Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 342
Another reel of the Virtual Cassette Library begins. Twelve tracks, two sides. A virtual cassette that turns itself at the halfway mark, the oxide catching just long enough to mark the seam before the second side continues.
These are not playlists. Each episode is structured as a pair of continuous sets: six tracks on each side, mixed and stitched so the joins sit almost inside the grain. The sequence is the form.
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Mind the flip.
Ratios that refuse to sit still, then a star named Denebula that may or may not exist.
Side A measures the ratios from slightly different angles and finds the whole thing rather flattering, lets the chicken wear the badge while the noise blushes, sets vibrant matter dancing so the gooseberry can nod along, cracks the cosmic egg into a sequel already writing its memoirs, keeps just moving with the diagrams packing a small suitcase, and lets the neon lights hum a little tune while the virtual woman is quite pleased about it. Side B seats the melancholia in a chair that already understands, lets the shades of light choose their favourites, sends the vector already in flight so the trick can land, lodges the rainmodulator while the dogs and the shadows negotiate a truce, keeps the northern furniture with Autobaba in the other room, and surveys a star named Denebula with the spear already pointing somewhere kind.
Overall mood: Playful, and quietly flattered — full of nodding gooseberries, comfortable chairs, and stars that may or may not exist. Perfect for dusk listening, soft sofas, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: ratios that refuse to sit still, a chicken with a fondness for noise, matter that vibrates like a gooseberry in a good mood, an egg that cracked the cosmos and is now doing a sequel, something just moving because it can, neon lights that have opinions.
00:00:00 Altus – Parallax Ratios
https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/track/parallax-ratios
Album: Echo Bloom. Label: Altus Music
The ratios already measuring each other from slightly different angles and finding the whole thing rather flattering.
00:08:17 Toxic Chicken – I Heart Noise
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/toxic-chicken-i-heart-noise-2
Album: IHN019 // Gone in 60 Seconds – Vol. 5. Label: I Heart Noise
The chicken already wearing the badge. The noise already blushing.
00:09:04 Soda Lite – Vibrant Matter
https://soda-lite.bandcamp.com/track/vibrant-matter
Album: 011: Soda Lite (Cape Gooseberry). Label: Music To Watch Seeds Grow By
The matter already doing a little dance. The gooseberry already nodding along.
00:11:47 Michael Brückner – The Egg of Ecquirlo – Part 2
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/the-egg-of-ecquirlo-part-2
Album: The Egg in the Cosmic Crack [CYD 0165]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
The crack already larger. The egg already writing its memoirs.
00:21:38 maps and diagrams – just moving
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/track/just-moving
Album: returning light. Label: Home Normal
The moving already under way. The diagrams already packing a small suitcase.
00:26:06 Virtual Woman – Neon Lights
https://soundsforthesoul.bandcamp.com/track/virtual-woman-neon-lights
Album: Cyberpunk. Label: Sounds for the Soul Records
The lights already humming a little tune. The woman already virtual, and quite pleased about it.
Side B
Mood mist: a melancholia that has found a comfortable chair, shades of light arranging themselves, a vector that knows where it’s going, a rainmodulator that has become stuck and is now taking up a hobby, furniture from the north, a star named Denebula that may or may not exist.
00:27:54 Restive Plaggona – Melancholia
https://dvntt.bandcamp.com/track/melancholia
Album: Leftina / Osha. Label: DVNTTMassachusetts
The melancholia already seated. The chair already understanding.
00:31:06 Erik Wøllo – Shades of Light
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/track/shades-of-light
Album: Label: Projekt Records
The shades already drawn. The light already choosing its favourite ones.
00:34:35 Vorpalgaze – Vector
https://ab-vorpalgaze.bandcamp.com/track/vector
Album: Trickjumps. Label: Audiobulb
The arrow already in flight. The trick already landed.
00:38:12 dogs versus shadows – Rainmodulator Stuck
https://blackpylon.bandcamp.com/track/rainmodulator-stuck
Album: wx. Label: Black Pylon
The modulator already lodged. The dogs and the shadows already negotiating a truce.
00:40:55 Västlänken – Moebel
https://hoganordrekords.bandcamp.com/track/moebel
Album: HNR024: Moebel / Autobaba. Label: Höga Nord Rekords
The sofa already northern. The Autobaba already in the other room.
00:47:18 SURVEY CHANNEL – Denebula
https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/track/denebula
Album: Along the Wind Spear. Label: Triplicate Records
The star already surveyed. The spear already pointing somewhere kind.
That was another episode of the Virtual Cassette Library. If the sequence stayed with you, share it, favourite the show, and follow the channel so the next reel finds you. Tips keep the reels turning. Better still, subscribe: the Mixcloud archive now holds more than eleven hundred past episodes, waiting whenever the next listening session calls. Travel safely between the frequencies. Cheerio.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 327
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
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The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread. Unless you look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A plant leaning toward the window, then a landscape content to stay unfinished at number twenty-two.
Side A grows toward the light the title already promised, smokes a soft suburb with curtains half-drawn, fits the eclipse into two letters and a hyphen, files a signal under cool, measures an English furlong at Clay Pipe speed, and lights a candle that has decided to chase the high white. Side B returns light across the hedges with the gate on the latch, spends a lifetime at steady altitude with the butty packed, files wonders under experiment while the tableau dries next door, slows the first stage of sleep on purpose, lets gravity keep its end of the bargain, and leaves the unfinished landscape open at the edge for the next field.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly domestic, and quietly measured — full of half-drawn curtains, steady horizons, and rooms left for the next field. Perfect for dusk listening, fields walked at tape speed, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a plant leaning toward the window, a suburb soft enough to smoke, two letters from an eclipse, a signal filed under cool, an English measure of distance, candles lit for a chase among the high white.
00:02:18 Fran Carlyon – A New Day
https://francarlyon.bandcamp.com/track/a-new-day-2
Album: Growing Towards The Light.
Growing towards the light, which is what the title already promised. The stem has already turned. Title of the hour.
00:03:00 Kenny Ueda – MoonMist Tobacco
(Exclusive track)
Album: Soft Suburbia. Label: Mystery Circles
https://kenjiueda.bandcamp.com/album/soft-suburbia
Soft suburbia, the kind that keeps its curtains half-drawn and its ashtray clean. Mystery Circles leaving the packet on the sideboard.
00:06:28 Brandon Locher – F-G
https://brandonlocher.bandcamp.com/track/f-g
Album: Rahu Ketu.
Rahu and Ketu again, the head and the tail, now reduced to two notes and a hyphen. The eclipse still fits in the interval.
00:12:00 Altus – Cold Signal Index
https://altusmusic.bandcamp.com/track/cold-signal-index
Album: Label: Altus Music
Echo Bloom keeping the temperature low and the index clear. The signal arrives already cooled.
00:16:43 Gilroy Mere – Furlongs 1
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/furlongs-1-3
Album: Furlongs. Label: Clay Pipe Music
An eighth of a mile, walked at Clay Pipe speed. Oliver Cherer measuring the field with his feet and a reel of tape.
00:21:02 Spirituals – Cloud Chaser
https://spirituals.bandcamp.com/track/cloud-chaser
Album: Candles In The Dark.
Candles in the dark, and one of them has decided to follow the white up. The wick stays lit.
Side B
Mood mist: light coming back over the hedges, a lifetime spent at a steady altitude, wonders filed under experiment, the first stage of sleep slowing on purpose, gravity doing its quiet job, a landscape content to stay unfinished at number twenty-two.
00:23:50 maps and diagrams – returning, across the fields
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/track/returning-across-the-fields
Album: returning light. Label: Home Normal
Returning light, the title and the direction. Home Normal leaving the gate on the latch.
00:31:24 ndrw cnry & Sardine Butty – A lifetime of limited level flight
https://ndrwcnry.bandcamp.com/track/a-lifetime-of-limited-level-flight
Single
The single that prefers the same height all the way. Wings level, horizon steady, the butty packed.
00:46:14 Alex Ringess – Wonders
https://alexringess.bandcamp.com/track/wonders
Album: Experiments.
Experiments that kept the sense of marvel. The tableau still drying in the next room.
00:52:04 D York – N1 (slowing down)
https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/track/n1-slowing-down
Album: NREM. Label: Neotantra
NREM — the sleep before the dreaming. Neotantra letting the pulse lengthen.
01:15:09 Audio Obscura – As long as gravity persists on holding me to this earth
https://audioobscura.bandcamp.com/track/as-long-as-gravity-persists-on-holding-me-to-this-earth
Album: As long as gravity persists on holding me to this earth.
The whole sentence as title and album. The ground keeping its end of the bargain.
01:19:33 asher tuil – unfinished landscapes xxii
https://ashertuil.bandcamp.com/track/unfinished-landscapes-xxii-4
Album: unfinished landscapes.
The series that prefers the open edge. Room left for the next field.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 327.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
