the spine.
00:35:16 Nanováros – I Touched the Sea Once
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/i-touched-the-sea-once
Album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings
Passed Oceans keeping the hand, salt and all, as a keepsake.
00:40:07 Guest Bartender Deborah Toyota – Bathtime
https://guestbartenderdeborahtoyota.bandcamp.com/track/bathtime
Album: Music for Babies. Label: Mystery Circles
Music for babies, which is to say music for the hour when the house agrees to be smaller. Mystery Circles running the tap very quietly.
00:42:21 Eric Angelo Bessel – Chapter
https://lorecity.bandcamp.com/album/illusion-of-an-inland-ocean
Album: Illusion of an Inland Ocean. Label: Lore City Music
An illusion of an inland ocean, paginated. Lore City letting you stop at the end of the paragraph and not the coast.
00:45:44 Almost Random – Dreams moor at that Dock
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/dreams-moor-at-that-dock
Album: Fragments From the Waning World [CYD 0163]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
Fragments from the waning world, tied up, not planning to sail. Cyclical Dreams leaving the rope slack.

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 320

Best of 9

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 sentence that will not finish, then time asked to smile and, for once, agreeing.
Side A never changes to stop, opens doors until a room becomes a corridor, remixes Melody Day until it is handed back still humming, sits in the unfurnished space between, tunes a beautiful place out in the country from a congregation you were invited to, and arrives late to a videotape whose chorus has already been recorded. Side B launches Big Face like a boat, files a sensual woman under mercenary, wants you with the band waiting outside, cruises a street that only exists after the streetlights give up, interviews little fluffy clouds in a West Country accent, and puts a smile on a DJ’s face before keeping the change.
Overall mood: Warm, slightly nostalgic, and gently unfinished — full of souvenirs, velvet ropes left on the floor, and last pages that knew they were last. Perfect for dusk drives, rooms that decide to be corridors, or sitting still while the next spool still waits

Side A
Mood mist: a sentence that will not finish, doors agreeing to open, a day remixed until it smiles, a gap you can sit in, a beautiful place that may be a field recording of a sermon, a tape that knows it is the last song.

00:02:18 The Books – It Never Changes To Stop
https://books.bandcamp.com/track/it-never-changes-to-stop
Album: Lost and Safe. Label: Temporary Residence Ltd.
It never changes to stop. Lost and safe, which is a strange pair of instructions. The sample keeps walking. Temporary Residence lets it.
00:06:20 Maston with L’éclair – The Doors Are Opening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDgvTx1NIbQ
Album: Souvenir. Label: Calico Discos
The doors are opening. A souvenir from a room that has decided to be a corridor. Calico Discos holding the handle.
00:09:21 Caribou – Melody Day (Four Tet Remix)
https://caribouband.bandcamp.com/track/melody-day-four-tet-remix
Album: Melody Day.
Melody Day, Four Tet’s hands on the hem. The day lengthened, then folded, then handed back still humming.
00:13:53 Zero 7 – The Space Between
https://zero7.bandcamp.com/track/the-space-between-1
Album: When It Falls (Special Edition). Label: Chrysalis Records
The space between. When it falls, this is what it falls into. Chrysalis leaving the gap unfurnished.
00:19:25 Boards of Canada – Amo Bishop Roden
https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/track/amo-bishop-roden
Album: In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country. Label: Warp Records
Amo Bishop Roden. A beautiful place out in the country, broadcast from a congregation you were invited to.
00:25:10 Radiohead – Videotape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF83_PR2EsA
Album: In Rainbows.
Videotape. In Rainbows, last page. The chorus you were meant to sing along to has already been recorded. You are late, and that is the point.

Side B
Mood mist: a face launched like a boat, a woman filed under mercenary, a want with the band removed, a cruise that only runs after dark, clouds interviewed and found to be little, time asked to smile and, for once, agreeing.

00:30:32 Plaid & Bob Jaroc – The Launching Of Big Face
https://plaid.bandcamp.com/track/the-launching-of-big-face
Album: Greedy Baby. Label: Warp Records
The launching of Big Face. Greedy Baby sending a portrait out to sea. Warp counting down from a number that isn’t a number.
00:34:36 The Herbaliser – The Sensual Woman
https://theherbaliser.bandcamp.com/track/the-sensual-woman-1
Album: Very Mercenary. Label: Ninja Tune
The sensual woman. Very mercenary, which is to say the groove has a price and has already been paid. Ninja Tune leaving the velvet rope on the floor.
00:37:32 Marvin Gaye – I Want You (Acapella)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbfh30z1_u8
Album: I Want You (Expanded Deluxe Edition) Label: Universal Music Group
I want you, and nothing else in the room. The band has been asked to wait outside. The want remains.
00:42:14 DāM-FunK – Night Kruise
https://soundcloud.com/dam-funk/night-kruise
Album: Architecture III. Label: Glydezone Recordings
Night kruise. Architecture for a street that only exists after the streetlights give up. Glydezone keeping the tank full.
00:46:08 The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNfjpmvbQG0
Album: The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld. Label: Big Life
Little fluffy clouds. Rickie Lee talking to the sky, the sky talking back in a West Country accent. Ultraworld, first postcard.
00:49:30 Khruangbin & Felix Dickinson – Time (You and I) (Put a Smile on DJ’s Face Mix)
https://khruangbin.bandcamp.com/track/time-you-and-i-put-a-smile-on-djs-face-mix
Album: Mordechai Remixes. Label: Dead Oceans
Time, you and I. The mix that was asked to put a smile on a DJ’s face, and did, and then kept the change. Dead Oceans closing the case.

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 320.
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 319

Everything Is The Case

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.

A clock that insists the world is already the argument, then a house that hums because it was cursed to.
Side A opens the door unlatched on a cuckoo that has already said what it came to say, builds a choir from stones that will not give the words, fidgets in Latin for a sound that will not sit still, files tears under ocean and returns the glass, sets a plate for a love that left no chair pushed in, and steps into a puddle that learned to be a room. Side B runs a rite hotter than the room agreed to, cuts a faun from the seventh tray of stones, reaches the far point of an orbit, refuses a capital letter for nights that would rather not be introduced, walks the last few steps into silence, and keeps the hymn book and the haunting on the same shelf.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly haunted, and quietly ritual — full of unlatched doors, lowercase dreams, and sanctuaries that sing whether you asked or not. Perfect for dusk listening, houses with a curse, or sitting still while the ripples never quite reach the edge.


Mood mist: a clock that insists the world is already the argument, a choir built from stones, Latin for a sound that will not sit still, tears filed under ocean, a love that left its plate, a puddle that learned to be a room.

00:02:12 Portland Vows – Everything Is The Case
https://portland-vows.bandcamp.com/track/everything-is-the-case
Album: Cuckoo. Label: Third Kind Records
Cuckoo, and the case is the clock, and the clock has already said what it came to say. Third Kind leaving the door unlatched.
00:06:02 bluhm – stonechoir
https://handstitched.bandcamp.com/track/stonechoir
Album: signals in the static. Label: handstitched*
Signals in the static, sung by a wall that handstitched taught to hold a note. Don’t ask the mortar for the words.*
00:09:12 Sebastian Zawadzki – Fluctuans in Sonitus Ambientis
https://sebastianzawadzkimusic.bandcamp.com/track/fluctuans-in-sonitus-ambientis
Album:Pax Elysium.
A fluctuation in the sound of the room, dressed for Pax Elysium and still fidgeting with its cuffs.
00:10:55 TREVØR – Tears
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/tears
Album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings
Passed Oceans keeping the salt and returning the glass.
00:13:22 Eje Eje – Phantom Love
https://ejeeje.bandcamp.com/track/phantom-love
Album: Mezze. Label: Batov Records
Mezze for a guest who ate and left no chair pushed in. Batov setting a plate anyway.
00:16:08 Salamanda – Puddle Underwater
https://metronrecords.bandcamp.com/track/puddle-underwater
Album: Sphere. Label: Métron Records
A sphere you can step in without wetting the hem. Métron counting the ripples that never reach the edge.


Mood mist: a rite that runs hot, a faun cut from the seventh tray of stones, the far point of an orbit, nights that refuse a capital letter, a walk that ends in quiet, a house that sings because it was cursed to.

00:20:17 Electric Circus – High Fever
https://electriccircus3.bandcamp.com/track/high-fever-2
Album: Rites. Label: Killer Groove Records
Rites performed at a temperature the room did not agree to. Killer Groove leaving the window shut.
00:23:26 Cartas de Japón – Faune III
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/cartas-de-jap-n-faune-iii
Album: Label: Cyclical Dreams
A letter from nowhere in particular, pressed into Gemstones VII until the faun agreed to be a facet.
00:32:57 Erik Wøllo – Aphelion
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/track/aphelion
Album: Earthshine. Label: Projekt Records
Earthshine at its furthest from the thing that lights it. Projekt letting the tape run slow enough to feel the distance.
00:34:39 Jupi/ter – dreams.
https://jupitersound.bandcamp.com/track/dreams
Album: Nights
Lower case, full stop. Nights that would rather not be introduced.
00:38:51 Fumana – Into Silence
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/fumana-into-silence
Album: Imaginary North Transmission 012. Label: Imaginary North
Imaginary North transmitting the last few steps before the signal decides it has said enough.
00:41:02 Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman – The Sanctuary Of Song
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-sanctuary-of-song
Album: House with a Curse. Label: Clay Pipe Music
The sanctuary of song, inside a house with a curse. Clay Pipe keeping the hymn book and the haunting on the same shelf.

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 319.
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 318

Stereo Vision

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  |  October 2, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: | Leave a comment

Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 316

there is no tomorrow

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 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.

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 315

Gathering Moss

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.

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.

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 314

Breathing and Vibrant

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.

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

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 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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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 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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