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 279. 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.
I’m trying something new by not introducing the artists, but instead incorporating their work into an incantation of sorts. 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.
Side A
Volcanic snow dogs race across a mountain ridge under shifting digital skies. Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid – Volcan Snow Dogs. Ship-to-shore light pours over butterfly towers and shaman shoes. Moshi moves through deep-breathing valleys where digital synth motifs drift in soft waves. Wood-workshop percussion rises with new-age swells and bit-crushed vocal haunts, carrying the entire 12th Isle landscape forward in continuous playful motion.
Dawn breaks across layered South Indian folk tones and electronic drums. Sunken Cages – Darantee (with Kuza). Dark synths and industrial textures open into wide deconstructed fields. Kuza’s voice rises as a ghostly aria through the glowing circuitry, the whole surface expanding in resynthesized global club light.
Distant piano figures stretch across a cinematic horizon of dense electronics and layered guitar. Simon Heartfield – Ultimate Creature. Fractured voices drift through insistent percussion and powerful rhythms. The landscape unfolds in patient continuous transformation, every layer of time gathering into one vast evolving field.
Broken synths and scratched CDs release soft electrical pulses across a tired piano from Cornwall. Dave Clarkson – The Age of Static. Warped tapes and power surges open into unexpected luminous forms. The entire space fills with the quiet magic of imperfect signals moving in steady chance patterns.
Growth expands outward from within a single luminous centre. f5point6 – Endogenesis. Jazz roots, Detroit techno currents and ambient electronica rise together in visual colour. Plugins generate intricate patterns that drift like sand across an endless desert or calm water along a deep lake shore, the whole sequence suspended in continuous immersive motion.
Small fires glow in warm intimate circles across a Polish winter landscape. Jeff Gburek + Eryk Nowacki – Enter the Spiral. Organic tones unfold in unhurried flow. The session opens as a continuous spiral of soft ambiance, each sound tending the fire in quiet shared light.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
Side B
Deep water at the bottom of Lake Mead holds a long continuous recording. Nosferatupac – Capitalism Only Works If It Completely Strips You Of Any Sense Of Dignity Or Self Worth. The lake floor opens into dense submerged textures that keep expanding in slow underwater currents.
Minimal circuits pulse across a wide open field of four instruments. Alex Ringess – State Of Emergency. Corrupted signals, escape trajectories and crystal-clear frequencies rise in continuous sequence. Heat waves and collective cognitive fields stretch outward in steady luminous patterns.
A soft voice holds the line in endless floating space. luxury elite – please stay on the line. The tone remains open and continuous, the entire channel glowing in quiet sustained presence.
Waves move through a cosmic ocean of harmonium, space sounds, guitar, gong, singing bowls, ocean drum, chimes, bass, cello, drums and percussion. Monks Pond – Waves in the Cosmic Ocean. Every instrument expands into the same vast watery light, the whole surface rolling forward in continuous cosmic motion.
Surface tension holds quirky emotive harmonies across twenty years of detailed glitch. Planet Boelex – Surface tension. Small luminous details rise and settle in steady mildly glitched waves, the entire field recommended for headphones in continuous close listening.
Aerospace corridors open across late-seventies industrial horizons of Warrington, Widnes and Runcorn. Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Bonus: Aerospace. Prophet synths and gallons of reverb carry the landscape in continuous nostalgic electronica. Workers and industry glow in soft infinite decay, the whole new-town field expanding in quiet forward light.
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.
Side A 00:00:00 Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid – Volcan Snow Dogs Volcanic snow dogs race across a mountain ridge under shifting digital skies. Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid – Volcan Snow Dogs. Ship-to-shore light pours over butterfly towers and shaman shoes. Moshi moves through deep-breathing valleys where digital synth motifs drift in soft waves. Wood-workshop percussion rises with new-age swells and bit-crushed vocal haunts, carrying the entire 12th Isle landscape forward in continuous playful motion. 00:09:13 Sunken Cages – Darantee (with Kuza) Dawn breaks across layered South Indian folk tones and electronic drums. Sunken Cages – Darantee (with Kuza). Dark synths and industrial textures open into wide deconstructed fields. Kuza’s voice rises as a ghostly aria through the glowing circuitry, the whole surface expanding in resynthesized global club light. 00:12:18 Simon Heartfield – Ultimate Creature Distant piano figures stretch across a cinematic horizon of dense electronics and layered guitar. Simon Heartfield – Ultimate Creature. Fractured voices drift through insistent percussion and powerful rhythms. The landscape unfolds in patient continuous transformation, every layer of time gathering into one vast evolving field. 00:16:46 Dave Clarkson – The Age of Static Broken synths and scratched CDs release soft electrical pulses across a tired piano from Cornwall. Dave Clarkson – The Age of Static. Warped tapes and power surges open into unexpected luminous forms. The entire space fills with the quiet magic of imperfect signals moving in steady chance patterns. 00:23:15 f5point6 – Endogenesis Growth expands outward from within a single luminous centre. f5point6 – Endogenesis. Jazz roots, Detroit techno currents and ambient electronica rise together in visual colour. Plugins generate intricate patterns that drift like sand across an endless desert or calm water along a deep lake shore, the whole sequence suspended in continuous immersive motion. 00:26:51 Jeff Gburek + Eryk Nowacki – Enter the Spiral Small fires glow in warm intimate circles across a Polish winter landscape. Jeff Gburek + Eryk Nowacki – Enter the Spiral. Organic tones unfold in unhurried flow. The session opens as a continuous spiral of soft ambiance, each sound tending the fire in quiet shared light. Side B 00:33:35 Nosferatupac – Capitalism Only Works If It Completely Strips You Of Any Sense Of Dignity Or Self Worth Deep water at the bottom of Lake Mead holds a long continuous recording. Nosferatupac – Capitalism Only Works If It Completely Strips You Of Any Sense Of Dignity Or Self Worth. The lake floor opens into dense submerged textures that keep expanding in slow underwater currents. 00:35:19 Alex Ringess – State Of Emergency Minimal circuits pulse across a wide open field of four instruments. Alex Ringess – State Of Emergency. Corrupted signals, escape trajectories and crystal-clear frequencies rise in continuous sequence. Heat waves and collective cognitive fields stretch outward in steady luminous patterns. 00:40:07 luxury elite – please stay on the line A soft voice holds the line in endless floating space. luxury elite – please stay on the line. The tone remains open and continuous, the entire channel glowing in quiet sustained presence. 00:40:37 Monks Pond – Waves in the Cosmic Ocean Waves move through a cosmic ocean of harmonium, space sounds, guitar, gong, singing bowls, ocean drum, chimes, bass, cello, drums and percussion. Monks Pond – Waves in the Cosmic Ocean. Every instrument expands into the same vast watery light, the whole surface rolling forward in continuous cosmic motion. 00:45:22 Planet Boelex – Surface tension Surface tension holds quirky emotive harmonies across twenty years of detailed glitch. Planet Boelex – Surface tension. Small luminous details rise and settle in steady mildly glitched waves, the entire field recommended for headphones in continuous close listening. 00:49:09 Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Bonus: Aerospace Aerospace corridors open across late-seventies industrial horizons of Warrington, Widnes and Runcorn. Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Bonus: Aerospace. Prophet synths and gallons of reverb carry the landscape in continuous nostalgic electronica. Workers and industry glow in soft infinite decay, the whole new-town field expanding in quiet forward light.
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Good evening, or morning, or whatever sliver of the clock you’ve drifted into. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode one hundred and seventy-three. I’m Trevor, turning the reels in the quiet hours.
We approach this one as always—with the old cassette in mind. Side A first, then the satisfying clunk of the flip midway through. Twenty artists tonight, drawn from the shelves where the quieter signals live. Expect drifts of drone and deep ambient, patches of electroacoustic haze, touches of field-recorded exotica, slow-unfolding modular pulses, and the occasional submerged melody that surfaces like something half-remembered from another room. Places flicker through too: underwater trenches, Los Angeles highways at off-hours, Mediterranean dream coasts, vast starry processions, the interior of mechanical bird boxes, and the soft geometries of winter rooms.
No rush. No hooks to grab you. Only the slow uncoiling of sound.
Side A – 00:00
We begin with Nelson, British Columbia based Codedekay and out of place, from Vol. 9 – The Struggle on (We Are The New Underground) Weatnu Records. A patient unfolding of displaced tones, edges softened by time and repetition.
Then an old pseudonym of the artist Time Rival is Supply Fi who brings Unruly Cascade, taken from Unruly Predation on Triplicate Records who I believe Michael Southard, Time Rivals, Supply Fi’s real name, helped create. Cross-genre currents here—ambient electronics that fold and fracture without ever quite settling. Grab this, it’s a name your price release.
I know we’re all over the Christmas vibe already. But at least here in Sweden the snow lies thick. So here’s Omni Gardens with Winter Wonderland, from the Christmas release on Moon Glyph. Familiar seasonal shapes viewed through gauze, Moog warmth and mellotron drift turning the usual into something hushed and interior.
Now one of the channels favourites with some 90s vibe Lounge. I get a hint of Lemon Jelly wafting through this one. THE GAYE DEVICE offers Argent Echo from Routes. Silvered reflections in electronic form, routes that loop back on themselves with deliberate calm.
This next one is the opening track on my second compilation release. This is Ursula’s Cartridges who submerges us in Mighty Underwater Adventure (UC’s Challenger Deep Remix), from Resonances from the Depths. Dubbed echoes refracted through deep pressure, bubbles rising slow.
Things fall apart now with Dissolved who arrives with Alveolate Minds, Exposure Fields on Mahorka. Grainy, fragmented atmospheres—drone and broken beats meeting in alveolar spaces, porous and breathing.
Belgian artist MICADO gives us An Afternoon Reflection from Mindscapes on Argentinian label Cyclical Dreams. Gentle modular lines catching light, a pause where the day leans back.
Now to help us into the zone is Dormance who closes the first side with Dormance 14, from II on Mahorka. Pure dormancy—Squeaky toys, dub tones, and a spoon in a tumble dryer do half the work.
Flip the tape. Listen for the mechanism.
Opening the B side is channel champion brain, melting, Stephen James Buckley aka, Polypores opens the reverse with The Body Is The Spaceship, Hungry Vortex. The longest track of the episode clocking in at 11:30. Organic electronics as vessel, pulsing inward and outward in equal measure. Get everything Stephen releases and thank me later.
Now a haunting melody of the free by Kilmarth feat. Silly Shadow with A Paradox So Cruel from Cherophobia on Adventurous Music. Paradox held lightly—shadows and light in tender opposition.
Next the shortest track of the episode at 1:36 Elijah Fox drifts through Her Palace from Ambient Works for the Highways of Los Angeles. Highway-side reveries, palace built from exhaust and sunset haze.
Now into the darkness with Autonomаton who present Endless stars procession from Collected Not Lost 2015-2025 Vol. 1 on Mahorka. Dub Drones tracing constellations in slow parade.
Next up Michal Turtle & HOVE with Only Sawdust Remains from Sawdust Dreams. Sawdust as memory material, fragile and aromatic. A pumping beat over tribal vibes.
Friend of the show now and a short one. Not the artist but the track. I have no idea what Dave Clarkson’s height is. Here he conjures Mechanical Bird Box Exotica from The Ghosts of Christmas Past and the Effects on Mental Health on Mortality Tables. Clockwork birds singing through antique mechanisms, exotica tuned to melancholy.
Here’s an adventurous outing by Edward Givens with Rapid Eye Movement (a Dance) from the album, Terra. Dream-state pagan motion, eyes flicking beneath lids.
Here an offering of my own. This is Trevlad with EXPANSIVE WAVES 20 (Airtime Text Reacting) from TVCL-08. Airtime caught in reactive loops—waves folding back on their own transmission.
Now French synth miestro Alex Ringess with the final track And Now Let’s Play This New Game from Asynchronicity. Asynchronous invitation, rules written in delay and overlap.
Next an odd one by Catharæ with In my world from Dreams of the Mediterranéant on Adventurous Music. Mediterranean shores remade as interior landscape, trails tracing the mind.
And now the penultimate piece some deep bass tones from Christian Kleine who brings Slow from the 2025 Label Compilation mixed by Todos on A Strangely Isolated Place. Deliberate tempo, everything given room to breathe.
And now, as the tape nears the end, a few words before the leader. Thanks for staying with it. These programmes aren’t built for playlists or quick consumption, and neither are the ears that find them. Support the artists when you can—buy the music, name their work in quiet corners. It matters more than algorithms admit. This episode streams free for a week on Mixcloud, links and credits at trevor.se and in the comments. Say something if the mood takes you. Or let the silence hold. Both are welcome. I leave you with the wonderful Sussex Telecom who signs off with Kendophaz from the 2022 release Creator Warehouse on channel sponsoring Third Kind Records. Phased signals from some coastal telecom exchange, wires humming in the wind. Until the next wind or the next run-out groove—stay resonant, stay expansive. Let the frequencies find their own way back to you. Cheerio…
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at Episode 137 of The Virtual Cassette Library. Feelers Slows Fleet 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 the time for their piece and as it ends the next act takes over rotating into view. Styles for this episode range from post-rock to minimal electro, from Ambient to psychedelic. The musical keys in focus are A major and F sharp minor, G flat minor. This episode contains some household names like To Rococo Rot, Jah Wobble, Louis Cole and Tycho. Some friends of the channel like Fallen, Pietro Zollo, Exit Chamber and WEALDHAM as well as some supporting labels like Castles in Space, rohs! records, Moniker Eggplant, Triplicate Records and Projekt records. You are all 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. Subscribe and unlock 866 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.
🌌 Welcome, seekers of hidden frequencies—your vessel has arrived at the edge of the cosmic fold. Step beyond perception and surrender to the spiral of auditory prophecies, bending time and space in their wake. 🔮 The sponsoring labels guiding today’s episode are: Clay Pipe Music, Castles In Space, Waxing Crescent Records, oscarson, Downstream Records, Mystery Circles, Subexotic Records, Moolakii Club Audio Interface, Triplicate Records, Noray Records, Ingrown Records, and, rohs! records. 🚀 The sponsoring artists of today’s transmission: Simon Heartfield, Dave Clarkson, and, Loris S Sarid. Also the benevolent force that ensures chosen frequencies find their way home: ✨ Free Album Codes Today’s transmission features exclusives from some of my favourite artists of recent times. Cate Brooks with a track from her album Lofoten which comes out June 27 on Clay Pipe Music. James McKeown aka Hawksmoor latest outing titled An Aesthetic – Experiments In Tape via Castles In Space also on June 27. Also David Cordero has a new label Noray Records where he’s released this first offering Los recuerdos dormidos which drops tomorrow May 23. Welcome to a soundscape that defies language—an auditory passage through the unseen. We are mere surfers atop an infinite wave. 🌞 Shoutouts to passengers: 🌿. Links to all the material played are in the timeline where everyone is invited to leave a mark—comment your favorites, etch your presence into the mix. 🔹 Artists, experimenters, visionaries—send forth your sonic offerings: trevlad@gmail.com. 🔹 🔮 Prepare for immersion. Secure your headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
🌌 Welcome, seekers of hidden frequencies—your vessel has arrived at the edge of the cosmic fold. Step beyond perception and surrender to the spiral of auditory prophecies, bending time and space in their wake. 🔮 The sponsoring labels guiding today’s episode are: Ingrown Records, Projekt Records, Blackford Hill, Dragon_Trax, Cyclical Dreams, ARCHIVES, and, FRBH Recordings. 🚀 The sponsoring artists of today’s transmission: Anita Tatlow, Simon Heartfield, ARMATURES, Dave Clarkson, Pink and Yellow, and, David Cordero. And distributor, Fonodroom, ensuring the echoes resonate far beyond the known horizon. Also the benevolent force that ensures chosen frequencies find their way home: ✨ Free Album Codes Today’s episode contains 4 exclusive tracks from upcoming releases by, Audio Obscura, Ultramarine, Socool and David Cordero. Remember where you heard them first. Links to all the material are on the Mixcloud timeline. The background music is produced by me. Welcome to a soundscape that defies language—an auditory passage through the unseen. We are mere surfers atop an infinite wave. 🌞 Shoutouts to passengers: 🌿DJ Kryptogen, aeon music and Otis. Thank you for favouriting earlier shows. 🗣 Everyone is invited to leave a mark—comment your favorites, etch your presence into the mix. 🔹 Artists, experimenters, visionaries—send forth your sonic offerings: trevlad@gmail.com. 🔹 🔮 Prepare for immersion. Secure your headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨