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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 280

www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-280/

Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 280. 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.
Tips and subscriptions keep the reels turning. Every little helps the library stay open after dark.

As this is episode 280 that makes it a best of show. Where I’ve chosen 12 favourites from over the years.
The best of shows remain free but everything else slips quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers after 7 days. Subscribers currently have 1,109 other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. They also receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, and get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.

On Side A you’ll hear Four Tet, Air, Little Dragon, Amorphous Androgynous, The Cinematic Orchestra and La bibliothèque de la bergerie.
On the flip side you’ll hear Billy Cobham together with Novecento and Bob Mintzer, ALB, Khruangbin, Apifera, Stiletti-Ana and finally GELBART.
This will be Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode 280.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Enjoy…

Side A
00:00:00 Four Tet – My Angel Rocks Back and Forth
00:07:19 Air – Le Soleil Est Pres De Moi
00:11:33 Little Dragon – Crystalfilm
00:15:22 Amorphous Androgynous – High Tide On The Sea Of Flesh
00:18:38 The Cinematic Orchestra – Durian
00:25:15 La bibliothèque de la bergerie – Loterie solaire
Side B
00:29:25 Billy Cobham, Novecento, Bob Mintzer – Stratus
00:35:53 ALB – Walter Mouse
00:39:16 Khruangbin – Dern Kala
00:42:08 Apifera – I Love ECM
00:43:22 Stiletti-Ana – Slide to Automatic
00:50:25 GELBART – ECHOVILLE


Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 206

Open-hearted, wistful, and emotionally rich with a strong cinematic feel.

Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to episode 206 of the Virtual Cassette Library – music from all over the world, sparked by a single track that sets the tone for the set. This is a 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark. If and when I get a couple more subscribers then I’ll go back to doing 90 minute versions, complete with commentary.
This episode is based on the track “Unbegun” by Hverheij from the album “R-Un”. Shout out to Harry Verheij for sending me the album and a bunch of codes which you can find on the substack episode article or the episode page on trevor.se. Also shoutouts to Waxing Crescent Records, DRONARIVM, Third Kind Records, Woodford Halse and Clay Pipe Music for sponsoring the channel with material.
This episode puts the acoustic guitar in focus.
A warm, nostalgic, and gently psychedelic ambient journey blending sun-drenched summer haze, intimate minimalism, and wistful hauntology.
Side A drifts from breezy cycling melodies and hazy environmental sounds into playful psychedelic explorations and tender, emotional minimalism. Side B shifts between theatrical quirkiness, magical nocturnal spells, live organic warmth, and ends with lonely cosmic melancholy and quiet railway nostalgia.
Overall mood: Sunny yet melancholic, intimate, and emotionally rich. It feels like a golden late-summer afternoon slowly fading into a dreamy, reflective evening — perfect for relaxed listening, daydreaming, or quiet contemplation. Strong analogue warmth with a touch of magic and gentle sadness.
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 tadoma – Red Raleigh
Warm, nostalgic ambient with gentle cycling melodies and sun-faded charm. Breezy and reflective.
00:04:28 Hverheij – Unbegun
Delicate, minimal ambient with soft unfolding textures and quiet emotional space. Intimate and contemplative.
00:07:10 Ernest Hood – August Haze
Classic lo-fi environmental sounds with hazy summer warmth, zither and field recordings. Dreamy and nostalgic.
00:13:33 Amorphous Androgynous – Go Tell It To The Trees Egghead
Psychedelic, whimsical electronic odyssey with lush layers and playful surrealism. Trippy and expansive.
00:17:09 Kacey Johansing – Whales of Agate
Gentle, flowing folk-ambient with dreamy vocals and crystalline beauty. Ethereal and soothing.
00:21:02 La French – For Casey
Tender, minimalist piano-led piece with intimate warmth and quiet emotion. Touching and personal.
00:22:58 Dalton Alexander – At Some Point it Stopped
Sparse, drifting ambient with subtle tension and graceful resignation. Still and poignant.
Side B
00:27:50 The Foot & Leg Clinic – Intro – Showtime
Playful, theatrical intro with quirky charm and vintage broadcast feel. Fun and characterful.
00:29:07 Fallen – This Night is a Magic Spell
Enchanting, nocturnal ambient with soft glowing textures and magical atmosphere. Hypnotic and spellbinding.
00:33:27 Willebrant – musings (live at the Brunswick Green) – Live
Warm, immersive live ambient with rich resonance and gentle emotional flow. Organic and heartfelt.
00:38:59 The Music Liberation Front Sweden – Life Around The Sailing Club
Sunny, melodic electronic with breezy seaside nostalgia and gentle grooves. Warm and carefree.
00:45:05 Andrea Castiglioni – For Annabelle
Delicate, romantic ambient with soft classical elegance and tender melancholy. Beautiful and intimate.
00:48:37 Aural Design – The Dead Astronaut
Spacious, cinematic ambient with lonely cosmic drift and subtle sci-fi melancholy. Haunting and vast.
00:49:44 Vic Mars – End Of The Branch Line
Wistful, hauntological farewell with warm analogue tones and gentle railway nostalgia. Poignant closer.

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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)
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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.


Mystery Apples 11

16.03.2025

Superpitcher – Smile It’s A New Day – 00:00
Micky & Joyce – Ma’Jackson – 09:33
Rosa Beach Mason & Sean Conrad – Wished – 12:41
Kevin Ayers – Decadence – 2003 Remaster – 15:56
Sensations’ Fix – Fortune Teller (Coda) – 23:06
Sharon Tandy – Stay With Me – 25:13
Yesway – Winter Willing – 28:15
Prairiewolf – Roadside Bandit Type – 32:21
Kanot – Ping Pong – 35:53
Mia Doi Todd – My Room Is White – 38:39
Mark Saddlemire – Thermionic Woods – 41:38
HLM38 – Monochrome Western – 43:06
les halles – mystic of the great elevator – 46:07
Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin – Mahine Me – 48:18
Porcelain Raft – A Dream I Had – 50:36
Tross – Synthesis – 54:02
Amorphous Androgynous – Osho – 57:19
Matty – BLOOD – 58:42
BALTHVS – Vapor Waves – 01:01:53
Heron & Crane – These Heretics – 01:05:26
Khruangbin – Lady and Man – 01:08:48
DF Tram – The Operating Room – 01:12:37
Bob Dylan – Visions Of Johanna (Locust Toybox Remix) – 01:16:48
Future Children – The Paranoids in Echo Courts – 01:18:58
Cosmic Analog Ensemble – The Contrast of Characters – Bonus Track – 01:20:25
Goat – Zombie – 01:22:07
Sedibus – Purgatory – 01:27:14
Glass Beams – Black Sand – 01:36:12
The Galaxy Electric & Droog Mulholland – Make You Happy – 01:40:28


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):


Mystery Apples 2

Amorphous Androgynous – Charvarvah – 00:00
Grand Veymont – Valse Tango – 03:36
Pacific! – From Lips Divine – 13:42
Higamos Hogamos – Mini Pops – 16:07
Glass Beams – Horizon – 21:34
Matthewdavid’s Mindflight, Matthewdavid – Tract of Hidden Animalia – 22:00
Keith Seatman – hickelty pickelty – 27:43
Matthewdavid – Liquidity – 30:00
Anna Butterss – Ella – 35:00
Kavus Torabi – My Cold Rebirth – 36:20
Meridian Brothers – Salsa Caliente (Version Aumentada) – 40:55
Eddie Kendricks – My People… Hold On – 45:04
Brightblack Morning Light – A Rainbow Aims – 50:11
Goldfrapp – Clowns – 59:31
Edgar Allan Poe, Thurston Moore, Eva Moore, Kramer – To My Mother – 01:03:15
Kanot – La Danse Des Corneilles – 01:07:02
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Early 70s Gymnastics – 01:11:39
VED – Omikron – 01:14:57
BALTHVS – Light It Up – 01:19:33
Higamos Hogamos – Sorcery – 01:22:14
Glass Beams – Mahal – 01:29:40
Polypores – Turtles All The Way Down – 01:32:35
The Zenmenn – Stairway To Heaven – 01:38:12
Stennes – K.A.B. Antonio Bay – 01:42:58

Spotify playlist of all the Mystery Apples episodes so far (not all music is on Spotify):