Based on the track “Leonora Christine” by “Thaneco” from the release “Tau Zero”. 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 deep, cosmic, and introspective ambient journey through time, memory, loss, and renewal. Side A descends into subterranean darkness and temporal stillness before rising with guiding light and misty mystery. Side B reflects on ageing, interstellar voyages, dissolution, and inner neuroses. Overall mood: Contemplative, melancholic, and expansive with moments of hope and cosmic wonder. Perfect for deep listening, late-night reflection, or immersive 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 R&D – SubQtanium Deep, subterranean analogue electronics with heavy low-end pressure and immersive darkness. Dense and hypnotic. Artist Bio: R&D is the electronic project of a synth enthusiast creating deep, textural analogue soundscapes. 00:11:32 Rodrigo Passannanti – Time Watches Itself Minimal, self-observing ambient with patient drones and a profound sense of temporal stillness. Meditative and vast. Artist Bio: Rodrigo Passannanti is a London-based Italian electronic composer known for immersive, time-focused ambient works and vintage synth explorations. 00:17:31 Exit Chamber – The Disinherited Haunting, dispossessed ambient with emotional weight and a sense of loss and exile. Stark and poignant. Artist Bio: Exit Chamber is a Scottish ambient/drone artist creating dark, introspective soundscapes often exploring isolation and inner thoughts. 00:21:38 Grant Beasley – Omega Point Cosmic, finality-focused ambient exploring the end of all things with dramatic scale and luminous textures. Artist Bio: Grant Beasley is a Sunderland-based ambient musician creating space-inspired, expansive soundscapes with analogue warmth. 00:26:53 Dark Fidelity Hi Fi – Angel On My Shoulder Warm, guiding ambient with glowing electronics and a comforting, protective presence. Hopeful and luminous. Artist Bio: Dark Fidelity Hi Fi (Rick Jones) is a Manchester producer blending electronic atmospheres with emotional depth and personal reflection. 00:28:17 The Earl of Dean – Bólstraský Misty, Nordic-tinged ambient with cold, bog-like atmospheres and quiet mystery. Artist Bio: The Earl of Dean is an ambient artist crafting misty, landscape-inspired sound worlds with field recorded influences. Side B 00:36:09 Olio Flux – Growing Old Reflective, ageing ambient with soft, evolving textures and gentle acceptance. Warm and melancholic. Artist Bio: Olio Flux is an ambient project exploring themes of time, change, and emotional growth through textured electronics. 00:43:31 Thaneco – Leonora Christine Sci-fi inspired ambient evoking interstellar travel with vast, exploratory drones and cosmic wonder. Artist Bio: Thaneco is an ambient artist creating space-themed, narrative-driven electronic works. 00:51:19 Solar Phasing – The Reflection of Time Luminous, time-reflecting ambient with soft phasing layers and philosophical calm. Serene and radiant. Artist Bio: Solar Phasing is an ambient artist focused on luminous, time-based soundscapes and cosmic reflection. 01:00:20 Bluetech – On the Cusp of Dissolution Delicate, dissolving psybient with intricate details and a sense of beautiful impermanence. Ethereal and intricate. Artist Bio: Bluetech (Evan Bartholomew) is a veteran psybient artist known for intricate, organic electronic soundscapes. 01:03:39 DTime – Eclipse Of Origins Dark, primordial ambient capturing the shadow of beginnings with deep, eclipsing resonance. Artist Bio: DTime is an ambient artist exploring dark, primordial, and cosmic themes through textural sound design. 01:10:02 The British Stereo Collective – Neuroses Retro-futurist analogue exploration of inner turmoil with warm, institutional textures and subtle unease. Artist Bio: The British Stereo Collective is Stoke on Trents finest, Phil Heeks creating retro-futurist electronic works inspired by British institutions, retro sci-fi and inner states.
Based on the tracks “Tukushima Transmission” by “Dark Fidelity Hi Fi” from the album “Your Skyline Correspondent” and “Make it In Livingston” by “Dohnavùr” from the album “We Owe Each Other Everything”. 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 luminous and emotionally rich electronic-ambient voyage blending cosmic wonder, personal reflection, and subtle melancholy. Side A shines with intricate psybient, heartfelt warmth, and liquid fluidity, while Side B drifts into warped nostalgia, nautical mystery, and deep void-like stillness. Overall mood: Hopeful yet introspective, atmospheric, and gently psychedelic. It balances light and shadow beautifully — perfect for late-night drives, deep listening, or reflective 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 Bluetech – Chronal Anomaly Intricate psybient with swirling temporal glitches, crystalline percussion, and luminous melodic layers. Hypnotic and mind-bending. 00:04:00 Dark Fidelity Hi Fi – Tukushima Transmission Warm, glowing electronic soundscapes layered with emotional depth, radiant bass, and shimmering keys. Melancholy-tinged yet hopeful and beautifully crafted — a heartfelt transmission shining through grief into acceptance and light. 00:07:02 R&D – Periscope Depth Submerged, stealthy analogue electronics with deep pressure and patient, submerged movement. Tense and immersive. 00:14:52 Grant Beasley – Omega Particle Vast, high-energy ambient/techno exploring cosmic particles with crystalline textures and expansive scale. Dramatic and radiant. 00:20:31 DOMOTIC – Ground ( Liquid Version ) Fluid, liquid ambient with gentle rhythms and grounded warmth. Flowing and emotionally resonant. 00:22:55 Hannah Peel – Mantis vs Horse Playful, intricate electronic piece with organic vs mechanical tension and delicate, detailed beauty. Quirky and charming. Side B 00:28:37 Boards of Canada – Prophecy At 1420 MHz Eerie, mid-tempo BoC classic with ominous narration, warped analogue nostalgia, and subtle cosmic dread. Instantly recognisable and hypnotic. 00:33:42 Dohnavùr – Make it In Livingston Atmospheric, regional electronic with hauntological undertones and a sense of place. Stark and evocative. 00:37:45 Twilight Sequence – Lurid Episodes Out at Sea Moody, cinematic ambient with nautical mystery and dramatic, lurid storytelling. Darkly immersive. 00:44:35 The British Stereo Collective – Nerve Centre Retro-futurist analogue exploration with central nervous system energy and warm, institutional charm. Focused and vibrant. 00:52:00 Rodrigo Passannanti – Voidstar Deep, starless ambient venturing into vast emptiness with subtle tension and cosmic void. Profound and minimal.
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Welcome to Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, Episode 180—your flickering beacon in the haze, where forgotten reels spin secrets and new ghosts whisper through the virtual cassette heads. We pause the fast-forward and let time stretch thin: imagine a single worn cassette shell cracked open on a sun-bleached dashboard at dusk, magnetic tape spilling like ribbon across cracked leather seats. Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, for the sonically adventurous, wherever it finds you. You’ve hit play so, let the tape hiss, and drift with us through these captured breaths. Subscribe to the channel to hear these shows whenever you please. Subscribers also get mix versions of the episodes without all my babbling. Just a quick shout out to the latest followers Edge Effect who you should check out on Bandcamp and fellow Irish person A New Forest who is a resident DJ on Dublin Digital Radio. Also a new subscriber that has me dangling in the edge of the channel getting a payout from Mixcloud imilleryes
We open with the song Sunshine Grove by SubDan. Golden afternoon light spilling through leaves onto a quiet wooden porch swing, where acid-tinged synths ripple like warm breezes and gentle breakbeat grooves sway in lazy contentment, capturing pure, unhurried joy suspended forever in a glowing breath. This is Sunshine Grove by SubDan from the album Moments of Joy out on Nottingham, UK’s Remnants label.
Now, The track time, running away from you by HUNGER A lone figure standing motionless on an empty midnight highway as the taillights of a departing car stretch into vanishing red threads, while slow, decaying synth drones and fractured rhythmic pulses chase each other in futile pursuit, freezing the ache of irreversible loss in a single, elongating breath of experimental electronic melancholy. This is HUNGER with the track time, running away from you from the album declined out on Leipzig, Germany’s Adventurous Music
Next, The track Tripping Soldiers 2 by Dark Fidelity Hi Fi (from Bricolage’s underground Glasgow electronic label) A squad of spectral soldiers marching in slow, hallucinatory lockstep through a fog-choked, neon-lit alley at 3 a.m., their boots echoing into warped, stuttering breaks and gritty, acid-flecked synth stabs that bend reality like melting film reels, freezing the surreal vertigo of a chemically unraveling night patrol in a single, looping breath of shadowy, tripped-out dubbed melancholy. This is Tripping Soldiers 2 by Dark Fidelity Hi Fi from a couple of places one of them being Bricolage’s Paradigm (10 Year Label Sampler)
Now Akira Film Script, Graham Seaman, Mosaicist, Percolator and Justin Amphlett – This Burnished Land The collaborative expanse of This Burnished Land A vast, sun-scorched prairie at golden hour where ancient mosaic fragments embedded in cracked earth glow like buried memories, while layered drones and subtle field-recorded winds weave a slow, collective breath of timeless, burnished serenity suspended in amber light. This Burnished Land by Akira Film Script, Graham Seaman, Mosaicist, Percolator and Justin Amphlett from the, must have, compilation album This Burnished Land out on whitelabrecs
Next aug16 by ff8282 A deserted summer rooftop at dusk in late August, empty cassette tapes scattered like fallen leaves as faint, lo-fi synth pulses and fragmented tape warbles drift upward into a fading orange sky, capturing the quiet, nostalgic drift of a single fleeting day dissolving into static eternity. From the stable of 4000 Records label ff8282 and the track aug16 from the album No Statue.
“A Wound Kisser by Dunya A dimly lit apartment at midnight, where soft ambient tendrils curl like gentle fingers tracing an old scar on pale skin, the slow-healing ache blooming into hushed, shimmering layers of forgiveness frozen in an intimate exhale of wounded light. From Vilnius, Lithuania’s Amulet of Tears label I give you Dunya with A Wound Kisser from the album **Pay It Forward **.
**Take Me There – Totte (a reflection on childhood) originally from the album *Nine Reflections: Music For Cats* “Totte (a reflection on childhood)” A sun-dappled backyard sandbox long abandoned, where a child’s forgotten toy cat sits amid drifting dandelion seeds and gentle, nostalgic drones that lap like warm summer memories against the porch steps, freezing the soft pang of innocence receding into quiet feline contemplation. This is Totte (a reflection on childhood) by Take Me There from a fantastic, and recommended, compilation The Passed Year 2025 out on Passed Recordings.
Land of the Endless by joe nora An unbroken horizon of rolling golden dunes under a perpetual twilight, where sparse, piano motifs and subtle string horizons stretch outward forever, locking the serene vertigo of boundless solitude in an unresolving breath of eternal drift. This is Land of the Endless by Joe Nora from the album Puzzle Face available through Los Angeles, California’s Friends Of Friends label.
uami step by raays A bioluminescent jungle clearing at cosmic dawn, where shimmering synth pads and off-kilter jazz-inflected beats pulse like fireflies in slow-motion syncopation, freezing the euphoric fusion of earthly roots and weightless space jungle levitation in glowing stride. This is raays with uami step from the EP Plaays out on LEAVING RECORDS.
desert ambient by applecore A lone saguaro silhouette against a blood-orange sunset over endless sand, where minimal, heat-warped drones and distant wind howls ripple like mirages across cracked earth, capturing the austere, meditative vastness of isolation distilled into scorching breath. applecore with desert ambient from the album contact at the deep bottom out on Bulgaria’s Mahorka label.
We end the first half and first side of this virtual cassette with Monolit K by Gelbart A colossal black obelisk rising from cracked concrete in an abandoned Eastern European industrial yard at dawn, its surface humming with deep, resonant modular synth throbs and metallic echoes that reverberate into infinity, freezing the enigmatic weight of forgotten futures in an unyielding pulse. Gelbart with Monolit K from the album Gelbart-TK-745 out on Berlin, Germany’s Kitchen Leg records. Catch you on the flip side.
Starting us off this half “Transmission 18 by Wojciech Golczewski A derelict satellite dish pointed skyward in a snowy midnight field, receiving faint, crackling cosmic signals through swelling retro-synth waves and distant static bursts, suspending the lonely vigil of interstellar longing in a glacial sweep. Wojciech Golczewski with Transmission 18 from the album End Of Transmission 3 available through Marseille, France’s Data Airlines label.
Väntan by Gustav Davidsson Frost-covered birch trees standing silent along a frozen Swedish lake at first light, where sparse, glacial ambient tones and soft harmonic swells drift like breath on glass, freezing the quiet anticipation of spring’s distant promise in a crystalline pause. This is Gustav Davidsson with Väntan from another great whitelbrecs compilation celebrating their 10-year anniversary Shades.
Pollinator Project Pt. 4 – Entomophily by Loopatronica. A sunlit wildflower meadow alive with bees in ecstatic slow-motion orbit, their wings blurring into intricate looping rhythms and organic electronic pulses that hum in symbiotic harmony, locking the vibrant dance of pollination into a nectar-drenched view. This is Loopatronica with Pollinator Project Pt. 4 – Entomophily from the album Pollinator Project out on Moolakii Club Audio Interface.
Let Me by Djrum Rain streaked city windows at 4 a.m., reflecting blurred neon as intricate breakbeats and soulful piano fragments plead through dense, atmospheric layers, capturing the intimate ache of unspoken desire suspended in rain-lashed heartbeats. This is Djrum with Let Me from the albumUnder Tangled Silence out on London, UK’s Houndstooth label.
Movement Implies Convergence by Substak + LR Friberg Converging railway tracks vanishing into a misty horizon at twilight, where pulsing modular sequences and converging field drones pull forward in relentless gravity, freezing the philosophical inevitability of paths uniting in a forward-leaning flow. Substak + LR Friberg with Movement Implies Convergence from the album The White Between Words another great release from the Mahorka label.
Blanket Song by Kikagaku Moyo A threadbare wool blanket spread under stars on a summer hillside, where psych-folk guitars wrap around soft, wandering melodies like shared warmth, capturing the simple comfort of stargazing companionship in an enveloping sigh. Kikagaku Moyo/幾何学模様 with Blanket Song from the album Masana Temples out on Fukuoka, Japan’s Guruguru Brain label.
Office Olympics by Dolphins of Venice Fluorescent-lit cubicles transformed into a surreal arena at after-hours, where quirky synth bounces and playful beats turn staplers into javelins and printers into hurdles, freezing the gleeful rebellion of corporate daydreams in a single, mischievous leap. This is Dolphins of Venice with Office Olympics from the album Captains of Industry another great Mahorka label release.
The penultimate track of the show now. Sub-Aura (2025 Remaster) by Ian Boddy & Chris Carter Underwater aurora lights shimmering through deep ocean currents at midnight, where vintage analog modular synth waves undulate in slow, hypnotic layers, locking the submerged glow of hidden electromagnetic realms in a breath of cosmic tranquility. Ian Boddy & Chris Carter with Sub-Aura (2025 Remaster) from the album Caged (25th Anniversary Edition) out on Ian Boddy curated label DiN.
So just one track to go and, before you do go, I need you to send me your stories for the Chord Confessions series. I need a song or piece of music that has meant something special to you for some reason. I’ll play the music and say nice things about you and tell your tale on the airwaves.
Spontaneous Reduction by Hverheij A falling snowflake caught mid-descent in a vast white void, where sparse, reductive tones and micro-shifts in texture gradually simplify into near-silence, capturing the elegant inevitability of everything distilling to essence in a vanishing exhale. Hverheij with Spontaneous Reduction
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve tuned into Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library, Episode 119—Falls Mailing Initial. A name, a signal, and a location: ///falls.mailing.initial. Drop it into What3Words and you’ll find the coordinates of this episode’s visual transmission. Tonight, we embark on a 90-minute journey through sound—crafted for walking meditations, mental meanderings, and quiet communion with the cosmos. No commentary between tracks. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion. 🌌 The path begins with Fu Kaisha’s Hjalli, gliding into Micado’s Landscapes with Gemstones, and Trevlad’s Expansive Waves 3. From Odin Kaban’s search to Sankt Otten’s shadowed brew, the frequencies ripple outward. Field Lines Cartographer, Sessa, and The Soulless Party guide us deeper into the fold. 🌀 At the metaphysical halfway mark, the signal flips. Side B opens with Dark Fidelity Hi Fi’s Sunlight Child, then stretches across the expanse with Fingerwolf, Cartas de Japón, and Larry Toadman. From Isien’s spooky entanglement to Teeth Of The Sea’s Artemis, the journey crescendos into Exit Chamber’s In the Darkness, Hope, and Christian Wittman’s Threshold of Silence. 💌 Want to be part of the transmission? Send your art, your sound, your signal to trevlad@gmail.com. Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked in each episode’s timeline. 🎶 Support the signal: Pre-order the 6th TVCL album on Bandcamp. It drops when we hit 17 tracks. Subscribe for just $3/month and unlock 845 archived shows—over 1,200 hours of sonic exploration. 🧙♂️ And don’t forget to join Nanogod, the wizard of words, on the Mixcloud timeline. Every comment, every like, every vibration helps keep the channel alive. 🚀 So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve. Let the frequencies claim you.
Welcome to Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library episode 096 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: Waxing Crescent Records, Buried Treasure, Downstream Records, Passed Recordings, whitelabrecs, Audionautic Records, Audion, DRONARIVM, and, Cyclical Dreams.
Artists on the show who have sent me material: Audio Obscura.
Special thanks to Free Album Codes—always fueling the episodes with Bandcamp gems. 🙏
This episode features an exclusive half way into side A by Manchester based Rick jones, aka, Dark Fidelity Hi Fi, and the title track from his upcoming ep FRACTURED PURSUITS. Available on Bandcamp and streaming platforms from September 5th.
I won’t be commenting between the tracks. You can do that on the time line. Don’t be shy.
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Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨