EXPANSIVE WAVES 27
Good evening… or morning… or whatever smeared fragment of clock time you’ve drifted into today. This is EXPANSIVE WAVES 27. I’m Trevor — your host, your unreliable cartographer of the long haul, your occasional sonic conspirator.
This one’s not built for the impatient. Eight pieces. Each one stretching beyond twelve minutes. Together they uncoil for over whatever time that takes. If you came looking for hooks, drops, or anything that resembles forward motion, best to paddle elsewhere. Or just dim the lights, let the room breathe, and allow the ceiling to become a slow-moving planetarium. That works too.
We begin somewhere near the edge of pull with friend of the channel Greek super drone artist Substak and his track Gravity Lapse
Imagine You’re suspended ten feet above your childhood bedroom floor. Everything that once had weight is gently forgetting its job. Books hover. A glass of water tilts but never spills. Your pulse slows until it matches the rhythm of dust motes doing lazy cartwheels in a moonbeam.
The room exhales. Gravity gives up mid-sentence. Substak lets the low end sag like warm taffy while metallic shimmers orbit your head. Stay here. Let your bones remember they’re mostly water.
…and when the floor finally decides to forgive you…
Cells Interlinked with Drift (Summer memories about spring) from the album Cold Spring Notes released on the ever present Cyclical Dreams.
Bare feet on wet grass that hasn’t decided if it’s still spring or already drowning in summer. A bicycle with playing cards in the spokes lies on its side. Someone is laughing three houses away but you can’t tell if it’s 1997 or yesterday. Cherry blossoms fall upward into a sky the colour of melted peach ice cream.
You thought you were driving home but the road turned into a river of pollen and half-remembered songs. Cells Interlinked keeps time with your nostalgia instead of a metronome. Close your eyes. The light behind them is the exact shade of June.
Next… we step through something older than language.
The Taps Of The Holy Trinity with The Passage
(Exclusive track from the upcoming album “Customs & Rituals of…” releasing on the Fenny Compton label on the 20th of June 2026)
Think Candlelight on stone walls older than your grandparents’ grandparents. Bare feet on cold stone. A single drop of water falls every few seconds. Each drip rearranges the molecules of your thoughts. Shadows have their own shadows here.
Listen. These aren’t notes. These are permissions. The Taps Of The Holy Trinity open a door that was never meant to stay closed. Walk through slowly. Something in the dark knows the real you.
From ritual… to sealed silence.
No episode of mine, it seems, is complete without a couple of artists from the Bulgarian label Mahorka. Whom which I’ve done a four part guest show on their wonder Planck Tone series. Ivo Petrov seems to have a knack of bringing fantastic artists together the first of this episode being Toni Dimitrov + Blanket Swimming with the title track from their release Hermetic
So you’re inside a sealed glass sphere floating in deep space. No panic, just warm recognition. Your breath fogs the inside of the glass and spells out forgotten Sigils. A single bulb burns perfectly still in zero gravity. Outside, stars move like slow schools of silver fish.
Hermetic. Sealed. Complete. Two minds braided so tightly the sound has no edges anymore. Just one continuous skin of tone. You are the vessel. You are also what’s inside the vessel.
And then the paths appear… whether you asked for them or not.
Andreas Rönnquist + rsn the second piece from the Mahorka label with the track invisible paths from their album within remoteness
Midnight in an endless bamboo forest. Moonlight cuts through the stalks in perfect geometric slices. Every few steps the ground becomes a mirror. You see versions of yourself walking parallel paths you never chose.
These paths are the anywhere. Andreas and rsn hand you a lantern made of negative space. Follow it. Or don’t. The forest doesn’t mind either way.
Somewhere in the middle of nowhere, someone is still adjusting the dials…
R&D and the track Adjust the Mixture from the album, Periscope Depth, performed at The Adventurers Guild.
Think an abandoned chemical laboratory at 3:33 a.m. Beakers bubble with liquid starlight. A scientist in a lab coat keeps turning knobs that control the weather inside your ribcage. The air tastes of copper and déjà vu.
R&D mixing states of being. One part memory, two parts future, a dash of never-was. Breathe it in. Your blood is learning new colours.
And just when you think the canvas is finished…
Friend of the channel Alex Ringess with Tableau #4 from his fantastic release Analog Abstractions.
Now, you’re standing inside a fresh painting. The oils are still alive. Mountains breathe. A river of mercury reflects a sky that contains every sunset you’ve ever ignored. The frame is optional.
Alex Ringess paints the silence between sounds. Step inside Tableau #4. The perspective is wrong in the best possible way.
Final orbit…
From Sydney, Australia, Bill Astro Music and the track Fragile Orbit from the album Trinary Solitude.
A small, imperfect satellite made childhood wishes tumbling end over end around a lonely planet. One more revolution and it might kiss the atmosphere and burn beautifully. For now, it sings.
We’re all in fragile orbit. Bill Astro reminds us how lovely that is. How temporary. How perfect.
Until the next fragment of drifting time pulls us back into the same warm current… this is Trevor, signing off from EXPANSIVE WAVES 27.
Cheerio…
Substak – Gravity Lapse
Cells Interlinked – Drift (Summer memories about spring)
The Taps Of The Holy Trinity – The Passage
Exclusive track from the upcoming album “Customs & Rituals of…” releasing on the Fenny Compton label on the 20th of June 2026
Toni Dimitrov + Blanket Swimming – Hermetic
Andreas Rönnquist + rsn – invisible paths
R&D – Adjust the Mixture
Alex Ringess – Tableau #4
Bill Astro Music – Fragile Orbit
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 221
Calm Tableau Procession
Based on the track “Tableau #5” from the album “Analog Abstractions” by “Alex Ringess”.
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 cosmic and contemplative ambient journey through space, memory, and introspection.
Side A drifts from vast exoplanetary drones and celestial downtempo into graceful, melancholic departures and mystical stellar atmospheres. Side B deepens the cinematic feel with Solaris-inspired processions, minimalist reflections, cerebral electronics, and ends on a warm, serene modular note.
Overall mood: Ethereal, spacious, and gently melancholic with a strong sense of wonder and quiet emotional depth. It balances cosmic vastness with intimate, reflective moments. Perfect for stargazing, late-night immersion, or focused deep listening.
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.
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 Mark Ellery Griffiths – Gliese 581d EdWiardian Mix
Deep space ambient inspired by an exoplanet, with vast drones and shimmering cosmic textures. Expansive and otherworldly.
00:10:28 Bluetech – Aphelion Isomer
Chilled, intricate downtempo with celestial melodies and subtle rhythmic detail. Floating and immersive.
00:12:20 THE GAYE DEVICE – A Soft Departure
Gentle, bittersweet ambient with soft glowing synths and a graceful sense of leaving. Tender and emotional.
00:17:42 Hawksmoor – Galadali
Mystical, cinematic dark ambient with rich, haunting layers. Atmospheric and slightly arcane.
00:19:38 Caught In Joy – Stellar Remains Pt.1 (Mercury)
Intense, glowing ambient evoking planetary remnants and metallic cosmic dust. Dramatic and radiant.
Side B
00:25:59 CIALYN – Solaris / Cypresses Procession
Dreamlike, flowing ambient with cinematic melancholy and procession-like movement. Deeply atmospheric.
00:31:52 Alex Ringess – Tableau #5
Minimal, painterly ambient creating a static yet emotive sonic tableau. Subtle and refined.
00:39:51 vOLKER rAPP – A.nt I.ntelligence
Cerebral, glitch-infused electronics exploring artificial consciousness. Sharp, textured, and intelligent.
00:54:22 Warmfield – Tight Shoes, Tight Stays and Cravats
Eccentric, vintage-flavoured electronic with quirky historical charm and warm analogue tones.
00:57:00 Patrick R. Pärk – Calm Modular Solstice
Peaceful, luminous modular synth work with gentle pulsing warmth. Serene and beautifully balanced.”
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 173
27 January 2026
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 151
6 December 2025
“Hello all. Episode one-five-one of the Virtual Cassette Library. Subtitled Lands Lonely Uniform. That’s the track you hear underneath, and it’s also a location you can find on a map. I filmed it—it’s up on YouTube if you’re curious.
I’m Trevor. Ninety minutes, two virtual sides, fifteen tracks each. In this episode you’ll hear awakened souls, The Green Kingdom, Slow Dancing Society, and Ogle. The Cromagnon Band brings echoes of Hadley’s Hope, while Jason Singh and Dreamlake Mists drift into experimental soundscapes. On the B side, Prefaces, David Boulter, and my own track Cult Foam Cardiac appear alongside autumna and Sababa 5 with Canay Doğan.
Labels like Neotantra, whitelabrecs, and Imaginary North are part of the orbit, carrying ambient, drone, and ethereal textures. Sounds move from shoegaze and dreampop to kosmische electronics and improvisational jazz. From London to Melbourne, Toronto to Beirut, these transmissions stretch across places and moods, shaping a library of resonance.
The eighth TVCL album is on Bandcamp for pre‑order—it drops when we hit sixteen tracks. Every comment, every like, every subscription keeps the frequencies flowing. So—headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you.”
Intro – 00:00
awakened souls – remember when – 01:54
Willebrant – Galaxiidae – 04:22
Mosaicist – Lifted Aloft In Mist – 07:07
E J R M – Crab Apples – 10:44
The Green Kingdom – Mirror Realm – 12:39
Scholars of the Peak – A Breath Held – 15:36
Slow Dancing Society – Retrograde – 18:05
Ogle – Dream 2 – 22:53
The Cromagnon Band – Hadley’s Hope – 25:25
Eliot Krimsky – Through The Feeling – 28:32
Clone Rainbow – Elster – 31:38
Jason Singh – Money Plant – 33:35
Dreamlake Mists – Mist-Infested Fallacies – 37:09
Jogging House – Noodles – 42:05
Mike Casey – Space Chill (WPAA TV Session) – 42:57
B Side – 46:54
Prefaces – Jaro – 47:25
David Boulter – The Abbey at Dusk – 50:18
Trevlad – Cult Foam Cardiac – 53:16
Silence & The Unwinking Minds – Emanate – 55:39
Retep Folo & Dorothy Moskowitz – Moon – 58:14
The Tin Box – Moving Bliss (Movement IV) – 1:01:36
autumna – promethean – 1:04:47
Alex Ringess – NYAD (Not Yet Another Drone) – 1:07:53
Brian Jackson – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Instrumental) – 1:11:02
Andrew Brenza / alka – Chapter 1 – 1:14:05
odd person – sunken gardens, sunken thoughts – 1:17:24
Sababa 5 & Canay Doğan – Gaip – 1:19:55
shn shn – one after another – 1:23:12
Omni Gardens – Salt Lamp – 1:26:04
x.y.r. – all i want is calm – 1:29:00
Outro – 1:32:40
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 123
30 September 2025
///mute.joke.renting.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at the coordinates ///mute.joke.renting—Episode 123 of Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library. A title, a signal, a portal. Drop it into What3Words and you’ll locate the visual echo of this transmission.
The track you’re hearing—“Mute Joke Renting”—isn’t just the name of the episode. It’s the pulse beneath my voice, the gravitational center of today’s journey. Available for pre-order on Bandcamp, already whispering through YouTube, it sets the tone for what’s to come.
Today’s mix is a 90-minute drift through curated frequencies—designed for walking meditations, mental meanderings, and communion with the cosmos. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion.
🌀 Side A opens with Altus’ “Pattern Theory,” followed by KeepSleep’s “complex feelings,” Susumu Yokota’s “Sleepy Eye,” and Anita Tatlow & Applefish’s “Celestial Drift.” Alex Ringess paints landscapes of the soul, while John McBain stretches time with “Fade In Fade Out.” Zavijava Orchestra, Cole Pulice, and Windstar Enterprises guide us through hidden nooks and cosmic breezes. Skeptical Inquirer and Ogle close the side with forest echoes and pond reflections.
🌊 Side B flips the signal with Sven Wunder’s “Misty Shore” and Sandro Brugnolini’s “Africaneìdico.” Trevlad returns with “Area Vent Clutter,” anchoring the mix before Radio Free London’s “At the Edge of Forever” and frostlake’s “Behind Closed Eyes.” Datasal and Rival Consoles bring texture and pulse, while Martin Solos and Cate Le Bon stir the stars. Zeke Clough and Twilight Sequence lead us into the pink forest, followed by Cate Francesca Brooks, Bryan Rohmer, and the trio of Meierkord, Lucchi & Kobak. Corrado Maria De Santis closes the journey with “Entangled Uncertainties.”
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🧙♂️ Shout out to Nanogod, whose alchemical words add dimension to the Mixcloud timeline. Every comment, every like, every vibration helps keep the channel alive.
🚀 So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve. Let the frequencies claim you.
Intro – 00:00
Altus – Pattern Theory – 03:25
KeepSleep – complex feelings – 07:43
Susumu Yokota – Sleepy Eye – 10:02
Anita Tatlow & Applefish – Celestial Drift – 12:26
Alex Ringess – Soul Landscape 5 – 14:30
John McBain – Fade In Fade Out – 19:53
Zavijava Orchestra – East Wind – 20:46
Cole Pulice – In a Hidden Nook Between Worlds I – 27:39
Windstar Enterprises – Watch Over – 32:11
Skeptical Inquirer – Birdsongs For Bigfoot – 36:15
Ogle – Silent Pond – 39:54
Sandro Brugnolini – Africaneìdico – 40:48
Sven Wunder – Misty Shore – 43:23
Side B – 46:18
Trevlad – Area Vent Clutter – 47:03
Radio Free London – At the Edge of Forever – 50:27
*frostlake – Behind Closed Eyes – 54:09
Datasal – Ormen – 57:16
Rival Consoles – 2 Forms – 1:02:23
Martin Solos – Heart of a Dying Star (excerpt) – 1:05:52
Cate Le Bon – Wheel – 1:09:04
Zeke Clough // Twilight Sequence – Toni Heads for the Pink Forest – 1:13:51
Cate Francesca Brooks – Floes – 1:17:41
Bryan Rohmer – No Phones – 1:20:07
Henrik Meierkord, Marco Lucchi & Pawel Kobak – By The Gates – 1:22:46
Corrado Maria De Santis – Entangled Uncertianties – 1:26:26
Outro – 1:32:20
EXPANSIVE WAVES 16
26 September 2025
///descended.shining.founders
Intro – 00:00
Chuck van Zyl – Force Field – 00:58
Alex Ringess – Soul Landscape 4 – 14:31
*Louis Gardner – The Lake – 27:33
MikeKSmith – Live at Hymns for Robots 054 – 2025-09-18 – 51:09
Toni Dimitrov + Dionisaf – Orthodoxy – 1:18:59
Mick Chillage – Brain Oscillations Pt.1[Final Synapses] – 1:38:00
Patrick R. Pärk – Misplaced Valley Observatories – 2:05:37
rsn | Helu_elu – compaction #1.1 – 2:23:06
*track is unreleased at the the time of the episode’s publication.
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