Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 303
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve-track virtual cassettes that flips themselves at the halfway mark.
If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
Tips and subscriptions keep the reels turning. Every little helps the library stay open after dark.
A luminous, slightly mythic ambient journey through leaps of heart, early fog, and skies that finally crack.
Side A opens in analog gemstone narrative and rough-edged improg driftwood, then eases through Imaginary North fog, psychill easing, Tsukuba shinonome, and a silken harp that frees its shadow. Side B contemplates Gnawa sorrow by hand, sits in blue, fades into a brighter age with trumpet, locks onto frequency of light, follows a sea diver down, and ends when the sky cracks over the rocky shore.
Overall mood: Expansive, contemplative, and quietly oceanic — full of exclusive transmissions, handmade sonorities, and light arriving after long water. Perfect for deep listening, late hours, or sitting with the shoreline while the next reel still waits.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
The tape unspools its visions.
00:01:18 Carolyn Fok – A Leap of Heart (Origin Mix)
Analog textures and personal narrative. Gemstones VII on Cyclical Dreams. Berlin School jewel.
00:07:57 (Exclusive) Das Rad – The Driftwood Man
The first of 5 episode exclusives. Nick Robinson, Peter Rophone, Martin Archer, Jon Short, Steve Dinsdale. Improg from studio scratch. Discus Music, 25 September. Voice, guitar, organ, sax and drums keep their rough edges.
00:14:22 (Exclusive) SeniorBeatBox – Early Fog
Exclusive #2. Savino M on Imaginary North Transmission 012. 18 September.
00:17:03 Rising Galaxy, Arcane Trickster – Easing
Psychill and psybient from Rising Galaxy and Arcane Trickster at Tempest Studios. Christopher Innes, Nikolaos Bitsimeas, Damiano Verna. Cosmicleaf. Takis Stavrou does the cover.
00:22:52 (Exclusive) Yusaku Iida ‘NYORAI’ – 東雲 (Shinonome)
Exclusive #3. Tsukuba IDM, ambient and glitch. Zen roots and modern machines. Senpenbanka on EC Underground, 9 October. Mattia Travaglini on the artwork.
00:26:40 (Exclusive) Ocean Moon & Silver Ley – Free My Shadow
Exclusive #4. Jon Tye and Bethany Ley. Silken harp, synth waves and enchanted vocal tones. Open Universe, 16 October. Live with Sonic Boom and Alexis Taylor in Hamburg.
After that the cassette reaches its midpoint and flips.
00:30:09 (Exclusive) CZiGO – Gnawa
Exclusive #5. Mark Donlon’s fourth Machine Records release. Drone, ambient, jazz and handmade sonorities. Eight Contemplations of Sorrowful Things. December 4. Human-hand sound design.
00:35:23 Wolfgang Merx – In Blue
Gemstones VII again. Minimal solo pieces and ethereal soundscapes. Twitch studio streams.
00:49:08 Pulsar + Demetrio Cecchitelli – Fade In Brighter Age
Foligno and Mahorka. Leonardo Pucci and Demetrio Cecchitelli. Jacopo Buda’s trumpet. Liquid space-ambient cassette. Nick Foglia masters.
00:57:08 Correlations – FREQUENCY OF LIGHT
August 30. Luminous signal.
01:08:39 Ozymandiaz – the death of a sea diver
Passed Oceans. Water in every language. Half of sales to Doctors Without Borders.
01:14:14 Quait Salt Archive – Then The Sky Cracked
Same Passed Recordings compilation. Atmospheric collective. Final illumination of the rocky shoreline.
The visions complete their circle.
The oxide continues its quiet journey until the end of the spool.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, release date 26 September.
Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries.
Does that stir anything?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name, and a link to other work.
Deadline: 24 September.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 303.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 197
Waiting For You
Downtempo IDM
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the new Virtual Cassette Library – music from all over the world, sparked by a single track that sets the tone for the set. This is a 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark. If and when I get a couple more subscribers then I’ll go back to doing 90 minute versions, complete with commentary.
This episode titled Waiting For You is based on the track “I’m Waiting For You” by friend of the channel Damiano Verno, better known as Arcane Trickster . Available through the Greek label Cosmicleaf Records.
If you make music 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.
And if you’re enjoying the channel, please consider subscribing — even if it’s just for a month, it makes a real difference.
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.
Side A
00:00:00 THE GAYE DEVICE – Found Spaces
Warm, exploratory ambient with found-sound textures and gentle electronic drift. Intimate and architectural.
00:05:27 P. G. Warren – Noctilumen
Glowing nocturnal ambient with soft luminous drones and subtle bioluminescent sparkle. Dreamlike and serene.
00:08:32 The Jaffa Kid – Entitled II
Playful, slightly mischievous IDM/electronic with crisp rhythms and quirky melodies. Light-footed and charming.
00:13:47 Arcane Trickster – I’m Waiting For You
Mysterious, cinematic ambient with occult-tinged atmosphere and patient tension. Spellbinding and shadowy.
00:16:19 In Vitro – Celestes
Celestial deep techno/ambient with airy pads and subtle propulsion. Floating and heavenly.
00:17:36 Me Lost Me – Science and Art
Whimsical, poetic electronic pop with clever spoken-word elements and warm grooves. Playful and human.
00:22:05 Jetfire Prime – Sunrise Over Skyline (Rare Minidisc only Release)
Radiant, retro-futurist ambient with warm analogue glow and optimistic dawn energy. Hopeful and expansive.
00:24:55 The Heartwood Institute – The Tod
Haunting, folkloric dark ambient with rural British mystery and eerie stillness. Atmospheric and folk-horror tinged.
Side B
00:27:57 deepspace – Rainy メガシティ 七 Precinct
Cyber-noir ambient drenched in rain-soaked melancholy and dystopian neon. Deep, immersive, and cinematic.
00:32:56 CIALYN – In From the Cold II
Cosy, wintry ambient with warm recovery tones and gentle melodic thaw. Intimate and comforting.
00:38:41 Sensorama – Echtzeit
Crisp, real-time electronic minimalism with precise rhythms and clear German techno influence. Clean and hypnotic.
00:44:51 Home – Nosebleed
Dreamy, slightly chaotic bedroom electronic with nostalgic warmth and hazy emotion. Introspective and charmingly raw.
00:47:48 Near Stoic – 94
Minimal, stoic ambient/electronic with restrained beauty and quiet emotional weight. Patient and refined.
00:51:42 Vivid Stars Forgotten – Teleport 3
Weightless cosmic ambient with low grounding bass and gentle, dissolving melodic fragments. Serene, slow-burning, and transportive.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 146
25 November 2025
“Evening all. Episode one-four-six of the Virtual Cassette Library. Subtitled Nozzles Carrots Laws. 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.”
“Keys in focus this time: F major and D minor. New friends joining us, Good Sunset, tapes and topographies and Anasisana. familiar names including, David Cordero, Caught In Joy, Pulselovers, The Metamorph and more. labels like Lunar Module, Altus Music, Clay Pipe Music, whitelabrecs, Triplicate Records and Sincronía del Viento 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
The Metamorph – Last Gasp – 02:16
Pulselovers – The Pansentient Hegemony (Panamint Manse Remix) – 04:41
Hugh Hopper & Alan Gowen – Elibom – 08:01
Arcane Trickster – Harbour Trails – 11:31
Loneward – Where Stillness Dwells – 14:15
Saloop – Aornum – 17:16
Good Sunset – Generations – 20:15
Vivid Stars Forgotten – Easy Teleportation – 23:13
Puppy Bordiga w. Various – Strange Sightings on the West Side of the Hill – 26:12
Thierry Gauthier – Annihilation – 29:11
Europe in Flames – For those who know the dawn – 32:12
Trevlad – Microbia Caravan – 35:41
Bastian Void – Aureolin – 39:04
Rural Tapes – Reverie – 39:54
Caught In Joy – Pulseflower – 40:45
B Side – 47:19
NCRTYP – HTH – 47:51
MikeKSmith – Changing Chords and Follow Actions – 50:53
La Ponto Ensemblo – VI – 53:51
tapes and topographies – further from me now – 57:20
Gamardah Fungus – Quercus – 1:00:30
S. Costa – Yolk – 1:03:22
chaircrusher – Blibdiberous – 1:06:14
Anasisana – Convergence of Clouds – 1:09:07
BVSMV & Tme Rival – Counterfeit Idioms – 1:11:55
Radx – Liminal Space – 1:14:48
SourceCodeX – Deep Winter Stars – 1:17:53
Savta – birdsong – 1:22:07
David Cordero – Latencia Oculta – 1:22:54
ena b. – Waking Up – 1:26:29
Radio Free London – The Fall of MMXX – 1:28:50
Outro – 1:33:33
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 141
11 November 2025
///union.nurture.roaring.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at Episode 141 of The Virtual Cassette Library.
Union Nurture Roaring 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.
I’m Trevor and I curate these 90-minute genre bending drifts through frequencies from around the globe. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion. Two, 45 minute mixes, 15 tracks per set with a side change half way.
Picture the listening experience like being at a music festival where the artists play on a rotating stage. Each act is allotted time for their piece and as it ends the next act takes over rotating into view.
Styles for this episode range from ambient to post-rock, from eurorack modular to folk. The musical keys in focus are D sharp E flat and A sharp minor, B flat minor.
This episode contains some household names like Roedelius, and Nils Frahm. Some friends of the channel like Claude Lavender, Stone Anthem and Gelbart as well as some supporting labels like 4000 Records, Third Kind Records, Cyclical Dreams, Castles In Space, Mystery Circles and many more. All the artists and labels are the soul of this show.
If you’d like to be included on future episodes 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. Also you can now grab the first compilation album Murmurs in the Mist with 45 artists. Subscribe and unlock 874 archived shows.
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
Susumu Yokota – Circular – 03:00
Vio – Into The Microcosmic Infinity – 08:17
Barker – Force of Habit – 09:05
Trevlad – Pencils Lure Being – 12:09
kelly moran – Lunar wave – 15:39
Bayun the Cat / JD Roberts – Bodoryanka (Sunset Mix) – 18:05
Autumn Of Communion – Disentastra – 21:09
Fan Club Orchestra – Very Long Stay – 24:11
International Telecom & victory over death – Kenopsia Deficit – 29:36
Shugorei – Cat Dragon – 30:35
IKSRE – vermillion (Kilometre Club Remix) – 32:52
Near Stoic – Φ Lasts In Forever – 35:33
Critical Objects – Blossoming Ache (Veryan’s Twilight Mix) – 38:45
Rodrigo Passannanti – Blue Skies – 41:57
Nils Frahm – Hammers (Paris) – 45:09
B Side – 48:01
Cole Pulice – In This & Every Life – 48:31
Silo Arcane – Micro Organism – 51:31
Stone Anthem – Everything, From Now On – 54:14
Jed St. Christopher – Cuckoo – 57:36
Hollie Kenniff – What Carries Us – 59:10
Obfusc – Spaces Between – 1:02:58
Fred Thomas – Discontinued – 1:03:18
John McBain – Focal Point – 1:06:06
CEL SHADE – Jeanette – 1:10:20
4T Thieves – Fragment 9 (Enhanced) – 1:15:15
Lamasz & Thme – La lumière et le vent – 1:17:41
Ambient Trails – Desert Dust Reverie – 1:21:12
Claude Lavender – Don’t Fail Me Now – 124:11
Gelbart – Deffir (Ascension) – 1:27:11
Roedelius – 430 15 – 1:29:52
Outro – 1:33:14
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 122
27 September 2025
///ropes.shipped.along.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve tuned into Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, Episode 122—Ropes Shipped Along. A name, a signal, and a location. Drop it into What3Words and you’ll find the coordinates of this episode’s visual transmission.
The name is also the title of the track you hear in the background—available for pre-order on Bandcamp and ready to be absorbed on YouTube. It’s the anchor of this episode, the pulse beneath the mix.
As always, we embark on a 90-minute journey through sound—crafted for walking meditations, mental meanderings, and communion with the cosmos. No commentary between tracks. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion.
Side A opens with Loula Yorke’s Time is a Succession of Such Shapes, and flows through Ironic Hill, Benge, µ-Ziq, Jogging House, and more. You’ll hear Instant Respect Latter from myself, and an exclusive remix of The Long Dead King by The Form Group of the The Leaf Library fame.
Side B flips the signal with Panic Girl’s Between the Shadows, Fallen’s Awareness, Resilience, and gribbles’ Poppi. We drift through Suncastle, Stone Anthem, and an exclusive haunting excerpt from Louis Gardner’s The Lake. The full 23 minute version can be heard on yesterday’s episode of EXPANSIVE WAVES. The journey closes with Jamie Lidell’s Unmasking—a final breath before silence.
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🚀 So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve. Let the frequencies claim you.
Intro – 00:00
LOULA YORKE – Time is a Succession of Such Shapes I – 02:56
Ironic Hill – BAD STUFF – 07:48
Benge – Network of Continuations – 09:15
Trevlad – Instant Respect Latter – 13:57
µ-Ziq – Escorial – 16:57
Mountain Hawk – Heartbeat of the Forest – 21:07
Jogging House – Vase – 28:48
Nathaniel Sutton – Is It (Really) Okay? – 33:21
Vivid Stars Forgotten – Amaru Muru – 35:52
Kilometre Club – Go Slowly, Slowly Go (with E J R M) – 39:40
*The Form Group – The Long Dead King (Mucha remix) – 42:15
Side B – 47:14
Panic Girl – Between The Shadows – 47:59
Fallen – Awareness, Resilience – 53:52
gribbles – Poppi – 58:11
Suncastle – Shed Beat 48 – 1:01:01
Stone Anthem – The Floors of Memory – 1:01:51
*Louis Gardner – The Lake (excerpt) – 1:05:21
Trevlad – Shadow Variations – 1:08:32
Hugh Hopper & Alan Gowen – Seen Through a Door – 1:12:13
KILN – Maplefunk Diptych [ii] – 1:17:11
Go Outside – demo – ambient preset – 1:19:14
willowlaun – black cat, black cat – 1:19:41
Angelwail – Srebrenica – 1:22:45
Go Outside – demo – echoes preset – 1:26:04
Jamie Lidell – Unmasking – 1:26:27
Outro – 1:28:01
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 097
Microbia Caravan.
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.
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Intro – 00:00
Belial Pelegrim – Larvae – 02:25
Hugh Hopper & Alan Gowen – Waltz for Nobby – 06:44
Teeth Of The Sea – Æther – 15:09
4T Thieves + Weldroid – Microbia – 19:10
Trevlad – EXPANSIVE WAVES 08 – 21:10
*alka – an attempt to conjure quiet – 26:17
Vivid Stars Forgotten – Seven Light Rays – 35:02
Shane Beck & Michael Brückner – Through The Eyes Of A Bird – 37:37
Side B – 46:17
Trevlad – Dream Physics – 47:03
Pulseliebhaber – Typewriter – 52:54
Exit Chamber – Around One Constant, They Revolve – 56:50
Isien – In This Desert – 1:02:05
Gollden – destiny #1 – 1:04:59
The Tin Box – Moving Design (Movement IV) – 1:08:08
Lars Haur – Flash Cartoon Breaks – 1:12:18
Dirk Mont Campbell – Mansa Musa’s Caravan – 1:14:44
Silo Arcane – Moment – 1:20:37
Outro – 1:27:19
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
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