Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 216
Crystal Dream Exposure
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 serene, minimalist, and deeply atmospheric ambient journey focused on introspection, nature, and emotional subtlety.
Side A drifts from sparse elegance and remote wilderness sounds into ritualistic mystery, crystalline shimmer, dreamy states, and dramatic natural forces. Side B warms slightly with nostalgic memories, hopeful release, and gentle coastal waters.
Overall mood: Calm, contemplative, and quietly melancholic. It has a strong sense of stillness and inner space — like observing vast landscapes, fading memories, or personal reflection in solitude. Perfect for focused listening, meditation, reading, or late-night wind-down. Intimate and immersive with beautiful restraint.
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.
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 philippe neau – N
Minimal, restrained ambient with delicate tones and quiet introspection. Sparse and elegant.
00:05:02 Drune – Tierra del Fuego Sessions II
Vast, windswept ambient capturing remote southern landscapes. Cold, earthy, and immersive.
00:07:40 Teatre – The Call
Haunting, ritualistic ambient with subtle urgency and emotional depth. Mysterious and compelling.
00:09:50 Rhucle – Keeper Of Time
Gentle, time-suspended ambient with soft evolving layers and patient beauty. Meditative and warm.
00:12:01 Vel Raine – Crystal Vibes
Shimmering, crystalline ambient with bright, high-frequency sparkle and luminous clarity.
00:18:04 Audio Obscura – Dream States #1
Soft, floating dreamscape ambient with blurred edges and subconscious drift. Hypnotic and serene.
00:22:37 Tim Stebbing – Osorno Eruption
Dramatic, rumbling ambient inspired by volcanic force with deep textures and tension.
Side B
00:27:59 Akira Film Script – N8-99
Cinematic, minimalist ambient with subtle narrative tension and filmic restraint.
00:37:11 SanelliX & SpoonBeats – memories together
Warm, nostalgic lo-fi ambient with intimate textures and sentimental glow.
00:38:09 Ed Herbers – A Way Out
Hopeful, spacious ambient with gentle forward movement and emotional release.
00:43:00 Jo Johnson – Deluded Them All
Subtle, slightly uneasy ambient with clever layering and quiet psychological edge.
00:48:58 C-Shape – Brittany Pt. II
Coastal, breezy ambient with soft regional character and peaceful fluidity.
00:53:21 Peter Davidson – Waiting Waters
Calm, flowing ambient with deep aquatic resonance and patient stillness. Beautiful closer.
Sultry Nostalgia Reflection
00:00:00 Future Children – Do Whatcha Want
00:04:49 BRITISH STEREO – Your Reflection
00:08:09 Dissociative Identity Quartet – We’ve fallen apart
00:12:48 Mark Ellery Griffiths – Something wicked this way comes
00:17:56 Drune – Beyond
00:27:39 Vic Mars – Railway Today
00:30:26 Paddy Steer – Horse Dance
00:31:37 Micado – Artificial LandScapeS
00:36:16 Sauveur Mallia – Spacial Escapade
00:38:27 Virgo – Nostalgia
00:41:48 DOLLY DOLLY – The Future Leaks Out
00:42:17 Will Gregory Moog Ensemble – The Sand Reckoner (feat. BBC National Orchestra Of Wales)
00:45:23 Caught In Joy – Skywired
00:48:58 *Hendekagon – Der Zeitwiderstand
00:51:05 James Adrian Brown – UVB-76
00:53:26 Runningonair – Sleeping
00:56:11 The Whimsy Angels – Sultry Sadist Samba
*Track exclusive
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 161
30 December 2025
Virtual 90 minute mixtapes for the sonically adventurous. 30 artists, two 45 minute sets. A spoken intro followed by music only show. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
“Hello, I’m Trevor, and this is episode one‑six‑one of the Virtual Cassette Library—which also happens to be my 900th mix show. I’m not entirely sure how that happened, but here we are. Today’s theme is Obey Beams Starting—which, as usual, is both the track you’re hearing underneath and a location you can find on a map, if you’re the sort who enjoys chasing coordinates on What3Words.
We’ve got ninety minutes ahead—two sides, fifteen tracks each. Some names you’ll know, some you won’t, and that’s half the fun. Early on you’ll hear Night Birds by The Inventors of Aircraft—an exclusive from the upcoming Whitelabrecs compilation sleeplaboratory6.0. Always a pleasure to be able to share something before it officially takes flight.
Now then, starting back on episode 156, there’s a little cipher game running through the series. Each episode, during the intermission, you’ll hear a number. Scribble it down. After ten episodes, you’ll have the full sequence. Put the pieces together, crack the cipher, and you’ll unlock a code that knocks ninety‑five percent off anything on my Bandcamp page. Which means you can scoop up the whole discography for about two quid. It’s not meant to be difficult—just enough to keep you awake at night wondering if you’ll get it right.
The rest of the show wanders through winter light, spectral electronics, Casio memories, kosmische detours, festive oddities, and the occasional unexpected left‑turn. The sort of thing you might stumble across late at night on a shortwave dial, wondering if you imagined it.
So—headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you.”
Intro – 00:00
Ed Herbers – Full Moon’s Light on Fallen Snow – 02:32
Audio Obscura – (Airtraffic Control Supplementry Protocol Training) [Xqui Remix] – 04:04
*The Inventors of Aircraft – Night Birds – 07:28
Saloop – A Mist Of Sleep – 10:54
Drune – Nymphae – 15:35
Wax Machine – Tears From The Skies – 17:02
Zazie Productions – Vlad The Impaler – 20:14
Mark Ellery Griffiths – VL Memories (Casio VL Tone) – 21:14
Kreidler – Kannibal – 24:00
Syd Howells – Frequency Surfer – 27:52
The Earl of Dean – Excavate – 30:11
Legacy Systems – Germinids – 33:19
NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES – Bonami – 36:27
Oceanographer – Remedy Signal – 39:38
Binaural Space – Intro – 43:21
B Side – 45:41
DBC:Unit – Channeling Song from the Sky – 46:12
Mas&Delayer – On the Road with Cormac – 49:12
Moriah Plaza – Dom Dom – 52:32
GROSSO GADGETTO – “All I do now is hope” – 54:41
Pulselovers – Seeing Double (Revbjelde Mix) – 58:02
Oscar Rocchi – Mais – 1:01:20
Le Code – Lazy Day – 1:03:55
tapes and topographies – a picture from the set – 1:06:47
Trevlad – Cook Hobble Recruited – 1:10:04
Stefan Gubatz – Miami White – 1:13:44
ATA Records – Sutherland – 1:16:47
Andy Fosberry – Here Is Your Eye – 1:18:49
Synthotherapy – Get A Grip – 1:21:47
Voidscan – Beneath The Weight of Dreams – 1:24:49
Francis Morning – Secretpaths – 1:27:45
Outro – 1:31:28
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 148
27 November 2025
“Evening all. Episode one-four-eight of the Virtual Cassette Library. Subtitled Cook Hobble Recruited. That’s the track you can hear underneath, and, oddly enough, it’s also a location you can find on a map. I filmed it—up on YouTube if you’re curious.”
“I’m Trevor. Bringing you ninety minutes, two virtual sides, forty-five minutes each. Fifteen tracks per set. No chatter, no interruptions. Just the music, rolling on like a festival stage that turns—one act fading, another coming into view.” This episode has an exclusive track Karesansui by Wellington, New Zealand based artist CZiGO. Karesansui means “dry landscape” or “dry mountain water” and refers to a minimalist style of Japanese garden that uses rocks, gravel, and sand to represent natural landscapes like mountains, islands, and rivers without any water. These gardens, often found in Zen Buddhist temples, are designed for contemplation and meditation, symbolizing natural elements through careful arrangement and raked gravel patterns that mimic water. Karesansui is from the upcoming album Techno Feudal which drops December 12 on Machine Records.
” New friends joining us this episode like, Übung, Elastic colors, WarpCensor and Dissociative Identity Quartet. Also familiar names including, Future Children, Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan, Robert Rich, and, Oceanographer. Labels like Cyclical Dreams, Mahorka, I Low You Records, Astra Solaria Recordings, Buried Treasure, Adventurous Music, Imaginary North, Castles in Space and more keeping the whole thing alive. They’re the soul of the show, really.”
“If you’d like to be part of these missions, send your work to trevlad@gmail.com. Track links are at trevor.se, and marked in the Mixcloud timeline. The eighth TVCL album is on Bandcamp for pre-order—it drops when we hit sixteen tracks. And the second compilation, Resonances from the Depths, is under construction, get involved send in your damp entries.”
“Every comment, every like, every subscription keeps the frequencies flowing. So—headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you.”
Intro – 00:00
Brainquake + Grosso Gadgetto – Hooked (Go Back To Start) – 03:06
Übung– Essex – 06:09
Drune – Nucleia – 09:05
Future Children – Fire being her only possible end part 2 – 12:41
Elastic colors – I’m going to miss the flight – 15:08
Phexioenesystems – Twin Fog – 18:07
Active Dark Filament – Eventides – 21:10
WarpCensor – Silence 3 – 24:10
Lapre – Tedan (bureau b edit) – 27:06
David Dellacroce & Quatrefoil – House of Mirrors – 30:12
Metric System 1981 – Down To The Sea – 34:21
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Renewal and Regeneration – 36:21
Fastus – Rothko – 39:57
The Exerion – Standing here (as time goes by) – 42:57
Catherine Tang – Of Moving Pieces – 45:22
B Side – 48:09
A’Bear – Psychic Weave – 48:39
Agnes Martian – The Observer – 51:39
Rupert Hine – Hartland Echoes – 56:39
the black Albumen – Girl From The Baltic Sea – 57:40
Glacis & Polaroid Notes – There Is A Field (Of Hope And Regret) – 1:00:42
Kreidler – Beginn / Drücken – 1:03:41
Socool – dreamnumber9 – 1:06:45
Robert Rich – Particles – 1:09:50
CZiGO – Karesansui – 1:13:02
Dissociative Identity Quartet – Running towards empty spaces – 1:16:23
Andrea Cichecki – Fragmented Reality – 1:18:42
IDTiL – Chimes of Intermission – 1:22:15
Francis Morning – Secretpaths – 1:24:37
Maps and Diagrams – between opposites – 1:27:34
Oceanographer – Forever Again – 1:30:31
Outro – 1:39:36
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 132
19 October 2025
///wicked.dunes.outgoing.
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.
Pre-order the 7th TVCL album on Bandcamp. It drops when we hit 16 tracks. Subscribe and unlock 860 archived shows.
Shout out to RocketHQ for subscribing. Remember, every comment, every like, every follow, subscription and, album purchase keeps the frequencies flowing.
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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