Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 180
263 February 2026
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
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.
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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
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**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
Intro – 00:00
SubDan – Sunshine Grove – 01:22
HUNGER – time, running away from you – 06:02
Dark Fidelity Hi Fi – Tripping Soldiers – 11:52
Akira Film Script, Graham Seaman, Mosaicist, Noctilusense, Percolator and Justin Amphlett – This Burnished Land – 15:33
ff8282 – aug16 – 21:11
Dunya – A Wound Kisser – 24:13
Take Me There – Totte (a reflection on childhood) (from Nine Reflections: Music For Cats) – 29:47
Joe Nora – Land of the Endless – 33:55
raays – uami step – 36:46
applecore – desert ambient – 40:20
Gelbart – Monolit K – 46:56
B Side – 51:45
Wojciech Golczewski – Transmission 18 – 52:00
Gustav Davidsson – Väntan – 55:04
Loopatronica – Pollinator Project Pt. 4 – Entomophily – 58:56
Djrum – Let Me – 1:03:53
Substak + LR Friberg – Movement Implies Convergence – 1:11:37
Kikagaku Moyo/幾何学模様 – Blanket Song – 1:17:29
Dolphins of Venice – Office Olympics – 1:20:55
Ian Boddy & Chris Carter – Sub-Aura (2025 Remaster) – 1:24:56
Hverheij – Spontaneous Reduction – 1:33:54
Outro – 1:37:45
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 171
23 January 2026
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Good evening, or morning, or whatever sliver of the clock you’ve managed to carve out for yourself. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode one hundred and seventy-one. I’m Trevor, speaking to you from the other side of the tape head, where the oxide still clings and the hiss is part of the charm.
We find ourselves on the twenty-third of January, two thousand and twenty-six, with a programme assembled in the spirit of those old C90s that used to stretch evenings without apology. Two sides, as ever. A gentle flip midway through. Twenty artists in total, no more, no less. The music wanders through ambient drifts that evoke Norwegian fjords and calm clouds over islands, psychedelic excursions rooted in Tokyo’s lost forests, motorik pulses, industrial jazz fragments, electroacoustic meditations, desolate plains of techno shadow, and transmissions that feel beamed from some parallel broadcast tower.
No rush here. The pieces breathe. Some stretch beyond the usual borders. If you’re in a hurry, the dial is yours to turn. Otherwise, stay. Let the kettle whistle its own tune. Let the room settle around you.
We open with the first of five exclusive tracks for the episode. This one from Revbjelde and the piece Non Chion – from that Extracellular promo CD on Buried Treasure. Berkshire’s particular strain of industrial jazz psych motorik folk, with guests adding their edges; here it’s a slow uncoiling, fragments of voice and rhythm that feel unearthed from some forgotten field recording.
Next, WEALDHAM with Spectral Points – self-released on Bandcamp. Ghostly electronics, lo-fi edges meeting something almost jazzy and indie, spectral in the truest sense, points of light flickering in the undergrowth.
Then Harry Towell aka Glåsbird, Kaldsår – from the Islas Calm Cloud compilation on Whitelabrecs. Modern classical ambient, electroacoustic, a frozen landscape thawing very slowly, evoking those northern Scandinavian waters and quiet inlets.
Next a new artist for me. Kikagaku Moyo with Kodama – from Forest of Lost Children on Guruguru Brain. Tokyo psychedelic rock, acid folk with raga undertows and krautrock momentum; this one carries the weight of ancient trees and childlike discovery, hypnotic and unhurried.
Then German artist, Tobias Lorsbach, aka, Logic Moon, Under The Blue – also from Islas Calm Cloud on Whitelabrecs. Deep, patient ambient layers, blue horizons stretching out, calm as the title suggests.
Now the amazing Dennis Huddleston, or, 36 as you probably know him, with Imagine The Truth – from Threewave on Past Inside The Present. Vast, immersive drone and ambient textures, truth imagined in slow-motion swells.
Now Tim Gilbert, as, Fields of Few, with a short entry, Northern Light Fading – from Sines Signals on Triplicate Records. Fading auroral glows translated into electronic signals, northern skies captured in synth and reverb.
Next the second of five exclusives from Saratoga Springs based David Aimone, Formless Statement – from Eulogy for an American Dream. Dropping on the 20 February via channel favourite label Passed Recordings. A eulogy delivered in abstract, formless shapes, poignant and drifting.
Here is another short one and an exclusive from Dolly Dolly & Fogroom with Clock Tower – again from that Extracellular promo on Buried Treasure. Avant-garde abstraction, perhaps clockwork mechanics wound down to a whisper, hip-swinging in strange time.
This will be a vinyl launch will be at the Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading, Berks. On
Sat 28th Feb – 7.30pm to 11pm. Get you tickets now.
UK based, Martin Archer led jazz collective, Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere, and the fourth exclusive in the form of, Moonride – from their up coming release on Discus Music. Due out 30th January. Cosmic jazz orbits, upper atmosphere drifts where melody and improvisation meet the void.
And now another channel champion in the form of Bucla easel star Giulio Fontana known as, Ogle, Walking Robots – from Dystopian Leisure on Mahorka. Robotic gait in a leisure dystopia, electronic pulses that walk with mechanical melancholy.
Here’s one of my all time top artists. Finlands finest, Jimi Tenor Band, Shine All Night featuring Florence Adooni – from the Bureau B 2025 compilation on Bureau B. Afro-futurist grooves, shining through the night with soulful brass and voices.
Now the final track before the flip from the wonderful Polish artist, Wojciech Golczewski, Transmission 21 – from End of Transmission 3 on French label Data Airlines. Synth transmissions, data streams ending in quiet dissolution.
Opening the B side is the second Bucla artist and amazing Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, I Miss The Way You Swim – from Thoughts on the Future on a couple of places. One of them being the Nettwerk label. Buchla explorations, missing the fluid motion, modular sighs and swells.
Now we head th New Zealand and, Liam Todd, as, ZHERAV, NAJA – from Naja Bazaar on London legends Batov Records. Bazaar echoes, middle eastern motifs twisted into contemporary electronic forms.
Now Toronto-based, Jordan Czamanski or, Jordan GCZ, I Said What I Said – from The Second Circle compilation on Italian label Neroli Records. Direct, unapologetic house rhythms, spoken truths over the beat.
Next Oslo based, Mikkel Haraldstad, better known as, Mikkel Rev, Desolate Plains – from the 2025 label compilation mixed by todos, on A Strangely Isolated Place. Wide, empty landscapes in techno guise, desolate yet compelling.
And now Portland based label curator Eric Angelo Bessel, Double Helix – from Mirror at Night on his Lore City Music label. Spiralling structures, night mirrors reflecting genetic twists in sound.
The penultimate track of episode 171 comes from Russian artist Aleksander Tochilkin who we know as Koett, Lost Time – from Lost Time pre-release, which is an odd title for an EP that was released in 2013 on Dutch label Atomnation. Time slipping away, recaptured in melancholic electronic memory.
And finally on the episode I present to you, the fifth exclusive from Isle of Lewis based, Ali Murray or The Lonely Bell, Elsewhere – from his upcoming release Time Lost. Preorder on the Oscaron label from the 30 January. Tones ringing from somewhere distant, elsewhere indeed.
And as the reels slow and the tape begins to slacken, a few words before the silence returns. Thanks for staying with it. These transmissions aren’t built for playlists or quick scrolls. They’re for those who still let music occupy real time. Support the artists where you can – Bandcamp pages, labels, whatever small act keeps the chain intact. Whisper their names if you like; the void listens sometimes.
This episode streams on Mixcloud, free for a week as usual. Links, credits, the full tracklist – all at trevor.se and in the comments. Say something there if the mood takes you. Or say nothing. Either way suits.
Until the next time the cassette turns over – stay resonant.
Here is The Lonely Bell, Elsewhere, cheerio…
Intro – 00:00
Revbjelde– Non Chion – 01:29
WEALDHAM – Spectral Points – 04:38
Glåsbird – Kaldsår – 08:41
Kikagaku Moyo – Kodama – 11:27
Logic Moon – Under The Blue – 15:26
36 – Imagine The Truth – 19:47
Fields of Few – Northern Light Fading – 23:15
David Aimone – Formless Statement – 25:20
Dolly Dolly & Fogroom– Clock Tower – 27:15
Orchestra Of The Upper Atmosphere – Moonride – 29:45
Ogle – Walking Robots – 33:47
Jimi Tenor Band– Shine All Night (feat. Florence Adooni) – 36:00
Wojciech Golczewski – Transmission 21 – 40:07
B Side – 42:52
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – I Miss The Way You Swim – 43:10
ZHERAV – NAJA – 52:34
Jordan GCZ – I Said What I Said – 56:24
Mikkel Rev – Desolate Plains – 1:00:13
Eric Angelo Bessel – Double Helix – 1:10:51
Koett – Lost Time – 1:15:06
*The Lonely Bell – Elsewhere – 1:20:22
Outro – 1:26:25
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 132
19 October 2025
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Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at Episode 132 of The Virtual Cassette Library.
Wicked Dunes Outgoing is the episodes subtitle, as well as the track you’re hearing in the background and it’s geographical location which I’ve filmed and can be experienced on YouTube.
These mixes are 90-minute genre bending drifts through curated frequencies from around the globe. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion. 2, 45 minute mixes, 15 tracks per side with a side change in the middle.
Styles take us through berlin school, avant-garde, ambient, hauntology, retrowave and more.
The A Side contains friend of the channel The Metamorph, as well as releases from supporting labels Woodford Halse, Buried Treasure, Cyclical Dreams, Mystery Circles, Dustopian Frequencies, Batov Records, whitelabrecs,
and, Adventurous Music. The A side also contains an exclusive Wilks track coming to your ears via the Bricolage label on October 31st.
The B side contains releases by more show supporting labels such as, Triplicate Records, Batov Records, Mahorka, and Projekt Records, who have just released a 39 track compilation titled. Soul Of the Machine: A Celebration of the Life & Legacy of ARP founder Alan R. Pearlman. A wonderful collection which you’ll be hearing a lot from in upcoming episodes I’m sure.
Send your art to trevlad@gmail.com. Links to all the tracks are illuminated at trevor.se and marked in each episode’s Mixcloud timeline.
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So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you.
Intro – 00:00
Drune – Raindrops – 03:08
Avi C. Engel – Rip Van Winkle – 06:13
the black Albumen – new decade – revbjelde’s refrain – 09:49
Sequentia Legenda – Love feeds Love II – 12:15
Slow Haste – Gray Hour – 19:49
HNNY – Drawing With The Kids – 21:45
Felipe Ayres – Sono #5 – 24:11
NCRTYP – NDR – 27:58
*Wilks – The Only One Left – 30:04
Sublime Soundscapes – The Quiet Undersong – 32:44
The Metamorph – Orange Blossom – 35:00
Sababa 5 – Ignition – 36:47
Glacis & Polaroid Notes – It Does Not Have To Be So Hard – 37:26
Krummhörens Kuhlen & Kate Bosworth – Pferdehütte 25 – 40:55
Wojciech Golczewski – Transmission 17 – 45:10
B Side – 48:07
Erik Wøllo – Aeris – 48:38
chaircrusher – ¿Por Que No? – 51:21
Gamardah Fungus – Salix – 54:11
Bill Wolfer – Four ARP Sequencers Controlling A Dozen Analog Synthesizers – 57:13
The Tin Box – Moving Flight (Movement II) – 1:01:13
The Metamorph – Cosmos – 1:03:52
Sababa 5 – Sab – 1:06:20
Trevlad – Ropes Shipped Along – 1:09:41
Shay Hazan – Kolot feat. Abate Berihun – 1:12:25
Cognition Delay – The Furthest Branch – 1:15:47
Solvent – King Vincent (Martial Canterel Remix) – 1:18:12
Bastian Void – Vermilion – 1:21:20
Patricia Wolf – Reykjavík by the Sea – 1:23:50
*Trevlad – Engine Puppets Balloons – 1:25:37
Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke – The White Cliffs – 1:28:41
Outro – 1:33:10
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Invisible Club 17
Intro 00:00
Bernard Grancher-Dans la jouissance des radiations [Revbjelde Mix] 01.04
Stellarays-The Chalet Cafeteria 04:24
Romare-The Fool 07:01
Time Rival-Mill St. + Offset Sequencers (Prairie Trail 6-21-23) 10:47
Claude Lavender-It Doesn’t Matter 14:24
Socool & Ireless-Spin 16:25
Correlations-Andromeda Workshop 19:20
Sleep Underwriter-Fat Days 23:44
worriedaboutsatan-I Won’t Get It Tattooed 28:17
Made By John-AMB6 32:37
Black Moth Super Rainbow-I Am the Alphabet 37:36
Xander Harris-Oblivion Mode 38:30
Johnny Woods-Canyon Road (Ambient Swim Mix) 41:38
Ruby Singh-Lost in the Grasslands 45:55
Ogle-Orion 52:17
M.A.A.G.O.-Prognosi Riservata 55:20
Outro 58:24
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