Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 281
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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 281. Twelve-track virtual cassettes that flips themselves at the halfway mark.
A quiet, luminous ambient journey through fog, silence, emergence, and dual light.
Side A drifts from museum fog and deep indigo silence into larval longing, early string tones, perpetual candle mornings, and distant postcard transmissions. Side B opens across bonnie banks and underwater echolocation into temple soundscapes, interplanetary stillness, dismal radiance, and mirrored dual forms.
Overall mood: Contemplative, tender, and gently expansive — full of soft emergence, reflective depth, and quiet shared presence. Perfect for deep listening, early mornings, or peaceful solitude.
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.
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The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,108 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.
Fog drifts in thick luminous layers across open museum halls. Simon Cacheux – Fog. Field recordings and synthesized tones rise with shakuhachi breath and cymbal resonance. The entire landscape holds the quiet presence of an event already unfolding, the air filled with contemplative motion.
Silence expands through deep indigo space. Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken & Henrik Meierkord – Silence In The Dark. Cello tones stretch into long translucent ribbons while spoken words dissolve into the surrounding drones. Texture and language move together in measured waves, the whole field opening into reflective presence.
Larval forms glow in soft emerging light. Florigenix – larval longing. Ambient and experimental tones sculpt the open spaces between notes into a melodic tapestry. Shared sonic connections rise in serene sequential layers, each one expanding the quiet field of reflection.
A single tone unfolds across violin and viola strings. Aki Yli-Salomäki & Kreeta-Julia Heikkilä – Liian varhain. Subtle synthesizer textures rise around the layered strings in slow structures. Resonance and timbre move in quiet dialogue, the entire space holding acoustic closeness and gentle emergence.
Perpetual mornings open in soft candle-coloured light. Spirituals – Perpetual Mornings. Pedal steel and acoustic guitars drift with analog and virtual synths, vibraphone, cymbals, percussion, voice memos and field recordings. Each spontaneous composition rises as a glowing candle through the open air.
A postcard arrives carrying distant guitar tones and field-recorded air. Oberlin – Postcard #4. A Fernandes Telecaster voice moves through open landscape sounds recorded in May light, the whole surface expanding in quiet transmission.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
Bonnie banks stretch under soft folk-derived ambient skies. Arboresque – The Bonnie Banks. Traditional ballad imagery opens into new sonic forms. The entire field rises as a tribute landscape of shared creation flowing toward open environmental light.
Echolocation pulses move through dense underwater corridors. Biodiverse, Anee Molly & Canblaster – Echolocation. Sonic signals expand in mapping waves, each one revealing new luminous territories of shared presence.
A temple forms in dark sound. boycalledcrow – temple. Heavier beats and dub-inflected soundscapes rise around alien phenomena and personal memory. The entire space opens in immersive motion through grief-shaped and expansive fields.
Interplanetary time stretches across sparse electronic textures. TheAdelaidean – Interplanetary Time (featuring Lauren Jones). E-bow drones and heavily processed ambient recordings carry a passive traveller through prolonged motion. Voices whisper at the edge of consciousness while fractured melodies echo from distant harmonic turns, the whole journey unfolding in layered stillness.
Dismal radiance pours through liminal corridors of flowing memory. Philippe Blache – Through The Dismal Radiance. Meandering immersive textures and high emotional tones open into imaginary territories. The entire headspace expands in careful melancholic repetition and profound sonic depth.
Dual forms rise in mirrored light. Irène Blanc – Dual. Parallel tones move together across open space, each layer expanding the shared field in dual motion.
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 Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode 281.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Side A
00:00:00 Simon Cacheux – Fog
Fog drifts in thick luminous layers across open museum halls. Simon Cacheux – Fog. Field recordings and synthesized tones rise with shakuhachi breath and cymbal resonance. The entire landscape holds the quiet presence of an event already unfolding, the air filled with contemplative motion.
00:08:39 Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken & Henrik Meierkord – Silence In The Dark
Silence expands through deep indigo space. Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken & Henrik Meierkord – Silence In The Dark. Cello tones stretch into long translucent ribbons while spoken words dissolve into the surrounding drones. Texture and language move together in steady measured waves, the whole field opening into reflective presence.
00:13:27 Florigenix – larval longing
Larval forms glow in soft emerging light. Florigenix – larval longing. Ambient and experimental tones sculpt the open spaces between notes into a melodic tapestry. Shared sonic connections rise in serene sequential layers, each one expanding the quiet field of reflection.
00:17:14 Aki Yli-Salomäki & Kreeta-Julia Heikkilä – Liian varhain
A single tone unfolds across violin and viola strings. Aki Yli-Salomäki & Kreeta-Julia Heikkilä – Liian varhain. Subtle synthesizer textures rise around the layered strings in slow structures. Resonance and timbre move in quiet dialogue, the entire space holding acoustic closeness and gentle emergence.
00:19:26 Spirituals – Perpetual Mornings
Perpetual mornings open in soft candle-coloured light. Spirituals – Perpetual Mornings. Pedal steel and acoustic guitars drift with analog and virtual synths, vibraphone, cymbals, percussion, voice memos and field recordings. Each spontaneous composition rises as a glowing candle through the open air.
00:21:28 Oberlin – Postcard #4
A postcard arrives carrying distant guitar tones and field-recorded air. Oberlin – Postcard #4. A Fernandes Telecaster voice moves through open landscape sounds recorded in May light, the whole surface expanding in quiet transmission.
Side B
00:25:32 Arboresque – The Bonnie Banks
Bonnie banks stretch under soft folk-derived ambient skies. Arboresque – The Bonnie Banks. Traditional ballad imagery opens into new sonic forms. The entire field rises as a tribute landscape of quiet shared creation flowing toward open environmental light.
00:31:38 Biodiverse, Anee Molly & Canblaster – Echolocation
Echolocation pulses move through dense underwater corridors. Biodiverse, Anee Molly & Canblaster – Echolocation. Sonic signals expand in mapping waves, each one revealing new luminous territories of shared presence.
00:38:14 boycalledcrow – temple
A temple forms in dark continuous sound. boycalledcrow – temple. Heavier beats and dub-inflected soundscapes rise around alien phenomena and personal memory. The entire space opens in steady immersive motion through grief-shaped and expansive fields.
00:40:57 TheAdelaidean – Interplanetary Time (featuring Lauren Jones)
Interplanetary time stretches across sparse electronic textures. TheAdelaidean – Interplanetary Time (featuring Lauren Jones). E-bow drones and heavily processed ambient recordings carry a passive traveller through prolonged motion. Voices whisper at the edge of consciousness while fractured melodies echo from distant harmonic turns, the whole journey unfolding in continuous layered stillness.
00:46:20 Philippe Blache – Through The Dismal Radiance
Dismal radiance pours through liminal corridors of flowing memory. Philippe Blache – Through The Dismal Radiance. Meandering immersive textures and high emotional tones open into continuous imaginary territories. The entire headspace expands in careful melancholic repetition and profound sonic depth.
00:51:48 Irène Blanc – Dual
Dual forms rise in mirrored continuous light. Irène Blanc – Dual. Parallel tones move together across open space, each layer expanding the shared field in steady dual motion.
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 Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode 279.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 139
3 November 2025
///caravan.grew.vaccines.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at Episode 138 of The Virtual Cassette Library.
Caravan Grew Vaccines is the episodes subtitle, as well as the track you’re hearing in the background and it’s geographical location which I’ve filmed and can be experienced on YouTube.
I’m Trevor and I curate these 90-minute genre bending drifts through frequencies from around the globe. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion. Two, 45 minute mixes, 15 tracks per side with a side change in the middle.
Picture the listening experience like being at a music festival where the artists play on a rotating stage. Each act is allotted time for their piece and as it ends the next act takes over rotating into view.
Styles for this episode range from IDM to neo classical, from ritual ambient to jazz-funk. The musical keys in focus are B major and G sharp minor, A flat minor.
This episode contains some household names like Greg Foat, Jogging House and Sven Wunder. Some friends of the channel like odd person, Henrik Meierkord and The British Stereo Collective, as well as some supporting labels like oscarson, moniker eggplant, ingrown records, whitelabrecs, mahorka and Cyclical Dreams. All the artists and labels are the soul of this show.
If you’d like to be included on future episodes send your art to trevlad@gmail.com. Links to all the tracks are illuminated at trevor.se and marked in each episode’s Mixcloud timeline.
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So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you.
Intro – 00:00
Photay – Derecho – 02:46
Ndorfik – Saimaa (madebyitself Robot Jazz Remix) – 06:42
Tim Linghaus – Maybe Next Year – 09:26
Primary Mystical Experience – Morocco – 11:47
KMRU – Matching Teal Surfaces – 13:55
Karsten Pflum – Mousfolk Acid – 17:28
odd person – even floating kingdoms crumble – 20:45
blochemy – trei – 23:37
Metamatics – Inbetween Fields – 26:42
*Trevlad – Action Scam Running – 30:16
Sven Wunder – Leeward – 32:52
Jogging House – Disguise – 35:28
Nonkeen – mark – 38:43
Ranga – Transport – 41:44
Go Outside – not far away – 45:10
B Side – 47:40
T-toe – Bullhook Butte – 48:12
Francis Morning – Precious – 50:50
Henrik Meierkord & Knivtid – Fri tolkning – 54:22
Fran Carlyon – A Place To Land (demo) – 56:52
The British Stereo Collective – Come What May (from ‘The Sins of the Living’) – 58:06
Greg Foat – A Private Cosmos – 1:00:06
Steve Hauschildt – Pyramidal – 1:05:55
Berto Pisano, Elsio Mancuso – L’ATELIER DEI MISTERI – 1:09:05
Oberlin vs Moki Mcfly vs Philippe Neau – Honeychruch vs Imprint vs hors SOLS vs orsol (Iliaque Mix) – 1:11:00
Ida Urd & Ingri Høyland – Woe – 1:12:39
Seth Thorn – necarney creek – 1:15:40
Nils Quak – Transformation Unknown – 1:18:24
Hari Maia – Universalis I Pt. III – 1:22:47
boycalledcrow – Mushroom – 1:25:18
Marius Leicht – Die Reise der Örmimi – 1:27:57
Outro – 1:33:02
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Windstar Enterprises – The Source – 05:02
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Cries from the LTN – Fractions of Light – 15:32
Kavus Torabi – You Broke My Fall – 19:17
Cory Wong – Utopia (feat. Marti Fischer) – 25:37
Neverending Audit – Hawaiian Police – 28:33
MuchaMuchaM – Sama Sama – 29:59
Frunk29 – Dvorovaya – 32:47
Time Rival – Music for Realization – 36:52
Anna Butterss – Pokemans – 39:57
Claude Lavender – Sweet Schmaltz – 42:29
Architect of Truth – al-Nahda – 45:29
SiP – Palomino – 49:01
boycalledcrow – my friend, janu – 52:20
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