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Chord Confessions 2

Well here we are it’s only been a couple of weeks since the pilot episode of Chord Confessions. Yet it feels like an eternity. For me making shows is easy when it’s just me pulling all the shots. I do find it uncomfortable when asking others to help me make show like this.
The idea behind it is simple. Present life changing musical pieces, and why they are so. Songs that changed everything. That changed a life direction somehow. It could be from early childhood or maybe from last week. It might be the piece you want played at your funeral or the track that reminds you of a loved one, or the one that helped you through a dark patch.
The shows are real stories, the most important music on the planet and I get to mention some fantastic people out there. People like you!
So get involved DM me with your stories or send them to trevlad@gmail.com and let’s create something special together.
Welcome to Chord Confessions episode two.

Scholars of the Peak is the evocative ambient electronic project of Drew Huddart, a musician and sound artist based in the High Peak District of the UK. Drawing inspiration from the rugged landscapes, rolling hills, and resonant traditions of his home region—including his background as a campanologist (bell-ringer)—Huddart crafts immersive, atmospheric soundscapes that blend subtle field recordings, melodic synth layers, and haunting textures.
Under the Scholars of the Peak moniker, he has released a series of acclaimed albums and tapes, including Polymorphic (2024), Peak Quest: The Call of the Summit (2025), Transmissions from Mother Hill (2025), and the recent The Seawatch Observatory Tapes (2026 on Preston Capes Tapes), which captures coastal atmospheres with evocative, mist-laden electronics. His work often explores themes of place, memory, and the natural world, earning praise in underground electronic and hauntological circles for its contemplative beauty and innovative fusion of organic and synthetic elements.
Huddart handles all aspects of composition, performance, production, and design himself, releasing primarily through Bandcamp while building a dedicated following through live performances and collaborations. Scholars of the Peak offers a serene yet deeply resonant escape—an electronic rolling hill where blips, bleeps, and beeps feel right at home.
Here’s Drews confession:

I remember the first time I heard this song. I was around 15 years old & it was during the late 90s ITV television series The Grimley’s, a nostalgic comedy set in 1970s Dudley, West Midlands. In it we follow the daily life of Gordon Grimley, an outcast teenager who is deeply in love with his teacher, Miss Titley. It’s an alternate universe where Noddy Holder plays the school music teacher with Alvin Stardust the local pub landlord and Brian Conley as the brilliant but cruel PE teacher Doug ‘Dynamo’ Digby. Slade songs scatter the series with one episode closing out with Mr Holder singing Cum On Feel the Noize on an acoustic guitar in an empty classroom. A real treat that was. I feel Noddy and Slade are criminally underrated.   I had a conversation with the late great Virgin Radio DJ Pete Mitchell just a couple of weeks before he passed away, he was a friend of Noddy’s and I’d said how much I’d love to be in a room with just Noddy Holder and a guitar to hear his sing some Slade classics completely raw. Pete responded “I have, and you would love it”.

I always felt like the piano was an instrument out of my reach – I simply was not clever enough to know what to do so spent 20 years playing the guitar thinking learning a few tabs and progressing to chords was the limit of my ability after my uncle Graham gave me my first guitar aged 16. In more recent years I began familiarising myself with the Slade back catalogue and I discovered a real treasure trove of tracks. How Does It Feel stayed as a standout track for me. By a stroke of luck, my Uncle Graham messaged me to say he was upgrading his electric piano, would I like his old one. Yes! Absolutely! Now was my chance to just sit down, alone and try and learn the piano at my own pace. I didn’t want to sit and learn keys, notes, chords or scales – I wanted to learn how to play How Does It Feel then I felt everything else could start once I’d tried that.

Cue some disastrous piano sessions struggling to get my fingers working independently of one another and scouring YouTube for any cover videos of the track in a hope I can see where other people “put their fingers”. Eventually I managed to carve out a reasonable rendition of the intro & chorus and I felt incredibly proud of myself. I’d isolate Noddy’s vocals and try and play along.

Eventually I picked up a midi keyboard and began playing around with Ableton. A questionable decision was to produce a synthwave version of How Does It feel – you can hear that here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBvdaQnAJjs&list=RDrBvdaQnAJjs&start_radio=1&pp=ygUcc2xhZGUgaG93IGRvZXMgaXQgZmVlbCBjb3ZlcqAHAQ%3D%3D

 This was all before Scholars of the Peak became a thing but this journey, from this Salde song was the true catalyst in directing my down the musical road that eventually became Scholars of the Peak.

Yes what a stunning opener with Slade and How does it Feel? Thank you Drew Huddart aka Scholars of the Peak for that.
Also a massive thank you to my secretary Sharon whom you may know a Gareth Evans aka HDRF for their fantastic work to make this show possible. I love making the time to put these together but I do not love making the time to reposting requests, reminding people who have said they’ll send in something etc, etc.. I don’t know how Sharon does it, and I apologies for any threats made but without them I would have given up on this, and what a shame that would have been.
I have no budget to pay Sharon so I do urge you to grab something or everything from HDRFs Bandcamp catalogue. Also I have no budget because most of you are not subscribing which I understand as the shows are free to listen to for a while but wouldn’t it be nice to listen to them in a week from now. Wouldn’t it be nice to get the music only mixes of the shows? Well you can for about 3 quid a month.
Now back to business…

Warmfield is the evocative, place-bound electronic project of Paul Broome, a UK-based musician (also active in bands like Fauxchisels and Monica’s Last Prayer) who explores the hidden layers of the West Riding of Yorkshire and its surrounding fringes through a blend of ambient, downtempo, and electronic soundscapes interwoven with spoken or sung words.

Described as a “parageographical exploration” of people, places, folklore, history, and everyday memory, Broome’s work under Warmfield draws deeply from local Yorkshire landscapes, industrial heritage, sporting lore, and personal recollections—evoking a hauntological yet warmly nostalgic sense of northern English terrain. His productions feature subtle synth textures, field-inspired atmospheres, and narrative elements that map forgotten corners like parish villages, rugby grounds, roundabouts, and market halls.

Since emerging prominently in 2024, Broome has built a prolific catalog via his Bandcamp label and releases on DIE DAS DER, including the expansive 23-track album Warmfield-cum-Heath (March 2024); the rugby-themed EP The Dreadnoughts (November 2024); the evocative mini-album Barbara & Henry (2025); and the 1980s-set Saver Strip (April 2025), with tracks like “Tesco Roundabout (Underpass)” and “Britain’s First Food Court” capturing faded retail and urban memories.

A 2024 compilation gathered much of that year’s output, and Broome continues to record in The Back Room (Stone, Staffordshire), self-releasing tapes, vinyl, and digital editions that resonate in underground ambient and DIY electronic scenes for their intimate, geographically rooted storytelling and gentle electronic melancholy.

Warmfield invites listeners to wander the spectral edges of the Merrie City and the Rhubarb Triangle—one shimmering synth line and whispered memory at a time.

Here’s Pauls confession:
As a teenager in the late 80s I was navigating life on a strict diet of heavy metal, noise and proto-grunge. The guitar was king. I was a horror movie nut – and even published a short lived fanzine called The Small Hours. So, apart from the soundtracks of John Carpenter, electronic music was almost entirely absent from my sphere of influence.

The main bonus to publishing a fanzine back then was the glut of promotional items you would receive on a regular basis. One day what should arrive in the post but a 10″ and cassette copy of a new release from Solar Lodge records – The Unreleased Themes for Hellraiser by Coil.
Now, I had heard about these recordings due mostly to Clive Barker mentioning them in several interviews. I knew he had commissioned them for his directorial debut, but the studio had vetoed their use (too weird or something) and insisted on the Christopher Young score that was ultimately used (which is also great, but very different).

The first time I pressed play I was at my mate (and chief fanzine layout person) Andy’s house. For some reason we decided to turn out the lights and crank up the volume… It freaked us out.

This was the moment that I first realised the latent power of electronic music and the infinite emotive and metaphysical possibilities that lay within it. It was the moment that planted a seed. It was the moment that altered my DNA and lit a fire.

There have been many more such moments over the last 40 years. But that was the first.

Hope this is useable 🙂
All the best!

Paul.
Artist / Song Title: Coil / Main Title (Unreleased Theme for Hellraiser)

Magpie Vectors is the shadowy, ritualistic electronic alias of EQ-P (often stylized as eqp or Edwina Louise Quatermass-Palmer), a Leeds-based artist, writer, and self-described “aestheta-berserker” whose work channels occult-tinged ambient, modal techno, warped house, and experimental sound design into hypnotic, otherworldly sonic ceremonies.

EQ-P crafts mixes and releases that function as tonal séances—pulling listeners through fog-drenched club pulses, shimmering ambient interludes, and gravitational distortions that feel equal parts industrial hauntology and midnight invocation. Drawing from a magpie-like compulsion to collect and transmute obscure influences, the project blends rhythmic drive with eerie, oil-slick atmospheres, evoking strobe-lit hallucinations and concrete mysticism.

Active across platforms like X (@elqpalmer), Bluesky (@eqp.bsky.social), and Bandcamp collections, Magpie Vectors has built a cult following in the UK’s underground electronic and experimental scenes. Recent highlights include live performances at events like Switched On Whitby Electronic Music Weekend (November 2025) and contributions to compilations alongside kindred spirits in folktronica, dark ambient, and DIY electronics. A new album dropped in early March 2026, with limited CD runs for UK collectors highlighting the project’s tactile, ritual-object ethos amid broader digital drops.

EQ-P’s output resists easy categorization—it’s club music that whispers ancient curses, ambient that prowls like a spectral bird, and a personal sonic grimoire where no sex magick is permitted in the apartment, but the air thickens with implication nonetheless.

Magpie Vectors gathers the shiny fragments of the night and forges them into something beautifully unsettling—one vectorized shriek and modal drift at a time.

Here’s Edwina’s story:
I’m, EQ-P or Magpie Vectors. Terrific fan of the electronic music scene, new, slightly nervy performer, and proud to know many of the artists here, and very proud to call some of them my friends.
My chosen track that changed my life, and steered me in this direction, is from an artist who is probably tired of of me telling this story, as I’m always telling it, (sorry again, Kevin!) but here we are, such was the profound effect of hearing one of their tracks in the middle of the night on Radio 6.

I had separated from my partner temporarily (as it turned out), and lived by myself for a while. I developed odd sleeping habits, and kept the radio on all night for company.

It was very early 2020, and I woke just after one cold midnight to hear the most beautiful music I had ever heard on the radio, and as I listened, I knew I was forever changed. Luckily, I caught the name of that track, and that of the artist. I went to find it online, and from there, an entire new world opened for me.

I found not only the entire Black Meadow lore, in music, book, and broadcast forms, but a community of artists making the most creative work, sending out sonic excellence to the universe.

As a child, and younger adult, my mother was my true musical influence – a classical pianist who had also played in jazz clubs in the north of England to put herself through her music degree – and was enchanted by electronic music. Nothing was off limits to her ear, and she bought stacks of albums into the home to excitedly share with me. I grew up with Delia Derbyshire, Wendy Carlos, Daphne Oram, and later, the more commercial artists such as Sky, The Electric Light Orchestra, as my life baseline.

To rediscover the genre as an adult was transformative.

After moving back home at the beginning of the declared COVID epidemic, work sent us home, which was rather what I needed, I had time to immerse myself in this new electronic scene. I spent that summer mostly outside, with my record deck set up in the garden, playing album after album, while getting acquainted with other fans online. And DJ Space Terrapin on Mad Wasp Radio opened the door even further for me. His shows are quite wonderful.

What strikes me most about this community is how supportive these artists are, as a rule. I’ve been given opportunities as an artist which I’m sure I don’t deserve, but for which I’m so very grateful. Mainly, I’ve made some lovely, lovely friends for life, even if some of them are no longer with us.

Thank you, HDRF, Subphotic, Band of Cloud, Guerilla Biscuits, Hymns for Robots, Polypores, DJ Space Terrapin…it’s a very long list, and apologies to anyone who deserves a special shout-out, but know that so many of you have supported me, even when it seemed I wasn’t creating anything.

Many thanks, EQP as Magpie Vectors.

and here it is Soulless Party with The Village Under the Lake

Artist: Greg Wye – Sunshine Playroom / Prozapine / Persephonic Sprawl

Greg Wye is the multifaceted UK-based musician, producer, mastering engineer, and creative polymath behind the aliases Sunshine Playroom, Prozapine, and Persephonic Sprawl—each channeling distinct facets of his eclectic sonic palette from his home-recording setup in East Devon (with earlier ties to Leeds, West Yorkshire).

Under Sunshine Playroom, Wye conjures “light and fluffy, melodic psychedelia” laced with nostalgic hauntology: sampling childhood TV snippets, archive sounds, and retro textures to craft affectionate, bittersweet trips down memory lane. Debut album The Old Railway Track (2023) delivered a sprawling 16-track evocation of lost summers and faded railways, while follow-up Melancholy Melodies & Stolen Memories (April 2024) trawled deeper into melancholic, stolen childhood melodies—earning praise in underground press for its uncanny 1970s/80s authenticity in a modern context.

As Prozapine, the focus shifts to layered guitar-scapes and introspective, textural compositions—evident in revamped EPs like Prescription for Acute Sleep Deprivation (updated 2025), featuring guest woodwinds and dreamlike, sleep-deprived drifts that blend organic instrumentation with electronic subtlety.

Persephonic Sprawl ventures into pure ambient, drone, and experimental territory: atmospheric sketches and moods, most recently realized in the March 2026 mini-album Kleeep—a 7-track homage to Paul Klee’s paintings, translating colorful, abstract canvases into shimmering sonic landscapes available in limited CD editions.

All projects release primarily through his Bandcamp hub (prozapine.bandcamp.com), where Wye also operates Persephonic Audio for high-quality mixing and mastering services. A one-man operation embracing neo-psychedelia, hauntology, and sonic archaeology, Greg Wye’s work invites listeners into personal, memory-haunted worlds—whether basking in sun-dappled psychedelia, wandering guitar-layered reveries, or drifting through abstracted drone paintings—one nostalgic fragment or painted-inspired pulse at a time.

Czukay, Wobble, Leibezeit – Mystery RPS (No.8)
So the fact that this track is titled ‘mystery’ is quite apt, as it was a complete mystery to me for quite a few years… 1993/4 was my first year as a student in Leeds. This was before the internet had invaded every home, and discovering new music was either through mate’s recommendations, hearing something on the radio (J. Peel) or taking a complete punt on something based on the cover & blurb. Sometimes just picking up something from a sale bargain bin. Which is how I came across this track – I picked up a single CD without a case or sleeve in HMV for 1.99. it had an orange and silver face, with the letters BE large at the top and 76:03 below ‘Ambient 3’ and it was Disc 2 (so must have been separated from Disc 1 somewhere along the way). It was a voyage of discovery in the dark, without the inlay and track listing, I had no idea what most of the tracks or artists were (and couldn’t just ‘Google’ it)

I only recognised The Future Sound of London somewhere towards the end. I loved most of the stuff on it, but what the heck was it all? The one that really fascinated me was Track 2. Starting with some ominous footsteps and an eerie humming machinery sound, an insistent deep bassline fades up. A half-whispered voice starts asking ‘Can you feel the wind?, the hypnotic drum groove develops and occasionally someone seem to be clanking a pipe with some metal. It was so different, so otherworldly, but it resonated with me very deeply and I became obsessed. I hadn’t yet discovered Can & Krautrock, even though I knew Copey was always singing the praises.
I kept telling all my mates that ‘I want to be in a band like THIS!’ (spoiler: unfortunately I never was as I couldn’t find anyone with similar musical ambitions).
It was a few years later when I finally stumbled across the intact ‘Ambient 3’ double-CD with the track listing, to put names to all the beguiling music I’d been listening to blind

So this was Jah Wobble with Holger Czukay and Jackie Leibezeit of Can – and that sent me on another voyage of discovery…

Rick Flynn
I have 3 tracks that all sparked different changes in my life and love of music. I’ll start at the beginning.

Mogwai Fear Satan – Mogwai

So back in 1997, prior to joining a band as a bass player (never a guitarist who played bass….always a bassist) I was into the indie wave of bands, Oasis et al. I joined a band, a band that would open my eyes to a whole new genre of music and allow me to play with so many other cool bands. Not long after joining said band, we would happen to sat in the drummers bedroom chatting about music and stuff that was of interest. He pressed play on a record that would change the way (and what) i would listen to for the rest of my musical life. It was Mogwai’s debut album, Young Team. As the music played i was lost in melodic basslines, powering feedback and sparse bleak and fragile quiet breaks. The albums final track, the 16 minute, 19 second epic Mogwai Fear Satan. From its slow building delay ridden chord intro, to the defenining building feedback sections and the stripped back flute melody section. It had everything I never needed i knew and to this day is the song that will mark the end of my time on this earth. Mogwai from that point would be my favourite band and laid the foundations for all that came after.

– Dohnavùr

During lockdown I started to use Twitter (back when it was good) to find new music and would ofter listen to Lippy Kids, music bazar (name check?) and his then Electronic Odyseey. In these shows he would play some of the more mainstream electronic artists i was aware of, but lots of new and exciting artists. At the time, I was also going through a very rough patch mentally and my home life was unpleasant to say the least. These shows were a break from that noise and somewhere I would get lost for an hour. He spoke about a label ‘Castles In Space’ and at first it was the name that intrigued me, already knowing The Orb track of the same name i investigated further. I saw, via Bandcamp that there was a Subscription Library and hastily joined. I was at the brink mentally and close to doing something horrendous that would damage the future of my family, but as I looked through the back catalogue of albums released I came across an album by a band (well duo) called Dohnavùr. I pressed play on my phone and the sound of the opening to Cloudback changed my whole outlook on life. I knew that I could get better, sort my life out, talk about my problems. This track saved my life! It will always mean so much to me.

Rick Flynn is the passionate UK-based music enthusiast and dedicated Bandcamp digger behind Rick’s Listening Page, a curated showcase of sonic discoveries shared via Instagram (@rickslisteningpage) and echoed across his online presence.

A self-described “music lover” and bass player (with nods to #MDANT in his bio), Flynn maintains an expansive Bandcamp collection under rickscottflynn—boasting thousands of items focused heavily on electronic music, alongside ambient, experimental, and underground gems from labels like Third Kind Records. His wishlist and “new” additions highlight atmospheric soundtracks, entropy-infused ambients (e.g., Nicholas Langley), quirky projects (Portland Vows’ Plastic Alice, dogs versus shadows’ Hollow Headaches), and esoteric releases that suggest a taste for textured, introspective electronics—perfect for rainy drives, contemplative listens, or unearthing hidden corners of the scene.

Through Rick’s Listening Page, he spotlights finds and favorites from Bandcamp and beyond, serving as an informal curator in the vein of underground music communities. His shares often surface in niche roundups (e.g., I Heart Noise’s Dispatches from the Underground), where his recommendations help amplify lesser-known artists in ambient, drone, and leftfield electronic spheres.

Based in Brighouse, UK, with ties to Last.fm for deeper tracking, Flynn embodies the ardent fan who treats music discovery as a daily ritual—quietly championing the overlooked, the shimmering, and the strange, one thoughtful share at a time. Whether highlighting sax-kissed highlights or entropy-laced ambients, Rick’s Listening Page is a gentle beacon for fellow explorers wandering the vast, rewarding fringes of modern independent music.

Greg again

OK, here goes… Swing Out Sister – Theme (from It’s Better to Travel) It’s the 1980s, I’d just turned teenager and my musical tastes was pretty much electro-pop. The first album I ever bought was Falco3 and my heroes were the Pet Shop Boys. As soon as I heard Swing Out Sister on the radio, I was absolutely buzzing from the saccharine sugar rush of Breakout, so many catchy hooks with lush synths, strings and major 7th splendour. So I went straight down to Our Price (or it might have been WHSmith?) and bought the album It’s Better to Travel. It generally unravelled per expectations, jazz-pop chords, all slick synth-based 80s production topped off with Corinne’s incredible Sade-esque voice.. But when it came to the closer ‘Theme’- at first I wondered whether there had been some mix-up at the record company or duplication plant? The rest of the album had lush orchestration on most of the tracks but… Opening the track with harp and timpani, strings, horns… bassoon and harpsichord?
And no singing? This wasn’t the saccharine pop I’d just feasted on. It sounded more like one of my dad’s Mike Oldfield records. Or the score to an intense finale scene from a fantasy adventure film? At first I wasn’t sure what to make of it. But there was something about it that just grabbed me. Confounding expectations this was a revelation- a pop band doing an atmospheric movie soundtrack. Anything was possible – ‘don’t judge a book by it’s cover’ and all that, it made me realise that you shouldn’t pigeonhole bands, and also as an artist you could do whatever you want – don’t pigeonhole yourself! It opened me up to other styles of music (and eclectic styles side by side on one record). It planted the seed for exploring ‘modern classical’ soundtrack stuff years later, getting into artists like Johann Johannsson, Nils Frahm, Sylvain Chauveau to name a few.
Whenever I play this track blind to someone who’s never heard it before and ask them to guess who it is, the look of disbelief on their face when I say Swing Out Sister is always priceless…

Next up an artist who is relatively new to me under his alias Swimming Lesson. Mr. Darryl Wakelin. Who sent in his own blurb which goes like this:
What is a Darryl Wakelin, and what music does he make?: I’ve been making music since I was about 9, but I was obsessed with sound, noises and music from as young as I can remember… I would be so excited by the sound collages on programmes like Vision On, any of the Radiophonic stuff that was all over the BBC in the 70s, TV themes like The Persuaders, twanging rulers on desks, putting a slinky to my ear for Star Wars laser sounds – all that stuff. Electronic music, though, really, really satisfied my brain…and I found out when I was 35 that it’s because I have synaesthesia (a condition where senses overlap). The form I have means I perceive music as an endless/limitless 3d image in my mind’s eye, with every instrument or sound having weight, shape, texture and movement. Electronic music makes the best pictures! I assumed up until that point that everyone had this and that was why music was so beloved! Back to the 1970s – I started tinkering with electronic music in around 1977 and have been obsessed ever since. I was in a few bands in the 1980s, with names like Integrated Circuit, Genetixx, and Oasis (!), and made a lot of soundtracks for student films when I was at film school. During the 90s I continued making soundtracks, did a lot of work with choreographers, and a lot of my own stuff – all under names like Storm Boy, Koenig, Pierre and Velo-music. These days I have 3 main projects – ‘swimming lesson’ is firmly focussed on a handmade/old-school home studio aesthetic, drawing inspiration from growing up in the 1970s and 80s; ‘Isograph’ is abstract ‘ambient’ experimental work that takes the microscopic world, folklore and mysticism as starting points for tracks, combined with very particular sound design that generates detailed, sharp-focus brain-images for me; and ‘Luder’ is all about Brutalism, Modernism, Europe, and that particular brand of the 1980s contradictory optimistic/dystopian eye on the future.

Track: ‘Rooms with Brittle Views’ by Bill Nelson, Disques du Crepuscule 1981.

Here’s Darryl’s two Chord Confessions which I’ll play back to back.

I first heard this track at my friend Willy Carter’s house – his older brother was one of those cool kids who managed to find this kind of stuff – a Belgian 7inch by an artist nobody really cared much about?! I was absolutely transfixed by this song and demanded to hear it over and over again. It sounded like everything I ever wanted to hear, all in one song – the sound of a robotic, automated dystopian future from the synths, cranky, spiky guitar, cool bassline…and lyrics like ‘your house is a machine for living in’?!?! Wow. Bill fast became my favourite artist of the 80s and I still love all his Cocteau Records output, and the home studio aesthetic really resonated with me, but this track is the one that sounded most like the cool/scary, Ballardian future I envisaged at that point….brilliant.

Track: ‘Upon This Earth’ by David Sylvian, from ‘Gone to Earth’ (double album), 1986.

From the first play of this album when I got it on release, to this day, I am wrapt from start to finish… The instrumental album as a whole though, is, to me, the most beautiful collection of music I’ve heard, and the final track ‘Upon This Earth’ moved me profoundly as an 18 year-old and still does. It’s not ‘just’ the overall tenor of the piece, or the gorgeous Robert Graves poem at the start about heartbreak and betrayal, or the plaintive piano chords, tumbling gently throughout, or the keening Frippertronics engraving and scratching heartache onto the delicate backdrop… it’s more than the sum of its parts, and I still don’t know why it affects me the way it does. It’s an amazing piece of work, and changed my emotional responses to music forever. Up until then, I wanted to hear fairly extreme dynamics, and synths, and bass, and drive and rhythm, or abstract noise and more synths…and then there was this. Sylvian is a bona-fide genius.

Wonderful stuff there ‘Upon This Earth’ by David Sylvian and before that ‘Rooms with Brittle Views’ by Bill Nelson. Thank you for the tales Darryl.
Next up is someone who’s been mentioned earlier in the episode. A figure who has been an important one in many of our lives. Not least my own. He has been one of the greatest sources of inspiration and discovery for this channel. Now years on it’s sometimes scary how many of the same artists feature on our episodes.
It is of course Marc Fabian Erdl Who we all know as DJ Space Terrapin or Gehege Drei is the enigmatic radio host, archivist, and selector behind It Came From Enclosure Three, the long-running experimental music broadcast on Mad Wasp Radio—a weekly deep-dive into the outer reaches of electronic, avant-garde, ambient, and genre-transcending sounds, often dubbed the “irrepressible voice of the Zoological Garden.”

Operating from an archival mindset, DJ Space Terrapin curates mind-bending “sound safaris” that blend obscure finds, hauntological echoes, library music curiosities, and contemporary underground electronics into hypnotic, exploratory sets. Episodes like Continental Drift, Gehege Drei Kaleidoskop, and listener-choice specials (e.g., on Charity Shop Classics) showcase his eclectic ear: from British hauntology twists to global oddities, jazz-rooted wanderings, and collaborations with labels and artists in the experimental sphere.

His mixes appear on Mixcloud (where he archives broadcasts), with features in compilations and remixes (e.g., contributing to projects on Unexplained Sounds Group and See Blue Audio anthologies. Praised by peers in the scene—including shoutouts from Magpie Vectors, Morgen Wurde, and others—for his adventurous programming and expert curation, he champions the weird, wonderful, and overlooked.

Whether guiding listeners through dystopian buttery textures, proto-human remixes, or shade-rather-than-light anthologies, DJ Space Terrapin remains a trusted guide in the worlds DIY radio underground—delivering weekly doses of sonic zoology that reward deep, headphone-immersed listening, one enclosure at a time. Tune in via Mad Wasp Radio or Mixcloud archives for the full, genre-defying expedition.

To experience the Terrapins confession in the best way is to let him tell it himself. Take it away miestro:

There are moments in your life, when everything comes together, all the pieces of the puzzle fall into place, at least for a while, and after that things have changed. So, about 50 years ago, in 1976, (half a century, imagine that…), my mother went to party, a rare occasion, as she worked hard and raised me alone. But this was a birthday of a close friend, and it was in our neighbourhood, so, with a few words of comfort and one or the other stern warning she went away. When I woke the next morning, she was there and had gift for me, from her friend…a Musiccassette, a blue one, from The Beatles. Aha
I might have heard the name before, but knew nothing and thought that I never had heard them. as my mom told me this morning, these Beatles had been great, but alas, had split, „long ago“. You know how kids feel about time. They had split 1970, and that made them for the 7 year old reptile I was but a part of the dim and distant past, like World War II, of which my mother talked quite a lot, or the dinosaurs, who had called it a day also roundabout that time, to the best of my knowledge. Ancient History, all of it.
I was instantly in love, dear listeners. The beginning alone, the combination of Strawberry Fields forever, segueuing into Penny Lane, two track that should not work together – but boy, how they did- Cranberry Sauce – Shivers ran down my spine…Then stuff like Lady Madonna, or I am the Walrus, or Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band…the urge to dance, to move, to jump or run around…the sheer kinetic energy that these songs induced…I remember being completely enthralled.
But the real postmodern cracker still waited for me. Well, back in 1973…we all had heard rumours abut a new show in German Television, from America, just for Kids…Sesamstraße, Sesame Street. There had been tests, they said, in 1971, and in 1973 the show was established all over Western Germany, except for Bavaria. Watching this still not adapted, ultra-American – in the best sense – show was incredibly cool and liberating for us Kids. The German writer and cartoonist F.W. Bernstein summed it up what it was like to watch Ernie and Bert, Grover, etc at that time: „Oh when the saints go marching in“. Although as usual in Germany it was translated into German and synchronized, even the songs, this still was a window into another world. Brownstone houses, groovy Monsters in the Neighbourhood, Talking Frogs, People of Color, and an easygoing lifestyle rarely to have in the smalltown where I grew up.
Well, in 1976 they were to germanify Sesame Street, giving it a German frame, and that was the end of it for me, mostly. I still loved the old routines, but the German framing was abominable, filled with „the heavy slime of pedagogical sorrows“ – again F.W. Bernstein…So i stopped tuning in. Anyway…golden times.
Well, and the Blue Album, from the Beatles? …When „Something“ faded out, a new song started, and although I was already high as a kite, musically, the real cracker was to come now…The Beatles, thos mystical icons wer singing…Krakengarten, bzw. Im Garten eines Kraken…Octopus’s Garden…But, hey, this could not be…that was Kermit’s song…wasn’t it.? But of course. I had sung along more than once, loved it to pieces, sure, although the underwater atmosphere was a biut uncanny …now, the Beatles, connected to Kermit…unbelievable. I had known the Beatles for ages, indeed. And everything was connected – wheels within wheels, so to say…. Thos Liverpudlian gods had humour, and Kermit was Ringo Starr’s avatar. Who would have thunk?

Rick Flynn

Breadcrumb Trail – Slint

As mentioned above, Mogwai opened the doors to work much new (to me anyway) music and one of those acts and one that showed me that music can be fragile, brazen, uneasy, jaggered, broken, epic was Slint’s ‘Spiderland’ album. The almost silent and whispered eerie opening track ‘Breadcrumb Trail’. Spoken vocals, dark meaningful lyrics, storytelling at a different level. The melodic guitar that would also be a big influence to the whole band. It just hit differently than anything I’d heard before, but linked so well to my love of Mogwai, but this time with vocals that screamed for help. Amazing!

Rick

Rick Flynn

Larry Farber. stockholm coffee tea juice, the best damn selection of weird cool unusual and amazing films books music toys shirts and people. Larryscorner.nu
Larry Farber is the spirited Detroit-born proprietor, curator, and artistic director of Larry’s Corner, a beloved offbeat cultural hub tucked away on Grindsgatan in Stockholm’s Södermalm district.

Originally from Detroit, Farber relocated to Sweden over three decades ago, eventually transforming a small storefront into a multifaceted venue that defies easy categorization: part cozy café (serving coffee, tea, juice, and good vibes), part eclectic shop stocked with “the best damn selection of weird, cool, unusual, and amazing films” alongside books, records, and oddities, and part intimate performance space championing underground music, experimental sounds, poetry, and live art.

Since opening, Larry’s Corner has become a go-to spot for adventurous Stockholmers and international touring acts alike—hosting everything from solo snare drum improvisations and looping performances to folk/rock/noise bands, jazz-adjacent sets, and intense evenings of avant-garde collaboration (think live bootlegs captured on Bandcamp and YouTube from artists like Ryosuke Kiyasu, Stellan Wahlström Drift Band, MOODD+Speak, and more). The venue’s small, welcoming room fosters close-up encounters with niche and boundary-pushing creativity, earning it a reputation as a sanctuary for “long live offbeat culture” in the Nordic scene.

Farber himself is a raconteur and local legend—frequently featured in podcasts (e.g., Sips and Clips, Troubadours and Raconteurs) sharing stories of his transatlantic journey, dream journals, and unwavering commitment to the strange and wonderful. With thousands of Instagram posts (@larryscorner) chronicling daily life, gigs, and finds, he keeps the spirit alive: open afternoons for browsing, evenings for discovery, and always an unapologetic “we just don’t give a damn” attitude toward the mainstream.

Larry’s Corner remains a rare, enduring gem in Stockholm—one man’s defiant love letter to the quirky, the creative, and the community that gathers around a good cup of coffee and even better sounds. Drop by from 2-ish till 6-ish (or whenever the music calls) and see for yourself.

So it must’ve been 1969. I thought it was 68 but I just looked and the lp came out 1968 and I just cannot imagine a sears roebuck department store record department in a Livonia Michigan shopping mall would be so hip. It was time for me to buy my very first lp George zinger my next door neighbor and best friend came with me Up until we had only bought 45s so getting a whole lp was kinda like a rite of passage I really didn’t want something that was being played on the am radio stations so three fog night cream and ccr were nixed Now this is where it becomes fateful but in a super positive way George thought I should get an lp by a group Called Chicago transit authority and I was tempted Pretty cool name and pretty cool cover- Fate loved me.
Chicago transit authority later became the group Chicago One of THE most boring groups ever I shiver to think how different my life had been if I’d taken that route But Fortunately for me I was and always have been Horny. Thusly when I saw an lp with a pretty girls butt on it I knew I was going places. That lp was Soft machine One of the coolest most creative groups ever and one fucking mind blower and life changer of an lp Somehow that lp opened my eyes to captain beef heart mothers of invention and the list is long I think about this memory often when people tell me what they heard on Spotify I have a hard time believing that Spotify gonna be supplying memories like getting soft machine at the record department of a Sears, Roebuck in 1969

March 15, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: Bill Nelson, Castles In Space, Chord Confessions, COIL, Darryl Wakelin, David Sylvian, DJ SpaceTerrapin, Dohnavùr, EQ-P, HDRF, Isograph, Larry Farber, Larrys Corner, Luder, Magpie Vectors, Persephonic Sprawl, Prozapine, Rick Flynn, Scholars of the Peak, Sesamstrasse, Slade, Slint, Sunshine Playroom, Swimming Lesson, Swing Out Sister, The Soft Machine, Warmfield | Leave a comment

Ode to the fem 2

00:00:00 Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – Thoughts On The Future
https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/track/thoughts-on-the-future
(from the album *Thoughts On The Future*) Nettwerk label.
A vast, twilight desert stretches under a sky streaked with electric violet auroras. Floating modular synth orbs pulse softly like distant lanterns, while faint geometric patterns ripple across sand dunes that shift in slow, liquid waves.

00:07:01 Gollden – destiny #10
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/destiny-10
(from the album *Destiny*) Imaginary North label.
A neon-lit corridor in an abandoned cyber-city at midnight. Holographic cherry blossoms drift through cracked concrete, their petals glitching into fractal code as distant data streams cascade down mirrored walls in electric blue.

00:09:00 frostlake – Sundowner
https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com/track/sundowner
(from the album *Shattered Stone*) Discus Music label.
Golden-orange sunlight spills across a calm coastal harbor at dusk. Wooden boats rock gently on mirrored water streaked with neon reflections, while seabirds circle above crumbling stone quays where long shadows stretch like forgotten promises.

00:12:34 Christina Chatfield – Sutro
(from the album *Sutro*) Mysteries of the Deep label.
Fog rolls thick over ruined Victorian bathhouse ruins perched on jagged cliffs above the Pacific. Pale moonlight filters through rusted iron frameworks, illuminating scattered pearl-like droplets suspended in the mist and tangled reeds swaying in an unseen current.

00:19:12 Rosie Tee – Wishbone
(from the album *Night Creature*) Kikimora Records label.
A dimly lit attic room filled with antique mirrors and velvet drapes at midnight. A delicate bone-white wishbone hovers mid-air, cracking open to release swirling threads of crimson light that weave into spectral figures dancing on the walls.

00:22:47 Hannah Peel – Emergence In Nature
(from the album *Fir Wave*) KMP Music Ltd.
Emerald forest canopy at dawn, where sunlight pierces through leaves in sharp, crystalline beams. Tiny bioluminescent particles rise like fireflies in reverse, forming organic patterns that pulse and expand across moss-covered branches in rhythmic waves.

00:26:42 Garden Gate – A Dream Within a Dream
(appears on the album *Edgar Allan Poe*) Library Of The Occult label.
Endless nested corridors of antique bookshelves under flickering candlelight. Pages flutter open on their own, revealing layered dreamscapes: oceans within oceans, skies folding into more skies, each frame dissolving into the next like ink in water.

00:29:13 ena b. – Birds Dance
(from the album *Night Walk*) Secuencias Temporales label
A twilight meadow encircled by ancient willows. Hundreds of shadowy birds lift in unison, their wings tracing glowing arabesques against a bruised purple sky, spiraling upward in harmonious loops that mirror invisible currents of wind.

00:34:05 ANNABEL [lee] – Cat’s Eye
(from the album*DECAPODA*) Buried Treasure label
A velvet-black room illuminated only by a single luminous green cat’s eye gemstone floating at eye level. Refractions scatter emerald light across floating dust motes and half-seen feline silhouettes prowling along the edges of perception.

00:37:06 Daniella Tourgeman, Tomer Baruch – Mistor
(from the album *שפת עולם*) Kame’a Music label
Ancient stone alleyways in a fog-shrouded Mediterranean city at predawn. Soft amber lanterns cast trembling pools of light on dew-wet cobblestones, where whispers of mist curl around arched doorways hiding secrets in shadow.

00:41:34 Castle If – Missing 404
(from the album *darknet*)
A glitchy, pixelated library floating in digital void. Empty bookshelves flicker erratically, pages dissolving into error-code rain that falls upward, while a lone cursor blinks insistently in the center of an unreachable, cracked screen.

00:44:15 Sachi Kobayashi – Nostalgia
(from the album *More Than Just A Dream*) Stereoscenic Records.
A faded childhood bedroom bathed in warm afternoon sun through lace curtains. Old photographs on the wall slowly develop reverse—colors draining away—while a music box melody unwinds in slow motion, dust motes suspended like frozen memories.

00:49:26 Me Lost Me – Real World
(from the album RPG) Upset The Rhythm label.
A bustling urban street viewed through rain-streaked window glass at night. Neon signs blur into watercolor streaks of pink and cyan, pedestrians dissolve into abstract shapes, while reflections in puddles show an alternate, quieter reality beneath.

00:52:23 Little Dragon, April + VISTA – Layers
(from the album *Slipping Into Color*) Ninja Tune label.
Translucent geological strata glowing in deep earth tones underground. Each layer pulses with different hues—indigo, amber, rose—shifting and overlapping like sedimentary memories, with faint bioluminescent veins threading through the rock.

00:55:46 The Mistys – Nervous Mirror
(from the album *Situations | Useless Mouths*) Castles In Space label.
A cracked vanity mirror in a deserted ballroom under chandelier light. Reflections multiply infinitely, each version showing subtle distortions: trembling hands, shifting expressions, fractured eyes staring back with quiet unease.

00:59:42 marine eyes, IKSRE – Forgiveness
(from the album *Nurture*) Past Inside the Present (PITP)
Soft ocean waves lapping at a moonlit shore lined with sea glass. Gentle tides carry away shards of colored light, smoothing rough edges over time, while a pale horizon glows with quiet, healing luminescence.

01:04:36 Sababa 5 & Canay Doğan – Gaip
(from the singel *Gaip / Seher*) Batov Records
A bustling Istanbul bazaar at golden hour, viewed through haze of incense smoke. Spices spill in vibrant pyramids, lanterns sway overhead casting warm patterns on tiled floors, while distant calls blend into a hypnotic, wandering rhythm.

March 10, 2026 | Categories: Music, Music podcast | Tags: alternative, alternative pop, alternative rnb, ambient, ambient drone, ambient electronic, ambient music, ANNABEL [lee], April, art pop, art-rock, atmospheric, Australia, avant-pop, baroque pop, Batov Records, Birmingham, bossa nova, British Columbia, Buried Treasure, California, Canay Doğan, Castle If, Castles In Space, Christina Chatfield, classical, Cleveland, Daniella Tourgeman, deep techno, Discus Music, down tempo, downtempo, dream pop, drone, drone ambient, electronic, electronic music, electronica, ena b., ethereal, experimental, field recording, folk, France, frostlake, funk, Garden Gate, Gollden, Gothenburg, groove, Hannah Peel, IKSRE, Imaginary North, Indiana, Indianapolis, instrumental, Israel, Japan, jazz, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, Kame'a Music, Kikimora, library music, Library Of The Occult, Lisbon, Little Dragon, London, Los Angeles, lounge, Manchester, marine eyes, Me Lost Me, Melbourne, Mexico, Mexico City, middle eastern music, minimal ambient, modular synth, Mysteries of the Deep, nature, neoclassical, Nettwerk, new age, New York, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Ninja Tune, Ohio, Ontario, Paris, Past Inside the Present, peaceful, Portugal, progressive, psychedelic, Rosie Tee, Sababa 5, Sachi Kobayashi, San Francisco, Secuencias Temporales, Sheffield, shoegaze, singer-songwriter, soul, soundtrack, soundtracks, Stereoscenic Records, Sweden, synth, synthesizer, The Mistys, Tomer Baruch, Toronto, trip hop, UK, Upset The Rhythm, Vancouver, VISTA, world | Leave a comment

Ode to the fem

00:00:00 Patricia Wolf – The Grotto
(from the album See-Through)
Balmat records.
Soft emerald light filters through a hidden cave entrance, illuminating dripping stalactites that gleam like wet crystals. Shadows shift gently across moss-covered stone walls as faint ripples spread across a shallow turquoise pool. Pale vines curl downward, touching the water’s surface, while distant echoes suggest unseen chambers opening further in.

00:02:54 marine eyes – suddenly green
(from the album to belong)
Past Inside the Present.
Early morning fog lifts from rolling hills, revealing fresh blades of grass sparkling with dew under a pale sky. Sunlight breaks through in soft patches, turning the landscape a vivid, almost luminous shade of spring green. Distant wildflowers sway lightly, and the air feels newly alive with quiet renewal.

00:05:50 IKSRE – Granite
(from the album Solar Return: Golden Hour Mix)
Imaginary North.
Ancient rock faces rise stark against a vast, open sky at dusk, their rough surfaces etched with veins of quartz that catch fading golden light. Wind moves across the stone, carrying subtle grains of dust, while the horizon blurs into warm amber tones, evoking timeless solidity and quiet endurance.

00:09:01 Panic Girl – Feathers Of Hope
(from the album Memories)
i u we records.
Delicate white feathers drift slowly downward through golden afternoon light, catching gentle currents in an open meadow. They settle softly on tall grass stems, some twirling upward again before landing, surrounded by distant wild blooms and a sense of uplifting lightness.

00:11:26 Volker Rapp – Out of my Mind
(from the album Blade Runner 2099)
Cyclical Dreams.
Neon reflections shimmer across rain-slicked streets in a futuristic cityscape at night, with towering holographic billboards flickering in electric blues and pinks. Distant flying vehicles streak overhead, their lights trailing like comets, while the scene pulses with synthetic glow and detached introspection.

00:11:58 Andrea Cichecki – Different Step
(from the album Drawn Into The Edge Effect)
Castles In Space.
Footsteps trace an irregular path along a narrow coastal ledge at twilight, where waves crash below against dark rocks. Mist rises from the sea, blending with soft purple hues in the sky, and small stones shift underfoot, marking a deliberate yet wandering rhythm.

00:15:24 glo – kenóō
(from the album associated with experimental/ambient contexts, often standalone or mix-featured)
Empty temple halls stretch into dim distance, lit only by faint lanterns casting long shadows on wooden floors. Incense smoke curls lazily upward, dissolving into stillness, while subtle echoes of distant chimes linger in vast, open space.

00:21:22 Sachi Kobayashi – Healing
(from the album Weathervane)
Stereoscenic Records.
Gentle sunlight filters through a canopy of leaves in a quiet forest clearing, dappling the ground with moving patterns of gold. A soft wind stirs wild grasses and small white flowers, carrying a sense of calm restoration that spreads outward like slow-spreading warmth.

00:24:31 Amorphous Androgynous – Meadows
(from the album associated with their ambient/electronic works, often A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble series context)
Wide open fields stretch under a vast blue sky, dotted with clusters of wildflowers swaying in a warm breeze. Butterflies drift lazily between blooms, and distant tree lines shimmer in heat haze, evoking endless peaceful expanse.

00:27:42 the black Albumen – provokovieff
(from the album associated with Buried Treasure releases)
Buried Treasure.
Abstract geometric shapes float in deep black void, slowly rotating and intersecting with faint glowing edges in crimson and violet. Forms distort and reform like liquid metal, creating tension through precise yet unpredictable motion.

00:30:09 Pogo – Alice (Extended)
(from the album Broken Beats & Magic Snacks or extended rework context)
Vibrant cartoon woodlands come alive with swirling colors: oversized mushrooms glow in neon pinks and blues, teacups float mid-air, and checkerboard paths twist into impossible loops. Madcap elements whirl together in playful, accelerating chaos.

00:33:13 Emily A. Sprague – Horizon
(from the album Mount Vision)
RVNG Intl.
A flat, endless ocean meets a pale sky at dawn, with thin layers of pastel clouds drifting low. Subtle waves lap forward, reflecting soft rose and lavender tones that gradually brighten, holding a meditative line of infinite calm.

00:39:13 Scott Gilmore – Subtle Vertigo
(from the album Subtle Vertigo)
Spiraling staircases ascend into misty heights within an old tower, their steps worn smooth and bathed in diffused light from narrow windows. Shadows curve along curved walls, inducing a gentle, disorienting pull upward.

00:43:35 Cate Brooks – Curig
(from the album Horizons or related Ghost Box-inspired works)
Rolling Welsh hills under overcast skies, with ancient stone walls dividing emerald fields. Sheep graze quietly, and faint mist clings to distant ridges, evoking rural solitude and timeless pastoral quiet.

00:48:38 Tim Shiel – Between Ends (feat. Lonelyspeck)
(from the album Glowing Pains: Music From The Gardens Between)
Spirit Level
Twilight bridges connect shadowy urban fragments, suspended over dark water where city lights reflect in fractured lines. Echoing vocal fragments drift across the scene, marking a liminal space of transition and unresolved emotion.

00:50:09 Dean Honer, Supreme Vagabond Craftsman – I Saw The Frogman
(from the album Frogman)
A surreal pond at midnight, illuminated by moonlight: a humanoid figure with frog-like features emerges halfway from the water, wearing an old coat, staring curiously. Reeds sway around lily pads, blending whimsy with eerie folklore.

00:53:11 Hong Kong In The 60s – Disintegration, The Advisory Circle Reshape
(from the album Disintegration or reshape series)
Old film reels flicker with decaying 1960s Hong Kong street scenes: neon signs buzz and blur, crowds dissolve into grainy static, and colors bleed outward in slow analog decay, reshaped into haunting nostalgia.

00:56:08 Anita Tatlow – in hallowed spaces
(from the album the farthest star)
slow echo.
Sunlight streams through tall arched windows in an empty cathedral, illuminating dust motes dancing in golden beams. Stone pillars rise into shadow, and faint reverb carries the sense of sacred, resonant emptiness.

00:59:34 Lisa Bella Donna – Big Briar Cove
(from the album *Moogmentum (Presented by the Bob Moog Foundation)
*)
Thick briar thickets encircle a hidden cove along a rugged coastline, where tangled vines climb over weathered rocks. Waves roll in gently below, and wildflowers peek through thorns, creating a secluded, overgrown sanctuary.

March 9, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Uncategorized | Tags: acoustic dream pop, ambient, ambient drone, ambient electronic, ambient music, ambient-pop, Amorphous Androgynous, Andrea Cichecki, Anita Tatlow, Argentina, atmospheric, Australia, avant-garde, balearic, Balmat, Barcelona, berlin school, Buenos Aires, Buried Treasure, California, Castles In Space, Cate Brooks, Cleveland, cosmic, Cyclical Dreams, dark ambient, Dean Honer, deep, dream pop, Dresden, drone, drone ambient, dubtechno, electro-acoustic, electronic, electronic music, Emily A. Sprague, ethereal, eurorack, experimental, field recording, field recordings, Finland, Germany, glo, Hong Kong, Hong Kong In The 60s, i u we records, IKSRE, Imaginary North, Indiana, Indianapolis, indie, instrumental, Japan, Lisa Bella Donna, London, Lonelyspeck, Los Angeles, marine eyes, Melbourne, minimal, minimal ambient, modular synthesizer, Munich, natural, nature, new age, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Oregon, organic, Panic Girl, Past Inside the Present, Patricia Wolf, peaceful, Pogo, Portland, prog, progressive, psychedelic, remix, rock, RVNG Intl., Sachi Kobayashi, Scott Gilmore, Sheffield, shoegaze, slow echo, soundscape, soundscapes, space music, Spain, Spirit Level, Stereoscenic Records, Supreme Vagabond Craftsman, The Advisory Circle, THE bLACK ALBUMEN, Tim Shiel, Toronto, UK, Volker Rapp | Leave a comment

Trev’s Instrumental, Experimental, Kraut Time Pt. 2

00:00:00 Cavern of Anti-Matter – Blowing My Nose Under Close Observation
00:04:09 Keith Seatman – A Posh Hat and Timepiece
00:07:45 Sordid Sound System – Dia De Muertos
00:12:05 Gaudi Kosmisches Trio – Vom Mond Zum Roten Planeten
00:18:37 Misha Panfilov – Beep Beep
00:26:52 Kosmischer Läufer – Nordlicht
00:31:29 Hena – Nuan
00:39:03 Prairiewolf – Sage Thrasher
00:40:45 Heldon – Northernland Lady
00:47:17 Mark Ellery Griffiths – Near extinction event (Yamaha FM)
00:49:29 Kreidler – Beginn / Drücken
00:54:29 Einseinseins – Gasetagenheizung
00:59:04 L’Eclair – Sisi La Fami
01:02:25 GLOK – Kolokol
01:08:37 Faust – Es ist wieder da

March 9, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music | Tags: abstract, alternative, ambient, Atlanta, balearic, Berlin, Beyond Beyond is Beyond Records, Brooklyn, Bureau B, Bytes, California, Castles In Space, Cavern of Anti-Matter, Centripetal Force, Colorado, Coralville, cosmic, Curious Music, Dorchester, drone, dub, Duophonic, echodelickrecords, Einseinseins, electronic, electronica, Estonia, exotica, experimental, experimental electronic, experimental rock, Faust, France, funk, future, Gaudi Kosmisches Trio, Geneva, Georgia, Germany, Glasgow, GLOK, groove, Hamburg, Heldon, Hena, idm, instrumental, Invisible Inc., Iowa, jazz, Keith Seatman, kosmische, kosmische musik, Kosmischer Läufer, kraut, kraut rock, krautrock, Kreidler, L'Eclair, La Selva Beach, Les Disques Bongo Joe, London, Mark Ellery Griffiths, Misha Panfilov, nautical, new age, New York, noise rock, noisecore, Portsmouth, Prairiewolf, psychedelia, psychedelic, reggae, rock, science fiction, shoegaze, Sordid Sound System, soundtrack, spiritual jazz, Switzerland, synth, Tallinn, techno, trance, UK, Ultraääni Records, Volodymyr Gnatenko, world music | Leave a comment

Trev’s Instrumental, Experimental, Kraut Time Pt. 1

00:00:00 Kosmischer Läufer – Zeit zum Laufen 172
00:03:15 formAnt B – Kater – Single Version
00:07:10 Stereolab – Flashes In The Afternoon
00:13:11 Cluster – Zum Wohl
00:19:38 Personal Bandana – Enigmas Of The Spectrum
00:23:33 Andrew Weatherall – Between Stations
00:29:25 Metamono – Birth of a Flower
00:33:58 Oblong – Fast Radio Burst
00:37:50 Den Osynliga Manteln – TRIPPELSOL
00:42:47 Karaba – Der Inder

March 8, 2026 | Categories: Mix shows, Music, Music podcast | Tags: alternative, Andrew Weatherall, Berlin, Bureau B, Charlottesville, Cluster, Compost Records, Doncaster, dub, electro, electronic, electronica, experimental, formAnt B, Germany, Gothenburg, Hamburg, Höga Nord Rekords, house, kosmische, Kosmischer Läufer, krautrock, krauty, Kryptox, London, Malmö, Memetune Recordings, Metamono, Munich, Oblong, Personal Bandana, pop, psychedelic rock, rock, Stereolab, Sweden, synth, synths, synthwave, techno, UK, Virginia, Warp Records, Woodford Halse | Leave a comment

Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 184

08 March 2026

///notes.seaweed.rashers

Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.

Welcome to Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, Episode 184, your virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. As per usual we’ll dive into 20 artists. All the shows have three word subtitles for places that have some meaning for me personally. These are also used as names for the background music in show intros and outros. This episodes’ subtitle is notes.seaweed.rashers and is the geolocation of a rather good Sushi joint in Bromma Stockholm, Takumi Ramen & Sushi, which serves Burrito sushi rolls. Anyway, These episodes drop about three times a week with no fixed schedule—just pure passion for independent music. So do follow the Mixcloud page and the socials to stay up to date. Picture yourself settling into a cozy nook overlooking a misty ocean, cassette player in hand, as we embark on this auditory journey. Kicking things off with Dune by Atabasca from the album of the same name, out on Killer Groove Records, released March 27, 2026. This piece crafts a hypnotic rhythm that transports listeners across expansive, sun-baked terrains with effortless groove.

That was Dune by Atabasca.

Next up, Liboi with The rainforest (Central African Republic) from the album A Century of Sounds on Cities and Memory, released February 23, 2026. Capturing the raw symphony of nature in a way that feels alive and immersive, blending field sounds into an organic tapestry. I envision the dense canopy of ancient trees parting to reveal hidden streams, drawing us deeper into the heart of a vibrant wilderness.

That was Liboi and The rainforest (Central African Republic). If you’re not into all the talk between the tracks there is the option of subscribing for less than a cup of coffee on a monthly basis. Then you get these episodes as continuous babble free mixes a day or so ahead of what you’re listening to now.
Any hoo, Echoes lingering in the undergrowth, fading into a stranger’s whisper that pulls you toward unfamiliar shadows. here’s Stranger In Me (feat. autumna) by gribbles from the album githerments #1, released November 8, 2024. A collaboration that weaves ethereal vocals with subtle electronic layers, creating a haunting introspection that lingers long after the final note.

That was Stranger In Me (feat. autumna) by gribbles.

Coming next, Like fog rolling over jagged peaks, protocols of mist guiding you through obscured paths. Mist Protocol by Scholars of the Peak from the album PCT 29 – The Seawatch Observatory Tapes on Preston Capes, released March 6, 2026. This composition builds atmospheric tension through field recordings and drones, evoking a sense of watchful isolation on a rugged coastline.

That was Mist Protocol by Scholars of the Peak.

Up now, Against All Odds (Ultra Ambient Mix) by Arcane Trickster from the album Ambient Archives on Tempest Recordings, released February 25, 2026. This mix envelops the senses in ultra-soft textures that unfold like a serene, infinite horizon.Defying the elements in a vast, echoing chamber where ambient waves crash eternally.

That was Against All Odds (Ultra Ambient Mix) by Arcane Trickster.

A reflective surface shattering into nervous fragments, mirroring inner turmoil amid calm exteriors. Here’s Nervous Mirror by The Mistys from the album Situations | Useless Mouths on Castles In Space, releases March 27, 2026. This track delivers a glitchy, introspective vibe that balances unease with melodic allure, drawing you into its fragmented world.

That was Nervous Mirror by The Mistys.

Next, Imagine cascading waters in a mythical woodland, droplets dancing on leaves like Elven secrets. Shower in an Elven Forest by ESH from the album Induction Lounge on Imaginary North, released February 27, 2026. This ambient opener induces a meditative calm with synthesizer swells that mimic gentle rain in enchanted groves.

That was Shower in an Elven Forest by ESH.

And now, Picture drifting into a hazy reverie where thoughts swirl like soft clouds, untouched by the world below. An exclusive Daydream by Ogle & Mugwood, unreleased at the time of recording from Subexotic Records. Due for release in April. This piece floats through dreamy soundscapes with delicate precision, offering a tranquil escape into imagination.

That was the exclusive: Daydream by Ogle & Mugwood, courtesy of Subexotic Records.

Visualize clouds gathering in a vast sky, forming shapes that whisper of distant horizons. Another exclusive follows: Nuvole Nel Cielo by Demetrio Cecchitelli & Stefan Christoff from the album ANDARE OLTRE, unreleased at the time of recording from Oscarson, due out March 8th. This collaboration paints ethereal aerial vistas with minimalist tones that evoke quiet contemplation.

That was the exclusive Nuvole Nel Cielo by Demetrio Cecchitelli & Stefan Christoff, via the German label Oscarson.

Envision summertime haze wrapping around lost ideals, pulling you into a perfect, faded realm. Here’s Summertime (from Lost in a perfect world) by passengers & I felt it in my sleep from the album The Passed Year 2025 on Passed Recordings, released January 1, 2026. This lo-fi gem blends nostalgia with subtle melodies, capturing fleeting warmth in a dreamlike narrative.

That was Summertime (from Lost in a perfect world) by passengers & I felt it in my sleep.

I see vaporous formations drifting lazily, structuring the air with invisible grace. Next exclusive: Cloud structures by Ghostloop, unreleased at the time of recording from the Driftworks label. Dropping on the 13th of March. This track constructs immersive drones that shift like weather patterns, inviting deep sonic exploration.

That was the exclusive Cloud structures by Ghostloop, unreleased at the time of recording, from Driftworks.

Imagine stepping inward through a portal of echoing tones, where transit begins in rhythmic pulse. Closing this side with In by DaFou from the album Berlin Transit [CYD 0151] on Cyclical Dreams, released February 13, 2026. This extended Berlin School-inspired journey pulses with synthesizer depth, evoking endless urban motion.

Flipping to the B Side now—Starting strong with 2 Notes by Kwils from the album Commemorative Compilation (ST100A) on Secuencias Temporales, released March 2, 2026. This minimalist experiment distills essence into sparse harmonics, creating profound impact from simplicity. Speaking of compilations there is still time to enter your piece for my upcoming release Puzzles of the Psyche. Get it in by March 25th. Now off we go with 2 Notes…

That was 2 Notes by Kwils.

Next, A duet echoing across oceanic expanses, shells and synths harmonizing in tropical winds. Duet for conch shell and synthesisers (Vanuatu) by Cities & Memory another piece from the album A Century of Sounds on the label Cities and Memory, released February 23, 2026. This fusion blends primal instruments with electronic innovation, forging a cultural bridge through sound.

That was Duet for conch shell and synthesisers (Vanuatu) by Cities & Memory.

Picture plunging into profound depths where currents pull with irresistible force. Now another exclusive: Full Deep by Brapscallion, unreleased at the time of recording from Waxing Crescent Records. It’s from the album Alchemy and has a release date set for March 20th. This immersive dive explores abyssal textures with rhythmic subtlety, drawing listeners into uncharted sonic waters.

That was the exclusive Full Deep by Brapscallion, unreleased at the time of recording, from Waxing Crescent Records.

Now Imagine waves scaling invisible heights, rippling through the ether like cosmic signals. Here’s Scaler Waves by Daniel Coppens, released February 27, 2026. This ambient electronic flow ascends with chilled spacemusic vibes, offering a serene ascent into vast expanses.

That was Scaler Waves by Daniel Coppens.

Envision a heroic leap into the unknown, spinning with defiant energy. Final exclusive: Have a Go, Hero by Let Spin, from the album I am Alien unreleased at the time of recording from Discus Music. Due release date is set to the 10th of April. This energetic burst fuses jazz improvisation with rock edge, delivering a bold and invigorating challenge keeping the bassist busy.

That was the exclusive Have a Go, Hero by Let Spin, unreleased at the time of recording, via Discus Music.

Picture a locomotive thundering through industrial landscapes, tracks vibrating with relentless drive. Next, Train by Tlacactoc from the album Commemorative Compilation (ST100A) on Secuencias Temporales, released March 2, 2026. This rhythmic ode mimics mechanical motion with layered sounds, capturing the essence of perpetual journey.

That was Train by Tlacactoc.

Imagine a fence submerged in still waters, bending around curved shores. Here’s oxbow by sunken fence from the album lentic on Adventurous Music, released February 19, 2026. This tape-loop drone intertwines field noises into a tranquil aquatic meditation, evoking submerged serenity.

That was oxbow by sunken fence

Envision one sustained note resonating through verdant woods, harmonizing with every leaf and branch. Wrapping up with A single chord played in the entire forest by Miguel Otero & Raquel Pavón from the album Through that garden gate on Noray Records, released March 6, 2026. This minimalist resonance expands a solitary tone into a forest-wide symphony, fostering profound unity.
That’s Episode 184 of Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library. Thanks for tuning in—stay adventurous. Catch you on the next drop. Cheerio…

Intro – 00:00
Atabasca – Dune – 01:06
Liboi – The rainforest (Central African Republic) – 05:25
gribbles – Stranger In Me (feat. autumna) – 07:50
Scholars of the Peak – Mist Protocol – 13:44
Arcane Trickster – Against All Odds (Ultra Ambient Mix) – 17:22
The Mistys – Nervous Mirror – 22:56
ESH – Shower in an Elven Forest – 27:10
Ogle & Mugwood – Daydream – 30:05
Demetrio Cecchitelli & Stefan Christoff – Nuvole Nel Cielo – 33:19
passengers & I felt it in my sleep – Summertime (from Lost in a perfect world) – 37:23
Ghostloop – Cloud structures – 39:59
DaFou – In – 45:06
B Side – 55:21
Kwils – 2 Notes – 55:40
Cities & Memory – Duet for conch shell and synthesisers (Vanuatu) – 58:25
Brapscallion – Full Deep – 1:05:24
Daniel Coppens – Scaler Waves – 1:09:05
*Let Spin – Have a Go, Hero – 1:15:14
Tlacactoc – Train – 1:19:25
sunken fence – oxbow – 1:25:33
Miguel Otero & Raquel Pavón – A single chord played in the entire forest – 1:31:00
Outro –

*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.

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EXPANSIVE WAVES 24

07 March 2026

EXPANSIVE WAVES — EPISODE 24

Good evening, or morning, or whatever fragment of time you’ve found yourself in. This is Expansive Waves, episode twenty-four. I’m Trevor—your host, your guide, your occasional sonic conspirator.

This programme is not for the hurried. Eight pieces, each longer than 12 minutes—most stretching far beyond that—each more patient than the last. If you’re expecting choruses, drops, or anything resembling urgency, you may want to try another channel.

So, settle in. Let the kettle boil. Let the cat sleep. Let the world spin without you for a while.

We begin with…

Work Money Death and “Pain Becomes Prayer And Prayer Becomes A Song,” from the album A Portal To Here, released by ATA Records on the 13th of Feb. 2026.

Picture yourself in a dimly lit room at dusk, harp strings catching the last amber light, a low horn murmuring like wind through an ancient chapel, tamborine arriving soft and deliberate as distant rain on stone — grief transforming, layer by layer, into something luminous and unnameable.
A profound meditation where sorrow unfolds into reverence, the ensemble channeling spiritual jazz lineages with tender, unhurried grace.

That was Work Money Death — “Pain Becomes Prayer And Prayer Becomes A Song.”

Next, we drift into Dubberrookie with “Real Axing,” drawn from the album Pieces for Piano A NYP self release from the 22nd of Feb. 2026

Imagine bare wooden floors under moonlight, a single piano in the center of an empty warehouse, keys struck with such restraint that each note lingers like fog rolling across water, electronic undertows pulling gently at the edges of perception.
A delicate, wobbly exploration that turns piano resonance into something quietly electronic and deeply introspective.

That was Dubberrookie — “Real Axing.”

Now, Fabio Keiner & Jack Hertz present “Mindless,” the title track from their album Mindless on Aural Films. A NYP release let loose on the 14th of Feb. 2026

Vast open sky at twilight, no horizon line, only infinite gradients of indigo and violet; beneath it, subtle field recordings of wind across empty plains merge with slow, formless tones that seem to erase the boundary between listener and sound.
A generous, healing expanse of drone crafted in tribute to World Sound Healing Day — pure, extended immersion without anchor or agenda.

That was Fabio Keiner & Jack Hertz — “Mindless.”

We continue with Gustavo Denouard and “Chimes in the Mist,” from the album Echoes of the Cosmos on Projekt Records. Dropped January 30th 2026.

Crystalline structures floating in deep space, faint luminous fog parting to reveal shimmering synth chimes that ripple outward like light through water, everything weightless, radiant, eternal.
Enchanting, luminous ambient electronics that evoke distant nebulae and quiet cosmic wonder.

That was Gustavo Denouard — “Chimes in the Mist.”

Shifting now to Yakuza Jacuzzi with “Wabi-Sabi,” from the album Wabi-Sabi on Cyclical Dreams which dropped on the 27th of February 2026.

An ancient garden after rain — cracked stone lantern, imperfect moss-covered branches, bass tones humming low like earth settling, harmonic shimmers appearing and dissolving like fleeting cherry blossoms in wind.
An immersive embrace of imperfection and transience, where cosmic drones and subtle instrumentation find beauty in the incomplete.

That was Yakuza Jacuzzi — “Wabi-Sabi.”

Next comes Mark Ellery Griffiths and “Colledig,” from the album Annwfn 2025, NYP self-released on March 1st 2026.
Shadowed Welsh valleys at twilight, mist clinging to ancient stones, deep drones rising from the earth like voices from the underworld, slow layers evoking loss and mythic depth.
Dark, resonant ambient that draws listeners into the mythic underworld with brooding, mythological weight.

That was Mark Ellery Griffiths — “Colledig.”

We move toward the close with Lingua Lustra and “Collosphaera,” from the album Sphaera 2005-2025, self-released on 24th of January 2026.
Spherical forms drifting through twenty years of sonic memory — glowing orbs of reworked and lost experiments, vast spherical atmospheres expanding and contracting like living celestial bodies.
This release is a sweeping retrospective journey through two decades of refined, expansive soundworlds — timeless and enveloping.

That was Lingua Lustra — “Collosphaera.”

And to carry us out… Rupert Lally with “Nord D” — Self released work titles Norden which dropped on the 6th of March 2026.
Stark Nordic landscape under pale winter light, modular synth lines tracing generative paths across frozen lakes, minimal pulses echoing like footsteps in snow, vast and unadorned.
Crisp, generative minimalism born from single-take modular explorations — quiet, precise, and profoundly spacious.

That was Rupert Lally — “Nord D.”

And so the waves recede for another evening. Eight long forms, eight patient unfoldings. If any of these pieces resonated in the quiet corners, you’ll find links to the artists and albums on the episode page at trevor.se and in the Mixcloud comments.

Trevlad on Bandcamp remains my small sonic home — trevlad.bandcamp.com.

Feel free to leave a thought on the Mixcloud timeline. Until the next fragment of time pulls us back together… this is Trevor, signing off from Expansive Waves, episode twenty-four. Cheerio…

Work Money Death – Pain Becomes Prayer And Prayer Becomes A Song – 00:00
Dubberrookie – Real Axing – 14:24
Fabio Keiner & Jack Hertz – Mindless – 28:35
Gustavo Denouard – Chimes in the Mist – 50:23
Yakuza Jacuzzi – Wabi-Sabi – 1:08:48
Mark Ellery Griffiths – Colledig – 1:21:23
Lingua Lustra – Collosphaera – 1:35:59
Rupert Lally – Nord D – 1:50:04

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 183

06 March 2026

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Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.

Welcome, sonic explorers, to Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, Episode 183, beaming out on this fine Bandcamp Friday of 06 March 2026. Our geo-tag subtitle today: visit.impressing.backup – punch that into what3words for a little location tied A stunning sculpture by my friend and colleague, Ylva Magnusson. It’s the background image for this episodes social media posts.

This is your virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. Twenty artists lined up, dropping about three times a week with no fixed schedule – just pure passion for independent music. Expect a sonic journey with a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark, ideal for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe.

If you want to be part of the transmission, send your vibrations my way at trevlad@gmail.com. Purchase paths are always lit up at trevor.se, and marked in the timeline of each show.

Big shoutouts to our latest followers: Jack D’Arcy, the artist behind Adventsong, and Zuki from Portugal. Cheers, guys – your support keeps the library spinning.

And hey, don’t forget: it’s Bandcamp Friday today. Head to the links in the comments for this episode or any other, and snag some tunes direct from the creators.

Headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you.

A dimly lit workshop cluttered with circuit boards and flickering screens, shadows dancing as digital pulses awaken forgotten machines. Kicking off Side A with my own self released alias. This is Trevlad’s “Tablet Stocks Mice” from the album TVCL 09.

A crumbling tower under stormy skies, echoes of shattered illusions raining down like fragmented glass. Next up, Юродивый (yurodivy) with “Fallen Expectations ll” from the 50 track NYP album Commemorative Compilation released by Secuencias Temporales.

Imagine a bustling market at dusk, spices mingling in the air as rhythmic grooves weave through the crowd like invisible threads. Here’s Kaidi Tatham’s “Any Flavour” from the album Two Syllables Volume Twenty Two, on First Word Records.

An endless void, stars collapsing inward, pulling you into a cosmic silence dotted with faint, haunting signals. Farazdeck brings “Void” from the album Animae Perdita (ST017), courtesy of Secuencias Temporales.

See gentle waves lapping at a forgotten shore, mist rising as melodies drift by like autumn leaves on the wind. Clariloops’ “Pass Me By” from the album The Quiet Below, released by whitelabrecs.

Frost-covered cliffs along a rugged coast, deer silhouettes against a winter sunset, horns echoing through the chill. Phexioenesystems’ “Coastal Winter Deerhorn” from Patterns in Condensate, on Lunar Module.

A quiet farewell at twilight, streetlights blurring in the rain as final words hang in the ether. Gareth Jones’ “parting / nosDa” from ElectroGenetic 2 – Nos Da, a Mortality Tables product.

A woven lattice of vines climbing ancient ruins, sunlight filtering through in golden patterns. storyinsoil’s “Lattice” from the album distillation, released by Ingrown Records.

A city skyline at night, lights twinkling like distant galaxies, synth waves shimmering across the horizon. Ryu Oshi’s “Sparkling Night” from Cityfield: Ten Duets for Electric Piano and Synthesizer, on The Dream Journal Institute.

A shadowy alley where friends rally in chaos, urgency pulsing like a heartbeat in the dark. T-toe’s “Shes our friend and she’s crazy, We have to help her!” from The Vale of Shadows, on Sounds for the Soul Records.

Afternoon light piercing through clouds, flashes illuminating hidden landscapes in surreal bursts. Stereolab’s “Flashes In The Afternoon” from the album Cloud Land / Flashes In The Afternoon, released by Warp Records.

A zero-point field, equations dissolving into nothingness, potentials collapsing in elegant decay. Simon Heartfield’s “Nilpotent” from the Noon State EP, on Limbic Production.

B Side

Imagine awakening from a vivid reverie, the veil lifting as reality reshapes itself in unexpected forms. worriedaboutsatan’s “The Dream Is Over” from No Knock No Doorbell, self-released.

Barren fields under gray skies, the first flakes descending in silent promise. “Waiting for Snow” by Andrew Heath and Mi Cosa de Resistance, from the album Land, on Driftworks.

Cavernous depths where echoes reverberate, low frequencies rumbling like earthbound thunder. gribbles’ “Lows” from BOSH!, self-released.

Ancient temples shrouded in mist, realizations dawning like forbidden revelations – this one’s an exclusive preview, not yet out in the wild. Glacis with Henrik Meierkord’s “I Have Worshipped The Wrong Gods” from the upcoming album We Gape and We Are Healed, on whitelabrecs.

A lush garden bathed in golden light, mythical fruits ripening under eternal watch. Yakuza Jacuzzi’s “Jade Emperor´s Peach Garden part 1” from Wabi-Sabi, released by Cyclical Dreams.

Sun-drenched streets alive with infectious beats, shadows swaying in harmonious flow. Sababa 5’s “Asunsan” from Ça va Ça va, on Batov Records.

Ethereal threads connecting distant realms, pulses syncing in harmonious trance. Avsluta & Primal Code’s “Sahatā” from Commemorative Compilation , released by Secuencias Temporales.

That’s the end of the tape for Episode 183. Thanks for tuning in – keep exploring those independent sounds. Until next time, let the universe echo back.
Overgrown concrete structures reclaimed by nature, botanical forms emerging from urban decay. Wrapping up with Wil Bolton’s “Concrete Botany” from the album Concrete Botany, on Home Normal.

Intro – 00:00
Trevlad – Tablet Stocks Mice – 01:47
Юродивый – Fallen Expectations ll – 04:54
Kaidi Tatham – Any Flavour – 09:27
Farazdeck – Void – 11:34
Clariloops – Pass Me By – 15:55
Phexioenesystems – Coastal Winter Deerhorn – 20:12
Gareth Jones – parting / nosDa – 23:54
storyinsoil – Lattice – 27:44
Ryu Oshi – Sparkling Night – 32:05
T-toe – Shes our friend and she’s crazy, We have to help her! – 33:41
Stereolab – Flashes In The Afternoon – 37:55
Simon Heartfield – Nilpotent – 43:35
B Side – 49:22
worriedaboutsatan – The Dream Is Over – 49:39
Andrew Heath and Mi Cosa de Resistance – Waiting for Snow – 55:01
gribbles – Lows – 1:00:27
*Glacis with Henrik Meierkord – I Have Worshipped The Wrong Gods – 1:05:05
Yakuza Jacuzzi – Jade Emperor´s Peach Garden part 1 – 1:07:37
Sababa 5 – Asunsan – 1:16:10
Avsluta & Primal Code – Sahatā – 1:22:21
Wil Bolton – Concrete Botany – 1:28:50
Outro – 1:36:30

*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 182

04 March 2026

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Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.

Greetings ye combers of the sound waves and welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library, episode 182. I’m Trevor and I’ll be gently guiding you through twenty artists and their musical endeavours tonight. If you’re new here, welcome; otherwise, welcome back.
A quick shout out to the latest followers: Tiago Catarino who may or may not be into Lego, Rohima Afruza who is a Brighton-based DJ, and foremanmonique from New Mexico, United States. Thanks guys—you keep the signal strong.
This episode has set a new record for the channel: Six exclusive tracks at the time of recording. My handful of subscribers are some of the few souls on the planet who have heard these yet. How? I’ve started dropping music-only preview mixes of the shows before the chat version hits the air—that’s the secret handshake.
The exclusives come from Swimming Lesson, TOMC, The Metamorph, Martin Archer & Claire McAllister, Isograph (who is actually the same artist behind Swimming Lesson), and Oberlin. Who else joins the lineup? You’ll just have to settle in and listen.
Let’s ease into the flow.

We start the episode with the first exclusive which was actually released back in October on the Castles In Space Subscription Library so a few of you will know this one by Darryl Wakelin here as one of his alter egos *Swimming Lesson. This is A Penchant for Experiments from the album Home Electronics
Picture a dimly lit garage in a 1970s suburb, fairy lights strung across shelves of salvaged radios and half-built circuit boards, the faint glow of a soldering iron as tiny sparks dance like fireflies in the dusk.

And now the best thing that’s ever happened to this channel Mr. Gareth Evans aka HDRF. His support and above all his direct action on my request for sending in his story for the new show Chord Confessions. In fact the previous artist Swimming Lesson and other artists I’ve played are a direct result of Gareths passion and action in the community.
HDRF – Everybody Melts (for Miquette)
from the album Ephemerama 1 (self-released via HDRF’s Bandcamp)
A slow dissolve of coloured wax under heat, pooling into soft iridescent shapes on a windowsill as afternoon light filters through rain-streaked glass, everything quietly surrendering to warmth.

Solar 76 – Arctan
from the album Sun Angle on Castle In Spaces’ Lunar Module imprint.
Late golden hour on a coastal cliff path, the sun hanging low and casting long geometric shadows across concrete sea defences, waves below folding in perfect mathematical curves. A very different, yet familiar release from the label. Get your House moves on.

Now most of the music I play on the show is either NYP releases, or sent in by the artists or by the labels. This next track is the latter.
*TOMC – You Are Balearic
from the album Blue Era Odyssey. Releasing via channel champion Mystery Circles on the 3 of March.
Open-top car cruising a winding island road at twilight, salt air rushing past, palm fronds silhouetted against a sky bleeding from azure to deep indigo, distant lights beginning to wink on.

Now another track from the outstanding and highly original label Cities and Memory.
Neil Foster – Yeyi (Central African Republic)
from the album A Century of Sounds. This track is from the NYP version on Bandcamp and one of the 100 pieces chosen for this 13 track release.
Dense rainforest canopy parting just enough for shafts of sunlight to hit moss-covered earth, the air thick with calls of unseen birds and the low rhythmic pulse of life moving unseen.

Gustavo Denouard – Whispers
from the album Echoes of the Cosmos on Projekt Records
Vast empty observatory dome at night, telescope lens reflecting a scattering of stars, faint cosmic radio static crackling like whispers from galaxies long ago.

Now another great friend of the show, Gavin Brick aka The Metamorph. This is the third exclusive for the episode. Gavin has received the physical CDs for his upcoming release From Cobalt to Aquamarine. I’ve always loved Gavin music and this sees a bit of a change in direction. It’s more introspective and is quickly becoming a favourite on repeat around the house. I believe this will be the first release from his new studio in Liverpool. Keep your eye on his Bandcamp page for the official release date.
*The Metamorph – Cobalt
Deep underwater cave lit only by bioluminescent streaks of electric blue, slow currents carrying flecks of mineral that catch the light like floating sapphires.

Next the fourth exclusive of the show.
*Martin Archer & Claire McAllister – Underground
from the album Mast Year dropping on the Discus Music label on the 27th of March. There are loads of names to look forward to on this collage style release.
Dimly lit subway tunnel after hours, Claires floating improvised vocals and gentle jazz phrasings will take you underground.

Now let’s get industrial with some sub bass foundation. The penultimate track of this first half.
Wahn – A Place Slightly Wrong
from the album Echo Mist Light on the Mahorka label.
Fog rolling across an abandoned industrial yard at dawn, rusted machinery half-submerged in mist, everything familiar yet shifted just a degree out of alignment.

We end the A side with Corvid One Cassette – REST
from the album Two on a label to keep you radar tuned to, Black Pylon. A Cassette label curated by Lee Pylon and Nicholas Langley.
A single raven perched on a cracked cassette tape case in an empty room, feathers ruffled by a draught from an open window, the world outside hushed.

B Side –

We open this half with the living legend, Hainbach – BTM Blau
from the album Tagwerk on Spanish label, Industrial Complexx.
Analogue workbench at midnight, the Crumar DS-2, an early Italian synthesiser, pulsing gently as if the machine itself is dreaming.

Now Bruce Magill aka Low Altitude – Dan Y Wernen
from the whitelabrecs compilation masterpiece Shades
Welsh hillside at dusk, ancient stone wall curving into mist, wind carrying faint echoes of folk memory across heather and gorse.

Next I get to play one of my own pieces as no-one else will. In the intro, outro and scattered through each episode I create background soundscapes. When I’ve created 16 episodes I release them as an album. The three word titles of each piece are also geotags for spots on the planet that I have some sort of personal connection with. For example the title of this episode and the background you’re listening to now is situated.bike.guides which is the geographical location of the entrance to Omnipollos Church in Sundbyberg Stockholm. A Brewery and bar, creating some of the best craft beer on the planet. The title of this track is from the patch of grass outside my apartment. Enter any of the track titles from my albums and you can virtually stalk me. Anyway this is me, Trevlad – Hits Enjoyable Amended
from the album TVCL-09
Old mixing desk in a cosy attic studio, faders worn smooth from years of use, fairy lights twinkling above stacks of cassettes like a private constellation.

Now a release right up my alley. I love this sound, it reminds me of the 70s Canterbury sound of Dave Stewart. Passepartout Duo – From Tbilisi
from the album Pieces from Places
Narrow cobblestone street in old Tbilisi at golden hour, balcony flowers spilling over iron railings, distant church bells mingling with street musicians.

Now the fifth exclusive track from *Isograph – The Telling of the Bees
[same artist as Swimming Lesson, keeping traditions alive in sound]
Traditional beehive in a quiet garden at sunrise, bees humming in low golden light, keeper in veil gently lifting a frame, the hive whispering ancient secrets. This is from the first Isograph release which will see light of day later in the year. Here’s what Darryl told me about the track. “The telling of the bees is an old tradition from when lots of rural families kept a beehive for honey, propolis, etc. They would tell the bees about family news (births, deaths, etc.), which I think is just a beautiful thing to do, making the bees part of the family. The track is about all sides of that – the family news, and then at the scale of the bees hearing the news, and the whole thing is an attempt to reflect the lovely connection/regard for nature in this idea.” Cheer for that.

Now another artist I could probably contact for a coffee if I ever was in Edinburgh. Exit Chamber – We Can Get There Simply By Surviving (Previously Unreleased)
from the album The Passed Year 2025 on a global collective of artists known as Passed Recordings. The Bandcamp page says they’re based in Uppsala Sweden but I haven’t figured out what the connection is. Anyway,
Cracked pavement after rain, small green shoot pushing through concrete, resilient and quiet, the city noise fading into a hopeful hush.

Next described as being constructed to elicit feelings of calm, to unearth hazy memories of early innocence, and to lure the chaotic mind into the woods of sleep.
Glass Hive – Mother Of Many
from the album Glass Hive EP
Hive mind of glass shards catching light in a sunlit room, reflections multiplying endlessly, fragile yet infinite.

Now the sixth exclusive which will see light of day on 6 March.
*Oberlin – Never Take It For Granted
from the album The Gold Pit Sessions Vol. 2 out on German label oscarson.
Open window on a spring morning, curtains billowing softly, sounds drifting in with the scent of fresh earth, everything ordinary and miraculous.

Next an all time favourite artist of mine. The penultimate track of the show. Sébastien Tellier – Un Dimanche en Famille
from the album Kiss the Beast
Lazy Sunday table in a sun-dappled kitchen, half-eaten croissants, laughter echoing off tiled walls, time stretching elastic and warm. Available through Because Music & Horizons.

And that’s episode 182 wrapped in a bow of tape and wonder. Thanks for riding along on this sonic journey with its metaphysical flip at the halfway mark—perfect for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe.
Want to be part of the transmission? Send your vibrations to trevlad@gmail.com. Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked in the timeline of each show.
To send us home hailing from, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Lorna Dune – Alverno
from the EP Mosfet
Mountain trail winding upward through pine and mist, sudden clearing revealing a vast alpine valley below, the air crisp with possibility. A self released Minimal House gem.
Until the next drop appears without warning… keep searching the dial. Cheerio…

Intro – 00:00
Swimming Lesson – A Penchant for Experiments – 02:17
HDRF – Everybody Melts (for Miquette) – 03:35
Solar 76 – Arctan – 15:24
TOMC – You Are Balearic – 22:49
Neil Foster – Yeyi (Central African Republic) – 26:04
Gustavo Denouard – Whispers – 29:58
The Metamorph – Cobalt – 39:36
Martin Archer & Claire McAllister – Underground – 43:12
Wahn – A Place Slightly Wrong – 47:50
Corvid One Cassette – REST – 52:10
B Side – 56:44
Hainbach – BTM Blau – 57:00
Low Altitude – Dan Y Wernen – 59:11
Trevlad – Hits Enjoyable Amended – 1:04:30
Passepartout Duo – From Tbilisi – 1:10:46
Isograph – The Telling of the Bees – 1:14:40
Exit Chamber – We Can Get There Simply By Surviving (Previously Unreleased) – 1:17:59
Glass Hive – Mother Of Many – 1:23:55
*Oberlin – Never Take It For Granted – 1:32:55
Sébastien Tellier – Un Dimanche en Famille – 1:39:55
Lorna Dune – Alverno – 1:43.58
Outro – 1:47:05

*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.

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Alone on the Dance Floor 05

For people that dance to a different tune.

00:00:00 Neo Dymium – Uncoiled
00:06:42 Fluffy Inside – pH5
00:12:03 Alpak’ – Enso
00:17:16 Made By John – Future Sound of Sligo
00:21:39 Patrick Cowley – Floating
00:27:42 Orbital – Deeper (12′ Version) – Remastered
00:42:23 Artileqt – Subductive Zone
00:47:44 Dib – Troiscenttrois 002
00:52:14 Brasa brasil – I Got to Bahia
00:55:20 Karl Marx – Maískorn
01:02:11 Alternative Civil Servant – Bowed Philosophy
01:07:37 Kavalcade – NULL 01

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 181

28 February 2026

///prickly.solved.sweated

(Stigbergets Fot)

Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.

Welcome to Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode 181, broadcasting from the enigmatic coordinates of Stockholm Sweden. ///prickly.solved.sweated, is the episodes subtitle. This is also a coordinate where shadows stretch long over Stigbergs Fot, a wonderful Stockholm craft beer joint I highly recommend. It’s a crisp February 27, 2026 here. Picture this: a dimly lit attic stacked with glowing tape decks, reels spinning like forgotten galaxies, pulling you into a sonic odyssey for the curious explorer.
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Just a quick shout out to the latest followers Toneshift who is An artist-curated podcast focused on global hybrids and other acquired tastes. Also souljazzfunksters aka Dj Alan Ritchie playing just what the name suggests. Thanks guys.

We kick off in a vast, 9 minute, echoing void with Small Chief’s The Silent Zone, evoking cracked earth under a moonless sky, whispers of wind carving canyons in the quiet.
From the album Zero Movement out on Cyclical Dreams. So headphones on, let time dissolve and let the frequencies claim you.…

Next Tornado Wallace summons Asahi Ga Yondeiru featuring Courtney Bailey, like dawn rays piercing misty rice fields, steam rising from dew-kissed leaves in a serene call to awaken. Fist pumping electronica here. From the EP Left At Sunset, out on the Running Back label.

Now, Consumed Triumphant & Pavel Blumkin ignite Invisible Fire, flames dancing unseen in a dense forest at midnight, embers glowing through fog-shrouded branches. From the conceptual EP The Chariot.

Next d’Voxx haunts with Phantom (Nosferatu the Vampyre), a crumbling castle turret where caped figures glide across cobblestone, echoes of eternal night in the stone. From the album HERZOG: A Retrospective out on the great DiN label.

Coming up Lorenzo Montanà invites us into Mirrors’ Den, reflections fracturing in a labyrinth of glass, endless hallways mirroring starlit illusions. From the NYP album Velan out on Projekt Records. Go add this to your collection.

And now I Trevlad stir Easy Begun Meals, a cluttered kitchen at sunrise, pots simmering with unexpected spices, steam curling like improvised melodies.
From the ninth collection of episode background soundtracks. If you can’t subscribe to the Mixcloud channel please consider purchasing an album on Bandcamp.

Next, the longest outing on this episode clocking in at 9 minutes 36 seconds. Jake Soffer & Brent Carmer open The Room Where We Met, faded wallpaper peeling in a sunlit chamber, dust motes swirling in golden beams of memory. From the album Imaginary Rooms. Another Projekt Records NYP release.

Now, Shrimpnose lifts us to Hovering, clouds parting over a floating city, gentle drifts in an aerial ballet of soft geometries. From the album Aureolin Winter out on La’s Friends Of Friends label.

The penultimate track for this side of the virtual cassette. Kavalcade unleashes DECAY 01, rusted machinery grinding in an abandoned factory, sparks flying from corroded gears under flickering neon. From the EP SIGNAL which drops May 1 on Machine Records.

We end the first half with Philippe Petit who drapes Tropicalism in an Empire wardrobe, velvet curtains parting on a colonial ballroom overgrown with vines, exotic blooms tangling with faded grandeur. The shortest piece at only 49 seconds. From the album The Acoustic Cornet, an hommage to Leonora Carrington out on Mahorka.

Flipping to the B side, Nadia Struiwigh modulates MOD1, circuit boards humming in a sterile lab, pulses syncing like neural fireworks in chrome reflections. From a compilation I’ve played extensively on the channel, connected #3, from the great label i u we records.

Next, a show exclusive. The Eyes and the Mistoids trail Snails That Failed, slimy paths glistening on rain-slicked garden stones, slow spirals unraveling under overcast skies. From the album The Beware Gallery which will drop on March 20 on Waxing Crescent Records.

Now, Brass Clouds, Fog Net, & Volcanic Pinnacles plunge into Subduction, tectonic plates shifting beneath ocean depths, bubbles rising from volcanic vents in abyssal gloom. From the album Dive 2: Sonoluminescence out on Bathysphere Records.

Coming up, Erik Wøllo charts North Trek, snow-capped peaks piercing arctic twilight, auroras weaving ribbons across frozen expanses. From the album, Snow Tides. Yet another NYP release from Projekt Records.

Next, Helyg Weidenbach erects Dream Scaffold I, ethereal ladders climbing into cloud realms, mist-shrouded rungs leading to surreal vistas. From the album, Traumgerüst, also a NYP album courtesy of The Dream Journal Institute.

Now, Amanda Whiting wanders Mary Over There, a foggy meadow at dusk, wildflowers nodding in the haze of distant horizons. Most recently released on the NYP compilation album Two Syllables Volume Twenty Two. Released by First Word Records.

Next, Louis Sarno captures Bayaka women singing yeyi in the forest (Central African Republic), ancient trees canopying harmonious calls, leaves rustling in rhythmic unity with hidden streams. From the compilation A Century of Sounds out on Cities and Memory.

Now, Japanese artist Yasutaka Sato aka Virgo blooms Zoophyte, underwater gardens swaying in currents, coral tendrils unfurling like living sculptures in turquoise light. From the album, Roots of Memories (Remastered- Deluxe Edition), out on Neo Ouija.

Next we switch it up. Psyché brews another exclusive track, Yagé, jungle vines twisting around a ceremonial fire, visions flickering in the smoke of ritual embers. From the album Psyché II dropping on Four Flies Records on March 20.

And we’ve reached the final track. Thanks for sticking around for this virtual mix show, twenty artists lighting up the unknown. No rigid timetable, just raw devotion to the waves. Subscribe for anytime access, including babble-free mixes. Drop your sounds at trevlad@gmail.com, and trace the trails at trevor.se.
And finally The Gaye Device flows with Ebb And Flow, tidal pools reflecting shifting skies, waves lapping at barnacle-encrusted rocks in perpetual motion. From couple of places, the latest being, the Sounds for the Soul label compilation – Ocean Compilation 2.
Cheerio…

Intro – 00:00
Small Chief – The Silent Zone – 01:24
Tornado Wallace – Asahi Ga Yondeiru ft Courtney Bailey – 10:45
Consumed Triumphant & Pavel Blumkin – Invisible Fire – 17:29
d’Voxx – Phantom (Nosferatu the Vampyre) – 18:44
Lorenzo Montanà – Mirrors’ Den – 25:42
Trevlad – Easy Begun Meals – 30:11
Jake Soffer & Brent Carmer – The Room Where We Met – 34:13
Shrimpnose – Hovering – 43:25
Kavalcade – SIGNAL 03 -10 LUFS soft clip v3 – 45:21
Philippe Petit – Tropicalism in an Empire wardrobe – 48:21
B Side – 49:36
Nadia Struiwigh – MOD1 – 49:52
The Eyes and the Mistoids– Snails That Failed – 55:30
Brass Clouds, Fog Net, & Volcanic Pinnacles – Subduction – 58:21
Erik Wøllo – North Trek – 1:03:21
Helyg Weidenbach – Dream Scaffold I – 1:09:40
Amanda Whiting – Mary Over There – 1:16:08
Louis Sarno – Bayaka women singing yeyi in the forest (Central African Republic) – 1:19:04
Virgo – Zoophyte – 1:24:08
Psyché – Yagé – 1:28:32
The Gaye Device – Ebb And Flow – 1:32:30
Outro – 1:37:37

*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 180

263 February 2026

///bank.snow.turkeys

Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.

Welcome to Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, Episode 180—your flickering beacon in the haze, where forgotten reels spin secrets and new ghosts whisper through the virtual cassette heads.
We pause the fast-forward and let time stretch thin: imagine a single worn cassette shell cracked open on a sun-bleached dashboard at dusk, magnetic tape spilling like ribbon across cracked leather seats. Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, for the sonically adventurous, wherever it finds you.
You’ve hit play so, let the tape hiss, and drift with us through these captured breaths.
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Just a quick shout out to the latest followers Edge Effect who you should check out on Bandcamp and fellow Irish person A New Forest who is a resident DJ on Dublin Digital Radio. Also a new subscriber that has me dangling in the edge of the channel getting a payout from Mixcloud imilleryes

We open with the song Sunshine Grove by SubDan. Golden afternoon light spilling through leaves onto a quiet wooden porch swing, where acid-tinged synths ripple like warm breezes and gentle breakbeat grooves sway in lazy contentment, capturing pure, unhurried joy suspended forever in a glowing breath.
This is Sunshine Grove by SubDan from the album Moments of Joy out on Nottingham, UK’s Remnants label.

Now, The track time, running away from you by HUNGER A lone figure standing motionless on an empty midnight highway as the taillights of a departing car stretch into vanishing red threads, while slow, decaying synth drones and fractured rhythmic pulses chase each other in futile pursuit, freezing the ache of irreversible loss in a single, elongating breath of experimental electronic melancholy.
This is HUNGER with the track time, running away from you from the album declined out on Leipzig, Germany’s Adventurous Music

Next, The track Tripping Soldiers 2 by Dark Fidelity Hi Fi (from Bricolage’s underground Glasgow electronic label) A squad of spectral soldiers marching in slow, hallucinatory lockstep through a fog-choked, neon-lit alley at 3 a.m., their boots echoing into warped, stuttering breaks and gritty, acid-flecked synth stabs that bend reality like melting film reels, freezing the surreal vertigo of a chemically unraveling night patrol in a single, looping breath of shadowy, tripped-out dubbed melancholy.
This is Tripping Soldiers 2 by Dark Fidelity Hi Fi from a couple of places one of them being Bricolage’s Paradigm (10 Year Label Sampler)

Now Akira Film Script, Graham Seaman, Mosaicist, Percolator and Justin Amphlett – This Burnished Land
The collaborative expanse of This Burnished Land A vast, sun-scorched prairie at golden hour where ancient mosaic fragments embedded in cracked earth glow like buried memories, while layered drones and subtle field-recorded winds weave a slow, collective breath of timeless, burnished serenity suspended in amber light.
This Burnished Land by Akira Film Script, Graham Seaman, Mosaicist, Percolator and Justin Amphlett from the, must have, compilation album This Burnished Land out on whitelabrecs

Next aug16 by ff8282 A deserted summer rooftop at dusk in late August, empty cassette tapes scattered like fallen leaves as faint, lo-fi synth pulses and fragmented tape warbles drift upward into a fading orange sky, capturing the quiet, nostalgic drift of a single fleeting day dissolving into static eternity.
From the stable of 4000 Records label ff8282 and the track aug16 from the album No Statue.

“A Wound Kisser by Dunya A dimly lit apartment at midnight, where soft ambient tendrils curl like gentle fingers tracing an old scar on pale skin, the slow-healing ache blooming into hushed, shimmering layers of forgiveness frozen in an intimate exhale of wounded light.
From Vilnius, Lithuania’s Amulet of Tears label I give you Dunya with A Wound Kisser from the album **Pay It Forward
**.

**Take Me There – Totte (a reflection on childhood) originally from the album *Nine Reflections: Music For Cats*
“Totte (a reflection on childhood)” A sun-dappled backyard sandbox long abandoned, where a child’s forgotten toy cat sits amid drifting dandelion seeds and gentle, nostalgic drones that lap like warm summer memories against the porch steps, freezing the soft pang of innocence receding into quiet feline contemplation.
This is Totte (a reflection on childhood) by Take Me There from a fantastic, and recommended, compilation The Passed Year 2025 out on Passed Recordings.

Land of the Endless by joe nora An unbroken horizon of rolling golden dunes under a perpetual twilight, where sparse, piano motifs and subtle string horizons stretch outward forever, locking the serene vertigo of boundless solitude in an unresolving breath of eternal drift.
This is Land of the Endless by Joe Nora from the album Puzzle Face available through Los Angeles, California’s Friends Of Friends label.

uami step by raays A bioluminescent jungle clearing at cosmic dawn, where shimmering synth pads and off-kilter jazz-inflected beats pulse like fireflies in slow-motion syncopation, freezing the euphoric fusion of earthly roots and weightless space jungle levitation in glowing stride.
This is raays with uami step from the EP Plaays out on LEAVING RECORDS.

desert ambient by applecore A lone saguaro silhouette against a blood-orange sunset over endless sand, where minimal, heat-warped drones and distant wind howls ripple like mirages across cracked earth, capturing the austere, meditative vastness of isolation distilled into scorching breath.
applecore with desert ambient from the album contact at the deep bottom out on Bulgaria’s Mahorka label.

We end the first half and first side of this virtual cassette with Monolit K by Gelbart A colossal black obelisk rising from cracked concrete in an abandoned Eastern European industrial yard at dawn, its surface humming with deep, resonant modular synth throbs and metallic echoes that reverberate into infinity, freezing the enigmatic weight of forgotten futures in an unyielding pulse.
Gelbart with Monolit K from the album Gelbart-TK-745 out on Berlin, Germany’s Kitchen Leg records. Catch you on the flip side.

Starting us off this half
“Transmission 18 by Wojciech Golczewski A derelict satellite dish pointed skyward in a snowy midnight field, receiving faint, crackling cosmic signals through swelling retro-synth waves and distant static bursts, suspending the lonely vigil of interstellar longing in a glacial sweep.
Wojciech Golczewski with Transmission 18 from the album End Of Transmission 3 available through Marseille, France’s Data Airlines label.

Väntan by Gustav Davidsson Frost-covered birch trees standing silent along a frozen Swedish lake at first light, where sparse, glacial ambient tones and soft harmonic swells drift like breath on glass, freezing the quiet anticipation of spring’s distant promise in a crystalline pause.
This is Gustav Davidsson with Väntan from another great whitelbrecs compilation celebrating their 10-year anniversary Shades.

Pollinator Project Pt. 4 – Entomophily by Loopatronica. A sunlit wildflower meadow alive with bees in ecstatic slow-motion orbit, their wings blurring into intricate looping rhythms and organic electronic pulses that hum in symbiotic harmony, locking the vibrant dance of pollination into a nectar-drenched view.
This is Loopatronica with Pollinator Project Pt. 4 – Entomophily from the album Pollinator Project out on Moolakii Club Audio Interface.

Let Me by Djrum Rain streaked city windows at 4 a.m., reflecting blurred neon as intricate breakbeats and soulful piano fragments plead through dense, atmospheric layers, capturing the intimate ache of unspoken desire suspended in rain-lashed heartbeats.
This is Djrum with Let Me from the albumUnder Tangled Silence out on London, UK’s Houndstooth label.

Movement Implies Convergence by Substak + LR Friberg Converging railway tracks vanishing into a misty horizon at twilight, where pulsing modular sequences and converging field drones pull forward in relentless gravity, freezing the philosophical inevitability of paths uniting in a forward-leaning flow.
Substak + LR Friberg with Movement Implies Convergence from the album The White Between Words another great release from the Mahorka label.

Blanket Song by Kikagaku Moyo A threadbare wool blanket spread under stars on a summer hillside, where psych-folk guitars wrap around soft, wandering melodies like shared warmth, capturing the simple comfort of stargazing companionship in an enveloping sigh.
Kikagaku Moyo/幾何学模様 with Blanket Song from the album Masana Temples out on Fukuoka, Japan’s Guruguru Brain label.

Office Olympics by Dolphins of Venice Fluorescent-lit cubicles transformed into a surreal arena at after-hours, where quirky synth bounces and playful beats turn staplers into javelins and printers into hurdles, freezing the gleeful rebellion of corporate daydreams in a single, mischievous leap.
This is Dolphins of Venice with Office Olympics from the album Captains of Industry another great Mahorka label release.

The penultimate track of the show now. Sub-Aura (2025 Remaster) by Ian Boddy & Chris Carter Underwater aurora lights shimmering through deep ocean currents at midnight, where vintage analog modular synth waves undulate in slow, hypnotic layers, locking the submerged glow of hidden electromagnetic realms in a breath of cosmic tranquility.
Ian Boddy & Chris Carter with Sub-Aura (2025 Remaster) from the album Caged (25th Anniversary Edition) out on Ian Boddy curated label DiN.

So just one track to go and, before you do go, I need you to send me your stories for the Chord Confessions series. I need a song or piece of music that has meant something special to you for some reason. I’ll play the music and say nice things about you and tell your tale on the airwaves.

Spontaneous Reduction by Hverheij A falling snowflake caught mid-descent in a vast white void, where sparse, reductive tones and micro-shifts in texture gradually simplify into near-silence, capturing the elegant inevitability of everything distilling to essence in a vanishing exhale.
Hverheij with Spontaneous Reduction

Intro – 00:00
SubDan – Sunshine Grove – 01:22
HUNGER – time, running away from you – 06:02
Dark Fidelity Hi Fi – Tripping Soldiers – 11:52
Akira Film Script, Graham Seaman, Mosaicist, Noctilusense, Percolator and Justin Amphlett – This Burnished Land – 15:33
ff8282 – aug16 – 21:11
Dunya – A Wound Kisser – 24:13
Take Me There – Totte (a reflection on childhood) (from Nine Reflections: Music For Cats) – 29:47
Joe Nora – Land of the Endless – 33:55
raays – uami step – 36:46
applecore – desert ambient – 40:20
Gelbart – Monolit K – 46:56
B Side – 51:45
Wojciech Golczewski – Transmission 18 – 52:00
Gustav Davidsson – Väntan – 55:04
Loopatronica – Pollinator Project Pt. 4 – Entomophily – 58:56
Djrum – Let Me – 1:03:53
Substak + LR Friberg – Movement Implies Convergence – 1:11:37
Kikagaku Moyo/幾何学模様 – Blanket Song – 1:17:29
Dolphins of Venice – Office Olympics – 1:20:55
Ian Boddy & Chris Carter – Sub-Aura (2025 Remaster) – 1:24:56
Hverheij – Spontaneous Reduction – 1:33:54
Outro – 1:37:45

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 179

23 February 2026

///product.venue.enable

Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.

Good evening, or morning, or whatever fragment of time you’ve found yourself in. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 179. I’m Trevor — your host, your guide, your occasional sonic conspirator.
A sonic journey with a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark—perfect for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe.
So, settle in. Let the kettle boil. Let the cat sleep. Let the world spin without you for a while.
A quick shout out to the new followers Mitxoda a Belgian based independent music project, Solar Eclipse who does massively popular techno sets. Carlostanos a Derbyshire beats and HipHop DJ. and Nick May who has just started a Mixcloud project called The Cinematic Ambient Chillout Show, which is exactly what it is and it’s great. Cheers guys.
We float tonight through pools of ambient electronic, modular wanderings, synthwave echoes, some cosmic angles, Modern classical inflections, drone undertows, and the odd burst of contemporary jazz. Labels flicker such as: Moolakii Club Audio Interface, Guruguru Records, whitelabrecs, and Third kind Records just to name a few. Places scattered from Craigavon to Baltimore, Portland to Marseille.
The longest stretch in the selection comes from Willebrant. His track clocking in at 11 and a half minutes. The shortest by dogs versus shadows snaps past in a flash.
We start off with a piece from TVCL 09 by me, called Decay Cars Suffice which is a What3Words coordination to a spot in the backyard of a flat in Dublin where I spent my teens. The album compiles 16 tracks of surreal ambient electronics drawn from episodes 157–171 of my Virtual Cassette Library series, delivering hypnotic drift of genre-bending textures for introspective listening.

That was me under my alter ego / childhood nickname Trevlad and the track, Decay Cars Suffice.

Next from the album Harvard Sentences 5 by Moray Newlands which got my album of the day recently, transforms ten classic phonetically balanced test sentences from the 1940s Harvard Sentences list into concise, two-minute pentatonic piano sketches, each built from just five notes and five looping patterns with subtle effects for a minimalist, meditative charm. The result is a quietly intriguing and elegant series of pieces that blend the surreal neutrality of standardized speech phrases with gentle, repetitive piano elegance, creating a hypnotic and rewarding listen ideal for focused contemplation or background serenity.
I’ve chosen the track A king ruled the state in the early days.

That was Moray Newlands with A king ruled the state in the early days.

Now, All Roads Lead to Polesworth by Imogen Baker also known as Enofa is a vibrant 15-track journey through gently psychedelic futurism, blending half-remembered 90s ecstasy clubland euphoria with retrofuturist electronic pulses, hi-NRG rhythms, and effortless melodies that feel like a rediscovered mixtape drifting through a lucid dream. From fervent acid-tinged dancefloor anthems to chillaxed ambient comedowns, the album weaves an eclectic yet cohesive tapestry of IDM, ambient house, and experimental textures, highlighted by quirky titles and a nostalgic yet forward-looking energy that’s both invigorating and deeply immersive. Out on Third Kind Records
Here is the opening track Anti-Entropic Chamber

That was Enofa with Anti-Entropic Chamber
Next a new track yet a dive into my musical past. In my teens my Dad and I would go to Jazz clubs in Dublin and this next piece is the kind of jazz we bonded over. The kind of jazz that deserved a pint. Anyway The Description Is Not The Described by Nathaniel Cross is a soulful four-track debut EP that fuses sophisticated contemporary jazz arranging with vibrant threads of bruk, calypso, dancehall, neo-soul, hip hop, gospel, afro-cuban, and West African influences, drawing deeply from his British-Caribbean roots to create an instrumental sound that’s both groove-rich and emotionally resonant. Tracks like the grief-tinged “Goodbye For Now” and uplifting “Light In The Darkness” showcase terrific horn writing, lovely solos, and a warm collective energy, delivering a thoughtful exploration of loss, resilience, positivity, and inner validation beneath the Krishnamurti-inspired title’s reminder that labels can never capture true essence. Out on First Word Records
This is the opener Goodbye For Now

That was Nathaniel Cross – Goodbye For Now

Next from one of the labels that has been supporting this channel with releases for years, the always outstanding Woodford Halse. Errata by John Haughey & Tarotplane is the latest offering on the label. A captivating 9-track collaboration of kosmische-leaning ambient electronics, weaving lush synths, keys, guitars, and bass into expansive, drifting soundscapes that evoke weightless drift, spiraling echoes, and a gentle promise of transcendence amid cold introspection. Tracks like the title piece, “Pulling the Cosmos Closer,” and “Begetting Green” build hypnotic layers of delay-drenched textures and rhythmic subtlety, blending Baltimore’s Tarotplane guitar-infused cosmic pulses with John’s Northern Irish electronic warmth for an immersive, otherworldly listen that’s both meditative and quietly radiant—perfect for surrendering to loops of light and space.
This is the track Impossible Vistas

That was John Haughey & Tarotplane – Impossible Vistas

Now. Who’s To Say? by Thought Bubble (Chris Cordwell, Peter Gelf, and Nick Raybould) is a beguiling 7-track electro-psych adventure that fuses electronica, analogue percussion, and sharp songwriting into expansive, genre-stretching soundscapes, evoking the heady psychedelic sprawl of early ’70s cosmic rock while staying firmly anchored in contemporary themes of fractured reality, media distortion, and surreal resilience. With tracks like the luminous “Let The Light,” satirical “Your Call,” and mind-bending “Lightfoot” / “A Man Split In Two” delivering out-there yet alluring grooves, lyrical depth, and a seamless blend of electronics with live instrumentation, the album emerges as an irresistibly immersive and thought-provoking listen that’s both nostalgic in its expansiveness and strikingly present in its edge.
I give you Let The Light by Thought Bubble out on Moolakii Club Audio Interface

That was Thought Bubble with Let The Light
Next Soft Shakes by Go Kurosawa marks his captivating first solo album, a self-produced, instinct-driven collection of 8 tracks where the ex-Kikagaku Moyo drummer/vocalist plays every instrument—from motorik pulses and Kraftwerkian synths to acoustic loops, gentle vocals (in English and Japanese), marimba, trumpet, and more—in a playful, subconscious jam-session spirit that bridges East-West, electronic, and organic textures. From the luminous, Suicide-like opener “moon, please” through the lush, building “green thing,” rhythmic “autowalk,” and breezy closer “cloud rock,” the album unfolds as a loose, alive sketchbook of surprising, layered grooves and emotional warmth, evoking psychedelic minimalism, ambient drifts, and ritualistic joy that’s both introspective and irresistibly danceable in solitude— a fresh, “WOW”-inducing gem of personal freedom post-band life. Out on Guruguru Brain
I give you the track sada no umi.

That was Go Kurosawa* with sada no umi
Next, a regular of the show. Willebrant. The Knight Seas (the ambient field drone project of Naarm/Melbourne bassist and producer Karl Willebrant) is a deeply somnolent 5-track collection of slowed + reverb reworkings from his 2020 release A Knight on a Boat plus a reimagined “A Night Crossing,” transforming original bass, synth, ebow guitar, and electronic elements into vast, hazy drone-ambient expanses tagged with dark ambient, minimalist, meditation, and soundscape vibes. Tracks like the epic 16-minute “The Valiant at Arms (slowed and reverb)” and the oceanic “A Knight on a Boat (slowed and reverb)” evoke knightly voyages across misty seas through layered, echoing textures and gentle drift, creating an atmospheric, introspective immersion that’s profoundly calming, subtly melancholic, and ideal for late-night contemplation or dreamlike surrender.
This is Willebrant – The Gathered Few (Lakeside Fire Mix – slowed and reverb)

That was The Gathered Few (Lakeside Fire Mix – slowed and reverb) by Willebrant
Now Dramatis Personae by Saïph (aka Pablo Diarra) is a poetic six-track digital LP released December 1, 2025, on Songe Anima Records, clocking in at around 29 minutes of introspective, surreal soundscapes that blend aquatic dream logic, nostalgic drifts, and minimalist electronic textures across pieces like the title track, multi-part “Psyché du figurant” variations, and the wistful “Nostalgia.” With French-titled evocations of submerged landscapes, trout-spirited guidance, and offerings to tomorrow’s scouts—paired with high-fidelity 24-bit mastering by Neel/Enisslab and artwork by William Jones—the album unfolds as a hushed, enigmatic meditation on inner roles, silence, and submerged revelation, perfect for deep-listening immersion in twilight reverie or quiet self-exploration.
This is Dramatis personae – Saïph

That was Saïph with Dramatis personae
Next Andromeda [CYD 0148] by Christian Wittman is a majestic 10-track space ambient voyage released January 2, on Cyclical Dreams, featuring Berlin School-inspired electronics, deep drones, and cosmic sound design that conjure vast interstellar voids, static-tinged shadows, and eternal whispers of forgotten galaxies through tracks named after stars, constellations, and nebulae like “Upsilon Persei,” “Mirach,” and “Blue Snowball Nebula.” Clocking in at over 54 minutes of timeless, expanding atmospheres—recorded in Paris across late 2024—the album masterfully evokes a sense of infinite drift and subtle darkness, where every tone feels like a dying signal flickering in the black between stars, delivering an immersive, meditative experience of profound depth and quiet grandeur ideal for stargazing contemplation or late-night cosmic surrender.
This is Upsilon Persei by Christian Wittman

That was Christian Wittman with Upsilon Persei.
Now to end the first half from Sven Laux.
Shades is a meticulously curated compilation marking Whitelabrecs’ 10-year anniversary, curated by label founder Harry Towell and pressed on striking green vinyl, serving as both a celebratory snapshot and conceptual milestone that traces the label’s evolution from handmade CDr beginnings to refined ambient artistry. Spanning deep drones, fractured tape loops, synth-clarinet interplay, and electro-acoustic sprawls on Side A before shifting to enveloping modern classical strings, atmospheric piano, trombone, and radio-tinged closers on Side B—featuring contributions from Low Altitude, blochemy, Clariloops, Andrew Heath, Sven Laux, Adrian Lane, Gustav Davidsson, and Glåsbird—the album weaves a cohesive tapestry of tonal contrast, quiet escapism, and immersive beauty that’s meditative, textural, and profoundly evocative of the label’s signature serene yet expansive soundworld.
This is When Rain Didn’t Come by Sven Laux

Opening side B. Electronic Phantoms by maya ongaku is the Fujisawa, Japan-based trio’s vibrant second EP (following their 2023 debut Approach to Anima), a six-track collection released in 2024, that channels live-jam energy from extensive touring into dancefloor-ready grooves blending synths, drum machines, fluid guitars, ethereal woodwinds, and organic percussion like maracas and flute. Tracks such as the hypnotic opener “Iyo no Hito,” driving “Anoyo Drive,” tender “Love with Phantom,” and the multi-part meditative “Meiso Ongaku” series explore human-machine symbiosis amid AI-era phantoms—fusing krautrock pulses, psychedelic warmth, and subtle unease into an uplifting, body-moving sound that’s both spiritually reflective and irresistibly rhythmic, perfectly capturing the band’s desire to make listeners dance while jamming in harmony with electronic “phantoms.”
This is the track Anoyo Drive by maya ongaku available on the Guruguru Brain label.

That was maya ongaku with Anoyo Drive
Hollow Headaches by dogs versus shadows aka Lee Pylon is a concise 16-track collection of experimental lo-fi hip hop and 90s-influenced electronica released August, 2024, on Third Kind Records, shifting from his earlier dark radiophonic hauntings to a unified set of beat workouts and atmospheric soundscapes that evoke the quiet magic of British urban liminality—night buses, empty sidings, wet subways, and forgotten corners. Short, evocative pieces like “Sprawlopoly,” “Back Of The Bins,” “Rizla Brollie,” and the title track conjure colourful, everyday grime through lo-fi textures, subtle hauntology nods, and enigmatic grooves, making it an ideal headphone companion for wandering ordinary streets and discovering hidden inspiration in the mundane, with bonus vinyl-mastered side-long mixes adding extra immersion. Out on Third Kind Records.
This is the track The Lovely Eye by dogs versus shadows

That was dogs versus shadows with The Lovely Eye.
I Can Guide You Through the Maze by schalter.exe (released February 13, on Moniker Eggplant) is an 8-track digital EP (~29 minutes) built entirely on the custom OPLoid FM-Synthesizer emulating the iconic OPL2/OPL3 chips of MS-DOS era sound cards, channeling raw, lo-fi FM tones into vivid sonic portraits of fictional computer games—from dense tactical realms and dystopian shadows to humorous, lighthearted excursions. Tracks like “welcome_1.mid,” “Emotional Main Title Theme,” “Skeletons rule the Earth,” and “Maze Corridors” revive the nostalgic charm of 8-bit adventure soundtracks with direct digital grit, experimental IDM/braindance flair, and a uniform yet richly varied palette that blends vaporwave haze, ambient drift, and retro-techno pulses into an immersive, text-parser-evoking journey that’s both playfully retro and intriguingly modern—perfect for late-night nostalgia dives or pixelated daydreams. Available via the Moniker Eggplant label.
This is Skeletons rule the Earth by schalter.exe.

That was schalter.exe with Skeletons rule the Earth
Now Nine Breaths by theAdelaidean (aka Sean Williams, #1 New York Times-bestselling author and award-winning poet) is a serene 10-track ambient/drone/minimalism opus released January 16, on Projekt Records, crafting soft, intricate beds of sustained drones and gently evolving synths to capture fleeting moments of everyday stillness—like dust in sunlight, rain-dancing leaves, or forest birdsong—while drawing conceptual inspiration from haiku’s single-breath brevity to explore profound emotional and visceral shifts in brief spans of time. With tracks ranging from concise meditations like “Loss” and “Spiraling Thought” to the vast, hour-long closer “Horizon,” accompanied by Williams’ own poems, the album creates safe, resonant sonic spaces of layered textures and subtle nuances that invite deep, lingering contemplation of the ordinary’s hidden depths, resulting in a hauntingly beautiful, introspective listen ideal for quiet reflection, late-night unwinding, or falling asleep to its gentle, shimmering embrace.
I give you the track Spiraling Thought by theAdelaidean.

That was theAdelaidean with Spiraling Thought.
Next Subvert Yourself by No Arrival is a six-track EP from 2019 on the Bricolage label, delivering his signature blend of atmospheric rhythmic electronics and fragmented experimental soundscapes through warm melodic pulses, odd time signatures, sputtered bass, staggered percussion, splintered samples, vocal fragments, and organic backdrops that evoke digital disorder with an underground edge. Tracks like “New U,” “Group Flow,” “Play,” and “Universal Echo” create a bold, curious, and subculturally resonant affair—perfect for intelligent dancers seeking shifting directions, subtle unease, and immersive, ever-evolving grooves that feel both intimate and defiantly off-kilter.
This is Play by No Arrival

That was No Arrival with Play
Hey, before we move on, don’t forget to check out my new show Chord Confessions. Real stories, important music, relatable events. Get involved and send in your tales. Now back to the show. the strange night out – a mystical horrorstory EP by rikardfvs (an ambient artist from Uppsala, Sweden) is a concise four-track digital EP released January 9, 2026, on Sounds for the Soul Records, clocking in at roughly 22:40 minutes of evocative, shadowy soundscapes that unfold like a cryptic nocturnal tale through titles—”strange night,” “the kiosk,” “oh the hidden knife,” and “confused afterward”—suggesting an eerie progression from unsettling encounter to lingering disorientation.
This is the track the kiosk by rikardfvs

That was rikardfvs with the kiosk
A Point Blank Dream by The Home Current (Martin Jensen, the prolific Luxembourg-based Danish electronic artist) is a vibrant 14-track return to form—his first full album since 2024’s Tales From The Leisure League—released February 6, on Subexotic Records, bursting with chunky melody lines, bass-driven grooves, trademark twists and turns, and an “inner-city alien gang thriller” conceptual vibe that channels old-school THC energy akin to his early Poly Youth or Static Caravan eras. From punchy openers like “High Priests Of Nothing” and “Chew Unseen” to the evocative title track, the album delivers toe-tapping, grey-matter-tickling electronic excursions full of stylistic range, post-industrial echoes (with nods to Cabaret Voltaire’s fluid period), and playful yet thoughtful production—mastered and artworked by Dan Seville of Subexotic, with sleeve notes by Moonbuilding’s Neil Mason—making it a fresh, invigorating blast of vintage-yet-vital experimental electronica ideal for nocturnal drives or focused headphone immersion.
This is the track Dexter by The Home Current

That was The Home Current with Dexter
Winding down the show now with the penultimate track Sunday by Le Code (Alexandre de Charrin), released back in July, 2023, on Toronto’s Imaginary North label, is a gentle five-track ambient EP (~22 minutes) that captures the languid essence of a restful day through soft, drifting synths, subtle textures, and warm, unhurried atmospheres in pieces like the title track, “Lazy Day,” “Long Morning,” and “Last Quiet Minutes,” plus a dreamy Raphah rework of the latter. Mastered by Chad Skinner with artwork by Mitch Burke, this name-your-price digital release delivers concise, meditative serenity—evoking slow mornings, quiet reflection, and effortless calm—ideal for unwinding, background focus, or savoring the simple beauty of ordinary stillness in pure, imagination-fueled ambient form.
Here’s the title track Sunday by Le Code

That wasLe Code with Sunday
Before we head back to regular life. I’d just like to mention that there is about a Month left to get your entries in for the next compilation I’m putting together called Puzzles of the Psyche Exploring the intricate and enigmatic workings of the human mind, with tracks that delve into the depths of thought, emotion, and imagination. does that trigger a creative thought?
Getting enough subscribers to keep this channel going is frustrating. I’m always one subscriber away from the minimum for a Mixcloud payout. When I get one new subscriber I loose two. A gain two, I loose one. So the compilations are a help. I put in the time and the effort which makes sense but the fact that I still pay to do it doesn’t. So subscribe to the Mixcloud channel you get access to music only versions of the shows before they get released as well as the full back catalogue of 929 shows and mixes or grab a compilation on Bandcamp.
Now back to the show. To end this week Bones by Jogging House (Frankfurt-based ambient artist) is a warm, warbly eight-track collection released February 17, on Seil Records, crafted in single-take recordings straight to 1/4″ tape using a minimal setup of Digitakt II, Korg MS20, Cocoquantus, and other cozy analog gear like Solid Felt, Mood, Meraki, Bim & Bam. Tracks such as “Tourism,” “Janitor,” “Cement,” “Lantern,” “Upwind,” “Parker,” “Thread,” and “Know” unfold as glowing, airy ambient loops that gently waver like tidal drifts, fringed with soft analogue buzz and tape warmth, creating soft, cozy, meditative soundscapes that evoke intimate hardware-filled rooms and spontaneous, in-the-moment serenity—perfect for grounding daily life, quiet reflection, or sinking into lush, dreamy textures with subtle downtempo and lo-fi edges.
I leave you with the track Lantern by Jogging House Thanks for joining us. Cheerio…

Intro – 00:00
Trevlad – Decay Cars Suffice – 01:55
Moray Newlands – A king ruled the state in the early days – 05:21
Enofa – Anti-Entropic Chamber – 07:29
Nathaniel Cross – Goodbye For Now – 11:13
John Haughey & Tarotplane – Impossible Vistas – 18:51
Thought Bubble – Let The Light – 25:27
Go Kurosawa – sada no umi – 33:11
Willebrant – The Gathered Few (Lakeside Fire Mix – slowed and reverb) – 38:50
Saïph – Dramatis personae – 49:12
Christian Wittman – Upsilon Persei – 54:34
Sven Laux – When Rain Didn’t Come – 1:00:01
B Side – 1:06:29
maya ongaku – Anoyo Drive – 1:06:45
dogs versus shadows – The Lovely Eye – 1:12:37
schalter.exe – Skeletons rule the Earth – 1:15:32
theAdelaidean – Spiraling Thought – 1:19:57
No Arrival – Play – 1:25:18
rikardfvs – the kiosk – 1:31:54
The Home Current – Dexter – 1:37:44
Le Code – Sunday – 1:41:53
Jogging House – Lantern – 1:46:37
Outro – 1:53:40

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Chord Confessions 1

Well at last here it is the pilot episode of Chord Confessions.
The idea is simple. What is a piece of music that has had a profound impact on you? And what’s the story behind it. That’s it.
I get to say nice things about you. You get to tell your life changing story, and we all get tot hear the most important music on the planet.

I was thinking of starting off the show with a an entry of my own but changed my mind when this fine chap sent his story. Anyone who has crossed his path will instantly have a smile on their face when I mention Gareth Evans. Such a wonderful supporter of the electronic community, a fantastic sense of humour and a humble soul.
Gareth Evans, better known by his aliases HDRF and Horror Dwarf, is a UK-based electronic musician and synth enthusiast hailing from the market town of Omskirk in West Lancashire UK . He crafts atmospheric, experimental soundscapes that blend retro-futurism, prog influences, and dare I say a love for classic horror aesthetics.
Evans adopted the “Horrordwarf” moniker back in 2001 for his SoundCloud uploads, later streamlining it to HDRF as his primary project name. Since diving into production with a used Mac and audio interface, he’s built a prolific catalog on Bandcamp, with over a dozen releases across various labels, including live improvisations, long-form ambient pieces like Pseudochrome 92, and themed works such as Live Soundtracks to Silent Films (featuring Roland synths for eerie, cinematic vibes).

A self-described “middle-aged synth enthusiast,” he performs live sparingly but memorably—recent highlights include sets at events like Switched On in Whitby—and collaborates with figures in the underground electronic scene. Whether invoking dusty memories, exploring wire-and-water drones, or channeling spectral voyages, HDRF’s music carries a distinctive, retro-infested-synth charm that’s equal parts nostalgic and forward looking.

Check out his Bandcamp at hdrf.bandcamp.com for the full haunting discography.
Here’s Gareth’s story:
My gateway drug into musical maturity and the world of leftfield ambient music.
I stumbled across the Penguin Cafe Orchestra in a late night BBC concert broadcast in 1989 (and never repeated).
Arriving home at the end of our annual book shopping/fish and chips trip to Southport with my mum. We ate at our favourite restaurant, Chip Ahoy (I’m not joking here) and trawled the multitude of second hand bookshops that were there in the day (almost all gone now).
I remember I picked up a book called The Devil Hunter, about Father Amarth (later the subject of a documentary film by William Friedkin and a rather dire film starring Russell Crowe, entitled The Pope’s Exorcist) and read it on the bus home.
I probably picked up some Pan Horror stories or something classy by Guy N Smith too.
It was the school summer holidays so no requirement to get up early so I did my usual thing of scouring all 4 channels available to me on my portable TV.
I’ve wanted to re-watch it for years and I’ve just (to my delight) found it on YouTube. I figure this is the 1988 lineup from the When in Rome album (with Annie Whitehead on Trombone)
Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Live at the BBC 1989
The late 80’s were a weird time for music. Dance music hadn’t evolved into a state that I found acceptable (although Acid house was creeping into my consciousness). I wasn’t big on the rock bands of the time (other than The Cure and Talk Talk). This was something else. Organic, intimate and unlike anything I had ever heard before. I loved the whole concert, but it was the final track that blew me away. Seeing them probably took my music journey into a far more leftfield and better direction. I’d say that watching this concert was a pivotal moment. My “Sex Pistols at Lesser Free Trade Hall” only without the swearing.
As I worked my way through their brief and beautiful back catalogue, the standard album overall is 1987’s Signs of Life. I love every track on that album and probably listen to it (along with Spirit of Eden) at least once a month.
Broadcasting from Home (from which Harmonium forms the opening) is a mixed bag. Ryuichi Sakamoto shows up on one track (He returns the favour later in the decade by allowing Simon Jeffes to guest on Field Music, on his Illustrated Musical Encyclopedia album, which also features Thomas Dolby).
The story of the track is equally odd. During a visit to Japan, Simon Jeffes finds the Harmonium dumped, brings it back to his hotel and composes the tune on it.
The track has been covered by a wide range of artists (there are a lot of Irish bands doing it). Even The Orb did a version entitled Pandaharmonium. Alex Paterson’s day job was A&R for Brian Eno’s EG label which probably explains the connection.
I was heartbroken when Simon passed away in 1998 aged just 49.
I never got to see them in concert, but thankfully the Penguin Cafe lives on, with a bunch of young musicians led by Simon’s son Arthur who is astonishingly talented.
I was very fortunate to meet him last year during a solo piano recital in Liverpool and finally got the chance to tell him how much his father’s music meant, and continues to mean, to me.
Thanks for that Gareth and here it is Penguin Cafe Orchestra. with Music for a Found Harmonium.

Amazing stuff there from Penguin Café Orchestra and Music for a Found Harmonium sent in by HDRF.
We stay in the Uk now and head to scenic West Yorkshire more specifically Morley. A kosmische-inspired electronic ambient project who is Andrew Howden better known as The Gaye Device. Andrew Crafts reflective, immersive soundscapes that evoke cosmotronic daydreams and cloud-watching serenity, the Gaye Device draws from vintage synth textures, subtle kosmische influences, and introspective atmospheres—often with a gentle, meditative drift that feels both nostalgic and expansive.

Active for over two decades, The Gaye Device has built a steady discography of full-length albums and contributions to compilations, released on respected underground labels including Submarine Broadcasting Company, Sounds For The Soul Records, Machina Ad Noctem, and others. Standout releases include Ruins exploring haunted abbey themes), Structures, The Cut Sleeve (2023), and more recent works like Electrohome (March 2025), The Nacre Octagon (Feb 2025), Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace (Sep 2025), and Routes (December 2025). Tracks frequently appear in ambient mixes and radio shows, with features on BBC Introducing West Yorkshire, and my own shows.

Known for a low-key, and DIY ethos. Whether conjuring weightless dreams, echoing hazes, or aetheric flows, The Gaye Device delivers soothing, cinematic electronica perfect for deep listening and quiet contemplation.

Dive into the shimmering world at gayedevice.bandcamp.com.

Here’s Andrew’s story.

How did The Gaye Device get here? Creating electronic music that hopefully ascends your brainwaves to another dimension! Let me tell you…

1970s suburban grey England post punk…I was too young to be punked up…still at middle school and at the tender age of 13…the closest I got to punk was ripping up a pair of white corduroy trousers and safety pinning them together and wearing a black shirt with talcum powder on my face…I flounced downstairs to show my parents my new look…to them falling about in laughter….I knew I was feeling different and I knew I was right…because I didn’t care…fast forward a few weeks later… sitting on the school playing fields with the girls who read Smash Hits magazine….we were all huddled round listening to the top 40 on a plastic panda bear shaped transistor radio….number one comes on and it’s Gary Numan with “are friends electric?”
Something short circuited in my brain…that massive synth riff….the alienated vocals and lyrics…that look on the front of Smash Hits…white hair, black kohl eyeliner…I suddenly realised that maybe snogging boys would be more fun than snogging girls….how could something that felt so right, be wrong? So thank you Gary Numan…..having boyfriends was definitely electric!

Amazing Andrew, And here it is Gary Newman with Are Friends Electric?

The amazing Gary Newman there with Are Friends Electric? Newman has also featured heavily in my own path of music discovery, and thank you to the Gaye Device for bringing memories and sharing his story.
Now on to the living legend, Ian Boddy. A pioneering British electronic musician, composer, sound designer, and analogue synth aficionado based in Sunderland, UK. Born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, he first delved into music in the late 1970s while studying Biochemistry in Newcastle upon Tyne. Inspired by German electronic pioneers like Tangerine Dream, he taught himself synthesis and tape manipulation at an Arts Council-funded studio, launching a career spanning over four decades of ambient, Berlin School, and kosmische-influenced electronica.

Boddy’s early output included cassette releases like Images (1980) and Elements of Chance (1981) on the Mirage label, followed by vinyl LPs such as The Climb (1983) and Phoenix (1986). He transitioned to CD with Odyssey (1989) and founded his own Something Else Records in the 1990s for albums like The Uncertainty Principle (1993) and collaborations under the ARC moniker with Mark Shreeve.

In 1999, he established DiN Records, a respected independent label dedicated to ambient electronica that bridges classic 1970s analogue warmth with modern experimental digital textures. DiN has released over 90 titles, including Boddy’s solo works and acclaimed collaborations with artists such as Markus Reuter, Robert Rich, Chris Carter (Throbbing Gristle), Erik Wøllo, Bernhard Wöstheinrich, and Harald Grosskopf. Standout releases include Outpost (2002) with Rich, Lithosphere (2005), Axiom (2020), and more recent highlights like Transmissions (DiN92, 2025) with Erik Wøllo, Doppelgänger (DiN91, 2025) with Grosskopf, and the 25th Anniversary Edition of Caged (2025) with Chris Carter—featuring remasters and new tracks.

A master of modular and vintage analogue gear, Boddy’s music evokes expansive, immersive soundscapes: drifting sequences, atmospheric textures, and hypnotic rhythms that transport listeners into contemplative realms. His philosophy emphasizes tools as means to musical ends, blending hardware passion with thoughtful composition.

With a prolific discography and ongoing label curation—including the modular-focused Tone Science sub-series—Boddy remains a cornerstone of the ambient and electronic underground.

Explore his world at ianboddy.bandcamp.com or dinrecords.bandcamp.com.

Here’s Ians story.

In my teen years at secondary school I first got into the prog side of things, although not so much the big 3 at the time, Genesis, ELP or Yes but rather the quieter corners of that world with bands such as Camel & Focus.

Then I distinctly remember hearing two tracks on the radio that completely changed my whole musical path.

The first was Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares by Tangerine Dream from their classic album Phaedra.
It was aired on mainstream BBC Radio 1 by Alan Freeman on his rock show on a Saturday afternoon.
Although I can’t remember exactly when this was it was probably 1974 so I would have been around 15 years old.

Then around the same time, although possibly the year after in 1975, I heard the last 10 minutes played (as an excerpt) of Wahnfried 1883 from the album Timewind by Klaus Schulze, on a local radio station called Metro, based in Newcastle. The DJ was Geoff Brown and aired on a Saturday night between 10PM – 1AM. The news would usually play at 1AM and would be followed by a last track lasting about 10 minutes before the show and station shut down for the night. The evening in question when this track played he omitted to say what it was and I was so enamoured by it that for the first and only time I rang up a radio station the next day to enquire about a tracks name. Armed with this information I immediately headed up to Newcastle and the shop J.G. Windows to track this album down. I can remember standing in one of the listening booths getting very strange looks from folk as they wandered by me trying to figure out what this weird music was I was listening to. Needless to say I bought the album there & then.

Both pieces had an enormous effect on both my musical taste but also in my musical career which started a few years after whilst at University. To me the music didn’t even sound like it had been created by human beings but rather beamed in from some other dimension. In those days there was simply no reference points. No-one had created music like this before. And to this day both albums stand out as at the pinnacle of that music style that has since became known as Berlin School.

Thanks for that Ian. Just a quick note to the listeners. Can you imagine a young teenager today listening to music like this and thinking I have to get this? I only got to hear 10 minutes of it I need to hear the rest? Does any kid today have that sort of concentration span? Anyway, I’ve kept both tracks in the show just because of Ian’s legendary status. Even if they do take up about half the show this is 40 minutes of music in their entirety in honour of 15 year old Ian. Bless you sir. First Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares by Tangerine Dream followed by Wahnfried 1883 by Klaus Schulze. Catch you on the other side, of the universe…

Welcome back ye travellers of outer and inner space. That was Klaus Shulze with Wahnfried 1883. Instruments on this track, including the ARP 2600, ARP Odyssey, EMS Synthi-A, Elka String synth, Farfisa Professional Duo organ, piano, and Synthanorma sequencer. Before that was Tangerine Dream with Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares primarily performed by Edgar Froese. Froese recorded the piece in one take, playing a double-keyboard Mellotron with phasing effects. Monique Froese, his wife, operated the knobs on the phasing device during the recording. Thank you to Ian Boddy for his story.
Next up a great friend of the channel Pascal Brugger, a Swiss multi-disciplinary creative from Fribourg, is the driving force behind the electronic music project aeon. Described by the artist himself as a collection of bittersweet electronic soundscapes, aeon represents his shift from playing in rock bands to a deeply personal solo venture in ambient, atmospheric, and experimental electronica.

Based in Switzerland, Brugger crafts immersive, melancholic tracks rich in synthesizer layers, subtle textures, and emotive depth—often blending nostalgic warmth with introspective, sometimes haunting tones. His work features collaborations, such as with Mexico based artist [ominous sound] and guitar contributions from Alexander Gaylon on tracks like “Extravehicular Activities,” evoking cosmic drift and emotional resonance.

Active on Bandcamp where he maintains a low-key but dedicated presence. He’s been spotlighted in interviews, such as a Q&A on I Have That on Vinyl, where he discusses his influences, vinyl passion, and creative process as an underground music enthusiast and independent artist (with ties to art direction and visual creativity).

Whether exploring thin-ice fragility, outer-space excursions, or bittersweet reveries, aeon’s music delivers contemplative, synth-driven journeys ideal for late-night reflection or immersive listening.

Dive into the soundscapes on aeon7.bandcamp.com

Here’s a couple of very short but nonetheless important tales from pascal.

As a child, I lived with my grandmother, and when I fell asleep after a day of adventures in nature, I would hear my uncle playing the cassette of Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ through the wall. I think it’s this strange feeling of enchanting and slightly frightening sounds from Welcome to the Machine that I try to recreate in my compositions.
In 2012, I had the chance to see ‘Dead Can Dance’ in a magnificent hall designed for classical music. at one point, the vibrations of the instruments and Lisa Gerrard’s voice created a kind of physical wave that moved me to tears. and looking discreetly around me, I noticed that most of the crowd was in the same state. That track was ‘The Host Of Seraphim’. Cheers for that Pascal and here they are Pink Floyds Welcome to the Machine followed by Dead Can Dance and The Host Of Seraphim.

Thanks for those tales Pascal and a couple of legendary pieces indeed. Next,
Graeme Walker, known artistically as The Earl Of Dean, is an Edinburgh-based experimental electronic musician and sound explorer who burst onto the scene in 2025. Embracing synthesis, ambient textures, and avant-garde electronics, he crafts introspective, atmospheric works that blend drone, subtle rhythms, and evocative sound design—often with a sense of cosmic wonder, melancholy, or quiet intensity.

Starting his project in 2025, Walker quickly established a presence with his debut EP Silence About To Break (July 2025), featuring tracks like the haunting ambient drone “Stardust Cluster,” followed by his sophomore album Silence Has Broken (October 2025). His catalog includes single releases such as “Raising The Flag At Andriivka” (a one-take improvisation from August 2025) and appearances in compilations and radio shows, including features on my shows and WL//WH Weekly Electronic Music Tips. His music has garnered support from underground electronic communities, with plays highlighting its experimental edge and personal, self-directed approach. A third album is due out first half of 2026 on Moolakii Club Audio Interface label and a 4th completed hopefully to be released later in the year once he’s sorted that out. He’s also a keen gig goer, and tries to attend a gig a week at least especially grass roots stuff and is an avid collector of music whether that be vinyl, cassette or CD.

As a self-taught creator focused on exploration for its own sake, The Earl Of Dean delivers raw, unpolished yet deeply immersive soundscapes—whether drifting through starry clusters, marching toward abyssal depths, or weaving dub-infused pulses and bell-like resonances.

Explore the evolving sonic realm at earlofdean.bandcamp.com.
Here’s Graeme’s story.

When I was a kid aged about 10 or 11 I used to hang out with a friend, sadly no longer with us, playing his two brothers and sisters 7” singles. Essentially we were young punks hooked on the Pistols and The Clash but one day flicking through the collection I was intrigued by a picture cover of a crash test dummy. It was The Normal’s Warm Leatherette / T.V.O.D double A sided single. The first release on Mure records by a certain Daniel Miller. I remember sticking on T.V.O.D (that title must have intrigued 10/11 year old me more) on the old box record player with built in speaker waiting on the typical guitar chord protest to be greeted with the sublime electronica and minimalism. Electronically cold, clinical and primitive it changed a very young music fans view forever. Next up Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, before progressing to John Fox, Fad Gadget, DAF etc etc etc. It’s saved me from The GBH’s, Exploiteds of the UK82 world I guess. I do admit though that I’m fond of Discharge.
Well here it is super short and to the point. That noise snare did it for me. Let’s go…

Yes, that was The Normal with T.V.O.D. Thanks to The Earl Of Dean.
Now another name you should all know Pablo Bilbao. A musician born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Who started playing rock music and has been making electronic music for over 20 years. In 2014, he began his solo career with his project Pabellón Sintético. He is also part of the projects Cartas de Japón and Rayo Hunters. As well as being one of the founders of the Cyclical Dreams label.
Bilbao has channeled the spirit of late-1970s and early-1980s electronic pioneers into a distinctive blend of Berlin School sequences, cosmic ambient drifts, darksynth shadows, and immersive cinematic textures—merging analog warmth with digital precision for expansive, architectural soundscapes.

Drawing inspiration from the masters of the era, his music often evokes vast sonic architectures, themes of memory, existence, and infinite horizons, frequently tying into modernist design motifs (as seen in albums like Machine for Living [2025, Cyclical Dreams], a radiant homage to Le Corbusier’s principles and structures, featuring pulsating rhythms, shimmering sequences, and ethereal atmospheres crafted on gear such as Moog Mother-32, Korg ARP Odyssey, Arturia MatrixBrute, Behringer Model D, and Yamaha DX7). Other notable releases include Mies van der Rohe’s dreams, Instructions for building an orange (produced with Lucas Tripaldi), Visiones, Mother: 32 Days Traveling, and collaborative works like Veiled Portraits (2024) and Clouds and Terrain with Paul Ellis, plus Last Call with Tripaldi—delivering everything from astral voyages and morphic resonances to live sessions and dark, introspective forms.

Primarily released through the respected Cyclical Dreams label, Pabellón Sintético’s catalog stands out in the underground ambient and Berlin School revival scenes for its engaging, listenable depth and engineered grace—perfect for deep immersion in luminous voids or celebratory transmissions of sonic energy.

Dive into the pulsating cosmos at pabellonsintetico.bandcamp.com or explore label highlights at cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com.

Here’s Pablos story:

When I was around 12 or 13 years old, I loved listening to music. I remember that in the mid-80s, bands like Depeche Mode, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, etc. really caught my attention. They were all bands whose main instrument was the synthesizer. I liked the melodies and sounds of those songs. At that time, I was already living in Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina. I had moved from the big city of Buenos Aires to a small town of 100,000 inhabitants. My father was a journalist and broadcaster. He owned one of the first FM radio stations in the city. He started buying and receiving vinyl records and cassettes. I spent a lot of time listening to all the music he received before he took the records to the radio station. One afternoon, I remember finding a single vinyl record, a promotional vinyl, one of those that had one track on each side. One of the songs was Radioactivity by Kraftwerk. It was the English version. I remember being struck by the sound that seemed to come from some distant planet.
It sounded different from anything else. Its dark and mysterious atmosphere captivated me. It was definitely the final push I needed to realize that I wanted to play synthesizers. This song made me even more interested in instrumental electronic music. In those days, it wasn’t easy to get hold of albums of that style, especially in a small town. I started listening to some other songs by Kraftwerk, Jarre, and Vangelis. Radioactivity was the gateway to discovering the music I love most.

A cornerstone in the development of electronic music there with Kraftwerk’s Radioactivity.
Now for this first episode of Chord Confessions I had to choose someone beyond important. The person you all need to thank for this show to even exist. That person is Terran. My wife and life companion. Anyone who has shown the slightest bit of interest in the channel knows the effort and time I put into promoting independent music is bordering on insane. My wonderful wife has been extremely supportive of this effort even though it brings only joy to myself and a couple of dozen listeners.
If it wasn’t for her song choice our paths probably would have never crossed.
I’m glad Terran made that choice so early in life after witnessing this song. She’s starred in many of the top Musicals here in Sweden including Rent, Saturday Night Fever and My Fair Lady, where we met for the first time. She’s also the Neena Fatale character in the trash disco group PAY TV created by the Swedish Electro legend Håkan Lidbo.

Here’s her story:

When I was 6 or 7 I got to see the movie Singing In the Rain starring Gene Kelly, Donald O’Conner and Debbie Reynolds and it was the scene with Gene Kelly literally Singing in the rain that created the thought in my head. That’s what I’m going to do. The way Gene moved, the way he told the story of the lyrics in song the way he told the story by not saying a word. The way he looks at the cop and the way you can feel his overwhelming feeling of love as he gives his umbrella away to the passing stranger at the end.
Anyway let’s put a smile on our faces. Take it away Gene.

Wonderful, and fitting as I know if you’re in the UK or Ireland at the moment you could use the positive energy of Singing in the Rain from Gene Kelly. Thanks to my Wonderful wife Thérèse Andersson Lewis for her story and life choice that brought us together.

and now another great figure on the electronic scene.
The British Stereo Collective is the retro-futurist electronic music project of Phil Heeks, a composer, artist, and producer based in Stoke-on-Trent, UK. Channeling the golden era of 1970s and 1980s British television theme compilations, library music LPs, film soundtracks, and vintage sound effects records, Heeks creates evocative, nostalgic electronica that feels like unearthed broadcasts from an alternate timeline—blending synth-driven melodies, atmospheric pads, pulsing rhythms, and cinematic flair with influences from Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, and BBC Radiophonic Workshop pioneers.

Active since at least the early 2020s, the project has built a dedicated following in the hauntological, library music revival, and retro-synth scenes through prolific releases on Bandcamp and labels like Castles in Space (via their subscription library) and Two Headed Dog. Standout albums include Mystery Fields (2021), the long-awaited sequel Iniquitous (2024, a smokey-green vinyl time capsule of “TV music from an alternate reality”), Tomorrow, The Stars (2022), Starburst: The Album (2025), Praktische Elektronik (2025), and Horizon 9, alongside singles, collaborations (such as with Mark Price on tracks like “Exogenesis”), and Cherry Audio synth showcases like “Themes from Stranger Things” (2025), “Come What May,” and “Ghosts in the Machine.”

Whether conjuring alien landscapes, unexplained phenomena, moonbase anthems, or shadowy tech-talk grooves, The British Stereo Collective delivers melodic, eclectic progressive electronic soundscapes that are equal parts playful homage and immersive sonic fiction—perfect for fans of library electronica, retro-futurism, and imaginary soundtracks.

Explore the full discography and dive into the analogue nostalgia at thebritishstereocollective.bandcamp.com.

Here’s Phil’s story:

When I was about 8 years old, my teacher Miss Morrow (with whom I was besotted) set the class a challenge. She played us all a piece of music, without revealing the title or what the piece was meant to represent and set us the task of interpreting the music in a drawing or painting. I created a spooky, atmospheric graveyard scene. The music clearly had an impact on me as, many years later, thanks to the help of an older cousin who owned the album, I finally got to learn what it was and I love it to this day.

It taps into a dichotomy in my personality, in that although I generally hate to take things seriously, I seem to have always been drawn to beauty in melancholia from a very early age, especially in music.

The track was ‘Funeral For A Friend’ the first part of a two-part piece that concludes with ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ from ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ by Elton John.

Ah the wonderful Elton John with Funeral for a Friend Love Lies Bleeding. Thank you to The British Stereo Collective for your story.
For my own entry I’m going to skip a couple of early periods in my life, the goth period and the metal period.
Right around the end on my school years. I spent evenings recording pirate radio channels in Dublin. There I first heard many artists I later became obsessed with after my move to Sweden. I fell for genres like Krautrock, Rock in Opposition and it’s eccentric cousin the Canterbury scene.
I met Daniel aka “Pocket Pavillions” only a few weeks after my arrival in Sweden and he expanded my musical mind more than anyone in my life. He also had a passion for these leftfield genres. Anyway The artist I’ve chosen is Can and the track One More Night from their landmark 1972 album Ege Bamyasi.
I studied Jazz drums for a few years and I’ve always considered Take 5 as a stand alone jazz standard. It was also my gateway drug into odd time signatures. One More night is a 7/8 masterpiece held together by Jaki Liebezeit’s “metronomic” groove.
Daniel made the observation that the rhythmic sound that starts to creep in at 2:50 is an audio cable being touched and released. I also love that the entire album is a live jam. Can practiced what they called “spontaneous composition,” where they would jam for hours without pre-written music. Bassist and engineer Holger Czukay was responsible for keeping the tape rolling at all times to capture these elusive moments of inspiration. I often wonder how long this session was originally and where in that session this is taken from and if it’s spliced together from different parts.

This is Can – One More Night from 1972.

That was Can with One More Night. We’re closing up shop on this the first but hopefully not last episode of Chord Confessions. I really hope it has resonated with some of you out there. Maybe it’s inspired you to send in a story. Please do.

Now then, we end with Asha Patera who is a UK-based ambient electronic artist crafting immersive soundscapes that blend downtempo rhythms, post-rock textures, and ethereal electronica. With a focus on moody, atmospheric compositions, the project evokes contemplative moods through layers of drifting synths, subtle melodies, and nature-inspired imagery often shared alongside the music.

Releases like Sunblind, Call To Silence, and various compilation appearances showcase a signature style of introspective, cinematic electronic music. Whether exploring themes of time, silence, or quiet reflection, Asha Patera creates sonic worlds that invite deep listening and escape.

Here’s Ashas story

I’ve always had a varied interest in music, but by my teenage years I was a dyed in the wool metalhead, long hair, leather jacket – the typical emblems of my tribe. It all changed for me one night, when I’d been out and was crashing at a mate’s house (whose father was a police inspector of all things!), and after having a joint before bed we decided to fall asleep to some tunes. ‘Iron Maiden’ I announced, completely serious as if that was conducive to a chilled mood. Even though he was a year younger than me, my friend looked at me and shook his head with wisdom beyond his years. ‘No, this is more suitable’ and he put something on that within a minute had me rethinking my life choices!

I was taken away on a magic carpet ride of emptiness, repetition and no discernible melody, interjected with some guy talking in what seemed Russian; yet I was absolutely enthralled at what I was hearing. From that day it was as if I had turned some page and my music world opened to what seemed limitless possibilities. The tune was the last track on side one of The Orb’s Adventure’s Beyond the Ultraworld, and we were listening to the majestic Spanish Castles in Space – to this day one of my all time favourite tunes. I still remained true to my metal roots, and even now some (many!) years later I still appreciate the adrenaline rush of fast guitar music, but that day was a turning point for me, and even though I was somewhat under the influence, I remember it all as if it were yesterday.

00:00:00 Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Music for a Found Harmonium
00:14:36 Gary Numan – Are ‘Friends’ Electric?
00:27:07 – Tangerine Dream – Mysterious Semblance at the Strand of Nightmares
00:36:56 Klaus Schulze – Wahnfried 1883
01:09:38 Pink Floyd – Welcome to the Machine
01:16:59 Dead Can Dance – The Host of Seraphim
01:26:57 The Normal – T.V.O.D.
01:34:47 Kraftwerk – Radioactivity
01:43:30 Nacio Herb Brown – Singing In the Rain
01:52:04 Elton John – Funeral For A Friend Love Lies Bleeding
02:05:24 Can – One More Night
02:14:29 The Orb – Spanish Castles In Space

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Alone on the Dance Floor 04

For people that dance to a different tune.

00:00:00 Gaussian Blur – Low Electrical Worker
00:04:56 Duke Slammer – Closer Than We Think!
00:08:24 Vulfmon, Zachary Barker – Disco Snails
00:11:08 Maxime Dangles – Révolte
00:18:20 DTACK – Polyhedra
00:23:14 Deeb – 003.1
00:26:41 G-303 – curiosity
00:31:58 Lloyd Stellar – Just Keep Breathing
00:36:08 Serge Geyzel – It’s Cancelled
00:42:00 Metamatics – A Second Chance Is Rare
00:50:08 µ-Ziq – Imperial Crescent
00:53:28 Tornado Wallace – Asahi Ga Yondeiru ft Courtney Bailey
01:00:12 Sleep Underwriter – Fat Days

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 178

15 February 2026

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Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.

Good evening, or morning, or whatever fragment of time you’ve found yourself in. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 178. I’m Trevor—your host, your guide, your occasional sonic conspirator.
A sonic journey with a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark—perfect for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe.
So, settle in. Let the kettle boil. Let the cat sleep. Let the world spin without you for a while.
We float tonight through drifts of ambient electronic, modular wanderings, dubwise echoes, some art rock angles, leftfield pop inflections, drone undertows, and the odd burst of experimental pop. Places flicker by: Wormhole World gatherings, Republic of Music corners, Castles in Space haunts, Invisible Inc. pathways, Four Flies shadows, and points scattered from Lancashire to Vilnius, Munich to Mexico City.
The longest stretch in the selection comes from Caught in Joy – Elsewhere, a patient unravelling that lingers in the mind. The shortest snaps past in a flash with Allmanna Town – Sample 24, not even reaching the minute mark.
We begin with Dubberrookie and Winter Weather, a seasonal drift from A Wormhole Xmas 2025 on Wormhole World. Chilled dub pulses meet wintry synth haze, gentle echoes folding into themselves like snow settling on rooftops.
Headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you.

Dubberrookie – Winter Weather. Dubberrookie will appear on my upcoming compilation “Puzzles of the Psyche”. There’s still time. Send in your entries by March 25.
Now Floating Points with Precursor, the bonus unreleased cut from the Elaenia 10 Year Anniversary on the Republic of Music label. Sparse piano gestures meet subtle electronic undercurrents, a quiet prelude that breathes slow and deliberate.

Floating Points – Precursor.
Next up Bahia Brazil based artist – Navin Kala offers Vijf from Spinoza on a favourite label of the show Mystery Circles. Minimalist piano lines trace thoughtful paths, space around each note allowing contemplation to gather.

Navin Kala – Vijf. A reminder now if you have a piece of music that has meant a lot to you for some reason tell me about it. I’m putting together a new show called “Chord Confessions” and I need some tales behind the most important music ever released. PM me on the socials or email me trevlad@gmail.com Now back to the show.
Now amping up the drone. Stewart Keller brings Disheveled Zen from the whopping 100 track 2020-2025 Archives. Loosened field recordings and soft electronics tangle in a relaxed, almost accidental calm.

Stewart Keller – Disheveled Zen.
Here’s me Trevlad with Curving Archive Scales from the Trick or Treat 4 compilation on Sounds for the Soul. Archive dust and curving scales weave a long, meditative thread, time marked in subtle modular shifts.

Trevlad – Curving Archive Scales. Just a quick shout out to the latest followers Bernt Haas, who I believe is part of the Cries from the LTN outfit. Also Liquid Shape and The Tall Librarian. Thanks for the follow.
Now Mexico City based artists Eafhm and Mwamwa collaborate on Luzne (Mwamwa Part) from the split release on Secuencias Temporales. Dubby bass hums beneath fragmented vocal traces, a hazy half-step wander.

Eafhm, Mwamwa – Luzne (Mwamwa Part).
And now for something completely different. Deerhoof deliver L’Amour Stories from Apple O’ on Joyful Noise Recordings. Quick, angular art rock bursts with playful yelps and tight rhythmic jabs.

Deerhoof – L’Amour Stories.
Garda slips in Substratum from S-Lyga on the Neotantra label. Deep drone layers build slow atmospheric weight, substratum textures rumbling low.

Garda – Substratum.
Now time to punk it up. Tinned Meats present Caught in the Wild from Kilter on I Heart Noise. Raw edges meet noisy propulsion, caught somewhere between garage grit and wilder impulses. Mad stuff…

Tinned Meats – Caught in the Wild.
And now Keith Seatman with Tonight’s Guests Are? from the forthcoming Counting to Ten Then Back Again on Castles in Space. Radiophonic quirks and psych-folk fragments evoke childhood games and firework packaging memories, playful yet oddly disorienting.
Keith Seatman – Tonight’s Guests Are?

The Polish legend of Coconut Creek, Caught in Joy closes Side A with Elsewhere.
Karol is the most prolific Berlin school artist on the planet. He produces so much quality music on a weekly basis. Which he records live and can be witnessed on his Youtube channel. Analogue drooling adventures. The track Elsewhere is from the release Colorfield. Self released back in mid December. Karol has released 4 albums since then just for some perspective. This is Analogue coloured space drifts to close out the first side of the show.

Side B
We turn the cassette. If you have something you want featured on the shows lease don’t be shy. I’m not on a schedule which means I get to do shows several times a week, which means you won’t have to wait long to hear your music here. Here’s a label that does just that from the fantastic Italian label Four Flies Records. Chiaré opens with Ago e Filo from the album Sei. Italian library echoes meet modern restraint, strings and subtle grooves threading through.

Chiaré – Ago e Filo.
Now LOULA YORKE shares The Hidden Messages in Water (Live at the Mount Without) from Live Compendium 2 on Truxalis. Live-captured modular meditations unfold with quiet intensity, water-like ripples expanding.

LOULA YORKE – The Hidden Messages in Water (Live at the Mount Without).
Next another artist who has contributed in the past to my compilations the fantastic The Music Liberation Front Sweden who arrive with A Lot Of Things Ain’t Changing from their collection on Third Kind Records. Warped pop edges bend familiar shapes into something skewed and resilient.

The Music Liberation Front Sweden – A Lot Of Things Ain’t Changing.
And Now Higamos Hogamos rework Re-Exit (GK Machine Dub Voyager) from Voyager Dubs on Glasgows Invisible, Inc. Deep dub transformations stretch the original into cavernous space.

Higamos Hogamos – Re-Exit (GK Machine Dub Voyager).
Francesca Guccione offers Mechanical Promenade from Connected 3 on IUWE Records. Mechanical rhythms promenade alongside delicate electric piano, a poised mechanical dance. A wonderful must have compilation celebrating 9 of the best female experimental electronic out there. In fact the entire label focuses on the beauty of female diversity in electronic music. Enjoy.

Francesca Guccione – Mechanical Promenade.
Komodo Kolektif follow with Disciple Of The Drone (GK Machine Disciple Of The Dub) also from that Voyager Dubs compilation on Invisible, Inc. Drone devotion meets dub disciple rites, heavy and hypnotic. Invisible, Inc. is a label I wish I could play more of on the channel, and just can’t for financial reasons. They are great so if you can grab some of their beautiful physical releases.

Komodo Kolektif – Disciple Of The Drone (GK Machine Disciple Of The Dub).
Now friend of the show Russian artist Ndorfik contributes Tahvi from Solos on People Can Listen. 5/8 Idm explorations carve sparse, introspective paths. Ndorfik has enlightened me on the fact that Mixcloud is not available without streaming through VPNs in his neck of the woods. So I send him the files of past shows so he can spread the good word.

Ndorfik – Tahvi.
Now the penultimate track and two masters of the ambient scene. Rhucle & Arbee bring Mournful Sky from Plain on David Cordero curated label Noray Records. Mournful ambient skies drift with gentle melancholy, field-like textures breathing slow.

Rhucle & Arbee – Mournful Sky.
Material for future shows is always welcome. Send your vibrations to trevlad@gmail.com. Purchase paths glow at trevor.se and in each show’s timeline.
Until the next cassette turns.
Trevor, signing off from Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 178.
I leave you with the very short track Sample 24 by Allmanna Town Allmanna Town is Phil Dodds who runs the amazing Waxing Crescent Records and my fellow Stockholm dweller Jonas Geiger Ohlin of The New Emphatic fame. this track is from Rodents out on their own Bandcamp imprint. Sampled fragments glitch and reform in rodent-quick bursts.
And that fades us out. Cheerio…

Intro – 00:00
Dubberrookie – Winter Weather – 01:35
Floating Points – Precursor – 08:18
Navin Kala – Vijf – 14:06
Stewart Keller – Disheveled Zen – 19:21
Trevlad – Curving Archive Scales – 20:45
Eafhm, Mwamwa – Luzne (Mwamwa Part) – 23:52
Deerhoof – L’Amour Stories – 29:14
Garda – Substratum – 31:21
Tinned Meats – Caught in the Wild – 34:30
*Keith Seatman – Tonight’s Guests Are? – 36:56
Caught In Joy – Elsewhere – 39:36
B Side – 47:04
Chiaré – Ago e Filo – 47:43
LOULA YORKE – The Hidden Messages in Water (Live at the Mount Without) – 51:08
The Music Liberation Front Sweden – A Lot Of Things Ain’t Changing – 56:50
Higamos Hogamos – Re-Exit (GK Machine Dub Voyager) – 1:02:56
Francesca Guccione – Mechanical Promenade – 1:08:49
Komodo Kolektif – Disciple Of The Drone (GK Machine Disciple Of The Dub) – 1:13:31
Ndorfik – Tahvi – 1:18:51
Rhucle & Arbee – Mournful Sky – 1:23:32
Allmanna Town – Sample 24 – 1:25:32
Outro – 1:27:09

*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.

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EXPANSIVE WAVES 23

11 February 2026

EXPANSIVE WAVES — EPISODE 23 11 February 2026
Good evening, or morning, or whatever fragment of time you’ve found yourself in. This is Expansive Waves, episode twenty-three. I’m Trevor—your host, your guide, your occasional sonic conspirator.
Tonight’s programme is not for the hurried. Eight pieces, each longer than 12 minutes—most stretching far beyond that—each more patient than the last. If you’re expecting choruses, drops, or anything resembling urgency, you may want to try another channel.
So, settle in. Let the kettle boil. Let the cat sleep. Let the world spin without you for a while.
We begin with a vast, unfolding live session that feels like drifting through forgotten orbital debris.

This is Secret Nuclear with Omega Redux. A NYP 45-minute live recording of six pieces from last summer, first heard on Kate Bosworth’s DARK TRAIN radio show. Broadcast on 21 July 2025. Layered with approach vectors, shadows, and extended consoles. Breathe it in.

That was Secret Nuclear, Omega Redux, straight from WHI Recordings. If you’re just joining us, this is Expansive Waves 23. No rush. We’re only getting started.
Next, another fresh live capture and another NYP release as that is what this channels budget allows, from the legends who practically invented this space. Recorded last August in Poland. Another long one at 32 and a half minutes.
Tangerine Dream — Katowice Session 2025. Over half an hour of pulsing sequences, violin drifts, and piano echoes. Let it carry you.

Tangerine Dream, live from Katowice. Timeless, isn’t it? We’re about a third through the evening now, but time doesn’t really apply here.
From Pennsylvania, a solitary reflection on endings and endurance.
Matthew Nowik — (we have) 5 years left. A slow-burning meditation on what might remain. Synth layers that feel like watching clouds dissolve. Another NYP release. I feel a pattern forming here.

Matthew Nowik. Quiet truth there in every sustain. Thanks for staying with me.
We move to Greece now. Piano meeting granular skies.
Giannis Gogos — Ambedo (part 2). Twenty-one minutes of attentive stillness from the recent Ambedo release on Whitelabrecs. The quiet attention that art still needs. This is not a NYP release as whitelabrec sponsors the channel with the best ambient releases out there.

Giannis Gogos. Ambedo—sinking into the moment until the edges blur.
Shifting tones now. A sense of deep belonging amid the haze.
Cries from the LTN — Belonging To. Title track from the EP. Extended, enveloping, like finding home in the drift. Shout out to Marcus from Cries from the LTN for sending this in. The EP is an innovative audio-visual collaboration between Birmingham based contemporary artist Tara Harris and experimental musical ensemble Cries From the LTN.

Cries from the LTN. Belonging isn’t always loud.
From Meanjin/Brisbane, Australia—a wavelength tamer reworking melancholy into vast space. Inspired by a single, heartbreaking scene from The Sopranos. This is the track doir from the new album No Statue, freshly re-recorded after life turned sideways. Raw, drenched in melancholy. Monumental. Released just yesterday on 4000 records.
ff8282 — doir.

ff8282 there with the sparkling new release No Statue that was the longest piece doir.
Six tracks gone. Only two remaining. The shortest track of the episode now and only just making the 12 minute cut at 12:12. Cassette territory next. Black Pylon’s world of field recordings and calls.
This is Corvid One Cassette — MOBBING CALLS. From the album Two. Corvids circling, warnings in the air, stretched into drone. This is the second release from the label Black Pylon. Definitely a label to follow and watch out for.

Corvids know something we don’t. Maybe that’s why it lingers.
And now, as we approach the final silence, a few words before we vanish again.
Thanks for sticking around. Really. These episodes aren’t designed for mass consumption, and neither are you.
I’ll be back when the wind changes or the tape runs out—whichever comes first. No schedule, no promises. Waves, that’s all we have.
If you liked what you heard, support the artists. Buy their music. Whisper their names into the void. It helps.
You can stream this episode on Mixcloud at djsofabed/expansive-waves-23, and find all the links and credits on the episode page at trevor.se.
Drop a comment if you feel moved. Or don’t. Silence is underrated.
Until next time—stay resonant, stay expansive, and let the soundtrack of the universe find you.
And finally, as we near the horizon—an unreleased study, fresh from Adventurous Music. Out in a few days, but you hear it here first. Unless you’re listening after February 16th.
Iván Muela — Drone Study X. From the forthcoming Ibidem II. Pure, patient exploration.

Secret Nuclear – Omega Redux – 00:00
Tangerine Dream – Katowice Session 2025 – 45:02
Matthew Nowik – (we have) 5 years left – 1:15:08
Giannis Gogos – Ambedo (part 2) – 1:31:45
Cries from the LTN – Belonging To – 1:51:53
ff8282 – doir – 2:05:09
Corvid One Cassette – MOBBING CALLS – 2:19:22
*Iván Muela – Drone Study X – 2:30:35

***track is unreleased at the the time of the episode’s publication.

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 177

08 February 2026

///retrial.twinge.memo

Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.

Good evening, or morning, or whatever sliver of the clock you’ve managed to carve out for yourself. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode one hundred and seventy-seven. I’m Trevor, sitting here with a stack of tapes that feel heavier than they ought to, and a vague sense that the world outside might have moved on without telling us.

We’re dealing with a virtual cassette, two sides as tradition demands, twenty artists in total, the kind of selection that drifts between ambient drifts, darkwave edges, neoclassical touches, drone meditations, some post-rock undercurrents, a bit of hauntology perhaps, and the occasional flicker of something more abstract or collage-like. Places crop up too: London, Barcelona, Cheltenham, Stroud, Berlin, Hamburg, Manchester, Glasgow, a scattering across North Carolina, Portland, Vancouver, Toronto, even the Bahamas and Tallinn. The map doesn’t stay still.

The longest track we’ll hear is “Lost in the Morning” by On Idyl, stretching out across the open air like it has nowhere else to be. The shortest is “Heartspace” by Heaven Topology, brief enough to feel like a held breath.

Just before we dive in I need your help with a new show I’m putting together. I need stories about music that changed something in your life. A direction, a decision, a realisation. It’ll be the most important music of all time while I promote you as a fan, artist, label curator, mum, dad, whatever you like. If you don’t have a story which is highly unlikely maybe you know of someone who does. Let’s make something special together.

Now back to the show. Side A begins with a couple of exclusive tracks to catch your interest.

First, from Lo Recordings, Haiku Salut & Meg Morley with “Laugh and cricket” – a delicate weave of piano and field recordings that evokes summer evenings where insects compete with human laughter, gentle and unhurried. from the upcoming album – The Lost Score – dropping on Lo Recordings on 27 march.

Haiku Salut & Meg Morley – Laugh and cricket.

Next that other exclusive. f5point6, on See Blue Audio, “432 Hz (Remastered)” – tuned to that frequency people chase for calm, layered synths unfolding slowly, remastered to let the harmonics breathe properly. 432 Hz from the album retrospect with drops on the 13 Feb.

f5point6 – 432 Hz (Remastered).

Time Rival now, “Deleter” from the 45 track Murmurs in the Mist compilation which I released back in November. Don’t forget to get your entries in for the next outing before the end of March. Anyway This is Time Rivals Deleter – a quiet deletion of boundaries, soft electronics that erase the line between memory and the present.

Time Rival – Deleter.

NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES with “La chute des dominos” from Jaculus Jaculus ou neuf instantanés pittoresques de la vie trépidante de la gerboise des steppes Jaculus jaculus or nine picturesque snapshots of the hectic life of the desert jerboa– tumbling motifs, playful yet precise, like dominoes falling in a French steppe wind.

NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES – La chute des dominos.

Now here’s that piece you could easily hold a breath to. Heaven Topology, “Heartspace” from Describer on Ingrown Records.– interior spaces opening outward, warm tones suggesting a place where the heart expands without apology. A very underrated release from last August.

Heaven Topology – Heartspace.

Now we’re off to the Bahamas which is not often on the show. pjpriiincess, “my teeth crush bones” – from the NYP album my teeth crack diamonds my teeth crush bones.
raw, visceral, crunching through the surface into something primal and glittering.

pjpriiincess – my teeth crush bones.

Now a friend of the show. and one of the longer pieces this episode. Masefield Labs, “Station Keeping” from his latest album Shaded Escapes released just a few days ago. Big thank you John for the mention in the album notes. holding position in shifting currents, steady pulses beneath drifting layers.

Masefield Labs – Station Keeping.

zerosummer is the alter ego of Paolo Taviano, Italian musician. Here he is with “Nebula” from The Blue Hours on the wonderful Driftworks label. – cosmic drift, haze of stars forming and dissolving in slow motion.

zerosummer – Nebula.

Next a fantastic label that I do hope you’re all supporting. Uppsala, Sweden based, Passed Records. This next track and two more on the B side are from NYP compilations of artists they’ve released in 2025 so go get them now. G!GA LURGH, “Ambient Jam #1 (Previously YouTube Exclusive)” from The Passed Year 2025 on Passed Recordings – loose, exploratory, the kind of jam that happened once and lingers.

G!GA LURGH – Ambient Jam #1 (Previously YouTube Exclusive).

The penultimate track on side a from three artists who are fantastic in they’re own realms and just as great combined. Bahrambient, Retland, Kilometre Club with “Under Open Skies” from Cloud Paths – vast skies, gentle progression, open and unconfined in a small package.

Bahrambient, Retland, Kilometre Club – Under Open Skies.

And closing Side A, and a track that closes the compilation release it came from. Emanuele Errante, “Permanent Sunset” from Islas Calm Cloud, on whitelabrecs – eternal dusk, warm glow that refuses to fade completely.

Emanuele Errante – Permanent Sunset.

virtual tape flip

Side B, then.

Now a piece of my own. Trevlad now, “Glare Belonged Reaction” from TVCL-07 – reaction to too much light, refracted and softened.

Trevlad – Glare Belonged Reaction.

Next from the outstanding Hamburg based label Bureau B. Kreidler, “Im Betrieb (IV)” from Early Recordings 1994-95 – mechanical yet human, rhythms from the factory floor turned inward.

Kreidler – Im Betrieb (IV).

This next track has its own music video which if you like jelly you should check out. Crank up the volume and massage those neck muscles with Clark, “Civilians” from Steep Stims – everyday lives caught in electronic undertow, subtle distortions.

Clark – Civilians.

Pandacetamol, “Simply Pour” from Below the Surface on Mahorka – liquid motion, pouring without end, calm acceptance. A recommended Mahorka release from last November.

Pandacetamol – Simply Pour.

Next, as mentioned, another track from the Passed Recordings label and Ed Herbers, “The Moon (How Bright It Is)” from The Ghost of Christmas Passed. – lunar observation, bright and distant.

Ed Herbers – The Moon (How Bright It Is).

We follow this with another track from that other compilation on the same label. This is On Idyl, “Lost in the Morning (from The Fecund Wood)” here from The Passed Year 2025 on Passed Recordings – morning disorientation in fertile woods, gentle confusion.

On Idyl – Lost in the Morning (from The Fecund Wood).

and now an old friend of the channel Apta, “Shivers” from Apta Live Aviva Studios Manchester 04-12-25 – live capture, shivers running through the room in Manchester.

Apta – Shivers.

Next, for the penultimate number we head to Austin, Texas and artist Devras Plexi, “Relational” from Paradigm 10 Year Label Sampler on Glasgow label Bricolage – connections drawn in sound, relational fields.

Devras Plexi – Relational.

And now, as the tape hisses to its end, a few words before the silence returns. Thanks for staying with it. These transmissions aren’t built for crowds, and neither, perhaps, are we. I’ll be back when the next cassette arrives or the mood shifts—whichever feels less predictable. No fixed schedule, no grand announcements. Support the artists if any of this stayed with you—buy the music, share their names quietly. You can stream this one on Mixcloud for a week or so, links and credits at trevor.se, or in the usual places. Comments are welcome, though silence has its own merits.
And finally, Tallinn, Estonia based artist Paul Beaudoin with “to hold you safe” from 1514 Lee Street – a quiet promise held close. Minimal ambient at it’s finest.
Until the next fragment of time overlaps with ours—stay resonant, stay expansive, let the sounds find their way.
Paul Beaudoin – to hold you safe. Cheerio…

Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 177. Good night.

Intro – 00:00
Haiku Salut & Meg Morley– Laugh and cricket – 02:13
f5point6 – 432 Hz (Remastered) – 05:12
Time Rival – Deleter – 07:16
NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES – La chute des dominos – 09:54
Heaven Topology – Heartspace – 12:20
pjpriiincess – my teeth crush bones – 13:32
Masefield Labs – Station Keeping – 16:42
zerosummer – Nebula – 22:54
G!GA LURGH – Ambient Jam #1 (Previously YouTube Exclusive) – 27:44
Bahrambient, Retland, Kilometre Club – Under Open Skies – 30:35
Emanuele Errante – Permanent Sunset – 32:47
B Side – 37:22
Trevlad – Glare Belonged Reaction – 37:41
Kreidler – Im Betrieb (IV) – 42:20
Clark – Civilians – 45:20
Pandacetamol – Simply Pour – 49:12
Ed Herbers – The Moon (How Bright It Is) – 51:16
On Idyl – Lost in the Morning (from The Fecund Wood) – 54:54
Apta – Shivers – 1:03:17
Devras Plexi – Relational – 1:08:08
Paul Beaudoin – to hold you safe – 1:12:21
Outro – 1:17:48

*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 176

04 February 2026

///hits.enjoyable.amended

Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.

Good evening, or morning, or whatever sliver of the clock you’ve managed to carve out for yourself. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode 176. I’m your guide, Trevor.

The cassette sits ready in the deck, labels hand-scribbled, oxide already flaking a bit at the edges. Side A and Side B, twenty artists strung across them like beads on a frayed string. We’ll flip the tape halfway through, that satisfying clunk and hiss, because some things refuse to be digital.

Tonight we drift through ambient drifts, kosmische pulses, drone meditations, a touch of library funk, some psychedelic sprawl, electroacoustic murmurs from places like Bulgaria, the UK, Munich, Buenos Aires, Athens, Rome, Sheffield, Colorado, and a few others that don’t fit neatly on any map. The longest track stretches out patiently, Asha Patera’s – Wandering in the Upside Down from Sounds for the Soul Records, clocking in at just over 11 minutes. Durations aside, none hurry. There’s an exclusive track which open the B side from Moscow artist DEE_KAY and his track Bellcut. But we’ll get to all that in a bit.
Headphones on if you’ve got them. Volume where it feels intimate. Let the kettle whistle if it wants to. The world can wait.

We begin with a January release from the Mahorka label in Bulgaria, a collected volume of drone and teknoiz spanning a decade. Autonomаton offers The UFO project remix—eerie, floating synth washes that suggest something observed from a great height, unhurried and slightly unsettling in the best way. From the album Collected Not Lost 2015-2025 Vol 1: Drone and Teknoiz.

Autonomаton – The UFO project remix.

Next, Mark Ellery Griffiths with Synthi Sequence B. Loops and sequences built on vintage synths, patient repetitions that build quiet architectures. Mark is a regular of my shows and doesn’t get the credit he should. Check out his Bandcamp releases. He’s nudging on 50 and they’re name your price. Synthi Loops Sequences 2025 – Self released back in December.

Mark Ellery Griffiths – Synthi Sequence B.

Danielle Nia now, Longing For Togetherness. Warm, enveloping tones from i u we records, a gentle pull toward connection without ever forcing the issue. Stunning patchwork from the great Connected 3 compilation. Released a couple of weeks back on i u we records.

Danielle Nia – Longing For Togetherness.

Greek artist Substak and his track Apartment Window from Belgian ambient label Daydreamers. A quick view onto quiet streets, field recordings woven into subtle rhythms, the sound of somewhere lived-in and watched over time. From the EP Empty Bench – released not two weeks ago.

Substak – Apartment Window.

A good friend of the channel Asha Patera, Wandering in the Upside Down. Dream-logic drifts and inverted atmospheres from Sounds for the Soul Records, like walking through familiar rooms that have rearranged themselves while you slept. The Vale of Shadows – Sounds for the Soul. Which is a Stranger Things inspired ambient compilation. Also released in January. This is the long haul.

Asha Patera – Wandering in the Upside Down.

Belgian artist Jeroen Lauwers is, Red Stars Over Tokyo with In Trance from self released The Burning Spiral. Pulsing, hypnotic acid tinged layers that suggest endless night drives through neon-lit cities that might not exist. The Burning Spiral. released back in December.

Red Stars Over Tokyo – In Trance.

Southend On Sea artist Adrian Lane, After The Deluge. Post-flood calm, piano and strings emerging from residue, reflective, haunted and sparse. Their Ghosts and Ours – out on Sheffields finest Audiobulb.

Adrian Lane – After The Deluge.

Argentinian artist Puppy Bordiga with mRn, Solarium. Collaborative warmth, sunlit electronics and gentle percussion from Walking the Way III. Self released back in November.

Puppy Bordiga with mRn – Solarium.

ATA Records is a label and I can’t get my head around if they are also a band. They really know their library stuff but on this release and others the artist is simply ATA Records, no credits to the artists which is a shame. Anyway This is Tatsuya, The Sword. Library archive material, cinematic and evocative, with a heartfelt flute. drawn from Vol 4. The Library Archive Vol 4 – ATA Records.

ATA Records – Tatsuya, The Sword.

Tape flip. The mechanism clicks, heads realign, oxide continues its slow decay. Side B.

Coming up the exclusive for episode 176 is by Moscow Marist DEE-KEY now, Bellcut. Sharp, precise cuts through ambient haze from Local Gods. Local Gods. Drops next week in the 12 of February. Remember where you heard it first.

DEE-KEY – Bellcut.

Now from one of the best Italian jazz-funk library albums of the ’70s. Oscar Rocchi’s Genziana. Herbal, pastoral electronics evoking wild flowers and Italian hillsides, from Erbe Selvatiche on Four Flies Vaults which is the digital imprint of Four Flies Records.

Oscar Rocchi – Genziana.

Now to a favourite label and a release from November. Grant Beasley, The Vanishing Point. This is the title track. Horizon-line drones and slow dissolves. Grant Beasley – The Vanishing Point – Cyclical Dreams.

Grant Beasley – The Vanishing Point.

Next filter sweep time. LA artist Good Sunset, Taormina. Which is a hilltop town on the island of Sicily and I bet they have good sunsets there. Sun-drenched, cinematic reveries from Cinema Everything on Mystery Circles.

Good Sunset – Taormina.

And here’s one from me, under Trevlad—EXPANSIVE WAVES 18 (Slipping Precautions Obvious). A previous transmission excerpt, layered and recursive. TVCL 07 – Trevlad.

Trevlad – EXPANSIVE WAVES 18 (Slipping Precautions Obvious).

Next the poppiest piece I’ve played in a good while. Nostalgia 77, You Where In My Dream Last Night. Dream-state jazz inflections, soft and lingering. Love the bass lines and sound. This is the first single from their upcoming EP titled: When The Lights Gone. Which drops on the 1 May on Nostalgia 77’s Bandcamp page.

Nostalgia 77 – You Where In My Dream Last Night.

Next up Guitars and synth with GROSSO GADGETTO, and “the track Once there was only dark”. Apocalyptic soundscapes for a world winding down, from “Soundtrack for a Dying World by Dark Supreme & Grosso Gadgetto”. Sampled voices of Matthew McConaughey & Woody Harrelson.

GROSSO GADGETTO – “Once there was only dark”.

Now get your world music psychedelic slippers on. We’re off to Melbourne Australia. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Flying Microtonal Banana. Microtonal excursions, psychedelic without apology, the shortest in the episode at 2:34 yet packing strange tunings into tight space. From the album of the same fantastic name. Released on the Heavenly Recordings label about a year ago.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana.

Now back to 2021 and some wonky synth chords. Near Stoic, Music For A Friend. Intimate, thoughtful pieces from Notebook Thoughts Short Stories on Third Kind Records. A definite Boards of Canada vibe to this one.

Near Stoic – Music For A Friend.

Now I wish my doorbell sounded more like this. The penultimate track and the ultimate wind down. Miguel Otero, Blooming in Sturton Street. Gentle blooms and street-level calm from Islas Calm Cloud. One of the recent compilations let loose on Whitelabrecs. Get it now…

Miguel Otero – Blooming in Sturton Street.

And before the tape ends. Thanks for staying with it. These transmissions aren’t built for haste, and neither, I suspect, are you. Support the artists if any of this lodged somewhere—buy the music, share the names. Stream this one on Mixcloud for a week if you need to revisit. All the paths and links live at trevor.se.
And if it was possible to close on a chiller note I think I have you covered. We close with Astropilot, The River Knows No Hurry. Flowing, unforced kosmische from Stockholm label Valley View Records, a reminder that some currents simply continue.
Until the next time the cassette calls. Stay resonant. Stay expansive. Let the sounds find their own way.
Trevor, signing off.
Astropilot – The River Knows No Hurry.

Intro – 00:00
Autonomаton – The UFO project remix – 01:45
Mark Ellery Griffiths – Synthi Sequence B – 06:21
Danielle Nia – Longing For Togetherness – 09:37
Substak – Apartment Window – 16:03
Asha Patera – Wandering in the Upside Down – 18:25
Red Stars Over Tokyo – In Trance – 28:44
Adrian Lane – After The Deluge – 35:44
Puppy Bordiga w. Various – Solarium (with mRn) – 38:46
ATA Records – Tatsuya, The Sword – 41:43
B Side – 45:35
*DEE-KEY – Bellcut – 45:52
Oscar Rocchi – Genziana – 50:50
Grant Beasley – The Vanishing Point – 53:21
Good Sunset – Taormina – 1:01:15
Trevlad– EXPANSIVE WAVES 18 (Slipping Precautions Obvious) – 1:04:46
Nostalgia 77 – You Where In My Dream Last Night – 1:07:54
GROSSO GADGETTO – “Once there was only dark” – 1:12:06
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Flying Microtonal Banana – 1:20:12
Near Stoic – Music For A Friend – 1:23:08
Miguel Otero – Blooming in Sturton Street – 1:27:32
Astropilot – The River Knows No Hurry – 1:32:45
Outro – 1:36:42

*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.

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Alone on the Dance Floor 03

For people that dance to a different tune.

00:00:00 Dokun – Seedling
00:05:53 Dave Clarkson – Hive Mind
00:11:08 Spray – Hammered in an Airport
00:14:31 Lifting Gear Engineer – Scan
00:18:07 Floating Points – Birth4000
00:22:20 Hidden People – 303s & Hard Breaks
00:26:47 Fragile X – Kismet
00:33:11 Konerytmi – Rautatieasema
00:37:49 Odin Kaban – El baile de la pita
00:42:06 Julio Tornero – blazing starre
00:46:06 Minerva – Oligarch
00:49:28 Leise im Kran – Crackdown
00:53:51 Mordant Music – Ravesend
00:55:47 Nacht Plank & Futuregrapher – Sky High 8.43

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 175

01 February 2026

///workforce.overtime.whistle

Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.

Good evening, or morning, or whatever sliver of the clock you’ve washed up in. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode one hundred and seventy-five. I’m Trevor, here again, turning over another worn cassette in the dim glow, letting the oxide whisper its secrets.
These tapes arrive unmarked most times, or with labels half-peeled, but they carry traces—field recordings folded into drone, synths that drift like low cloud over northern latitudes, breaks that nod to libraries long since catalogued and forgotten, post-rock edges softened by reverb tails, psych undercurrents that never quite surface, ambient excursions that refuse to resolve. Scotland lingers in a few of these grooves, Cologne breathes through one, Italy scatters light across another, while others seem to come from no fixed place at all, just coordinates lost between sleep and map.
No rush tonight. Twenty pieces, two sides, a flip when the spool runs thin. If the kettle needs boiling, let it. If the room grows cold, pull something closer. The world can wait outside the door.
It’s a special Saturday here in Sweden and marks the start of the Melody Festival. Which, however you feel about it makes the long winter up here bearable. How ever you feel about the music represented.
Now back to this outing.
First, something that moves like light through leaves in late winter. Camouflage by Kraft, from the Bureau B 2025 release on Bureau B. A gentle, sensual, unfurling, synths breathing slow. Headphones on, let time dissolve and let the frequencies claim you.
Camouflage – Kraft.
Now Lo Five with STORY, pulled from Superdank on Lunar Module. A definite nod to the ORB, A pumping beat over child spoken narrative and House stabs.
STORY – Lo Five.
Now taking us way down. E J R M offers Pitter Patter, part of Solar Return – Gollden Hour Mix on Imaginary North. Glistening drones that patter like rain on tin, layered with distant chords.
Pitter Patter – E J R M.
Now staying in Droneville. Wil Bolton and David Cordero together for Starlight Breeze, from How to Make Sense of Downtime on the Home Normal label. Notes drift against soft drones, a breeze indeed.
Starlight Breeze – Wil Bolton & David Cordero.
Now a shot one, 1:25 to be exact. Tim Story and Cafe Kaputt, taken from Buzzle on Curious Music. Melancholic Mellotron keys and a Hugh Hopper style bass, in a room that’s emptying slowly.
Cafe Kaputt – Tim Story.
The longest piece for the episode at 8 minutes. Droning Cats with NRV bring Dreams with Claws, from Cartography of Sleep on Barcelona based See Blue Audio. Claws sheathed in haze, dreams that scratch gently. Bobbling bass which sounds like it’s being played by the tide. and sparse porch friendly guitar lines.
Dreams with Claws – Droning Cats with NRV.
Caer Sgàil, from Scotland, with It’s The People We Choose (Exit Chamber’s Choose Wisely Remix), off It’s The Remixes We Choose EP on Caer Sgàil’s Bandcamp. Deep, shadowed rework, piano buried in mist.
It’s The People We Choose (Exit Chamber’s Choose Wisely Remix) – Caer Sgàil.
And now for something completely different. Modern Sound Quartet and Bucaneve, from Italian Library Breaks on Four Flies Records. Breaks with a Mediterranean lightness, snow in name only. Italian library jazz fusion from the 70s.
Bucaneve – Modern Sound Quartet.
Another longer track at 7:39. Andrea Cichecki offers When We Close Our Eyes, shared with track that follows by Tangent Universes on Connected 3 via I u we Records. Eyes closed, the world turns inward, synths cradle the shift.
When We Close Our Eyes – Andrea Cichecki.
And right beside it, Tangent Universes with A Suit Of Leaves, also from Connected 3 on I u we Records. Leaves rustling in some parallel season.
A Suit Of Leaves – Tangent Universes.
Time to turn the tape. Listen for the clunk, the hiss, the moment the mechanism catches.

We open Side B. Ekin Fil with bump, from Bora Boreas on Dutch label Dronarivm. Delicate, almost fragile, yet it lingers.
bump – Ekin Fil.
Now the perfect track for the moment as I’m recording this on Saturday morning. Wooden Tape and Saturday Morning, lifted from the MCPM018 Compilation Album on Moolakii Club Audio Interface label. Sun through curtains, coffee cooling, a cassette morning.
Saturday Morning – Wooden Tape.
Another Mellotron now. Osees deliver The Ceiling, released as a single. Garage-psych softened at the edges. Like early Floyd crossed with Cardiacs.
The Ceiling – Osees.
Next some original indie thinking. Foxwarren with Strange, off 2 on Anti- Records. Folk that tilts strange, sampled classic movie strings and bubbling bass.
Strange – Foxwarren.
Next Andrew Wasylyk featuring Gruff Rhys on The Cold Collar, from Irreparable Parables on the immaculate Clay Pipe Music label. Wonderful story telling.
The Cold Collar (Feat. Gruff Rhys) – Andrew Wasylyk.
Eafhm presents Luzne (Part l), from Eafhm – Luzne on Secuencias Temporales. Percussive world techno. Part one unfolds slow, light on water perhaps.
Luzne (Part l) – Eafhm.
Now the shortest tack of the episode at 58 seconds Herne von Bòrmanvs with Will O^ Water, from Synthergic on recent label friend Pente. Water that glows, will o’ the wisp in circuit form.
Will O^ Water – Herne von Bòrmanvs.
another short and sweet track at 1:42. Grocer Cat and closing up shop. the day is done, off A Day at Market on Hecate. Shutters down, keys in pocket, quiet settles.
closing up shop. the day is done – Grocer Cat.
Now some raw grit. Geese arrive with Bow Down, from Getting Killed on their Bandcamp. Post-punk angles, heads bowed in rhythm.
Bow Down – Geese.
And now, as the reels slow and the tape flaps loose at the end, a few words before the silence claims us again. Thanks for staying with it. These shows aren’t built for quick glances or playlists on shuffle. They’re for the long sit, the slow listen. If anything here stayed with you, find the artists, buy the records, send them a signal through the ether. It matters. This one streams free for seven days on Mixcloud—link below, or at trevor.se, where the credits live too. Comments welcome, or none at all. Silence has its own frequency.
Until the next tape finds its way onto the deck—stay resonant, stay expansive, let the waves carry what they will.
Finally, Jens Pauly with Naab, from his work on the great Whitelabrecs. Field lines drawn in Cologne air, quiet testimony.
This is Trevor, signing off. Cheerio…

Intro – 00:00
Camouflage – Kraft – 01:40
Lo Five – STORY – 05:45
E J R M – Pitter Patter – 10:42
*Wil Bolton & David Cordero – Starlight Breeze – 12:32
Tim Story – Cafe Kaputt – 17:27
Droning Cats with NRV – Dreams with Claws – 18:50
Caer Sgàil – It’s The People We Choose (Exit Chamber’s Choose Wisely Remix) – 26:20
Modern Sound Quartet – Bucaneve – 32:29
Andrea Cichecki – When We Close Our Eyes – 34:50
Tangent Universes – A Suit Of Leaves – 42:05
B Side – 46:14
Ekin Fil – bump – 46:31
Wooden Tape – Saturday Morning – 49:34
Osees – The Ceiling – 52:21
Foxwarren – Strange – 54:24
Andrew Wasylyk (Feat. Gruff Rhys) – The Cold Collar (Feat. Gruff Rhys) – 57:32
Eafhm – Luzne (Part l) – 1:01:21
Herne von Bòrmanvs – Will O^ Water – 1:06:17
Grocer Cat – closing up shop. the day is done – 1:07:31
Geese – Bow Down – 1:09:08
Jens Pauly – Naab – 1:13:29
Outro – 1:17:52

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 174

28 January 2026

///furnish.rests.goggle

Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.

Good evening, or morning, or whatever sliver of the clock you’ve washed up in. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode one hundred and seventy-four. I’m Trevor, turning the reels in the half-light, playing custodian to these sounds that drift in from places most folk never bother to tune toward.

We’ve got twenty artists lined up across the two sides tonight, twenty fragments of cassette spirit. No rush, no hits, no pleading for your attention. Ambient drifts mingle with electroacoustic textures, spiritual jazz breathes alongside kraut-tinged electronics, improv flickers meet drone horizons. Patience is the only ticket required.

Side A coming right up as we ease in with Bary Center and The Source Of Something Greater – Guide Me Through The Hills Of Your Home – Third Kind Records back in 2020. I’d describe this as Textured ambient with a glitch undercurrent, dub-like pulses buried in meditative marshland haze, a quiet hope threading through the sadness.

Then Asheville, North Carolinas Spooqs brings the shortest track of the episode clocking in a 2:27 with Lyskae, The Fissure – Biomes. Cinematic electroacoustic soundscapes, a pilgrimage mapped in melody across dunes and into salt water, landscapes that remember your footprints.

CV Vision follows with The Jam – Bureau B 2025 – Bureau B. A slice from the label’s latest roundup, electronics carrying that Hamburg lineage of krautrock echoes and avant-garde restraint.

The longest offering this round at 6:53 Resonating With Life offers Spinning Out of The Skies – Resonating With Life – Cyclical Dreams. Drone and ambient suspended in slow rotation, skies that keep unfolding long after you’ve looked away.

Another short one at 2:50 Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio step up with Imitation Squid – Wattzotica. Which came out today January 28 on A favourite label and channel sponsoring Mystery Circles. I’d say this is Free improvisation from the Joshua Tree, punk-edged bass from Watt meeting synths and drums in unscripted motion, raw and restless.

GODTET deliver Stepper – +The Sydney Symphony Orchestra – La SAPE records. Spiritual jazz meeting orchestral weight, live from the Sydney Opera House, improvisation threading through fixed structures like light through stone.

Now, me, Trevlad with Obey Beams Starting – TVCL 09. Ambient electronics pulled from the library’s own recent episodes, beams that start quiet and refuse to explain themselves.

Camp of Wolves and Summer’s End – Bear Creek – Castles in Space Lunar Module imprint. Fading seasonal glow, folk-tinged atmospheres cooling into dusk.

Angel Wail – When The Burden Felt Too Heavy. A solitary voice in the weight, A self released single that will be featured on my next compilation Puzzles of the Psyche. A reminder to get your entries in for this before March 25th. This Is classic synth shapings with a sad story.

And closing Side A, one of the longer pieces of the episode at 6:50 Jarguna / Odile Bruckert / Henrik Meierkord close the side with The First Sunrise I Remember – Furrows Of Memory – Projekt Records. Memory etched in gentle field recordings and strings, the first light recalled across years.

Side B.

Hipwell opens with Too Much – Too Much. Available through Island House Recordings. This is Direct, unadorned, a title that says everything and nothing more.

Hipnotic Earth brings Snow Begins To Fall – Islas Calm Cloud – Whitelabrecs. Winter settling in slow layers, calm cloud islands drifting.

OdNu, Mi Cosa de Resistance and mRn with En el Viento – Southern Lands – Southern Lands. On another show sponsoring label Audiobulb. Wind-carried voices and tones, Argentinas southern latitudes whispering through the mix.

Das Kinn – Nichts – Bureau B 2025 – Bureau B. Another from the Bureau B harvest, negation turned into sound, sparse and deliberate.

Clearways offers Mirage – Latrality. Illusions held in place by careful electronics, edges that shimmer and refuse to solidify.

Serbian artist nedogled with Toplina – Upavi Snovi. Warmth in dream states, tones that wrap rather than strike.

Autistici – 2.25 Degrees of Internalisation – Familiarity Unfolded. Another one out on Audiobulb. Internal shifts measured in fractions, unfolding slow and precise.

London based, Time Attendant brings Lapping Up Flames – The Feral Mould. Flames consumed in reverse, feral shapes moulded into something almost gentle. An odd one this, avant garde in places.

Lorna Dune with Perseids – Sequential Dreaming. Another great release from Mystery Circles. Meteor trails across dreaming sequences, streaking light in the dark.

And now, as the tape hisses toward silence, a few words before we disappear again. Thanks for staying with it. These shows aren’t built for crowds, and neither, perhaps, are you. Support the artists where you can—buy the tapes, the downloads, the vinyl when it appears. Whisper their names into whatever void listens. It matters more than metrics suggest.
This episode streams free on Mixcloud for a week, full links and credits at trevor.se and in the comments. Leave a word if something landed. Or don’t. Quiet has its own frequency.
Until the wind shifts or the reel ends—whichever arrives first—stay resonant, stay expansive, let the universe keep its own counsel.
Antwerp based autumna closes the show with sea flames – Murmurs In The Mist – Trevlad. Flames on water, murmurs rising through fog, a final dissolution.
Don’t miss out on my next compilation. Details on my Bandcamp page.
That was Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode one hundred and seventy-four. Good night.

Intro – 00:00
Bary Center – The Source Of Something Greater – 01:36
Spooqs – Lyskae, The Fissure – 05:45
CV Vision – The Jam – 07:45
Resonating With Life – Spinning Out of The Skies – 10:22
Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio – Imitation Squid – 16:38
GODTET – Stepper – 19:24
Trevlad – Obey Beams Starting – 23:52
Camp of Wolves – Summer’s End – 29:41
Angel Wail– When The Burden Felt Too Heavy – 33:01
Jarguna / Odile Bruckert / Henrik Meierkord – The First Sunrise I Remember – 36:09
B Side – 43:00
Hipwell – Too Much – 43:16
Hipnotic Earth – Snow Begins To Fall – 47:05
OdNu, Mi Cosa de Resistance and mRn – En el Viento – 53:21
Das Kinn – Nichts – 58:08
Clearways – Mirage – 1:01:17
nedogled – Toplina – 1:06:24
Autistici – 2.25 Degrees of Internalisation – 1:11:43
Time Attendant – Lapping Up Flames – 1:15:11
Lorna Dune – Perseids – 1:19:08
autumna – sea flames – 1:23:20
Outro – 1:29:00

*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 173

27 January 2026

///hill.roving.slicer

Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.

Good evening, or morning, or whatever sliver of the clock you’ve drifted into. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode one hundred and seventy-three. I’m Trevor, turning the reels in the quiet hours.

We approach this one as always—with the old cassette in mind. Side A first, then the satisfying clunk of the flip midway through. Twenty artists tonight, drawn from the shelves where the quieter signals live. Expect drifts of drone and deep ambient, patches of electroacoustic haze, touches of field-recorded exotica, slow-unfolding modular pulses, and the occasional submerged melody that surfaces like something half-remembered from another room. Places flicker through too: underwater trenches, Los Angeles highways at off-hours, Mediterranean dream coasts, vast starry processions, the interior of mechanical bird boxes, and the soft geometries of winter rooms.

No rush. No hooks to grab you. Only the slow uncoiling of sound.

Side A – 00:00

We begin with Nelson, British Columbia based Codedekay and out of place, from Vol. 9 – The Struggle on (We Are The New Underground) Weatnu Records. A patient unfolding of displaced tones, edges softened by time and repetition.

Then an old pseudonym of the artist Time Rival is Supply Fi who brings Unruly Cascade, taken from Unruly Predation on Triplicate Records who I believe Michael Southard, Time Rivals, Supply Fi’s real name, helped create. Cross-genre currents here—ambient electronics that fold and fracture without ever quite settling. Grab this, it’s a name your price release.

I know we’re all over the Christmas vibe already. But at least here in Sweden the snow lies thick. So here’s Omni Gardens with Winter Wonderland, from the Christmas release on Moon Glyph. Familiar seasonal shapes viewed through gauze, Moog warmth and mellotron drift turning the usual into something hushed and interior.

Now one of the channels favourites with some 90s vibe Lounge. I get a hint of Lemon Jelly wafting through this one. THE GAYE DEVICE offers Argent Echo from Routes. Silvered reflections in electronic form, routes that loop back on themselves with deliberate calm.

This next one is the opening track on my second compilation release. This is Ursula’s Cartridges who submerges us in Mighty Underwater Adventure (UC’s Challenger Deep Remix), from Resonances from the Depths. Dubbed echoes refracted through deep pressure, bubbles rising slow.

Things fall apart now with Dissolved who arrives with Alveolate Minds, Exposure Fields on Mahorka. Grainy, fragmented atmospheres—drone and broken beats meeting in alveolar spaces, porous and breathing.

Belgian artist MICADO gives us An Afternoon Reflection from Mindscapes on Argentinian label Cyclical Dreams. Gentle modular lines catching light, a pause where the day leans back.

Now to help us into the zone is Dormance who closes the first side with Dormance 14, from II on Mahorka. Pure dormancy—Squeaky toys, dub tones, and a spoon in a tumble dryer do half the work.

Flip the tape. Listen for the mechanism.

Opening the B side is channel champion brain, melting, Stephen James Buckley aka, Polypores opens the reverse with The Body Is The Spaceship, Hungry Vortex. The longest track of the episode clocking in at 11:30. Organic electronics as vessel, pulsing inward and outward in equal measure. Get everything Stephen releases and thank me later.

Now a haunting melody of the free by Kilmarth feat. Silly Shadow with A Paradox So Cruel from Cherophobia on Adventurous Music. Paradox held lightly—shadows and light in tender opposition.

Next the shortest track of the episode at 1:36 Elijah Fox drifts through Her Palace from Ambient Works for the Highways of Los Angeles. Highway-side reveries, palace built from exhaust and sunset haze.

Now into the darkness with Autonomаton who present Endless stars procession from Collected Not Lost 2015-2025 Vol. 1 on Mahorka. Dub Drones tracing constellations in slow parade.

Next up Michal Turtle & HOVE with Only Sawdust Remains from Sawdust Dreams. Sawdust as memory material, fragile and aromatic. A pumping beat over tribal vibes.

Friend of the show now and a short one. Not the artist but the track. I have no idea what Dave Clarkson’s height is. Here he conjures Mechanical Bird Box Exotica from The Ghosts of Christmas Past and the Effects on Mental Health on Mortality Tables. Clockwork birds singing through antique mechanisms, exotica tuned to melancholy.

Here’s an adventurous outing by Edward Givens with Rapid Eye Movement (a Dance) from the album, Terra. Dream-state pagan motion, eyes flicking beneath lids.

Here an offering of my own. This is Trevlad with EXPANSIVE WAVES 20 (Airtime Text Reacting) from TVCL-08. Airtime caught in reactive loops—waves folding back on their own transmission.

Now French synth miestro Alex Ringess with the final track And Now Let’s Play This New Game from Asynchronicity. Asynchronous invitation, rules written in delay and overlap.

Next an odd one by Catharæ with In my world from Dreams of the Mediterranéant on Adventurous Music. Mediterranean shores remade as interior landscape, trails tracing the mind.

And now the penultimate piece some deep bass tones from Christian Kleine who brings Slow from the 2025 Label Compilation mixed by Todos on A Strangely Isolated Place. Deliberate tempo, everything given room to breathe.

And now, as the tape nears the end, a few words before the leader. Thanks for staying with it. These programmes aren’t built for playlists or quick consumption, and neither are the ears that find them. Support the artists when you can—buy the music, name their work in quiet corners. It matters more than algorithms admit.
This episode streams free for a week on Mixcloud, links and credits at trevor.se and in the comments. Say something if the mood takes you. Or let the silence hold. Both are welcome.
I leave you with the wonderful Sussex Telecom who signs off with Kendophaz from the 2022 release Creator Warehouse on channel sponsoring Third Kind Records. Phased signals from some coastal telecom exchange, wires humming in the wind.
Until the next wind or the next run-out groove—stay resonant, stay expansive. Let the frequencies find their own way back to you. Cheerio…

Intro – 00:00
Codedekay – out of place – 01:54
Supply Fi – Unruly Cascade – 04:44
Omni Gardens – Winter Wonderland – 10:35
THE GAYE DEVICE – Argent Echo – 13:20
Ursula’s Cartridges – Mighty Underwater Adventure (UC’s Challenger Deep Remix) – 16:41
Dissolved – Alveolate Minds – 26:59
MICADO – An Afternoon Reflection – 30:16
Dormance – Dormance 14 – 38:50
B Side – 43:38
Polypores – The Body Is The Spaceship – 43:55
Kilmarth – A Paradox So Cruel (feat. Silly Shadow) – 55:11
Elijah Fox – Her Palace – 59:30
Autonomаton – Endless stars procession – 1:00:36
Michal Turtle & HOVE – Only Sawdust Remains – 1:06:02
Dave Clarkson – Mechanical Bird Box Exotica – 1:14:19
Edward Givens – Rapid Eye Movement (a Dance) – 1:16:32
Trevlad – EXPANSIVE WAVES 20 (Airtime Text Reacting) – 1:19:40
Alex Ringess – And Now Let’s Play This New Game – 1:22:16
Catharæ – In my world – 1:27:53
Christian Kleine – Slow – 1:31:16
Sussex Telecom – Kendophaz – 1:33:23
Outro – 1:38:47

*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.

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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 172

24 January 2026

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Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.

Good evening, or morning, or whatever sliver of the clock you’ve drifted into. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode one hundred and seventy-two. I’m Trevor, sifting through the reels once more, turning the dial until something faintly human—or faintly inhuman—comes through.

These cassettes still carry the promise of two sides, a flip in the middle. Twenty artists tonight, drawn from various corners: some from the damp fields of field recording-touched ambient, others from the slow-burn electronics of Glasgow’s Bricolage or whitelabrecs quiet corners, a few from Portland’s soft tape worlds, and further out to the looped, patient rhythms that refuse to hurry.

No rush here. No hooks to grab you by the collar. These are pieces that breathe, that unfold like fog over water, that let time stretch until it forgets its own name.

The Wild Hunt Die Wilde Jagd – Gleiß K – Convenanza – Höganord Rekords
A motorik pulse wrapped in dark-leaning kraut electronics, voices half-buried in the machinery, building without ever quite arriving. So Headphones on, let time dissolve and let the frequencies claim you.

Now one of the shortest entries on the show Ann Annie – lupine – El Prado (Deluxe) – available through Nettwerk label.
Portland piano atmospheres drift in gentle layers, carrying a meditative hush, like rain on greenhouse glass.

blochemy – Eim – Islas Calm Cloud – whitelabrecs. Sorry for the mispronunciation in the last episode.
Minimal tape wonk and electroacoustic patience, tones that hover and slowly modulate, a quiet study in restraint and space.

And now clap along with Nu Era – See Are Seven (Bonus Track) – The Second Circle – Neroli Records
Deep, enveloping electronics with a touch of kosmische drift, layers folding inward, unhurried and expansive.

Next Saya Gray – PUDDLE ( OF ME ) – Saya – Dirty Hit
Intimate, watery textures, voice and instrumentation blurring into something fragile and reflective, almost confessional in its slowness.

Check the reverb on the rimshots. Robohands – Oranj – Oranj – Bastard Jazz Recordings
Wonky Rhodes and guitar-led loops that circle and evolve, warm and understated, letting small repetitions reveal hidden depths over time.

Now panic inducing mud flaps. Sophie Sleigh-Johnson – Chaldean Acts – Nuncio Ref – Crow Versus Crow
Sparse, ritualistic soundscapes, field edges and processed resonances evoking ancient, unspoken acts.

Back to some pop phrasings and a bassist at work Flora Hibberd – Auto Icon – Swirl – self-released
Delicate, swirling arrangements, voice and instrumentation caught in gentle eddies, intimate and quietly hypnotic.

And now a recent mate of the channel brings some pigeons CommsBreakdown – In The Heart Of Spring – Dadtronica Ambientus – self-released
Spring-like modular pulses and soft drones, a sense of renewal threaded through the circuitry. Lovely stuff.

Now to end Side A with a stomping track from one of my fantastic supporting labels Bricolage Black Lupus – Fractal Particles – Paradigm 10 Year Label Sampler – Bricolage Glasgow
Granular electronics from Glasgow, particles scattering and reforming in fractal patterns, precise yet organic.

Tape flip.

The cassette turns. Side B.

Starting off Side B Vancouver based Active Dark Filament – Song for Moritz – (NYP) – Lost Axioms Excerpts – self-released
Dedicated drift, dark ambient threads that pull slowly across an 80s vibe stereo field.

And now for something special from David Soulscorch here as Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project – Disenchanting. Nice Work If You Can Get It – Jolly Johnny and His Oompahing Oomlahs.
Lo-fi pastoral wanderings, disenchanted yet oddly affectionate, cassette warmth intact. This album made me happy.

Next is from a label I’d love to play more of as they release some of the best sounds out there. Unfortunately I can’t afford to play as much as I’d like and I respect that they won’t send me stuff for free, but every now and then something lands on my decks for which I’m grateful. This is one of those times. Here’s Kayla Painter – Anicca – Tectonic Particles – Quiet Details
Shifting, impermanent textures, tectonic plates of sound moving beneath the surface, calm on top.

And now to the label who has championed the channel for many a year and a release by James Adrian Brown – Generator – Generator – Colin Morrisons Castles in Space
Generator hums and harmonic overtones, a machine dreaming its own slow song.

Speaking of great labels here’s another one worthy of your attention storyinsoil – Spin Glass – Distillation – Ingrown
Glassy, spinning drones, crystalline and distilled, turning in perpetual motion. Release date is set to February 3rd, so go grab a copy.

Now there’s this wonderful Russian artist NDORFIK who I’ve had a bit of contact with over the past few weeks. He’s a great guy and good at promoting his mates here is one of them in Local Gods label curator Alexander Lvov as Man as island – Haikei – AN. This has yet to get an official release date so you are a lucky bunch.
Isolated, island-bound reveries, spacious and solitary, awaiting their proper tide.

Now an oldie I think I discovered through an instagram post by dream.weasel. I recommend you checking her out. This is Andy Stott – Luxury problems – Modern Love
Heavy, dubbed-out pressure, bass weight and smeared atmospheres from the Manchester shadows.

Now my favourite middle eastern groove outfit Sababa 5 – Allô – C A VA C A VA – set for release on Batov records on 20 Feb.
Psychedelic-tinged grooves, loose and sun-bleached.

The penultimate track and another super supporter of the channel. Label curator Harry Towell & Guy Gelem – Esplanade – Islas Calm Cloud – Whitelabrec.
Calm, esplanade-length drones, coastal in feel, minimal and modern classical in poise.

And now, as the tape nears its end, a few words before the leader tape rattles through. Thanks for staying with it. These libraries aren’t built for playlists or algorithms; they’re for the ones who still turn the dial by hand. Support the artists if any of this lodged somewhere inside you—buy the tapes, the files, the vinyl where it exists. Whisper their names when the room is quiet. It matters.
This episode streams on Mixcloud for a short while, links and credits at trevor.se and in the comments below. Say something if the mood takes you. Or say nothing. Silence has its own frequency.
The final piece is the shortest of the episode but is a gem by Kure – Moon Acid – Another from Paradigm 10 Year Label Sampler – on Glasgows finest Bricolage label.
Acid-touched moonlit electronics, another Glasgow echo, warped and lunar.
Until the next reel spins—stay resonant, stay adrift.

Intro – 00:00
Die Wilde Jagd – Gleiß K – 01:12
Ann Annie – lupine – 07:42
blochemy – Eim – 08:58
Nu Era – See Are Seven (Bonus Track) – 12:25
Saya Gray – PUDDLE ( OF ME ) – 16:51
Robohands – Oranj – 20:33
Sophie Sleigh-Johnson – Chaldean Acts – 26:05
Flora Hibberd – Auto Icon – 28:22
CommsBreakdown – In The Heart Of Spring – 31:53
Black Lupus – Fractal Particles – 37:32
B Side – 43:39
Active Dark Filament – Song for Moritz – 43:44
Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project – Disenchanting. Nice Work If You Can Get It – 46:07
Kayla Painter – Anicca – 51:05
James Adrian Brown – Generator – 54:44
storyinsoil – Spin Glass – 57:30
*Man as island – Haikei – 1:02:30
Andy Stott – Luxury problems – 1:05:48
Sababa 5 – Allô – 1:10:46
Harry Towell & Guy Gelem – Esplanade – 1:14:59
Kure – Moon Acid – 1:18:50
Outro – 1:20:43

*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.

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