Trev Tales – Neon Cassette
Welcome to NEON CASSETTE, the transmission where analog dreams collide with digital ghosts, and every beat feels like a memory you never quite lived.
I’m your host, Trevor, speaking straight from the glow of a flickering CRT, cassette deck spinning, reverb tail trailing into the void.
This new series (I know I do too much already) is an idea I have for doing live DJ sets combined with me reading fictional tales where each transition is a new chapter. I hope you like it. Channel subscribers get the music only mixes of course.
We’re diving deep into the grid—stolen frequencies, midnight motorways, poolside echoes that never quite close up, and utopian mirages that glitch when you get too close. We’ve got a handpicked journey through the underground wires: from the raw pulse of trial and resistance, through lunar skin and stargazing rooftops, all the way to that final white-noise cliff where we realize we can’t wait for death… because the night’s already ours.
So dim the lights, hit play, let the tape hiss fill the room. We’re not just listening—we’re escaping.
Apta – Trial – 01:28
Gavel pixels stutter across the cathode screen, my wrists cuffed in magnetic tape loops. The judge’s face is pure waveform, spiking guilt, spiking innocence, I can’t tell which. Fingers itch for the keys anyway—steal the sound, steal the future, they said. The courtroom hums like a detuned oscillator. One wrong note and the grid swallows me whole. But the tape is already rolling. Escape in 4… 3… 2…
Cautionary Guides – Merseytravel – 05:29
Train doors hiss open onto wet Liverpool concrete, South Parkway signs bleeding orange into the night. Cautionary yellow lines streak past the window like corrupted data. My reflection stares back—hollow, cassette-case thin—while the Mersey rolls black and silver below. Suitcase full of stolen patches rattles on the rack. Every mile erases the courtroom glow. North, south, doesn’t matter. The rhythm says keep moving.
Jetfire Prime – Closing Up (Unreleased Poolside Track) – 08:00
Club lights die one by one, turquoise rectangles folding into black water. Last swimmer’s laughter echoes off tiled walls that smell of chlorine and ozone. I stand at the edge, towel around my neck like a noose, watching the pool reflect a sky that no longer exists. Unreleased. That’s what they’ll call this night too. The gate clangs shut behind me. Echoes only.
Conny Frischauf – Wunder – 09:17
A single chord blooms—pure Wunder—lifting the hairs on my arms like static electricity. For one frozen second the motorway becomes a cathedral of light. Then the chord bends, warps, reveals itself as just another illusion. Still, the heart remembers the lift. Still, the lungs remember how to breathe again.
Patrick R. Pärk – Synthetic Utopian Mirage – 11:37
Palm trees made of vector lines shimmer above cracked asphalt. Perfect neon condos float above the desert, windows full of laughing holograms. I reach out—fingers pass straight through pink stucco. The mirage laughs back in 16-bit. Utopia always looked better on the oscilloscope.
Franco Esse – Pelle Di Luna – 19:08
Her shoulder under moonlight—silver, cool, impossible. Skin like vinyl left in the sun too long, warm and warped and perfect. I trace the curve with a fingertip and the memory skips, repeats, skips again. Pelle di luna. The only sample I never stole.
Pabellón Sintético – La Resistencia – 21:20
Concrete walls pulse with red spray-paint glyphs. We are the resistance of the last frequency. Boots on wet pavement, synths hidden in rucksacks, hearts beating in 4/4 defiance. Sirens in the distance sound like detuned arpeggios. We don’t run. We modulate.
Acos CoolKAs – Stargazing – 29:09
Roof tiles cold against my back. Stars above look like dead LEDs someone forgot to turn off. I count them anyway—each one a lost patch, each one a night we almost made. The city hums below like a held note. I keep staring until the sky itself starts to breathe.
Dark Strands – We Own The Night – 34:08
We own the night. The slogan tastes like copper and cheap smoke. Streetlights flicker in time with the kick. Shadows lengthen, stretch into black ribbons we can hide inside. Tonight the city belongs to anyone with a sequencer and a grudge. Tonight we are the dark strands holding everything together.
Makeup and Vanity Set – Search The Night – 40:15
Flashlight beam sweeps empty arcades, hunting for one more glowing screen. Makeup smeared across cracked mirrors, vanity long gone. I search for the signal that will tell me it’s safe to stop running. Every corner throws back only my own face, distorted, beautiful, terrified.
Dogs Versus Shadows – MALCONTENT – 42:42
Malcontent. The word snarls in my chest like a broken sawtooth. Everything perfect is a lie. Every utopia glitches. Every lover fades to static. I bare my teeth at the moon and the moon bares its teeth right back. Good. At least we understand each other.
Pye Corner Audio – Program 70 – 44:15
Program 70 boots in the glovebox—green phosphor glow lighting the steering wheel. Old code I wrote when I still believed in happy endings. It hums, remembers me, offers one last subroutine: RUN AWAY. I laugh until the tears short-circuit the dashboard.
Salvatore Mercatante – Detector – 48:22
Beep. Beep. The scanner on the dash lights up red. They’re close. Detector never lies. I floor it. The engine screams in perfect fifths. Every beep is another bar of the final track I’ll never finish.
Albin – Hammenhög – 52:13
Hammenhög appears like a memory I never lived—red wooden houses, windmills frozen mid-turn, snow that shouldn’t be here in July. I pull over, engine ticking cool. For one moment the world is quiet. Then the detector beeps again. Even paradise has an exit ramp.
Larry Manteca – Tuareg Road – 55:32
Sand whips across the windshield in turquoise dunes. Tuareg Road stretches forever under a violet sky. No mirrors, no rear-view, just forward. The car becomes a camel made of chrome. I ride the arpeggio into infinity.
Erez Yaary – O7 – 57:05
O7. The secret orbit. The code inside the code. I punch it into the old radio and the stars realign. For seven seconds I am outside everything—outside the trial, outside the night, outside death itself. Then gravity remembers my name.
Yves Malone – We Can’t Wait For Death – 1:05:26
The road ends at a cliff of pure white noise. I kill the engine. The last chord hangs in the air like a question that already knows the answer. We can’t wait for death—death has been riding shotgun the whole time, tapping its foot to the beat. I smile, finally. The tape clicks off. Silence rushes in, warm and endless.
The stars above are still blinking in perfect 4/4.
I close my eyes.
The next track begins inside my chest.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 165
10 January 2026
Virtual 90 minute mixtapes for the sonically adventurous. 30 artists, two 45 minute sets. A spoken intro followed by music only show. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
“Hello, Trevor here, and this is the all new Virtual Cassette Library and episode one‑six‑five.
First up we have the La Ponto Ensemblo which is actually a duo made up of Hans-Dieter Schmidt and Edward-Clark Cornell who together make delicate and harsh neo-classical pieces. This is track five from their latest release Fragile Objects: In A Harsh Environment.
Headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you.
Next up an old favourite of mine in the form of fellow Irishman David K. Mason. Better known as Listening Center. Mason is now based in New York and runs the rather fantastic Temporary tapes label. Although this track, Plugged In Nollaig, (nollaig being Irish for Christmas) is from the Subexotic Records compilation EP Yule 25.
Just a heads up, starting back on episode 156, there’s a little cipher game running through the series. Each episode, during the intermission, you’ll hear a number. Scribble it down. After ten episodes, you’ll have the full sequence. Put the pieces together, crack the cipher, and you’ll unlock a code that knocks ninety‑five percent off anything on my Bandcamp page. Which means you can scoop up the whole discography for about two quid. It’s not meant to be difficult—just enough to keep you awake at night wondering if you’ll get it right.
Now next up the original sounds of Sam Prekop. Sam is a master of modular synthesis. This is the title track from his latest release Open Close which is available through Thrill Jockey Records.
Now Mark Donlon also known as CZiGO with the dare I say jazz fusion injected piece, SERPITUDE, from his album, Techno Feudal. The latest to drop on New Zealand based Machine Records.
Now Russian artist NDORFIK with the Idm vibe Saimaa which is named after a Finnish lake and here is given a Finnish remix by the legendary Lackluster. The album of the same name is available through the Local Gods label.
Next up is from the i u we records label. A label focussing on the beauty of female diversity in electronic music.
The artist is Silver Galaky and is a duo made up of Anna-Maria Van Reusel on modular and keyboard synthesizers, and usually a very imaginative guitarist Dennis Slypen. Although this piece might well be just anna letting loose on her 5U Moon Modular system. The track is Strahlensammler and is from the upcoming compilation release connected #3. Dropping on i u we records on the 20th of January.
Now one of my favourite Swedish artists at the moment. Albin Johansson who simply goes by the name Albin. Everything Albin has released is gold. He has that retro library music ear which I cherish. This is the title track from the name your price EP DFAM which I believe is entirely written on the Moog Drummer From Another Mother. Albin is also a curator of the Malmö label Paltunes. Let’s go.
And now staying in Sweden in a way. from my neighbours up the road Passed Recordings recent, must have Chrimbo compilation The Ghost of Christmas passed I’ve pulled another great track from the 35 piece strong release in the form of this short entry, Snowfields by the artist Angel who I no nothing about. Enjoy…
Next up a long live piece I’ve kept its entirety for the episode. This is the artist Ryan Watts who goes by the wonderful name of Akira Film Script. Here with the piece E. Not to be confused with E or E.. Which are tracks on the same album titled Live at the Modern. It’s released on a label you should all know by now, whitelabrecs run by the unstoppable Harry Towell.
And now to end the virtual A side another figure of the ambient scene who does more than his fair share, Boris Potschubay who we all know as Jogging House. Boris curates the fantastic label Seil Records on which he has released the album Kiosk. Here he is with the track Worn.
Starting off the B side was the wonderful harp-like piano sounds and jazz phrasings of Brooklyn based artist Eliot Krimsky with the track, Transmission, from the album, I Made My House. Out on the outstanding Moon Glyph
Next a track of my own titled Trunk Stubbed Wiser which is a What3Words geographical location where I’ve filmed a visual to go with the piece on youtube.
It’s from the album TVCL 07.
Now a legend who for me embodies the late 90s IDM mood. French artist Alain Pachins, better known as, CIALYN here with a live take called, Last Lights / Winds Reader, from the album, 24:1900 Session Live.
Now to Melbourne bassist and producer Karl Willebrant. The ultra prolific Willebrant has released two albums since the release of The Knight Seas which was released in November. Here is an almost 11 minute treat, Thoughts of Them (A Knight on a Beach Mix – slowed and reverb)
Next up the unmistakable organic electronic sound of KILN which is actually a group made up of Kevin Hayes, Kirk Marrison, and Clark Rehberg III. Here is a track from their 8th album, Lemon Borealis. Which was released on the wonderful label, A Strangely Isolated Place. This is Ptarmigan which is a form of grouse found in northern and arctic regions.
And now a short piece from the fun Dutch artist Toxic Chicken. This is the track, Inner Worlds, from the album, Felicity out on the brilliant label Ingrown Records.
Staying with Ingrown Records, here is another quicky, from label curator, Raw Ryan , here as the artist, Anubis Rude, and the 37 second ditty, Spirit Bell, from the album, Explorer. Support the Ingrown Records label. It’s needed.
Next up Jason Courtney aka, In Darkness There Is Light shortened to (IDTiL),
and another Machine Records release titled, A Screensaver Of Emotions, this is the pumping minute long, Ahhhh Sequence.
Now to the penultimate track and something different from British born, Vienna based, Mark Peter Royce Featuring Cecilia C from Tempestine and the track, Antidote, from the album Twilight in the Altered World.
We end with the beautiful ambient warblings of Collette Andrea who goes by the name Gollden. Collette helps curate the Toronto based label Imaginary North together with Daniel Field of Kilometre Club fame. Thank you all for tuning into episode 165 of the Virtual Cassette library. I hope you like its new direction. Sending us home is Gollden with, destiny #9, from the album, Destiny.
Intro – 00:00
La Ponto Ensemblo – V – 00:45
Listening Center – Plugged In Nollaig – 04:43
Sam Prekop – Open Close – 07:35
CZiGO – SERPITUDE – 13:07
Ndorfik – Saimaa (Lackluster Remix) – 16:05
Silver Galaxy – Strahlensammler – 19:40
Albin – DFAM – 24:40
Angel – Snowfields – 28:47
Akira Film Script – E. – 32:22
Jogging House – Worn – 42:25
B Side – 45:02
Eliot Krimsky – Transmission – 45:31
Trevlad – Trunk Stubbed Wiser – 47:56
CIALYN – Last Lights / Winds Reader – 52:24
Willebrant – Thoughts of Them (A Knight on a Beach Mix – slowed and reverb) – 58:26
KILN – Ptarmigan – 1:07:40
Toxic Chicken – Inner Worlds – 1:10:35
Anubis Rude – Spirit Bell – 1:12:04
IDTiL – Ahhhh Sequence – 1:12:35
Mark Peter Royce – Antidote (Feat. Tempestine) – 1:13:37
Gollden – destiny #9 – 1:17:33
Outro – 1:21.23
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 143
14 November 2025
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at Episode 143 of The Virtual Cassette Library.
Plank Glides Enigma is the episodes subtitle, as well as the track you’re hearing in the background and its geographical location which I’ve filmed and can be experienced on YouTube.
I’m Trevor and I curate these 90-minute genre bending drifts through frequencies from around the globe. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion. Two, 45 minute mixes, 15 tracks per set with a side change half way.
Imagine the listening experience like being at a music festival where the artists play on a rotating stage. Each act is allotted time for their piece and as it ends the next act takes over rotating into view.
Styles for this episode range from beats to nature, from funk to new classical. The musical keys in focus are G sharp / A flat and F minor.
In this episode we’re joined by some new friends of the channel like Sævar Jóhannsson and Red Stars Over Tokyo. As well as some familiar names like THE GAYE DEVICE, Mike Dickinson and Listening Center as well as supporting labels like Cyclical Dreams, Buried Treasure, Moolakii Club Audio Interface, Ingrown Records, Mahorka, Castles in Space and many more. All the artists and labels are the soul of this show.
If you’d like to be included on future episodes send your art to trevlad@gmail.com. Links to all the tracks are illuminated at trevor.se and marked in each episode’s Mixcloud timeline.
Pre-order the 8th TVCL album on Bandcamp. It drops when we hit 16 tracks. Also you can now grab the first compilation album Murmurs in the Mist with 45 artists. Subscribe to the Mixcloud channel and unlock 877 archived shows.
Remember, every comment, every like, every follow, subscription and, album purchase keeps the frequencies flowing.
So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you.
Intro – 00:00
Allmanna Town – Sample 23 – 02:42
Paddy Steer – Wool Roll – 03:31
Sophos – Pentameric symmetry – 06:08
Sam Prekop – Para – 08:32
Albin – MAFD – 11:02
Language Field – Ghosts Are Petty – 16:14
Synthotherapy – Medication Time – 19:16
THE GAYE DEVICE – Quantum Leaf – 22:26
Meemo Comma – The Soldier – 26:29
Leonardo Soundweaver – Air – 28:31
Zazie Productions – Moving in Perpetual Slumber – 32:44
seanderrickcoopermarquardt – Ode to the West Wind – 34:20
Fimnur – Caelestigris – 35:03
Hiro Ama – Find Me In The Nearest Forest – 38:25
Pariah – 3 + 0 – 41:12
B Side – 46:01
The Sorcerers – Moth – 46:33
DTime – Archive Of The Unseen – 49:43
Paul Ellis & Pabellón Sintético – Synonymous – 54:15
Chris Meyer’s Alias Zone – The Gathering Storm (ARP remix) – 56:56
Mike Dickinson – HI-REM – 1:00:33
David Baron – XAX – 1:04:03
Sævar Jóhannsson – Lighthouse Visits – 1:07:28
a mild wizard – cats we remember – 1:11:05
Austin Potter – Merrymakers – 1:15:19
Matthew Mirliani – Utopian Scholastic – 1:16:02
Hirotaka Shirotsubaki – After the Snow – 1:19:14
Listening Center – The Death Of Group D Meter – 1:22:33
Red Stars Over Tokyo – Avery Loop – 1:25:35
Federica Deiana – The Hour Between – 1:30:26
James Stevens – 3M4 Lee, I’ve Got To Talk To You – 1:32:03
Outro – 1:32:32
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The Best Songs I’ve Never Played
SUBSCRIPTION ONLY
A summer mix for my subscribers. Just some classics that I don’t believe I’ve ever played on the channel.
Tycho – Time To Run – 00:00
Kettel – My Dogan (15th Anniversary Edition) – 04:08
The Police – Spirits In The Material World – 08:50
Capitol 1212 ft. Earl 16 – Love Will Tear Us Apart (Full Vocal Dub) (Exclusive remix) – Originally recorded by Joy Division – 11:36
Albin – I dessa tider – 15:04
To Rococo Rot – cars – 18:28
Sababa 5 – Popcorn – 20:53
Nitai Hershkovits, Daniel Dor – Gnome Worthy – 24:15
Gelbart – WWI Hamster Diorama – 28:08
Mint Julep – It’s My Life – 30:23
Donny Benét – Le Piano – 34:04
Psyché – Cumbia Mahàre – 39:01
Jack J – If You Don’t Know Why – 42:26
Bibio – Even More Excuses – 48:09
Maston with L’éclair – Do You Feel It Working? – 52:05
Harry Nilsson – Everybody’s Talkin’ – 55:55
SALES – Can’t Be Yours Forever – 58:18
The Books – It Never Changes To Stop – 1:00:34
Prince Fatty & Shniece McMenamin – Black Rabbit – Originally recorded by Jefferson Airplane – 1:04:08
Les Imprimés – You – 1:07:30
Shabason, Krgovich & Harris – Sometimes I think that I know – 1:10:22
Edgar Froese – Stuntman – 2012 Remaster – 1:14:28
Low Motion Disco – Things are going to get easier – 1:18:24
Sven Wunder – Asterism Waltz (Celesta Version) – 1:24:01
Carole King – Bitter with the Sweet – 1:26:23
Surprise Chef – Spring’s Theme – 1:28:37
The Smile – The Smoke – 1:32:21
Marvin Gaye – Where Are We Going? – Alternative Mix 2 – 1:35:56
Mave & Dave – You Are Delicious – 1:39:34
Ozric Tentacles – Sploosh! – 1:43:58
Me and My Friends – You Came Into My Life – 1:49:39
DāM-FunK – Night Kruise – 1:53:09
Jordan Rakei – Lover, You Should’ve Come Over (Exclusive Cover Version) – 1:57:26
The Doors – Riders On The Storm (Sunset Sound Demo) – 1:59:53
Khruangbin – B-Side – 2:04:14
The Velvet Underground – Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ – 2015 Remaster – 2:08:24
Dorian Concept – Eigendynamik (Elevator Version) – 2:15:35
Gil Trythall – Wichita Lineman – 2:18:17
Tomer Baruch, Animals And Synthesizers – Starfish – 2:20:59
Dina Ögon – Mormor – 2:23:39
Malouma – Nebine – 2:27:27
Michael Andrews ft Gary Jules – Mad World (Donnie Darko) – 2:31:55
Jonny Greenwood – Don’t Read What Hasn’t Been Baptized by Time – 2:34:51
Billy Cobham, Novecento, Bob Mintzer – Stratus – 2:36:29
Pocket Pavilions – Decagons – 2:42:44
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 045
Welcome, wanderers of invisible frequencies to a new transmission, a cosmic unfolding. Listen and surrender to the spiral of auditory prophecies. This episode is a bit more energetic and uplifting than usual. We all need that from time to time.
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🚀 The sponsoring artists are – Simon Heartfield, Vic Mars, .
🎭 As per usual The benevolent sponsoring force—Free Album Codes— ensuring chosen frequencies find their way home.
Welcome to a soundscape beyond language. Reality wavers, sound bends, and we are merely surfers on the infinite wave.
🔹 Artists, experimenters, visionaries—cast your offerings my way: trevlad@gmail.com. 🔹 Don’t forget to leave your timestamp upon the celestial mixtape.
🔮 Prepare for immersion. Secure your headphones. Let’s dissolve time together. 🚀✨
Trevs Intro – 00:00
The All Golden – The Mandate of the Kingdom of Heaven – 01:47
*Simon Heartfield – Sunrise Tells You – 04:38
Albin – Gryning – 09:38
Ozric Tentacles – Lotus Unfolding – 14:10
Bravo Tounky – Coulemelles – 21:21
Iplu – Zerbaghali / Karbala – 27:07
Riz Ortolani – Why (strumentale N. 1) – 32:30
El Michels Affair – Ala Vida – 34:41
Mark Ellery Griffiths – Return of the insect god – 38:11
The Routes – Pocket Calculator – 39:33
Clystre – A Day and a Night – 42:37
B Side – 46:46
Uncle Fido – They Brighten the Mood – 47:35
Time Rival – Reagent – 49:23
Vic Mars – Drysu – 51:55
Panama Fleets – Bermuda Tortoise – 54:12
KNOWER – It’s All Nothing Until It’s Everything – 57:18
Claude Lavender – Rainbow’s End – 1:01:26
BVSMV – The Future is Now – 1:03:56
Lusine, Benoît Pioulard – Long Light – 1:07:21
THE bLACK ALBUMEN – Provokovieff [Markey Funk’s Squaremix] – 1:11:59
The Central Office of Information – Pollination – 1:16:10
Nev.Era – Huella – 1:19:28
Novel 23 – Siberian Lily – 1:20:22
Anubis Rude – Enhancer Regenerative – 1:24:14
Mythologen – House Of Parakeet – 1:29:11
Tatsuya Takahashi & Tokyo Union Orchestra – Ketsu = 結 – 1:34:22
Trevs Outro – 1:35:32
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 030
26.04.2025
Trevs Intro – 00:00
A Side –
Albin – 1002 – 03:31
THE GAYE DEVICE – Weightless Dreams – 07:40
Warmfield – Meet You Under the Clock – 12:05
Conflux Coldwell – Turnstone – 15:32
LANGUAGE FIELD – Ghosts Are Petty – 22:0
*Dave Clarkson – The Wonder of Space Dust – 24:48
Patrick R. Pärk – Static Fields, Endless Conversations – 27:44
Dr. Quandary – Bones & Portents feat. TIMESCANNER – 33:30
Ogle – Magma – 36:54
Slobject. – Ricky The Ear – 38:24
Weldroid – Orange Landing – 40:49
Maston – Liaison – 42:48
B Side – 45:43
Christian Kleine – New Young – 47:44
Off Land & Specta Ciera – Passageway – 54:06
The British Stereo Collective – Echoes of Urban Summers Part 2 – 1:03:28
Fflwcs – Gwydion – 1:08:51
Fallen – A Little Evening Poem – 1:09:17
Onepointwo – Bur-frag – 1:15:09
Romano – Hol Kahol – 1:18:08
Ulises Labaronnie – IN (SIDES) Part II – 1:21:28
Trevs Outro – 1:33:13
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
Mirrors Over Cirrus
04.02.2025
Paul Ellis & Pabellón Sintético – Whispers from an Unseen Realm – 00:00
Graham De Wilde – Cirrus – 06:37
Albin – Rälset – 12:55
DJ Food – Hip Operation – 17:19
Moskva-Kassiopeya – Southern Lights – 22:31
WEALDHAM – ECHELONS – 27:30
Pulsliebhaber – Silica – 31:47
Sunshine Playroom – A Trip Down Grafton Lane – 34:40
Baldocaster, Prog Mountain – Mirrors Let You Move Through Time – 38:26
Binaural Space – Annihilation – 41:00
Sababa 5 – Lizarb – 42:36
The GulfFire – Over NORAD – 46:43
Monochrome Echo – Hunted – 51:11
The Central Office of Information – TransPennine Express – 55:20
Trevlad Sounds 