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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 298

www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-298/

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

A textured, slightly restless ambient and experimental journey through protected light, subway chaos, and quiet figures still gathering.
Side A opens in remixed German-Czech-Spanish frequencies and Bristol trio gravity, then moves through Chester grandmother light, Berlin bouncing patterns, whimsical DNA cheesecake, and limbs of sticks under Machen’s bridge. Side B settles into Salt LX thoughts carried by wind, absolute chaos circuits, dark-ambient lounge noise, simple guitar drones that wait for yes, submerged porcelain systems, and a Quiet Figures remix that percolates the filter open.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly dark, and richly layered — full of analogue edges, exclusive whispers, and slow openings. Perfect for late listening, deep immersion, or sitting with what keeps moving while the figures remain.

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

The tape unspools its visions.

00:01:17 Möe – Incierta (Høll Remix)
Möe – Incierta (Høll Remix). German, Czech and Spanish frequencies meet in protected digital light. Diego Castillo’s original gains new remix colour under Jorge Eafhm’s mastering.
00:08:06 Slate Trio – Hour of Zog
Slate Trio – Hour of Zog. Neil Smith’s guitar, Matthew Jones’s drums and Alex Heane’s bass lock into Bristol air. James King records and mixes. Rick Dowding masters.
00:14:25 (EXCLUSIVE) boycalledcrow – orb
boycalledcrow – orb. First exclusive of the episode. Carl M Knott’s sprawl approaches on 11 September. Heavier beats and dub-inflected soundscapes rise around Chester rooms and grandmother light.
00:16:51 Sebastian Arnold – Bits Keep Moving
Sebastian Arnold – Bits Keep Moving. One-man band of drums, percussion, synthesizers and live electronics. Bouncing patterns and tricky acoustic beats fill Tricone Studios at Funkhaus Berlin. Bewegung, Klang, Energie.
00:21:41 Daily Mail Comments Section – Estradiol Cheesecake
Daily Mail Comments Section – Estradiol Cheesecake. Imogen Hayley Baker’s whimsical alias carries DNA from Lucy, Evie, Christiane, Meghan, Heather and Shannon. Billie Bacon adds hammer.
00:23:10 Grey Malkin – Our Limbs Are Made Of Sticks
Grey Malkin – Our Limbs Are Made Of Sticks. Arthur Machen’s bridge of light spans the gulf. Alison O’Donnell, Burnt Paw, Alan Davidson, David Colohan, Speculum Bunny, Amanda Votta and the Liminal Choir join woodwind and voice. Tides of time come in.

The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.

00:27:50 Jogging House – Roofer
Jogging House – Roofer. Salt LX phrases re-interpreted through Digitakt 2, Polyvera, modular and single takes to quarter-inch tape. Thoughts dwell. Winds carry.
00:32:42 Alex Ringess – Towards Absolute Chaos
Alex Ringess – Towards Absolute Chaos. Three or four instruments hold the space. Project files from Analog Abstractions carry the same mix. Glasgow subway photography gains retro sci-fi processing.
00:37:44 rikardfvs – Look, Betty (Dark Ambient Remix)
rikardfvs – Look, Betty (Dark Ambient Remix). Sixth Sound for the Soul compilation. Lounge noise, syphilitic exotica and raw ambient gather.
00:45:25 Aidan Baker – Everything Is Dark Until You Say Yes
Aidan Baker – Everything Is Dark Until You Say Yes. Solo electric guitar at Broken Spine Studios, Berlin. Drifting drones and noisy textures return to simple form. Guillermo Pizarro masters for Owl Totem.
00:51:59 Aleatory Music Systems – Up
Aleatory Music Systems – Up. Porcelain butter dish struck and submerged. Systems music meets chaotic edges. Time, change and movement open. Limited lathe-cut 7-inch exists on Short Cuts.
00:55:42 (EXCLUSIVE) Masefield Labs – On Her Own Quiet Figures remix
Masefield Labs – On Her Own Quiet Figures remix. Second exclusive of the episode. Silent ever-present figures whisper. Quantum foam gratitude cascades to the artists. Percolating electronica opens the cut-off filter.

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

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

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 298.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

Posted by trevlad | September 4, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: Aidan Baker, Aleatory Music Systems, Alex Ringess, ambient, ambient music, Berlin, berlin dance, boycalledcrow, Bristol, cinematic, contemporary jazz, Daily Mail Comments Section, dark ambient, deep techno, down tempo, downtempo, drone, drone ambient, East Lothian, electronic, electronica, England, Enofa, experimental, Fenny Compton, folk, Fonodroom, France, Frankfurt Am Main, freiburg, Germany, Grey Malkin, haunted folk, hauntology, Høll, idm, instrumental, jazz, Jogging House, lo-fi, Masefield Labs, Möe, Mexico, Mexico City, Mortatility Tables, neoclassical, Netherlands, noise, Owl Totem Recordings, Pig Records, postrock, Potsdam, psychfolk, rikardfvs, Sebastian Arnold, Secuencias Temporales, shoegaze, Slate Trio, Sollentuna, Sounds for the Soul Records, soundscape, Sweden, synthpop, synthwave, techno, trevlad, UK, Uppsala, Woodford Halse | Leave a comment

Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 297

www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-297/

A coastal, living-system ambient journey through sea-stares, underwater spheres, and second natures.
Side A watches the sea from Sausage Studios, then drifts across unnamed water, residual cellar vectors, tape-warm circles, dancing offertorio light, and one-take Maenporth fall. Side B opens a hidden kantele harmony, mixes smoke and sound in real time, breathes under Yiddish trees, sits with an oracle, walks Sanibel’s helix, and comes back to the world.
Overall mood: Gentle, organic, and quietly luminous — full of water, weather, and small living systems. Perfect for morning listening, nature walks, or sitting still while things fall out of the sky.

The tape unspools its visions.

00:00:00 Mike Dickinson – Bonus Track – Staring at The Sea – V1 Demo
Mike Dickinson – Bonus Track – Staring at The Sea – V1 Demo. Mrs Moore still climbs the desks as Space-bat-Angel-Dragon. Microkorg, Maschine, Odyssey and Minilogue voice the outsider at Sausage Studios.
00:05:28 Mensa Group International – Pokoponesia
Mensa Group International – Pokoponesia. Ailanthus colours drift across unnamed water.
00:07:16 Altus – Residual Vector Drift
Altus – Residual Vector Drift. Mike Carss works eight tracks in the Green Cellar through January and February.
00:13:53 Foam and Sand – Circle 66 feat. Priscilla Ahn
Foam and Sand – Circle 66 feat. Priscilla Ahn. Analog synths, live vibraphone, chimes and bells pass through tape warmth. Robot Koch keeps the invitation quiet.
00:17:57 Salamanda – Offertorio
Salamanda – Offertorio. Bubbles, refracting light and dancing underwater spheres. Profits from physical Sphere copies travel to the Korean Women’s Hotline.
00:20:47 Fran Carlyon – Sometimes (they just fall out of the sky) remaster
Fran Carlyon – Sometimes (they just fall out of the sky) remaster. Guitar recorded overlooking Maenporth waves. Kosmische keys overdubbed later in Hockley, one take.

The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.

00:22:14 Shakali – Toinen Luonto
Shakali – Toinen Luonto. Thirty-six-string kantele, bowls, bells, reeds, wind and water. Julian Overall’s soprano, Timo’s udu, Roy Werner’s sequencers and Les Halles’ flute simmer in hidden harmony.
00:29:02 Perrache – Schall und Rauch
Perrache – Schall und Rauch. Two Fostex four-tracks mix in real time. Doubled layers nod toward Spector and open a spaghetti-western theme. Names prove transitory.
00:32:22 Beymer – Otemen (Breathe)
Beymer – Otemen (Breathe). Daniel Field’s Yiddish trees. Calming recordings and simple synths gather beneath the canopy.
00:34:14 Lillies For Ever – Oracle III
Lillies For Ever – Oracle III. Captivation arrives as peace.
00:43:55 Green-House – Sanibel
Green-House – Sanibel. Named for a Florida island of first nature-walks. Melody and harmonics helix. Kaleidoscopic guitar and bubbling synths mimic a larger living system.
00:45:55 Hunter Complex – Back to the World
Hunter Complex – Back to the World. Flute, trumpet, acoustic guitar and harmonica join lush piano. Inner peace uses weather and water as metaphor.

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

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 297.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

Posted by trevlad | September 3, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: Ailanthus Recordings, alternative, Altus, Altus Music, ambient, ambient drone, ambientelectronic, Argentina, berlinschool, Beymer, Brno, California, Czechia, diy music, drone, electronic, electronica, environmental, experimental, experimental electronic, field recording, filmmusic, Foam and Sand, folk, Fran Carlyon, Frankfurt, Germany, Ghostly International, Green-House, Haarlem, home-recording, Hunter Complex, Imaginary North, Johnstown, kosmische, Lillies For Ever, lo-fi, London, Los Angeles, Métron Records, Mensa Group International, Mike Dickinson, modernclassical, nature, Netherlands, New Forest District, Not Not Fun Records, Ontario, Ottawa, Pennsylvania, Perrache, plant music, pop rock, Priscilla Ahn, Salamanda, Santa Rosa, Seattle, Seil Records, SFI Recordings, Shakali, Short Cuts, Sincronía del Viento, Southend On Sea, Stuttgart, synth, synthmusic, synthpop, synthwave, tapeloops, techno, Toronto, UK, Washington, wave | Leave a comment

Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 296

www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-296/

A cosmic, slightly archival ambient journey through uncharted quadrants, greenhouse arks, and nine worlds below.
Side A drifts from exclusive galactic isolation and catalystic dreaming into a lumbering poem-machine, last-forest arks, Portuguese hardware colour, and hymns that give everything they have. Side B opens in guitar-and-harmony tranquility, then moves through Kosmische hover, shadow-planet rework, Niflhel depths, a vacation-light response, and ends in a slanted average where nothing needs proving.
Overall mood: Expansive, contemplative, and quietly generous — full of star-aimed memory, analogue drive, and safe mediocrity. Perfect for deep listening, late hours, or sitting still while the tape finds its own orbit.

The tape unspools its visions.

00:01:17 (EXCLUSIVE) deepspace – Atlas Minor – POLY=VISTAS
An exclusive track. unknown release date. on Projekt Records.
deepspace – Atlas Minor – POLY=VISTAS. Mirko Ruckels drifts through uncharted galactic quadrants. Brisbane rooms send German-born space-ambient into exclusive cosmic isolation.
00:07:55 Ancient Astronaut – Catalystic Mind
Ancient Astronaut – Catalystic Mind. Atmospheric electronic soundscapes open for relaxation and dreaming. Half the proceeds travel to Ekukhanyeni’s early-childhood work in South Africa.
00:11:17 Le Morte d’Abby – A Poem
Le Morte d’Abby – A Poem. Acid-based skitter and dueling melodies move at one hundred and thirty bpm. Forlorn pads give way to a lumbering Miyazaki machine of metal-on-wood.
00:18:29 vOLKER rAPP – The arks Berkshire, Valley Forge, Sequoia and Mojave
vOLKER rAPP – The arks Berkshire, Valley Forge, Sequoia and Mojave. ARP 2600 and SEM colours from a 1974 television memory. Greenhouse domes hold Earth’s last forests among Trumbull stars.
00:24:17 Cool Science – Tenshin
Cool Science – Tenshin. Portuguese Polysix, Minilogue XD, Digitone, Digitakt and Syntakt join SLIT ART.
00:30:04 rec – giving you all i got
rec – giving you all i got. Hymns for a fading world gather handprints on dust. Shared memory aims at the stars.

The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.

00:34:52 (EXCLUSIVE) James McKeown – Tranquility
James McKeown – Tranquility. After eight years as Hawksmoor, acoustic and electric guitars meet layered synths. Cloud of Unknowing carries intimate vocal harmony toward 25 September.
00:37:38 Conrad Schnitzler – 2:08
Conrad Schnitzler – 2:08. Melodies hover. Layers move with Kosmische drive. Flip-Flap and Fonodroom send CON’s focused energy outward.
00:39:33 Brandon Locher – Rahu Ketu (Salvatore Mercatante Rework)
Brandon Locher – Rahu Ketu (Salvatore Mercatante Rework). A 264-day planetary cycle. Shadow planets drawn in ink and coloured pencil. Taylor Deupree mastering.
00:44:42 Lee Anthony Norris & Árni Grétar – Into All Of The Nine Worlds Below Niflhel
Into All Of The Nine Worlds Below Niflhel. A fifty-minute piece yields this excerpt. Futuregrapher’s Icelandic ambient and techno presence remains in the mix.
00:52:03 Gareth Jones – 53_StOlaves : Response
Gareth Jones – 53_StOlaves : Response. Impermanence understood as transformation. A spontaneous reply to Catharsis, vacation light on the photograph.
01:01:27 (EXCLUSIVE) Mike Hans STEFFL – slanted average
An exclusive track. Release date September 2nd, 2026 on the AURAL FILMS label.
Mike Hans STEFFL – slanted average. Berlin School and ambient tones explore mediocrity as a safe space. Sounds envelop. You need prove nothing here.

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

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 296.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

Posted by trevlad | September 1, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: 80's electronic, ambient, ambient electronic, Amulet of Tears, Ancient Astronaut, Argentina, atmospheric, Aural Films, Árni Grétar, berlin school, berlin techno, Brandon Locher, Buenos Aires, chill-out, cinematic, Conrad Schnitzler, Cool Science, cosmic, Cyclical Dreams, deepspace, devoted to Conrad Schnitzler, drone, edm, electronic, electronic. experimental, England, Flip-Flap, FORM@ RECORDS, France, Gareth Jones, Germany, Iceland, Illinois, instrumental, James McKeown, Japan, Le Morte d'Abby, Lee Anthony Norris, library music, Lithuania, melodic techno, Mike Hans STEFFL, Mortality Tables, Munich, Nashville, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Portland, Projekt Records, rec, Rennes, Richmond, Salvatore Mercatante, sound art, sound-art, soundscape, space music, spacemusic, Subexotic Records, synth, Tennessee, Tokyo, trip hop, Triplicate Records, UK, Vilnius, Volker Rapp | Leave a comment

Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 295

www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-295/

If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
Tips and subscriptions keep the reels turning. Every little helps the library stay open after dark.
A breathing, slightly cosmic ambient journey through mantra rooms, sunset light, and machine-soul plasma.
Side A keeps a Brighton pulse, then moves through cadmium starling chambers, seaside sunsets, remixed inner-galaxy weather, a slowed descent, and a last-page fin. Side B opens with Glasgow fairy wonk and oxide walk-film, then finds a 2016 first track, Plantasia homage, Gadigal beach light, and new-age retro plasma leading into the bright.
Overall mood: Warm, communal, and quietly expansive — full of shared rooms, analogue vignettes, and light that keeps arriving. Perfect for late mornings, deep listening, or sitting with the last page while the next reel still waits.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.

The tape unspools its visions.

00:01:18 Hill Collective – Keep Breathing
Hill Collective – Keep Breathing. A devotional pulse settles. Vocals move from scat into mantra. Congas, double bass and piano hold Brighton’s Sea Breeze rooms while the horns stretch outward.
00:11:26 LOULA YORKE – Sister Fledge
LOULA YORKE – Sister Fledge. A borrowed Make Noise Shared System lights obsidian chambers in cadmium and gold. Starling chicks and caregiver calls score eight June sessions.
00:15:25 NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES – Seaside Sunsets
NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES – Seaside Sunsets. Julien Ash’s devices and Wolf City’s guitar colour twenty-five minutes of previously unreleased light.
00:18:28 Wahn – Phase Memory (Abdicant + Nonima Remix)
Wahn – Phase Memory (Abdicant + Nonima Remix). Mahorka’s five-hundredth release gathers the inner galaxy. Dub-infused pulse and tactile sub-bass transpose Echo Mist Light into new signature weather.
00:23:42 Willebrant – Deep.
Willebrant – Deep. Electric basses, synths, slowed and reverb. A mix holds the descent.
00:30:29 Subordinate Clause – Fin
Subordinate Clause – Fin. Vocal samples from spouse and friends sit in the mix. Stonegate mastering seals the last page.

The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.

00:36:08 The Foot & Leg Clinic – Music for Baby Fairy
The Foot & Leg Clinic – Music for Baby Fairy. Wonk rock from Glasgow studios. Harp, saxophone, strings and Poppy the Cat share Crikey and Green Door air. In memory of Santiago.
00:39:23 Trevlad – Saves Lend Held
Trevlad – Saves Lend Held. Episodes 157 to 171 plus Expansive Waves 22 return as walk-film and oxide.
00:41:09 Albin – Första banan
Albin – Första banan. Four-track cassette from 2016 finds new life on Paltunes. Cover painting by Magnus Gustavsson.
00:44:39 Bluetech – Nebulous Cosmid
Bluetech – Nebulous Cosmid. Homage to Mort Garson’s Plantasia. Analogue lines weave cosmic and microscopic vignettes.
00:47:58 Gavin Sherrington-Blane – Gadigal Beach
Gavin Sherrington-Blane – Gadigal Beach. Planet Trip’s solo voice arrives on SLIT ART.
00:51:13 Suncastle – New Age Retro Plasma (feat. Simon Walklate)
Suncastle – New Age Retro Plasma (feat. Simon Walklate). Arps lead into the light. EQ becomes another instrument on Platformer’s buoyant machine soul.

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

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 295.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

Posted by trevlad | August 31, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: 7d Media, Abdicant, Albin, alternative, alternative rock, ambient, Australia, avant-garde, Batov Records, Behind The Sky Music, Bingo Records, Bluetech, Brighton, Bulgaria, Céret, chill, dance, dark ambient, darkwave, deep listening, DiN, diy, drone, drone ambient, electroacoustic, electronic, electronic dance music, electronica, experimental, folk, FORM@ RECORDS, France, free jazz, Gavin Sherrington-Blane, Glasgow, hauntology, Hill Collective, Illinois, indie rock, instrumental, Japan, jazz, jazz and improvised music, jazz fusion, Lancaster, lo-fi, London, long-form ambient, Loula Yorke, Mahorka, Malmö, meditation, Melbourne, melodic techno, minimalism, modular synth, modular synthesis, neoclassical, New Mexico, Nonima, Nottingham, NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES, Paltunes, Richmond, Santa Fe, Seattle, Sheffield, Simon Walklate, slowed and reverb, Sollentuna, soundscape, Subordinate Clause, Suncastle, Sunderland, Sweden, synthesis, techno, The Foot & Leg Clinic, Tokyo, trevlad, Triplicate Records, Truxalis, UK, Wahn, Washington, Willebrant, zeon light | Leave a comment

Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 294

www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-294/

If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
Tips and subscriptions keep the reels turning. Every little helps the library stay open after dark.
A ritual, slightly archival ambient journey through cave light, crystal devotion, and lost scrolls.
Side A opens in misfit forest worlds and frog-voiced infinity, then rises from empty Berlin-school air into Sagan-bright crystal strings, Adonia keyboards, and Pan Am polaroid ritual. Side B propagates Greek debut tones, shuffles a side-hustle co-op, unrolls Mossilon’s unfinished archive, lets sandalwood pulse over a vanished ocean, crowns a snow queen, and asks tomorrow to wait.
Overall mood: Contemplative, faintly mythic, and warmly analogue — full of restored tape, short illuminated paths, and memory that arrives as photographs. Perfect for late listening, quiet ritual, or letting the next day stay outside the room.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.

The tape unspools its visions.

00:00:00 Monroeville Music Center – Caverynth
Monroeville Music Center – Caverynth. Forest worlds, wintertide ritual and cloud ruins glow in short illuminated paths. Heaven for misfits hangs above a castle basement.
00:03:58 Light Vortex – Without Glimmer Of Infinity
Light Vortex – Without Glimmer Of Infinity. Tempo and tonality shift through a living cycle. At the close, frogs speak from a Florida pond.
00:10:26 Michael Brückner – From Zero – Part 1
Michael Brückner – From Zero – Part 1. Berlin School sequences rise from a 2015 studio floor. Synthesizers and keyboards start with empty air.
00:24:38 Spirituals – Crystal Strings
Spirituals – Crystal Strings. Pedal steel, acoustic guitar, vibraphone and voice memos stack as solitary devotionals. Sagan’s metaphor leaves the page and enters the headphones.
00:28:31 Ose – Orgasmachine
Ose – Orgasmachine. Hervé Picart’s Adonia sits between Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk. Rhetoric, journalism and emerging keyboards share one spatial room.
00:31:42 Akira Film Script – Pan Am Port Regalia
Akira Film Script – Pan Am Port Regalia. Polaroids and bidirectional associations open the eRecords white-label ritual.

The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.

00:36:03 Parallel Worlds – Propagation
Parallel Worlds – Propagation. A Greek debut on SLIT ART sends tones across FORM@’s widening scope.
00:41:25 Legacy Systems – Side Hustle Shuffle
Legacy Systems – Side Hustle Shuffle. The Synthesis Co-Op gathers Eurorack, pedals and occasional guitar. Profits travel toward CALM.
00:45:06 Everyday Dust – The Lost Scrolls Of Mossilon
Everyday Dust – The Lost Scrolls Of Mossilon. Restored quarter-inch, cassette, DAT and MiniDisc carry 2006 to 2022. Grebo Gray’s hand-drawn archive never finishes.
00:50:11 yolabmi – Sandalwood Pulse
yolabmi – Sandalwood Pulse. A vanished ocean whispers before music learns how to dream. Handprints rest on dust.
00:55:00 SERMAK MUSIC – Snow Queen
SERMAK MUSIC – Snow Queen. CZiGO’s piano and production span lockdown years to now. Eight tracks gather the Sermak catalogue.
00:58:54 ndrw cnry – Let tomorrow wait
ndrw cnry – Let tomorrow wait. Brief flashes of memory drift by. Photographs ride with the download.

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

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 294.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

Posted by trevlad | August 30, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: Akira Film Script, Alberta, ambient, ambient soul, Amulet of Tears, berlin school, Bureau B, Calgary, chamber music, Chesapeake, contemplative, CZiGO, downtempo, drone, Dustopian Frequencies, electro acoustic, electronic, electronica, England, Everyday Dust, experimental, Florida, flow state, FORM@ RECORDS, France, Germany, glitch, guitar, Hamburg, house, Illuminated Paths, instrumental, Japan, Legacy Systems, Light Vortex, Lithuania, lofi, lofi folk, Mainz, melodic, Michael Brückner, modern classical, Monroeville Music Center, Mortality Tables, ndrw cnry, New York, nostalgia, Ose, Parallel Worlds, pedal steel, pop, post-ambient, post-folk, Queens, SERMAK MUSIC, sound-art, soundscapes, space music, Spirituals, synth, synthesizer, techno, The Synthesis Co-Op, Tokyo, UK, vaporwave, Vilnius, Virginia, Warwick, Whitelabrecs, yolabmi | Leave a comment

Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 293

www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-293/

If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
Tips and subscriptions keep the reels turning. Every little helps the library stay open after dark.
A gentle, dream-facing ambient journey through insectile moonlight, library warmth, and far-shore destinations.
Side A weaves moonflower percussion and analogue arrival into placid Italian night, New Mexico autumn weather, infinite healing time, and a lullaby held behind rain-glass. Side B opens with a whistle toward emotion, then settles into open dusk sky, eleven minutes of analogue hope, close string resonance, a voyage to Beta Virginis, and memory finding water again.
Overall mood: Soft, hopeful, and quietly celestial — full of dusk light, small window-reflections, and patient unfolding. Perfect for twilight listening, falling asleep, or sitting with what still waits on the far shore.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.

The tape unspools its visions.

00:01:17 Polypores – Moonflower
Polypores – Moonflower. Tenor recorder, guitars, piano, drums, kalimba and homemade percussion weave insectile textures. Loose slack layers build dense walls of melody dedicated to Violet.
00:05:36 The British Stereo Collective – Arrival
The British Stereo Collective – Arrival. Benny and Björn’s melody becomes analogue library light among other covered transmissions.
00:07:44 Piero Umiliani – Placida Notte
Piero Umiliani – Placida Notte. Fantasy, the lost Telesound chapter, returns on the composer’s centenary. Analogue synthesizers, light orchestration and smooth rhythms share one playful science-and-nature dream.
00:10:49 Heron & Crane – Over Autumn
Heron & Crane – Over Autumn. Clouds hover above New Mexico desert. Celtic harp, new-age synth, lap steel and Moog sequence travel from Charlottesville to Columbus in all-instrumental weather.
00:13:32 ALURIA – Infinite Time
ALURIA – Infinite Time. Healing soundscapes make their FORM@ debut on SLIT ART, opening an original worldview.
00:20:49 Lab’s Cloud – Lullaby for Dreamers
Lab’s Cloud – Lullaby for Dreamers. Rain, snow, wind and twilight move outside the glass. Interior warmth holds ethereal textures and small window-reflections.

The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.

00:26:48 Henrik Meierkord & Suseti – The whistle
Henrik Meierkord & Suseti – The whistle. Strings and atmospheric new-age tones invite each listener toward their own emotion.
00:29:58 The Green Kingdom – Open Sky
The Green Kingdom – Open Sky. Softly processed piano, reverb-soaked guitar and sampled textures settle into airy dusk. Vespera names the hour.
00:33:35 Circuit3 – The Hope
Circuit3 – The Hope. Peter Fitzpatrick and Vince Clarke build an eleven-minute melodic drone landscape. Analogue machines carry notebook fragments into spacious instrumental light.
00:43:38 Aki Yli-Salomäki & Kreeta-Julia Heikkilä – Viriää
Aki Yli-Salomäki & Kreeta-Julia Heikkilä – Viriää. Violin and viola meet subtle synthesizer undercurrents. Slowly unfolding structures of timbre and resonance keep acoustic closeness.
00:46:06 Thaneco – Destination Beta Virginis
Thaneco – Destination Beta Virginis. Minimoog, Matriarch, Eurorack and mellotron voices soundtrack tau approaching zero. Bluish-green vegetation waits at the far shore of a new bang.
00:55:26 Teatre – Memory
Teatre – Memory. Amulet of Tears gathers the piece as a dry life finding water again.

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

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 293.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

Posted by trevlad | August 29, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: Aki Yli-Salomäki, ALURIA, ambient, Amulet of Tears, Argentina, atmospheric, Aural Canyon, berlin school, Buenos Aires, Charlottesville, chillout, Circuit3, Cyclical Dreams, dark ambient, DRONARIVM, drone, Dublin, electro acoustic, electrofolk, electronic, electronica, England, field recordings, Finland, folk, Fonodroom, FORM@ RECORDS, Four Flies Records, Greece, hauntology, Henrik Meierkord, Heron & Crane, Ireland, Italy, Πάτρα, Japan, Kreeta-Julia Heikkilä, Lab's Cloud, Le Mont Analogue, Lithuania, Madrid, Michigan, minimalism, modern classical, modular, modular synth, Mortality Tables, neoclassical, Netherlands, pastoral, Piero Umiliani, Polypores, post-rock, Preston, psychedelic, retro, Shelby Township, sound-art, soundscape, soundscapes, soundtracks, space music, Spain, Stoke On Trent, Suseti, Sweden, synth, Teatre, Texas, Thaneco, The British Stereo Collective, The Green Kingdom, Tokyo, UK, Vilnius, Virginia, Whitelabrecs | Leave a comment

Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 292

www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-292/

The tape unspools its visions.

00:00:00 odd person – all skeletons come from indiana
odd person – all skeletons come from indiana. Solstice heat marks part two of four seasons. Spirit faces south at zenith. The sun arrives in recorded summer light.
00:04:11 Rai Mondo – Green Energy
Rai Mondo – Green Energy. Austrian grandeur opens into fusion and progressive colour on Art Form 5. FORM@ gathers submissions into one shared compilation breath.
00:09:50 The Both And – we have this
The Both And – we have this. Programmable systems meet live intervention. Edges overload and new rooms appear. Communities of musicians and workers hang together in London rooms.
00:14:26 philippe neau – payysages.mouvements.
philippe neau – payysages.mouvements. Quiet Figures gather as nobodiosundz drift through shifting terrain.
00:17:55 Erik Wøllo – Fast and Slow
Erik Wøllo – Fast and Slow. Earthshine lights the unseen face. Four-track and eight-track machines return 1980s slowness. Drones and sequencer pulses rise and subside across twenty short crossings.
00:20:56 SPTW – Shelves
SPTW – Shelves. Warped loops, liquefied vocals and analog tape textures sit beside pencils, desks and bottles. Two collagists keep their heads above water in a time-capsule of inner weather.

The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.

00:23:21 Neglect – Cap De Creus (original mix)
Neglect – Cap De Creus (original mix). Headland light and Mediterranean water hold the coast.
00:29:16 Autonomaton – Rusty robots dream
Autonomaton – Rusty robots dream. Collected work from 2015 to 2025 moves from noise and drone toward fluffy ambient, then into dub and breakz. Hardware and computer share the same long sleep.
00:33:04 autumna – helen and her cousin
autumna – helen and her cousin. Capstone festival days give way to quieter corners. Light over the Mersey and street sound set the pace.
00:36:41 Nekomachi – Some Other Time
Nekomachi – Some Other Time. Fifteen years of stored sequences run through effects and samples in Tokyo rooms, no DAW required.
00:38:09 Yunze Ou – Choke Array
Yunze Ou – Choke Array. One hundred and seventy BPM carries dub-techno depth and halftime pulse. Ableton layers expand the loop into personal language.
00:42:23 Gilroy Mere – Hope Gap
Gilroy Mere – Hope Gap. Forty-mile train journeys from St Leonard’s feed laptop sketches. Ravilious colours become texture and tempo. Clarinet, flute, trumpet and voice join the laundry-studio air.

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

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 292.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

Posted by trevlad | August 29, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: ambient, analog synthesis, Antwerpen, Arizona, Atlanta, Australia, Autonomaton, autumna, Belgium, broken beat, Bulgaria, Clay Pipe Music, dark ambient, desert, electroacoustic, electronica, Erik Wøllo, ethereal, experimental, experimental ambient, experimental electronic, folk, FORM@ RECORDS, fourth world, France, Georgia, Gilroy Mere, glitch, gothic, hauntology, house, idm, industrial, instrumental, intelligent dance music, Japan, Las Vegas, Latex Records, lofi, lofi beats, London, Mahorka, Meaux, minimal, musique concrète, Mystery Circles, Neglect, Neglectsound, Nekomachi, Nevada, new age, Norway, ocean, odd person, Philippe Neau, post new age, Projekt Records, psychedelic, Rai Mondo, Sevilla, Short Cuts, Sollentuna, sound collage, soundtrack, SPTW, strangewave, Sweden, synth music, techno, techno house, The Both And, Tokyo, trevlad, tribal, tribal ambient, tribal industrial, triphop, Tucson, UK, weirdo, Yunze Ou | Leave a comment

Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 291

www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-291/

If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
Tips and subscriptions keep the reels turning. Every little helps the library stay open after dark.
A warm, earthy ambient journey through shared currents, evening rituals, and what remains after the light fades.
Side A gathers jungle meetings and sacred tea, then moves through sunset marrow, mountain mist, solitary machine colour, and warm rainfall microliths. Side B opens liminal gazes and Holkham shorelines, then settles into piano placeholders, remaining polaroids, morning inlight, and a summer curve of insect hum.
Overall mood: Contemplative, healing, and quietly luminous — full of tape hiss, shoreline near-silence, and small rites of duration. Perfect for dusk listening, deep rest, or sitting with what stays.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.

The tape unspools its visions.

00:01:18 Biodiverse, Anee Molly & Canblaster – Unite
Biodiverse, Anee Molly & Canblaster – Unite. Jungle scan and echolocation gather as travellers of the past step into shared current. Illustration and tape hiss hold the meeting.
00:07:02 Time Rival – Sacred Tea
Time Rival – Sacred Tea. Tongue drums, kalimba, flute and sun-bleached saturation pour from a planner marked new music. The brew arrives cooked, oversaturated, warm.
00:14:09 Bålsam – Every Sunset
Bålsam – Every Sunset. Cicadas and river-rush enter the marrow. A mother’s voice message and a daughter’s unburdened tone sit among orchids and damp earth. Healing moves as pulse.
00:17:40 Maps and Diagrams – Mist on the Mountain
Maps and Diagrams – Mist on the Mountain. Loops and found sources cycle and fade. Subtle variation and decay keep happening in quiet instability.
00:21:40 Toàn – DEL 0
Toàn – DEL 0. A single Deluge machine, tape loops, harp and bowed tones layer into synesthetic colour. Solitude hangs as an invisible wall of texture.
00:26:01 zakè, Ossa, ASC – Microlith 8
zakè, Ossa, ASC – Microlith 8. Shimmering keys pour like warm rainfall. Analog lines, chest-deep bass and tape-saturated mist carry 90s ambient memory toward an ambiguous horizon.

The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.

00:27:48 Philippe Blache – Let This Gaze Be Our Part
Philippe Blache – Let This Gaze Be Our Part. Liminal corridors and flowing memory open in meandering textures. Imaginary territories rise through melancholia and repetition.
00:33:47 (EXCLUSIVE) Richard Sage – Holkham
Richard Sage – Holkham. Tripod, Zoom and iPhone gather wave-analogues and shoreline seeds. Near silence wears its own palette.
00:41:25 Audio Obscura – Placeholder for Meaning
Audio Obscura – Placeholder for Meaning. Piano improvisation from Whitby finds its way after months of stillness. Pyramid shapes and late-year fruit settle into place.
00:48:55 Laurel Morgan & Yorkshire Modular Society – Remaining
Laurel Morgan & Yorkshire Modular Society – Remaining. Polaroids and modular breath keep what stays. Scrapbook pages hold the UK location in quiet duration.
00:53:21 David Cordero & Aiko Takahashi – Inlight
David Cordero & Aiko Takahashi – Inlight. Piano notes float as points of light. Modular tones gather in soft waves around the threshold of morning.
00:56:45 CIRC – Summer Curve
CIRC – Summer Curve. Insect hum and rustle become looped ethereal texture. Everyday night turns into a small sonic rite.

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

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 291.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

Posted by trevlad | August 28, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: Aiko Takahashi, ambient, ambient electronica, Anee Molly, ASC, Audio Obscura, Bålsam, Biodiverse, Brighton And Hove, Bulgaria, Canblaster, chill, chill-out, cinematic, cinematic soundscape, CIRC, Colombia, CONDITION HUMAN, David Cordero, Dole, DRONARIVM, drone, drone ambient, electro, electro acoustic, electronic, electronic music, England, experimental, field recordings, fieldrecordings, found sound, France, Home Normal, Hylé Tapes, idm, Indiana, Indianapolis, Italy, landscapes, Laurel Morgan, Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series, Le Mont Analogue, Mahorka, Maine, Maps and Diagrams, minimal, minimalism, modern classical, Nantes, nature, Netherlands, organic, Ossa, Paris, Philippe Blache, piano, Portland, post-classical, radiophonic, Richard Sage, rohs! records, Sardinia, soundscapes, Time Rival, Toàn, UK, Whitelabrecs, Yorkshire Modular Society, zakè | Leave a comment

Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 290

www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-290/

Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 290. Twelve-track virtual cassettes that flips themselves at the halfway mark.

As this is episode 290 that makes it a best of show. Where I’ve chosen 12 favourites from over the years.
The best of shows remain free but everything else slips quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers after 7 days. Subscribers currently have 1,122 other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. They also receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, and get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.

On Side A you’ll hear Albin, Coldplay, Telefon Tel Aviv, Kettel, KILN and Air
On the flip side you’ll hear Sababa 5, Pacific!, beaunoise, Felix Laband, Jordan Rakei and Six Organs Of Admittance
This will be Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode 290.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Enjoy…

00:00:00 Albin – Motljus
Figures stand against a source of gold, edges dissolving into flare and halo.
00:07:05 Coldplay – Coloratura
Vocal ornament climbs through star-maps and slow orbital colour.
00:17:02 Telefon Tel Aviv – john thomas on the inside is nothing but foam
Soft cellular bubbles rise and collapse in luminous interior weather.
00:21:49 Kettel – My Dogan (15th Anniversary Edition)
Warm IDM patterns bloom again in familiar, renewed light.
00:25:41 KILN – Brutalist Desk Object
Angles and grain hold quiet weight, texture stacked like poured stone.
00:28:56 Air – Cherry Blossom Girl (Hope Sandoval Version)
Petals hang in still air while the melody walks beneath pink canopies.

00:31:51 Sababa 5 – Wembley
Percussion and melody lock into a wide stadium of rhythm.
00:36:15 Pacific! – Sunrise
Early colour spreads across water and waking air.
00:38:31 beaunoise – Gymnopédie No. 1 (Buchla 200e)
Satie’s slow dance becomes modular light, each step hanging in voltage.
00:41:11 Felix Laband – Falling Off A Horse
Dust and motion spiral outward in unhurried descent.
00:45:56 Jordan Rakei – Lover, You Should’ve Come Over (Exclusive Cover Version)
Jeff Buckley’s song opens again in new breath and evening warmth.
00:48:36 Six Organs Of Admittance – Wolves’ Pup
Acoustic drift and drone gather around small wild presence.

Posted by trevlad | August 27, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: A Strangely Isolated Place, acid, Air, Albin, alternative, alternative rock, ambient, Australia, avant-garde, Barcelona, Batov Records, Beaunoise, Berkeley, braindance. breaks, Brisbane, California, Cape Town, Chicago, Coldplay, cr78, dance music, deep house, Drag City Records, electro, electro-acoustic, electronic, electronica, experimental, Felix Laband, folk, France, funk, Ghostly International, Gothenburg, groove, headphone music, headphone sound, Hope Sandoval, house, idm, Illinois, Jordan Rakei, Kettel, KILN, kosmische musik, krautrock, Lapsus Records, Late Night Tales, London, Los Angeles, Malmö, middle eastern music, neo-classical, Netherlands, noise, organic electronic, Pacific!, Paltunes, Paris, pop, psychedelic, r&b, r&b/soul, rock, Sababa 5, Six Organs Of Admittance, soul, soundscape, South Africa, Sweden, Telefon Tel Aviv, UK, world | Leave a comment

Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 289

www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-289/

If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
Tips and subscriptions keep the reels turning. Every little helps the library stay open after dark.
A warm, slightly hauntological ambient journey through memory pools, lost-and-found melodies, and parallel realities.
Side A gathers shared sonic connections, 1974 household radiophonics, midnight Frankfurt tones, recovered places, Lancashire ease, and ballad-inspired ambient forms. Side B drifts through emotional anchors, nostalgic Japanese colour, Quiet Figures still gathering, serpents in daylight, elemental wooded harmony, and ends walking the fictional lanes of Belbury.
Overall mood: Contemplative, nostalgic, and gently communal — full of recovered light, quiet personal colour, and soft village atmosphere. Perfect for deep listening, late evenings, or sitting with the ordinary as it quietly transforms.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.

The tape unspools its visions.

00:00:00 Soeik – Memory Pool
Soeik – Memory Pool. Diverse artists gather under the SLIT ART banner, each contribution expanding the label’s reach through shared sonic connection.
00:08:07 The Twelve Hour Foundation – Instamatic
The Twelve Hour Foundation – Instamatic. Household objects and treated recordings capture 1974 spirit. Radiophonic Workshop colours meet Tangerine Dream and early Kraftwerk nods in Bristol rooms.
00:12:04 HDRF – Frankfurt After Midnight
HDRF – Frankfurt After Midnight. Compilation tones settle across the sixth Sound for the Soul gathering of listeners and makers.
00:17:30 Dionisaf – Lost and Found
Dionisaf – Lost and Found. Melodies rise from previously misplaced places.
00:20:01 Brapscallion – Shadaloo
Brapscallion – Shadaloo. Lancashire rhythms move in easy layered motion.
00:23:03 Green Static – Three Corbies
Green Static – Three Corbies. Traditional ballad imagery from The Long Harvest inspires new ambient forms, profits flowing toward ClientEarth protection of earth systems.

The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.

00:32:12 Samatha – Drift X
Samatha – Drift X. Spontaneous layering and looping search for anchors among shifting emotions.
00:33:01 Saitoh Tomohiro – nostalgic vibes
Saitoh Tomohiro – nostalgic vibes. Japanese tones previously heard through U-Cover connections expand in quiet personal colour.
00:37:04 Visionary Lines – Two Parallel Realities
Visionary Lines – Two Parallel Realities. Rich Johnson’s projects move through the Quiet Figures still gathering.
00:41:56 Christian Fiesel – Serpent In Broad Daylight
Christian Fiesel – Serpent In Broad Daylight. DeepMind12 and Memotron voices ride wild sketches and longer pieces inspired by The Illustrated Man.
00:57:43 Castle Waters – Elemental Harmony
Castle Waters – Elemental Harmony. Wooded walkways and ancient bridges inspire metaphysical relaxation. ETERNITEA awaits at 1:37 in the floating gazebo overlooking the lake.
01:01:16 Belbury Poly – Music, Movement & Meaning
Belbury Poly – Music, Movement & Meaning. Vintage analogue synths, hand percussion, melodica, psaltery and samples walk the fictional village. Disembodied laughter and Minimoog lead from Rattler’s Hey through Pan’s Garden.

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

This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 289.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.

Posted by trevlad | August 25, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: ambient, Ambient Cat, Argentina, Atlantea Records, Barichara, Belbury Poly, berlin school, Brapscallion, Bristol, Buenos Aires, Castle Waters, chillout, Chitra Records, Christian Fiesel, Colombia, Cyclical Dreams, D.C., dark ambient, Dionisaf, downtempo, drone, electronic, electronica, experimental, experimental ambient, Fiadh Productions, folk, FOLK POLICE RECORDINGS, FORM@ RECORDS, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany, Green Static, hauntology, HDRF, instrumental, Italy, Japan, Kordel Records, kosmische krautrock, kosmische musik, library soundtrack, lofi, Manchester, moog, New York, noise, noise ambient, Orbited Factory, Preston, Queens, Saitoh Tomohiro, Samatha, Seil Records, Soeik, Sollentuna, Sounds for the Soul Records, soundscape, space music, Sweden, The Dream Journal Institute, The Twelve Hour Foundation, Tokyo, trevlad, Trittau, UK, Visionary Lines, Washington | Leave a comment

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