Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 231
Microchipped Earth Portal
Based on the track “Earth is Room Enough” by “The British Stereo Collective” from the album “ProtoSynthesis”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A cosmic and introspective ambient voyage exploring distance, portals, memory, and emotional renewal.
Side A journeys from far horizons and astral projection through architectural grandeur and glitchy interference into lonely emptiness and unseen gateways. Side B drifts through fading dreams and earthly comfort before plunging into oceanic depths and ending on hopeful rebirth.
Overall mood: Dreamlike, melancholic, and subtly psychedelic with a balance of wonder, solitude, and quiet optimism. It feels like drifting between inner space and outer cosmos — perfect for deep listening, meditation, or nighttime immersion.
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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 Universos Terrenales – Mirando A Lo Lejos
Dreamy, distant ambient with warm pads and a sense of looking toward far horizons. Peaceful and expansive.
00:03:10 Cosmic Angst – Preliminal
Threshold ambient exploring the space before crossing over, with subtle tension and cosmic unease. Atmospheric and anticipatory.
00:10:38 Polypores – Guarenteed Astral Projection
Psychedelic, mind-expanding ambient designed for out-of-body travel. Trippy, swirling, and immersive.
00:12:46 The Metamorph – Colonnade
Architectural analogue electronics with grand, columned spaces and elegant resonance. Majestic and hypnotic.
00:15:42 KLAUS BACK + TINI BEIER – INTERFERENCES
Glitchy, signal-disrupted electronic with overlapping transmissions and retro-futurist charm. Dynamic and textured.
00:17:05 Scholars of the Peak – No Keeper Left To Answer
Lonely, windswept ambient with a profound sense of abandonment and open emptiness. Stark and contemplative.
00:21:28 Voyage Futur – Unseen Portal
Mysterious, gateway-focused ambient with shimmering portals and forward-looking wonder.
Side B
00:22:44 x.y.r. – terminal dream
Hazy, fading dream-state ambient with soft dissolution and terminal melancholy. Gentle and dissolving.
00:30:26 The British Stereo Collective – Earth is Room Enough
Warm, spacious analogue exploration celebrating our planet as sufficient wonder. Cosy and humanistic.
00:36:32 Apta – The Depths
Deep, submerged ambient plumbing emotional and sonic abysses. Dark, immersive, and profound.
00:38:58 Coda Nautica – Silent Cry
Oceanic, wordless ambient expressing quiet sorrow with flowing, nautical textures. Poignant and moving.
00:44:06 Crystal Voyager, UFOm – Microchipped
Glitchy, cybernetic ambient with crystalline shards and subtle dystopian edge. Sharp and futuristic.
00:46:19 Small Chief – A New Beginning
Hopeful, rebirth-oriented ambient with gentle optimism and fresh sonic light. Uplifting closer.
EXPANSIVE WAVES 04
Welcome to the fourth 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 Trevor and I’ll be guiding you through these landscapes. An immersive journey into expansive soundscapes if you will.
The Observatory Opens Welcome, wanderers. Now we gather in a hushed celestial chamber where frequencies bloom like night flowers and time slips quietly sideways. Each track is not merely heard—it’s stepped into, like a half-remembered dream or a threshold carved in sound. Come closer… The door is already open.
Saapato – Spring at Home – 00:00
Nils Frahm – Right Right Right (Paris) – 49:15
Jacek Doroszenko – Resin Arpeggio – Movement I – 1:04:10
Thomas Park – Are There Dragons In Spain – 1:23:39
Ear to Ear – Live Recordings B – 1:38:26
Mark Ellery Griffiths – Reverie III – 1:55:52
Substak + Signalstoerung – L8 – 2:10:25
Polaroid Notes – Cosmic Thing – 2:32:34
Mystery Apples 10
09.03.2025
Trevors’ Intro – 00:00
Matthewdavid’s Mindflight, Matthewdavid – Tract of Bell & Flute Magic – 00:26
Tross – Atlantic Tariff – 10:38
Kutiman – Line 3 – 14:24
VED – Erickson Indirect – 17:13
Prairiewolf – Cogs – 24:25
Trees Speak – Everlasting – 28:38
Polypores – Loss Of Ego Boundaries – 29:32
Datashock – Spaziergang im Leguangarten – 32:41
Kevin Pearce – Sundial – 36:21
Good Doom – Murmurations – 38:37
Sun Swept – Remember the Cosmos – 40:43
The Galaxy Electric & Droog Mulholland – Narrow Passage – 44:45
Somni – Running – 47:43
Heldon – Northernland Lady – 51:24
Golden Brown – Scurvy – 57:58
Aldous Harding – Designer – 01:01:07
Psyché – Kuma – 01:05:07
ZENYA – Spheres On The Beach – 01:08:21
Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin – Alakarra – 01:13:26
Matt Berry – Like Stone – 01:15:29
BALTHVS – In Lust – 01:18:15
Gemini Horror – Fortune Teller – 01:20:45
Audio Obscura – An Age Yet To Come – 01:24:12
Secret Circuit – Crazy Ways – 01:28:06
L’éclair, The Mauskovic Dance Band – Take the Money – Octopus Version – 01:31:58
George Issakidis – Ourania – 01:36:33
Siren Tree Flow
Lyonel Bauchet – Dérive de situation 23 – 00:00
Hélène Vogelsinger – River Flow – 07:28
Hydra Transmitter – The Uncertain – 11:01
Cries from the LTN – The Droning Tree (Bough 4) – 14:02
Sunken Foal – Gesponnen Zucker – 20:56
Apta – Sink – 24:45
Elin Piel – Siren siren – 28:07
Bernard Grancher – Par dela le prisme quantique – 29:44
Ogle – Return to the Real World – 33:55
Koen Holtkamp – Atmos Two – 35:35
BRIAN DUFFY – A House on Hope Street – 37:38
Dave Bessell – Elegy – 40:01
Polypores – Unlimited Lives – 44:19
Mystery Apples 5
15.02.2025.
Sedibus – Seti – Pt. 1 – 00:00
Forest Swords – Torch – 08:05
Joachim Stiller – Radiophonic Sound Bath #2.2: And To Let The Weather Decide Whether To Wear A Sweater – 09:49
Fatma – The Dirty Beat – 26:26
Dave Bessell – Ariel – 29:38
Polypores – Fabulae – 33:55
30 Door Key – Lucifer In Cefalu – 35:54
Jack Silverman Quartet – Nightfall on the Nile – 37:36
Fridge Flammers – Conga Town – 41:46
Baïkonour – Unreliable Memories Part 1 – 45:39
Glass Beams – Snake Oil – 49:19
Skyjelly – Killer B (Zonevreemd remix) – 53:47
Sababa 5 – Bezani – 59:48
Aldous Harding – Pilot – 01:02:43
OdNu + Ümlaut – Following a Number – 01:05:29
Anna Butterss – Shorn – 01:11:17
BEAK> – Ah Yeh – 01:15:26
El Hombre Al Agua – Three Minute Meditation – 01:20:57
Matt Berry – Telescopic – 01:24:01
Spotify playlist of all the Mystery Apples episodes so far (not all music is on Spotify):
Mystery Apples 3
10.02.2025
Psyché – Amma – 00:00
Pure Land Stars – Mountains Are Mountains – 04:43
Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, Carlos Niño – Exploration (Sincerely) – 06:34
Sababa 5 – Aeolus – 17:19
Kavus Torabi – Silent the Rotor – 24:14
Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin – Diarabi – 27:57
Morgan Delt – Some Sunsick Day – 32:34
Polypores – Aquarian – 36:51
Matthewdavid – Perpetuity – 41:09
Stennes – Down The Rabbit Hole – 45:46
Polypores – Lattice – 46:05
Kenny Ueda – Miro – 48:03
CV Vision – Gleiten – 49:15
Prairiewolf – Labwerk – 01:03:32
Secret Circuit – Corrupted Dusk – 01:06:53
Gong – Asleep Do We Lay – 01:09:41
Bruno Pernadas – Lachrymose – 01:13:41
Primary Mystical Experience – Stream of Life – 01:16:05
Bibio – The Ephemeral Bluebell – 01:22:26
Kosmischer Läufer – Sonnenfleck II – 01:26:59
Surya Botofasina, Nate Mercereau, Carlos Niño – Hearing (with Keshava at Zuma) – 01:27:33
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):
Mystery Apples 1
Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin – Tongo Barra – 00:00
Mong Tong – A Nambra – 05:27
The Galaxy Electric & Droog Mulholland – Mystery Song – 10:22
BALTHVS – Saturn and Jupiter – 12:43
Matthewdavid – Too High to Play Bear’s Campout (feat. Brin) – 17:25
Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin – Tamalla – 20:56
Grand Veymont – Bois Barbu – 25:56
El Michels Affair, Bobby Oroza – Reasons – 31:45
The Polyversal Souls – Goin’ In – 34:29
Golden Brown – Worm Charming – 38:37
Thought Bubble – Superficial – 39:56
Primary Mystical Experience – Coconuts – 45:32
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Dreams – Yu Su Instrumental Mix – 48:31
The Orb, David Gilmour – Metallic Spheres In Colour- Movement 1 – Excerpt – 53:08
SOMA – Sadhu Saizina – 56:44
Aldous Harding – The Barrel – 59:18
Future Children – Demon in the Box – 01:03:51
Polypores – Golden Apples – 01:09:43
Future Children – It All Falls Apart – 01:15:03
The Soundcarriers – Comet 4 – 01:19:19
Traffik Island – The Mathematician – 01:23:09
Matthewdavid – Phased Moon – 01:25:22
Matthewdavid – Zithercelium – 01:27:56
Khruangbin – Time (You and I) – 01:32:39
Krokakai – Bodhrán Beat – 01:38:03
Spotify Playlist of all the Mystery Apples episodes so far:
Spring Sun Road
31.01.2025
Battaglia – A New Home – 00:00
Listening Center – Transference One – 04:16
Roedelius – TB6 101 30 – 06:35
Andrea Castiglioni – Sun Road – 09:55
The Tin Box – Twilight Revive – 11:53
Moray Newlands – Wipe the grease off his dirty face – 14:39
Ogle – Yellow Road – 16:49
Ana Tuirán – Zorro Andino – 19:33
Consumer Electronics – Circuits Explained – 21:54
Mike Dickinson – The Palace of Green Porcelain – 28:01
4T Thieves – Monochromatic Memories – 32:04
Psycho Kick – The end of the fire – 35:43
The Lighthouse – Pushing Fog – 40:45
Polypores – Summer ‘O4 – 44:42
Scholars of the Peak – Spring in the Strings – 48:30
Crystal Voyager, UFOm – Angel from Spiritually Advanced Civilization – 52:13
Invisible Waves 051
Shhh… The private one hour DJ Mix lies behind these words
22.12.2024
Masayoshi Fujita–Tower of Cloud 00:00
marine eyes–summer whisper 06:11
Polypores–Golden Apples 09:41
Cate Brooks–Delta Waves 14:43
Dan Deacon–Snuppy 21:14
Mantris–Your Arrival To The Deity 22:48
Crystal Voyager, UFOm–Angel from Spiritually Advanced Civilization 32:11
Carlos Ferreira–In the Meantime 39:32
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