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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 329

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.

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 328

Layer of Images

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.

I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.

A university of unstable knowledge descending, then a jump that knows the trick.
Side A descends a staircase held slightly out of true, lets paper flowers drink the dye until the bloom is already in the fibre, measures sixty metres of disco rhythm, improvises a cello in the nude, scores a short career for three spiders and one fly, and layers images until the clock bends. Side B reaches the edge of the wood and waves you in by further paths, holds a fabric up to the window so not all refracted light is as it seems, collects light patterns in tone studies that wander somewhere welcome, lets children and whales share a pool large enough for both, grass-roots a Chilean forest guardian, and lands the leap exactly where the title meant to.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly eccentric, and quietly luminous — full of open staircases, bent clocks, and paths that already know the way in. Perfect for dusk listening, listening parties on the first of November, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.

Side A
Mood mist: a university of unstable knowledge descending, paper flowers drinking the dye, sixty metres of disco rhythm, a cello improvising in the nude, a chamber piece for arachnids and one fly, images layered until time curves.

00:02:18 Unstable Knowledge University – AHAP de Aliyah
https://unknun.bandcamp.com/track/ahap-de-aliyah-descending
Album: AHAP de Aliyah.
The descending. A faculty that prefers its degrees slightly out of true. The staircase still holding.
00:11:19 Stuart Cook – Imbibition
https://stuartcook.bandcamp.com/track/imbibition
Album: Flower Blocks. Label: Dustopian Frequencies
The way paper drinks colour. Flower Blocks, Dustopian. The bloom already in the fibre.
00:13:08 D Apal – 60 Meter´n (Rytme)
https://djkobayashi.bandcamp.com/track/60-meter-n-rytme
Album: Give Me Disco – Vol 2 (Selected by DJ Kobayashi). Label: Batov Records
Give Me Disco, volume two, Kobayashi’s selection. Batov measuring the dancefloor in metric.
00:19:42 Henrik Meierkord – Cello C Impro
https://henrikmeierkord.bandcamp.com/track/cello-c-impro-2
Album: Naken.
Naken — bare. The instrument with its clothes off, the bow still dressed for the occasion.
00:23:23 David Dellacroce – Performance for Three Spiders and a Housefly
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/david-dellacroce-performance-for-three-spiders-and-a-housefly
Album: IHN019 // Gone in 60 Seconds – Vol. 5. Label: I Heart Noise
Gone in sixty seconds, which is a long career for a fly. I Heart Noise keeping the programme.
00:24:03 Takeshi Nishimoto and Hiroshi Watanabe – Layer of Images
(Exclusive track)
Album: Curving Time. Label: Lo Recordings
https://lorecordings.bandcamp.com/album/curving-time
Curving time. Lo Recordings letting the pictures stack until the clock bends. Title of the hour.

Side B
Mood mist: the edge of a wood, a fabric that bends the light, patterns of light collected and slow, children and whales sharing a suite, a Chilean forest guardian edited for grass roots, a jump that knows the trick.

00:28:10 Oberlin – Waldesrand
https://oberlin.bandcamp.com/track/waldesrand
Album: Von (Weiteren) Wegen.
The edge of the forest. Von weiteren Wegen — by further paths. The trees already waving you in.
00:38:07 Hyenas for Sale – Crystallin Fabric
(Exclusive track)
Album: Label: Ethereal Projector, Ambient Cat
https://etherealprojector.bandcamp.com/album/not-all-refracted-light-is-as-it-seems
Not all refracted light is as it seems. Ethereal Projector and Ambient Cat holding the cloth up to the window.
00:43:07 Andrew Heath – Collected Light Patterns
(Exclusive track)
Album: Collected Light Patterns. Label: Driftworks
Tone Studies number eight. Experiments that wandered somewhere welcome, the piano left mostly in its room. Driftworks. Full release the 30th. Listening party the 1st of November, eight in the evening, GMT. Come and sit with the layers.
00:49:23 Hello Mr. Klaus – Suite 01 Children and whales playing
https://hellomrklaus.bandcamp.com/track/suite-01-children-and-whales-playing
Album: MEMENTO VIVERE.
Memento vivere — remember to live. The pool large enough for both.
00:53:35 HDRF (Horror Dwarf) – Invunche (MEANS edit)
https://meansmag.bandcamp.com/track/invunche-means-edit
Album: MEANS 7: Grass Roots. Label: MEANS
The forest guardian, grass-rooted. MEANS keeping the path.
01:00:37 Vorpalgaze – Trickjump
https://ab-vorpalgaze.bandcamp.com/track/trickjump
Album: Trickjumps. Label: Audiobulb
Audiobulb letting the leap land where it meant to. The title already knows the move.

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 328.
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 327

A New Day

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.

I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.

A plant leaning toward the window, then a landscape content to stay unfinished at number twenty-two.
Side A grows toward the light the title already promised, smokes a soft suburb with curtains half-drawn, fits the eclipse into two letters and a hyphen, files a signal under cool, measures an English furlong at Clay Pipe speed, and lights a candle that has decided to chase the high white. Side B returns light across the hedges with the gate on the latch, spends a lifetime at steady altitude with the butty packed, files wonders under experiment while the tableau dries next door, slows the first stage of sleep on purpose, lets gravity keep its end of the bargain, and leaves the unfinished landscape open at the edge for the next field.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly domestic, and quietly measured — full of half-drawn curtains, steady horizons, and rooms left for the next field. Perfect for dusk listening, fields walked at tape speed, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.

Side A
Mood mist: a plant leaning toward the window, a suburb soft enough to smoke, two letters from an eclipse, a signal filed under cool, an English measure of distance, candles lit for a chase among the high white.

00:02:18 Fran Carlyon – A New Day
https://francarlyon.bandcamp.com/track/a-new-day-2
Album: Growing Towards The Light.
Growing towards the light, which is what the title already promised. The stem has already turned. Title of the hour.
00:03:00 Kenny Ueda – MoonMist Tobacco
(Exclusive track)
Album: Soft Suburbia. Label: Mystery Circles
https://kenjiueda.bandcamp.com/album/soft-suburbia
Soft suburbia, the kind that keeps its curtains half-drawn and its ashtray clean. Mystery Circles leaving the packet on the sideboard.
00:06:28 Brandon Locher – F-G
https://brandonlocher.bandcamp.com/track/f-g
Album: Rahu Ketu.
Rahu and Ketu again, the head and the tail, now reduced to two notes and a hyphen. The eclipse still fits in the interval.
00:12:00 Altus – Cold Signal Index
https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/track/cold-signal-index
Album: Label: Altus Music
Echo Bloom keeping the temperature low and the index clear. The signal arrives already cooled.
00:16:43 Gilroy Mere – Furlongs 1
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/furlongs-1-3
Album: Furlongs. Label: Clay Pipe Music
An eighth of a mile, walked at Clay Pipe speed. Oliver Cherer measuring the field with his feet and a reel of tape.
00:21:02 Spirituals – Cloud Chaser
https://spirituals.bandcamp.com/track/cloud-chaser
Album: Candles In The Dark.
Candles in the dark, and one of them has decided to follow the white up. The wick stays lit.

Side B
Mood mist: light coming back over the hedges, a lifetime spent at a steady altitude, wonders filed under experiment, the first stage of sleep slowing on purpose, gravity doing its quiet job, a landscape content to stay unfinished at number twenty-two.

00:23:50 maps and diagrams – returning, across the fields
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/track/returning-across-the-fields
Album: returning light. Label: Home Normal
Returning light, the title and the direction. Home Normal leaving the gate on the latch.
00:31:24 ndrw cnry & Sardine Butty – A lifetime of limited level flight
https://ndrwcnry.bandcamp.com/track/a-lifetime-of-limited-level-flight
Single
The single that prefers the same height all the way. Wings level, horizon steady, the butty packed.
00:46:14 Alex Ringess – Wonders
https://alexringess.bandcamp.com/track/wonders
Album: Experiments.
Experiments that kept the sense of marvel. The tableau still drying in the next room.
00:52:04 D York – N1 (slowing down)
https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/track/n1-slowing-down
Album: NREM. Label: Neotantra
NREM — the sleep before the dreaming. Neotantra letting the pulse lengthen.
01:15:09 Audio Obscura – As long as gravity persists on holding me to this earth
https://audioobscura.bandcamp.com/track/as-long-as-gravity-persists-on-holding-me-to-this-earth
Album: As long as gravity persists on holding me to this earth.
The whole sentence as title and album. The ground keeping its end of the bargain.
01:19:33 asher tuil – unfinished landscapes xxii
https://ashertuil.bandcamp.com/track/unfinished-landscapes-xxii-4
Album: unfinished landscapes.
The series that prefers the open edge. Room left for the next field.

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 327.
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 326

Cosmic Drifter

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.

I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.

A pearl filed under ocean, then a periphery that still has a centre.
Side A keeps the grit and the glow in the same shell, lets the resonant field keep answering after the question has sat down, finds time for a blue event on the fast lane, sets an extra place for a postcard from the future, prefers the slow lane for recovery, and measures restraint in sixty-four fluxes content to hold still. Side B files the spirit of gravity with the soil, deepens into the moment before the moment, drifts with Berlin-school manners since the late seventies, walks a quiet figure down to the reservoir, counts time by the stars, and holds the rim so the centre can rest.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly cosmic, and quietly patient — full of unlatched doors, extra places, and clocks the stars prefer. Perfect for dusk listening, fields still ringing, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.

Mood mist: a pearl filed under ocean, a field that keeps ringing after you leave, a blue event on the fast lane, a postcard from the future introducing itself, a recovery that prefers the slow lane, restraint measured in sixty-four fluxes.

00:00:00 Ærebus – The Pearl
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/the-pearl
Album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings
Passed Oceans keeping the grit and the glow in the same shell.
00:08:06 Vivid Stars Forgotten – The resonance
https://vividstarsforgotten.bandcamp.com/track/the-resonance
Album: The Resonant Field. Label: EC Underground
The field still answering after the question has sat down. EC Underground leaving the door on the latch. Good to have you in the library, and on the subscriber list.
00:11:49 Petridisch x Jude Kerr – Blue Event VI (Breach of Trust Mix)
https://rakurecords.bandcamp.com/track/blue-event-vi-breach-of-trust-mix
Album: 7 Days in the Fast Lane. Label: Rakū Records
Seven days in the fast lane, and still time for a colour. Rakū keeping the lane open.
00:16:47 Mirai No Hagaki – presenting myself
https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/mirai-no-hagaki-presenting-myself
Album: [VA #46] – SOURCE UNKNOWN. Label: Camembert Électrique
A fine way to arrive. Camembert Électrique setting an extra place.
00:20:43 KapTep – Recovery
https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/track/recovery
Album: Slow Down. Label: Chitra Records, Ambient Cat
The instruction and the album. Chitra and Ambient Cat sharing the chair.
00:24:40 Mantris – Passive Restraint
https://mantris.bandcamp.com/track/09-passive-restraint
Album: 64 Flux. Label: Hi Scores
Sixty-four fluxes, and this one content to hold still while the others rush. Hi Scores counting them all.

Mood mist: gravity with a spirit, a deepening that knows it is about to arrive, a drifter from Leeds who has been sequencing since the late seventies, a quiet figure walking to the water, time counted by the stars, a periphery that still has a centre.

00:30:12 Alien Alarms x Aura Mae – The Spirit of Gravity
https://meansmag.bandcamp.com/track/the-spirit-of-gravity
Album: MEANS 7: Grass Roots. Label: MEANS
Grass roots, the pull under the lawn. MEANS filing Newton with the soil.
00:33:43 Heavens Spin Gray – Deepening
https://heavensspingray.bandcamp.com/track/deepening
Album: Imminence.
Imminence, the moment before the moment. The grey already spinning.
00:43:34 Tim Stebbing – Cosmic Drifter
https://tim-stebbing.bandcamp.com/track/cosmic-drifter
Album: Cosmic Drifter.
Title of the hour. Berlin-school manners, chilled hands, the long orbit.
00:52:04 CommsBreakdown – To The Reservoir!
https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/track/commsbreakdown-to-the-reservoir
Album: Quiet Figures. Label: Trevlad
Quiet Figures, the compilation. Trevlad walking the figure down to the water.
00:55:41 The Light Dreams – Sidereal Time
https://thelightdreams.bandcamp.com/track/sidereal-time
Album: Málverk.
The clock the stars prefer. Málverk, the painting that knows which night it is.
01:01:14 Fonolabe – Bor Eas
(Exclusive)
Album: Essens Periferion. Label: Ethereal Projector, Ambient Cat
https://etherealprojector.bandcamp.com/album/essens-periferion
The essence at the edge. Ethereal Projector and Ambient Cat holding the rim so the centre can rest.

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 326.
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 325

Winter is Coming

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.

I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.

A porch that has already sat down, then a future you already remind someone of.
Side A cools piano phrases on a veranda still holding salt in the grain, teaches a scrap giant to stay kind while made of girders, paints sand purple-black for as long as you are looking, lets a Finnish sentence glide away, shares rust and wave in a hallway with every door on the latch, and finds winter already standing behind the pane. Side B leaves offerings past the last familiar planet, walks false suns politely in their lanes, keeps the hands through a damp postcard, rings a suburban tram once at a stop that knows your name, continues the second investigation under five triangles, and remembers a future in three parts with sense set aside.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly seasonal, and quietly kind — full of unlatched corridors, damp postcards, and titles that have already arrived. Perfect for dusk listening, porches after the heat, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.

Mood mist: a porch that has already sat down, a giant made of scrap learning manners, sand painted purple-black, Finnish for something slipping softly off, corridors of rust and wave, a pane with the cold season standing behind it.

00:02:18 Jogging House – Veranda
https://jogginghouse.bandcamp.com/track/veranda
Album: Really.
The porch where the piano phrases come to cool their hands. Salt’s notes still in the grain of the wood.
00:05:59 Mike Dickinson – Iron Man’s Challenge
https://mikedickinson.bandcamp.com/track/iron-mans-challenge
Album: The Iron Man by Ted Hughes – OST.
Ted Hughes’ giant, scored. Scrap learning to be a guest. The challenge is to stay kind while you are made of girders.
00:08:29 Trem 77 – Purple Black Texture (Strings Mix)
https://trem77.bandcamp.com/track/purple-black-texture-strings-mix
Album: Textural Colour Spectrum Sandpainting.
Sandpainting that keeps its colour for as long as you are looking. Henrik’s bow still in the grain.
00:11:25 Aki Yli-Salomäki & Kreeta-Julia Heikkilä – …lipuu pois
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/lipuu-pois
Album: Viriää- Label: whitelabrecs
It glides away. Viriää, the stirring. Whitelabrecs letting the sentence finish in Finnish and in air.
00:17:35 Tewksbury – Corridors
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/corridors
Album: rust/wave. Label: Imaginary North
Rust and wave sharing a hallway. Imaginary North leaving every door on the latch.
00:18:42 Lab’s Cloud – Winter is Coming
https://le-mont-analogue.bandcamp.com/track/winter-is-coming
Album: Behind the Pane. Label: Le Mont Analogue, DRONARIVM, fonodroom
Behind the pane, already. Le Mont Analogue, DRONARIVM, fonodroom, three names for the same glass. Title of the hour.

Mood mist: deities past the last familiar planet, false suns in a kind sky, hands kept through a shower, a tram that knows every hedge, a second investigation, a future you already remind someone of.

00:25:13 Wayside Shrine – Gods of the Outer System
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/gods-of-the-outer-system
Album: Gods of the Outer System. Label: The Dream Journal Institute
A shrine by the road, and the road has left the solar system. The Dream Journal keeping the offerings.
00:35:39 Green-House – Sun Dogs
https://green-house.bandcamp.com/track/sun-dogs
Album: Hinterlands. Label: Ghostly International
Two bright companions walking either side of the real sun, polite enough to stay in their lanes.
00:38:12 BVSMV – Holding Hands in the Rain
https://tripfm.bandcamp.com/track/bvsmv-holding-hands-in-the-rain
Album: Label: TRIP FM, Triplicate Records
Space invaders, volume two, and still someone remembered the hands. Triplicate printing the postcard three times, all of them damp.
00:42:29 Calm Pieces – Suburban Tram
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/suburban-tram
Album: Suburbia, Still. Label: whitelabrecs
Whitelabrecs letting the bell ring once, softly, at a stop that already knows your name.
00:45:37 Department of Light – Investigation #2
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/investigation-2
Album: ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆. Label: The Dream Journal Institute
Five triangles, the case still open. The Dream Journal filing Sofia’s notes under “continuing.”
00:51:40 primeiro – Me hacés acordar al futuro III
https://primeiro-segundo.bandcamp.com/track/me-hace-s-acordar-al-futuro-iii
Album: Senza Senzo.
You remind me of the future, part three. Senza senzo — sense set aside, memory doing the work.

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 325.
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 324

The Way the Wind Held Us

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.

I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.

A water lily at a threshold, then a seven that has already shifted south.
Side A opens the door on a nymphaea before the official date, shares fear, rage and love in under a minute, walks the warm marble of a city still standing in the name, lets the wind keep both hands in its pockets and still carry you, files roots under a clause, and blushes a 1970 library record with the flute still warm. Side B marries a rope to itself, lets undesignated buildings prefer to meet, studies a field still learning the season, treats the tuning as the piece, lets the night accept the fire, and turns seven toward the warmer wall.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly tender, and quietly architectural — full of thresholds, pencil blueprints, and gardens that leave the gate open. Perfect for dusk listening, fields still learning the season, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.

Mood mist: a water lily at a threshold, three feelings in under a minute, a city of marble still standing in the name, a wind that kept us, roots under a clause, a library record blushing in 1970.

00:02:18 (Exclusive) Corrado Saija and Elia Piana – Nymphaea II
https://driftworks.bandcamp.com/
Album: Limen. Label: Driftworks Full release – Friday 16th October
Limen — the threshold. Piano talking to algorithms, stone porous, water fluent. Driftworks opening the door on the 16th. You may step through now.
00:08:15 Concretism – Fear, Rage, and Love
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/concretism-fear-rage-and-love
Album: IHN019 // Gone in 60 Seconds – Vol. 5. Label: I Heart Noise
Gone in sixty seconds, which is plenty for three weathers of the heart. I Heart Noise letting them share the minute.
00:09:01 Still & JRNDM – EFESO
https://pablosanguinetti.bandcamp.com/track/efeso
Ephesus, the marble still warm in the name. A library of columns, and the groove walking between them.
00:11:56 Scholars of the Peak & Warmfield – The Way the Wind Held Us
https://warmfield.bandcamp.com/track/the-way-the-wind-held-us
Single: The Way the Wind Held Us.
Title of the hour. A single that keeps both hands in its pockets and still manages to carry you.
00:15:05 Subordinate Clause – Cafraster
https://meansmag.bandcamp.com/track/cafraster
Album: MEANS 7: Grass Roots. Label: MEANS
Grass roots, the clause under the sentence. MEANS filing the soil with the syntax.
00:19:07 Larry Manteca – EROTICA
https://fourfliesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/erotica
Album: Erotica 70. Label: Four Flies Records
Seventy, restored. Four Flies lifting the velvet and finding the flute still warm.

Mood mist: a rope married to itself, buildings that prefer to meet, a field still learning the season, a tuning that is the piece, a night glad of the flame, a seven that has already shifted south.

00:23:10 Nickolas Mohanna – Eye Splice
https://nickolasmohanna.bandcamp.com/track/eye-splice
Album: Whistler.
The knot that lets a rope become its own companion. Whistler, the note you hear when the air is pleased.
00:29:58 The Architect – Formations and Collisions
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/formations-and-collisions
Album: Undesignated. Label: The Dream Journal Institute
Undesignated, which is a fine category for a dream. The Journal keeping the blueprint in pencil.
00:37:10 Kiu Siu – In Spring
https://thejewelgarden.bandcamp.com/track/in-spring
Album: Field Studies, Volume 5. Label: The Jewel Garden
Field studies, volume five, the season arriving with its pockets full of green. The Jewel Garden leaving the gate open.
00:48:46 Ótal – Tuning Study
https://thejewelgarden.bandcamp.com/track/tuning-study
Album: Field Studies, Volume 5. Label: The Jewel Garden
The same garden, a few beds along. The piece is the tuning. The Jewel Garden letting the string find itself.
00:57:43 Black Sun High Desert – The Night Accepts The Fire
https://blacksunhighdesert.bandcamp.com/track/the-night-accepts-the-fire
Album: The Weight Of The Night Sky.
The weight of the night sky, glad of the company. A desert holding both.
00:59:44 Mark Donlon – Seven
https://sermakmusic.bandcamp.com/track/seven
Album: Label: SERMAK MUSIC
Southern shift, the number already facing the warmer wall. Sermak keeping the count.

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 323.
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 323

Now here

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.

I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.

A patch finishing its own sentence, then salt and gold from a city of oxygen.
Side A lets DFAM talk to itself in initials, tucks the years 2020 to 2025 in for a good slumber, leaves one clean loop as evidence of the skirting-board citizens, spreads the map until the room feels larger than the house, holds the apex a moment longer on a second thought, and dusts the relic room with the lights kindly low. Side B tells the myth a second time until it learns to sit still, meets a noble gas so quiet it needs two speakers, arrives at a place that is now and here at once, holds the sky with a shared backache, lets the starlings turn colour into a day, and keeps Liverpool salt and gold in the same pocket.
Overall mood: Warm, slightly archival, and quietly luminous — full of second thoughts, low lights, and titles that are also locations. Perfect for dusk listening, houses larger than their maps, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.

Mood mist: a circuit saying its own initials, five years of sleep filed neatly, a sample small enough to hide under a skirting board, existence asked to stand up straight, a second thought at the top of the arc, relics that prefer to dream.

00:02:18 Albin – AMDF
https://paltunes.bandcamp.com/track/amdf-2
Album: DFAM. Label: Paltunes
DFAM talking to itself in initials. Paltunes letting the patch finish the sentence.
00:06:59 Stewart Keller – Good Slumber
https://stewartkeller.bandcamp.com/track/good-slumber-2
Album: 2020 – 2025: Archives.
Archives from 2020 to 2025, the years tucked in. The tape already breathing slower.
00:09:19 Allmanna Town – Sample 07
https://allmannatown.bandcamp.com/track/sample-07
Album: RODENTS.
The small citizens of the skirting board, leaving one clean loop as evidence.
00:10:04 ian hawgood – the undeniable magnificience of existence
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/the-undeniable-magnificence-of-existence
Album: Label: whitelabrecs
All these places together, whitelabrecs spreading the map until the room feels larger than the house.
00:20:22 Christian Fiesel – At The Apex
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/at-the-apex
Album: On A Second Thought [CYD 0162]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
On a second thought, which is where the best turns happen. Cyclical Dreams holding the top of the arc for a moment longer.
00:24:16 Everyday Dust – Dreams
https://everydaydust.bandcamp.com/track/dreams
Album: The Relic Room. Label: Dustopian Frequencies
The relic room with the lights left kindly low. Dustopian Frequencies dusting the shelf and keeping what it finds.

Mood mist: a myth told twice until it settles, a noble gas in stereo, a place that is now and here at once, a shoulder holding up a sky, a life seen as a field of colour, salt and gold from a city of oxygen.

00:27:34 SPTW – MYTH II
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/myth-ii
Album: EUTHYMIA. Label: Mahorka
The calm after the telling. Mahorka keeping the second version, the one that learned to sit still.
00:30:30 The British Stereo Collective – Krypton Encounter
https://thebritishstereocollective.bandcamp.com/track/krypton-encounter
Album: Take Cover.
Take cover, then come out again. A gas so quiet it needs two speakers to be believed.
00:34:09 Hiroaki Yamamoto – Now here
https://driftworks.bandcamp.com/track/now-here
Album: Suspended in the Wind. Label: Driftworks
Suspended in the wind, which is a fine place to be when the title is also a location. Driftworks. Title of the hour.
00:36:11 Caught In Joy – Atlas
https://caughtinjoy.bandcamp.com/track/atlas
Album: Colorfield (Extended)
The one who holds, and the book of maps, sharing a name and a backache. Joy doing the lifting.
00:42:11 LOULA YORKE – A Vision of Life
https://loulayorke.bandcamp.com/track/a-vision-of-life
Album: Starling Sessions. Label: Truxalis
The birds already in the rafters. Truxalis letting the colour become a day.
00:47:15 autumna – salt and gold
https://autumna.bandcamp.com/track/salt-and-gold
Album: oxygen and light.
Oxygen and light, Liverpool still on the glass. The Mersey keeping both minerals in the same pocket.

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 323.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

Posted by trevlad | October 8, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: Albin, Allmanna Town, autumna, Caught In Joy, Christian Fiesel, Cyclical Dreams, Driftworks, Dustopian Frequencies, Everyday Dust, Hiroaki Yamamoto, Ian Hawgood, Loula Yorke, Mahorka, Malmö, Paltunes, SPTW, Stewart Keller, The British Stereo Collective, Truxalis, Whitelabrecs | Leave a comment

Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 322

From another time

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.

I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.

A stone cut in a century that has already left, then a MicroKorg noticing the room has changed.
Side A polishes a gemstone that arrived already old, keeps the distant sea far enough that you can hear it and stay dry, leaves an extra chair for two girls and the half that stayed, counts masts the harbour fog is still deciding to show, gathers every last drop, and opens a portal onto a room you have already been in. Side B lets the moon wobble a little more than it meant to show, hums rare earths through a circuit board in a language older than the plug, listens as a Connecticut house stretches fridge and rain into a room you can stand in, counts ninety minutes of air still in the lungs, files a ghost that already knew the address, and lets a stolen memory agree the room has changed.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly haunted, and quietly domestic — full of polite distances, home-shelf murmurs, and water that remains generous with the air. Perfect for dusk listening, houses that pay attention, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.

Mood mist: a stone cut in a century that has already left, a sea kept at a polite distance, two girls and the half that stayed, masts drawn in fog, a drop counted to the end, a portal that remembers you first.

00:02:18 Sophos – From another time
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/sophos-from-another-time
Album: Gemstones VII [CYD 0166]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
Gemstones VII, the facet that arrived already old. Cyclical Dreams polishing it anyway. Title of the hour.
00:05:15 Ghostloop – The Distant Sea
https://norayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-distant-sea
Album: The Distant Sea. Label: Noray Records
(Exclusive track) Noray keeping the water far enough that you can hear it and still stay dry.
00:09:52 Restive Plaggona – Two Girls (And A Half)
https://dvntt.bandcamp.com/track/two-girls-and-a-half
Album: Leftina / Osha. Label: DVNTT
Leftina, Osha, and the fraction that walked between them. DVNTT leaving the extra chair.
00:12:44 The Earl of Dean – Masts In The Harbour Fog
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/masts-in-the-harbour-fog
Album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings
Passed Oceans counting the spars you can see and the ones the mist is still deciding to show.
00:19:41 Laura Burton – Every Last Drop
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/every-last-drop
Album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings
The ocean asked to be thorough, and she was. Passed Recordings keeping the glass upright.
00:22:01 Portal of Reflections – Memories
https://etherealprojector.bandcamp.com/track/memories
Album: Portal. Label: Ethereal Projector, Ambient Cat
A portal that opens onto a room you have already been in. Ethereal Projector holding the curtain.

Mood mist: a moon wobbling in its library, rare earths singing through a circuit board, a Connecticut house paying attention, ninety minutes of air still in the lungs, a haunt filed under the home label, a MicroKorg noticing the room has changed.

00:24:48 NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES – Libration
https://nouvelleslecturescosmopolites.bandcamp.com/track/libration
Album: Conjonction Astrale.
The small wobble that lets you see a little more of the moon than it meant to show. Conjonction Astrale keeping the book open.
00:30:05 Bit Cloudy – Motherboard Rare Earths Excerpt 1
https://bitcloudy.bandcamp.com/track/motherboard-rare-earths-part-1
Album: Motherboard Rare Earths (For Krankenhaus 2026).
Minerals that learned to compute, scored for Krankenhaus. The board humming in a language older than the plug.
00:33:52 Ümlaut – The House Listens
https://audiobulb.bandcamp.com/
(Exclusive) The house listens. Fridge, sink, kettle, furnace, rain on the glass, the click of a metronome. Audiobulb letting the ordinary stretch until it becomes a room you can stand in.
00:38:13 exquisitecorpse – ninetyminutesfromdrowning
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/ninetyminutesfromdrowning
Album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings
Ninety minutes from drowning. Passed Oceans still counting, still generous with the air.
00:40:29 odd person – absolutely haunted
https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/track/odd-person-absolutely-haunted
Album:Murmurs in the Mist. Label: Trevlad
Murmurs in the mist, on the home shelf. Trevlad filing a ghost that already knew the address.
00:42:39 Sunshine Playroom / Prozapine – Something Odd (is Happening)
https://prozapine.bandcamp.com/track/something-odd-is-happening
Album: Melancholy Melodies & Stolen Memories.
Stolen memories, a MicroKorg, a television from a decade that still thinks it is on. The room agrees.

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 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.

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.

Posted by trevlad | October 6, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: Aiko Takahashi, Almost Random, ambalek, ambient, Argentina, Audiobulb, baby, Bricolage, Brighton And Hove, Buenos Aires, Cádiz, chill-out, Cyclical Dreams, dark ambient, David Cordero, downtempo, drone, electroacoustic, electronic, electronica, Eric Angelo Bessel, eurorack, experimental, Fenny Compton, field recordings, folk, Glasgow, Gothenburg, gothic, Grey Malkin, Guest Bartender Deborah Toyota, haunted folk, HDRF, Home Normal, I Heart Noise, idm, indie, Japan, Kirk Monteux Mysoftmusic, Las Vegas, London, Lore City Music, midorinozu, modern classical, modular synth, Mystery Circles, Nanováros, nature, Nevada, noise pop, noise rock, Nonturn, Oceanographer, Oregon, organic, Oskar Karlström, Passed Recordings, Portland, post rock, psychedelic rock, psychfolk, Seattle, Sheffield, soundscape, Spain, Sweden, tape loops, UK, Uppsala, Washington, womb, Woodford Halse | Leave a comment

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.

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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