Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 186
21 March 2026
(Fasching Stockholm)
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 186, your virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. As per usual we’ll dive into 20 artists. All the shows have three word subtitles for places that have some meaning for me personally. These are also used as names for the background music in show intros and outros. This episodes’ subtitle is Worker Buffoon Exact which is the entrance to Stockholms legendary jazz club Fasching.
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This episode has a couple of exclusive tracks at the time of recording from Salamanda and Haiku Salut together with Meg Morley.
Some of the labels that need an honourable mention are whitelabrecs, Mystery Circles, Mahorka, Cyclical Dreams and Lo Recordings to name a few.
Styles featured include electronica, ambient, minimal, space music and more.
Places worth mentioning are Bütgenbach, Belgium, Saint Petersburg, Russia, Seoul, South Korea, and Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Please do send in your stories for the Chord Confessions series about a piece of music that has been pivotal in your life. You can record it yourself or I can tell it for you while promoting you and playing the most important music on the planet. A win, win, win concept. I’ve also started Trev Tales a new idea of mixing story telling with DJ sets where I do a story based on the tracks in the set.
A shout out to my one new follower this week ‘TXH’. Great stuff…
We start with a preview track from an upcoming album by Tacoma Park – Untied Motorik kraut vibes with steel guitar. A pretty great opener I think…
So headphones on, let time dissolve and let the frequencies claim you.
Tacoma Park – ‘Untied’ from the album Baltimore which will be released on April 24th via the Centripetal Force label.
Next up a NYP release (for now) via Triplicate Records by Bütgenbach, Belgium based duo RIKAAR – Chill Serum X
Wonky synths in space.
RIKAAR – ‘Chill Serum X’ from the album Malin 1.
Now the shortest piece of the episode ‘London Nights’ by Luder. Retro synth beat manifesto.
Luder – London Nights from the compilation album This is not the end: Music For Iklectik. where all proceeds went to helping Isa and Eduard who ran the sadly lost venue in London.
Next going long for almost 7 minutes but keeping it retro is Wizardmaster – Those With Legs.
Wizardmaster – Those With Legs from the album ‘A Dwelling of the Mind Protruding Through the Head’
The tracks of which are described as being solid without a void.
Now with some deep kalimba and chimes the legendary Richard Norris – The Corn Is Coming.
Richard Norris – The Corn Is Coming. A NYP single on the Republic of Music label and one of the few tracks by Richard that isn’t 20 minutes long.
Next drones and looping arppegio time with me as Trevlad – Applied Crawled Wires.
Trevlad – ‘Applied Crawled Wires’, which, if you pop the name into What3words will give you the geolocation of a spot in a forest where I made the visuals for the piece. It’s from the album TVCL 9.
Now Dmitry Kiselev with some chilled Idm as DEE-KEY – Intermission.
DEE-KEY – ‘Intermission’ from the album Wild Flowers out on Saint Petersburg label Local Gods who are pumping out some fantastic electronic releases.
Next it’s jazz time with Raquel Bell aka Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio – Neon Mermaid.
Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio – Neon Mermaid from the album Wattzotica. Available from one of my all time favourite labels the fearless, Mystery Circles.
Now a recent piece by MiDi BiTCH – Premabhai Hall [Ahmedabad].
MiDi BiTCH – Premabhai Hall [Ahmedabad] from the conceptual album Habitat inspired by iconic Brutalist architecture around the world. Available on the incredible Cyclical Dreams label.
Next some deep space ambient S.V.R.A – Melt Things Into a Blur.
S.V.R.A – Melt Things Into a Blur from the massive 50 track NYP compilation ‘Commemorative Compilation’ which is the 100th release of Mexico City based label, Secuencias Temporales
Now the first, or second exclusive of the episode, depending on how you look at it. And the final track of this virtual A side. sliding guitar notes and drones with Seoul-based left of centre ambient duo Salamanda – Basil’s dream.
Salamanda – Basil’s dream from the album ‘Music To Watch Seeds Grow By 008: Salamanda (Basil)’ Check out the whole series of Music To Watch Seeds Grow By on Bandcamp. A great cassette label concept.
Kicking off Side B. The longest track of this episode @ 7:42. Ambient flute with Andrew Heath – Building Mountains.
Andrew Heath – Building Mountains from the self released album ‘Quiet Noise’ and also available on the whitelabrecs stunning compilation ‘An Ambient Decade’.
Next up Staying in whitelsbrecs country. Guitar noodling with Blochemy – Calythe.
Blochemy – Calythe from the must have compilation album Shades out on whitelabrecs.
Now some heart wrenching americana vocals with Humbird – Blood Moon
Humbird with the single ‘Blood Moon’ available through the Nettwerk label.
Next we head back to ambient land with the French duo Sobria Ebrietas and Iliaque collectivly known as Dormance – Dormance 10
Dormance – Dormance 10 from the album ’II’ out on Bulgarian label Mahorka.
Now some spiritual jazz tones featuring Joseph Shabason. Toronto-based, Japanese-born Masahiro Takahashi – Dreamies.
Masahiro Takahashi – Dreamies from the album ‘In Another’ out on telephone explosion records.
Next instrumental trio Haiku Salut together with pianist Meg Morley give us the exclusive track Meine Beste Freundin.
*Haiku Salut & Meg Morley – Meine Beste Freundin from the album ‘The Lost Score’ dropping on Lo Recordings on March 27th.
Now a musical journey inspired by Jacobo Grinberg’s Sintergic Theory, where sound becomes a tool for the exploration of consciousness. Herne von Bòrmanvs – Etruscan Wave Odyssey.
Herne von Bòrmanvs – Etruscan Wave Odyssey from the album ‘Synthergic’ out on LA based label Pénte.
Next the penultimate piece and another longer track at 7:15 from ambient greats Chilian artistbahía mansa & Spanish artist David Cordero – Espacios Imperfectos.
bahía mansa & David Cordero and the single Espacios Imperfectos (Imperfect Spaces) available on David Cordero curated label Noray Records.
We’ve reached yet another virtual tape ending. Thank you all for listening, don’t forget to support all these wonderful artists and labels, as well as each other. Subscribe to the channel to listen to the 956 releases whenever you like. Do send in your favourite music stories for Chord Confessions and your own music for future Virtual Cassette Library shows.
We finish off with the unmistakable sound of KILN – Crayola Skybox & Sandwasp.
KILN with the NYP single Crayola Skybox & Sandwasp which is a two tracks in one file. which is cheating but I like it.
cheerio…
Intro – 00:00
Tacoma Park – Untied – 02:10
RIKAAR – Chill Serum X – 07:00
Luder – London Nights – 11:20
Wizardmaster – Those With Legs – 12:30
Richard Norris – The Corn Is Coming – 18:55
Trevlad – Applied Crawled Wires – 22:45
DEE-KEY – Intermission – 26:05
Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio – Neon Mermaid – 29:10
MiDi BiTCH – Premabhai Hall [Ahmedabad] – 35:20
S.V.R.A – Melt Things Into a Blur – 41:03
Salamanda – Basil’s dream – 46:30
B Side – 49:17
Andrew Heath – Building Mountains – 49:35
Blochemy – Calythe – 56:55
Humbird – Blood Moon – 1:02:25
Dormance – Dormance 10 – 1:05:54
Masahiro Takahashi – Dreamies – 1:11:15
Haiku Salut & Meg Morley – Meine Beste Freundin – 1:15:39
Herne von Bòrmanvs – Etruscan Wave Odyssey – 1:19:25
bahía mansa & David Cordero – Espacios Imperfectos – 1:23:20
KILN – Crayola Skybox & Sandwasp – 1:30:03
Outro – 1:35:46
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 173
27 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 drifted into. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode one hundred and seventy-three. I’m Trevor, turning the reels in the quiet hours.
We approach this one as always—with the old cassette in mind. Side A first, then the satisfying clunk of the flip midway through. Twenty artists tonight, drawn from the shelves where the quieter signals live. Expect drifts of drone and deep ambient, patches of electroacoustic haze, touches of field-recorded exotica, slow-unfolding modular pulses, and the occasional submerged melody that surfaces like something half-remembered from another room. Places flicker through too: underwater trenches, Los Angeles highways at off-hours, Mediterranean dream coasts, vast starry processions, the interior of mechanical bird boxes, and the soft geometries of winter rooms.
No rush. No hooks to grab you. Only the slow uncoiling of sound.
Side A – 00:00
We begin with Nelson, British Columbia based Codedekay and out of place, from Vol. 9 – The Struggle on (We Are The New Underground) Weatnu Records. A patient unfolding of displaced tones, edges softened by time and repetition.
Then an old pseudonym of the artist Time Rival is Supply Fi who brings Unruly Cascade, taken from Unruly Predation on Triplicate Records who I believe Michael Southard, Time Rivals, Supply Fi’s real name, helped create. Cross-genre currents here—ambient electronics that fold and fracture without ever quite settling. Grab this, it’s a name your price release.
I know we’re all over the Christmas vibe already. But at least here in Sweden the snow lies thick. So here’s Omni Gardens with Winter Wonderland, from the Christmas release on Moon Glyph. Familiar seasonal shapes viewed through gauze, Moog warmth and mellotron drift turning the usual into something hushed and interior.
Now one of the channels favourites with some 90s vibe Lounge. I get a hint of Lemon Jelly wafting through this one. THE GAYE DEVICE offers Argent Echo from Routes. Silvered reflections in electronic form, routes that loop back on themselves with deliberate calm.
This next one is the opening track on my second compilation release. This is Ursula’s Cartridges who submerges us in Mighty Underwater Adventure (UC’s Challenger Deep Remix), from Resonances from the Depths. Dubbed echoes refracted through deep pressure, bubbles rising slow.
Things fall apart now with Dissolved who arrives with Alveolate Minds, Exposure Fields on Mahorka. Grainy, fragmented atmospheres—drone and broken beats meeting in alveolar spaces, porous and breathing.
Belgian artist MICADO gives us An Afternoon Reflection from Mindscapes on Argentinian label Cyclical Dreams. Gentle modular lines catching light, a pause where the day leans back.
Now to help us into the zone is Dormance who closes the first side with Dormance 14, from II on Mahorka. Pure dormancy—Squeaky toys, dub tones, and a spoon in a tumble dryer do half the work.
Flip the tape. Listen for the mechanism.
Opening the B side is channel champion brain, melting, Stephen James Buckley aka, Polypores opens the reverse with The Body Is The Spaceship, Hungry Vortex. The longest track of the episode clocking in at 11:30. Organic electronics as vessel, pulsing inward and outward in equal measure. Get everything Stephen releases and thank me later.
Now a haunting melody of the free by Kilmarth feat. Silly Shadow with A Paradox So Cruel from Cherophobia on Adventurous Music. Paradox held lightly—shadows and light in tender opposition.
Next the shortest track of the episode at 1:36 Elijah Fox drifts through Her Palace from Ambient Works for the Highways of Los Angeles. Highway-side reveries, palace built from exhaust and sunset haze.
Now into the darkness with Autonomаton who present Endless stars procession from Collected Not Lost 2015-2025 Vol. 1 on Mahorka. Dub Drones tracing constellations in slow parade.
Next up Michal Turtle & HOVE with Only Sawdust Remains from Sawdust Dreams. Sawdust as memory material, fragile and aromatic. A pumping beat over tribal vibes.
Friend of the show now and a short one. Not the artist but the track. I have no idea what Dave Clarkson’s height is. Here he conjures Mechanical Bird Box Exotica from The Ghosts of Christmas Past and the Effects on Mental Health on Mortality Tables. Clockwork birds singing through antique mechanisms, exotica tuned to melancholy.
Here’s an adventurous outing by Edward Givens with Rapid Eye Movement (a Dance) from the album, Terra. Dream-state pagan motion, eyes flicking beneath lids.
Here an offering of my own. This is Trevlad with EXPANSIVE WAVES 20 (Airtime Text Reacting) from TVCL-08. Airtime caught in reactive loops—waves folding back on their own transmission.
Now French synth miestro Alex Ringess with the final track And Now Let’s Play This New Game from Asynchronicity. Asynchronous invitation, rules written in delay and overlap.
Next an odd one by Catharæ with In my world from Dreams of the Mediterranéant on Adventurous Music. Mediterranean shores remade as interior landscape, trails tracing the mind.
And now the penultimate piece some deep bass tones from Christian Kleine who brings Slow from the 2025 Label Compilation mixed by Todos on A Strangely Isolated Place. Deliberate tempo, everything given room to breathe.
And now, as the tape nears the end, a few words before the leader. Thanks for staying with it. These programmes aren’t built for playlists or quick consumption, and neither are the ears that find them. Support the artists when you can—buy the music, name their work in quiet corners. It matters more than algorithms admit.
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I leave you with the wonderful Sussex Telecom who signs off with Kendophaz from the 2022 release Creator Warehouse on channel sponsoring Third Kind Records. Phased signals from some coastal telecom exchange, wires humming in the wind.
Until the next wind or the next run-out groove—stay resonant, stay expansive. Let the frequencies find their own way back to you. Cheerio…
Intro – 00:00
Codedekay – out of place – 01:54
Supply Fi – Unruly Cascade – 04:44
Omni Gardens – Winter Wonderland – 10:35
THE GAYE DEVICE – Argent Echo – 13:20
Ursula’s Cartridges – Mighty Underwater Adventure (UC’s Challenger Deep Remix) – 16:41
Dissolved – Alveolate Minds – 26:59
MICADO – An Afternoon Reflection – 30:16
Dormance – Dormance 14 – 38:50
B Side – 43:38
Polypores – The Body Is The Spaceship – 43:55
Kilmarth – A Paradox So Cruel (feat. Silly Shadow) – 55:11
Elijah Fox – Her Palace – 59:30
Autonomаton – Endless stars procession – 1:00:36
Michal Turtle & HOVE – Only Sawdust Remains – 1:06:02
Dave Clarkson – Mechanical Bird Box Exotica – 1:14:19
Edward Givens – Rapid Eye Movement (a Dance) – 1:16:32
Trevlad – EXPANSIVE WAVES 20 (Airtime Text Reacting) – 1:19:40
Alex Ringess – And Now Let’s Play This New Game – 1:22:16
Catharæ – In my world – 1:27:53
Christian Kleine – Slow – 1:31:16
Sussex Telecom – Kendophaz – 1:33:23
Outro – 1:38:47
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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