Lost Dance Mantra
Good day to you listeners, wherever you are. This is Trevor.
Welcome once again to one of these spontaneous episodes – music from all over the world, sparked by a single track that appears somewhere inside the set itself. This episode titled Lost Dance Mantra is based on the track Sum Dance by Steve Zydek aka Wavefiler, from the split EP Area Flood, which comes out on May 15 via a label very dear to me Mystery Circles. All the other tracks happened to just fit the vibe.
So settle in, turn it up a bit if you can, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it. If you can subscribe, even if it’s just for the month it would be a great help.
Right then… here we go.
00:00:00 The Eyes and the Mistoids – The Neolithic Period
Atmospheric electronic piece evoking ancient, misty landscapes. It blends subtle experimental textures with a haunting, prehistoric feel, fitting the artist’s weirdly beautiful electronic style on Waxing Crescent Records.
00:06:26 Spooqs – Prosopon (Demo)
Dreamy electronic impressionism from Asheville-based artist Spooqs. Moody, instrumental soundscapes designed for imaginary spaces, with fluid, introspective vibes from a 2026 mixtape.
00:07:51 Ryan J Raffa & Sam Prekop / Wavefiler – Wavefiler – Sum Dance
Synth-driven track from the Area Flood split, inspired by Milwaukee’s historic flooding. It captures nature’s power through rhythmic, communal electronic grooves and atmospheric synth work.
00:10:14 The New Human – Proximity Mantra
Hypnotic, mantra-like electronic composition with intimate, repetitive motifs. It explores closeness and sonic meditation on Glasgow’s Bricolage label.
00:12:47 Payta – Soul Connection
Also on Bricolage, warm, flowing electronic track from the Samsara album. It emphasizes spiritual or emotional linkage through textured, underground beats and melodic layers.
00:15:04 Urban Meditation – Pale Blue Dot
Ambient/trance-infused piece reflecting on Carl Sagan’s famous view of Earth. It blends IDM, neo-classical, and spacey atmospheres for a contemplative, cosmic journey.
00:23:03 Andrea Castiglioni – Somewhere on Earth Stories from Far Away Places
Cinematic, documentary-style ambient/electronic track. It paints evocative, worldly sound narratives with gentle melodies and distant, storytelling textures.
00:25:51 Biogen – Lost
Melancholic IDM/electronic cut from an Icelandic ambient techno compilation. It features drifting, emotional layers that capture a sense of disorientation and introspection.
00:29:51 Fallen – A Scented Signal of Decadence
Darkly atmospheric ambient/electronica with IDM and chillout elements. It conjures luxurious decay through textured, immersive sound design from Italian artist The Child of A Creek/Fallen.
00:31:53 Orghanon – Tame
Restrained yet dynamic electronic work from the Future in Motion album. It balances controlled rhythms with evolving, organic textures in a thoughtful ambient/IDM style.
00:36:01 Wilks – Break The Cycle
Driving track with focused beats and atmospheric depth. It delivers a sense of urgency and renewal from the Left Hand Drive EP.
00:40:11 Ellis Clasper – Auriel
Gentle, atmospheric electronic opener from the Periapsis album. It features delicate textures and introspective melodies, showcasing the UK artist’s subtle, emotionally resonant style on Waxing Crescent Records
00:42:16 CIALYN – Tolbiac Garden Floor
Dreamy, short-wave-inspired electronica from the 2016 album A Night Of A Short Wave Listener. It evokes mysterious, nocturnal garden atmospheres with soft, nostalgic synth layers and a hazy, lo-fi feel from the French artist.
00:45:56 Sick Robot – Journey to Mars
Retro-futuristic synth track from the A Field In Yorkshire album. It blends warm analog tones with a sense of cosmic exploration and electronic propulsion, characteristic of the Sunderland-based producer’s playful, IDM-tinged style.
00:49:55 Time Rival – Wax Delights
Short, shimmering electronic piece from Reaction Vol. 3. It delivers crisp, cross-genre textures with ambient and electroacoustic elements, reflecting the Chicago-area artist’s experimental yet accessible approach.
Clear Beach Sanctuary
00:00:00 James Osland – From A Tiny Speck Life Begins
00:06:17 The Heartwood Institute – The Beach At Drigg – Rescued
00:08:40 Scholars of the Peak – Seashaken Sanctuary
00:12:01 Willebrant – Change
00:15:55 Boxed Dancer – Lost at C
00:19:25 Bahrambient, Retland, Kilometre Club – Moontides
00:21:43 CommsBreakdown – Kiama Skies
00:27:18 MICADO – The Crystal lake
00:33:56 Masefield Labs – Sonobuoy
00:40:06 Warm Aquarelle – Varna
00:46:47 *Lazy Summer Dogs and Dorraa – Clear Path
00:58:25 Tim Stebbing – Farewell Plymouth
01:05:05 rikardfvs – un morceau de débris marins
01:10:43 Alan Elettronico – Sirens
01:13:28 Deep Earth Network – Land 2
01:35:21 TOMC – You Are Balearic
01:37:46 micca – Rise in love
*Track is exclusive at time of release.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 177
08 February 2026
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 managed to carve out for yourself. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode one hundred and seventy-seven. I’m Trevor, sitting here with a stack of tapes that feel heavier than they ought to, and a vague sense that the world outside might have moved on without telling us.
We’re dealing with a virtual cassette, two sides as tradition demands, twenty artists in total, the kind of selection that drifts between ambient drifts, darkwave edges, neoclassical touches, drone meditations, some post-rock undercurrents, a bit of hauntology perhaps, and the occasional flicker of something more abstract or collage-like. Places crop up too: London, Barcelona, Cheltenham, Stroud, Berlin, Hamburg, Manchester, Glasgow, a scattering across North Carolina, Portland, Vancouver, Toronto, even the Bahamas and Tallinn. The map doesn’t stay still.
The longest track we’ll hear is “Lost in the Morning” by On Idyl, stretching out across the open air like it has nowhere else to be. The shortest is “Heartspace” by Heaven Topology, brief enough to feel like a held breath.
Just before we dive in I need your help with a new show I’m putting together. I need stories about music that changed something in your life. A direction, a decision, a realisation. It’ll be the most important music of all time while I promote you as a fan, artist, label curator, mum, dad, whatever you like. If you don’t have a story which is highly unlikely maybe you know of someone who does. Let’s make something special together.
Now back to the show. Side A begins with a couple of exclusive tracks to catch your interest.
First, from Lo Recordings, Haiku Salut & Meg Morley with “Laugh and cricket” – a delicate weave of piano and field recordings that evokes summer evenings where insects compete with human laughter, gentle and unhurried. from the upcoming album – The Lost Score – dropping on Lo Recordings on 27 march.
Haiku Salut & Meg Morley – Laugh and cricket.
Next that other exclusive. f5point6, on See Blue Audio, “432 Hz (Remastered)” – tuned to that frequency people chase for calm, layered synths unfolding slowly, remastered to let the harmonics breathe properly. 432 Hz from the album retrospect with drops on the 13 Feb.
f5point6 – 432 Hz (Remastered).
Time Rival now, “Deleter” from the 45 track Murmurs in the Mist compilation which I released back in November. Don’t forget to get your entries in for the next outing before the end of March. Anyway This is Time Rivals Deleter – a quiet deletion of boundaries, soft electronics that erase the line between memory and the present.
Time Rival – Deleter.
NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES with “La chute des dominos” from Jaculus Jaculus ou neuf instantanés pittoresques de la vie trépidante de la gerboise des steppes Jaculus jaculus or nine picturesque snapshots of the hectic life of the desert jerboa– tumbling motifs, playful yet precise, like dominoes falling in a French steppe wind.
NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES – La chute des dominos.
Now here’s that piece you could easily hold a breath to. Heaven Topology, “Heartspace” from Describer on Ingrown Records.– interior spaces opening outward, warm tones suggesting a place where the heart expands without apology. A very underrated release from last August.
Heaven Topology – Heartspace.
Now we’re off to the Bahamas which is not often on the show. pjpriiincess, “my teeth crush bones” – from the NYP album my teeth crack diamonds my teeth crush bones.
raw, visceral, crunching through the surface into something primal and glittering.
pjpriiincess – my teeth crush bones.
Now a friend of the show. and one of the longer pieces this episode. Masefield Labs, “Station Keeping” from his latest album Shaded Escapes released just a few days ago. Big thank you John for the mention in the album notes. holding position in shifting currents, steady pulses beneath drifting layers.
Masefield Labs – Station Keeping.
zerosummer is the alter ego of Paolo Taviano, Italian musician. Here he is with “Nebula” from The Blue Hours on the wonderful Driftworks label. – cosmic drift, haze of stars forming and dissolving in slow motion.
zerosummer – Nebula.
Next a fantastic label that I do hope you’re all supporting. Uppsala, Sweden based, Passed Records. This next track and two more on the B side are from NYP compilations of artists they’ve released in 2025 so go get them now. G!GA LURGH, “Ambient Jam #1 (Previously YouTube Exclusive)” from The Passed Year 2025 on Passed Recordings – loose, exploratory, the kind of jam that happened once and lingers.
G!GA LURGH – Ambient Jam #1 (Previously YouTube Exclusive).
The penultimate track on side a from three artists who are fantastic in they’re own realms and just as great combined. Bahrambient, Retland, Kilometre Club with “Under Open Skies” from Cloud Paths – vast skies, gentle progression, open and unconfined in a small package.
Bahrambient, Retland, Kilometre Club – Under Open Skies.
And closing Side A, and a track that closes the compilation release it came from. Emanuele Errante, “Permanent Sunset” from Islas Calm Cloud, on whitelabrecs – eternal dusk, warm glow that refuses to fade completely.
Emanuele Errante – Permanent Sunset.
virtual tape flip
Side B, then.
Now a piece of my own. Trevlad now, “Glare Belonged Reaction” from TVCL-07 – reaction to too much light, refracted and softened.
Trevlad – Glare Belonged Reaction.
Next from the outstanding Hamburg based label Bureau B. Kreidler, “Im Betrieb (IV)” from Early Recordings 1994-95 – mechanical yet human, rhythms from the factory floor turned inward.
Kreidler – Im Betrieb (IV).
This next track has its own music video which if you like jelly you should check out. Crank up the volume and massage those neck muscles with Clark, “Civilians” from Steep Stims – everyday lives caught in electronic undertow, subtle distortions.
Clark – Civilians.
Pandacetamol, “Simply Pour” from Below the Surface on Mahorka – liquid motion, pouring without end, calm acceptance. A recommended Mahorka release from last November.
Pandacetamol – Simply Pour.
Next, as mentioned, another track from the Passed Recordings label and Ed Herbers, “The Moon (How Bright It Is)” from The Ghost of Christmas Passed. – lunar observation, bright and distant.
Ed Herbers – The Moon (How Bright It Is).
We follow this with another track from that other compilation on the same label. This is On Idyl, “Lost in the Morning (from The Fecund Wood)” here from The Passed Year 2025 on Passed Recordings – morning disorientation in fertile woods, gentle confusion.
On Idyl – Lost in the Morning (from The Fecund Wood).
and now an old friend of the channel Apta, “Shivers” from Apta Live Aviva Studios Manchester 04-12-25 – live capture, shivers running through the room in Manchester.
Apta – Shivers.
Next, for the penultimate number we head to Austin, Texas and artist Devras Plexi, “Relational” from Paradigm 10 Year Label Sampler on Glasgow label Bricolage – connections drawn in sound, relational fields.
Devras Plexi – Relational.
And now, as the tape hisses to its end, a few words before the silence returns. Thanks for staying with it. These transmissions aren’t built for crowds, and neither, perhaps, are we. I’ll be back when the next cassette arrives or the mood shifts—whichever feels less predictable. No fixed schedule, no grand announcements. Support the artists if any of this stayed with you—buy the music, share their names quietly. You can stream this one on Mixcloud for a week or so, links and credits at trevor.se, or in the usual places. Comments are welcome, though silence has its own merits.
And finally, Tallinn, Estonia based artist Paul Beaudoin with “to hold you safe” from 1514 Lee Street – a quiet promise held close. Minimal ambient at it’s finest.
Until the next fragment of time overlaps with ours—stay resonant, stay expansive, let the sounds find their way.
Paul Beaudoin – to hold you safe. Cheerio…
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 177. Good night.
Intro – 00:00
Haiku Salut & Meg Morley– Laugh and cricket – 02:13
f5point6 – 432 Hz (Remastered) – 05:12
Time Rival – Deleter – 07:16
NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES – La chute des dominos – 09:54
Heaven Topology – Heartspace – 12:20
pjpriiincess – my teeth crush bones – 13:32
Masefield Labs – Station Keeping – 16:42
zerosummer – Nebula – 22:54
G!GA LURGH – Ambient Jam #1 (Previously YouTube Exclusive) – 27:44
Bahrambient, Retland, Kilometre Club – Under Open Skies – 30:35
Emanuele Errante – Permanent Sunset – 32:47
B Side – 37:22
Trevlad – Glare Belonged Reaction – 37:41
Kreidler – Im Betrieb (IV) – 42:20
Clark – Civilians – 45:20
Pandacetamol – Simply Pour – 49:12
Ed Herbers – The Moon (How Bright It Is) – 51:16
On Idyl – Lost in the Morning (from The Fecund Wood) – 54:54
Apta – Shivers – 1:03:17
Devras Plexi – Relational – 1:08:08
Paul Beaudoin – to hold you safe – 1:12:21
Outro – 1:17:48
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 156
16 December 2025
“Hello, I’m Trevor, and this is episode one‑five‑six of the Virtual Cassette Library. Theme is Weaned Them Quietly—that’s the track you hear underneath, and it’s also a location you can find on a map if you’re curious enough to look it up on What3Words or YouTube. As usual, it’s ninety minutes, two sides, fifteen tracks each. Some names you’ll know—Craig Padilla on Projekt Records, Thom Yorke on XL Recordings—and others you might stumble across for the first time, like Sulk Rooms from Honley, or Rupert Lally out of Switzerland. Michal Turtle and HOVE bring us something dreamlike from Basel, Chris Randall sends mechanical pulses from Phoenix on Triplicate Records, and Redvet offers a guiding star from Floodlit Recordings. Now, there’s a little game running through these episodes starting with this episode. Each week, during the intermission, you’ll hear a number. Scribble it down. After ten shows, you’ll have the full sequence. Put the pieces together, crack the cipher, and you’ll unlock a code that knocks ninety‑five percent off anything on my Bandcamp page. Which, if you’re counting, means you can scoop up the whole discography for about two quid. It’s not meant to be difficult—just enough to keep you awake at night wondering if you’ve got it right. Later on, we’ll hear Jarguna, Odile Bruckert, and Henrik Meierkord weaving textures somewhere between drone and kosmische; Daniel Vincent and Rick Sanders sketching out their own universes; Camp of Wolves from Lunar Module; Onepointwo with melodies that feel like they’ve always been there; Cole Pulice drifting through saxophone dreamscapes on Moon Glyph; and MICADO with a Berlin School ambient dream courtesy of Cyclical Dreams. On the flip side, Raica on Silver Threads, Lorna Dune, Signalstoerung with Asja Skrinik on Adventurous Music, Jordane Prestrot from France, and a piece of my own as Trevlad alongside Masefield Labs and gribbles. Fisty Kendal, Floormat Doormat, frostlake from Sheffield, Tom Bragl on Kahvi Collective, Kutiman and Ouzo Bazooka with a desert groove from Batov Records, Dual Dialect climbing pyramids, and Ghost In The Loop from Imaginary North. It’s ambient, drone, kosmische, experimental pop, modular synths, hauntology, global funk, and a bit of humour thrown in. The sort of thing you might stumble across late at night on a shortwave dial, wondering if you imagined it. So—headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you. First track up: Craig Padilla, Calypsos Improv Live 2011…”
Intro – 00:00
Craig Padilla – Calypsos Improv Live 2011 – 03:47
Michal Turtle & HOVE – Clouds May Leave – 07:02
Chris Randall – Automated Daydream – 10:21
*Redvet – Guiding Star (A Journey to the King) – 13:30
Sulk Rooms – Hyper Action – 16:48
Jarguna / Odile Bruckert / Henrik Meierkord – Empathic Moment – 19:03
Daniel Vincent – Red Flag – 22:44
Rick Sanders – Lethe – 25:06
Camp of Wolves – Billy The Horse – 29:39
Onepointwo – Melodies – 31:15
Cole Pulice – Fragments of a Slipstream Dream – 34:25
Thom Yorke – Knife Edge – 37:26
Loris S. Sarid – All Together Quietly – 40:05
Nathaniel Sutton – Outer Space Frontier – 42:48
MICADO – The Berliner Schule Ambient Dream – 45:49
B Side – 48:53
Raica – 150twinkl – 49:23
Lorna Dune – Alternative Option of Shifting – 52:50
Signalstoerung feat. Asja Skrinik – CV III (Instrumental) – 56:15
Jordane Prestrot – N’écoutez pas ce conseil, c’est une arnaque ! – 59:38
Trevlad – Decades Copying Observer – 1:01:47
Masefield Labs – Sonobuoy – 1:04:11
gribbles – Sea/r.s. – 1:07:22
Fisty Kendal – Beyond The Wall Of Sleep – 1:10:39
Floormat Doormat – Show More Of Your Love (slowdownbusy remix) – 1:13:07
Rupert Lally – Mindscapes – 1:16:06
frostlake – Rise & Fall – 1:19:17
Tom Bragl – Indignity – 1:22:28
Kutiman & Ouzo Bazooka – Khamsin – 1:25:36
Dual Dialect – Conglomerate I – Climb the Pyramid – 1:28:08
Ghost In The Loop – The Rêve Tape #1 – Partially Restored – 1:31:11
Outro – 1:34:13
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 104
\\\Probing. Softest.Update
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.
If you want to be part of future transmissions? Send your art to: trevlad@gmail.com Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked in each episode.
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.
Episode video:
https://youtu.be/lGUJXOtB9AY
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 081
Soft Resistance
🌌 Welcome, sonic travellers—Trevor here, transmitting from Malmö, Sweden. This is your gateway to another immersive expedition through sound—Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 081. A 90-minute journey with a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark—perfect for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe. Today’s flight is sponsored by the labels that keep our circuits humming: Ingrown Records, Noray Records, whitelabrecs, Projekt Records, Lunar Module, Castles In Space, Triplicate Records, okla records, Subexotic Records, Waxing Crescent Records, Imaginary North, Downstream Records, and, Fluttery Records.
And the sonic architects: Masefield Labs, and, Sergio Mariani also known as mRn.
Special thanks to Free Album Codes—always fueling the episodes with Bandcamp gems. 🙏
This episode includes 1 exclusive tracks that you’ll probably only hear here before they are officially released. The show ends with mRn – Rider’s Up which is a track you will only find here as the artist Sergio Mariani has not published it for release anywhere else as far as I know. A wonder drifting lap top steel ambient artist you should definitely check out on Bandcamp and Soundcloud.
I won’t be commenting between the tracks. You can do that on the time line. Don’t be shy.
The tracks played are marked with links where you can purchase them at the start of each episode. or on the home page trevor.se🔹 Artists and labels—send your sonic offerings to: trevlad@gmail.com. 🔹
Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
Intro – 00:00
Ursula’s Cartridges – That Winter an Oak Tree Decided Not to Drop Any Leaves (2023-2024) – 02:33
David Cordero – Breve pero intenso – 05:06
First Snow of The Year – Lucid Canvas – 06:03
Saloop – Compline – 08:28
Gustavo Denouard – Silence in the Cave – 10:57
Trevlad – Soul Recalibration – 20:20
Gordon Chapman-Fox – Singular – 23:22
Andrea Cichecki – Allow Me to Escape Time – 31:39
Le Morte d’Abby – Seriously – 34:05
Fallen – Midnight In Your Mouth – 38:51
Mute Branches – End of the Voy[A]ge – 41:22
Claude Lavender – Through the Years – 42:19
Tim Didymus & Foster Neville – Glamour – 45:42
Side B – 47:34
Ogle – Morning Breeze – 48:18
The People’s Love Cult – Sphere – 51:07
18 h7 buffer – Glisten – 52:29
Ghost In The Loop – Lost Works For Synthesizer And Tape #2 – Incomplete – 58:39
Masefield Labs – Engram (Darpsyx Downtempo Remix) – 59:44
Belial Pelegrim & GrevusAnjl – A Dim White Statue Extinguished by Stones – 1:07:53
Local Sound Developer – Shimmering Light – 1:11:25
Celestial Trails – Aeonian Waves – 1:14:25
Bohdan Stupak – Zhovten – 1:17:40
Substak – Ambience In Space – 1:20:20
Alexis Delozanne – Bateau Mouche – 1:21:47
Kilometre Club and Center Of Attention – Sunset On The Mountain – 1:25:00
*mRn – Rider’s Up – 1:27:16
Outro – 1:31:48
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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