Hi folks and welcome to episode 351 of my Virtual cassette library. At last it’s Monday and I hope you had a great weekend. Please let me know if you want something mentioned in future episodes as I do realise that social media just doesn’t connect us. I’m sending actual physical mix tapes to new subscribers or tip givers which I thought was a great idea but so far I have only managed to lose a subscriber. Shout outs to 4000 records, aeon and Darcy Doogan for favoriting previous episodes. Anyway on to the show. An afternoon in the garden across twelve rooms. Side A opens with silver filaments connecting us all, moves through organelles, a declaration of invincibility, a burn ’em from the LTN, a force majeure, and finally in the garden itself. Side B continues with a deadstep, an early question, an unienie on terra nullius, timbre and pulse, a red riviera, and something below the cliff. The joins sit inside the grain. The sequence is the form. The first side will include zensor, Marek Kwiatkowski, Cries from the LTN, Fragile X and finally ,before the side flip, Sons Of Perdition. Side B will flip itself like a polite pancake while you notice a detail in your surroundings. Also shout outs to all the artists and labels featured in this episode. First off is Anthony Child with “Silver Filaments Connecting Us All” from the album . Enjoy…
Welcome to the intermission aka the flip side. You just heard the track “In The Garden” by Sons Of Perdition. Remember If you make music, run a label, or hold a private archive of material that has not yet found a place, send links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. Every submission is considered. Today’s album of the day is by Good Doom and the album Psychedelic Dungeon which is a name your price release out on their Bandcamp page. https://gooddoom.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelic-dungeon
The next set will feature Jörgen Gustafsson, Mnemos, The Time Service, Lords of Lounge and finally to end this episode dendrofreq. But first P.G. Warren with the track “Deadstep”. Enjoy…
These are not playlists. Each episode is structured as a pair of continuous sets: six tracks on each side, mixed and stitched so the joins sit almost inside the grain. The sequence is the form. If you make music, run a label, or hold a private archive of material that has not yet found a place, send links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. Every submission is heard. The episodes remain free for the first week. After that they move into the Mixcloud subscriber archive. Subscribers also receive Veil Frequencies, the ongoing series of three-hour transmissions—extended traversals rather than selections, moving through a curtain of sound that occasionally seems to register the listener in return. Mind the flip.
From silver filaments connecting us all, to something below the cliff. Side A silvers the filaments so the connection is already made, keeps the organelles busy in a cell that already knows its theory, declares the invincibility with the signal already from the condor, burns kind for the sandwiches and cobs that are already great, makes the force majeure with the hundred already reached, and opens the garden so the sons are already among the flowers. Side B steps the deadstep among the skeletons that are already listening, arrives the early while the questions stay open, names the unienie on terra nullius already claimed, warms the timbre and steadies the pulse from the co-op, reds the riviera with the lounge already lorded, and opens the below the cliff that is already above. Overall mood: Declared, and quietly connected — full of busy cells, open gardens, and cliffs that prefer to stay above. Perfect for dusk listening, soft lounges, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A Mood mist: silver filaments connecting us all, organelles in cell theory, a declaration of invincibility, a burn ’em for the sandwiches and cobs, a force majeure, and finally in the garden.
Side B Mood mist: a deadstep among the skeletons, an early that is still in questions, an unienie on terra nullius, timbre and pulse from the co-op, a red riviera, something below the cliff.
That was another episode of the Virtual Cassette Library. If the sequence stayed with you, share it, favourite the show, and follow the channel so the next reel finds you. Tips keep the reels turning. Better still, subscribe: the Mixcloud archive now holds more than eleven hundred past episodes, waiting whenever the next listening session calls. Travel safely between the frequencies. Cheerio.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
The shows stay free for the first week. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
Crystals from an inner world, then business that prefers the porch. Side A lets the visitor already inside sing through the facets, keeps a Norfolk village on the shingle with the sea still close enough to hear, sits a denizen at the last stop of the line, pots anise and gamma in a grass-roots zen, lets the houseplant keep its own water on the windowsill, and clears a shelf for a zen small enough to fit. Side B softens the second dawn from the nights, rules a summer by herbs with the king still on the sill, drifts slowly for the people who keep the planes flying, holds an angle sharp in the sprawl, files only days and memories with the dialect still in the grain, and keeps the appointment on a porch where the piano is already in the wood. Overall mood: Domestic, and quietly luminous — full of windowsills, last stops, and porches that have already sat down. Perfect for dusk listening, village stations, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A Mood mist: crystals from an inner world, a Norfolk village on the shingle, a denizen at the end of the line, anise and gamma in a grass-roots zen, a houseplant doing its quiet work, a zen small enough to fit on a shelf.
Side B Mood mist: a second dawn from the nights, a summer ruled by herbs, a slow drift for the people who keep the planes flying, an angle in the sprawl, days and memories only, business that prefers the porch.
00:24:11 Jupi/ter – dawn_day2 https://jupitersound.bandcamp.com/track/dawn-day2 Album: Nights. The second morning already softer. The planet still turning. 00:28:45 Solipsism – Sun King Summer https://mightyforce.bandcamp.com/track/sun-king-summer-2 Album: Herbalism. Label: Mighty Force The solstice in a jar. The king still on the windowsill. 00:35:05 Keith Hanlon – Slow Drift https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/slow-drift Album: Music for Airport Workers [CYD 0167]. Label: Cyclical Dreams The tarmac still warm. The workers already hearing it. 00:39:36 boycalledcrow – angle https://boycalledcrow.bandcamp.com/track/angle-3 Album: the sprawl. The corner still sharp. The bird already on it. 00:40:07 gribbles – Only Days and Memories (Exclusive track) Album: The Synthesis Co-Op Volume Two. Label: The Synthesis Co-Op https://tscoop.bandcamp.com/ The Synthesis Co-Op, volume two. Title of the hour. The Lincolnshire dialect still in the grain. The days already filed. 00:43:32 Jogging House – Business https://jogginghouse.bandcamp.com/track/business Album: Really. The porch again. Salt’s piano still in the wood. The appointment already kept.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 336. 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 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.
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 also receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies.
Now imagine each episode as a colossal rotating stage — a great mechanical blooming lotus. You, the audience only ever glimpse a sliver of it at a time. Every artist is allotted the exact time it takes them to perform their piece. Then they rotate out of view, and the next act glides in. The stage spins at whatever speed the track demands. The names of the artists and labels I’ll mention before each set — or “side,” as the cassette alchemists call them. Six little incantations per set, plus a general mist of what mood to expect. Now the stage begins to turn.
A doorway that reboots itself, then a planet showing you the face it keeps away from the sun.
Side A coughs the portal awake, paints Milan limb by limb in grey-cheek library jazz, docks Ishtar’s goddess-ship, waits for Blue Bell Hill to switch from black-and-white to blossom, folds a desert peacock that rarely leaves the room, and hums a 7-inch bodega under fluorescent strip-light.
Side B parks godhead in the sprawl, waltzes a chest-pain name you cannot pronounce, pours top brass that refuses to complicate, walks the talk until it grows bass strings, holds the only hands that exist to be held, and ends on the dark side of the earth — the hemisphere the dying star never got around to lighting.
Overall mood: Playful, cinematic, and quietly cosmic — full of Clay Pipe colour, Batov half-shut eyes, and infrastructure filed under prayer. Perfect for late listening, bodega aisles after hours, or sitting with the drawbridge down while the next spool still waits.
Mood mist: a doorway that reboots itself, Milan painted limb by limb, a goddess-ship docking on the lotus, a council estate coming into colour, a desert peacock that rarely leaves the room, a 7-inch bodega humming under fluorescent strip-light.
00:03:30 DaoLogic – Portal Reload https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/portal-reload From the album: Source Vive Label: Mahorka The portal coughs, then remembers its password. Warm crispy beats walking you through without extrasystoles. You enter. The source is still alive. 00:07:27 Barigozzi Group – Grey Cheeks https://fourfliesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/grey-cheeks From the album: Woman’s Colours Label: Four Flies Records the last colour on a body mapped in library jazz. Wurlitzer blushing while the flute keeps the secret. 00:09:34 Gong – Ship Of Ishtar https://gongband.bandcamp.com/track/ship-of-ishtar From the album: Unending Ascending. Venus at the tiller. Sacred cargo under the sails, clocks not yet reset. Climb aboard — the guitar is already a spaceship, but tonight the ship is Ishtar. 00:17:50 David Boulter – Blue Bell Hill https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/blue-bell-hill From the album: St Ann’s Label: Clay Pipe Music Blue Bell Hill before the demolition learned its manners. Black-and-white streets waiting for the cherry blossom to switch the world to colour. 00:20:04 Taftir – Tavasim https://taftir.bandcamp.com/track/tavasim-2 From the EP: Od Layla Ba Ayara Label: Batov Records Desert town, five players, a soul ballad they almost never play live. Feathers folded. The groove keeps its eyes half-shut. 00:23:05 East Side Supply – The Bodega https://eastsidesupply.bandcamp.com/track/the-bodega From the single: DELICATESSEN / THE BODEGA Label: Sonor Music Editions Harpsichord and flute shopping the aisles. Axelrod hits between the tinned peaches. The bodega closes the side before the lotus can blink.
Mood mist: sprawl praying to itself, a chest-pain waltz with a name you cannot pronounce, brass that refuses to complicate, Watt walking the talk into orbit, hands that only exist to be held, a planet showing you the face it keeps away from the sun.
00:27:57 boycalledcrow – godhead https://boycalledcrow.bandcamp.com/track/godhead From the album: the sprawl Label: Mortality Tables Godhead parked in the sprawl. Mortality Tables filing the prayer under “infrastructure.” 00:29:59 Angine de Poitrine – Tohogd https://anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com/track/tohogd From the album: Vol.1 Label: Republic of Music a syllable that arrived before the translation. Vol.1 still catching its breath. 00:33:53 Matt Berry – Top Brass Two https://mattberry.bandcamp.com/track/top-brass-two From the album: Simplicity Label: Acid Jazz Records Top brass, second helping. Simplicity wearing a tie it does not need. Acid Jazz pouring the good stuff and leaving the bottle. 00:36:50 Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio – Walk the Talk https://galecstasy.bandcamp.com/track/walk-the-talk From the album: Wattzotica Label: Mystery Circles Walk the talk until the talk grows bass strings. Wattzotica: the stage spinning at walking pace, then suddenly not. 00:40:15 The Mistys – A Hand Is To Hold https://themistysband.bandcamp.com/track/a-hand-is-to-hold From the album: Situations | Useless Mouths Label: Castles In Space A hand is to hold. Useless mouths taking the night off. Castles In Space leaving the drawbridge down. 00:43:46 Martin Solos – Dark Side of the Earth https://martinsolos.bandcamp.com/track/dark-side-of-the-earth From the album: Heart of a Dying Star. the hemisphere the dying star never got around to lighting. Heart still beating in the shade.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 313. Travel safely between the frequencies. I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here. Welcome to episode 201 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 “The Poison Garden” by Electric Pentacle. Available on the amazing upcoming compilation album “The Silent Harvest Volume One”. Dropping June 25 on the amazing FOLK POLICE RECORDINGS. Which features amongst others HDRF, Field Lines Cartographer, Twilight Sequence, Hawksmoor, Pulselovers and many more legends of the scene. 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. Please, if you can, subscribe — even if it’s just for a month, it makes a real difference. 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 Rural Tapes – Lucid Dreaming Gentle, hazy ambient with soft-focus electronics and dream-state fluidity. Warm, immersive, and quietly hypnotic. 00:06:31 Young Marco – Kalapa Garden Balearic-tinged electronic with lush tropical vegetation and sun-dappled grooves. Breezy, organic, and blissfully relaxed. 00:11:44 Chris Paladin – Epsilon Zone Sparse, zoned-out electronic minimalism with clean lines and subtle cosmic drift. Focused and atmospheric. 00:18:14 Bernard Grancher – Risible Mention Playful, slightly absurdist electronic with quirky rhythms and light-hearted experimentation. Witty and charming. 00:21:12 Belbury Poly – Star Jelly Haunting Ghost Box-style hauntology with nostalgic analogue synths and eerie pastoral mystery. Dreamlike and nostalgic. 00:25:40 Electric Pentacle – The Poison Garden Dark, occult-tinged folk-electronic with poisonous beauty and shadowy atmosphere. Mysterious and seductive. Side B 00:29:10 Christian Kleine – Serene Salt Mines Crystalline, minimalist ambient with shimmering textures and deep calm. Cool, spacious, and meditative. 00:33:11 Salvatore Mercatante – How Many Hands Intricate, tactile electronic with mysterious layers and subtle rhythmic undertow. Detailed and enigmatic. 00:38:45 Vanilla – Moonlight Smooth, jazzy downtempo beats with warm nocturnal glow and mellow grooves. Silky and atmospheric. 00:42:18 Simon Mills – Cathaleen Power (2021) Deep, rolling Balearic house with oceanic warmth and gentle propulsion. Sunny and hypnotic. 00:44:02 Al Lover – Stockhausen Soundsystem Psychedelic, experimental electronics with krautrock influence and cosmic weirdness. Trippy and energetic. 00:47:18 Will Gregory Moog Ensemble – Buoyancy Theory (feat. BBC National Orchestra Of Wales) Majestic Moog-orchestral hybrid with rich analogue warmth and elegant lift. Grand yet intimate. 00:50:05 Frequency Control Centre – National Sound Division Retro-futurist electronic with broadcast-like textures and vintage institutional charm. Nostalgic and precise. 00:56:21 The Twelve Hour Foundation – Stepping Stones Quirky, melodic library-inspired electronica with playful charm and gentle stepping rhythms. Warm and whimsical.
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.