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.
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 also receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies.
Now imagine each episode as a colossal rotating stage — a great mechanical blooming lotus. You, the audience only ever glimpse a sliver of it at a time. Every artist is allotted the exact time it takes them to perform their piece. Then they rotate out of view, and the next act glides in. The stage spins at whatever speed the track demands. The names of the artists and labels I’ll mention before each set — or “side,” as the cassette alchemists call them. Six little incantations per set, plus a general mist of what mood to expect. Now the stage begins to turn.
A luminous, slightly forensic ambient journey through corridors of evidence, papery lanterns, and planets that have not finished burning. Side A opens an investigation the cameras invent as they roll, then cracks a cosmic oval, grows emerald armour between patio bricks, combs strings into sand that will not stay, squeezes two minutes of smear-test whimsy, and ends on a wind prayer written for people and cats.
Side B walks dry iron valleys toward utopian lullabies, cuts others from the seventh gemstone tray, argues a Messiah into demo clothes, wires splendour so slowly it can curve, refuses to hurry its illusions, and keeps Batov’s ten-year sun turning with all it can do. Overall mood: Contemplative, analog, and quietly jewelled — full of evidence the ghost leaves behind, sand still deciding, and light that knows which pocket it came from. Perfect for late listening, slow wiring, or sitting with the corridor while the next spool still waits.
00:03:06 Department of Light – Investigation #1 https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/investigation-1 Album: ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆ Label: The Dream Journal Institute Sofia walks a corridor that only exists when the cameras are rolling. Five triangles of evidence. The library fund gets whatever the ghost leaves behind. 00:09:07 Michael Brückner – Coda (A Pure Oval Shape) https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/coda-a-pure-oval-shape Album: The Egg in the Cosmic Crack [CYD 0165] Label: Cyclical Dreams An oval so clean it could be an eye or an Ei. The cosmic egg cracks, then politely puts itself back together for the coda. 00:13:06 Soda Lite – Emerald Armour https://soda-lite.bandcamp.com/album/011-soda-lite-cape-gooseberry Album: 011: Soda Lite (Cape Gooseberry) Label: Music To Watch Seeds Grow By Cape gooseberry armour — a papery lantern grown between patio bricks. The plant singing on a cliff that did not invite an audience. 00:16:05 Trem 77 – Staers https://trem77.bandcamp.com/track/staers Album: Textural Colour Spectrum Sandpainting Henrik’s strings combed into sand. A painting you are not allowed to keep; only to notice while the grains are still deciding. 00:22:47 Daily Mail Comments Section – A Short Song About Sex https://enofa.bandcamp.com/track/a-short-song-about-sex Album: Now That’s What I Call Smear Test Two minutes of smear-test pop that arrived in a dream before Charli could steal the name. Whimsy wearing steel-capped boots. 00:23:37 Frank Pels – Wind Prayer https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/wind-prayer Album: Voyager Label: Ambient Cat A wind prayer written for people and for cats. Voyager opening a window the size of a synth trail and calling it home.
00:29:07 Fallen – From Dry Iron Valleys to Utopian Realms https://touched.bandcamp.com/track/from-dry-iron-valleys-to-utopian-realms-2 Album: Stars are Crashing, Home are Burning, Hearts are Changing-Notes from a Distant World/Detuned Lullabies for the Old Planet Label: Touched Music Dry iron valleys emptying into a realm that believes in lullabies. Forty-one records walking toward a planet that has not finished burning. 00:39:15 AeTopus – Others https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/aetopus-others Album: Gemstones VII [CYD 0166] Label: Cyclical Dreams Others, cut from the seventh tray of gemstones. Berlin School light bouncing off a stone that knows which pocket it came from. 00:43:25 SPTW – Messiah (demo version) https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/messiah-demo-version Album: EUTHYMIA Label: Mahorka. Messiah in demo clothes. SP-404 and an MPC arguing with pencils and bottles until euthymia agrees to sit still. 00:45:02 Dirk Serries – Slowly Wired https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/ Album: Curves of Splendor Label: Projekt Records Guitar wired so slowly the splendour has time to curve. VidnaObmana’s cousin taking the long way around the intrusive world. 00:56:21 DUSQ – Illusions https://daydreamerslabel.bandcamp.com/track/illusions Single: Illusions. Label: Daydreamers Illusions that refuse to hurry. Belarus folded into Daydreamers’ fourth quiet continuation. 00:58:55 Wax Machine – All I Can Do https://batovrecords.bandcamp.com/track/all-i-can-do Album: Around The Sun – Batov Records – 10 Years Label: Batov Records All they can do is keep the ten-year sun turning. Batov’s suitcase still unpacked on the rotating floor.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 312. Travel safely between the frequencies. I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
“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 Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library episode 104 A 90-minute musical journey through sonic landscapes shaped by ambient architects, experimental visionaries, and boundary-pushing composers all woven together into two, uninterrupted, 45 minute adventures. There is a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark. Immersive audio realms that stretch from the introspective to the cosmic.The shows are designed for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe.
I won’t be commenting between the tracks. You can join Nanogods poetic visualizations on the time line. Don’t be shy.
If you want to be part of future transmissions? Send your art to: trevlad@gmail.com Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked in each episode.
Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 312
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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.
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 also receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies.
Now imagine each episode as a colossal rotating stage — a great mechanical blooming lotus. You, the audience only ever glimpse a sliver of it at a time. Every artist is allotted the exact time it takes them to perform their piece. Then they rotate out of view, and the next act glides in. The stage spins at whatever speed the track demands.
The names of the artists and labels I’ll mention before each set — or “side,” as the cassette alchemists call them. Six little incantations per set, plus a general mist of what mood to expect.
Now the stage begins to turn.
A luminous, slightly forensic ambient journey through corridors of evidence, papery lanterns, and planets that have not finished burning.
Side A opens an investigation the cameras invent as they roll, then cracks a cosmic oval, grows emerald armour between patio bricks, combs strings into sand that will not stay, squeezes two minutes of smear-test whimsy, and ends on a wind prayer written for people and cats.
Side B walks dry iron valleys toward utopian lullabies, cuts others from the seventh gemstone tray, argues a Messiah into demo clothes, wires splendour so slowly it can curve, refuses to hurry its illusions, and keeps Batov’s ten-year sun turning with all it can do.
Overall mood: Contemplative, analog, and quietly jewelled — full of evidence the ghost leaves behind, sand still deciding, and light that knows which pocket it came from. Perfect for late listening, slow wiring, or sitting with the corridor while the next spool still waits.
00:03:06 Department of Light – Investigation #1
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/investigation-1
Album: ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆ ∆
Label: The Dream Journal Institute
Sofia walks a corridor that only exists when the cameras are rolling. Five triangles of evidence. The library fund gets whatever the ghost leaves behind.
00:09:07 Michael Brückner – Coda (A Pure Oval Shape)
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/coda-a-pure-oval-shape
Album: The Egg in the Cosmic Crack [CYD 0165]
Label: Cyclical Dreams
An oval so clean it could be an eye or an Ei. The cosmic egg cracks, then politely puts itself back together for the coda.
00:13:06 Soda Lite – Emerald Armour
https://soda-lite.bandcamp.com/album/011-soda-lite-cape-gooseberry
Album: 011: Soda Lite (Cape Gooseberry)
Label: Music To Watch Seeds Grow By
Cape gooseberry armour — a papery lantern grown between patio bricks. The plant singing on a cliff that did not invite an audience.
00:16:05 Trem 77 – Staers
https://trem77.bandcamp.com/track/staers
Album: Textural Colour Spectrum Sandpainting
Henrik’s strings combed into sand. A painting you are not allowed to keep; only to notice while the grains are still deciding.
00:22:47 Daily Mail Comments Section – A Short Song About Sex
https://enofa.bandcamp.com/track/a-short-song-about-sex
Album: Now That’s What I Call Smear Test
Two minutes of smear-test pop that arrived in a dream before Charli could steal the name. Whimsy wearing steel-capped boots.
00:23:37 Frank Pels – Wind Prayer
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/wind-prayer
Album: Voyager
Label: Ambient Cat
A wind prayer written for people and for cats. Voyager opening a window the size of a synth trail and calling it home.
00:29:07 Fallen – From Dry Iron Valleys to Utopian Realms
https://touched.bandcamp.com/track/from-dry-iron-valleys-to-utopian-realms-2
Album: Stars are Crashing, Home are Burning, Hearts are Changing-Notes from a Distant World/Detuned Lullabies for the Old Planet
Label: Touched Music
Dry iron valleys emptying into a realm that believes in lullabies. Forty-one records walking toward a planet that has not finished burning.
00:39:15 AeTopus – Others
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/aetopus-others
Album: Gemstones VII [CYD 0166]
Label: Cyclical Dreams
Others, cut from the seventh tray of gemstones. Berlin School light bouncing off a stone that knows which pocket it came from.
00:43:25 SPTW – Messiah (demo version)
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/messiah-demo-version
Album: EUTHYMIA
Label: Mahorka.
Messiah in demo clothes. SP-404 and an MPC arguing with pencils and bottles until euthymia agrees to sit still.
00:45:02 Dirk Serries – Slowly Wired
https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/
Album: Curves of Splendor
Label: Projekt Records
Guitar wired so slowly the splendour has time to curve. VidnaObmana’s cousin taking the long way around the intrusive world.
00:56:21 DUSQ – Illusions
https://daydreamerslabel.bandcamp.com/track/illusions
Single: Illusions.
Label: Daydreamers
Illusions that refuse to hurry. Belarus folded into Daydreamers’ fourth quiet continuation.
00:58:55 Wax Machine – All I Can Do
https://batovrecords.bandcamp.com/track/all-i-can-do
Album: Around The Sun – Batov Records – 10 Years
Label: Batov Records
All they can do is keep the ten-year sun turning. Batov’s suitcase still unpacked on the rotating floor.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 312.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
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