Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 296
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-296/
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 cosmic, slightly archival ambient journey through uncharted quadrants, greenhouse arks, and nine worlds below.
Side A drifts from exclusive galactic isolation and catalystic dreaming into a lumbering poem-machine, last-forest arks, Portuguese hardware colour, and hymns that give everything they have. Side B opens in guitar-and-harmony tranquility, then moves through Kosmische hover, shadow-planet rework, Niflhel depths, a vacation-light response, and ends in a slanted average where nothing needs proving.
Overall mood: Expansive, contemplative, and quietly generous — full of star-aimed memory, analogue drive, and safe mediocrity. Perfect for deep listening, late hours, or sitting still while the tape finds its own orbit.
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 (EXCLUSIVE) deepspace – Atlas Minor – POLY=VISTAS
An exclusive track. unknown release date. on Projekt Records.
deepspace – Atlas Minor – POLY=VISTAS. Mirko Ruckels drifts through uncharted galactic quadrants. Brisbane rooms send German-born space-ambient into exclusive cosmic isolation.
00:07:55 Ancient Astronaut – Catalystic Mind
Ancient Astronaut – Catalystic Mind. Atmospheric electronic soundscapes open for relaxation and dreaming. Half the proceeds travel to Ekukhanyeni’s early-childhood work in South Africa.
00:11:17 Le Morte d’Abby – A Poem
Le Morte d’Abby – A Poem. Acid-based skitter and dueling melodies move at one hundred and thirty bpm. Forlorn pads give way to a lumbering Miyazaki machine of metal-on-wood.
00:18:29 vOLKER rAPP – The arks Berkshire, Valley Forge, Sequoia and Mojave
vOLKER rAPP – The arks Berkshire, Valley Forge, Sequoia and Mojave. ARP 2600 and SEM colours from a 1974 television memory. Greenhouse domes hold Earth’s last forests among Trumbull stars.
00:24:17 Cool Science – Tenshin
Cool Science – Tenshin. Portuguese Polysix, Minilogue XD, Digitone, Digitakt and Syntakt join SLIT ART.
00:30:04 rec – giving you all i got
rec – giving you all i got. Hymns for a fading world gather handprints on dust. Shared memory aims at the stars.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:34:52 (EXCLUSIVE) James McKeown – Tranquility
James McKeown – Tranquility. After eight years as Hawksmoor, acoustic and electric guitars meet layered synths. Cloud of Unknowing carries intimate vocal harmony toward 25 September.
00:37:38 Conrad Schnitzler – 2:08
Conrad Schnitzler – 2:08. Melodies hover. Layers move with Kosmische drive. Flip-Flap and Fonodroom send CON’s focused energy outward.
00:39:33 Brandon Locher – Rahu Ketu (Salvatore Mercatante Rework)
Brandon Locher – Rahu Ketu (Salvatore Mercatante Rework). A 264-day planetary cycle. Shadow planets drawn in ink and coloured pencil. Taylor Deupree mastering.
00:44:42 Lee Anthony Norris & Árni Grétar – Into All Of The Nine Worlds Below Niflhel
Into All Of The Nine Worlds Below Niflhel. A fifty-minute piece yields this excerpt. Futuregrapher’s Icelandic ambient and techno presence remains in the mix.
00:52:03 Gareth Jones – 53_StOlaves : Response
Gareth Jones – 53_StOlaves : Response. Impermanence understood as transformation. A spontaneous reply to Catharsis, vacation light on the photograph.
01:01:27 (EXCLUSIVE) Mike Hans STEFFL – slanted average
An exclusive track. Release date September 2nd, 2026 on the AURAL FILMS label.
Mike Hans STEFFL – slanted average. Berlin School and ambient tones explore mediocrity as a safe space. Sounds envelop. You need prove nothing here.
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 296.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 291
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-291/
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 warm, earthy ambient journey through shared currents, evening rituals, and what remains after the light fades.
Side A gathers jungle meetings and sacred tea, then moves through sunset marrow, mountain mist, solitary machine colour, and warm rainfall microliths. Side B opens liminal gazes and Holkham shorelines, then settles into piano placeholders, remaining polaroids, morning inlight, and a summer curve of insect hum.
Overall mood: Contemplative, healing, and quietly luminous — full of tape hiss, shoreline near-silence, and small rites of duration. Perfect for dusk listening, deep rest, or sitting with what stays.
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.
00:01:18 Biodiverse, Anee Molly & Canblaster – Unite
Biodiverse, Anee Molly & Canblaster – Unite. Jungle scan and echolocation gather as travellers of the past step into shared current. Illustration and tape hiss hold the meeting.
00:07:02 Time Rival – Sacred Tea
Time Rival – Sacred Tea. Tongue drums, kalimba, flute and sun-bleached saturation pour from a planner marked new music. The brew arrives cooked, oversaturated, warm.
00:14:09 Bålsam – Every Sunset
Bålsam – Every Sunset. Cicadas and river-rush enter the marrow. A mother’s voice message and a daughter’s unburdened tone sit among orchids and damp earth. Healing moves as pulse.
00:17:40 Maps and Diagrams – Mist on the Mountain
Maps and Diagrams – Mist on the Mountain. Loops and found sources cycle and fade. Subtle variation and decay keep happening in quiet instability.
00:21:40 Toàn – DEL 0
Toàn – DEL 0. A single Deluge machine, tape loops, harp and bowed tones layer into synesthetic colour. Solitude hangs as an invisible wall of texture.
00:26:01 zakè, Ossa, ASC – Microlith 8
zakè, Ossa, ASC – Microlith 8. Shimmering keys pour like warm rainfall. Analog lines, chest-deep bass and tape-saturated mist carry 90s ambient memory toward an ambiguous horizon.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:27:48 Philippe Blache – Let This Gaze Be Our Part
Philippe Blache – Let This Gaze Be Our Part. Liminal corridors and flowing memory open in meandering textures. Imaginary territories rise through melancholia and repetition.
00:33:47 (EXCLUSIVE) Richard Sage – Holkham
Richard Sage – Holkham. Tripod, Zoom and iPhone gather wave-analogues and shoreline seeds. Near silence wears its own palette.
00:41:25 Audio Obscura – Placeholder for Meaning
Audio Obscura – Placeholder for Meaning. Piano improvisation from Whitby finds its way after months of stillness. Pyramid shapes and late-year fruit settle into place.
00:48:55 Laurel Morgan & Yorkshire Modular Society – Remaining
Laurel Morgan & Yorkshire Modular Society – Remaining. Polaroids and modular breath keep what stays. Scrapbook pages hold the UK location in quiet duration.
00:53:21 David Cordero & Aiko Takahashi – Inlight
David Cordero & Aiko Takahashi – Inlight. Piano notes float as points of light. Modular tones gather in soft waves around the threshold of morning.
00:56:45 CIRC – Summer Curve
CIRC – Summer Curve. Insect hum and rustle become looped ethereal texture. Everyday night turns into a small sonic rite.
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 291.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 288
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-288/
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 quiet, city-tinged ambient journey through perpetual urban grids, eternal depths, and the soft machinery of passing years.
Side A locks everyday Koenji sounds into rhythm, then opens through cello harmonics, Saturn wings, impenetrable fog, Manchester distance, and autumn-orange strings. Side B settles into shed-piano birdsong, moments held in arms, calm pieces, inner recovery landscapes, laundry-line breath, and a paper machine marking quiet growth.
Overall mood: Contemplative, gently textured, and intimate — blending urban observation with personal stillness and soft analogue warmth. Perfect for focused listening, late evenings, or sitting with the ordinary as it slowly transforms.
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.
00:03:28 Nonturn – Perpetual
Koenji fragments lock onto a 96 BPM grid. Nonturn – Perpetual. Traffic signals, footsteps, air conditioners and passing cars become rhythm and texture. The everyday city turns into a private miniature world of repeating surfaces.
00:10:03 Jupi/ter – 13 (feat. Henrik Meierkord, Sole Gipp Ossler)
Thirteen rises with cello and additional voices. Jupi/ter – 13 (feat. Henrik Meierkord, Sole Gipp Ossler). Tones stretch and interweave across open harmonic space.
00:15:58 Brannan Lane – Wings of Saturn
Wings of Saturn fold space for instantaneous travel. Brannan Lane – Wings of Saturn. Vast evolving soundscapes open for relaxation, focus and faster-than-light passage through distorted fabric.
00:18:28 Field Lines Cartographer – Eternal Depths
Eternal depths descend in impenetrable fog. Field Lines Cartographer – Eternal Depths. Blackness holds the gaze. Helicopter noise drifts overhead while a mug shatters like a pistol shot in the eclipsed room. Secrets remain unanswered.
00:25:22 Dark Fidelity Hi Fi – Distance
Distance opens in colourful cascades of keys and pads. Dark Fidelity Hi Fi – Distance. Crystalline percussion and radiant bass carry melodies of love, memories and acceptance across a Manchester skyline.
00:27:59 Trem 77 – Autumn Orange Spectrum (Strings Mix)
Autumn orange spectrum paints with treated strings. Trem 77 – Autumn Orange Spectrum (Strings Mix). Sandpaper distortion and powdery modulated dust turn sound into tangible grain. Forms stay in perpetual transience while Henrik Meierkord’s strings leave the final auditory thought.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:36:34 Josaleigh Pollett – Shed Piano, Birds
Shed piano and birds gather in Salt Lake and Osaka light. Josaleigh Pollett – Shed Piano, Birds. Voices layer across folk-tinged electronic pop. Experimentation and songwriting open spaces for the listener to enter.
00:38:26 mRn – Cada Momento En Tus Brazos
Cada momento stays held in your arms. mRn – Cada Momento En Tus Brazos. Soft currents of presence move without hurry.
00:41:36 Calm Pieces – Dodes’ka-den
Dodes’ka-den arrives as calm pieces. Calm Pieces – Dodes’ka-den. Quiet motion settles into patient listening.
00:44:30 survey channel – Inner Landscape
Inner landscape traces a cycle of recovery. survey channel – Inner Landscape. Atmospheric exploration breaks free from feedback loops toward genuine stillness.
00:49:37 Hiroaki Yamamoto – Breath
Breath moves between laundry lines. Hiroaki Yamamoto – Breath. Sheets, shirts and socks hang as an alphabet of ordinary things. Wind brushes the threads. A leaf has not yet decided where to fall. Day and night leave their scent on the bare lines.
00:52:22 hershel – paper machine for the passing years
A paper machine marks the passing years. hershel – paper machine for the passing years. Processed guitars, piano and cassette recordings blur into fluid forms. Small silent steps carry personal growth and quiet realisation.
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 288.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 284
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-284/
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 284. 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 soft, nocturnal ambient journey through moonlight paths, blooming memory, and lingering radiance.
Side A drifts from metaphysical gloom and waking flowers into city bloom, radio interference, river-borne breath, and dense four-track nostalgia. Side B moves through distant inner worlds, Moshi’s island exit, planetary letter cycles, momentary ethereal vocals, faint light-filled reflections, and ends in desert-town groove.
Overall mood: Contemplative, gently luminous, and quietly expansive — full of soft transitions, personal memory, and residual glow. Perfect for late-night listening, reflective solitude, or drifting through half-remembered landscapes.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,114 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.
00:03:26 Anhnch – Metaphysical Gloom
Moonlight spills across unknown paths. Anhnch – Metaphysical Gloom. Adventures unfold under silver glow where shadows hold secrets and the night itself breathes with quiet invitation.
00:08:17 midorinozu – when flowers wake
Flowers open in hazy distance. midorinozu – when flowers wake. Blurred electronics and organic textures drift together. Melodies appear for a moment then dissolve into mist, carrying travellers toward horizons that live only in memory and sound.
00:13:02 Gollden – when i started to bloom
Bloom begins in city light. Gollden – when i started to bloom. Soft ambient tones rise from Toronto streets and quiet corners, each note reflecting the shape of place upon the music that grows there.
00:15:58 Nick May – Radio
Radio interference crackles through sustained drones. Nick May – Radio. Lo-fi tape warps and distortion pedal colours weave around long held notes. Harmonies and melodic loops shift slowly across minimal experimental surfaces recorded in kitchen and studio hours.
00:19:51 Intact Veils – Breath
A river carries the wanderer north through drowned forests. Intact Veils – Breath. Collapsed shrines and abandoned watchtowers still whisper from cracked speakers. Machines hum beneath a black sea shoreline while sister voices drift as unfinished prayers and forgotten names.
00:25:33 DOMOTIC – Hardcore Nostalgia
Night sessions glow on four-track tape. DOMOTIC – Hardcore Nostalgia. Spring reverb, analogue sequencers, cartridge echoes and vintage synthesizers layer into dense nostalgic patterns captured between 2014 and 2016.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:30:18 Simon Heartfield – Never In The Inner World
Distant piano figures move through dense electronics. Simon Heartfield – Never In The Inner World. Layered guitar textures and fractured voices rise toward insistent percussion. Time itself passes across cinematic landscapes that open into dramatic hope.
00:33:55 Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid – Moshi Exit
Moshi steps from ship to shore among butterfly towers. Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid – Moshi Exit. Digital synth motifs and wood-workshop percussion drift with new-age swells and bit-crushed vocal haunts. Cave side-quests and shaman shoes mark the path across the 12th Isle.
00:40:02 Brandon Locher – A-R
Letters omitted from a longer cycle form their own constellation. Brandon Locher – A-R. Vedic planetary periods refract through remixes and companion pieces, each tone shaped by the same 264-day orbit of influence.
00:44:11 Anita Tatlow & Be Still the Earth – everything for a moment
Ethereal vocals float above deep ambient loops. Anita Tatlow & Be Still the Earth – everything for a moment. Melodic fragments turn slowly while the voice holds every transient beauty in soft sustained presence.
00:46:10 Miguel Otero – Light-Filled
A faint glow lingers after other lights fade. Miguel Otero – Light-Filled. Memory and illumination meet in delicate space. Four pieces breathe as reflections suspended, each one a small steady radiance that remains.
00:51:12 Taftir – Yaris
Desert town energy locks into dembow-leaning groove. Taftir – Yaris. Monotone synth chords open into layered guitars tracing Eastern scales. Percussion, bass and handclaps shift between full and half-time while the players explore freely in shared instinct.
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 284.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 282
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-282/
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 282. 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.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,111 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.
A reflective, slightly melancholic ambient journey through vanishing places, last forests, and hovering resonances.
Side A opens in dense brainforests and soft sanctuaries, then blooms through disk errors, chosen confusion, Tokyo pavilions, and tired roads halfway from nowhere. Side B drifts into possible villages, orbital last forests, electric roads of trials, chalk coastal paths, invisible hovering worlds, and ends in the hazed industrial interzone of Motor City.
Overall mood: Contemplative, atmospheric, and quietly expansive — full of soft disappearances, preserved light, and gentle forward motion. Perfect for deep listening, late-night reflection, or drifting through imagined landscapes.
The tape unspools its visions.
Woodwind and spidery guitars open a dense forest of homemade percussion. Polypores – Seeing Absolutely Everything, Then Never Seeing It Again. Tenor recorder, piano, drums and kalimba rise into insectile textures and weaving repetitive melodies. The Brainforest expands in childlike layered motion, every surface alive with loose and slack exploration.
Sanctuary forms in swirling so-longs and dreamy murmured goodbyes. Halftribe – Sanctuary. Immersive tones drift through quiet open space, the field settling into soft reflective presence.
A disk error blooms into luminous data patterns. maps and diagrams – bloom.Solr- X a.41 [disk.err]. Signal fragments rearrange across open digital ground, each one expanding into new radiant forms.
Confusion gathers around a chosen image. Suncastle – Confusion. Sonic colours rise to meet the visual surface, opening into shared imaginative light.
A pavilion stands inside the sleeping Cityfield of Tokyo. Ryu Oshi – Denizen 3 — Pavilion. Offerings of orange light drift from a moving train window. Kami presence expands through electric piano and synthesizer duets, the urban subconscious glowing in mutual respect.
Tired tires roll across an unknown road of blurred memories. Far away Nebraska – And so it begins…. Ringing fills the open air while a storm moves through the mind. Halfway from nowhere the landscape stretches forward in steady motion.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
A village appears in quiet mirror light where realities fade into new truths. Nahal Kavand – The village where I might have lived one day. Field recordings from Tehran rise through heavy processing into thin layered soundscapes. Disappearances and vanishings open across the surface, time echoing deep within existence.
The last forests of Earth drift through silent orbital chambers. vOLKER rAPP – The last forests of Earth. ARP 2600 and SEM tones expand across vast greenhouse domes. The landscape holds the soft glow of preserved green light moving through space.
A road of trials opens in electric layered motion. Whettman Chelmets – Road of Trials (Electric Mix). Shoegaze ambient textures rise into wide reflective fields, the path expanding in luminous presence.
Beachy Head rises along the foot of the Downs under muted Ravilious colours. Gilroy Mere – Beachy Head. Train windows carry undulating textures, tempos and modulations. Clarinet, trumpet, flute and voice drift through chalk paths and coastal light, crystallizing into open sonic form.
Hovering resonance maps an invisible world drawn in wind and granular synthesis. Philippe Deschamps, The Goodnight Project – The Hovering Resonance. Organic drones and drifting textures expand across distant melodies, opening the boundaries of the ephemeral.
Motor City opens in dusty drum machinery and heavy echo. Sand Circles – Entering Motor City. Analog synths and derelict metropolis atmospheres rise through white sand, downtown haze and distant lights. The interzone expands in hazed industrial reverie.
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 282.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Side A
00:03:52 Polypores – Seeing Absolutely Everything, Then Never Seeing It Again
Woodwind and spidery guitars open a dense forest of homemade percussion. Polypores – Seeing Absolutely Everything, Then Never Seeing It Again. Tenor recorder, piano, drums and kalimba rise into insectile textures and weaving repetitive melodies. The Brainforest expands in childlike layered motion, every surface alive with loose and slack exploration.
00:12:27 Halftribe – Sanctuary
Sanctuary forms in swirling so-longs and dreamy murmured goodbyes. Halftribe – Sanctuary. Immersive tones drift through quiet open space, the field settling into soft reflective presence.
00:14:20 maps and diagrams – bloom.Solr- X a.41 [disk.err]
A disk error blooms into luminous data patterns. maps and diagrams – bloom.Solr- X a.41 [disk.err]. Signal fragments rearrange across open digital ground, each one expanding into new radiant forms.
00:19:36 Suncastle – Confusion
Confusion gathers around a chosen image. Suncastle – Confusion. Sonic colours rise to meet the visual surface, opening into shared imaginative light.
00:21:15 Ryu Oshi – Denizen 3 — Pavilion
A pavilion stands inside the sleeping Cityfield of Tokyo. Ryu Oshi – Denizen 3 — Pavilion. Offerings of orange light drift from a moving train window. Kami presence expands through electric piano and synthesizer duets, the urban subconscious glowing in mutual respect.
00:25:34 Far away Nebraska – And so it begins…
Tired tires roll across an unknown road of blurred memories. Far away Nebraska – And so it begins…. Ringing fills the open air while a storm moves through the mind. Halfway from nowhere the landscape stretches forward in steady motion.
Side B
00:33:16 Nahal Kavand – The village where I might have lived one day
A village appears in quiet mirror light where realities fade into new truths. Nahal Kavand – The village where I might have lived one day. Field recordings from Tehran rise through heavy processing into thin layered soundscapes. Disappearances and vanishings open across the surface, time echoing deep within existence.
00:37:33 vOLKER rAPP – The last forests of Earth
The last forests of Earth drift through silent orbital chambers. vOLKER rAPP – The last forests of Earth. ARP 2600 and SEM tones expand across vast greenhouse domes. The landscape holds the soft glow of preserved green light moving through space.
00:39:39 Whettman Chelmets – Road of Trials (Electric Mix)
A road of trials opens in electric layered motion. Whettman Chelmets – Road of Trials (Electric Mix). Shoegaze ambient textures rise into wide reflective fields, the path expanding in luminous presence.
00:40:31 Gilroy Mere – Beachy Head
Beachy Head rises along the foot of the Downs under muted Ravilious colours. Gilroy Mere – Beachy Head. Train windows carry undulating textures, tempos and modulations. Clarinet, trumpet, flute and voice drift through chalk paths and coastal light, crystallizing into open sonic form.
00:45:07 Philippe Deschamps, The Goodnight Project – The Hovering Resonance
Hovering resonance maps an invisible world drawn in wind and granular synthesis. Philippe Deschamps, The Goodnight Project – The Hovering Resonance. Organic drones and drifting textures expand across distant melodies, opening the boundaries of the ephemeral.
00:47:21 Sand Circles – Entering Motor City
Motor City opens in dusty drum machinery and heavy echo. Sand Circles – Entering Motor City. Analog synths and derelict metropolis atmospheres rise through white sand, downtown haze and distant lights. The interzone expands in hazed industrial reverie.
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.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 276
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-276/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve just pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 276. A twelve-track virtual cassette that flips itself at the halfway mark, whether you’re ready or not.
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 nostalgic, gently varied ambient journey through parting regrets, haunted cities, wildlife, and liquid illusions.
Side A moves from crackling farewells and spectral urban spaces into sunflowers, foxes, returning places, and soft confusion. Side B shifts through weird islands, mythical unicorns, brief summer echoes, transistor revolutions, distant horizons, and ends in liquid dreams.
Overall mood: Warm, reflective, and lightly mysterious — blending personal nostalgia with quiet wonder and soft experimental edges. Perfect for relaxed listening, late afternoons, or peaceful immersion.
I’ll introduce Side A now. Side B will wait for the intermission, as is tradition.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,104 other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers also receive the expanding series Veil Frequencies, recorded floor-by-floor inside the 24 buildings of a place called the Resonant Veil Enclave. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
Side A
On this episode you’ll hear Calgary, Alberta based Monroeville Music Center with a lovely nostalgic crackling piece from 2015 titled Parting Regrets from the name your price album Cave & Castle. Formerly available on cassette via Illuminated Paths.
Then Coventry, UK based artist Rich Johnson aka Visionary Lines sent me his latest haunted single The People’s City.
This will be followed by another UK based artist LoveKrafty and the also nostalgic track Sunflowers from the 2020 release Rainbow Drifter.
Then if I say Preston you’ll probably say Polypores. If you know Polypores then you’d probably not recognise this as being the same artist. I’ve chosen the track Foxes taken from his latest release Wildlife. It’s availabe on cassette through the Aural Canyon label.
After that we head to Italy and an artist who ended yesterdays episode Far away Nebraska with the drifting drone tones of a track titled It’s been a while since I’ve been here from the album Halfway from nowhere which is out on Seil Records sub-label Kordel Records.
Closing Side A is Tehran based Iranian artist Nahal Kavand and the lovely floating drones of the track Confusion from the album Echoes of a Fading Existence which is out on Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series which is the sub-label of rohs! records.
But first, to set the vibe: Monroeville Music Center with Parting Regrets.
Now settle in. Turn it up just a little. Let’s see where the tape takes us.
One side flip. Just the music.
Side B
Welcome back, sonic travellers. Six tracks down. Six still waiting.
You’ll hear another artist I played yesterday. Italian artist Gino Fioravanti (Aglaia) with the longest entry in todays episode at 13:50 titled Unicorn from their latest release Altitudes which is out on legenday Projekt Records.
After that we’ll head to my present city of resedence Stockholm and an older one from 2012 by Martin Herterich’s alter ego Sand Circles and the final track from his album Motor City, it’s also the shortest piece of the episode at 1:10 titled Summer Echoes II.
Then we find ourselves in Southsea, UK based artist swimming lesson. Now this is a super duper exclusive from a collective of absolutly wonderful souls that I’ve had the pleasure of knowing for a few years now. They’ve gotten together to form The Synthesis Co-Operative and the first release is out on the 4th of September and will be available on cassette, Minidisc and digital and will be accompanied with a 40 page zine. Preorders from 14th August. This swimming lesson track, is stunning, and is called Transistor Revolution. Other names on this first release which will go by the name The Synthesis Co-Op Volume One will include The Earl of Dean, Legacy Systems, HDRF, Scholars of the Peak, theMLFs, Visionary Lines, Warmfield and more.
Near the end we’re joined by another Projekt Records release by Kyiv, Ukraine artist Bohdan Stupak and the moving track horizon from the equally moving album a place in memories.
Finally, Paris, France based artist Philippe Deschamps together with Nathaniel James Goldblatt aka The Goodnight Project and the drifting track Liquid Illusions from the four track EP Maps of an Invisible World.
But first, a wonderfully weird track by Mensa Group International titled Southern Mauristemo Islands from the 2012 Album Split LP which is split with luxury elite and was released on the Ailanthus Recordings label.
Enjoy…
Side A
00:00:00 Monroeville Music Center – Parting Regrets
Nostalgic, crackling ambient with warm analogue haze and quiet farewell emotion. Bittersweet and comforting.
00:07:04 Visionary Lines – The People’s City
Haunted, urban ambient with spectral city presence and soft, lingering atmosphere. Atmospheric and reflective.
00:10:08 LoveKrafty – Sunflowers
Bright, nostalgic ambient with sunny, drifting textures and gentle 2020s warmth. Cheerful and light.
00:12:56 Polypores – Foxes
Organic, wildlife-inspired ambient with subtle animal movement and natural electronic detail. Curious and lively.
00:15:25 Far away Nebraska – It’s been a while since I’ve been here
Drifting, returning ambient with soft familiarity and quiet Italian spaciousness. Contemplative and open.
00:19:25 Nahal Kavand – Confusion
Floating, Iranian ambient drones with gentle uncertainty and fading emotional clarity. Serene and introspective.
Side B
00:25:26 Mensa Group International – Southern Mauristemo Islands
Wonderfully weird, island-hopping ambient with playful, off-kilter charm and 2012 lo-fi spirit. Quirky and fun.
00:26:57 Aglaia – Unicorn
Long-form, mythical electro-acoustic meditation with deep echoes and patient beauty. Immersive and expansive.
00:40:30 Sand Circles – Summer Echoes II
Brief, warm summer ambient with soft residual glow and Motor City nostalgia. Short and sunny.
00:41:25 Swimming Lesson – Transistor Revolution
Exclusive, revolutionary ambient with circuit warmth and collective energy. Fresh and compelling.
00:43:21 Bohdan Stupak – horizon
Moving, memory-tinged ambient with wide Ukrainian horizons and quiet emotional depth. Poignant and spacious.
00:46:47 Philippe Deschamps, The Goodnight Project – Liquid Illusions
Drifting, illusory ambient with fluid textures and soft collaborative haze. Dreamy and gentle.
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.
All the best,
Trevor
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 274
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-274/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve just pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 274. A twelve-track virtual cassette that flips itself at the halfway mark, whether you’re ready or not.
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 nocturnal ambient journey through quiet intensity, natural shifts, and digital calm.
Side A moves from prowling glass and sea changes into moonlight grass, barrel flowers, reduced beats, and deep geological time. Side B drifts through wormeries, rushing ascent, liquid amber circles, grid edges, digital meditation, and ends on an old road.
Overall mood: Contemplative, atmospheric, and gently dynamic — blending organic warmth with subtle tension and quiet modern stillness. Perfect for late-evening listening, deep focus, or peaceful immersion.
I’ll introduce Side A now. Side B will wait for the intermission, as is tradition.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,101 other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers also receive the expanding series Veil Frequencies, recorded floor-by-floor inside the 24 buildings of a place called the Resonant Veil Enclave. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
Side A
On this episode you’ll hear the sprawling and inventive side-project of Suncastle’s George Evans and Kristofer Thomas aka Paris Texas who together call themselves Glass Roots. Yes it’s an older release from 2020 but as it’s on Triplicate records it means that it’s Name Your Price on Bandcamp. Which suits my unimployed world. Anyway the track is a stomping Idm piece titled “Panther Loud” from the album “The Idiot”. Go grab it for as little as you can.
Then a dose of slapped bass in a wonderful track titled “Sea Change” by friend of the shows Emily Sobool, aka Socool who has teamed up with Paul Griffin and released a collection of tunes under the name “Dreams & Riddles”
Next, another team up with Elizabeth Joan Kelly aka Orca and David Rodriguez aka Attack! with a highly original piece titled “Grass In The Moonlight” which is a great name so I think I’ll title this episode after it. It’s from a release out on the Mortality Tables label called, yes “Grass In The Moonlight”.
This will be followed by, would you believe it?, another duo in the form of Ali O’May and Frazer Brown as Dohnavùr and a captivating synth adventure titled “Flowers In The Barrel” from their latest release “We Owe Each Other Everything” which you can get on vinyl from that Castles In Space that’s in everyones library.
After that, not a another duo, o no, a Leeds based act of unknown numbers. Active between 1993-1994 called Adel Music Club. You’ll be treated to some sweet drum breaks and bongos or highly tuned congas in the track titled “Break Beats Nothing” from the release called “Golden Acres” out on the channel supporting FRBH Recordings.
Closing Side A is of course another duo. A name all of you know and are probably a bit tired of after this release. It is of course Boards of Canada with the wonderfully wobbly track “Deep Time” from their latest gem “Inferno”. That’s on vinyl in my collection and is available through Warp Records.
But first, to set the vibe: Glass Roots and Panther Loud.
Now settle in. Turn it up just a little. Let’s see where the tape takes us.
One side flip. Just the music.
Side B
Welcome back, sonic travellers. Six tracks down. Six still waiting.
You’ll hear a founder of Triplicate Records, Mr. Michael Southard aka Time Rival and an exclusive, I dare say, from his Bandcamp subscription library titled “Rush Up” from the album “stay safe out there“ which has an official release on the 2nd of October.
Then, speaking of Triplicate Records and their amazing back catalogue I’m playing Belial Pelegrim and an enchanting track titled “Circle of Liquid Ambers”. from the 2020 album “Torus”.
Next. No episode of TVCL would be complete without a dose of modular tweakings. We head to another channel supporting label Paris based Hylé Tapes and the artist Aurel Val with the track “Grid’s End” from the album “Mods-1”. Go grab one of the 7 remaining cassettes on Hylé Tapes.
Near the end we travel to Genoa, Italy with a downtempo summer vibe piece by artist Brioskj titled “Digital Meditation” from the EP The Persuaders! And that’s another Name Your Price release from Finlands finest label: Kahvi Collective.
And finally, a real exclusive track from a true friend of the show. A gentleman fond of words and espicially dialects. Mr. Graham Thorpe who of course is better know as gribbles at least for now. Keep an eye out for upcoming stuff in his own name. Anyway I’m playing a Lemon Jelly flavoured track titled “Owd Roa (Part)” from an upcoming release titled “Agatewards” dropping on boutique label Yellowbelly Records on the 4th of September. Keep an eye out for that.
But first, another exclusive, that makes three for this episode! That deserves a subscription from someone out there does it not?
Anyway, this is an amazing piece of audio art by Imogen Haley Baker who calls herself Enofa, and a rather haunted track titled “The Wormery” from an album called “Small Modernist House in Woodland Setting” which was sent to me by the wonderful Dan Seville, who runs the equally wonderful Subexotic Records. That will be released on double LP black vinyl from the 14th of August. According to the blurb for this release, Imogen made close to a hundred different pieces of music. A lot of htem, she says, will probably stay on her hard drive for decades. Well if you’re listening Imogen, yoou could enter one in for my quiet figures compilation.
Anyway
Enjoy…
Side A
00:00:00 Glass Roots – Panther Loud
Bold, prowling ambient with glass-edged intensity and quiet predatory presence. Atmospheric and sleek.
00:08:06 Paul Griffin x Socool – Sea Change
Transformative, oceanic ambient with shifting tides and collaborative depth. Fluid and reflective.
00:11:25 Orca, Attack! – Grass In The Moonlight
Nocturnal, moonlit ambient with soft grass textures and quiet natural wonder. Serene and evocative.
00:14:18 Dohnavùr – Flowers in the Barrel
Stark, bittersweet ambient placing fragile blooms against hard containers. Poignant and restrained.
00:19:27 Adel Music Club – Break Beats Nothing
Playful, rhythmic ambient that reduces breaks to their quietest essence. Minimal and quirky.
00:21:09 Boards of Canada – Deep Time
Classic BoC deep-time haze with warped nostalgia and geological patience. Hypnotic and timeless.
Side B
00:28:01 Enofa – The Wormery
Earthy, composting ambient with slow organic breakdown and quiet soil life. Grounded and curious.
00:32:17 Time Rival – Rush Up
Urgent, ascending ambient with quickening motion and soft forward pull. Dynamic and hopeful.
00:35:00 Belial Pelegrim – Circle of Liquid Ambers
Warm, circular ambient with molten amber flow and elegant, looping beauty. Rich and immersive.
00:38:58 Aurel Val – Grid’s End
Precise, terminal ambient reaching the edge of structured space. Clean and contemplative.
00:41:04 Brioskj – Digital Meditation
Quiet, screen-soft ambient designed for digital stillness and soft focus. Calm and modern.
00:45:25 gribbles – Owd Roa (Part)
https://www.yellowbellyrecords.co.uk/
Regional, weathered ambient with old-road character and gentle English texture. Nostalgic and grounded.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, due 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.
All the best,
Trevor
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 266
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-266/
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 266. A 12 track virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
If you make music, or are a label, 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 leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
A gentle, introspective ambient journey through awareness, weightlessness, storms, and quiet reflection.
Side A moves from attentive listening and zero-gravity daydreams into open arms and sweltering heat. Side B drifts through afflicted warmth, dawn-to-dusk passage, dramatic storms, blank slates, mirrored reflections, and motivated absence.
Overall mood: Contemplative, tender, and atmospheric — balancing soft intimacy with moments of intensity. Ideal for deep listening, meditation, or peaceful solitude.
I’ll introduce Side A now and Side B in the intermission. The shows are free for the first week and then go to my very few Mixcloud subscribers who get to enjoy the 1 089 other shows whenever they like.
As a subscriber you also get access to my new series Veil Frequencies based on a fictional world I’ve created called The Resonant Veil Enclave. Each episode is around three hours and recorded from one of the floors of the 24 buildings in the veil. You can read about it on my Substack page. Mixcloud subscribers also get the ever expanding version of the upcoming compilation titled Quiet Figures.
On this TVCL episode you’ll be aurally pleasured by Japanese sound artist yolabmi rouses us with their soundworld in the track “Awareness” from the album “Internal Resurrection” available via the wonderful Lithuanian label Amulet of Tears.
Followed by the collaboration of Tobias Lorsbach aka Logic Moon and JJ Rogalski aka Piscean Daydreams in their deep drone, space ambient track “Life in Zero Gravity” from the album Musica Universalis which you can get through Chitra Records sub label Ambient Cat.
Then Paris based Italian modular composer Alessandro De Nicola bathes us in drone in the track titled “Open Arms” from the 27 track double baby pink cassette compilation “Connection: sculpting silence” from 2024 out on Hylé Tapes.
The penultimate track of the first side of the virtual cassette is by Danish artist øjeRum (eye space), and their piece titled “Et Pust I Sivet”(A Breath Among the Reeds) from the 2022 album Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers. Available through Amulet of Tears.
Finishing off the first half is Cincinnati, Ohio based friend Ed Herbers with a track many of us have felt recently titled “Sweltering” from the third of his four part album series titled “Season Cycle: Summer” from the always brilliant Passed Recordings label.
But first, to set the vibe is British producer Ryan Bissett, aka Halftribe, with a gentle, atmospheric invitation into the episode via the track “Listen” from the album “Disappear in Silent Ways” out on Dutch label DRONARIVM.
Now settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Welcome to the B side. Six tracks down and six to go.
You’ll hear Rick Jones better known as Dark Fidelity Hi Fi in a short colourful cascade in the track “Dawn To Dusk Passenger” from the Limited Edition CD album “Your Skyline Correspondent” and that’s out on Glasgow based super label Bricolage.
After that Minneapolis, Minnesota based duo Amy McNally and Matthew Hiram aka Visible Light with their immersive field recordings from El Yunque Bosque Nacional, Puerto Rico and a piece titled “La Tormenta” (The Storm) from the eco-friendly CD EP Sierra de Luquillo: A Living Soundscape.
Then Los Angeles, California based friend David Strother brings the track that inspired this episode titled “Tabula Rasa” a short suggestive violin piece from his latest release “A Brilliant Midnight”.
Then the penultimate track for today comes in the form of another track from that wonderful Hylé Tapes compilation “Connection: sculpting silence” this time by the amazing modular artist Andrea Cichecki and the bubbling sounds of “Mirrored reflections”.
Finishing us off is Québec based artist Mathieu Lamontagne better known as Arbee and the modular based track “Absence motivée” (excused absence) from the album “En vain” (In Vain) out on the ever astounding Ambient Cat label.
But first, Anthony Asher-Yates the artist behind Bålsam with a highly personal ambient track titled “Afligido” (Afflicted) from the album “Soñador” (Dreamer), available on a stunning cassette release from DRONARIVM sister label Le Mont Analogue, Enjoy…
Side A
00:00:00 Halftribe – Listen
Quiet, attentive ambient with soft layers inviting deep listening. Calm, spacious, and meditative.
00:05:33 yolabmi – Awareness
Gentle, mindful ambient with soft focus and a sense of quiet presence. Intimate and reflective.
00:10:04 Logic Moon & Piscean Daydreams – Life in Zero Gravity
Weightless, floating ambient with dreamy, gravity-free drift and soft cosmic buoyancy.
00:13:27 Alessandro de Nicola – Open Arms
Warm, welcoming ambient with open, embracing textures and emotional generosity. Tender and inviting.
00:19:23 øjeRum – Et Pust I Sivet
Delicate, breath-in-the-reeds ambient with soft Danish minimalism and fragile, natural stillness.
00:23:22 Ed Herbers – Sweltering
Humid, heat-soaked ambient capturing thick summer air and sticky, immersive warmth.
Side B
00:25:03 Bålsam – Afligido
Melancholic, afflicted ambient with soft sorrow and balsam-like emotional soothe. Poignant and healing.
00:27:12 Dark Fidelity Hi Fi – Dawn To Dusk Passenger
Journeying synth tracing the arc from dawn to dusk with glowing, passenger-like motion. Warm and cinematic.
00:28:23 Visible Light – La Tormenta
Dramatic, storm-driven ambient with turbulent energy and Puerto Rican intensity. Powerful and immersive.
00:41:24 David Strother – Tabula Rasa
Clean, blank-slate ambient with pure, reset textures and quiet potential. Minimal and open.
00:42:00 Andrea Cichecki – Mirrored reflections
Reflective, mirrored ambient with doubling layers and soft, self-regarding beauty. Contemplative and elegant.
00:46:03 Arbee – Absence motivée
Motivated absence ambient with deliberate emptiness and French-titled quiet space. Thoughtful and sparse.
Also in the works, the latest compilation titled Quiet Figures which will be released September 26.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that trigger a creative thought?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name and link to other work.
Tracks due by September 24.
All the best,
Trevor
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 257
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Apologies for the sound quality today. I’m on holidays and find it hard to hard to get a spot quiet enough to record. Anyway…
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 257. A 12 track virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
If you make music, or are a label, 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 leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
A mystical, elemental, and introspective ambient journey through light, water, time, and deep space.
Side A moves from beacon magic and burning waters into glade mornings, rising energy, and druidic sacredness. Side B rolls through time carpets, anchoring resilience, ocean overlooks, deeper dreams, and reduced space walks.
Overall mood: Contemplative, wondrous, and atmospheric with a strong sense of vastness and quiet power. Perfect for deep listening, nature connection, or late-night immersion.
I’ve gone back to doing more podcast like episodes but I’ll do all the talking now as I put a lot of love into making seamless segued mixes. There is just one break halfway through to give the “virtual cassette” meaning. The shows are free for the first week and then go to my too few subscribers who get to enjoy the 257 episodes plus the 819 other shows whenever they like all for the price of… I actually don’t know what you can buy for €3 anymore. It used to be a coffee.
Episode 257 is based on an exclusive soothing drone track “arc gap” by Tallinn, Estonia based “Paul Beaudoin” from the release “signal loss” coming out on Dragon’s Eye Recordings on the 10th of July.
On this episode you’ll be aurally pleasured by Italian artist M. Beckmann aka The Volume Settings Folder with his improvised stylings from a release on the one of a kind ambient whitelabrecs label.
Rays of light in the form of Bahram Bahrami, Ross Bartlett, and Daniel Field who are Bahrambient, Retland, and Kilometre Club respectively.
My Greek mate Substak with a lesson in field recordings from a Sounds for the Soul Records compilation.
The only beat driven track of the show from Belgian artist Felix Machtelinckx on celebration of the rising sun with Subexotic Records
Finishing the A side is a track from an album based on Risorgimento period samples clipped by Michele Andreotti out on Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series.
Side B gives us inner and out space exploration from Oregon based Modular Synth artist Bart Hawkins.
A meditative soundscape from Melbourne based friend Willebrant who’s sneaked into the mix twice.
Then after the inspired Paul Beaudoin track we drift into a legend of the scene and one I’ve never been able to make contact with. Lee Anthony Norris, here as one of his many alter egos Moss Garden It’s available on lots of places including Fantasy Enhancing, Neotantra and NATURE BLISS.
Penultimately from Trittau, Germany is Christian Fiesel with a release on Cyclical Dreams.
Ending the show is the drone collaboration of Sunil Kumar Sharma aka Suseti and Karl Willebrant again with a Willebrant self release from last year.
But Starting us off Rotterdam based artist Ard Bit is searching for a connection beyond the surface with the track “Fanal Magic” from the album “Juxtaposed”. Out on the Dutch Drunarium sub label Derde. Enjoy…
So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Side A
00:00:00 Ard Bit – Fanal Magic
Mystical, beacon-inspired ambient with magical, fanal-like glow and subtle, guiding light. Enchanting and atmospheric. Artist Bio: Ard Bit is an ambient artist creating clear, precise, and unambiguous soundscapes.
00:11:53 The Volume Settings Folder – Burning Waters Pt 1
Intense, fiery aquatic ambient with dramatic, burning waves and emotional depth. Powerful and evocative. Artist Bio: The Volume Settings Folder is an ambient artist exploring elemental forces and emotional intensity through textured soundscapes.
00:17:51 Bahrambient, Retland, Kilometre Club – Rays of Light
Luminous, hopeful ambient with glowing rays and soft, radiant textures. Uplifting and serene. Artist Bio: Collaborative ambient project blending light, hope, and gentle electronic warmth.
00:21:16 Substak – Morning in the Glade
Gentle, dawn-lit ambient in a woodland glade with fresh, dewy textures. Peaceful and organic. Artist Bio: Substak is an ambient artist creating minimal, poetic works often inspired by haiku and subtle natural phenomena.
00:23:34 Felix Machtelinckx – The Riser
Ascending, rising ambient with gradual lift and building, hopeful energy. Dynamic and inspiring. Artist Bio: Felix Machtelinckx is a Belgian ambient artist creating stark, minimal works with organic and skeletal themes.
00:28:49 Michele Andreotti – Luoghi Druidici
Mystical, druidic ambient evoking sacred places with ancient, wooded resonance. Ritualistic and solemn. Artist Bio: Michele Andreotti is an ambient artist creating mystical, druidic, and sacred place-inspired works.
Side B
00:33:59 Bart Hawkins – Roll Up The Carpet Of Time
Time-compressing ambient with rolling, carpet-like textures and a sense of folding history. Expansive and philosophical. Artist Bio: Bart Hawkins is an ambient artist exploring time, history, and expansive conceptual soundscapes.
00:45:03 Willebrant – Keep
Steady, anchoring ambient with a sense of holding on and quiet resilience. Grounded and comforting. Artist Bio: Willebrant is an Australian ambient artist known for grand, cinematic works inspired by landscapes and architecture.
00:49:21 Paul Beaudoin – arc gap
Precise, gap-focused ambient with arcing electronics and subtle, bridging tension. Clean and thoughtful. Artist Bio: Paul Beaudoin is an ambient artist creating precise, gap-exploring, and electronic works.
00:53:07 Moss Garden – Overlooking Oceans
Vast, cliff-top ambient overlooking endless seas with sweeping, panoramic calm. Majestic and serene. Artist Bio: Moss Garden is an ambient artist focused on vast, ocean-overlooking, and panoramic soundscapes.
00:59:18 Christian Fiesel – Deeper Dreamscape
Deep, immersive dream ambient with layered, subconscious textures and profound inner exploration. Artist Bio: Christian Fiesel is an ambient artist creating deep, dream-like, and immersive soundscapes.
01:07:23 Suseti/Willebrant – Deep (space walk reduction)
Reduced, deep space ambient with weightless drift and reduced, minimalist cosmic beauty. Artist Bio: Suseti & Willebrant collaborate on deep, space-walk-inspired ambient reductions.
Also in the works, the latest compilation titled Quiet Figures which will be released September 26.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that trigger a creative thought?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name and link to other work.
Tracks due by September 24.
All the best,
Trevor
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 253
A warm, gentle, and emotionally rich ambient journey through mornings, memories, and cosmic wonder.
Side A drifts from intimate closeness and summer radiance into delicate mornings and scattered light. Side B flows through lazy Sundays, recursive feathers, silent hours, heartfelt balm, and ends on an awe-inspiring Earthrise.
Overall mood: Serene, nostalgic, and hopeful with a strong sense of warmth and quiet beauty. Perfect for morning listening, deep relaxation, or peaceful reflection.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 253. A 12 track virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
If you make music, or are a label, 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 leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Today’s mix is based on the track “Recursive Plumage” by “Dionisaf” from the release “Fractals, Vol. 2” which just dropped on the wonderful Ambient Cat label of which the track by M. Cross Dougherty is also from. also in the mix is mate of the show Ed Herbers with a release on Passed Recordings. The legendary Eluvium is back with a release on Temporary Residence Ltd. Simon Cacheux with a release on Adventurous Music.
Aiko Takahashi together with Scattered Light has one out on David Corderos amazing ambient label Noray Records.
Foam and Sand have a release on Seil Records
Nick May with a self release.
Mate of the mine aeon with a track from my latest compilation The Mystery of the Night which you really should have in your collection.
Bålsam have one out on the fantastic Dutch label Le Mont Analogue
Olio Flux ends with a self release which I’ve been featuring loads on previous episodes.
To start us off though is the amazing Mark Barrott with a release on Anjunachill this is Closer, enjoy…
Side A
00:00:00 Mark Barrott – Closer
Warm, intimate Balearic ambient drawing the listener closer with soft, inviting textures. Gentle and comforting. Artist Bio: Mark Barrott is a Balearic and ambient producer known for warm, earthy, and sun-drenched soundscapes.
00:05:43 Ed Herbers – Summer Solstice
Bright, sun-drenched ambient capturing the longest day with luminous warmth and seasonal radiance. Joyful and expansive. Artist Bio: Ed Herbers is a Cincinnati, Ohio based ambient musician known for seasonal, textural works that capture natural atmospheres and emotional states.
00:08:38 M. Cross Dougherty – Undulated
Flowing, wave-like ambient with gentle undulations and soft, rolling motion. Hypnotic and serene. Artist Bio: M. Cross Dougherty is an ambient artist creating flowing, textural works with organic motion.
00:10:22 Eluvium – A.M.
Delicate, morning ambient with fragile beauty and quiet, early-light introspection. Tender and hopeful. Artist Bio: Eluvium (Matthew Cooper) is a renowned ambient composer known for delicate, emotionally rich piano and electronic works.
00:12:03 Simon Cacheux – Wasted
Melancholic, time-lost ambient with a sense of gentle regret and drifting emptiness. Poignant and atmospheric. Artist Bio: Simon Cacheux is a French ambient artist exploring melancholic and time-lost themes through atmospheric electronics.
00:14:30 Aiko Takahashi & Scattered Light – Cinq Heures Du Matin (16mm Color Film)
Dreamy, 5 AM ambient evoking early morning film grain with soft, scattered light and nostalgic warmth. Artist Bio: Aiko Takahashi & Scattered Light collaborate on cinematic, film-inspired ambient works with nostalgic and dreamy qualities.
00:22:30 Foam and Sand – Circle 70
Lush, circular ambient with granular warmth and endless, comforting loops. Radiant and meditative. Artist Bio: Foam and Sand is the ambient project of producer Robin Schut, blending granular synthesis and dreamy textures.
Side B
00:27:01 Nick May – Sunday Morning
Relaxed, lazy Sunday ambient with warm light and gentle, unhurried calm. Cosy and peaceful. Artist Bio: Nick May is an ambient artist known for gentle, nature-inspired works with warm, organic textures.
00:35:15 Dionisaf – Recursive Plumage
Intricate, feather-like ambient with recursive patterns and soft, avian elegance. Detailed and hypnotic. Artist Bio: Dionisaf is an ambient artist creating intricate, recursive, and nature-inspired soundscapes.
00:41:37 aeon – the silent hours
Vast, time-stretched ambient capturing the quiet hours with deep, eternal stillness. Profound and serene. Artist Bio: aeon is an ambient artist focused on vast, time-stretched, and silent explorations.
00:45:07 Bålsam – My Heart
Tender, heartfelt ambient with warm, balsam-like soothing and emotional openness. Intimate and healing. Artist Bio: Bålsam is an ambient artist creating tender, heart-centered works with warm, soothing qualities.
00:49:50 Olio Flux – Earthrise (Instrumental)
Majestic, orbital ambient viewing Earth from space with awe-inspiring wonder and cosmic perspective. Artist Bio: Olio Flux is an ambient project exploring themes of time, change, and cosmic motion through textured electronics.
Also in the works, the latest compilation titled Quiet Figures which will be released September 26.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that trigger a creative thought?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name and link to other work.
Tracks due by September 24.
All the best,
Trevor
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 251
Based on the track “Cyme” by “Jonathan Poliart” from the release “Melomed” and “Margin” by “CIRC” from the release “Rite”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 12 track virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A luminous, exploratory, and deeply personal ambient journey through light, myth, and memory.
Side A drifts from setting sun pearls and circular radiance into majestic airships and mythical horizons. Side B expands into floral delicacy, eternal journeys, dream scaffolds, and ends on warm childhood nostalgia.
Overall mood: Warm, contemplative, and wondrous with a strong sense of vastness and intimate reflection. Perfect for deep listening, golden-hour vibes, or peaceful unwinding.
If you make music, or are a label, 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 leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Side A
00:00:00 R&D – Pearls of Setting Sun
Warm, glowing analogue ambient capturing the last pearls of sunlight with rich, fading beauty. Serene and nostalgic. Artist Bio: R&D is the electronic project of a synth enthusiast creating deep, textural analogue soundscapes.
00:09:49 Dark Fidelity Hi Fi – Circular Square
Luminous, geometric ambient with circular motion and emotional depth. Hopeful and radiant. Artist Bio: Dark Fidelity Hi Fi (Rick Jones) is a Manchester producer blending electronic atmospheres with emotional depth and personal reflection.
00:13:06 Andrew Heath – A Fleet of Airships
Majestic, floating ambient evoking a fleet of airships with vast, drifting elegance. Cinematic and wondrous. Artist Bio: Andrew Heath is a UK ambient composer known for spacious, cinematic works inspired by nature and history.
00:23:12 Zhe Pechorin & F.A. – Yellow Sun
Bright, solar ambient with warm yellow tones and gentle, life-giving radiance. Optimistic and glowing. Artist Bio: Zhe Pechorin & F.A. collaborate on warm, solar, and emotionally radiant ambient music.
00:26:36 philippe neau – ‘
Minimal, apostrophe-like ambient with precise, subtle punctuation and quiet introspection. Clean and poetic. Artist Bio: philippe neau is a French ambient artist creating minimal, precise, and poetic electronic works.
00:31:17 The Earl of Dean – Beyond The Pillars Of Hercules
Mythical, exploratory ambient venturing past ancient boundaries with deep, legendary resonance. Artist Bio: The Earl of Dean is a Scottish ambient artist crafting misty, landscape-inspired sound worlds with Nordic and mythical influences.
Side B
00:38:19 Jonathan Poliart – Cyme
Delicate, cyme-inspired ambient with clustered floral textures and soft, natural elegance. Artist Bio: Jonathan Poliart is an ambient artist creating delicate, nature-inspired works with floral and organic themes.
00:44:34 Yzymyr – Meditation
Pure, meditative ambient with focused stillness and profound inner calm. Minimal and transcendent. Artist Bio: Yzymyr is an ambient artist focused on pure, minimal, and absolute sonic explorations.
00:51:05 Thaneco – Neverending Journey
Vast, eternal ambient capturing endless exploration with cosmic drones and timeless flow. Artist Bio: Thaneco is a Greek ambient artist creating space-themed, narrative-driven electronic works.
00:58:22 Helyg Weidenbach – Dream Scaffold I
Dreamy, scaffold-like ambient building ethereal structures with soft, supportive layers. Artist Bio: Helyg Weidenbach is an ambient artist crafting dream-like, structural soundscapes.
01:04:21 CIRC – Margin
Precise, edge-dwelling ambient exploring boundaries with clean, marginal textures. Artist Bio: CIRC is an ambient artist focused on precise, boundary-exploring minimal electronics.
01:08:41 Akira Film Script – N4-81
Nostalgic, tape-warmed ambient captured in a childhood home with field recordings, cassette hiss, and quiet domestic peace. Deeply personal and comforting. Artist Bio: Akira Film Script is Ryan Watts, a veteran electronic musician creating nostalgic, field-recording-heavy ambient works inspired by childhood homes and personal reflection.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 247
Based on the track “Timmi Flew to the Stars (Anholt Beach)” by “Hello Mr. Klaus” from the release “Baltic Odyssey”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 12 track virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A varied ambient journey blending brutalist starkness, cosmic wonder, natural serenity, and dark turbulence.
Side A moves from concrete weight and celestial beauty into poetic minimalism and deep space orbits. Side B flows through woodland streams, chaotic tsunamis, residual traces, whimsical stars, and grounded everyday life.
Overall mood: Contemplative, atmospheric, and emotionally diverse — from stark and dark to warm and hopeful. Perfect for focused listening, nature connection, or late-night immersion.
If you make music, or are a label, 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 leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Side A
00:00:00 Et Voilà – Brutalism 01
Raw, concrete-heavy ambient with brutalist textures and stark architectural weight. Bold and immersive. Artist Bio: Et Voilà is an ambient artist known for stark, architectural soundscapes inspired by brutalism and urban decay.
00:03:59 Mark Ellery Griffiths – Cassiopeia (2015)
Celestial, star-constellation ambient with shimmering synths and cosmic wonder. Luminous and dreamy. Artist Bio: Mark Ellery Griffiths is a UK ambient composer creating cosmic and textural works often inspired by space and nature.
00:10:07 Feon – Darkness Within Darkness
Deep, layered dark ambient exploring inner voids with rich, enveloping shadows. Mysterious and profound. Artist Bio: Feon is an ambient artist focused on dark, introspective explorations of inner darkness and emotional depth.
00:12:30 Substak – Looming Light(naviarhaiku642)
Subtle, haiku-inspired ambient with looming light and delicate, poetic textures. Minimal and evocative. Artist Bio: Substak is a Greek ambient artist creating minimal drone works.
00:16:16 Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Managed Decline
Brutalist hauntology with decaying urban synths and themes of managed decline. Stark and atmospheric. Artist Bio: Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan is a hauntological project exploring British new towns, brutalism, and social history through synth music.
00:19:38 Aether Audio – Deep Space Orbit
Vast, orbital ambient with deep space silence and gentle gravitational drift. Expansive and serene. Artist Bio: Aether Audio is an ambient artist creating vast, space-inspired soundscapes focused on orbital and cosmic themes.
Side B
00:29:51 Nick May – Stream In Woods
Gentle, flowing ambient capturing woodland streams with natural warmth and quiet movement. Peaceful and organic. Artist Bio: Nick May is an ambient artist known for gentle, nature-inspired works with warm, organic textures.
00:34:48 Belial Pelegrim – Tsunami of Bad Ideas
Dark, turbulent ambient with overwhelming waves of chaotic thought and brooding intensity. Artist Bio: Belial Pelegrim is an ambient artist creating dark, narrative-driven works with mysterious and turbulent atmospheres.
00:38:43 Rodrigo Passannanti – Residual Existence
Minimal, lingering ambient exploring what remains after dissolution with fragile beauty. Artist Bio: Rodrigo Passannanti is a London-based Italian electronic composer known for immersive, time-focused ambient works and vintage synth explorations.
00:42:14 Hello Mr. Klaus – Timmi Flew to the Stars (Anholt Beach)
Star-bound ambient with beachy warmth and cosmic adventure. Charming. Artist Bio: Hello Mr. Klaus is an ambient artist blending, location-inspired, and cosmic elements.
00:52:13 Mark Barrott – Land (III)
Earthy, Balearic-tinged ambient with grounded textures and gentle, land-inspired calm. Artist Bio: Mark Barrott is a Balearic and ambient producer known for warm, earthy, and sun-drenched soundscapes.
00:56:31 Jogging House – Stenography
*Intimate, everyday ambient capturing hidden rhythms and quiet domestic notation. Warm and personal.
Artist Bio: Jogging House is a German ambient artist known for warm, everyday, and melodic soundscapes as well as curating the Seil Records label. *
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 246
Based on the track “In The Heart Of Spring (Tim Hopkins Remix)” by “CommsBreakdown” from the release “Dadtronica Remixes”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 12 track virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A warm, organic, and emotionally resonant ambient journey through nature, time, and inner reflection.
Side A moves from spring renewal and riverine depths into geometric structures and soul-reaping darkness. Side B dives into oceanic drones, mysterious realms, timeless flow, rainful nostalgia, and ends on hopeful star-gazing and prairie calm.
Overall mood: Grounded yet expansive, gently melancholic with hopeful warmth and subtle enchantment. Ideal for nature connection, reflective listening, or peaceful evenings.
If you make music, or are a label, 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 leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Side A
00:00:00 CommsBreakdown + Tim Hopkins – In The Heart Of Spring (Tim Hopkins Remix)
Lush, springtime ambient with blooming textures and gentle, hopeful renewal. Warm and vibrant. Artist Bio: CommsBreakdown (Steve Ash) is a British-Australian producer blending ambient, electronica, and house; Tim Hopkins is known for atmospheric remixes and electronic works.
00:07:23 arc rae – Nope
Minimal, defiant ambient with clean lines and a quiet sense of refusal. Stark and focused. Artist Bio: arc rae is a French-born, Berlin-based musician blending acoustic and electronic textures in generative ambient soundscapes.
00:08:52 Tim Stebbing – Rio Negro
Deep, riverine ambient evoking the dark waters of the Rio Negro with rich, flowing textures. Immersive and mysterious. Artist Bio: Tim Stebbing is a veteran UK electronic musician with a long history in Berlin-school and melodic synth music, now creating expansive ambient works.
00:18:53 Grosso Gadgetto – Quadrata Dodus Act 1
Geometric, structured ambient with square-like precision and dramatic development. Bold and architectural. Artist Bio: Grosso Gadgetto is a French artist blending dark ambient, experimental hip-hop, and movie soundtrack influences.
00:24:25 Hverheij – Reaper Of Souls
Dark, ritualistic ambient with solemn weight and a sense of inevitable transition. Haunting and powerful. Artist Bio: Hverheij is a Canadian composer and recording artist creating diverse ambient and electronic works that transpose consciousness into sound.
00:27:42 Stewart Keller – Moving Trees
Organic, wind-swept ambient capturing trees in motion with gentle, natural flow. Peaceful and alive. Artist Bio: Stewart Keller is a US composer known for ambient, electronic, and video game soundtrack work with organic and emotional depth.
Side B
00:31:31 deepspace – Hydrospheric Extraction Drones Class Ⲑ
Vast, underwater drone ambient with deep oceanic pressure and mechanical extraction themes. Immersive and cinematic. Artist Bio: deepspace is an ambient project focused on vast, oceanic, and space-inspired drone soundscapes.
00:34:23 Belial Pelegrim – Interamnia
Mysterious, inter-realm ambient with subtle tension and otherworldly elegance. Cool and enigmatic. Artist Bio: Belial Pelegrim is an ambient artist creating mysterious, cinematic works with dark and elegant atmospheres.
00:39:24 THE GAYE DEVICE – Time Beyond Captured
Expansive, time-transcending ambient with warm analogue layers and a sense of eternal flow. Artist Bio: THE GAYE DEVICE is a Leeds based ambient artist exploring time, memory, and expansive electronic soundscapes.
00:50:05 MDA Analog – Rainful Memories
Nostalgic, rain-soaked analogue ambient with warm, memory-drenched textures. Melancholic and comforting. Artist Bio: MDA Analog is an ambient artist creating nostalgic, tape-warmed works focused on emotion.
00:53:55 Veryan – Step Forward To The Seven Stars
Ascending, star-bound ambient with hopeful progression and celestial wonder. Uplifting and expansive. Artist Bio: Veryan is an ambient artist crafting hopeful, celestial, and exploratory soundscapes.
00:57:41 Time Rival – Dakota Bridge + Birdsong (Prairie Trail 4-13-23)
Field-recording-rich ambient blending bridge sounds and birdsong with prairie tranquility. Peaceful and grounded. Artist Bio: Time Rival is an ambient artist incorporating field recordings and natural sounds into peaceful, location-based compositions.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 244
Based on the track “Eyes Closed” by “James Bernard” from the release “In A Small Room, Decades Ago”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A tender, atmospheric, and deeply personal ambient journey through memory, nature, and quiet emotion.
Side A drifts from intimate remembrance and humid atmospheres into seasonal transitions and dawn-lit hope. Side B expands into majestic grandeur, childhood nostalgia, woodland paths, and gentle blue rain.
Overall mood: Introspective, melancholic, and warmly comforting with a strong sense of place and emotional intimacy. Perfect for deep relaxation, morning reflection, or peaceful unwinding.
If you make music, or are a label, 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 leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Side A
00:00:00 Clariloops – Drifting, Fleeting
Gentle, looping ambient with soft, ephemeral textures and a sense of quiet transience. Delicate and meditative. Artist Bio: Clariloops is a UK ambient artist known for delicate, looping soundscapes that explore memory and impermanence.
00:04:54 James Bernard – Eyes Closed
Intimate, eyes-closed ambient with warm pads and deep personal reflection. Calm and immersive. Artist Bio: James Bernard is an ambient composer creating introspective, emotionally rich works often focused on mindfulness and inner states.
00:08:15 Camp of Wolves – Old Paws
Rustic, weathered ambient with earthy tones and a sense of aged wilderness. Warm and nostalgic. Artist Bio: Camp of Wolves is an ambient project blending organic textures and soundscapes.
00:09:05 Anubis Rude – Planetary Arcade
Anubis Rude – Planetary Arcade Playful, retro-futurist electronic with arcade-like energy and cosmic oddity. Quirky and vibrant. Artist Bio: Anubis Rude is an electronic artist crafting playful, cosmic, and retro-inspired sound worlds. Also curator of Ingrown Records.
00:10:39 Bahrambient, Retland, Kilometre Club – Rays of Light (Applefish Rework)
Luminous, reworked ambient with glowing rays and soft, hopeful textures. Radiant and uplifting. Artist Bio: Collaborative ambient project blending light, hope, and gentle electronic warmth; Applefish is known for uplifting reworkings.
00:15:28 The Volume Settings Folder – Burning Waters Pt 2
Intense, fiery aquatic ambient with dramatic, burning waves and emotional depth. Powerful and evocative. Artist Bio: The Volume Settings Folder is an ambient artist exploring elemental forces and emotional intensity through textured soundscapes.
Side B
00:21:04 Lorna Dune – Persistence of Memory
Dreamlike, memory-infused ambient with soft, surreal textures and emotional persistence. Haunting and tender. Artist Bio: Lorna Dune creates dreamy, memory-focused ambient works with a strong emotional and surreal edge.
00:23:22 SanelliX & SpoonBeats – Dreams in Ruin
Melancholic, ruined dream ambient with fragmented beauty and quiet sorrow. Atmospheric and poignant. Artist Bio: SanelliX & SpoonBeats collaborate on dark, emotional ambient exploring ruined dreams and melancholy.
00:25:06 Brass Clouds, Fog Net, & Volcanic Pinnacles – Collapsing Realm
Dramatic, collapsing ambient with volcanic tension and brass-like resonance. Epic and unsettling. Artist Bio: Collaborative project blending brass, fog, and volcanic imagery into dramatic, collapsing sound worlds.
00:28:17 Felix Machtelinckx – Ossa
Minimal, bone-like ambient with stark, skeletal textures and quiet intensity. Raw and contemplative. Artist Bio: Felix Machtelinckx is a Belgian ambient artist creating stark, minimal works with organic and skeletal themes.
00:30:57 Jogging House – Canary
Gentle, canary-inspired ambient with light, melodic warmth and everyday serenity. Charming and peaceful. Artist Bio: Jogging House is a German ambient artist known for warm, everyday, and melodic soundscapes.
00:34:12 Sævar Jóhannsson – Kalkvistur
Icelandic ambient with crisp, calcified textures and northern, stony calm. Cool and grounded. Artist Bio: Sævar Jóhannsson is an Icelandic ambient composer creating cool, textural works inspired by landscapes and geology.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 243
Based on the track “Humidity” by “Ed Herbers” from the release “Season Cycle: Summer”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A tender, atmospheric, and deeply personal ambient journey through memory, nature, and quiet emotion.
Side A drifts from intimate remembrance and humid atmospheres into seasonal transitions and dawn-lit hope. Side B expands into majestic grandeur, childhood nostalgia, woodland paths, and gentle blue rain.
Overall mood: Introspective, melancholic, and warmly comforting with a strong sense of place and emotional intimacy. Perfect for reflective listening, rainy afternoons, or peaceful unwinding.
If you make music, or are a label, 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 leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Side A
00:00:00 Fallen – Room of Remembrance
Intimate, reflective ambient with soft, memory-laden textures and quiet emotional resonance. Warm and contemplative. Artist Bio: Fallen is Italian-based ambient artist Lorenzo Bracaloni known for deeply personal, melancholic soundscapes often inspired by memory, nature, and emotional landscapes.
Label: FORM@ RECORDS
00:06:39 Foam and Sand – Circle 68 feat. Masha Brodskaya
Lush, circular ambient with vocal warmth and soft granular layers. Dreamy and embracing. Artist Bio: Foam and Sand is the ambient project of producer Robin Schut, blending granular synthesis and dreamy textures with occasional vocal collaborations.
Label: Seil Records
00:10:33 Kasia Gawlik – Echo 2
Delicate, reverberating ambient with gentle echoes and fragile emotional distance. Ethereal and haunting. Artist Bio: Kasia Gawlik is a Polish ambient artist creating fragile, echo-filled soundscapes that explore memory and emotional space.
Label: whitelabrecs
00:16:30 Ed Herbers – Humidity
Muggy, atmospheric ambient capturing thick summer air and subtle, sticky warmth. Immersive and tactile. Artist Bio: Ed Herbers is a UK ambient musician known for seasonal, textural works that capture natural atmospheres and emotional states.
Label: Passed Recordings (release date – 21 June 2026)
00:18:31 Jics – Concetta (In North York At Dawn)
Gentle, dawn-lit ambient with Toronto morning light and quiet, personal intimacy. Serene and hopeful. Artist Bio: Jics is a Toronto-based ambient artist crafting intimate, location-inspired pieces that capture personal moments and urban dawn.
Label: Imaginary North (release date – 19 June 2026)
00:20:33 David Cordero – Nubilus
Cloudy, drifting ambient with soft, nebulous textures and gentle, overcast serenity. Ethereal and meditative.
Artist Bio: David Cordero is a Spanish ambient composer from Cádiz who runs Noray Records. His work often explores delicate, introspective soundscapes blending field recordings and minimal electronics.
Label: Noray Records
Side B
00:23:54 Suncastle – Hilaboa
Bright, solar ambient with uplifting warmth and crystalline, castle-like structures. Radiant and optimistic. Artist Bio: Suncastle is an ambient project focused on luminous, nature-inspired electronic soundscapes.
Label: Triplicate Records
00:28:57 Willebrant – The Grand Gallery
Majestic, spacious ambient evoking grand architectural halls with deep resonance and solemn beauty. Artist Bio: Willebrant is an Australian ambient artist known for grand, cinematic works inspired by landscapes and architecture.
Label: Self released
00:32:58 Akira Film Script – N2-16
Nostalgic, tape-warmed ambient captured in a childhood home with field recordings, cassette hiss, and quiet domestic peace. Deeply personal and comforting. Artist Bio: Akira Film Script is Ryan Watts, an electronic musician creating nostalgic, field-recording-heavy ambient works inspired by childhood homes and personal reflection.
Label: Audiobulb (release date – 10 July 2026)
00:34:22 Heÿkla – Through the Branches
Organic, woodland ambient with dappled light filtering through trees and gentle, natural flow. Artist Bio: Heÿkla is an ambient artist crafting nature-inspired, immersive soundscapes with organic textures.
Label: Driftworks
00:38:11 Intact Veils – Aria
Elegant, veiled ambient with operatic grace and shimmering, airy textures. Beautiful and ethereal. Artist Bio: Intact Veils is a project known for delicate, atmospheric ambient works with a focus on beauty and emotion.
Label: The Artificial Pine
00:40:40 Rhucle – Blue Rain
Soft, melancholic ambient with gentle rainfall and blue-hued emotional wash. Calm and soothing. Artist Bio: Rhucle is a Japanese ambient artist creating soft, rainy, and introspective soundscapes.
Label: Silent Songs
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 240
Based on the track “Amber (feat. Itamar Ziegler)” by “Ori Kaplan & Lihu Melamed” from the album “Reverie”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A warm, groovy, and cinematic journey through jazz-funk, psychedelic grooves, French electronic cool, and sunrise optimism.
Side A blends raw Afrobeat energy with sophisticated library jazz and spiritual fusion. Side B cruises with laid-back psych-funk, quirky electronica, and feel-good house before ending on radiant, dreamy highs.
Overall mood: Stylish, sun-kissed, and soulful with a strong retro-cinematic flair. Perfect for golden-hour drives, warm evenings, or chilled dancing. Highly groovy and immersive.
If you make music, or are a label, 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 leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Side A
00:00:00 Nu Guinea, Tony Allen – Howls
Funky Afrobeat groove powered by Tony Allen’s legendary rhythms and warm electronic jazz-psych energy. Alive and infectious.
00:04:55 Air – How Does It Make You Feel?
Smooth, seductive French electronic with breathy vocals, lush production, and late-night sensual charm. Cool and hypnotic.
00:09:17 Dos Palos – Lady Of The Westway [Andi Hanley Rework]
Laid-back Northern Soul rework with deep grooves, warm bass, and breezy Westway sunshine. Groovy and nostalgic.
00:16:20 Mahavishnu Orchestra – Pastoral
Epic jazz-fusion beauty with soaring guitar, intricate rhythms, and spiritual, pastoral majesty. Transcendent.
00:19:26 Brian Bennett – The Prowler
Sleazy, cinematic library funk with tight breaks and shadowy, prowling menace. Cool and characterful.
00:20:56 Ori Kaplan & Lihu Melamed – Amber (feat. Itamar Ziegler)
Smoky, deeply grooving jazz with rich reeds, warm bass, and soulful Middle Eastern flavour. Immersive and swinging.
Side B
00:24:23 Domenique Dumont – Quasi Quasi
Playful, quirky French electronic pop with charming melodies and light, bouncy grooves. Delightful and whimsical.
00:28:11 Khruangbin – Mr. White
Psychedelic, dub-tinged instrumental funk with deep bass, shimmering guitar, and laid-back swagger. Hypnotic.
00:32:19 Jimi Tenor – Moonfolks
Cosmic, eccentric jazz-electronica with quirky synths and interstellar lounge vibes. Weird and wonderful.
00:37:00 Breakbot – Another Dawn (feat. Irfane)
Slick French house/funk with smooth vocals, funky bass, and optimistic sunrise energy. Feel-good and danceable.
00:40:32 Albin – Vinterkassetten
Chilled, wintry Swedish electronic with warm cassette tones and cozy, melancholic grooves. Atmospheric and intimate.
00:44:25 Tycho – Sunrise Projector
Lush, shimmering electronic with dreamy guitars, pulsing beats, and golden sunrise glow. Beautiful and uplifting.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 237
Based on the track “Day Dream” by “BVSMV & Running in Slow Motion” from the album “Moments”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
If you make music, or are a label, 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 leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Side A
00:00:00 Danalogue – Earth Remembrance Day
Warm, reflective cosmic jazz/ambient with earthy tones and a sense of planetary reverence. Thoughtful and expansive.
00:05:03 BVSMV & Running in Slow Motion – Day Dream
Gentle, drifting ambient with soft dreamy layers and relaxed, sun-dappled movement. Blissful and immersive.
00:09:22 Distant Fires Burning & Autistici – Scalar (E-xtended Mix)
Extended, scalar ambient with intricate, mathematically elegant textures and deep spatial resonance. Hypnotic and detailed.
00:15:58 Hverheij – Untoward
Sparse, slightly uneasy ambient with subtle tension and introspective minimalism. Cool and restrained.
00:20:42 Dohnavùr – Unwavering
Steady, resolute ambient with strong forward presence and emotional steadfastness. Focused and grounded.
00:26:40 Simon Heartfield – A Language We Lost
Melancholic, nostalgic ambient evoking forgotten tongues and faded communication. Poignant and atmospheric.
Side B
00:29:35 Obsydian Fox – Chromatophore
Shifting, colour-changing ambient with organic, adaptive textures and subtle bioluminescent glow. Fluid and alive.
00:34:30 Melorman – Cool Delight
Smooth, chilled electronic with breezy melodies and refreshing, summery coolness. Laid-back and delightful.
00:37:06 Stereo Minus One – All This Time I Was Afraid To Say (instrumental)
Atmospheric, emotionally charged instrumental with acid-tinged undertones and quiet vulnerability.
00:40:26 Belial Pelegrim – Subtext
Subtle, layered ambient revealing hidden meanings with cool, nocturnal elegance. Mysterious and refined.
00:45:20 Authentek – Disappearing Ink (Pressed Version)
Fading, impermanent ambient with delicate textures that feel like they’re slowly vanishing. Fragile and haunting.
00:51:17 Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Built By Robots
Retro-futurist hauntology with mechanical precision, brutalist synths, and dystopian charm. Bold and atmospheric.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 235
Based on the track “Oceanic” by “Fields of Few” from the compilation album “Music for Condensation”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A deep, introspective, and elemental ambient journey moving through water, inner worlds, decay, and vast landscapes.
Side A flows from oceanic vastness into personal fragility and emotional submersion. Side B shifts across desert expanses, tropical warmth, ghostly seas, and subterranean spaces before ending on gentle, cyclical calm.
Overall mood: Melancholic, immersive, and quietly contemplative with a strong sense of place and solitude. It feels like drifting slowly through different environments and emotional states — ideal for focused deep listening, meditation, or late-night reflection.
If you make music, or are a label, 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 leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Side A
00:00:00 Fields of Few – Oceanic
Vast, rolling ambient with deep aquatic textures and gentle wave-like motion. Immersive and serene.
00:04:30 f5point6 – World Within Our World
Introspective, layered ambient exploring inner and outer realms with warm, detailed electronics. Thoughtful and expansive.
00:15:45 Veins Full Of Static – Ceaseless Collapse
Dark, crumbling ambient with heavy static and relentless structural decay. Tense and atmospheric.
00:21:07 Federica Deiana – Sinking
Gently submerging ambient with soft, dissolving textures and emotional weight. Delicate and melancholic.
00:23:18 Spirit Unwell – Inside
Intimate, inward-focused ambient with fragile vulnerability and quiet emotional resonance.
00:24:30 Nick May – Minilogue 1
Minimal, refined ambient with subtle melodic touches and patient, elegant flow.
Side B
00:28:15 David Strother – other desert cities
Sparse, sun-bleached desert violin ambient with wide-open spaces and dry, haunting beauty.
00:31:01 landtitles – tropics of the sun
Warm, geographic ambient evoking tropical landscapes with glowing pads and gentle heat haze.
00:32:59 Lines of Silence – The Ghost Ship
Eerie, drifting nautical ambient with ghostly presence and foggy maritime mystery.
00:36:56 Carlos Ferreira – inconsistency
Subtle, fluctuating ambient with fragile textures and quiet emotional uncertainty.
00:42:58 Stray wool – Under
Subterranean, muffled ambient with soft pressure and buried introspection.
00:46:11 mRn – Cosas Del Mundo
Gentle, worldly ambient steel guitar with organic warmth and reflective, everyday poetry.
00:48:49 life on marx – Gatava
Dreamy, flowing ambient with subtle rhythmic undertow and emotional lift.
00:50:21 Foam and Sand – Circle 63
Lush, cyclical ambient with soft granular textures and meditative repetition. Calming closer.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 233
Amber Safe Byway
Based on the track “Amber (feat. Itamar Ziegler)” by “Ori Kaplan & Lihu Melamed” from the album “Reverie”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A stylish, sun-drenched cinematic journey through groovy library music, psychedelic jazz-funk, exotica, and global grooves.
Side A cruises with vibrant Italian 70s energy, Mediterranean breeziness, and adventurous desert psych. Side B deepens into darker cinematic funk, liquid dreaminess, and occult-tinged grooves before ending on warm, swinging elegance.
Overall mood: Warm, nostalgic, playful, and sophisticated with a strong retro-cinematic flair. Feels like a golden-hour drive along the coast or a smoky late-night lounge session. Highly groovy and immersive.
If you make music, or are a label, 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 leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Side A
00:00:00 Piero Umiliani – Orgasmo Seq. 2 (jazz pour l’action)
Vibrant Italian library jazz with energetic percussion, swinging horns, and groovy 70s flair. Playful and cinematic.
00:03:23 D.Rothon – In The Racket Too
Warm, nostalgic library folk-jazz with gentle charm and subtle British whimsy. Cosy and characterful.
00:06:17 Matt Berry – Safe Passage
Smooth, psychedelic-tinged cinematic piece with lush orchestration and adventurous spirit. Elegant and groovy.
00:07:46 Kolumbo – Riviera
Sunny Mediterranean grooves with breezy rhythms and coastal cool. Laid-back and stylish.
00:11:24 Moonbrew, Paolo Apollo Negri – Opportunity’s last farewell
Melancholic, cinematic jazz with emotional depth and a touching sense of closure. Sophisticated and heartfelt.
00:14:53 Elías González – San Juan Unido
Warm Latin jazz/funk fusion with sunny rhythms and heartfelt melodies. Joyful and vibrant.
00:15:49 Falk & Klou – Area 47:1 (Strövelstorp)
Driving, motorik-inspired electronic with retro racing energy and hypnotic propulsion.
00:18:24 Ori Kaplan & Lihu Melamed – Amber (feat. Itamar Ziegler)
Rich, smoky jazz with deep bass, expressive reeds, and warm Middle Eastern-tinged grooves. Soulful and immersive.
00:21:23 Sven Wunder – Scenic Byway
Lush exotica/jazz with rolling percussion and picturesque, road-trip warmth. Cinematic and groovy.
00:25:08 Anadol – Hatıralar
Psychedelic Turkish folk-electronica with dreamy, memory-laden textures. Hypnotic and nostalgic.
00:27:30 JJ Whitefield – Bedouin Bounce No. 2
Funky, desert-tinged Afrobeat/jazz with bouncy rhythms and adventurous spirit. Energetic and transportive.
Side B
00:29:33 Ghost Funk Orchestra – Achluo
Dark, cinematic funk-soul with brooding atmosphere and ghostly psychedelic edges. Atmospheric and powerful.
00:33:03 Thee Marloes – Nona (Instrumental)
Smooth, laid-back soul/funk instrumental with warm grooves and gentle melancholy. Elegant and groovy.
00:37:10 Misha Panfilov – Raindrops On Water
Dreamy, liquid psych-jazz with rippling textures and hypnotic analogue warmth. Beautiful and immersive.
00:41:39 Riz Ortolani – Why (strumentale N. 10)
Classic Italian soundtrack elegance with lush strings, subtle drama, and emotional depth.
00:43:05 Bolbec – Machine Arrière
Quirky, retro-futurist electronic with mechanical charm and playful French flair.
00:45:34 The Sorcerers – Kid Mahout
Heavy, psychedelic Ethiopian-jazz funk with powerful rhythms and mystical intensity. Funky and transportive.
00:48:59 Kronstad 23 – Svartmagi
Dark, occult-tinged Nordic psych/jazz with brooding atmosphere and ritualistic drive.
00:52:28 Time Is a Mountain – Wooden Keys
Warm, organic jazz-folk with tactile percussion and gentle, wooden instrumentation. Earthy and meditative.
00:58:00 Gianni Safred – Bottom Up
Swinging Italian library jazz with upbeat energy, tight grooves, and sophisticated cool. A lively closer.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 232
Homeworld Deepwater Moment
Based on the track “Minilogue 2” by “Nick May” from the album “Sketches: Ambient Works”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A deeply personal and introspective ambient journey centered on nostalgia, home, memory, and inner reflection.
Side A opens with warm, tape-saturated domestic quietude before drifting into airy lightness, submerged depths, and gentle sorrow. Side B moves inward with meditative loops, nocturnal mystery, and ghostly Aphex Twin beauty, ending on serene harbour echoes and minimal elegance.
Overall mood: Nostalgic, melancholic, and intimately comforting with subtle darkness and quiet wonder. It feels like sitting alone in an empty childhood home on a warm afternoon, lost in thought. Perfect for deep listening, meditation, reflection, or unwinding in solitude.
If you make music, or are a label, 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 leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps.
So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Side A
00:00:00 Akira Film Script – N3-71
Intimate, nostalgic ambient captured in a childhood home using field recordings, cassette tape, and warm analogue hiss. Quiet reflections filled with distant prop planes, birds, clock chimes, and soft domestic silence — deeply personal and comforting.
00:07:59 Intact Veils – Imago of Air
Light, airy ambient portrait of wind and atmosphere with delicate, flowing textures. Ethereal and weightless.
00:12:26 phorme – drowning myself in poison
Dark, immersive ambient with heavy, intoxicating drones and a sense of sinking surrender. Brooding and hypnotic.
00:13:27 applecore – deepwater
Submerged, liquid ambient with muffled depths and gentle underwater movement. Calm and enveloping.
00:20:02 Arcane Trickster – Homeworld (Ambient Mix)
Warm, expansive homecoming ambient with soft glowing layers and comforting familiarity. Peaceful and welcoming.
00:24:02 Blank Embrace – Sorrow
Melancholic, minimalist ambient wrapped in gentle sorrow and emotional restraint. Poignant and tender.
Side B
00:29:53 Ghostloop – Inside
Introspective, looping ambient exploring inner spaces with soft, repetitive warmth. Meditative and cocooning.
00:35:53 Belial Pelegrim – 214
Sparse, nocturnal ambient with subtle tension and cinematic distance. Cool and mysterious.
00:38:23 Aphex Twin – #7
Classic Aphex Twin weirdness — delicate, shifting ambient with ghostly melodies and subtle unease. Beautifully unsettling.
00:44:41 Solace Road – Echoes of Moment
Gentle, echoing ambient capturing fleeting moments with warm resonance and quiet reflection.
00:49:32 David Cordero – El Rincón Del Puerto
Atmospheric, harbour-side ambient with nautical melancholy and soft coastal textures. Evocative and serene.
00:55:00 Nick May – Minilogue 2
Minimal, refined ambient with subtle melodic touches and patient, flowing elegance. Graceful closer.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 224
Sabi Plasma Faces
Based on the track “Sabi” from the album “Aware 哀れ” by “Tomotsugu Nakamura & David Cordero”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A refined and introspective ambient journey exploring inner psyche, nature, and cosmic fragility.
Side A moves through hypnotic electronics and vast plasma-like spaces into delicate nocturnal atmospheres and crisp winter serenity. Side B deepens into wabi-sabi impermanence, subtle natural textures, whispered intimacy, and restless nocturnal haze before ending on soft luminous veils.
Overall mood: Ethereal, melancholic, and quietly mysterious. It balances cosmic scale with tender, personal emotion — thoughtful and slightly haunting. Ideal for late-night listening, meditation, or focused deep immersion.
If you make music, or are a label, 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.
So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Side A
00:00:00 Saïph – Psyché du figurant (125)
Rhythmic, hypnotic electronic with psychological undertones and steady propulsion. Focused and slightly unsettling.
00:06:52 Bluetech – The Plasma Chasm
Vast, swirling psybient with cosmic depth and glowing plasma-like textures. Immersive and otherworldly.
00:09:07 Glacis with Henrik Meierkord – Night Breathes On Me
Dark, breathing ambient featuring delicate strings and nocturnal melancholy. Intimate and cinematic.
00:13:15 Max Schreiber – Praying Mantis
Precise, insectoid electronic ambient with intricate detail and predatory patience. Sharp and fascinating.
00:17:51 Ryu Oshi – Sea of Faces
Dreamlike, drifting ambient evoking crowds and emotional distance. Fluid and haunting.
00:23:46 Luis Miehlich – 冬晴 (Fuyubare)
Crisp, wintry Japanese-inspired ambient with clear skies and quiet serenity. Beautiful and restrained.
Side B
00:27:16 Tomotsugu Nakamura & David Cordero – Sabi
Delicate wabi-sabi ambient celebrating imperfection and transience. Fragile and deeply poetic.
00:31:41 Adrian Lane – From Step to Step
Patient, minimal ambient with gentle forward movement and subtle emotional layering.
00:35:54 HDRF – Faithful
Ghostly, loyal ambient with warm yet eerie electronic textures. Introspective and atmospheric.
00:38:12 Julien Hauspie – Pine Needle Archive
Forest-floor ambient with detailed, archival natural textures and quiet intimacy.
00:40:17 Jeff Gburek + Eryk Nowacki – New Found Whispers
Subtle field recordings and whispered electronics creating intimate, hidden conversations. Mysterious and close.
00:47:17 Ed Herbers – Insomnia
Restless, nocturnal ambient capturing the tension and haze of sleepless nights.
00:50:19 Tides – Light Veils
Gentle, flowing ambient with soft luminous layers and calming resolution. Ethereal closer.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 223
Atlas Dream Habit
Based on the track “Escape to Dream” from the album “Escape to Dream” by “Solace Road”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A tender, atmospheric ambient journey centered on introspection, escape, and emotional depth.
Side A drifts through gentle dreamscapes, delicate melodies, and fragile, watery textures — evoking longing, memory, and quiet reflection. Side B expands into luminous, slowed, and alchemical territory before shifting toward vivid cosmic and dark energy realms.
Overall mood: Dreamy, melancholic, and emotionally resonant with a strong sense of space and solitude. It feels intimate yet vast — like drifting between inner thoughts and the cosmos. Ideal for deep listening, late-night reflection, meditation, or unwinding.
If you make music, or are a label, 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.
So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Side A
00:00:00 Solace Road – Escape to Dream – Escape to Dream – 2026
Gentle, flowing ambient with soft pads and dreamy escapism. Warm, hopeful, and soothing.
00:08:30 Arbee & Kilometre Club – Once is not a habit – Once is not a habit – 2025
Minimal, tape-warmed ambient with delicate textures and quiet repetition. Intimate and reflective.
00:09:54 Garda – Likimas – Sąlyga – 2025
Atmospheric Lithuanian ambient with emotional depth and subtle cinematic tension. Melancholic and elegant.
00:14:57 Scyye – outside – 2018
Sparse, drifting electronic ambient with open space and gentle detachment. Calm and airy.
00:18:25 Woo – Celeste
Light, whimsical ambient with charming melodies and signature Woo warmth. Playful and dreamy.
00:19:40 Spheruleus – Atlas Days – The Lost Catalogue – 2026
Subtle, weathered ambient with lost-catalogue nostalgia and soft decaying tones. Poignant and nostalgic.
00:23:43 Ekin Fil – bazille-water drop – Bora Boreas – 2025
Delicate, watery ambient with fragile beauty and emotional translucence. Ethereal and touching.
Side B
00:26:43 Solar Phasing – Luminescence (432hz) – Electronic Patterns – 2025
Luminous, tuned ambient with soft glowing layers and healing calm. Radiant and meditative.
00:30:44 Willebrant – Emerge (slowed and reverb) – The Pilgrim – Slowed and Reverb – 2025
Deep, slowed ambient with heavy reverb and emotional emergence. Immersive and cinematic.
00:35:57 Paul Beaudoin – Prima Materia – Alchemies – 2025
Alchemical ambient exploring raw sonic matter with rich, evolving textures. Mystical and grounded.
00:40:28 SURVEY CHANNEL – Outside the Coding Region – Triplicate Tapes Vol. 2: Space Invaders – 2021
Glitchy, coded electronic ambient with sci-fi unease and digital drift. Abstract and intriguing.
00:45:03 Loneward – Crimson Canvas – Musings of a Painted Sky – 2025
Vivid, painterly ambient with warm glowing tones and emotional brushstrokes. Beautiful and expressive.
00:52:31 Substak – Dark Energy Singularity – Black Noise Constellation – 2025
Cosmic, low-frequency dark ambient with massive scale and gravitational pull. Deep and powerful.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 222
Beginning Future Empathy
Based on the track “Somewhere Right Now In The Future” from the album “Inferno” by “Boards of Canada”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A gentle, introspective, and emotionally nuanced ambient journey with touches of melancholy and warmth.
Side A moves from delicate, fragile beauty and shimmering guitar textures into dreamy Balearic atmospheres, dark cyclical tension, and quiet personal reflection. Side B shifts between urban solitude, sparse haunting moments, and organic warmth before landing on pastoral serenity and nostalgic analogue haze.
Overall mood: Melancholic yet comforting, dreamy, and subtly nostalgic. It feels intimate and emotionally honest — like late-afternoon light turning into twilight. Perfect for reflective listening, quiet evenings, or focused deep immersion.
If you make music, or are a label, 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.
So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
One side flip, just the music.
Side A
00:00:00 Wavefiler – Brief Saga
Short, sweeping ambient with gentle melodic arcs and emotional warmth. Poignant and beautifully concise.
00:03:26 The Durutti Column – Beginning
Delicate, shimmering guitar-led ambient with Vini Reilly’s signature fragile beauty. Intimate and graceful.
00:04:40 Philippe Brown – Podenca Dreamscape
Dreamy, sun-soaked Balearic ambient with light percussion and hazy Mediterranean glow. Blissful and relaxed.
00:07:47 Luke Requena – Metallic Plastic
Glossy, synthetic electronic textures with a cool, modern edge. Sleek and slightly surreal.
00:13:38 worriedaboutsatan – Zyklus
Dark, cyclical post-rock/ambient with brooding intensity and slow-building tension. Atmospheric and powerful.
00:16:09 Glenn Fallows, Mark Treffel – Remember Empathy
Warm, melodic ambient with gentle grooves and heartfelt emotion. Nostalgic and comforting.
00:17:59 Lord Of The Isles – Solo
Minimal, introspective house-ambient with soft pads and quiet emotional resonance. Tender and spacious.
Side B
00:23:58 Heaton Norris Light Vessel Automatic – Berlin
Cold, atmospheric electronic evoking urban isolation and European melancholy. Moody and cinematic.
00:33:53 Surkid – When There Is No One Left to Follow
Sparse, haunting ambient with a sense of solitude and quiet desolation. Deeply introspective.
00:38:04 Binaural Space – Where’s My Guitar
Playful, slightly eccentric electronic with warm analogue charm and light-hearted quirkiness.
00:38:43 Fabiano do Nascimento – Das Nuvens
Gentle Brazilian acoustic ambience with soft guitar and floating, cloud-like serenity. Warm and organic.
00:41:42 The Zenmenn – The Invisible Landscape
Lush, pastoral ambient with beautiful melodic layers and dreamlike tranquility. Timeless and soothing.
00:50:33 Adrian Lane – Repent At Leisure
Reflective, melancholic ambient with subtle emotional weight and elegant minimalism.
00:53:16 Felbm – Phi
Smooth, jazzy downtempo with warm percussion and breezy, golden-hour vibes. Relaxed and groovy.
00:54:47 Boards of Canada – Somewhere Right Now In The Future
Classic BoC warped nostalgia with eerie melodies and analogue haze. Mysterious and hypnotic.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 283
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-283/
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 283. 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.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,113 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.
A luminous, cyclical ambient journey through growth, presence, and quiet residual signals.
Side A moves from synthesizer motivation and passionflower florescence into thunderous self-declaration, whimsical DNA colours, whispering forests, and noctilucent evening light. Side B drifts through reconstructed Vietnamese microcosms, Windham Hill shadows, rain-soaked baseline drift, honey-warm communal jazz, silent Wardenclyffe towers, and ends with a dark horse moving through open fields.
Overall mood: Contemplative, organic, and gently radiant — full of cycles of growth, soft illumination, and quiet architectural presence. Perfect for deep listening, reflective evenings, or following the continuous unfolding of sound.
The tape unspools its visions.
00:00:00 Marc Melià – Cycle of Motivation
Synthesizer circuitry opens into quiet luminous beauty. Marc Melià – Cycle of Motivation. Ambient and experimental tones sculpt the open spaces between notes into a melodic tapestry. Shared sonic connections rise in serene sequential layers across the field of reflection.
00:04:36 KiF Productions – Florescence
A passionflower climbs through stages of growth in soft plant light. KiF Productions – Florescence. Secret seeds wait in darkness before the first stir of movement. Vines reach toward open light, drinking and climbing until full bloom arrives in pollination dreams. Fruiting returns the cycle to earth in patient unfolding motion.
00:09:22 Le Morte d’Abby – That I Am
Thunder and lightning gather around the declaration of presence. Le Morte d’Abby – That I Am. Lush chords whoosh into existence while arpeggios and percussive energy expand across the surface. The entire piece rises in spiritual comfort and unbridled radiant motion.
00:15:51 Daily Mail Comments Section – Estradiol Milkshake
A dream of new sound opens into whimsical smear-test colours. Daily Mail Comments Section – Estradiol Milkshake. Sonic DNA from shared lives drifts through the air, the surface expanding in inventive playful light.
00:17:27 Enofa – The Whispering Forest
A whispering forest surrounds a small modernist house in woodland setting. Enofa – The Whispering Forest. Acoustic and digital tones mesh across eighty minutes of personal vista. Ancient modernity rises through nature’s unstoppable force, the entire landscape holding claustrophobic and open power in steady motion.
00:20:57 The Green Kingdom – Noctilucent
Noctilucent light drifts across evening skies of soft piano and reverb-soaked guitar. The Green Kingdom – Noctilucent. Sampled textures and occasional synthesizer layers settle into calm airy space. The sounds open in dusky reflective presence.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:24:10 Dexba – Hồ Bán Cạn Việt Nam
A quirky melody reconstructs outdoor nature while classical piano gives structure. Dexba – Hồ Bán Cạn Việt Nam. The entire microcosm expands in self-contained luminous motion.
00:28:51 Akira Film Script – The Shadow of Windham Hill
Shadows of Windham Hill open across bidirectional cycles of existence. Akira Film Script – The Shadow of Windham Hill. Life and death, memory and presence move together in exchange. The track looks backward and forward at once, finding beauty in endings and beginnings.
00:33:20 Logic Moon & Piscean Daydreams – Baseline Drift
Baseline drift carries the music of the spheres through rain-soaked cityscapes. Logic Moon & Piscean Daydreams – Baseline Drift. Vast drones and spectral textures rise with richly layered field recordings. Organic and synthetic boundaries blur across industrial ruins and desolate rural landscapes, the cosmos holding hidden resonance.
00:36:52 Hill Collective – A House Is A Home Like Honey
A house opens like honey in warm communal light. Hill Collective – A House Is A Home Like Honey. Spiritual jazz tones breathe through collective improvisation. Saxophone, flute, piano, double bass and congas expand in earthy shared motion, the ensemble generating warmth and illumination together.
00:44:41 Paul Beaudoin – Wardenclyffe (Nothing returned)
Wardenclyffe towers stand in quiet residual signal. Paul Beaudoin – Wardenclyffe (Nothing returned). Granular field recordings and low-voltage processes form disrupted circuits. Tone, breath and resonance hum at the threshold of presence, the architecture listening to what remains.
00:49:21 Asha Patera – A Dark Horse
A dark horse moves through open sonic fields. Asha Patera – A Dark Horse. The landscape expands in steady luminous presence.
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 283.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
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