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 textured, slightly restless ambient and experimental journey through protected light, subway chaos, and quiet figures still gathering. Side A opens in remixed German-Czech-Spanish frequencies and Bristol trio gravity, then moves through Chester grandmother light, Berlin bouncing patterns, whimsical DNA cheesecake, and limbs of sticks under Machen’s bridge. Side B settles into Salt LX thoughts carried by wind, absolute chaos circuits, dark-ambient lounge noise, simple guitar drones that wait for yes, submerged porcelain systems, and a Quiet Figures remix that percolates the filter open. Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly dark, and richly layered — full of analogue edges, exclusive whispers, and slow openings. Perfect for late listening, deep immersion, or sitting with what keeps moving while the figures remain.
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 Möe – Incierta (Høll Remix) Möe – Incierta (Høll Remix). German, Czech and Spanish frequencies meet in protected digital light. Diego Castillo’s original gains new remix colour under Jorge Eafhm’s mastering. 00:08:06 Slate Trio – Hour of Zog Slate Trio – Hour of Zog. Neil Smith’s guitar, Matthew Jones’s drums and Alex Heane’s bass lock into Bristol air. James King records and mixes. Rick Dowding masters. 00:14:25 (EXCLUSIVE) boycalledcrow – orb boycalledcrow – orb. First exclusive of the episode. Carl M Knott’s sprawl approaches on 11 September. Heavier beats and dub-inflected soundscapes rise around Chester rooms and grandmother light. 00:16:51 Sebastian Arnold – Bits Keep Moving Sebastian Arnold – Bits Keep Moving. One-man band of drums, percussion, synthesizers and live electronics. Bouncing patterns and tricky acoustic beats fill Tricone Studios at Funkhaus Berlin. Bewegung, Klang, Energie. 00:21:41 Daily Mail Comments Section – Estradiol Cheesecake Daily Mail Comments Section – Estradiol Cheesecake. Imogen Hayley Baker’s whimsical alias carries DNA from Lucy, Evie, Christiane, Meghan, Heather and Shannon. Billie Bacon adds hammer. 00:23:10 Grey Malkin – Our Limbs Are Made Of Sticks Grey Malkin – Our Limbs Are Made Of Sticks. Arthur Machen’s bridge of light spans the gulf. Alison O’Donnell, Burnt Paw, Alan Davidson, David Colohan, Speculum Bunny, Amanda Votta and the Liminal Choir join woodwind and voice. Tides of time come in.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:27:50 Jogging House – Roofer Jogging House – Roofer. Salt LX phrases re-interpreted through Digitakt 2, Polyvera, modular and single takes to quarter-inch tape. Thoughts dwell. Winds carry. 00:32:42 Alex Ringess – Towards Absolute Chaos Alex Ringess – Towards Absolute Chaos. Three or four instruments hold the space. Project files from Analog Abstractions carry the same mix. Glasgow subway photography gains retro sci-fi processing. 00:37:44 rikardfvs – Look, Betty (Dark Ambient Remix) rikardfvs – Look, Betty (Dark Ambient Remix). Sixth Sound for the Soul compilation. Lounge noise, syphilitic exotica and raw ambient gather. 00:45:25 Aidan Baker – Everything Is Dark Until You Say Yes Aidan Baker – Everything Is Dark Until You Say Yes. Solo electric guitar at Broken Spine Studios, Berlin. Drifting drones and noisy textures return to simple form. Guillermo Pizarro masters for Owl Totem. 00:51:59 Aleatory Music Systems – Up Aleatory Music Systems – Up. Porcelain butter dish struck and submerged. Systems music meets chaotic edges. Time, change and movement open. Limited lathe-cut 7-inch exists on Short Cuts. 00:55:42 (EXCLUSIVE) Masefield Labs – On Her Own Quiet Figures remix Masefield Labs – On Her Own Quiet Figures remix. Second exclusive of the episode. Silent ever-present figures whisper. Quantum foam gratitude cascades to the artists. Percolating electronica opens the cut-off filter.
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 298. Travel safely between the frequencies. I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
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. Tips and subscriptions keep the reels turning. Every little helps the library stay open after dark. 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.
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. Pre-order the 7th TVCL album on Bandcamp. It drops when we hit 16 tracks. Also the first channel compilation with 37 tracks so far will drop on the 8th of November, pre-orders are available. Subscribe and unlock 870 archived shows. Remember, every comment, every like, every follow, subscription and, album purchase keeps the frequencies flowing. So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 298
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-298/
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 textured, slightly restless ambient and experimental journey through protected light, subway chaos, and quiet figures still gathering.
Side A opens in remixed German-Czech-Spanish frequencies and Bristol trio gravity, then moves through Chester grandmother light, Berlin bouncing patterns, whimsical DNA cheesecake, and limbs of sticks under Machen’s bridge. Side B settles into Salt LX thoughts carried by wind, absolute chaos circuits, dark-ambient lounge noise, simple guitar drones that wait for yes, submerged porcelain systems, and a Quiet Figures remix that percolates the filter open.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly dark, and richly layered — full of analogue edges, exclusive whispers, and slow openings. Perfect for late listening, deep immersion, or sitting with what keeps moving while the figures remain.
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 Möe – Incierta (Høll Remix)
Möe – Incierta (Høll Remix). German, Czech and Spanish frequencies meet in protected digital light. Diego Castillo’s original gains new remix colour under Jorge Eafhm’s mastering.
00:08:06 Slate Trio – Hour of Zog
Slate Trio – Hour of Zog. Neil Smith’s guitar, Matthew Jones’s drums and Alex Heane’s bass lock into Bristol air. James King records and mixes. Rick Dowding masters.
00:14:25 (EXCLUSIVE) boycalledcrow – orb
boycalledcrow – orb. First exclusive of the episode. Carl M Knott’s sprawl approaches on 11 September. Heavier beats and dub-inflected soundscapes rise around Chester rooms and grandmother light.
00:16:51 Sebastian Arnold – Bits Keep Moving
Sebastian Arnold – Bits Keep Moving. One-man band of drums, percussion, synthesizers and live electronics. Bouncing patterns and tricky acoustic beats fill Tricone Studios at Funkhaus Berlin. Bewegung, Klang, Energie.
00:21:41 Daily Mail Comments Section – Estradiol Cheesecake
Daily Mail Comments Section – Estradiol Cheesecake. Imogen Hayley Baker’s whimsical alias carries DNA from Lucy, Evie, Christiane, Meghan, Heather and Shannon. Billie Bacon adds hammer.
00:23:10 Grey Malkin – Our Limbs Are Made Of Sticks
Grey Malkin – Our Limbs Are Made Of Sticks. Arthur Machen’s bridge of light spans the gulf. Alison O’Donnell, Burnt Paw, Alan Davidson, David Colohan, Speculum Bunny, Amanda Votta and the Liminal Choir join woodwind and voice. Tides of time come in.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:27:50 Jogging House – Roofer
Jogging House – Roofer. Salt LX phrases re-interpreted through Digitakt 2, Polyvera, modular and single takes to quarter-inch tape. Thoughts dwell. Winds carry.
00:32:42 Alex Ringess – Towards Absolute Chaos
Alex Ringess – Towards Absolute Chaos. Three or four instruments hold the space. Project files from Analog Abstractions carry the same mix. Glasgow subway photography gains retro sci-fi processing.
00:37:44 rikardfvs – Look, Betty (Dark Ambient Remix)
rikardfvs – Look, Betty (Dark Ambient Remix). Sixth Sound for the Soul compilation. Lounge noise, syphilitic exotica and raw ambient gather.
00:45:25 Aidan Baker – Everything Is Dark Until You Say Yes
Aidan Baker – Everything Is Dark Until You Say Yes. Solo electric guitar at Broken Spine Studios, Berlin. Drifting drones and noisy textures return to simple form. Guillermo Pizarro masters for Owl Totem.
00:51:59 Aleatory Music Systems – Up
Aleatory Music Systems – Up. Porcelain butter dish struck and submerged. Systems music meets chaotic edges. Time, change and movement open. Limited lathe-cut 7-inch exists on Short Cuts.
00:55:42 (EXCLUSIVE) Masefield Labs – On Her Own Quiet Figures remix
Masefield Labs – On Her Own Quiet Figures remix. Second exclusive of the episode. Silent ever-present figures whisper. Quantum foam gratitude cascades to the artists. Percolating electronica opens the cut-off filter.
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 298.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
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