Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 313
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve-track virtual cassettes that flips themselves at the halfway mark.
If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies.
Now imagine each episode as a colossal rotating stage — a great mechanical blooming lotus. You, the audience only ever glimpse a sliver of it at a time. Every artist is allotted the exact time it takes them to perform their piece. Then they rotate out of view, and the next act glides in. The stage spins at whatever speed the track demands.
The names of the artists and labels I’ll mention before each set — or “side,” as the cassette alchemists call them. Six little incantations per set, plus a general mist of what mood to expect.
Now the stage begins to turn.
A doorway that reboots itself, then a planet showing you the face it keeps away from the sun.
Side A coughs the portal awake, paints Milan limb by limb in grey-cheek library jazz, docks Ishtar’s goddess-ship, waits for Blue Bell Hill to switch from black-and-white to blossom, folds a desert peacock that rarely leaves the room, and hums a 7-inch bodega under fluorescent strip-light.
Side B parks godhead in the sprawl, waltzes a chest-pain name you cannot pronounce, pours top brass that refuses to complicate, walks the talk until it grows bass strings, holds the only hands that exist to be held, and ends on the dark side of the earth — the hemisphere the dying star never got around to lighting.
Overall mood: Playful, cinematic, and quietly cosmic — full of Clay Pipe colour, Batov half-shut eyes, and infrastructure filed under prayer. Perfect for late listening, bodega aisles after hours, or sitting with the drawbridge down while the next spool still waits.
Mood mist: a doorway that reboots itself, Milan painted limb by limb, a goddess-ship docking on the lotus, a council estate coming into colour, a desert peacock that rarely leaves the room, a 7-inch bodega humming under fluorescent strip-light.
00:03:30 DaoLogic – Portal Reload
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/portal-reload
From the album: Source Vive Label: Mahorka
The portal coughs, then remembers its password. Warm crispy beats walking you through without extrasystoles. You enter. The source is still alive.
00:07:27 Barigozzi Group – Grey Cheeks
https://fourfliesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/grey-cheeks
From the album: Woman’s Colours Label: Four Flies Records
the last colour on a body mapped in library jazz. Wurlitzer blushing while the flute keeps the secret.
00:09:34 Gong – Ship Of Ishtar
https://gongband.bandcamp.com/track/ship-of-ishtar
From the album: Unending Ascending.
Venus at the tiller. Sacred cargo under the sails, clocks not yet reset. Climb aboard — the guitar is already a spaceship, but tonight the ship is Ishtar.
00:17:50 David Boulter – Blue Bell Hill
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/blue-bell-hill
From the album: St Ann’s Label: Clay Pipe Music
Blue Bell Hill before the demolition learned its manners. Black-and-white streets waiting for the cherry blossom to switch the world to colour.
00:20:04 Taftir – Tavasim
https://taftir.bandcamp.com/track/tavasim-2
From the EP: Od Layla Ba Ayara Label: Batov Records
Desert town, five players, a soul ballad they almost never play live. Feathers folded. The groove keeps its eyes half-shut.
00:23:05 East Side Supply – The Bodega
https://eastsidesupply.bandcamp.com/track/the-bodega
From the single: DELICATESSEN / THE BODEGA Label: Sonor Music Editions
Harpsichord and flute shopping the aisles. Axelrod hits between the tinned peaches. The bodega closes the side before the lotus can blink.
Mood mist: sprawl praying to itself, a chest-pain waltz with a name you cannot pronounce, brass that refuses to complicate, Watt walking the talk into orbit, hands that only exist to be held, a planet showing you the face it keeps away from the sun.
00:27:57 boycalledcrow – godhead
https://boycalledcrow.bandcamp.com/track/godhead
From the album: the sprawl Label: Mortality Tables
Godhead parked in the sprawl. Mortality Tables filing the prayer under “infrastructure.”
00:29:59 Angine de Poitrine – Tohogd
https://anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com/track/tohogd
From the album: Vol.1 Label: Republic of Music
a syllable that arrived before the translation. Vol.1 still catching its breath.
00:33:53 Matt Berry – Top Brass Two
https://mattberry.bandcamp.com/track/top-brass-two
From the album: Simplicity Label: Acid Jazz Records
Top brass, second helping. Simplicity wearing a tie it does not need. Acid Jazz pouring the good stuff and leaving the bottle.
00:36:50 Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio – Walk the Talk
https://galecstasy.bandcamp.com/track/walk-the-talk
From the album: Wattzotica Label: Mystery Circles
Walk the talk until the talk grows bass strings. Wattzotica: the stage spinning at walking pace, then suddenly not.
00:40:15 The Mistys – A Hand Is To Hold
https://themistysband.bandcamp.com/track/a-hand-is-to-hold
From the album: Situations | Useless Mouths Label: Castles In Space
A hand is to hold. Useless mouths taking the night off. Castles In Space leaving the drawbridge down.
00:43:46 Martin Solos – Dark Side of the Earth
https://martinsolos.bandcamp.com/track/dark-side-of-the-earth
From the album: Heart of a Dying Star.
the hemisphere the dying star never got around to lighting. Heart still beating in the shade.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 313.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 233
Amber Safe Byway
Based on the track “Amber (feat. Itamar Ziegler)” by “Ori Kaplan & Lihu Melamed” from the album “Reverie”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A stylish, sun-drenched cinematic journey through groovy library music, psychedelic jazz-funk, exotica, and global grooves.
Side A cruises with vibrant Italian 70s energy, Mediterranean breeziness, and adventurous desert psych. Side B deepens into darker cinematic funk, liquid dreaminess, and occult-tinged grooves before ending on warm, swinging elegance.
Overall mood: Warm, nostalgic, playful, and sophisticated with a strong retro-cinematic flair. Feels like a golden-hour drive along the coast or a smoky late-night lounge session. Highly groovy and immersive.
If you make music, or are a label, and would like to be featured, send your file links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I’d love to hear what you’re working on.
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So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Side A
00:00:00 Piero Umiliani – Orgasmo Seq. 2 (jazz pour l’action)
Vibrant Italian library jazz with energetic percussion, swinging horns, and groovy 70s flair. Playful and cinematic.
00:03:23 D.Rothon – In The Racket Too
Warm, nostalgic library folk-jazz with gentle charm and subtle British whimsy. Cosy and characterful.
00:06:17 Matt Berry – Safe Passage
Smooth, psychedelic-tinged cinematic piece with lush orchestration and adventurous spirit. Elegant and groovy.
00:07:46 Kolumbo – Riviera
Sunny Mediterranean grooves with breezy rhythms and coastal cool. Laid-back and stylish.
00:11:24 Moonbrew, Paolo Apollo Negri – Opportunity’s last farewell
Melancholic, cinematic jazz with emotional depth and a touching sense of closure. Sophisticated and heartfelt.
00:14:53 Elías González – San Juan Unido
Warm Latin jazz/funk fusion with sunny rhythms and heartfelt melodies. Joyful and vibrant.
00:15:49 Falk & Klou – Area 47:1 (Strövelstorp)
Driving, motorik-inspired electronic with retro racing energy and hypnotic propulsion.
00:18:24 Ori Kaplan & Lihu Melamed – Amber (feat. Itamar Ziegler)
Rich, smoky jazz with deep bass, expressive reeds, and warm Middle Eastern-tinged grooves. Soulful and immersive.
00:21:23 Sven Wunder – Scenic Byway
Lush exotica/jazz with rolling percussion and picturesque, road-trip warmth. Cinematic and groovy.
00:25:08 Anadol – Hatıralar
Psychedelic Turkish folk-electronica with dreamy, memory-laden textures. Hypnotic and nostalgic.
00:27:30 JJ Whitefield – Bedouin Bounce No. 2
Funky, desert-tinged Afrobeat/jazz with bouncy rhythms and adventurous spirit. Energetic and transportive.
Side B
00:29:33 Ghost Funk Orchestra – Achluo
Dark, cinematic funk-soul with brooding atmosphere and ghostly psychedelic edges. Atmospheric and powerful.
00:33:03 Thee Marloes – Nona (Instrumental)
Smooth, laid-back soul/funk instrumental with warm grooves and gentle melancholy. Elegant and groovy.
00:37:10 Misha Panfilov – Raindrops On Water
Dreamy, liquid psych-jazz with rippling textures and hypnotic analogue warmth. Beautiful and immersive.
00:41:39 Riz Ortolani – Why (strumentale N. 10)
Classic Italian soundtrack elegance with lush strings, subtle drama, and emotional depth.
00:43:05 Bolbec – Machine Arrière
Quirky, retro-futurist electronic with mechanical charm and playful French flair.
00:45:34 The Sorcerers – Kid Mahout
Heavy, psychedelic Ethiopian-jazz funk with powerful rhythms and mystical intensity. Funky and transportive.
00:48:59 Kronstad 23 – Svartmagi
Dark, occult-tinged Nordic psych/jazz with brooding atmosphere and ritualistic drive.
00:52:28 Time Is a Mountain – Wooden Keys
Warm, organic jazz-folk with tactile percussion and gentle, wooden instrumentation. Earthy and meditative.
00:58:00 Gianni Safred – Bottom Up
Swinging Italian library jazz with upbeat energy, tight grooves, and sophisticated cool. A lively closer.
Mystery Apples 10
09.03.2025
Trevors’ Intro – 00:00
Matthewdavid’s Mindflight, Matthewdavid – Tract of Bell & Flute Magic – 00:26
Tross – Atlantic Tariff – 10:38
Kutiman – Line 3 – 14:24
VED – Erickson Indirect – 17:13
Prairiewolf – Cogs – 24:25
Trees Speak – Everlasting – 28:38
Polypores – Loss Of Ego Boundaries – 29:32
Datashock – Spaziergang im Leguangarten – 32:41
Kevin Pearce – Sundial – 36:21
Good Doom – Murmurations – 38:37
Sun Swept – Remember the Cosmos – 40:43
The Galaxy Electric & Droog Mulholland – Narrow Passage – 44:45
Somni – Running – 47:43
Heldon – Northernland Lady – 51:24
Golden Brown – Scurvy – 57:58
Aldous Harding – Designer – 01:01:07
Psyché – Kuma – 01:05:07
ZENYA – Spheres On The Beach – 01:08:21
Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin – Alakarra – 01:13:26
Matt Berry – Like Stone – 01:15:29
BALTHVS – In Lust – 01:18:15
Gemini Horror – Fortune Teller – 01:20:45
Audio Obscura – An Age Yet To Come – 01:24:12
Secret Circuit – Crazy Ways – 01:28:06
L’éclair, The Mauskovic Dance Band – Take the Money – Octopus Version – 01:31:58
George Issakidis – Ourania – 01:36:33
Mystery Apples 8
28.02.2025
Baïkonour – Hypnagogique – 00:00
La Chooma – Magic Plant – 05:45
Matt Berry – Safer Passage – 05:45
Cosmic Analog Ensemble – La Ligne Claire – 12:31
Mater Suspiria Vision – Das Universum bist Du – 15:14
Sean Ono Lennon, Devon Hoff, Yuka Honda, Michael Leonhart, João Nogueira, Mauro Refosco, Ches Smith, Johnny Mathar – Asterisms – 23:29
BEAK> – Cellophane – 34:21
Heldon – Ouais, marchais, mieux qu’en 68 (Ex- Le voyageur) – 42:02
The Galaxy Electric & Drew Mulholland – Welcome/You Blister My Paint – 46:24
Goat – Dollar Bill – 49:09
Hawksmoor – A Forest In The Sky – 54:56
El Hombre Al Agua – Zaxxon5 – 58:51
The Hologram People – Deep into the Cosmic Ocean – 01:04:38
Red Snapper – Tolminka – 01:06:50
SOMA – Amrta – 01:11:29
Polypores – Live at Castle & Falcon, Birmingham (28.04.24) – 01:15:26
Musette – All We Got Is Uz – 01:20:21
The Qualitons – ⵖⴰⵍⴰⵅⵉⵙ (Galaxis) – 01:24:23
Aldous Harding – Heaven is Empty – 01:32:31
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Snail Garden – 01:35:37
Sedibus – Seti – Pt. 2 – 01:37:28
Fridge Flammers – 71V3 – 01:46:29
Kavus Torabi – Chart the Way – 01:48:26
RETEP FOLO & DOROTHY MOSKOWITZ – Water Streams – 01:51:22
30 Door Key – Mistery & Imagination – 01:54:31
Mystery Apples 7
24.02.2025
Matt Berry – Transition – 00:00
Goat – Frisco Beaver – 02:56
Rapid Eye Electronics Ltd (REEL) – Droad – 08:32
Mater Suspiria Vision – Ausserkörperliche Erfahrung / Out of Body Experience – 12:39
The People’s Love Cult – Is it cold in there – 17:45
Higamos Hogamos – Purest Space – 21:00
TFSL – The Tale For The Tales – 28:37
Thought Bubble – Now Boarding – 38:03
Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, Carlos Niño – So Much Love – 42:23
J.Joyce and Co – Daddy and Mama – 47:01
Jack Silverman Quartet – Break Glass – 50:41
Dumbo Tracks – A Naked Star (feat. Rubee Fegan) – 53:18
Polypores – The Dream Incubator – 58:17
Gregory Nieuwsma – The Pleasure Of Getting Lost – 01:01:46
Black Moth Super Rainbow – I Am the Alphabet – 01:04:58
Sunshine Playroom – Halcyon Daze – 01:06:06
Yama Warashi – Dividual Individual – 01:08:11
The Soundcarriers – Always – 01:13:25
Musette – Monsoon Moon – 01:18:13
Fontän – Earth – 01:20:07
Hipwell + Kasperkiewicz – Goat’s Peak – 01:26:05
Glass Beams – Orb – 01:31:05
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek – The Trip – 01:35:56
Skyjelly – Laisse Jeyedin Jeden (Zonevreemd remix) (download only) – 01:40:33
Golden Brown – Dusty – 01:47:42
RETEP FOLO & DOROTHY MOSKOWITZ – The Enchanted People – 01:51:15
Kutiman – Line 4 – 01:54:54
Spotify playlist of all the Mystery Apples episodes so far (not all music is on Spotify):
Mystery Apples 5
15.02.2025.
Sedibus – Seti – Pt. 1 – 00:00
Forest Swords – Torch – 08:05
Joachim Stiller – Radiophonic Sound Bath #2.2: And To Let The Weather Decide Whether To Wear A Sweater – 09:49
Fatma – The Dirty Beat – 26:26
Dave Bessell – Ariel – 29:38
Polypores – Fabulae – 33:55
30 Door Key – Lucifer In Cefalu – 35:54
Jack Silverman Quartet – Nightfall on the Nile – 37:36
Fridge Flammers – Conga Town – 41:46
Baïkonour – Unreliable Memories Part 1 – 45:39
Glass Beams – Snake Oil – 49:19
Skyjelly – Killer B (Zonevreemd remix) – 53:47
Sababa 5 – Bezani – 59:48
Aldous Harding – Pilot – 01:02:43
OdNu + Ümlaut – Following a Number – 01:05:29
Anna Butterss – Shorn – 01:11:17
BEAK> – Ah Yeh – 01:15:26
El Hombre Al Agua – Three Minute Meditation – 01:20:57
Matt Berry – Telescopic – 01:24:01
Spotify playlist of all the Mystery Apples episodes so far (not all music is on Spotify):
Mystery Apples 4
14.02.2025
Matthewdavid – Zithertronix – 00:00
Mirai No Hagaki – Cantata of the Lost Future – 05:20
Michel Magne, Boris Bergman – Prophets – 06:43
Richard Norris – To All Wizards in Lockdown – 09:25
Mong Tong – Intro – 12:06
Gilroy Mere – Sea Breeze – 13:45
Marigold Sun – Reverie, Pt. 2 – 14:55
J Foerster, N KRAMER – Levitation Room – 17:12
Secret Circuit – Interface < – 20:46
Polypores – Enchantments – 24:02
Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, Carlos Niño – Subtle Movements – 25:23
Rosa Beach Mason & Sean Conrad – Ardor – 35:50
Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra, Golden Rules – Rocket Ship – 38:16
Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, Carlos Niño – We are Moving now – 40:49
Matt Berry – Alone – 44:45
SOMA – Mahamrityunjaya Mantra – 48:10
Red Snapper – Ban-Di-To – 52:39
Forever Pavot – Au diable – 56:47
The Galaxy Electric & Droog Mulholland – The Stranger – 01:00:33
Brasa brasil – I Got to Bahia – 01:01:08
Amorphous Androgynous – The Lovers – 01:04:20
Jean-Pierre Massiera – Onomatapaeia – 01:09:17
Stennes – Moon Child – 01:10:44
Skyjelly – Damaskiss – 01:14:44
Fatma – Cirklar – 01:16:28
Anna Butterss, Jeff Parker – Dance Steve – 01:19:31
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Folks with Magik Toes – 01:23:33
Spotify playlist of all the Mystery Apples episodes so far (not all music is on Spotify):
Invisible Club 050
Moonbrew, Paolo Apollo Negri – Curiosity on Mount Sharp – 00:00
Riz Ortolani – Why (strumentale N. 1) – 04:01
Austin Potter – Peace, Won’t You Stay – 06:07
A. Song – Stroll (Dawn) – 07:17
The Galaxy Electric & Droog Mulholland – Make You Happy – 10:37
Regenwelt – Overlapping Operators Mix 1 – 13:17
Ginger Root – Take Me Back (Owakare No Jikan) – 19:31
Simon Heartfield – The Book Spirits – 22:22
Clystre – 15 Inches of Snow – 25:50
Anna Butterss, Jeff Parker – Dance Steve – 28:59
Chenosky – Sneaking Into The Night – 33:12
Lightower – Dreams – 37:16
Matt Berry – Alone – 39:50
ATW – Super Eight – 43:14
david a jaycock – Salford Shopping City – 45:41
Misha Panfilov – The Shingle Beach – 48:34
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Invisible Club 035
Intro 00:00
Lunar Cambridge–Colossus Drift 01:23
The Qualitons–Dolly 04:04
Professional Hairdresser–クリックベイト 05:18
Herandu–Ocher Red 10:35
Bendu–Motorbike 15:23
Cory Wong–Starship Syncopation 17:57
Matt Berry–Summer Sun 21:46
µ-Ziq–Magic Pony Ride, Pt. 4 25:39
Ginger Root–Better Than Monday 28:24
Vulfmon–It Feels Good To Write A Song 31:14
Julio Tornero–la espera 34:10
Time Is a Mountain–Zul Iwan 38:00
Time Rival–Future Problems 44:42
Bolbec–Funaise 47:06
Musette–Moonquake 49:17
Stumbleine–Fake Plastic Trees 52:29
Outro 56:41
