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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 200

Melancholic layers glow with hope and impending shadow—profoundly atmospheric.

Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the 200th episode of the Virtual Cassette Library – music from all over the world, sparked by a single track that sets the tone for the set. This is a 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark. If and when I get a couple more subscribers then I’ll go back to doing 90 minute versions, complete with commentary.
This episode is based on the track “People Say I’m a Dreamer” by friend of the channel Neil Stringfellow, also known as Audio Obscura. Available on the upcoming album “Dream States”. Dropping June 12. Neil also just entered a track for my upcoming compilation “The Mystery of the Night” Applications are still open. Get your piece in by June 24. All info on the album page on Bandcamp.
If you make music and would like to be featured, send your file links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I’d love to hear what you’re working on.
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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.
No breaks, just the music.

Side A
00:00:00 Phexioenesystems – Poringland Extract
Subtle, textural field-recording ambient drawn from the Norfolk countryside. Gentle rustles, distant horizons, and organic drones create a beautifully restrained, place-specific immersion.
00:05:35 The Metamorph – The Unlimited Dream Company
Expansive, psychedelic-tinged ambient inspired by J.G. Ballard. Dreamy, shape-shifting layers and cosmic warmth evoke boundless imagination and surreal inner worlds.
00:07:35 Rival Consoles – If Not Now
Driving, emotionally charged electronic ambient from Ryan Lee West. Pulsing rhythms and luminous synths build a sense of urgency and beautiful tension—now or never.
00:10:17 Mikael Lind, Johanna Sjunnesson – Remnants Unveiled
Delicate, haunting ambient that slowly reveals hidden layers. Fragile textures and soft resonances feel like uncovering forgotten memories in dust and light.
00:15:45 Felipe Ayres – Turmoil
Turbulent yet controlled ambient exploring inner unrest. Swirling drones and restless movement capture emotional chaos while maintaining an elegant undercurrent.
00:20:44 Wil Bolton – Quiet Sunlight
Gentle, luminous ambient bathed in soft, filtered light. Warm tones and peaceful stillness evoke a perfect moment of tranquil, golden-hour calm.
00:28:09 Paulina Fae – The Space Inbetween (Instrumental)
Ethereal, floating ambient focused on the liminal. Airy pads and crystalline details create a weightless sense of existing in the beautiful gap between moments.
Side B
00:32:14 Christian Wittman – The Light Before the Dark (Edit. From the album “The Light Before the Dark”
Poignant, cinematic ambient exploring the fragile transition of dusk. Rich, melancholic layers glow with hope and impending shadow—profoundly atmospheric.
00:37:34 Ludovico Einaudi – Primavera
Graceful, flowing piano-led neoclassical piece. Delicate melodies and gentle swells capture the fresh energy and blossoming beauty of spring with quiet emotional depth.
00:44:08 The British Stereo Collective – Silicon Street (From the Yesterday Children)
Retro-futuristic synth ambient with a hazy 80s cinematic feel. Warm analogue tones and nostalgic melancholy paint a portrait of memory-drenched digital streets.
00:46:59 Audio Obscura – People Say I’m a Dreamer
Drifting, introspective ambient with a soft, wistful character. Cloud-like textures and piano voices create a beautiful, slightly detached dream-state.
00:49:42 Dr Atmo – Hunted Rain
Moody, atmospheric ambient capturing rain as both pursuer and refuge. Wet, pulsing textures and dark elegance evoke being chased through a storm.
00:55:38 Cate Brooks – The Frame
Meticulous, minimal ambient centered on structure and restraint. Clean lines and thoughtful silence create a contemplative, almost architectural listening experience.
00:58:29 Luke Howard Trio – Self Preservation
Intimate, heartfelt modern classical/jazz-tinged ambient. Thoughtful piano, subtle brushes, and warm resonance explore protection, vulnerability, and inner strength.


Ode to the fem

00:00:00 Patricia Wolf – The Grotto
(from the album See-Through)
Balmat records.
Soft emerald light filters through a hidden cave entrance, illuminating dripping stalactites that gleam like wet crystals. Shadows shift gently across moss-covered stone walls as faint ripples spread across a shallow turquoise pool. Pale vines curl downward, touching the water’s surface, while distant echoes suggest unseen chambers opening further in.

00:02:54 marine eyes – suddenly green
(from the album to belong)
Past Inside the Present.
Early morning fog lifts from rolling hills, revealing fresh blades of grass sparkling with dew under a pale sky. Sunlight breaks through in soft patches, turning the landscape a vivid, almost luminous shade of spring green. Distant wildflowers sway lightly, and the air feels newly alive with quiet renewal.

00:05:50 IKSRE – Granite
(from the album Solar Return: Golden Hour Mix)
Imaginary North.
Ancient rock faces rise stark against a vast, open sky at dusk, their rough surfaces etched with veins of quartz that catch fading golden light. Wind moves across the stone, carrying subtle grains of dust, while the horizon blurs into warm amber tones, evoking timeless solidity and quiet endurance.

00:09:01 Panic Girl – Feathers Of Hope
(from the album Memories)
i u we records.
Delicate white feathers drift slowly downward through golden afternoon light, catching gentle currents in an open meadow. They settle softly on tall grass stems, some twirling upward again before landing, surrounded by distant wild blooms and a sense of uplifting lightness.

00:11:26 Volker Rapp – Out of my Mind
(from the album Blade Runner 2099)
Cyclical Dreams.
Neon reflections shimmer across rain-slicked streets in a futuristic cityscape at night, with towering holographic billboards flickering in electric blues and pinks. Distant flying vehicles streak overhead, their lights trailing like comets, while the scene pulses with synthetic glow and detached introspection.

00:11:58 Andrea Cichecki – Different Step
(from the album Drawn Into The Edge Effect)
Castles In Space.
Footsteps trace an irregular path along a narrow coastal ledge at twilight, where waves crash below against dark rocks. Mist rises from the sea, blending with soft purple hues in the sky, and small stones shift underfoot, marking a deliberate yet wandering rhythm.

00:15:24 glo – kenóō
(from the album associated with experimental/ambient contexts, often standalone or mix-featured)
Empty temple halls stretch into dim distance, lit only by faint lanterns casting long shadows on wooden floors. Incense smoke curls lazily upward, dissolving into stillness, while subtle echoes of distant chimes linger in vast, open space.

00:21:22 Sachi Kobayashi – Healing
(from the album Weathervane)
Stereoscenic Records.
Gentle sunlight filters through a canopy of leaves in a quiet forest clearing, dappling the ground with moving patterns of gold. A soft wind stirs wild grasses and small white flowers, carrying a sense of calm restoration that spreads outward like slow-spreading warmth.

00:24:31 Amorphous Androgynous – Meadows
(from the album associated with their ambient/electronic works, often A Monstrous Psychedelic Bubble series context)
Wide open fields stretch under a vast blue sky, dotted with clusters of wildflowers swaying in a warm breeze. Butterflies drift lazily between blooms, and distant tree lines shimmer in heat haze, evoking endless peaceful expanse.

00:27:42 the black Albumen – provokovieff
(from the album associated with Buried Treasure releases)
Buried Treasure.
Abstract geometric shapes float in deep black void, slowly rotating and intersecting with faint glowing edges in crimson and violet. Forms distort and reform like liquid metal, creating tension through precise yet unpredictable motion.

00:30:09 Pogo – Alice (Extended)
(from the album Broken Beats & Magic Snacks or extended rework context)
Vibrant cartoon woodlands come alive with swirling colors: oversized mushrooms glow in neon pinks and blues, teacups float mid-air, and checkerboard paths twist into impossible loops. Madcap elements whirl together in playful, accelerating chaos.

00:33:13 Emily A. Sprague – Horizon
(from the album Mount Vision)
RVNG Intl.
A flat, endless ocean meets a pale sky at dawn, with thin layers of pastel clouds drifting low. Subtle waves lap forward, reflecting soft rose and lavender tones that gradually brighten, holding a meditative line of infinite calm.

00:39:13 Scott Gilmore – Subtle Vertigo
(from the album Subtle Vertigo)
Spiraling staircases ascend into misty heights within an old tower, their steps worn smooth and bathed in diffused light from narrow windows. Shadows curve along curved walls, inducing a gentle, disorienting pull upward.

00:43:35 Cate Brooks – Curig
(from the album Horizons or related Ghost Box-inspired works)
Rolling Welsh hills under overcast skies, with ancient stone walls dividing emerald fields. Sheep graze quietly, and faint mist clings to distant ridges, evoking rural solitude and timeless pastoral quiet.

00:48:38 Tim Shiel – Between Ends (feat. Lonelyspeck)
(from the album Glowing Pains: Music From The Gardens Between)
Spirit Level
Twilight bridges connect shadowy urban fragments, suspended over dark water where city lights reflect in fractured lines. Echoing vocal fragments drift across the scene, marking a liminal space of transition and unresolved emotion.

00:50:09 Dean Honer, Supreme Vagabond Craftsman – I Saw The Frogman
(from the album Frogman)
A surreal pond at midnight, illuminated by moonlight: a humanoid figure with frog-like features emerges halfway from the water, wearing an old coat, staring curiously. Reeds sway around lily pads, blending whimsy with eerie folklore.

00:53:11 Hong Kong In The 60s – Disintegration, The Advisory Circle Reshape
(from the album Disintegration or reshape series)
Old film reels flicker with decaying 1960s Hong Kong street scenes: neon signs buzz and blur, crowds dissolve into grainy static, and colors bleed outward in slow analog decay, reshaped into haunting nostalgia.

00:56:08 Anita Tatlow – in hallowed spaces
(from the album the farthest star)
slow echo.
Sunlight streams through tall arched windows in an empty cathedral, illuminating dust motes dancing in golden beams. Stone pillars rise into shadow, and faint reverb carries the sense of sacred, resonant emptiness.

00:59:34 Lisa Bella Donna – Big Briar Cove
(from the album *Moogmentum (Presented by the Bob Moog Foundation)
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Thick briar thickets encircle a hidden cove along a rugged coastline, where tangled vines climb over weathered rocks. Waves roll in gently below, and wildflowers peek through thorns, creating a secluded, overgrown sanctuary.


Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 104

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Welcome to Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library episode 104 A 90-minute musical journey through sonic landscapes shaped by ambient architects, experimental visionaries, and boundary-pushing composers all woven together into two, uninterrupted, 45 minute adventures. There is a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark. Immersive audio realms that stretch from the introspective to the cosmic.The shows are designed for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe.

I won’t be commenting between the tracks. You can join Nanogods poetic visualizations on the time line. Don’t be shy.

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Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨

Intro – 00:00
Trevlad – Doctrine Sanctum – 01:17
Ursula’s Cartridges – Captain Space Barf – 05:06
Akasha System – Terraform Dream – 08:00
Masayoshi Fujita – Ocean Flow – 10:35
Henrik Meierkord – SJÖ – 12:42
Paul Mallatratt – Sweet Sorrow – 14:35
Bålsam – Sunshower – 23:24
Anubis Rude – Ship to Shore – 26:56
Trevlad – Cosmic Paperwork – 30:25
Kamala Sankaram – Ultimo sueño (Morelia, Mexico) – 34:15
Survey Channel – Post-Limitation – 40:27
Side B – 45:06
Sharada Shashidhar – By The Land – 45:50
Happy Hearts – The Last Autumn – 48:55
Microscope White Noise – Cloudy day – 52:29
SONICrider – Thoughts Trigger – 59:19
Masefield Labs – Engram (Masefield Labs Acid DnB Remix) – 1:06:52
Brainstory – Listen (Instrumental) – 1:14:46
John McBain – Interloper – 1:17:06
Cate Brooks – Energens – 1:19:15
Dag Rosenqvist – Sjörök – 1:22:04

Outro – 1:24:10

*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.

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Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 015

07.04.2025

Trevs Intro – 00:00
A Side –
Mark Ellery Griffiths – Lonely Machine – 02:20
The British Stereo Collective – Sudden Impact – 03:35
THE GAYE DEVICE – Code And Comfort – 07:41
Correlations – Pollination – 12:21
Scholars of the Peak – Arrival at Dymynsdale – 16:18
Andreas Davids – Kometenregen – 19:54
Mark Ellery Griffiths – Get Computing! – 29:00
Gis – Replacement Bus Under Cirrostratus – 29:30
Yakuza Jacuzzi – Sequenz Zero – 33:26
*Lullatone – Por Floristas – 36:18
Null-O Band – Martian Time-Slip (Martian Time-Slip) – 37:19
4T Thieves – Happy Place – 41:15
B Side – 44:53
Sons Of Faust – Aftenoon of Perhaps – 45:25
Caught In Joy – were shattered by That Thing – 55:40
Voyage Futur – Lost Memory – 59:04
Christ – White Count – 1:04:25
Ogle – Birds – 1:08:49
CIALYN – Intricate Lights – 1:11:32
Cate Brooks – Blue Chip Fever – 1:14:05
Michael Brückner – Descending to the First Plane – 1:16:32
Trevs Outro – 1:25:39

*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.


Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 012

04.04.2025

Trevs Intro – 00:00
A Side –
Gaussian Blur – Low Electrical Worker – 02:05
Scanner – Odalisk Broadcast – 06:56
THE GAYE DEVICE – Rinse and Repeat – 16:55
Mordant Music – Soft Plastics – 22:30
Beefus B – I Like To Wander – 23:48
Dialed – Stopped Clocks – 27:10
FrankMasonMusic – Grey Area – 32:07
Cate Brooks – Cog on Cog – 32:51
Matthewdavid – 10_STARMAN – 36:05
MiDi BiTCH – Boio – 37:02
Time Rival – In No Uncertain Terms – 44:16
B Side – 47:06
Lifting Gear Engineer – Fray – 47:36
Pandorama – New Wind – 50:26
Natureboy Flako – Shipibo Icaro (Part Three) – 53:52
Jonny Fallout – Music Can Do All These Things – 56:55
Bernard Grancher – Say goodbye to depression – 1:00:12
Coda Nautica – Petal – 1:08:29
Listening Center – Visitor Information – 1:13:03
The Cromagnon Band – Not Nothing – 1:16:00
TOKEE – Путешествие – 1:20:39
Al Lover – Earth People (New York & London) – 1:23:27
Trevs Outro – 1:30:00


Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 008

30.03.2025

Trevs Intro – 00:00


Mod Ribbon Navigator

07.03.2025

Trevors’ Intro – 00:00
Side A – 01:35
HDRF – CCOD – 01:41
Fred und Luna – Der Allgemeine Tenor – 07:28
M – See you – 12:09
Scholars of the Peak – Lure of the Depths (The Mermaid’s Pool) – 16:49
Cosmic Hoffmann – Shiva Connection – 19:43
Oberu – desert – 29:25
Memory Scale – Syntropy – 34:17
Side B – 38:40
Lights in Pairs – Get a Grip – 39:50
Warrington Runcorn – All Mod Cons – 41:46
Coda Nautica – Swan Song – 44:59
Greg Nieuwsma and Antonello Perfetto – Ribbon Dance – 51:25
Jack Cheshire – Maps – 54:47
Clystre – Gartentraum – 57:54
Caught In Joy – Chrono Navigator – 01:00:27
NEWLY – Sour Around – 01:05:48
Cate Brooks – Econet – 01:08:04
MICADO – Call for Hope – 01:11:45
Mind over MIDI – Offgrid 6 – 01:16:51
Trevors’ Outro – 01:21:15


Urban Water Memories

02.03.2025

Voyage Futur – Entering the Grotto – 00:00
Moonbrew, Paolo Apollo Negri – Approaching the Red Planet – 06:18
Pneumatic Tubes – Petit Bleu II – 10:20
Dorian Concept – The Touch – 12:09
Mike Dickinson – No Spacesuit, No Helmet, No Oxygen – 15:21
Paolo Zavallone – Attualità – 22:01
Lionmilk – sue’s garden – 24:31
Riz Ortolani – Why (strumentale N. 2) – 25:48
Riz Ortolani – Così Dolce… Così Perversa (Shake N. 2) – 27:22
MICADO – A Strange Place – 30:02
MICADO – A Place with Memories – 37:46
Pneumatic Tubes – Petit Bleu XII – 42:23
Voyage Futur – Light Reach – 43:58
Cate Brooks – Chipset – 51:22
Cate Brooks – Prismatics – 55:26
Dorian Concept – Novelty – 59:10
Redshift – Redshift – 01:01:08
Mark Ellery Griffiths – Urban Encroachment – 01:19:42
Andres Lopez Azpiri – Una Carta Para Mamá – 01:22:21
Elías González – Rickyleaks – 01:23:32
Ana Tuirán – Pequeña Falla – 01:24:29
Ana Tuirán – Run Run a la Fuga – 01:25:24
Andres Lopez Azpiri – Pepe el Hipopótamo – 01:26:12
Rémy Lozano – Nicaragua – 01:27:50
Elías González – Un Caixixi – 01:29:31
Paolo Zavallone – Telespazio – 01:30:43
Misha Panfilov – Baltica Calls Me – 01:32:15
Ojard – Dimanche – 01:38:33
Thee Marloes – Logika (Instrumental) – 01:41:07
Tony Gilbert – Strata Florida – 01:45:11
Kolumbo – Water Bear – 01:47:16
Nitai Hershkovits, Daniel Dor – The Garden’s Humble – 01:53:24
Nitai Hershkovits, Daniel Dor – Dance Of The Petals – 01:55:57
Thee Marloes – I Know (Instrumental) – 01:58:10


Hidden Frog Souls

14.02.2025

Nitai Hershkovits, Daniel Dor – Hidden Glow – 00:00
30 Door Key – A Week Of Wonderwav – 03:15
Cate Brooks – Future Free – 06:12
The Metamorph – Lost Souls – 09:49
Wound – Breaking News 22-00 (Old Terrors) – 15:26
The Metamorph – Space Cadets – 17:51
Massimo Spinetti – Take Control Prologue – 20:12
Mindheal – Whispers Of Silicon Soul – 21:49
Carlisle City Council – Demolishing The Old Lanes – 25:44
4T Thieves – Fragment 11 – 30:22
Scholars of the Peak – The Devil’s Arse – 32:20
Stereolab – Percolator – 35:27
Paul Ellis & Pabellón Sintético – First light of the last day – 39:08
Omni Gardens – Rain Jacket – 48:13
Supersempfft – Be A Man You Frog – 51:04
Klaus Morlock – Seance on Deck – 56:35
Clystre – 15 Inches of Snow – 01:03:37


Void Penguin Chair

Cate Brooks – Void Patterns – 00:00
Secret Circuit – The Missing Lounge Chair – 02:49
Audio Obscura – All That Is Still To Come – 06:10
Nonima + Dissolved – Anamnesis – 14:40
_Entity – Miami Heat – 18:05
Lunar Cambridge – Forest Temple – 19:40
Beefus B – A Distant Galaxy Message – 22:11
Giants Of Discovery – Mr Probert’s Incredible Steam Machine – 26:54
Doxa Sinistra – The Other Stranger – 29:01
Almanacs – Eighteen Rabbits – 31:54
Fabien Guiraud – Derrière le chardon – 35:49
Al Lover – Ranking Roedelius – 36:52
Passepartout Duo – Imitates a Penguin – 40:26
Scanner, Neil Leonard – Muster Assemblage – 42:41
CV Vision – Der Fröhliche Gaukler – 45:14


Invisible Club 049

22.01.2025

MiDi BiTCH – Hyperoche – 00:00
Carlisle City Council – Demolishing The Old Lanes – 06:39
Cate Brooks – Future Free – 10:30
cable.percussion – Molecular Break-Up – 12:54
Polypores – Live at The Cumberland, Newcastle (10.08.24) – 17:43
Kolumbo – Appleton – 23:57
Xylander – Dark Eyes – 28:57
Time Rival – Oblique Wear Patterns – 31:21
Lightower – Underpass – 33:50
MICADO – (C)onscious (C)onfusion (feat. Synthasy) – 35:51
Mindheal – Heart-Mind Harmony – 41:43
Fragile X – Meliorism – 45:59
Supersempfft – Be A Man You Frog – 53:29
Wound – Breaking News 9-00 (New Horrors) – 57:50
Larry Nozero feat. Dennis Tini – Tune For L.N. – 01:00:37
A. Song – Amble – 01:05:53

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Invisible Club 047

January 8 2025.

Language Field – Hallucinations – Pulselovers Remix – 00:00
Michael Brückner – Moogroovia (Bonus Track) – 05:19
Lifting Gear Engineer – ITRF – 09:39
Mindheal – Wired Together – 14:08
David Beast – Racial Riots – 18:53
Phase4our – Rogue State (Proxy mix) – 20:49
Opulent Regime – fragrant trail – 25:18
Cate Brooks – Zarch – 27:51
Pbs’73 – Turquoise Daylight – 31:16
Consumer Electronics – Agile Methodology – 34:12
Andres Lopez Azpiri – Pueblo Minero – 36:11
Elías González – RNA – 37:28
Veelargo – Mountempt – 38:28
30 Door Key – Lucifer In Cefalu – 44:08
Le Morte d’Abby – All I Have – 45:50
Common Saints – Celebrate – 51:08

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Invisible Club 045

Set doors open 25.12.2024. 12pm CET

Remote Guest List – Failure – 00:00
4T Thieves – Fragment 14 – 05:17
Gianfranco Reverberi – Revelations Rhythm – 07:15
The Hologram People – Pray to the Maypole Witch – 12:27
Cate Brooks – Living Data – 15:00
Tycho, Cautious Clay – Infinite Health – Extended Edit – 17:12
ARC – Departed – 20:59
Goat – One More Death – 28:46
Evigt Mörker – Det blåser en vind genom världen, och det har det alltid gjort – 34:14
Frunk29 – Untitled010 – 40:25
Arovane – Ten Hours – 2023 Remaster – 44:04
30 Door Key – Cosmos Thru The Pond – 46:34
Elías González – Selva Adentro – 48:02
SONICrider – The Reset – 49:20
Greg Foat – Minerva’s Owl – 52:59
Opulent Regime – watching her move – 58:17

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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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