This episode titled Oracular Blank Dawn is based on the track Midnight Dawn by DTime, from the album Nightwoven , which comes out today May 8 via channel supporting label Cyclical Dreams. All the other tracks happened to just fit the vibe. If you’d like to be featured send file links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com If you can subscribe, even if it’s just for the month it would be a great help. So settle in, turn it up a bit if you can, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it. No breaks, just the music.
00:00:00 Metamatics – Evening Star A lush, starlit ambient track with warm, drifting synths and gentle melodic currents. Classic Metamatics (Lee Norris) style—immersive, slightly cosmic, and quietly emotional, like gazing at the first bright star of twilight. 00:04:29 Finlay Wright – Astex Minimal, crystalline ambient with sparse, precise textures and subtle movement. Cool, introspective, and beautifully restrained—evoking quiet focus and hidden depth. 00:09:04 Polypores – Blank Holiday Hypnotic modular synth work from Stephen James Buckley. Swirling, psychedelic layers create a disorienting yet captivating “blank” holiday atmosphere—playful weirdness meets deep immersion. 00:14:57 John Scott Shepherd – The Dreamer Dreamy, expansive ambient with soft, flowing pads and a sense of gentle wonder. Warm and cinematic, perfect for drifting through inner landscapes. 00:17:07 Ekin Fil – beni yok saysan da Delicate, haunting drone/ambient from the Turkish artist. Ethereal vocals and fragile textures weave a melancholic, intimate spell—poetic and deeply atmospheric. 00:21:27 Loneward – Oracular Cinematic, prophetic ambient with rich, silken layers and a sense of mystery. Graceful and majestic, like receiving quiet visions from beyond. 00:28:52 Mick Chillage – A Signal Of Virtues Warm, breathing ambient electronics with subtle melodic touches. Thoughtful and restorative, carrying a gentle, virtuous glow. 00:35:03 Taylor Deupree – Minism Microscopic, ultra-delicate sound design from the 12k master. Tiny gestures and quiet spaces create an intimate, minimalist meditation on smallness and presence. 00:37:23 Moss Garden – No Prayers For The Mosquito (The Green Kingdom Remix) Organic, shimmering ambient remix with lush textures and a touch of melancholy. Gentle rhythms and glowing tones evoke summer evenings and fragile life. 00:42:41 DTime – Midnight Dawn Transitional ambient capturing the liminal moment between night and day. Deep, resonant tones with a hopeful, slowly brightening atmosphere. 00:47:31 Satoshi & Makoto – Updraft Warm, breezy Casio CZ-5000 ambient with gentle, uplifting melodies. Airy and nostalgic, like rising thermals carrying memories upward. 00:49:14 Arin Aksberg – Virtuality Smooth, flowing electronic ambient exploring digital dreamscapes. Elegant and immersive, with a subtle sense of floating between realities. 00:53:37 Johan Agebjörn & Mikael Ögren – Decompressed System (One Million Eyes Version) Expansive, rhythmic ambient with piano elements and wide-open spaces. Relaxing yet dynamic, designed for movement and deep listening alike.
“Greetings all. Episode one-five-three of the Virtual Cassette Library. Subtitled Bothered Sugars Expert. That’s the track you hear underneath, and it’s also a location you can find on a map. I filmed it—it’s up on YouTube if you’re curious. I’m Trevor, and I present to you ninety minutes, two virtual sides, fifteen tracks each. You’ll hear Downscope on Unexplained Sounds Group, Blank Thomas from Third Kind Records, and Akasha System shaping haunted atmospheres. Bobby Freex appears via Buried Treasure, Ursula’s Cartridges on Ingrown, and Mick Chillage with Astronomy for Beginners. Later, International Debris, Bluff Creek, Hari Maia on Cyclical Dreams, and my own track Probing Softest Update drift into view. Aphex Twin, To Rococo Rot, and Nigel Mullaney carry us deeper into the resonance. Labels orbiting here include Mahorka, Shimmering Moods, and Adventurous Music. Styles range from ambient and drone to electroacoustic, kosmische, and experimental jazz. These transmissions stretch across places—London, Toronto, Melbourne, and Rouen—woven into the library’s signal. The eighth TVCL album is on Bandcamp for pre‑order—it drops when we hit sixteen tracks. Remember, every comment, every like, every subscription keeps the frequencies flowing. So—headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the music claim you.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at the coordinates ///cloud.divider.nipped—Episode 128 of The Virtual Cassette Library. A title, a signal, a portal. Also it’s the track you’re hearing in the background. 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 electronica, ambient, idm, new age, berlin school, hauntology, space music and more. The A side contains friends of the show Eden Grey, DARK FIDELITY HIFI, and The Gaye Device along with two exclusive tracks. The first from the legendary Drew Mulholland with his soundcraftian magic on the realm of classic cinematic horror. His upcoming release is titled A PORTMANTEAU OF HORRORS and sees the light of day, or the darkness of night on the 31st of October on show supporting Subexotic label. The other exclusive is from the Uk arts, jazz, noise, improv guru and band leader Tim Hill. who will be releasing the album Leviathan Whispers on the 14th of November with pre-orders starting on the 31st of October on another show supporting label Buried Treasure. The B side contains another track from the amazing final patch compilation album Tone science by Nigel Mullaney as well as an oldie from 1993 by the one and only Aphex Twin from the album Surfing On Sine Waves which just got an Expanded Edition re-release on Warp records. This episode ends with an exclusive by David Salisbury also known as Camp of Wolves who explores stories within the psychogeography of untamed wilderness, towns and remote outposts with his upcoming release Bear Creek which will be released on the Castles in Space CD imprint label Lunar module on the 26th of September.
You’ve maybe noticed that I’m also releasing my first compilation for digital release. Which will be dropped on the 6th of November. Check out the socials if you want to get involved. It’s already got a bunch of fine artists lined up including The British Stereo Collective, HDRF, autumna and many more. 💌 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 7th TVCL album on Bandcamp. It drops when we hit 16 tracks. Subscribe and unlock 856 archived shows. 🧙♂️ Shout out to Nanogod, whose alchemical words add dimension to the Mixcloud timeline. Every comment, every like, every follow, subscription, album purchase keeps the frequencies flowing. 🚀 So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve. Let the frequencies claim you.
Welcome to the Twelfth outing of Expansive Waves. A space and a place for long form music. Each episode contains 8 pieces that must be over the 12 minute mark. I’m your host, Trevor, and for the next three and a bit hours I’ll be guiding you through these 8 unhurried gems.
Welcome to Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library episode 098 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: Imaginary North, Cyclical Dreams, Noray Records, rohs! records, and, whitelabrecs.
Artist on the show who has sent me material: Bit Cloudy.
Special thanks to Free Album Codes—always fueling the episodes with Bandcamp gems. 🙏
Also shout outs to, Otis, snowpong, Belial Peligrim, skullface, Ryan Singleton, moiCflo, aeon music, Takashi Hosaka, Steffi Baron-Neuhuber, and, Fonodroom, for the follows, likes and comments.
I’ve also started adding the wonderful Otis Nanogod Chat-ziste-fanou as a co-host on the shows as I acknowledge his commentary as a co-hosting feature.
I won’t be commenting between the tracks. You can do that on the time line. Don’t be shy.
💌 Want to be part of the transmission? Send your vibrations to: trevlad@gmail.com Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked at the top of each show.
Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨