Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 296
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-296/
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. 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.
A cosmic, slightly archival ambient journey through uncharted quadrants, greenhouse arks, and nine worlds below.
Side A drifts from exclusive galactic isolation and catalystic dreaming into a lumbering poem-machine, last-forest arks, Portuguese hardware colour, and hymns that give everything they have. Side B opens in guitar-and-harmony tranquility, then moves through Kosmische hover, shadow-planet rework, Niflhel depths, a vacation-light response, and ends in a slanted average where nothing needs proving.
Overall mood: Expansive, contemplative, and quietly generous — full of star-aimed memory, analogue drive, and safe mediocrity. Perfect for deep listening, late hours, or sitting still while the tape finds its own orbit.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
The tape unspools its visions.
00:01:17 (EXCLUSIVE) deepspace – Atlas Minor – POLY=VISTAS
An exclusive track. unknown release date. on Projekt Records.
deepspace – Atlas Minor – POLY=VISTAS. Mirko Ruckels drifts through uncharted galactic quadrants. Brisbane rooms send German-born space-ambient into exclusive cosmic isolation.
00:07:55 Ancient Astronaut – Catalystic Mind
Ancient Astronaut – Catalystic Mind. Atmospheric electronic soundscapes open for relaxation and dreaming. Half the proceeds travel to Ekukhanyeni’s early-childhood work in South Africa.
00:11:17 Le Morte d’Abby – A Poem
Le Morte d’Abby – A Poem. Acid-based skitter and dueling melodies move at one hundred and thirty bpm. Forlorn pads give way to a lumbering Miyazaki machine of metal-on-wood.
00:18:29 vOLKER rAPP – The arks Berkshire, Valley Forge, Sequoia and Mojave
vOLKER rAPP – The arks Berkshire, Valley Forge, Sequoia and Mojave. ARP 2600 and SEM colours from a 1974 television memory. Greenhouse domes hold Earth’s last forests among Trumbull stars.
00:24:17 Cool Science – Tenshin
Cool Science – Tenshin. Portuguese Polysix, Minilogue XD, Digitone, Digitakt and Syntakt join SLIT ART.
00:30:04 rec – giving you all i got
rec – giving you all i got. Hymns for a fading world gather handprints on dust. Shared memory aims at the stars.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:34:52 (EXCLUSIVE) James McKeown – Tranquility
James McKeown – Tranquility. After eight years as Hawksmoor, acoustic and electric guitars meet layered synths. Cloud of Unknowing carries intimate vocal harmony toward 25 September.
00:37:38 Conrad Schnitzler – 2:08
Conrad Schnitzler – 2:08. Melodies hover. Layers move with Kosmische drive. Flip-Flap and Fonodroom send CON’s focused energy outward.
00:39:33 Brandon Locher – Rahu Ketu (Salvatore Mercatante Rework)
Brandon Locher – Rahu Ketu (Salvatore Mercatante Rework). A 264-day planetary cycle. Shadow planets drawn in ink and coloured pencil. Taylor Deupree mastering.
00:44:42 Lee Anthony Norris & Árni Grétar – Into All Of The Nine Worlds Below Niflhel
Into All Of The Nine Worlds Below Niflhel. A fifty-minute piece yields this excerpt. Futuregrapher’s Icelandic ambient and techno presence remains in the mix.
00:52:03 Gareth Jones – 53_StOlaves : Response
Gareth Jones – 53_StOlaves : Response. Impermanence understood as transformation. A spontaneous reply to Catharsis, vacation light on the photograph.
01:01:27 (EXCLUSIVE) Mike Hans STEFFL – slanted average
An exclusive track. Release date September 2nd, 2026 on the AURAL FILMS label.
Mike Hans STEFFL – slanted average. Berlin School and ambient tones explore mediocrity as a safe space. Sounds envelop. You need prove nothing here.
The visions complete their circle.
The oxide continues its quiet journey until the end of the spool.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, release date 26 September.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that stir anything?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name, and a link to other work.
Deadline: 24 September.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 296.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
EXPANSIVE WAVES 07
Welcome to the Seventh outing of Expansive Waves. A space and a place for long form music. Each episode contains 8 pieces that must be over the 12 minute mark. I’m your host, Trevor, and today’s episode is deep and unhurried. Each track a portal into a different sonic dimension.
Moolakii Club Audio Interface – Ne Plus Ultra Part 1 – 00:00
Slow Dancing Society – Devastation Is the Path to Recreation – 40:58
*Joanna John – everything is everything else – 55:34
Theadelaidean – Gravitic Lens – 1:09:33
Autumn Of Communion & Árni Grétar – Volume 3.37-1 – 1:25:12
Microscope White Noise – The dream at the end of the tunnel – 1:39:41
Jonathan Fitoussi – Music For Chai – 1:55:19
HDRF – Pseudochrome – 2:13:54
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 027
21.04.2025
Trevs Intro – 00:00
A Side –
Bohdan Stupak – Lypen – 02:49
*theAdelaidean – Priests of the Forest – 05:24
*Trem 77 – Over These Dark Ages – 07:45
come le onde – Dove finiscono le cose invisibili – 11:33
*Lullatone – Cellular Chemistry – 34:11
Lillies For Ever – Wakeup – 35:55
B Side – 38:37
Autumn Of Communion & Árni Grétar – Volume 3.37-2 – 40:14
Ed Herbers – Serenity – 55:10
Hiroshi Ebina – He Took Good Care of Her – 1:10:40
Kilometre Club – carvings – 1:13:36
Tomo-Nakaguchi – Tidal Breaking – 1:17:15
Dirk Serries – Treasure Of Stars – 1:19:09
Trevs Outro – 1:33:17
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 017
10.04.2025
Trevs Intro – 00:00
A Side –
Black Sun High Desert – Discalced – 03:03
*theAdelaidean – Komaba Dream – 06:46
Autumn Of Communion & Árni Grétar – Volume 3.33-1 – 12:32
Aythar – Staight – 19:25
Hiroshi Ebina – Before Memories Decay – 24:04
THE GAYE DEVICE – Plateau – 26:34
Gustavo Denouard – First Tone – 30:45
*First Snow of The Year – Willow – 41:02
B Side – 44:06
*Celestial Trails – Pacific in Tender Motion – 45:05
Sylvain Carel – In the Depths of the Hoggar Mountains – 50:36
Black Tempel Pyrämid / Teeth Of Glass – Wasted Frontier – 1:00:06
*ILUITEQ + Eraldo Bernocchi – Remain, True – 1:03:33
*Secret Nuclear – Intersect – 1:08:05
jarguna – The Truth Lies Beyond – 1:13:47
Trevs Outro – 1:24:06
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
Turquoise Moon Sparrow
31.01.2025
Language Field – Smother – Saint Etienne Remix – 00:00
Belial Pelegrim – Turquoize – 00:05:27
Apta – Awash – 00:09:14
Oceanographer – Calico Shifts – 00:14:21
Melorman – Pikininu – 00:20:39
Árni Grétar – Höfðadalur (Dj Dorrit Mix) – 00:25:32
Frunk29 – Ustal – 00:33:04
Oceanographer – Water Surface Moon Signals – 00:39:13
Melorman – Love 80’s 110 – 00:44:03
Rupert Lally – Slow Waves (featuring Hattie Cooke) – 00:47:55
THE GAYE DEVICE – The Edge’s Eye – 00:53:14
Veryan – Embrace Tiger Return To Mountain – 01:00:06
a-souvenir – est – 01:06:18
Dan Deacon – Snuppy – 01:08:02
Veryan – Grasp The Sparrow’s Tail – 01:09:37
THE GAYE DEVICE – Heartbeats in Static – 01:15:37
For the Birds 030
Field gates open Friday 6 December 12pm CET (unless you’re a subscriber)
Autumn Of Communion & Árni Grétar–Volume 3.39-2 01:19
Mark Ellery Griffiths–Pan in Pangea (2014?) 07:58
Joanna John–I can’t remember how I got here 13:23
4T Thieves–Regard The Moon (Cognition Delay Remix) 17:23
Ümlaut–What Comes Floating To The Surface 23.30
KMRU–cine 28:10
Bålsam–By The Fire 32:15
Glåsbird–Passerine 38:13
Erik Wøllo–Natural Habitat 45:32
Arbee and Kilometre Club–Tangerine, suite 47:31
Early Fern–Welcome 50:03
Parker Tichko–Sporophytes in Spring 52:42
Keigo Tatsumi–conversation 54:36
Be the 8th soul to save the Spotify playlist with over 19 hours of bird related tracks.
Invisible Club 028
Intro 00:00
Jesse-Motion Klubb 01:17
silentwave-KONJIKI 06:27
Benge-Adam-Age Loneliness 09:34
Aura Safari, Jimi Tenor, Toimi Tytti-My Bluebell 16:08
Red Vortical Stripes-Hypnosis 202 22:36
Autumn Of Communion & Árni Grétar-End (Sunrise For Claudio) [Futuregrapher Mix] 27:24
Scanner, Neil Leonard-Time Code 36:13
Arfon Harry Williams & Laf-Suddenly I See 45:33
Space Dimension Controller-Tiraquon’s Final Quest 49:29
Florian Förster-cellroot 54:09
The Lighthouse-Litmus Test 57:07
Fluffy Inside-Hideaway 1:01:23
Metamatics-Beautiful Mutations 1:07:02
Louie Zong-Hidden Mangrove 1:15:32
Mordant Music-Cloud-Based Cretins 1:17:27
Ardent Chrome-After Al 1:19:01
Outro 1:24:20
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