Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 344
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.
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Mind the flip.
A Finnish distance that began in a Bristol record shop, then the domain of the moment.
Side A walks the distance already handed over in Rough Trade with the humility already charming, lets the decaying metal frame become an elegant skeleton with good bones, channels the alchemist’s random water so the gold is already considering it, keeps the corridors of glass already listening, wears the desire paths by feet that preferred them while the sun sets in agreement, and dries the tears at the west gate so they can be filed under west. Side B lets the reign of dust live gently, cools the logic as it approaches its asymptote and keeps approaching, focuses stones through forty-year-old tape machines whose edges are already soft, opens the inner so the mystical is already at home, dissolves with the universal solvent until the remainder is interesting, and hands the domain to the moment while the night looks forward to it.
Overall mood: Alchemical, and quietly charming — full of soft edges, open gates, and moments already in charge. Perfect for dusk listening, transparent corridors, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a Finnish distance that began in a Bristol record shop, a metal frame that has become a skeleton, an alchemist who channels the random movements of water, corridors of glass, desire paths for a setting sun, dried tears at a west gate.
00:01:28 Arvik Torrenssen – Sateessa – Part 1
(Exclusive track)
Album: In Distance. Label: whitelabrecs
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/in-distance
Arvik Torrenssen – In Distance
Met in Rough Trade Bristol, handed over some CDs, discovered afterwards that the quiet man across the table was already making this. Eurorack, artwork by Nkl. The distance already walked. The humility already charming.
00:06:21 Visionary Lines – The Decaying Metal Frame Of A Long Abandoned Building
https://dustopianfrequencies.bandcamp.com/track/visionary-lines-the-decaying-metal-frame-of-a-long-abandoned-building
Album: Skeletons. Label: Dustopian Frequencies
The frame already elegant. The building already a memory with good bones.
00:09:40 Ogle – The Alchemist
(Exclusive track)
Album: Magneto. Label: Subexotic Records
https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/
Title of the hour. Buchla Music Easel and granular synthesis, improvised, channelling the random movements of water. The water already cooperating. The gold already considering it.
00:12:21 4T Thieves – Corridors
https://4t-thieves.bandcamp.com/track/corridors
Album: Glass EP. Label: Mahorka
The corridors already transparent. The glass already listening.
00:18:26 CommsBreakdown + Socool – Desire Paths
https://commsbreakdown.bandcamp.com/track/desire-paths
Album:For The Setting Sun.
The paths already worn by feet that preferred them. The sun already setting in agreement.
00:21:50 Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman – Dried Tears At The West Gate
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-west-gate
Album: House with a Curse. Label: Clay Pipe Music
The gate already open. The tears already dried and filed under west.
Side B
Mood mist: a reign of dust that still lives, cold logic approaching its asymptote, stones focused through forty-year-old tape machines, an inner that is mystical, the universal solvent, the domain of the moment.
00:23:20 Hainbach – The Reign Of Dust
https://hainbach.bandcamp.com/track/the-reign-of-dust
Album: Vive. Label: Seil Records
The dust already in charge. The reign already gentle.
00:25:49 pollsign – Cold Logic
https://pollsign.bandcamp.com/track/cold-logic
Album: Asymptote. Label: Triplicate Records
The logic already cool. The asymptote already approached, and still approaching.
00:33:05 Rekombinant – Focused on Stones
(Exclusive track)
Album: Magneto. Label: Subexotic Records
https://subexoticrecords.bandcamp.com/
Tape machines from Japan, Italy, Germany, all older than forty. Sounds losing their edges, finding new ones. The stones already focused. The edges already soft.
00:36:04 Suseti – Inner
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/inner
Album: Mystical. Label: Ambient Cat
The inner already open. The mystical already at home.
00:38:59 Deficit & Letargy – Alkahest
https://grimmgoatrecords.bandcamp.com/track/alkahest
Album: Alchemy. Label: Grimm Goat
The universal solvent already dissolving what it was asked to. The remainder already interesting.
00:42:30 Government Alpha & Vanity Productions – The Domain of the Moment (feat. Rush Falknor)
https://amuletoftears.bandcamp.com/track/the-domain-of-the-moment-feat-rush-falknor
Album: Anticipation of the Night. Label: Amulet of Tears
The moment already in charge. The night already anticipated, and rather looking forward to it.
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Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 110
Instant Respect Latter.
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Intro – 00:00
Radx – Heavenly Shepherd of Silence – 02:39
Luke Schneider – For Dancing in Quiet Light – 09:21
Arvik Torrenssen – Rhapsodie d’Serra (Valldemossa, Mallorca) – 18:11
*James Stevens – 4M2 Rocket Launch – 25:14
DARK FIDELITY HIFI – dots – 27:09
*Synthotherapy – Brainsalad – 29:46
*John Louis Kluck – 80’s Tale – 35:16
Axophobe – Vermine Orange – 38:25
La Chooma – Cozumel – 41:18
Side B – 46:10
Arran Trax – Nèamh – 46:58
Mas&Delayer – Naked Lunch in the Desert (with Abu Ama, BedouinDrone) – 53:17
Trevlad – Stardust Transmission – 57:15
Rural Tapes – Bird’s-Eye View – 1:02:11
Aphex Twin – Polygon Window – 1:05:00
Rick Sanders – Blue Hour – 1:09:30
*tapes and topographies – watch me now dissolve – 1:13:20
Stefan Gubatz – Silberfisch – 1:17:35
No Arrival – The Flood – 1:23:21
Outro – 1:30:21
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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