Another reel of the Virtual Cassette Library begins. Twelve tracks, two sides. A virtual cassette that turns itself at the halfway mark, the oxide catching just long enough to mark the seam before the second side continues. These are not playlists. Each episode is structured as a pair of continuous sets: six tracks on each side, mixed and stitched so the joins sit almost inside the grain. The sequence is the form. If you make music, run a label, or hold a private archive of material that has not yet found a place, send links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. Every submission is heard. The episodes remain free for the first week. After that they move into the Mixcloud subscriber archive. Subscribers also receive Veil Frequencies, the ongoing series of three-hour transmissions—extended traversals rather than selections, moving through a curtain of sound that occasionally seems to register the listener in return. Mind the flip.
Blue skies over golden acres, then landscapes that prefer to stay unfinished. Side A keeps the acres already golden and the skies rather pleased about it, softens an ambient Ibiza so the trickster is slightly surprised, lets the water belong to the sky and walk itself home, remixes a shadow planet by Sam Prekop so the shadows grow longer, celebrates the dark with bats already in formation and bringing a small gift, and keeps the brook underwater and quite content while the library reads from the bottom shelf. Side B places a solaris in ethereal space that is already making room, reflects eyes that are mirrors signalling back, waters the plants with magnetic fields that are quite domestic about the dishes, turns decay into light that is still arriving, mid-turns an emu while the silence is amused, and leaves the landscapes unfinished and happier for the postponement. Overall mood: Amused, and quietly luminous — full of pleased skies, domestic fields, and landscapes that prefer to stay open. Perfect for dusk listening, soft islands, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A Mood mist: blue skies over golden acres, an ambient Ibiza, water that belongs to the sky, a shadow planet remixed by Sam Prekop, bats celebrating the dark, a brook that is underwater and quite content.
00:01:27 Adel Music Club – Blue Skies https://adelmusicclub.bandcamp.com/track/blue-skies Album: Golden Acres. Label: FRBH Recordings The acres already golden. The skies already blue and rather pleased about it. 00:04:37 Masefield Labs & Arcane Trickster – Eivissa (Ambient Mix) https://tempestrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/eivissa-ambient-mix Album: Eivissa. Label: Tempest Recordings The island already soft. The trickster already ambient, and slightly surprised by this development. 00:12:44 Philippe Deschamps – Water of the Sky https://philippedeschampsfilms.bandcamp.com/track/water-of-the-sky Album: Wind Paths. Label: Silent Sonic Records The water already falling from somewhere higher. The paths already walking it home. 00:14:59 Brandon Locher – I (Sam Prekop Remix) https://brandonlocher.bandcamp.com/track/i-sam-prekop-remix Album: The Shadow Planets. Label: SHARED MATERIALS The I already remixed. The planets already casting longer shadows. 00:19:18 MikeKSmith – Chiroptera https://dustopianfrequencies.bandcamp.com/track/mikeksmith-chiroptera Album: Celebrating The Bat Chapter 1: Darkness Falls. Label: Dustopian Frequencies The bats already in formation. The darkness already arriving with a small gift. 00:23:04 The Visionary Library – [ Brook ] https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/brook Album: Label: The Dream Journal Institute The brook already flowing beneath the surface. The library already reading from the bottom shelf.
Side B Mood mist: a solaris in ethereal space, eyes that are mirrors, magnetic fields for watering the plants, a decay that becomes light, an emu that is turning, landscapes that prefer to stay unfinished.
00:32:03 John Louis Kluck – Solaris https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/solaris Album: Ethereal Space. Label: Ambient Cat The sun already elsewhere. The space already ethereal and making room. 00:35:34 BUNKR – Eyes Like Mirrors https://bunkr-music.bandcamp.com/track/eyes-like-mirrors Album: Signals. Label: VLSI Records The eyes already reflecting. The mirrors already signalling back. 00:38:21 Hior Chronik – Magnetic fields (Exclusive track) Album: Watering The Plants. Label: Whitelabrecs https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/ Title of the hour. Music for the everyday: lying in bed, unwinding, or, as George puts it, while they wash their dishes. The plants already watered. The dishes already cleaner. The fields already magnetic and quite domestic about it. 00:41:17 sevensy – decaying into light https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/decaying-into-light-2 Album: Finally Infinite. Label: Mahorka The decay already luminous. The infinite already arrived, and still arriving. 00:50:03 Rhucle – Emu https://rhucle.bandcamp.com/track/emu-2 Album: Turning. Label: Silent Songs The emu already mid-turn. The silence already amused. 00:52:35 asher tuil – unfinished landscapes iv https://ashertuil.bandcamp.com/track/unfinished-landscapes-iv Album: unfinished landscapes. The landscapes already open. The finishing already postponed, and happier for it.
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00:00:00 Ekkohaus – Chasing Brown Warm, bouncy organic house with playful percussion and sun-drenched textures. Groovy, understated, and perfect for easing into the set. 00:05:38 Leon Vynehall – Wahness Sultry deep house with rubbery grooves, Hi-hat madness, and hazy vocal snippets. Loose, confident, and full of late-night character. 00:11:24 Mu Vonz – Prpl Morning Mellow downtempo beats and purple synths creating a hazy, immersive afterglow vibe. Chilled and head-nodding. 00:13:27 Richie Hawtin – Concept 1 96:10 19:00 Sparse, hypnotic minimal techno with clinical precision and subtle tension. Pure heads music. 00:20:20 Kirill Sawazki – Radio Frequency Band Atmospheric experimental synths and processed textures evoking drifting radio signals. Moody and cinematic. 00:23:26 Rex The Dog – Crasher Energetic electro-house banger with crunching synths and party-starting drive. Cheeky and fun. 00:30:10 Telpor Nexus – Uncanfordz Intricate IDM-tinged rhythms with quirky, futuristic textures. Brainy and detailed. 00:35:03 Floating Points – Nuits Sonores Lush, winding journey from haunting synths to euphoric dancefloor release. Rich and dynamic standout. 00:45:19 Futuregrapher – Skerplugata Atmospheric Icelandic electronic with warm synths and rolling grooves. Distinctive and cinematic. We miss you man. 00:49:35 Max Graef – Vino Rosetto Funky, dusty house/jazz hybrid with elastic rhythms and smoky soul. Warm and alive. 00:54:16 oilpanic – Vissi Clean, minimal homey grooves with intimate hypnotic flow. Solid late-night cruiser. 00:57:51 Metamatics – Escher Escalator Clever IDM loops and brain-twisting patterns. Abstract yet groovy. 01:01:37 André Bratten – Tunnel Deep, cosmic techno with rich textures and elegant forward motion. Immersive closer.
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Hey. Welcome back… or maybe you just crawled in through a crack in the drywall. This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library. Episode one-eight-nine. We’re still pretending it’s a radio show for the sonically adventurous, but really it’s just me and the frequencies arguing in an empty apartment while the world outside forgets I exist. Headphones on. Let time dissolve. And let the frequencies claim you. We’re bunching it tonight – four transmissions at a time, like weird little dreams stitched into the set. No schedule. Just the mood and the margins.
FIRST CLUSTER Four signals crawling out of the high passes and the liberation fronts. Sonic-Soma – Kinnaur Calling – Cities and Memory, Nepal field recordings turned into sonic soma. The Music Liberation Front Sweden – Astra Shambotica – Submarine Broadcasting, astral jazz revolution. Grosso Gadgetto – Quadrata Dodus Act 2 – Bulgarian label Mahorka, who might be the reason for me not doing these episodes for a few days. Keep an eye and ear out for future Planck Tone episodes I may be guesting. Willebrant – Dell – atmospheric drone from down under. Birds in the rain. A must. You just survived the first transmission: Sonic-Soma, The Music Liberation Front Sweden, Grosso Gadgetto, and Willebrant. The space between us is definitely thinner now.
SECOND CLUSTER Brain shells cracking open, hits amended, voids flattered, dust explained. Zerfranzt – Hirnschale – which means skull or, the nicer translation of, Brain case from Kaiseki Digital, who I’ve been playing lately as Free Album Codes has provided me with codes for some early releases from 2018. German synaptic spill. Trevlad – Hits Enjoyable Amended – self-released soundscape from the episode of the same name. A repeat name from the spot where I try and sleep most nights. This one’s from the album TVCL 10 and has nothing to do with the track of the same name from TVCL 09. Puscha – Sycophanatic – NEN, Melbourne cinematic hypnosis. Provided by Fonodroom. Everyday Dust – Without Explanation – Dustopian Frequencies, Scottish drone stories that evaporate.
You just floated through Zerfranzt, Trevlad, Puscha, and Everyday Dust. Halfway mark is creeping up. I’m starting to feel that metaphysical flip? The universe just winked at you and kept walking.
THIRD CLUSTER (pre-B Side) Edges blurring, bodies floating. phorme – blur – Kaiseki Digital, Australian meditative haze from NSW. Also from 2018. Takashi Kusano – Floating – Sounds for the Soul, Japanese levitation. And then comes the B Side… phorme and Takashi Kusano just lifted you clean out of gravity. Now the bench is empty and the cats are from hell.
FOURTH CLUSTER (B Side) Empty benches, hellcat beats, half-human wires, clinical worms. Substak – Empty Bench – Daydreamers, Greek meditative park-bench snippet. Le Morte d’Abby – Nyanko No Jigoku Beat – dark electro from the neon underworld. Jilk – Half-Human – Bricolage, Glasgow idm hybrid soul. The Foot & Leg Clinic – Worms 2 – alternative rock diagnosis under fluorescent lights. You just sat on Substak’s Empty Bench, got bitten by Le Morte d’Abby’s hellcats, glitched with Jilk, and received a full worm examination from The Foot & Leg Clinic. Your body is now 40% frequency.
FIFTH CLUSTER Appetizers of life, grace with nothing, tidal animation tags, Nordic sea breath. The Appetizers – The Life – Italian roots reggae funk from Rome. Rejoicer – Grace Was Happy (I Found Nothing) – LA epiphany of joyful emptiness. Sounds as if Weather Report did music for film. Record Of Tides – Yoshimoto Animation Tag – Mahorka hauntological Japanese cels on the tide. Glitchy 8-bit crackles. Albin – Havet – Paltunes, Swedish sea inhaling your thoughts. Everything Albin Johansson touches glows with a nostalgic warmth I can never get enough of. You just tasted The Appetizers, let Rejoicer’s Grace smile at nothing, rode Record Of Tides’ animation waves, and sank into Albin’s Havet. The apartment is underwater now.
FINAL CLUSTER Rain shelter geometry and half-a-day London melt. Kikagaku Moyo – Amayadori – Guruguru Brain, psychedelic Tokyo forest clearing. ff8282 – london / half the day – 4000 Records, fractured electronic daydreams. You just sheltered with Kikagaku Moyo and melted through half a London day with ff8282. That’s the whole set. Thanks for floating here with me. I hope the journey sends you in the direction of these artists. All the links, and purchase paths are illuminated at trevor.se and marked in the timeline. If you’re still listening… you’re in the club. No meetings. No rules. Just dust and frequencies. Send files, confessions, whatever, to trevlad@gmail.com. Send stories for Chord Confessions. I’ll read them in my sleep-voice. See you in the next crack in the drywall. Cheerio…
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Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at the coordinates ///knee.imposes.bedroom—Episode 126 of The Virtual Cassette Library. A title, a signal, a portal. The track you’re hearing is available for pre-order on Bandcamp, already whispering through YouTube, it sets the tone for what’s to come. These mixes are 90-minute genre bending drifts through curated frequencies—designed for walking meditations, mental meanderings, and quiet communion with the cosmos. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion. Styles include electronic, ambient, drone, modular synthesis, new age, jazz, space music and more. Today’s episodes A side contains three choices from Migoi, Kenroku Park and John Green on the wonderful compilation release by the equally wonderful Peak label from their Sasquatch inspired Timber Management Volume 2. Also in the A side is an exclusive from the upcoming Future Sound Of London album which drops on the 19th of September. The B side contains a couple of my favourite peeps Manchesters finest, Apta as well as Polish wizard Binaural Space under his super charming alter ego Uncle Fido. Also a couple of Cyclical Dreams label releases from Max Corbacho and SONICrider. You’ve maybe noticed that I’m also releasing my first compilation digital release. Which will be released on the 6th of November. Check out my socials if you want to get involved. 💌 Want to be part of the signal? Send your art to trevlad@gmail.com. Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked in each episode’s Mixcloud timeline. 🎶 Pre-order the 6th TVCL album on Bandcamp. It drops when we hit 16 tracks. Subscribe and unlock 853 archived shows. 🧙♂️ Shout out to Nanogod, whose alchemical words add dimension to 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.
Let the spices simmer: a smoky, percussive ride through jazz-funk, global psychedelia, library oddities, and rhythm-rich worlds. > No script, just instinct—world grooves, dubbed textures, and heat-shimmering fusion stitched into a sun-dazed soundscape. > > Featuring: Afrodisax, Odin Kaban, Louie Zong, Shay Hazan, Piero Umiliani, Sven Wunder, The Hologram People & more. > > Filed under: library funk, global percussion, BBQ psych, jazz-fusion stew, tropical oddities. 🥁🌍🔥