Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 328
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise. I read them with both eyes and, on special occasions, a third one.
The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread. Unless you look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A university of unstable knowledge descending, then a jump that knows the trick.
Side A descends a staircase held slightly out of true, lets paper flowers drink the dye until the bloom is already in the fibre, measures sixty metres of disco rhythm, improvises a cello in the nude, scores a short career for three spiders and one fly, and layers images until the clock bends. Side B reaches the edge of the wood and waves you in by further paths, holds a fabric up to the window so not all refracted light is as it seems, collects light patterns in tone studies that wander somewhere welcome, lets children and whales share a pool large enough for both, grass-roots a Chilean forest guardian, and lands the leap exactly where the title meant to.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly eccentric, and quietly luminous — full of open staircases, bent clocks, and paths that already know the way in. Perfect for dusk listening, listening parties on the first of November, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a university of unstable knowledge descending, paper flowers drinking the dye, sixty metres of disco rhythm, a cello improvising in the nude, a chamber piece for arachnids and one fly, images layered until time curves.
00:02:18 Unstable Knowledge University – AHAP de Aliyah
https://unknun.bandcamp.com/track/ahap-de-aliyah-descending
Album: AHAP de Aliyah.
The descending. A faculty that prefers its degrees slightly out of true. The staircase still holding.
00:11:19 Stuart Cook – Imbibition
https://stuartcook.bandcamp.com/track/imbibition
Album: Flower Blocks. Label: Dustopian Frequencies
The way paper drinks colour. Flower Blocks, Dustopian. The bloom already in the fibre.
00:13:08 D Apal – 60 Meter´n (Rytme)
https://djkobayashi.bandcamp.com/track/60-meter-n-rytme
Album: Give Me Disco – Vol 2 (Selected by DJ Kobayashi). Label: Batov Records
Give Me Disco, volume two, Kobayashi’s selection. Batov measuring the dancefloor in metric.
00:19:42 Henrik Meierkord – Cello C Impro
https://henrikmeierkord.bandcamp.com/track/cello-c-impro-2
Album: Naken.
Naken — bare. The instrument with its clothes off, the bow still dressed for the occasion.
00:23:23 David Dellacroce – Performance for Three Spiders and a Housefly
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/david-dellacroce-performance-for-three-spiders-and-a-housefly
Album: IHN019 // Gone in 60 Seconds – Vol. 5. Label: I Heart Noise
Gone in sixty seconds, which is a long career for a fly. I Heart Noise keeping the programme.
00:24:03 Takeshi Nishimoto and Hiroshi Watanabe – Layer of Images
(Exclusive track)
Album: Curving Time. Label: Lo Recordings
https://lorecordings.bandcamp.com/album/curving-time
Curving time. Lo Recordings letting the pictures stack until the clock bends. Title of the hour.
Side B
Mood mist: the edge of a wood, a fabric that bends the light, patterns of light collected and slow, children and whales sharing a suite, a Chilean forest guardian edited for grass roots, a jump that knows the trick.
00:28:10 Oberlin – Waldesrand
https://oberlin.bandcamp.com/track/waldesrand
Album: Von (Weiteren) Wegen.
The edge of the forest. Von weiteren Wegen — by further paths. The trees already waving you in.
00:38:07 Hyenas for Sale – Crystallin Fabric
(Exclusive track)
Album: Label: Ethereal Projector, Ambient Cat
https://etherealprojector.bandcamp.com/album/not-all-refracted-light-is-as-it-seems
Not all refracted light is as it seems. Ethereal Projector and Ambient Cat holding the cloth up to the window.
00:43:07 Andrew Heath – Collected Light Patterns
(Exclusive track)
Album: Collected Light Patterns. Label: Driftworks
Tone Studies number eight. Experiments that wandered somewhere welcome, the piano left mostly in its room. Driftworks. Full release the 30th. Listening party the 1st of November, eight in the evening, GMT. Come and sit with the layers.
00:49:23 Hello Mr. Klaus – Suite 01 Children and whales playing
https://hellomrklaus.bandcamp.com/track/suite-01-children-and-whales-playing
Album: MEMENTO VIVERE.
Memento vivere — remember to live. The pool large enough for both.
00:53:35 HDRF (Horror Dwarf) – Invunche (MEANS edit)
https://meansmag.bandcamp.com/track/invunche-means-edit
Album: MEANS 7: Grass Roots. Label: MEANS
The forest guardian, grass-rooted. MEANS keeping the path.
01:00:37 Vorpalgaze – Trickjump
https://ab-vorpalgaze.bandcamp.com/track/trickjump
Album: Trickjumps. Label: Audiobulb
Audiobulb letting the leap land where it meant to. The title already knows the move.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 328.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
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.
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So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it.
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. *
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 095
Charm Tales.
Trevor here, transmitting from home base Sollentuna, Sweden. This is your gateway to another immersive expedition through sound—Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 095 A 90-minute journey with a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark—perfect for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe. Today’s flight is sponsored by the labels that keep our circuits humming: Hisstology sister label of Ruptured Records, Preston Capes sister label of Woodford Halse, Cyclical Dreams, Projekt Records, Buried Treasure, Machine Records, Batov Records, Lunar Module sister label of Castles In Space,
Artist on the show who has sent me material: Moray Newlands.
Special thanks to Free Album Codes—always fueling the episodes with Bandcamp gems. 🙏
Also shout outs to, copor, Planck Tone, Otis and Aeon music for the follows, likes and comments.
Side A exclusives
Drew Huddart’s Scholars of the Peak – Hermit Station No. 7 (The Lost Bird) – PCT 27 – Transmissions from Mother Hill. An album that charts a sonic topography shaped by memory, myth and movement — a suite of transmissions echoing from the ancient ridgelines and cavernous depths of Mam Tor, the legendary “Mother Hill” of the Peak District. Each piece draws from the landscape’s natural upheavals and human imprints: from ancient burial paths to a wartime wreckage, from collapsed earth to long-forgotten mines.
Due for release on September 1 on the amazing Preston Capes cassette label.
Moray Newlands – Closing (exit) – The Red Red Earth. Moray’s been ruminating on the inevitability of death and how it will come to us all at some point. The red red earth is the culmination of these thoughts and feelings. The meaning of the red red earth, he’s not entirely sure, however it does relate to the soil found along the east coast of Scotland, close to where he lives now and where, you know, one day, perhaps…. The album should ideally be listened to as a single continuous mix which I’ll be featuring on an upcoming episode of Expansive Waves.
The Red Red Earth releases August 15, 2025 on Wormhole World.
Side B exclusive
Trevlad – EXPANSIVE WAVES 09 – TVCL 04. Which, of course, stands for Trevors Virtual Cassette Library. Every 17 episodes I release the music from behind my voice overs. The latest track from the latest episode is always available to listen to on Bandcamp. When I get to 17 tracks I release the album.
I won’t be commenting between the tracks. You can do that on the time line. Don’t be shy.
💌 Want to be part of the transmission? Send your vibrations to: trevlad@gmail.com Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked at the top of each show.
Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
Intro – 00:00
Mint Deluxe – Abroga – 04:26
Prefaces – Marmoura – 09:26
Farmacia – Pupe – 12:46
*Scholars of the Peak – Hermit Station No. 7 (The Lost Bird) – 15:07
Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke – Tall Tales – 19:13
Hverheij – In The Garden – 23:13
Trevlad – Sound Fossils – 25:34
*Moray Newlands – Closing (exit) – 30:13
Hello Mr. Klaus – Sussurri di un pianoforte, (per Manuel) – 33:29
yttriphie – absrpt/nline – 41:52
Side B – 47:27
Mindheal – I Miss Analog People – 48:12
the black Albumen – provokovieff – 51:04
Simon Heartfield – There Is No Division – 53:37
Sababa 5 – Into Orbit – 59:04
Shugorei – The Charm – 1:02:18
Scanner – Inner Ocean – 1:05:54
Bartholomew – Memorials – 1:14:42
*Trevlad – EXPANSIVE WAVES 09 – 1:17:42
Christian Wittman – Starry Night – 1:20:15
Tom Penaguin – Aborted Long Piece No2 – 1:25:35
Outro – 1:29:11
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
