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 181
28 February 2026
(Stigbergets Fot)
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Welcome to Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode 181, broadcasting from the enigmatic coordinates of Stockholm Sweden. ///prickly.solved.sweated, is the episodes subtitle. This is also a coordinate where shadows stretch long over Stigbergs Fot, a wonderful Stockholm craft beer joint I highly recommend. It’s a crisp February 27, 2026 here. Picture this: a dimly lit attic stacked with glowing tape decks, reels spinning like forgotten galaxies, pulling you into a sonic odyssey for the curious explorer.
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We kick off in a vast, 9 minute, echoing void with Small Chief’s The Silent Zone, evoking cracked earth under a moonless sky, whispers of wind carving canyons in the quiet.
From the album Zero Movement out on Cyclical Dreams. So headphones on, let time dissolve and let the frequencies claim you.…
Next Tornado Wallace summons Asahi Ga Yondeiru featuring Courtney Bailey, like dawn rays piercing misty rice fields, steam rising from dew-kissed leaves in a serene call to awaken. Fist pumping electronica here. From the EP Left At Sunset, out on the Running Back label.
Now, Consumed Triumphant & Pavel Blumkin ignite Invisible Fire, flames dancing unseen in a dense forest at midnight, embers glowing through fog-shrouded branches. From the conceptual EP The Chariot.
Next d’Voxx haunts with Phantom (Nosferatu the Vampyre), a crumbling castle turret where caped figures glide across cobblestone, echoes of eternal night in the stone. From the album HERZOG: A Retrospective out on the great DiN label.
Coming up Lorenzo Montanà invites us into Mirrors’ Den, reflections fracturing in a labyrinth of glass, endless hallways mirroring starlit illusions. From the NYP album Velan out on Projekt Records. Go add this to your collection.
And now I Trevlad stir Easy Begun Meals, a cluttered kitchen at sunrise, pots simmering with unexpected spices, steam curling like improvised melodies.
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Next, the longest outing on this episode clocking in at 9 minutes 36 seconds. Jake Soffer & Brent Carmer open The Room Where We Met, faded wallpaper peeling in a sunlit chamber, dust motes swirling in golden beams of memory. From the album Imaginary Rooms. Another Projekt Records NYP release.
Now, Shrimpnose lifts us to Hovering, clouds parting over a floating city, gentle drifts in an aerial ballet of soft geometries. From the album Aureolin Winter out on La’s Friends Of Friends label.
The penultimate track for this side of the virtual cassette. Kavalcade unleashes DECAY 01, rusted machinery grinding in an abandoned factory, sparks flying from corroded gears under flickering neon. From the EP SIGNAL which drops May 1 on Machine Records.
We end the first half with Philippe Petit who drapes Tropicalism in an Empire wardrobe, velvet curtains parting on a colonial ballroom overgrown with vines, exotic blooms tangling with faded grandeur. The shortest piece at only 49 seconds. From the album The Acoustic Cornet, an hommage to Leonora Carrington out on Mahorka.
Flipping to the B side, Nadia Struiwigh modulates MOD1, circuit boards humming in a sterile lab, pulses syncing like neural fireworks in chrome reflections. From a compilation I’ve played extensively on the channel, connected #3, from the great label i u we records.
Next, a show exclusive. The Eyes and the Mistoids trail Snails That Failed, slimy paths glistening on rain-slicked garden stones, slow spirals unraveling under overcast skies. From the album The Beware Gallery which will drop on March 20 on Waxing Crescent Records.
Now, Brass Clouds, Fog Net, & Volcanic Pinnacles plunge into Subduction, tectonic plates shifting beneath ocean depths, bubbles rising from volcanic vents in abyssal gloom. From the album Dive 2: Sonoluminescence out on Bathysphere Records.
Coming up, Erik Wøllo charts North Trek, snow-capped peaks piercing arctic twilight, auroras weaving ribbons across frozen expanses. From the album, Snow Tides. Yet another NYP release from Projekt Records.
Next, Helyg Weidenbach erects Dream Scaffold I, ethereal ladders climbing into cloud realms, mist-shrouded rungs leading to surreal vistas. From the album, Traumgerüst, also a NYP album courtesy of The Dream Journal Institute.
Now, Amanda Whiting wanders Mary Over There, a foggy meadow at dusk, wildflowers nodding in the haze of distant horizons. Most recently released on the NYP compilation album Two Syllables Volume Twenty Two. Released by First Word Records.
Next, Louis Sarno captures Bayaka women singing yeyi in the forest (Central African Republic), ancient trees canopying harmonious calls, leaves rustling in rhythmic unity with hidden streams. From the compilation A Century of Sounds out on Cities and Memory.
Now, Japanese artist Yasutaka Sato aka Virgo blooms Zoophyte, underwater gardens swaying in currents, coral tendrils unfurling like living sculptures in turquoise light. From the album, Roots of Memories (Remastered- Deluxe Edition), out on Neo Ouija.
Next we switch it up. Psyché brews another exclusive track, Yagé, jungle vines twisting around a ceremonial fire, visions flickering in the smoke of ritual embers. From the album Psyché II dropping on Four Flies Records on March 20.
And we’ve reached the final track. Thanks for sticking around for this virtual mix show, twenty artists lighting up the unknown. No rigid timetable, just raw devotion to the waves. Subscribe for anytime access, including babble-free mixes. Drop your sounds at trevlad@gmail.com, and trace the trails at trevor.se.
And finally The Gaye Device flows with Ebb And Flow, tidal pools reflecting shifting skies, waves lapping at barnacle-encrusted rocks in perpetual motion. From couple of places, the latest being, the Sounds for the Soul label compilation – Ocean Compilation 2.
Cheerio…
Intro – 00:00
Small Chief – The Silent Zone – 01:24
Tornado Wallace – Asahi Ga Yondeiru ft Courtney Bailey – 10:45
Consumed Triumphant & Pavel Blumkin – Invisible Fire – 17:29
d’Voxx – Phantom (Nosferatu the Vampyre) – 18:44
Lorenzo Montanà – Mirrors’ Den – 25:42
Trevlad – Easy Begun Meals – 30:11
Jake Soffer & Brent Carmer – The Room Where We Met – 34:13
Shrimpnose – Hovering – 43:25
Kavalcade – SIGNAL 03 -10 LUFS soft clip v3 – 45:21
Philippe Petit – Tropicalism in an Empire wardrobe – 48:21
B Side – 49:36
Nadia Struiwigh – MOD1 – 49:52
The Eyes and the Mistoids– Snails That Failed – 55:30
Brass Clouds, Fog Net, & Volcanic Pinnacles – Subduction – 58:21
Erik Wøllo – North Trek – 1:03:21
Helyg Weidenbach – Dream Scaffold I – 1:09:40
Amanda Whiting – Mary Over There – 1:16:08
Louis Sarno – Bayaka women singing yeyi in the forest (Central African Republic) – 1:19:04
Virgo – Zoophyte – 1:24:08
Psyché – Yagé – 1:28:32
The Gaye Device – Ebb And Flow – 1:32:30
Outro – 1:37:37
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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