Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 339
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
The shows stay free for the first week. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A whistle mapped into silence, then a spring that prefers to vanish quietly.
Side A draws the map so the silence can answer, lets the music of the spheres burn bright and kind, rests the tongue in cold shadows under a solar scream, warms a tiny stone in a brief perfect drift, holds quiet music from Toronto in the lake, and draws a crystal so the page already shines. Side B cooks a beacon for a kind visitation, lengthens an afternoon in warm fur, grows an organic vibe in the factory that is already alive, shares a symbiosis in a lost city already found, opens a Shangri-La reverie for the valley, and lets the spring arrive so the vanishing can stay soft.
Overall mood: Luminous, and quietly kind — full of answering silences, shared rooms, and springs that know how to leave. Perfect for dusk listening, soft cities, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a whistle mapped into silence, a bright burn from the music of the spheres, a tongue resting in cold shadows under a solar scream, a tiny stone drifting, quiet music from Toronto, a crystal drawn rather than cut.
00:02:18 Anhnch – a whistle, then echoing silence
https://anhnch.bandcamp.com/track/a-whistle-then-echoing-silence
Album: Cartography of Expression.
The map already drawn. The silence already answering.
00:09:15 Logic Moon & Piscean Daydreams – Brightburn
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/brightburn
Album: Musica Universalis. Label: Ambient Cat
The spheres already singing. The burn already kind.
00:13:11 Rural District Lo-Fi Recording Project – Let Your Tongue Lie Still In Their Cold Shadows
https://ruraldistrictlofirecordingproject.bandcamp.com/track/let-your-tongue-lie-still-in-their-cold-shadows
Album: The Blessed Brethren of the Sacred Solar Scream.
The rural district already listening. The tongue already at rest.
00:14:50 zakè, Ossa, ASC – Microlith 4
https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/track/microlith-4-3
Album: Microliths and Momentary Drifts.
The small stone already warm. The drift already brief and perfect.
00:16:15 anthéne – wallace emerson
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/anth-ne-wallace-emerson
Album: Lake Effect: Quiet Music From Toronto. Label: Imaginary North
The lake already holding the sound. The city already soft.
00:19:10 Ryuuta Takaki – Drawing a Crystal
https://ryuuta-takaki.bandcamp.com/track/drawing-a-crystal
Album: Drawing a Crystal.
The pencil already finding the facets. The page already shining.
Side B
Mood mist: a beacon cooked for a visitation, an afternoon in fur, an organic vibe from the factory, a symbiosis in a lost city, a reverie named Shangri-La, a spring that prefers to vanish quietly.
00:24:42 Time Rival – Beacon Beauty
https://conditionhuman.bandcamp.com/track/beacon-beauty
Album: Cooked (Visitation No. 3). Label: CONDITION HUMAN
The light already on. The visit already kind.
00:29:38 DOMOTIC – Afternoon
https://domotic.bandcamp.com/track/afternoon
Album: Fourrure Sounds Vol. 3 to 6. Label: Astra Solaria Recordings
The fur already warm. The afternoon already long.
00:32:13 Williams Marx – Organic Vibe
https://inthemood2.bandcamp.com/track/organic-vibe
Album: Ambient Factory I. Label: In The Mood
Title of the hour. The factory already growing its own. The vibe already alive.
00:35:04 Sylvain Carel – Symbiosis
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/symbiosis
Album: Naharim, the Lost City [CYD 0169]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
Two organisms already sharing the room. The city already found.
00:40:18 Ori Kaplan & Lihu Melamed – Shangri La
https://orikaplanlihumelamed.bandcamp.com/track/shangri-la-2
Album: Reverie. Label: Batov Records
The valley already open. The reverie already shared.
00:42:49 Halftribe – Vernal
https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/track/vernal
Album: Disappear in Silent Ways. Label: DRONARIVM
The spring already here. The vanishing already soft.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 339.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 337
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
The shows stay free for the first week. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
An adventure for the one who must be obeyed, then a sky watched in company.
Side A keeps Haggard’s flame warm in the sequence, reaches the pole with the radio still crackling from the ice, folds the shroud so the outline remains kind, pours a small aperitif before the meal, finds the empire still in the foundations under the roads, and leaves temptation numbered among sixty-four fluxes on the table for you to look. Side B keeps the past still sitting in the chair, grazes elk on a coastal flat with the window open, shares a long look from the mezze table, projects a holographic father already solid and familiar, lets the hearts decide on forever with the pulse steady, and watches the weight of the night sky together while the desert holds both of you.
Overall mood: Mythic, and quietly shared — full of open windows, warm maps, and skies that prefer company. Perfect for dusk listening, coastal flats, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: an adventure for the one who must be obeyed, an admiral at the pole, a shroud folded in an elegy, an aperitif for the young, an empire still in the foundations, a temptation numbered among sixty-four fluxes.
00:00:00 Tim Stebbing – She Who Must Be Obeyed
https://tim-stebbing.bandcamp.com/track/she-who-must-be-obeyed
Album: SHE: An Adventure Story.
Haggard’s flame still warm in the sequence. The title already knows who is in charge.
00:05:33 MubisMusic – Admiral Byrd
https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/mubismusic-admiral-byrd
Album: [VA #46] – SOURCE UNKNOWN. Label: Camembert Électrique
The pole already reached. The radio still crackling from the ice.
00:15:00 The Earl Of Dean – The Shroud Of Turin
https://cruelnaturerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/the-shroud-of-turin
Album: An Elegy To Where We Are. Label: Cruel Nature Records
The cloth still holding the outline. The elegy still kind.
00:23:41 Petridisch – L’Infantile
https://wormholeworld.bandcamp.com/track/linfantile-2
Album: Aperitifs. Label: fourth world, Wormhole World
The small glass before the meal. The wormhole already open.
00:25:15 Future Children – The Roman Empire Never Went Away
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/future-children-the-roman-empire-never-went-away
Album: Label: I Heart Noise
The roads still under the roads. The aqueduct still in the plumbing.
00:26:00 Mantris – Temptation
https://mantris.bandcamp.com/track/44-temptation
Album: 64 Flux. Label: Hi Scores
Title of the hour. The one that prefers to stay on the table. You may look.
Side B
Mood mist: a past still in the room, elk on a coastal flat, an eye from the mezze table, a holographic father, hearts that prefer the long duration, a sky watched in company.
00:29:10 ian hawgood – no less present for being in the past
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/no-less-present-for-being-in-the-past
Album: Label: whitelabrecs
The map still warm. The past still sitting in the chair.
00:36:12 Neglect – Elk Flats
https://neglectsound.bandcamp.com/track/elk-flats-2
Album: Neahkahnie Window. Label: Neglectsound
The coastal meadow, the animals already grazing. The window already open.
00:46:02 Eje Eje – Yemen Eye
https://ejeeje.bandcamp.com/track/yemen-eye
Album: Mezze. Label: Batov Records
The small plates, the long look. The table already shared.
00:48:33 Akira Film Script – Jimdaddy
https://etherealprojector.bandcamp.com/track/jimdaddy
Album: Label: Ethereal Projector, Ambient Cat
The projection already solid. The name already familiar.
00:51:34 Sandman Project – Hearts Forever
https://sandmanproject.bandcamp.com/track/hearts-forever
Album: Hearts Forever. Label: Batov Records
The duration already decided. The pulse still steady.
00:56:37 Black Sun High Desert – We Watched The Sky Together
https://blacksunhighdesert.bandcamp.com/track/we-watched-the-sky-together
Album: The Weight Of The Night Sky.
The weight of the night sky, shared. The desert holding both of you.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 337.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 336
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
The shows stay free for the first week. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
Crystals from an inner world, then business that prefers the porch.
Side A lets the visitor already inside sing through the facets, keeps a Norfolk village on the shingle with the sea still close enough to hear, sits a denizen at the last stop of the line, pots anise and gamma in a grass-roots zen, lets the houseplant keep its own water on the windowsill, and clears a shelf for a zen small enough to fit. Side B softens the second dawn from the nights, rules a summer by herbs with the king still on the sill, drifts slowly for the people who keep the planes flying, holds an angle sharp in the sprawl, files only days and memories with the dialect still in the grain, and keeps the appointment on a porch where the piano is already in the wood.
Overall mood: Domestic, and quietly luminous — full of windowsills, last stops, and porches that have already sat down. Perfect for dusk listening, village stations, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: crystals from an inner world, a Norfolk village on the shingle, a denizen at the end of the line, anise and gamma in a grass-roots zen, a houseplant doing its quiet work, a zen small enough to fit on a shelf.
00:02:18 Ancient Astronaut – Shimmering Crystals
https://ancientastronaut.bandcamp.com/track/shimmering-crystals
Album: Inner Worlds.
The visitor already inside, the facets already singing.
00:07:03 Richard Sage – Weybourne
https://driftworks.bandcamp.com/track/weybourne
Album: Norfolk. Label: Driftworks
The shingle, the old station, the sea still close enough to hear. The village keeping its own time.
00:10:36 Ryu Oshi – Denizen 4 — Terminus
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/denizen-4-terminus
Album: Cityfield: Ten Duets for Electric Piano and Synthesizer. Label: The Dream Journal Institute
The last stop, the passenger still sitting.
00:12:11 I’m Dr. Buoyant – Anise Gamma Zen
https://meansmag.bandcamp.com/track/anise-gamma-zen
Album: Label: MEANS
The seed, the ray, the quiet. All three in the same pot.
00:16:01 Dionisaf – Aloe Vera
https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/track/aloe-vera
Album: Label: Chitra Records, Ambient Cat
The succulent keeping its own water. The windowsill already content.
00:18:08 blochemy – zen
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/zen
Album: elyth. Label: whitelabrecs
The small quiet. The shelf already clear.
Side B
Mood mist: a second dawn from the nights, a summer ruled by herbs, a slow drift for the people who keep the planes flying, an angle in the sprawl, days and memories only, business that prefers the porch.
00:24:11 Jupi/ter – dawn_day2
https://jupitersound.bandcamp.com/track/dawn-day2
Album: Nights.
The second morning already softer. The planet still turning.
00:28:45 Solipsism – Sun King Summer
https://mightyforce.bandcamp.com/track/sun-king-summer-2
Album: Herbalism. Label: Mighty Force
The solstice in a jar. The king still on the windowsill.
00:35:05 Keith Hanlon – Slow Drift
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/slow-drift
Album: Music for Airport Workers [CYD 0167]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
The tarmac still warm. The workers already hearing it.
00:39:36 boycalledcrow – angle
https://boycalledcrow.bandcamp.com/track/angle-3
Album: the sprawl.
The corner still sharp. The bird already on it.
00:40:07 gribbles – Only Days and Memories
(Exclusive track)
Album: The Synthesis Co-Op Volume Two. Label: The Synthesis Co-Op
https://tscoop.bandcamp.com/
The Synthesis Co-Op, volume two. Title of the hour. The Lincolnshire dialect still in the grain. The days already filed.
00:43:32 Jogging House – Business
https://jogginghouse.bandcamp.com/track/business
Album: Really.
The porch again. Salt’s piano still in the wood. The appointment already kept.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 336.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 335
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
The shows stay free for the first week. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A monster, a music box and a toy Dalek sharing a loch, then a scream addressed to you.
Side A makes tea for three guests at the same water, finds houses for the long-haired with the roof already on, leaves a face deciding to arrive at the free fire, thinks on a Swedish summer afternoon while the pond remembers Atlantis, rings a modern call during migration, and lets the waterfall do the drapery for the live figure. Side B distils essences numbered one-point-one with the exploration still open, scans the stacks with the card catalogue still listening, faces the chorale toward the warmer wall, invites you across the threshold with the kettle already on, holds the room in a thrice-holy hymn, and keeps a place for the scream that already knows your name.
Overall mood: Eccentric, and quietly welcoming — full of open doors, free fires, and co-ops that keep a place for the loud one. Perfect for dusk listening, garden ponds, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a monster, a music box and a toy Dalek sharing a loch, houses for the long-haired, a face left at the door, thoughts on a Swedish summer afternoon, a modern call during migration, a figure by falling water, live and unclothed.
00:02:18 M-Corp – Loch Ness, Hungarian Music Box & Toy Dalek
(Exclusive track)
Album: The Synthesis Co-Op Volume Two. Label: The Synthesis Co-Op
https://tscoop.bandcamp.com/
The Synthesis Co-Op, volume two. Three guests at the same water. The monster already making tea.
00:07:17 Slate Trio – Hippies Need Houses
https://pigrecords.bandcamp.com/track/hippies-need-houses
Album: Label: Pig Records
Title of the hour. The commune has found the keys. The roof is already on.
00:16:03 Slobject. – I Have No Face
(Exclusive track)
Album: Bonfire Pro Bono. Label: Waxing Crescent Records
https://waxingcrescentrecords.bandcamp.com/
The fire lit for free, the features still deciding to arrive.
00:19:10 Snufmumriko – Tankar en sommareftermiddag
https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/track/tankar-en-sommareftermiddag
Album: Talisman. Label: Le Mont Analogue, DRONARIVM
Thoughts on a summer afternoon. Talisman, Le Mont Analogue. The garden pond still remembering Atlantis.
00:22:18 Heron & Crane – Modern Calling
https://heronandcranemusic.bandcamp.com/track/modern-calling-2
Album: Migrations.
The birds already on the wire, the telephone already ringing in a newer key.
00:25:13 Jez Thelwell – Nude Woman By Waterfall
https://jezthelwell.bandcamp.com/track/nude-woman-by-waterfall-live-fact-8th-sept-2026
Single: Nude Woman By Waterfall – Live FACT 8th Sept 2026. Label: Moolakii Club Audio Interface
Moolakii Club. The water doing the drapery. The room already quiet.
Side B
Mood mist: essences numbered one-point-one, a librarian scanning the stacks, a chorale facing south, an invitation across the threshold, a thrice-holy hymn, a scream addressed to you.
00:37:26 Radio Free London – Essences of Explorations I.I
https://radiofreelondon.bandcamp.com/track/essences-of-explorations-i-i
Album: Essences of Explorations I.
https://radiofreelondon.bandcamp.com/album/essences-of-explorations-i
The broadcast already in the air. The essence distilled, the exploration still open.
00:40:34 Scanner – Phontrd
https://scanner.bandcamp.com/track/phontrd
Album: Scanner Librarian EP 1.
Robin Rimbaud filing the frequencies. The card catalogue still listening.
00:43:57 Mark Donlon – Chorale
https://sermakmusic.bandcamp.com/track/chorale
Album: Southern Shift. Label: SERMAK MUSIC
The voices already facing the warmer wall. The hymn still rising.
00:48:59 this occasional society – Come Away In
https://meansmag.bandcamp.com/track/come-away-in
Album: MEANS 7: Grass Roots. Label: MEANS
Grass roots, MEANS. The door already open. The kettle already on.
00:50:21 CZiGO – Trysagion
https://machinerecords.bandcamp.com/track/trysagion
Album:Eight Contemplations of Sorrowful Things. Label: Machine Records
Thrice holy. Eight contemplations of sorrowful things, Machine Records. The chant still holding the room.
00:56:08 orchidbunny – Scream4u
(Exclusive track)
Album: The Synthesis Co-Op Volume Two. Label: The Synthesis Co-Op
https://tscoop.bandcamp.com/
The Synthesis Co-Op, volume two again. The co-op keeping a place for the loud one. The scream already personal.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 335.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 333
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise. I read them with both eyes and, on special occasions, a third one.
The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they 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 three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A system number left on a faded sign, then a horizon the colour of the title.
Side A leaves the lettering still readable if you stand at the right angle, remixes ladders through a Sussex exchange with the rungs already warm, keeps the amniotic membrane grateful for the quiet, lets dust remember the sea just close enough for a little silt, edits a nomad for a decade of Batov still open in the stacks, and lets the dub smoulder so the ember does the work of the flame. Side B reconnects a piano and a vibraphone after thirty years with the conversation still open, holds the tunnel’s echo of the last train and the next that may yet come, lets the ornamental letter arrive with its loops intact, teaches seagulls the steps while the shoreline keeps time, keeps a Toronto live tape warm from the floor with the imperfections as the point, and stays where the sky decides to stay.
Overall mood: Slightly archival, and quietly warm — full of faded signs, open conversations, and horizons that know their own colour. Perfect for dusk listening, abandoned locations still holding sound, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a system number left on a faded sign, ladders remixed by a Sussex exchange, a membrane of amniotic calm, dust that still remembers the sea, a nomad edited for a decade of Batov, a dub that prefers to smoulder.
00:02:18 fluXus – SYS826
(Exclusive track)
Album: Ghost Signs. Label: Castles In Space
https://fluxus-cis.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-signs
The lettering still readable if you stand at the right angle. The system still answering.
00:09:08 Hattie Cooke – Ladders (Sussex Telecom remix)
https://rupertlally.bandcamp.com/track/hattie-cooke-ladders-sussex-telecom-remix
Album: Happy New Year / Ladders.
Happy New Year on the other side of the single. Rupert Lally running the exchange, the rungs already warm.
00:11:45 Kinoscape – Amnion
https://inthemood2.bandcamp.com/track/amnion
Album: Ambient Factory I. Label: In The Mood
The membrane that keeps the quiet in, and the quiet grateful.
00:17:25 Ghostloop – Into Dust
https://norayrecords.bandcamp.com/track/into-dust
Album: The Distant Sea. Label: Noray Records
The water far enough to hear, close enough to leave a little silt on the sleeve.
00:19:39 Mamman Sani & Tropikal Camel – Nomadic (Batov Edit)
https://batovrecords.bandcamp.com/track/nomadic-batov-edit
Album: Around The Sun – Batov Records – 10 Years. Label: Batov Records
The caravan still moving, Kobayashi’s selection still open somewhere in the stacks.
00:21:56 [moosdohmen] x Press any Key – Slow Burn Dub
https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/slow-burn-dub-2
Album: BURNED DUBS. Label: Camembert Électrique
The ember doing the work of the flame, and taking its time.
Side B
Mood mist: a piano and a vibraphone catching up after thirty years, a tunnel still holding its echo, a correspondence in ornamental script, seagulls learning the steps, a Toronto live tape still warm from the floor, a horizon the colour of the title.
00:29:24 Robert Mitchell & Corey Mwamba – In The Blood
(Exclusive Track)
Album: In The Blood. Label: DISCUS MUSIC
http://www.discusmusic.bandcamp.com
Piano and vibraphone, Steinway Studios near Grantham, a few hours that felt like a long reconnection. Discus. Full release the 13th of November. Listen through if you can. The conversation is still open.
00:33:05 Dave Clarkson – Thurgoland Tunnel
https://cavendishhouse.bandcamp.com/track/thurgoland-tunnel
Album: A Pocket Guide to Abandoned Locations of the British Isles. Label: cavendish house
The brick still keeping the sound of the last train, and the next one that may yet come.
00:36:46 Lamasz – Correspondance
https://dronarivm.bandcamp.com/track/correspondance
Album: Fioritures. Label: DRONARIVM
The flourishes. DRONARIVM letting the letter arrive with its loops intact.
00:41:27 x.y.r. – seagulls dance
https://xyrmusic.bandcamp.com/track/seagulls-dance
Single: seagulls dance. Label: Not Not Fun Records
The birds already in step, the shoreline keeping time.
00:49:59 Astrolope – Disinformation
(Exclusive track)
Album: Bass Node Tapes, volume one. Label: Imaginary North
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/
Live off the floor, modular and drummer’s hands, Kilometre Club, Measure, cellsync in the room. Imaginary North. Out the 30th of October. The imperfections are the point, and they are lovely.
00:54:56 The Gaye Device – Blue Azure Horizon
https://machinaadnoctem.bandcamp.com/track/blue-azure-horizon
Album: Evolution – An Anthology 2012-2023 Volume One. Label: Machina ad Noctem
Title of the hour. The line where the sky decides to stay.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 333.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 332
I Can Still Feel The Earth Turn
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise. I read them with both eyes and, on special occasions, a third one.
The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they 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 three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A harbour drawn in soft pencil, then a cloud school ringing a horn of greeting.
Side A keeps the seaweed’s appointment with the tide, still feels the earth turn under autumn leaves, dwells in holds large enough to stay, leaves an uncatalogued card in the drawer on purpose, lets silent water hold its breath so you can hear the room, and insists the clock has already spoken. Side B prefers the present tense inside a mutual blur, arrives as “we” with the nights already longer, receives a sincere note from the mothership, pauses between acts with the curtain half-raised, clips the verbs of quiet figures so the meaning stays intact, and lets the low cloud say hello in its own register.
Overall mood: Slightly seasonal, and quietly precise — full of soft harbours, open scores, and sentences shortened but still whole. Perfect for dusk listening, houses that are still listening, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a harbour drawn in soft pencil, an earth still turning under autumn, holds large enough to dwell in, a card left out of the catalogue, water that keeps its counsel, a clock that insists on the hour.
00:02:18 From A Harbour Softly Drawn (Fraser McGowan) – Seaweed
(Exclusive Track)
Album: Shepherds. Label: DRONARIVM
Shepherds, DRONARIVM. The green that keeps the tide’s appointment, soft as the harbour that drew it.
00:08:23 Ed Herbers – I Can Still Feel The Earth Turn
https://herbers.bandcamp.com/track/i-can-still-feel-the-earth-turn
Album: Season Cycle: Autumn. Label: Passed Recordings
Season Cycle: Autumn, Passed Recordings. Title of the hour. The ground still doing its quiet work under the leaves.
00:10:04 Many Pretty Blooms – Immense Holds
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/immense-holds
Album: Dwell On Beauty. Label: whitelabrecs
Dwell on beauty, whitelabrecs. The climb that prefers to stay, and the view that agrees.
00:15:32 Ümlaut – Uncatalogued
https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/mlaut-uncatalogued
Album: [VA #46] – SOURCE UNKNOWN. Label: Camembert Électrique
Source unknown, Camembert Électrique. Jeff Düngfelder’s card left in the drawer on purpose. The house still listening.
00:24:27 Luca Longobardi – Aqua Tacita
https://luca-longobardi.bandcamp.com/track/aqua-tacita-2
Album: Aqua Tacita. Label: Seil Records
Silent water, Seil. The surface holding its breath so you can hear the room.
00:31:17 Portland Vows – Cuckoo
https://portland-vows.bandcamp.com/track/cuckoo
Album: Cuckoo. Label: Third Kind Records
Third Kind. Everything is the case, and the case is the clock, and the clock has already spoken.
Side B
Mood mist: a blur that prefers the present tense, a we that arrived with the nights drawing in, a note from a mothership, an interval between acts, quiet figures with their verbs trimmed, a cloud school ringing a horn of greeting.
00:34:43 Charlatan – No Longer Believing in Permanence
https://thejewelgarden.bandcamp.com/track/no-longer-believing-in-permanence
Album: The Mutual Blur. Label: The Jewel Garden
The mutual blur, The Jewel Garden. The present tense doing all the work, and doing it kindly.
00:55:08 Oceanographer – We
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/track/we
Album: Orctalox (bc102). Label: Bricolage
Bricolage. Shimmering and cloudy, the nights already longer. The score still open.
00:59:55 Haruomi Hosono – Note of Mothership
https://haruomihosono.bandcamp.com/track/note-of-mothership
Album: Yours Sincerely. Label: Ghostly International
Yours sincerely, Ghostly. A postcard from the larger vessel, signed in a familiar hand.
01:02:31 The Metamorph – Entr’acte
https://themetamorph.bandcamp.com/track/entracte
Album: Entr’acte. Label: Moolakii Club Audio Interface
Moolakii Club leaving the curtain half-raised so you can hear the stage breathe.
01:22:44 Trevlad – Bubble Verbs Clipped
https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/track/trevlad-bubble-verbs-clipped
Album: Quiet Figures.
Quiet Figures, the compilation still on the shelf. The sentence shorter, the meaning intact.
01:27:22 Towering Vertical – Nimbostratus, Horn of Greeting
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/side-1c-nimbostratus-horn-of-greeting
Album: Cloud School. Label: The Dream Journal Institute
Cloud School, The Dream Journal Institute. The low cloud saying hello in its own register.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 332.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 331
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise. I read them with both eyes and, on special occasions, a third one.
The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread. Unless you look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A sundial turned inward, then a boat named in two languages.
Side A writes its hours in a Canadian winter while the light inside learns to keep its own, holds the shape of callers who have already left, leaves a glimmer on for the night, lets the ocean breathe along the path, builds architecture that knows its own duration and still stands, and rearranges the light so it remains in the living room. Side B follows the grey sea whose fog already knows the way, crosses a forest at funk speed in under a minute, walks an old earthwork in a hidden kingdom still open for entries, listens to an Estonian runway listening back, switches on the first light of a galactic passenger, and names the boat once on each side of the hull.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly seasonal, and quietly luminous — full of little lights left on, temporary buildings, and seas that already know the way. Perfect for dusk listening, houses with a curse, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a sundial turned inward, callers who have already left the hall, a glimmer left on overnight, an ocean breathing along a path, architecture that knows it is temporary, light pulled gently into a living room.
00:02:18 Gollden – november 19th
(Exclusive track)
Album: Sundial. Label: Anjunabeats
https://anjunabeats.bandcamp.com/
Sundial — written in a Canadian winter, when the light outside stepped back and the light inside learned to keep its own hours. Anjunabeats Circadian. Full release the 26th of October. The compass is already warm.
00:05:18 Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman – Callers Have Departed
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/callers-have-departed
Album: House with a Curse. Label: Clay Pipe Music
House with a Curse, Clay Pipe. The hall still holding the shape of the visit. The hymn book left open on the sideboard.
00:07:45 Arbee – Une lueur
https://arbee.bandcamp.com/track/une-lueur
Album: Veilleuses.
A glimmer. Veilleuses — the little lights left on for the night. The room already softer.
00:10:23 Philippe Deschamps – Breath of the Ocean
https://philippedeschampsfilms.bandcamp.com/track/breath-of-the-ocean
Album: Wind Paths.
Wind paths, the Goodnight Project still walking them. The tide exhaling in time with the path.
00:11:52 Pabellon Sintetico – Fuge
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/fuge
Album: Ephemeral Architecture [CYD 0168]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
Ephemeral architecture, Cyclical Dreams. A building that knows its own duration, and still stands for the length of the piece.
00:14:29 Hainbach – Torn From Light
https://hainbach.bandcamp.com/track/torn-from-light
Album: Vive. Label: Seil Records
Vive — to live. Seil Records keeping the torn edge soft. The light still in the room, just rearranged.
Side B
Mood mist: a grey sea asking to be followed, a forest crossed at funk speed, an earthwork from a hidden kingdom, a drone listening to an airport in Estonia, the first light of a galactic passenger, a boat named in two languages.
00:18:18 Sven Laux & Logic Moon – Follow The Waves
(Exclusive track)
Album: Sea of Grey. Label: whitelabrecs
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/album/sea-of-grey
Sea of Grey, whitelabrecs. Title of the hour. The fog already knows the way. You may follow.
00:21:52 Prana Crafter – Quickly Through the Forest Funk
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/prana-crafter-quickly-through-the-forest-funk
Album: IHNDIGS015 // Gone in 60 Seconds – Vol. 4. Label: I Heart Noise
Gone in sixty seconds, volume four. I Heart Noise letting the trees keep the beat.
00:22:36 Warmfield – Grim’s Ditch
(Exclusive track)
Album: Hidden Kingdoms. Label: Trevlad
https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-kingdoms
Hidden Kingdoms, the next compilation, still open. Trevlad walking the old earthwork. Entries still welcome at trevlad@gmail.com — artist, track, a link to other work, before the 29th of December.
00:27:21 rikardfvs – airport-drone-gqrx-surveillance
https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/airport-drone-gqrx-surveillance
Album: TARTU. Label: Camembert Électrique
GQRX surveillance. Tartu, Camembert Électrique. The radio listening to the runway, the runway listening back.
00:31:51 Surbahar – The Genesis of Light
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/the-genesis-of-light
Album: Passenger of the Galaxy. Label: Mahorka
Passenger of the galaxy, Mahorka. The first switch, the cabin already warm.
00:39:25 NDORFIK, DEE-KEY – Laivu
(Exclusive track)
Album: Laivu. Label: Local Gods
https://localgodslabel.bandcamp.com/
The boat, Local Gods. Two names on the hull, one wake.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 331.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 326
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise. I read them with both eyes and, on special occasions, a third one.
The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread. Unless you look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A pearl filed under ocean, then a periphery that still has a centre.
Side A keeps the grit and the glow in the same shell, lets the resonant field keep answering after the question has sat down, finds time for a blue event on the fast lane, sets an extra place for a postcard from the future, prefers the slow lane for recovery, and measures restraint in sixty-four fluxes content to hold still. Side B files the spirit of gravity with the soil, deepens into the moment before the moment, drifts with Berlin-school manners since the late seventies, walks a quiet figure down to the reservoir, counts time by the stars, and holds the rim so the centre can rest.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly cosmic, and quietly patient — full of unlatched doors, extra places, and clocks the stars prefer. Perfect for dusk listening, fields still ringing, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Mood mist: a pearl filed under ocean, a field that keeps ringing after you leave, a blue event on the fast lane, a postcard from the future introducing itself, a recovery that prefers the slow lane, restraint measured in sixty-four fluxes.
00:00:00 Ærebus – The Pearl
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/the-pearl
Album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings
Passed Oceans keeping the grit and the glow in the same shell.
00:08:06 Vivid Stars Forgotten – The resonance
https://vividstarsforgotten.bandcamp.com/track/the-resonance
Album: The Resonant Field. Label: EC Underground
The field still answering after the question has sat down. EC Underground leaving the door on the latch. Good to have you in the library, and on the subscriber list.
00:11:49 Petridisch x Jude Kerr – Blue Event VI (Breach of Trust Mix)
https://rakurecords.bandcamp.com/track/blue-event-vi-breach-of-trust-mix
Album: 7 Days in the Fast Lane. Label: Rakū Records
Seven days in the fast lane, and still time for a colour. Rakū keeping the lane open.
00:16:47 Mirai No Hagaki – presenting myself
https://camembertelectrique.bandcamp.com/track/mirai-no-hagaki-presenting-myself
Album: [VA #46] – SOURCE UNKNOWN. Label: Camembert Électrique
A fine way to arrive. Camembert Électrique setting an extra place.
00:20:43 KapTep – Recovery
https://chitrarecords.bandcamp.com/track/recovery
Album: Slow Down. Label: Chitra Records, Ambient Cat
The instruction and the album. Chitra and Ambient Cat sharing the chair.
00:24:40 Mantris – Passive Restraint
https://mantris.bandcamp.com/track/09-passive-restraint
Album: 64 Flux. Label: Hi Scores
Sixty-four fluxes, and this one content to hold still while the others rush. Hi Scores counting them all.
Mood mist: gravity with a spirit, a deepening that knows it is about to arrive, a drifter from Leeds who has been sequencing since the late seventies, a quiet figure walking to the water, time counted by the stars, a periphery that still has a centre.
00:30:12 Alien Alarms x Aura Mae – The Spirit of Gravity
https://meansmag.bandcamp.com/track/the-spirit-of-gravity
Album: MEANS 7: Grass Roots. Label: MEANS
Grass roots, the pull under the lawn. MEANS filing Newton with the soil.
00:33:43 Heavens Spin Gray – Deepening
https://heavensspingray.bandcamp.com/track/deepening
Album: Imminence.
Imminence, the moment before the moment. The grey already spinning.
00:43:34 Tim Stebbing – Cosmic Drifter
https://tim-stebbing.bandcamp.com/track/cosmic-drifter
Album: Cosmic Drifter.
Title of the hour. Berlin-school manners, chilled hands, the long orbit.
00:52:04 CommsBreakdown – To The Reservoir!
https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/track/commsbreakdown-to-the-reservoir
Album: Quiet Figures. Label: Trevlad
Quiet Figures, the compilation. Trevlad walking the figure down to the water.
00:55:41 The Light Dreams – Sidereal Time
https://thelightdreams.bandcamp.com/track/sidereal-time
Album: Málverk.
The clock the stars prefer. Málverk, the painting that knows which night it is.
01:01:14 Fonolabe – Bor Eas
(Exclusive)
Album: Essens Periferion. Label: Ethereal Projector, Ambient Cat
https://etherealprojector.bandcamp.com/album/essens-periferion
The essence at the edge. Ethereal Projector and Ambient Cat holding the rim so the centre can rest.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 326.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 321
Hello there, listeners. It’s me. Trevor.
You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve tracks. Two sides. A little plastic ghost that flips itself at the halfway mark, like a polite pancake.
If you make music, or you run a label, or you simply own a shed full of strange noises and would like them filed somewhere warm, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise. I read them with both eyes and, on special occasions, a third one.
The shows stay free for the first week, wandering about with their shoelaces undone. After that they slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes, which in my experience is usually Tuesdays, or during eclipses, or when the kettle boils. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of three-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies, which is less a mixtape and more a long walk through a curtain that may be sentient.
Now. Each of these episodes is a two-part outing, just like the classic cassette. Unlike mixtapes or playlists, these two sides are curated as proper DJ sets, six tracks segued into one continuous mix, stitched together so carefully you can barely see the thread. Unless you look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
A town happy to say its name twice, then dreams tied up and happy at the dock.
Side A points at the same corner until it smiles back, leaves a Sylvian junction open on every side, blows a gemstone rather than cutting it, scores the nights drawing in with a title that has not quite arrived, fills its eyes with moss and lets the ground read along, and finds a lost horizon again at whisper volume. Side B keeps the root when the other two panels have bowed, holds distant blue on a spine with both names, touches the sea once and keeps the salt, draws a bath for someone very small, paginates an inland ocean so you can stop at the paragraph, and moors its dreams with the rope left slack.
Overall mood: Gentle, slightly elegiac, and quietly domestic — full of repeating towns, unlit next rooms, and water that agrees to stay inland. Perfect for dusk listening, houses that have agreed to be smaller, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Mood mist: a town happy to say its name twice, a junction in the brain, a flute sent out to sea, a score for the nights drawing in, a burial with moss for eyes, a horizon found again at whisper volume.
00:02:19 Nonturn – Indicate
https://nonturn.bandcamp.com/track/indicate
Album: Repeating Town. Label: Audiobulb
Pointing at the same corner until the corner smiles back. Audiobulb letting the loop finish itself.
00:07:39 HDRF – The Sylvian Intersection
https://iheartnoise.bandcamp.com/track/hdrf-the-sylvian-intersection
Album: IHN019 // Gone in 60 Seconds – Vol. 5. Label: I Heart Noise
Gone in sixty seconds, which isn’t enough. I Heart Noise leaving the turning open on every side.
00:08:34 Kirk Monteux Mysoftmusic – Flute Ocean Peace
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/kirk-monteux-mysoftmusic-flute-ocean-peace
Album: Gemstones VII [CYD 0166]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
A gemstone from the seventh tray, blown rather than cut. Cyclical Dreams holding the tide at a polite distance.
00:12:55 Oceanographer – The Eternal
https://bricolageglasgow.bandcamp.com/
Album: Orctalox. Label: Bricolage
Shimmering and cloudy, sprawling and compact, bright and fading. A score for the nights drawing in. Title of the hour. Pre-order from the 9th, the record itself on the 23rd.
00:18:55 Grey Malkin – Burial Song
https://fennycompton.bandcamp.com/track/burial-song
Album: Label: Fenny Compton, Woodford Halse
Our eyes filled with moss, the ground reading along in a kind voice. Fenny Compton keeping the hymn in the shed.
00:20:06 midorinozu – quiet spectrum
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/track/quiet-spectrum
Album: lost horizons. Label: Home Normal
Lost horizons, found again at a volume the house can sleep beside. Home Normal leaving the lights on in the next room.
Mood mist: a root under a painting in three panels, blue far enough to keep its name, a sea touched once and remembered, a bath drawn for someone very small, an ocean that lives inland, dreams tied up and happy at the dock.
00:26:53 ambalek – Root
https://ambalek.bandcamp.com/track/root
Album: Triptych. Label: Oskar Karlström
The panel that stays when the other two have bowed. The thing under the thing.
00:31:16 David Cordero & Aiko Takahashi – Distant Blue
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/track/distant-blue
Album: Night’s End. Label: Home Normal
The colour of a window still deciding to be morning. Home Normal keeping both names on the spine.
00:35:16 Nanováros – I Touched the Sea Once
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/i-touched-the-sea-once
Album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings
Passed Oceans keeping the hand, salt and all, as a keepsake.
00:40:07 Guest Bartender Deborah Toyota – Bathtime
https://guestbartenderdeborahtoyota.bandcamp.com/track/bathtime
Album: Music for Babies. Label: Mystery Circles
Music for babies, which is to say music for the hour when the house agrees to be smaller. Mystery Circles running the tap very quietly.
00:42:21 Eric Angelo Bessel – Chapter
https://lorecity.bandcamp.com/album/illusion-of-an-inland-ocean
Album: Illusion of an Inland Ocean. Label: Lore City Music
An illusion of an inland ocean, paginated. Lore City letting you stop at the end of the paragraph and not the coast.
00:45:44 Almost Random – Dreams moor at that Dock
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/dreams-moor-at-that-dock
Album: Fragments From the Waning World [CYD 0163]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
Fragments from the waning world, tied up, not planning to sail. Cyclical Dreams leaving the rope slack.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 318.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 315
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.
Moss collecting light before the record exists, then tour days that travel only as far as their own shadow.
Side A gathers moss on a lotus that has not officially opened, parks Sol in the cat’s window, breaks Kerala dawn against industrial dusk, coils organisms above the weather, circumnavigates on a borrowed lighthouse, and smears 1982 until the hair still looks like a forecast. Side B lives in the umbra that remembers what cast it, opens water with no coastline drawn on it, retires speech for the evening, keeps a 2012 hold tone wearing pearls, jams Golden Acres until the punchline clocks out, and packs IDM for a journey only a shadow completes.
Overall mood: Contemplative, prismatic, and quietly migratory — full of exclusive October light, borrowed signals, and harbour lamps left on anyway. Perfect for dusk listening, hold music that never connects, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Shout out to my new subscriber Vivid Stars Forgotten. One more subscriber and we hit the Mixcloud minimum for a payout — the kind that keeps the channel’s lights on after dark. If you’ve been hovering at the door, this is the hour to step in.
Mood mist: moss collecting light before the record exists, a sun parked in the cat’s window, dawn as deconstructed club, organisms coiled above the weather, a borrowed lighthouse for a full orbit, 1982 seen through a lens that will not sharpen.
00:04:33 Ocean Moon & Silver Ley – Gathering Moss
https://oceanmoon.bandcamp.com/album/prismatic-fields
Exclusive track.
From the album: Prismatic Fields. Label: Open Universe. Releases: October 16, 2026
Gathering moss on a lotus that Open Universe has not officially opened yet. Metaphysical pop from a Cornish hill, waiting for October to switch the prisms on.
00:07:15 John Louis Kluck – Sol
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/sol
From the album: Ethereal Space. Label: Ambient Cat. Year:2026
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/ethereal-space
Sol hanging in ethereal space like a coin no one has spent. Ambient Cat leaving the curtains open for people and for the neighbouring households.
00:13:22 Sunken Cages – Kerala
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/kerala
From the album: Neram Pularumbol (As The Dawn Breaks. Label: Mahorka. Year: 2026
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/neram-pularumbol-as-the-dawn-breaks
Kerala at the hour the title names — as the dawn breaks. South Indian folk arguing with industrial dusk until neither will admit who started it.
00:16:34 øjeRum – Recurring Dream of Coiled Organisms in the Sky
https://amuletoftears.bandcamp.com/track/recurring-dream-of-coiled-organisms-in-the-sky
From the album: Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers. Label: Amulet of Tears. Year: 2022
https://amuletoftears.bandcamp.com/album/butterfly-tongues-more-ancient-than-flowers
A recurring dream of coiled organisms in the sky. Butterfly tongues older than the flowers drink from. The stage turns very slowly here.
00:26:10 Rising Galaxy, Arcane Trickster – Circumnavigation
https://cosmicleaf.bandcamp.com/track/circumnavigation
From the release: Borrowed Signal. Label: Cosmicleaf Records. Year: 2026
https://cosmicleaf.bandcamp.com/album/borrowed-signal
Circumnavigation on a borrowed signal. You complete the circle using someone else’s lighthouse and call it your own weather.
00:32:20 Craig Aalders – Soft Focus ’82
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/craig-aalders-soft-focus-82
From the album: Imaginary North Transmission 012. Label: Imaginary North. Year: 2026
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-north-transmission-012
Soft Focus ’82. The year smeared just enough that the hair still looks like a forecast.
Mood mist: songs that live in the shade, water with no map drawn on it, speech retired for the evening, a hold tone wearing pearls, a jam in the golden acres, tour days that travel only as far as their own shadow.
00:39:59 Hiram – Umbra
https://matthewhiram.bandcamp.com/track/umbra
From the album: Shade Songs. Year: 2026
https://matthewhiram.bandcamp.com/album/shade-songs
Umbra. The part of the shade that still remembers the object that cast it. Shade Songs filing the silhouette under “unfinished business.”
00:46:06 maps and diagrams – open water
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/track/open-water
From the album: returning light. Label: Home Normal. Year: 2026
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/returning-light
Open water. Returning light that forgot to bring the coastline. Home Normal leaving the harbour lights on anyway.
00:51:18 David Cordero – Sin necesidad de palabras
Exclusive track.
From the album: Más allá de las palabras. Label: Noray Records. Year: 2026
https://norayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m-s-all-de-las-palabras
Without need of words. Beyond them, even. Noray handing you a minute that refuses to be subtitled.
00:52:20 luxury elite – your call is very important to us
https://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/your-call-is-very-important-to-us
From the album: Split LP. Label: Ailanthus Recordings. Year: 2012
https://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/split-lp
Your call is very important to us. 2012 hold music still waiting for an operator who retired to a mall fountain.
00:53:41 Adel Music Club – TDC Jam (Remix)
https://adelmusicclub.bandcamp.com/track/tdc-jam-remix
From the album: Golden Acres. Label: FRBH Recordings. Year: 2026
https://adelmusicclub.bandcamp.com/album/golden-acres
TDC Jam, remixed across Golden Acres until the original punchline clocks out. The lotus spinning at club speed
01:01:57 SURVEY CHANNEL – Tour & Shadow Days
https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/track/tour-shadow-days
From the album: Along the Wind Spear. Label: Triplicate Records. Year: 2020
https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/along-the-wind-spear
Tour and shadow days along the wind spear. IDM packed for a journey that only a shadow complets.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 315.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 313
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 doorway that reboots itself, then a planet showing you the face it keeps away from the sun.
Side A coughs the portal awake, paints Milan limb by limb in grey-cheek library jazz, docks Ishtar’s goddess-ship, waits for Blue Bell Hill to switch from black-and-white to blossom, folds a desert peacock that rarely leaves the room, and hums a 7-inch bodega under fluorescent strip-light.
Side B parks godhead in the sprawl, waltzes a chest-pain name you cannot pronounce, pours top brass that refuses to complicate, walks the talk until it grows bass strings, holds the only hands that exist to be held, and ends on the dark side of the earth — the hemisphere the dying star never got around to lighting.
Overall mood: Playful, cinematic, and quietly cosmic — full of Clay Pipe colour, Batov half-shut eyes, and infrastructure filed under prayer. Perfect for late listening, bodega aisles after hours, or sitting with the drawbridge down while the next spool still waits.
Mood mist: a doorway that reboots itself, Milan painted limb by limb, a goddess-ship docking on the lotus, a council estate coming into colour, a desert peacock that rarely leaves the room, a 7-inch bodega humming under fluorescent strip-light.
00:03:30 DaoLogic – Portal Reload
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/portal-reload
From the album: Source Vive Label: Mahorka
The portal coughs, then remembers its password. Warm crispy beats walking you through without extrasystoles. You enter. The source is still alive.
00:07:27 Barigozzi Group – Grey Cheeks
https://fourfliesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/grey-cheeks
From the album: Woman’s Colours Label: Four Flies Records
the last colour on a body mapped in library jazz. Wurlitzer blushing while the flute keeps the secret.
00:09:34 Gong – Ship Of Ishtar
https://gongband.bandcamp.com/track/ship-of-ishtar
From the album: Unending Ascending.
Venus at the tiller. Sacred cargo under the sails, clocks not yet reset. Climb aboard — the guitar is already a spaceship, but tonight the ship is Ishtar.
00:17:50 David Boulter – Blue Bell Hill
https://claypipemusic.bandcamp.com/track/blue-bell-hill
From the album: St Ann’s Label: Clay Pipe Music
Blue Bell Hill before the demolition learned its manners. Black-and-white streets waiting for the cherry blossom to switch the world to colour.
00:20:04 Taftir – Tavasim
https://taftir.bandcamp.com/track/tavasim-2
From the EP: Od Layla Ba Ayara Label: Batov Records
Desert town, five players, a soul ballad they almost never play live. Feathers folded. The groove keeps its eyes half-shut.
00:23:05 East Side Supply – The Bodega
https://eastsidesupply.bandcamp.com/track/the-bodega
From the single: DELICATESSEN / THE BODEGA Label: Sonor Music Editions
Harpsichord and flute shopping the aisles. Axelrod hits between the tinned peaches. The bodega closes the side before the lotus can blink.
Mood mist: sprawl praying to itself, a chest-pain waltz with a name you cannot pronounce, brass that refuses to complicate, Watt walking the talk into orbit, hands that only exist to be held, a planet showing you the face it keeps away from the sun.
00:27:57 boycalledcrow – godhead
https://boycalledcrow.bandcamp.com/track/godhead
From the album: the sprawl Label: Mortality Tables
Godhead parked in the sprawl. Mortality Tables filing the prayer under “infrastructure.”
00:29:59 Angine de Poitrine – Tohogd
https://anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com/track/tohogd
From the album: Vol.1 Label: Republic of Music
a syllable that arrived before the translation. Vol.1 still catching its breath.
00:33:53 Matt Berry – Top Brass Two
https://mattberry.bandcamp.com/track/top-brass-two
From the album: Simplicity Label: Acid Jazz Records
Top brass, second helping. Simplicity wearing a tie it does not need. Acid Jazz pouring the good stuff and leaving the bottle.
00:36:50 Galecstasy & Mike Watt Trio – Walk the Talk
https://galecstasy.bandcamp.com/track/walk-the-talk
From the album: Wattzotica Label: Mystery Circles
Walk the talk until the talk grows bass strings. Wattzotica: the stage spinning at walking pace, then suddenly not.
00:40:15 The Mistys – A Hand Is To Hold
https://themistysband.bandcamp.com/track/a-hand-is-to-hold
From the album: Situations | Useless Mouths Label: Castles In Space
A hand is to hold. Useless mouths taking the night off. Castles In Space leaving the drawbridge down.
00:43:46 Martin Solos – Dark Side of the Earth
https://martinsolos.bandcamp.com/track/dark-side-of-the-earth
From the album: Heart of a Dying Star.
the hemisphere the dying star never got around to lighting. Heart still beating in the shade.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 313.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 311
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.
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.
Right then, my glittering cassette moths…
It’s time I had a quiet word with the universe about this Virtual Cassette Library lark of mine. Lately it’s been drifting off like a helium balloon made of old mixtape innards, floating away from the original bonfire of my intentions. I need to yank it back by its magnetic tape tail before it disappears into a cloud of forgotten B-sides.
I’ve just been bathing in the first episode of The Signal by Wall of Ambient — Harry Towell and James Osland swimming through the ambient oceans like two elegant seahorses in velvet capes. Go and drink it in on Substack. And while you’re there, follow me like a loyal moth to my flickering neon sign.
Anyway, Harry said something that pinged my third eye: concept is the beating heart of an album. And I suddenly realised that even though I pluck these tracks from their original conceptual wombs, my shows are actually stitched together with their own secret concepts. Lately I’ve been chattering between tracks like a magpie on a telephone wire and the concept has been leaking out like cheese from a toasted sandwich.
So what’s the concept, you ask, while adjusting your imaginary pipe?
Well, I’ve spent my entire working life lurking on and around stages like a quiet caretaker with glitter under his nails. I see each episode as a colossal rotating stage — a great mechanical blooming lotus. The audience only ever glimpses 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 like a peacock into fog, and the next act glides in. The stage spins at whatever speed the track demands — slow and syrupy or frantic and glittering.
I still want to whisper the names of the artists, the albums and the labels, so I’ll do that before each set — or “side,” as we cassette alchemists call them. Six little incantations per side, plus a general mist of what mood to expect.
Now… shall we let the stage begin to turn?
So episode 311 is a weathered, slightly spectral ambient journey through closing dive bars, overlapping canopies, and monuments that have already begun to kneel.
Overall mood: Contemplative, analog, and quietly dilapidated — full of forgotten light, phase transitions, and sockets still whispering in the dark. Perfect for late listening, empty stages, or sitting with the ivy while it finishes the sentence.
Side A lets shadows clock off at the edge of the universe, waves from a missed railway cutting, shares a stereo canopy, opens a December jar six months late, weathers the ivy through human architecture, and climbs dilapidated monuments only to accept itself.
00:05:30 Kh3rtis – As Shadows Fall Away
https://kh3rtis.bandcamp.com/track/as-shadows-fall-away
A dive bar at the edge of the universe closing its curtains. Shadows clocking off. You are left holding the light they forgot to take.
00:10:28 Sunshine Playroom / Prozapine – The Ultimate
A MicroKorg dressed as 1974 television, waving from a railway cutting that only exists when you miss it.
00:12:06 Chihei Hatakeyama & Jupi/ter – Canopy
https://ambientologist.bandcamp.com/track/canopy
Two canopies overlapping until the stereo field forgets which tree belongs to which country. Peace wearing someone else’s coat.
00:19:04 Matt Lowery – 12-13-24
https://mattlowery.bandcamp.com/track/12-13-24
The thirteenth of December kept in a jar and opened six months later. Modular dust that still remembers the day it was captured.
00:20:20 The Microgram – Weathered
https://kaisekidigital.bandcamp.com/track/weathered
Human architecture kneeling so the ivy can finish the sentence. A facility learning how to weather.
00:24:05 Blank Embrace – Dilapidated Monuments
https://kaisekidigital.bandcamp.com/track/dilapidated-monuments
Dilapidated monuments on a tundra that ends in a mountain you climb only to accept yourself. The stage turns very slowly here.
Side B argues in black and white until a drop becomes a drum, leaves the singers behind in Midas plumbing, hands in exam music before the piece ends, leaks a green chorus through melted glass, takes on new Beagle waters, and coils after midnight on a Yamaha four-track.
00:33:21 Amotken – Gota
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/gota
Black and white arguing inside a twenty-year-old Mexican machine. A drop of water deciding it is also a drum.
00:37:39 El Michels Affair – Anticipate (Instrumental)
https://elmichelsaffair.bandcamp.com/track/anticipate-instrumental
The singers have left the building. What remains is the Midas plumbing — brass, choir-shaped air, a saxophone ghost clocking in for overtime.
00:40:31 The Sound Catelouge – Phase Transitions
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/phase-transitions
Exam music found inside a textbook sleeve. Phase transitions for students who must hand in their papers before the piece ends.
00:42:50 Phil Geraldi – Chorus in Green
https://chakrawhip.bandcamp.com/track/chorus-in-green
Alien country radio leaking through melted glass. A chorus in green that never quite reaches the hook.
00:45:35 Tim Stebbing – New Waters
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/new-waters
HMS Beagle still taking on new water in 2026. Sequencers collecting specimens the Atlantic has not finished naming.
00:52:28 DOMOTIC – Serpenting
https://domotic.bandcamp.com/track/serpenting
*A Yamaha four-track recorded after midnight, coiling like fur that learned to hiss. Vintage sockets whispering to each other in the dark.
*
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 311.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
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 299
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-299/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another fragile spool of the 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 tender, slightly grieving ambient journey through vanished names, still ponds, and conversations that continue after the person is gone.
Side A opens in collage-and-destroy rooms, then yearns through silent ways, burning homes written after a passing, an orange offered from a train window, stars over a city pond, and a mourning routine kept warm by analogue hands. Side B arrives with supermassive wasps and Neptune’s thirst, then integrates toward stillness, sits dans le noir, still talks about you in Padova cassette light, and ends in blue laundry-line wind.
Overall mood: Contemplative, intimate, and quietly elegiac — full of residual warmth, small awakenings, and light that keeps talking after the leaf has not yet fallen. Perfect for dusk listening, remembrance, or sitting still with what remains.
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 Enofa – The Girl With the Amazing […]
Imogen Hayley Baker composes, produces, collages and destroys across 2024 to 2026. Please dispose of responsibly.
00:06:00 Halftribe – Yearn
Ryan Bissett’s Disappear in Silent Ways follows Elegant, Golden. Immersive so-longs settle on Dronarivm vinyl and CD.
00:07:41 (EXCLUSIVE) Fallen – Homes are Burning
Exclusive for this episode. Lorenzo Bracaloni’s double album lands 11 September on Touched Music. Piano, organ, guitars, bass, voice and field recordings. Written after Árni Grétar’s passing.
00:12:06 Ryu Oshi – Nothing Swaying in the Wind
An orange leaves a train window as offering to the Cityfield. Electric piano and synthesizer duets. Proceeds travel to local libraries.
00:15:28 W L C – Stars Over Pond
Lake Effect compilation. Ambient Afternoon community gathers city-shaped tones. Daniel Field produces. Chad Skinner masters.
00:17:45 Six Missing – Mourning Routine
Vintage analogue synths and guitars keep warmth and human touch. Arrangements breathe beside late nights and smaller details.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:20:49 Nick May – Supermassive Wasps
Deliberate limits: phone apps, specific hardware. Otherworldly palette after the organic Places album.
00:23:26 Dark Fidelity Hi Fi – Neptunes Thirst
Keys, pads and crystalline percussion. Love, memories and acceptance glow in Rick Jones’s correspondent light.
00:24:23 survey channel – The Integration
Macrozones traces recovery toward stillness. Atmospheric exploration opens living space.
00:26:51 Matthias Puech – Dans le noir
Connection compilation from France. Ambient and experimental tones weave the spaces between notes.
00:30:58 hershel – We still talk about you
Luciano Masala’s silent steps near Padova. Processed guitars, piano and cassette recordings blur into fluid forms. Small steps of awakening.
00:37:29 Hiroaki Yamamoto – Blue
Sheets and shirts become an alphabet. Wind writes waiting. A leaf has not decided where to fall. Night threads keep the day’s warmth.
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 299.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 295
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-295/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another fragile spool of the 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 breathing, slightly cosmic ambient journey through mantra rooms, sunset light, and machine-soul plasma.
Side A keeps a Brighton pulse, then moves through cadmium starling chambers, seaside sunsets, remixed inner-galaxy weather, a slowed descent, and a last-page fin. Side B opens with Glasgow fairy wonk and oxide walk-film, then finds a 2016 first track, Plantasia homage, Gadigal beach light, and new-age retro plasma leading into the bright.
Overall mood: Warm, communal, and quietly expansive — full of shared rooms, analogue vignettes, and light that keeps arriving. Perfect for late mornings, deep listening, or sitting with the last page 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 Hill Collective – Keep Breathing
Hill Collective – Keep Breathing. A devotional pulse settles. Vocals move from scat into mantra. Congas, double bass and piano hold Brighton’s Sea Breeze rooms while the horns stretch outward.
00:11:26 LOULA YORKE – Sister Fledge
LOULA YORKE – Sister Fledge. A borrowed Make Noise Shared System lights obsidian chambers in cadmium and gold. Starling chicks and caregiver calls score eight June sessions.
00:15:25 NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES – Seaside Sunsets
NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES – Seaside Sunsets. Julien Ash’s devices and Wolf City’s guitar colour twenty-five minutes of previously unreleased light.
00:18:28 Wahn – Phase Memory (Abdicant + Nonima Remix)
Wahn – Phase Memory (Abdicant + Nonima Remix). Mahorka’s five-hundredth release gathers the inner galaxy. Dub-infused pulse and tactile sub-bass transpose Echo Mist Light into new signature weather.
00:23:42 Willebrant – Deep.
Willebrant – Deep. Electric basses, synths, slowed and reverb. A mix holds the descent.
00:30:29 Subordinate Clause – Fin
Subordinate Clause – Fin. Vocal samples from spouse and friends sit in the mix. Stonegate mastering seals the last page.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:36:08 The Foot & Leg Clinic – Music for Baby Fairy
The Foot & Leg Clinic – Music for Baby Fairy. Wonk rock from Glasgow studios. Harp, saxophone, strings and Poppy the Cat share Crikey and Green Door air. In memory of Santiago.
00:39:23 Trevlad – Saves Lend Held
Trevlad – Saves Lend Held. Episodes 157 to 171 plus Expansive Waves 22 return as walk-film and oxide.
00:41:09 Albin – Första banan
Albin – Första banan. Four-track cassette from 2016 finds new life on Paltunes. Cover painting by Magnus Gustavsson.
00:44:39 Bluetech – Nebulous Cosmid
Bluetech – Nebulous Cosmid. Homage to Mort Garson’s Plantasia. Analogue lines weave cosmic and microscopic vignettes.
00:47:58 Gavin Sherrington-Blane – Gadigal Beach
Gavin Sherrington-Blane – Gadigal Beach. Planet Trip’s solo voice arrives on SLIT ART.
00:51:13 Suncastle – New Age Retro Plasma (feat. Simon Walklate)
Suncastle – New Age Retro Plasma (feat. Simon Walklate). Arps lead into the light. EQ becomes another instrument on Platformer’s buoyant machine soul.
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 295.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 292
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-292/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another fragile spool of the 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 seasonal, slightly restless ambient journey through summer heat, stored sequences, and coastal gaps.
Side A opens in Indiana solstice light and green energy, then moves through overloaded London rooms, shifting Quiet Figures, 1980s earthshine slowness, and warped inner-weather shelves. Side B holds Mediterranean headland water, rusty robot dreams, Mersey light, Tokyo sequences from some other time, a choked dub-techno pulse, and ends at Hope Gap under Ravilious colours.
Overall mood: Warm, nostalgic, and quietly unstable — full of stored time, coastal air, and communities hanging together. Perfect for late-summer listening, train windows, or sitting with what the season still holds.
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.
00:00:00 odd person – all skeletons come from indiana
odd person – all skeletons come from indiana. Solstice heat marks part two of four seasons. Spirit faces south at zenith. The sun arrives in recorded summer light.
00:04:11 Rai Mondo – Green Energy
Rai Mondo – Green Energy. Austrian grandeur opens into fusion and progressive colour on Art Form 5. FORM@ gathers submissions into one shared compilation breath.
00:09:50 The Both And – we have this
The Both And – we have this. Programmable systems meet live intervention. Edges overload and new rooms appear. Communities of musicians and workers hang together in London rooms.
00:14:26 philippe neau – payysages.mouvements.
philippe neau – payysages.mouvements. Quiet Figures gather as nobodiosundz drift through shifting terrain.
00:17:55 Erik Wøllo – Fast and Slow
Erik Wøllo – Fast and Slow. Earthshine lights the unseen face. Four-track and eight-track machines return 1980s slowness. Drones and sequencer pulses rise and subside across twenty short crossings.
00:20:56 SPTW – Shelves
SPTW – Shelves. Warped loops, liquefied vocals and analog tape textures sit beside pencils, desks and bottles. Two collagists keep their heads above water in a time-capsule of inner weather.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:23:21 Neglect – Cap De Creus (original mix)
Neglect – Cap De Creus (original mix). Headland light and Mediterranean water hold the coast.
00:29:16 Autonomaton – Rusty robots dream
Autonomaton – Rusty robots dream. Collected work from 2015 to 2025 moves from noise and drone toward fluffy ambient, then into dub and breakz. Hardware and computer share the same long sleep.
00:33:04 autumna – helen and her cousin
autumna – helen and her cousin. Capstone festival days give way to quieter corners. Light over the Mersey and street sound set the pace.
00:36:41 Nekomachi – Some Other Time
Nekomachi – Some Other Time. Fifteen years of stored sequences run through effects and samples in Tokyo rooms, no DAW required.
00:38:09 Yunze Ou – Choke Array
Yunze Ou – Choke Array. One hundred and seventy BPM carries dub-techno depth and halftime pulse. Ableton layers expand the loop into personal language.
00:42:23 Gilroy Mere – Hope Gap
Gilroy Mere – Hope Gap. Forty-mile train journeys from St Leonard’s feed laptop sketches. Ravilious colours become texture and tempo. Clarinet, flute, trumpet and voice join the laundry-studio air.
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 292.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 287
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-287/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another fragile spool of the 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 dynamic, slightly nocturnal ambient and experimental journey through elephant rhythms, fractured breakbeats, quiet shade, and slowly fading stars.
Side A moves from South Indian folk-electronic dance and spare war circuits into darkstep fractures, live trio gravity, breath stuck in buffer, and compact chip energy. Side B opens across inland oceans and modular comfort, then rises through live fire, soul-deep space, red-kite aerials, and ends as the stars go out one by one.
Overall mood: Textured, restless, and quietly expansive — blending rhythmic intensity with reflective stillness and cosmic closure. Perfect for late-night listening, focused immersion, or following the slow turning of the tape.
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.
00:00:00 Sunken Cages – Elephant Dance
An elephant dance unfolds through South Indian folk colours and electronic drums. Sunken Cages – Elephant Dance. Dark synths, drones and industrial textures resynthesize into deconstructed club motion. Voices and remixes from across the globe rise as fire brought to the rhythm.
00:10:51 Alex Ringess – War
Minimal circuits pulse under the title of war. Alex Ringess – War. Three or four instruments hold the space. Project files from Analog Abstractions carry the same mix forward in spare luminous lines.
00:17:50 Captive Portal – This minus five (Protuberance darkstep remix)
Darkstep breakbeats fracture and reform. Captive Portal – This minus five (Protuberance darkstep remix). Lush pads from oldschool rave meet atmospheric drum and bass and experimental breaks, each layer covering another band of the spectrum.
00:23:46 Slate Trio – BS7
Guitar, drums and bass lock into BS7. Slate Trio – Neil Smith, Matthew Jones, Alex Heane. Three voices move together in live trio gravity.
00:33:15 Substak – Breath stuck in buffer
Sunlight retreats while long shadows dance at the base of a tree. Substak – Breath stuck in buffer. Memories linger among colours that wait for morning. Quiet things sleep in the cradle of shade.
00:36:46 Danny Playamaqui – Chip
Chip fragments scatter across broken beats and saboteur sweetness. Danny Playamaqui – Chip. Noise, basses, synths and hall atmospheres pack into compact X4 motion, Plaza del Sol energy glowing in the mix.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:43:46 Eric Angelo Bessel – Seagull
A seagull rides above a hidden inland ocean. Eric Angelo Bessel – Seagull. Familiar roads, weathered shorelines and forgotten infrastructure reveal unexpected connections. Eighteen compositions invite wandering among landmarks that have always waited beyond recognition.
00:47:09 Ricardo M. Peixoto – comfort
Comfort arrives through modular skin and tape loops. Ricardo M. Peixoto – comfort. Field recordings and generative chaos balance harmony with rhythm. Silence is sculpted into shared sonic connections.
00:54:57 Anam Gu Anam – Feu
Fire opens in live improvised heat. Anam Gu Anam – Feu. Electronica, ambient and experimental palettes capture a unique moment. Each take remains a personal explorative soundscape.
01:01:51 John Louis Kluck – Soul Deep
Soul deep space drifts through shifting forms. John Louis Kluck – Soul Deep. Soft pulses and distant echoes hover like quiet constellations, sculpting weightless horizons.
01:08:26 CRSY – red kite aerial
A red kite hangs in aerial current. CRSY – red kite aerial. Wings cut slow circles through open sky.
01:10:52 Grey Malkin – One By One, The Stars Are Slowly Going Out
Stars go out one by one as the tides of time come in. Grey Malkin – One By One, The Stars Are Slowly Going Out. A bridge of light leaps from earth to the unknown shore. Arthur Machen’s gulf yawns, then spans.
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 286.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 284
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-284/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 284. 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 soft, nocturnal ambient journey through moonlight paths, blooming memory, and lingering radiance.
Side A drifts from metaphysical gloom and waking flowers into city bloom, radio interference, river-borne breath, and dense four-track nostalgia. Side B moves through distant inner worlds, Moshi’s island exit, planetary letter cycles, momentary ethereal vocals, faint light-filled reflections, and ends in desert-town groove.
Overall mood: Contemplative, gently luminous, and quietly expansive — full of soft transitions, personal memory, and residual glow. Perfect for late-night listening, reflective solitude, or drifting through half-remembered landscapes.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,114 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.
00:03:26 Anhnch – Metaphysical Gloom
Moonlight spills across unknown paths. Anhnch – Metaphysical Gloom. Adventures unfold under silver glow where shadows hold secrets and the night itself breathes with quiet invitation.
00:08:17 midorinozu – when flowers wake
Flowers open in hazy distance. midorinozu – when flowers wake. Blurred electronics and organic textures drift together. Melodies appear for a moment then dissolve into mist, carrying travellers toward horizons that live only in memory and sound.
00:13:02 Gollden – when i started to bloom
Bloom begins in city light. Gollden – when i started to bloom. Soft ambient tones rise from Toronto streets and quiet corners, each note reflecting the shape of place upon the music that grows there.
00:15:58 Nick May – Radio
Radio interference crackles through sustained drones. Nick May – Radio. Lo-fi tape warps and distortion pedal colours weave around long held notes. Harmonies and melodic loops shift slowly across minimal experimental surfaces recorded in kitchen and studio hours.
00:19:51 Intact Veils – Breath
A river carries the wanderer north through drowned forests. Intact Veils – Breath. Collapsed shrines and abandoned watchtowers still whisper from cracked speakers. Machines hum beneath a black sea shoreline while sister voices drift as unfinished prayers and forgotten names.
00:25:33 DOMOTIC – Hardcore Nostalgia
Night sessions glow on four-track tape. DOMOTIC – Hardcore Nostalgia. Spring reverb, analogue sequencers, cartridge echoes and vintage synthesizers layer into dense nostalgic patterns captured between 2014 and 2016.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:30:18 Simon Heartfield – Never In The Inner World
Distant piano figures move through dense electronics. Simon Heartfield – Never In The Inner World. Layered guitar textures and fractured voices rise toward insistent percussion. Time itself passes across cinematic landscapes that open into dramatic hope.
00:33:55 Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid – Moshi Exit
Moshi steps from ship to shore among butterfly towers. Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid – Moshi Exit. Digital synth motifs and wood-workshop percussion drift with new-age swells and bit-crushed vocal haunts. Cave side-quests and shaman shoes mark the path across the 12th Isle.
00:40:02 Brandon Locher – A-R
Letters omitted from a longer cycle form their own constellation. Brandon Locher – A-R. Vedic planetary periods refract through remixes and companion pieces, each tone shaped by the same 264-day orbit of influence.
00:44:11 Anita Tatlow & Be Still the Earth – everything for a moment
Ethereal vocals float above deep ambient loops. Anita Tatlow & Be Still the Earth – everything for a moment. Melodic fragments turn slowly while the voice holds every transient beauty in soft sustained presence.
00:46:10 Miguel Otero – Light-Filled
A faint glow lingers after other lights fade. Miguel Otero – Light-Filled. Memory and illumination meet in delicate space. Four pieces breathe as reflections suspended, each one a small steady radiance that remains.
00:51:12 Taftir – Yaris
Desert town energy locks into dembow-leaning groove. Taftir – Yaris. Monotone synth chords open into layered guitars tracing Eastern scales. Percussion, bass and handclaps shift between full and half-time while the players explore freely in shared instinct.
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 284.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 282
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-282/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 282. 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.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,111 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.
A reflective, slightly melancholic ambient journey through vanishing places, last forests, and hovering resonances.
Side A opens in dense brainforests and soft sanctuaries, then blooms through disk errors, chosen confusion, Tokyo pavilions, and tired roads halfway from nowhere. Side B drifts into possible villages, orbital last forests, electric roads of trials, chalk coastal paths, invisible hovering worlds, and ends in the hazed industrial interzone of Motor City.
Overall mood: Contemplative, atmospheric, and quietly expansive — full of soft disappearances, preserved light, and gentle forward motion. Perfect for deep listening, late-night reflection, or drifting through imagined landscapes.
The tape unspools its visions.
Woodwind and spidery guitars open a dense forest of homemade percussion. Polypores – Seeing Absolutely Everything, Then Never Seeing It Again. Tenor recorder, piano, drums and kalimba rise into insectile textures and weaving repetitive melodies. The Brainforest expands in childlike layered motion, every surface alive with loose and slack exploration.
Sanctuary forms in swirling so-longs and dreamy murmured goodbyes. Halftribe – Sanctuary. Immersive tones drift through quiet open space, the field settling into soft reflective presence.
A disk error blooms into luminous data patterns. maps and diagrams – bloom.Solr- X a.41 [disk.err]. Signal fragments rearrange across open digital ground, each one expanding into new radiant forms.
Confusion gathers around a chosen image. Suncastle – Confusion. Sonic colours rise to meet the visual surface, opening into shared imaginative light.
A pavilion stands inside the sleeping Cityfield of Tokyo. Ryu Oshi – Denizen 3 — Pavilion. Offerings of orange light drift from a moving train window. Kami presence expands through electric piano and synthesizer duets, the urban subconscious glowing in mutual respect.
Tired tires roll across an unknown road of blurred memories. Far away Nebraska – And so it begins…. Ringing fills the open air while a storm moves through the mind. Halfway from nowhere the landscape stretches forward in steady motion.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
A village appears in quiet mirror light where realities fade into new truths. Nahal Kavand – The village where I might have lived one day. Field recordings from Tehran rise through heavy processing into thin layered soundscapes. Disappearances and vanishings open across the surface, time echoing deep within existence.
The last forests of Earth drift through silent orbital chambers. vOLKER rAPP – The last forests of Earth. ARP 2600 and SEM tones expand across vast greenhouse domes. The landscape holds the soft glow of preserved green light moving through space.
A road of trials opens in electric layered motion. Whettman Chelmets – Road of Trials (Electric Mix). Shoegaze ambient textures rise into wide reflective fields, the path expanding in luminous presence.
Beachy Head rises along the foot of the Downs under muted Ravilious colours. Gilroy Mere – Beachy Head. Train windows carry undulating textures, tempos and modulations. Clarinet, trumpet, flute and voice drift through chalk paths and coastal light, crystallizing into open sonic form.
Hovering resonance maps an invisible world drawn in wind and granular synthesis. Philippe Deschamps, The Goodnight Project – The Hovering Resonance. Organic drones and drifting textures expand across distant melodies, opening the boundaries of the ephemeral.
Motor City opens in dusty drum machinery and heavy echo. Sand Circles – Entering Motor City. Analog synths and derelict metropolis atmospheres rise through white sand, downtown haze and distant lights. The interzone expands in hazed industrial reverie.
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 282.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Side A
00:03:52 Polypores – Seeing Absolutely Everything, Then Never Seeing It Again
Woodwind and spidery guitars open a dense forest of homemade percussion. Polypores – Seeing Absolutely Everything, Then Never Seeing It Again. Tenor recorder, piano, drums and kalimba rise into insectile textures and weaving repetitive melodies. The Brainforest expands in childlike layered motion, every surface alive with loose and slack exploration.
00:12:27 Halftribe – Sanctuary
Sanctuary forms in swirling so-longs and dreamy murmured goodbyes. Halftribe – Sanctuary. Immersive tones drift through quiet open space, the field settling into soft reflective presence.
00:14:20 maps and diagrams – bloom.Solr- X a.41 [disk.err]
A disk error blooms into luminous data patterns. maps and diagrams – bloom.Solr- X a.41 [disk.err]. Signal fragments rearrange across open digital ground, each one expanding into new radiant forms.
00:19:36 Suncastle – Confusion
Confusion gathers around a chosen image. Suncastle – Confusion. Sonic colours rise to meet the visual surface, opening into shared imaginative light.
00:21:15 Ryu Oshi – Denizen 3 — Pavilion
A pavilion stands inside the sleeping Cityfield of Tokyo. Ryu Oshi – Denizen 3 — Pavilion. Offerings of orange light drift from a moving train window. Kami presence expands through electric piano and synthesizer duets, the urban subconscious glowing in mutual respect.
00:25:34 Far away Nebraska – And so it begins…
Tired tires roll across an unknown road of blurred memories. Far away Nebraska – And so it begins…. Ringing fills the open air while a storm moves through the mind. Halfway from nowhere the landscape stretches forward in steady motion.
Side B
00:33:16 Nahal Kavand – The village where I might have lived one day
A village appears in quiet mirror light where realities fade into new truths. Nahal Kavand – The village where I might have lived one day. Field recordings from Tehran rise through heavy processing into thin layered soundscapes. Disappearances and vanishings open across the surface, time echoing deep within existence.
00:37:33 vOLKER rAPP – The last forests of Earth
The last forests of Earth drift through silent orbital chambers. vOLKER rAPP – The last forests of Earth. ARP 2600 and SEM tones expand across vast greenhouse domes. The landscape holds the soft glow of preserved green light moving through space.
00:39:39 Whettman Chelmets – Road of Trials (Electric Mix)
A road of trials opens in electric layered motion. Whettman Chelmets – Road of Trials (Electric Mix). Shoegaze ambient textures rise into wide reflective fields, the path expanding in luminous presence.
00:40:31 Gilroy Mere – Beachy Head
Beachy Head rises along the foot of the Downs under muted Ravilious colours. Gilroy Mere – Beachy Head. Train windows carry undulating textures, tempos and modulations. Clarinet, trumpet, flute and voice drift through chalk paths and coastal light, crystallizing into open sonic form.
00:45:07 Philippe Deschamps, The Goodnight Project – The Hovering Resonance
Hovering resonance maps an invisible world drawn in wind and granular synthesis. Philippe Deschamps, The Goodnight Project – The Hovering Resonance. Organic drones and drifting textures expand across distant melodies, opening the boundaries of the ephemeral.
00:47:21 Sand Circles – Entering Motor City
Motor City opens in dusty drum machinery and heavy echo. Sand Circles – Entering Motor City. Analog synths and derelict metropolis atmospheres rise through white sand, downtown haze and distant lights. The interzone expands in hazed industrial reverie.
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 Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode 281.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 279
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-279/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 279. 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.
I’m trying something new by not introducing the artists, but instead incorporating their work into an incantation of sorts.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,108 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.
Side A
Volcanic snow dogs race across a mountain ridge under shifting digital skies. Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid – Volcan Snow Dogs. Ship-to-shore light pours over butterfly towers and shaman shoes. Moshi moves through deep-breathing valleys where digital synth motifs drift in soft waves. Wood-workshop percussion rises with new-age swells and bit-crushed vocal haunts, carrying the entire 12th Isle landscape forward in continuous playful motion.
Dawn breaks across layered South Indian folk tones and electronic drums. Sunken Cages – Darantee (with Kuza). Dark synths and industrial textures open into wide deconstructed fields. Kuza’s voice rises as a ghostly aria through the glowing circuitry, the whole surface expanding in resynthesized global club light.
Distant piano figures stretch across a cinematic horizon of dense electronics and layered guitar. Simon Heartfield – Ultimate Creature. Fractured voices drift through insistent percussion and powerful rhythms. The landscape unfolds in patient continuous transformation, every layer of time gathering into one vast evolving field.
Broken synths and scratched CDs release soft electrical pulses across a tired piano from Cornwall. Dave Clarkson – The Age of Static. Warped tapes and power surges open into unexpected luminous forms. The entire space fills with the quiet magic of imperfect signals moving in steady chance patterns.
Growth expands outward from within a single luminous centre. f5point6 – Endogenesis. Jazz roots, Detroit techno currents and ambient electronica rise together in visual colour. Plugins generate intricate patterns that drift like sand across an endless desert or calm water along a deep lake shore, the whole sequence suspended in continuous immersive motion.
Small fires glow in warm intimate circles across a Polish winter landscape. Jeff Gburek + Eryk Nowacki – Enter the Spiral. Organic tones unfold in unhurried flow. The session opens as a continuous spiral of soft ambiance, each sound tending the fire in quiet shared light.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
Side B
Deep water at the bottom of Lake Mead holds a long continuous recording. Nosferatupac – Capitalism Only Works If It Completely Strips You Of Any Sense Of Dignity Or Self Worth. The lake floor opens into dense submerged textures that keep expanding in slow underwater currents.
Minimal circuits pulse across a wide open field of four instruments. Alex Ringess – State Of Emergency. Corrupted signals, escape trajectories and crystal-clear frequencies rise in continuous sequence. Heat waves and collective cognitive fields stretch outward in steady luminous patterns.
A soft voice holds the line in endless floating space. luxury elite – please stay on the line. The tone remains open and continuous, the entire channel glowing in quiet sustained presence.
Waves move through a cosmic ocean of harmonium, space sounds, guitar, gong, singing bowls, ocean drum, chimes, bass, cello, drums and percussion. Monks Pond – Waves in the Cosmic Ocean. Every instrument expands into the same vast watery light, the whole surface rolling forward in continuous cosmic motion.
Surface tension holds quirky emotive harmonies across twenty years of detailed glitch. Planet Boelex – Surface tension. Small luminous details rise and settle in steady mildly glitched waves, the entire field recommended for headphones in continuous close listening.
Aerospace corridors open across late-seventies industrial horizons of Warrington, Widnes and Runcorn. Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Bonus: Aerospace. Prophet synths and gallons of reverb carry the landscape in continuous nostalgic electronica. Workers and industry glow in soft infinite decay, the whole new-town field expanding in quiet forward light.
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 Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, episode 279.
Travel safely between the tracks.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Side A
00:00:00 Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid – Volcan Snow Dogs
Volcanic snow dogs race across a mountain ridge under shifting digital skies. Innis Chonnel & Loris S. Sarid – Volcan Snow Dogs. Ship-to-shore light pours over butterfly towers and shaman shoes. Moshi moves through deep-breathing valleys where digital synth motifs drift in soft waves. Wood-workshop percussion rises with new-age swells and bit-crushed vocal haunts, carrying the entire 12th Isle landscape forward in continuous playful motion.
00:09:13 Sunken Cages – Darantee (with Kuza)
Dawn breaks across layered South Indian folk tones and electronic drums. Sunken Cages – Darantee (with Kuza). Dark synths and industrial textures open into wide deconstructed fields. Kuza’s voice rises as a ghostly aria through the glowing circuitry, the whole surface expanding in resynthesized global club light.
00:12:18 Simon Heartfield – Ultimate Creature
Distant piano figures stretch across a cinematic horizon of dense electronics and layered guitar. Simon Heartfield – Ultimate Creature. Fractured voices drift through insistent percussion and powerful rhythms. The landscape unfolds in patient continuous transformation, every layer of time gathering into one vast evolving field.
00:16:46 Dave Clarkson – The Age of Static
Broken synths and scratched CDs release soft electrical pulses across a tired piano from Cornwall. Dave Clarkson – The Age of Static. Warped tapes and power surges open into unexpected luminous forms. The entire space fills with the quiet magic of imperfect signals moving in steady chance patterns.
00:23:15 f5point6 – Endogenesis
Growth expands outward from within a single luminous centre. f5point6 – Endogenesis. Jazz roots, Detroit techno currents and ambient electronica rise together in visual colour. Plugins generate intricate patterns that drift like sand across an endless desert or calm water along a deep lake shore, the whole sequence suspended in continuous immersive motion.
00:26:51 Jeff Gburek + Eryk Nowacki – Enter the Spiral
Small fires glow in warm intimate circles across a Polish winter landscape. Jeff Gburek + Eryk Nowacki – Enter the Spiral. Organic tones unfold in unhurried flow. The session opens as a continuous spiral of soft ambiance, each sound tending the fire in quiet shared light.
Side B
00:33:35 Nosferatupac – Capitalism Only Works If It Completely Strips You Of Any Sense Of Dignity Or Self Worth
Deep water at the bottom of Lake Mead holds a long continuous recording. Nosferatupac – Capitalism Only Works If It Completely Strips You Of Any Sense Of Dignity Or Self Worth. The lake floor opens into dense submerged textures that keep expanding in slow underwater currents.
00:35:19 Alex Ringess – State Of Emergency
Minimal circuits pulse across a wide open field of four instruments. Alex Ringess – State Of Emergency. Corrupted signals, escape trajectories and crystal-clear frequencies rise in continuous sequence. Heat waves and collective cognitive fields stretch outward in steady luminous patterns.
00:40:07 luxury elite – please stay on the line
A soft voice holds the line in endless floating space. luxury elite – please stay on the line. The tone remains open and continuous, the entire channel glowing in quiet sustained presence.
00:40:37 Monks Pond – Waves in the Cosmic Ocean
Waves move through a cosmic ocean of harmonium, space sounds, guitar, gong, singing bowls, ocean drum, chimes, bass, cello, drums and percussion. Monks Pond – Waves in the Cosmic Ocean. Every instrument expands into the same vast watery light, the whole surface rolling forward in continuous cosmic motion.
00:45:22 Planet Boelex – Surface tension
Surface tension holds quirky emotive harmonies across twenty years of detailed glitch. Planet Boelex – Surface tension. Small luminous details rise and settle in steady mildly glitched waves, the entire field recommended for headphones in continuous close listening.
00:49:09 Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Bonus: Aerospace
Aerospace corridors open across late-seventies industrial horizons of Warrington, Widnes and Runcorn. Warrington Runcorn New Town Development Plan – Bonus: Aerospace. Prophet synths and gallons of reverb carry the landscape in continuous nostalgic electronica. Workers and industry glow in soft infinite decay, the whole new-town field expanding in quiet forward light.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 275
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-275/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve just pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 275. A twelve-track virtual cassette that flips itself at the halfway mark, whether you’re ready or not.
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 varied ambient journey mixing cosmic library mystery, long-form meditation, playful ease, and quiet spectral presence.
Side A moves from Italian mysteries and returning echoes into modular uncertainty, wind-like drones, playtime charm, and challenging growth. Side B shifts through a quick French exit, Pacific waltzing, river-like storytelling, exclusive ghosts, piano stillness, and ends in an empty town.
Overall mood: Contemplative, atmospheric, and gently shifting — balancing deep immersion with lighter, more playful moments. Perfect for focused listening, late evenings, or quiet solitude.
I’ll introduce Side A now. Side B will wait for the intermission, as is tradition.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,103 other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers also receive the expanding series Veil Frequencies, recorded floor-by-floor inside the 24 buildings of a place called the Resonant Veil Enclave. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
Side A
On this episode you’ll hear the cosmic pulsations of “I misteri del mondo” (The Mysteries of the World) by Giuliano Sorgini — another gem unearthed by the excellent Four Flies Records.
Then legendary Japanese ambient artist Rhucle reinterprets Raúl Cantizano & David Cordero’s “Algo a lo que regresar” (Something to Come Back To) from the remix album Aunque llegue la mañana · Refracted (Even If Morning Comes). Eleven artists appear on the record, including zakè, anthéne, Wil Bolton, Ian Hawgood and more. It’s out on David Cordero’s Noray Records.
Next, UK modular synthesist and guitarist Analogue Path with “Uncertain-A” from his name-your-price album Early Days.
This is followed by the longest piece on the episode — a 14-minute meditation from Italian electro-acoustic sound sculptor Gino Fioravanti (Aglaia). The heavily echoed “Anemoi” comes from the recent name-your-price release Altitudes on Projekt Records.
After that we head to Seattle for the duo Guest Bartender Deborah Toyota and the track “Playtime” from their album Music for Babies, out on Mystery Circles.
Closing Side A is Baden-Baden’s free-improvisational drone artist stefan schmidt with the challenging ten-minute “arbrehl” from his latest album tharva gev.
But first, to set the vibe: Giuliano Sorgini with “I misteri del mondo”.
Now settle in. Turn it up just a little. Let’s see where the tape takes us.
One side flip. Just the music.
Side B
I hope you survived that one. Welcome back, sonic travellers. Six tracks down. Six still waiting.
You’ll hear my favourite Ramsgate-based artist, Nick Bonell (Lone Bison), with the waltzing “Be More Pacific” from his latest Castles in Space release Longshore Drifting.
Next we change the pace with Salt Lake City singer-songwriter Josaleigh Pollett and “Like a River” from her latest album If I Let It Quiet, available on random-colour double vinyl from Lavender Vinyl and also on Audio Antihero.
Then we find ourselves in Lincolnshire — famous for Sir Isaac Newton and for gribbles. The latter genius has just started releasing under his real name, Graham Thorpe, and this is an exclusive first listen: “Ghosts”, from the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures (digital release 26 September, available for pre-order now on my Trevlad Bandcamp page).
Near the end we’re joined by one of the most prolific ambient artists around, David Cordero, together with Slovenia-based Japanese artist Aiko Takahashi, for the beautiful piano piece “Montsec” from the album Night’s End on Home Normal.
Finally, as it was in the beginning, we return to Italy with Alessio Bertuzzi (Far Away Nebraska) and some magical ambient noodlings in “Empty as this town” from the album Halfway from nowhere, the latest release on Kordel Records (a sub-label of Jogging House’s Seil Records).
But first, Third Kind boss Nicholas Langley and long-time collaborator Stephen Cousins (Fisty Kendal) with the one-minute-thirty-six-second closing piece from their album Now What? titled “French Exit”.
Enjoy…
Side A
00:00:00 Giuliano Sorgini – I misteri del mondo
Cosmic, mysterious Italian library ambient with pulsating wonder and 70s cinematic flair. Atmospheric and intriguing.
00:07:16 Rhucle – Algo a lo que regresar
Gentle, returning ambient reinterpretation with soft Japanese warmth and quiet emotional pull. Tender and reflective.
00:09:42 Analogue Path – Uncertain-A
Modular, uncertain ambient with guitar textures and early-day exploratory calm. Sparse and thoughtful.
00:13:13 Aglaia – Anemoi
Long-form, heavily echoed electro-acoustic meditation named for the winds. Immersive, patient, and deeply contemplative.
00:26:29 Guest Bartender Deborah Toyota – Playtime
Playful, soft ambient designed with light-hearted ease and quiet charm. Warm and inviting.
00:29:36 stefan schmidt – arbrehl
Challenging free-improvisational drone with dense, tree-like growth and demanding presence. Intense and exploratory.
Side B
00:41:45 Hz & Fisty Kendal – French Exit
Brief, elegant electronic farewell with subtle wit and clean closure. Short and stylish.
00:43:07 Lone Bison – Be More Pacific
Waltzing, coastal ambient with relaxed Pacific sway and Castles-in-Space warmth. Easy and charming.
00:45:58Josaleigh Pollett – Like a River
Storytelling indietronica with flowing vocals and quiet emotional current. Intimate and sincere.
00:49:46 Graham Thorpe – Ghosts
Exclusive, spectral ambient with soft presence and quiet figures waiting in the background. Haunting and gentle.
00:52:29 David Cordero & Aiko Takahashi – Montsec
Beautiful piano-led ambient with collaborative clarity and soft mountain-like stillness. Elegant and peaceful.
00:55:08 Far away Nebraska – Empty as this town
Magical ambient noodling with open, empty-town space and quiet Italian atmosphere. Dreamy and spacious.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, due 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.
All the best,
Trevor
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 273
www.mixcloud.com/dashboard/my-shows/published/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve just pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 273. A twelve-track virtual cassette that flips itself at the halfway mark, whether you’re ready or not.
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 soft, slightly quirky ambient journey through floating persistence, growth, residual hope, and quiet promises.
Side A drifts from stuffed repetition and first cultivations into remixes of light, machine minimalism, low flames, and mysterious beings. Side B moves through glitchy indexes, bubbling collaboration, woodland ghosts, emptiness, suspended paths, and ends on a gentle promise.
Overall mood: Contemplative, warm, and gently playful — full of soft textures and quiet emotional space. Perfect for deep listening, late mornings, or peaceful immersion.
I’ll introduce Side A now. Side B will wait for the intermission, as is tradition.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,098 other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers also receive the expanding series Veil Frequencies, recorded floor-by-floor inside the 24 buildings of a place called the Resonant Veil Enclave. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
Side A
On this episode you’ll hear young Italian composer and producer Luciano Masala, better known as hershel, with the floating piece “Stuffy stuffy stuffy stuffy stuffy stuffy stuffy stuffy stuffy” from his debut album silent steps for a better way, available on CD from Whitelabrecs.
Then Estonia-based Paul Beaudoin invites us into adaptive drift with “1st Cultivation” from his brand-new release spores.dat, out on Sheffield’s Audiobulb.
Next, Wahn appears via a remix: Dissolved’s reworking of “Not All Is Lost”, taken from the album Re: Echo Mist Light, in which 18 artists remix Wahn’s classic Echo Mist Light. The release celebrates Bulgarian label Mahorka’s 500th release.
We’re back with Whitelabrecs for French composer Anthony Elfort (as Toàn) and the track “DEL 1”, created entirely on a single machine — the Deluge — from the album Solitarium.
Staying with Harry Towell’s wonderfully prolific Whitelabrecs, we hear a guitar-based gem from Michael Cottone’s long-running project The Green Kingdom: “By Low Flame”, taken from the soothing album Vespera.
Closing Side A is an exclusive from my upcoming compilation Quiet Figures: Brighton-based BUNKR with the vibrating “The Beings of Borde Hill”. The album currently features 11 artists including Anhnch, Cries from the LTN, Keith Seatman, BUNKR, The Gaye Device, HDRF, Simon Heartfield, The Earl of Dean, Graham Thorpe, Visionary Lines and Substak. There’s still time to submit — the window closes 24 September.
But first, to set the vibe: hershel with “Stuffy stuffy stuffy stuffy stuffy stuffy stuffy stuffy stuffy”.
Now settle in. Turn it up just a little. Let’s see where the tape takes us.
One side flip. Just the music.
Side B
Welcome back, sonic travellers. Six tracks down. Six still waiting.
You’ll hear UK-based Bibio together with Vienna’s Dorian Concept on their bubbling collaboration single “Shame”, out on Warp Records.
Then we revisit older Triplicate Records material with Nottingham’s George Evans (Suncastle) and the good-mood creation “Ghost in Trees” from the 2020 album Platformer.
Next we head to one of my favourite labels — the one-of-a-kind Cyclical Dreams from Buenos Aires — for a minimal track titled “Into Emptiness” by Trittau, Germany’s Christian Fiesel, taken from his recent release On A Second Thought.
Near the end we travel to Alfortville, France, for Japanese artist Hiroaki Yamamoto and the opening track “Paths” from his album Suspended in the Wind, the latest release on Driftworks.
And finally, from the excellent cassette compilation Connection: sculpting silence on French label Hylé Tapes, I leave you with Ekin Fil and Dominic Coppola’s wonderfully soothing “Promise To Never Be Like Them”.
But first, we return to 2020 and Santa Fe, New Mexico’s Richard Alfaro with the glitchy “Index”, taken from the Trip FM compilation Red Shift. Being six years old, it’s Name Your Price on Bandcamp — thank you to Triplicate Records for helping keep this channel sustainable.
Enjoy…
Side A
00:00:00 hershel – Stuffy stuffy stuffy stuffy stuffy stuffy stuffy stuffy stuffy
Playfully repetitive, floating ambient with soft, stuffed-up textures and quiet persistence. Curious and hypnotic.
00:09:54 Paul Beaudoin – 1st Cultivation
Patient, adaptive ambient exploring first growth and subtle digital spores. Organic and thoughtful.
00:13:46 Wahn – Not All Is Lost (Dissolved Remix)
Hopeful, remixed ambient with residual light and a sense of recovery. Atmospheric and reassuring
00:18:10 Toàn – DEL 1
Minimal, single-machine ambient created on the Deluge, with clean deletion and precise restraint. Focused and pure.
00:22:22 The Green Kingdom – By Low Flame
Gentle, guitar-led ambient with low flickering warmth and soft, evening glow. Soothing and intimate.
00:24:35 BUNKR – The Beings of Borde Hill
Vibrating, exclusive ambient with quiet presence and mysterious garden-like inhabitants. Intriguing and textured.
Side B
00:29:20 Richard Alfaro – Index
Glitchy, indexical ambient with fragmented references and soft electronic scatter. Quirky and detailed.
00:31:30 Bibio & Dorian Concept – Shame
Bubbling, collaborative electronic with playful rhythms and warm, slightly bashful charm. Groovy and engaging.
00:35:47 Suncastle – Ghost in Trees
Good-mood ambient with spectral woodland presence and light, platformer energy. Bright and atmospheric.
00:40:31 Christian Fiesel – Into Emptiness
Minimal, void-seeking ambient with patient descent into open space. Stark and contemplative.
00:43:31 Hiroaki Yamamoto – Paths
Suspended, path-finding ambient with soft wind and quiet direction. Serene and exploratory.
00:47:06 Ekin Fil & Dominic Coppola – Promise To Never Be Like Them
Soothing, collaborative ambient with gentle resolve and soft emotional clarity. Tender and restorative.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, due 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.
All the best,
Trevor
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 271
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-271/
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve just pressed play on another fragile spool of the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 271. A twelve-track virtual cassette that flips itself at the halfway mark, whether you’re ready or not.
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 reflective, slightly mysterious ambient journey through memory, floating worlds, and quiet observation.
Side A drifts from cello warmth and barking flowers into micro-drones, memory death, and floating liminality. Side B moves through ghosts, watchful figures, dusty relics, field-recorded nostalgia, watery reflections, and ends in Borges-inspired shadow.
Overall mood: Contemplative, nostalgic, and gently enigmatic — full of soft transitions and quiet emotional depth. Perfect for late-night listening, deep focus, or peaceful solitude.
I’ll introduce Side A now. Side B will wait for the intermission, as is tradition.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have 1,095 other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers also receive the expanding series Veil Frequencies, recorded floor-by-floor inside the 24 buildings of a place called the Resonant Veil Enclave. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
Side A
On this episode you’ll hear Stockholm cellist Henrik Meierkord teaming up with Indian artist Suseti for the title track “Hilate” from their latest name-your-price release.
Then Rotterdam’s Ard Janssen, better known as Ard Bit, guides us through surrender and introspection with “Barking Flowers” from the album Juxtaposed. That’s out on Dronarivm’s side hustle DƎЯRDE.
Next, the trio of Zach Frizzell, Kaiton Slusher and James Clements — zakè, Ossa and ASC — open their remarkable album Microliths and Momentary Drifts with the delicate “Microlith 1”.
After that, a piece from Boards of Canada’s Inferno: the quietly devastating “Memory Death”, out on Warp Records of course.
Then a collaboration between Tomotsugu Nakamura and David Cordero: the floating “Ukiyo” (floating world) from the album Aware 哀れ which in Japanese translates as pity or sorrow. Thats out on the wonderful Home Normal label.
Closing Side A is Venezuelan artist Angelo Sanellix together with Mexican producer Justin Ortiz (as SpoonBeats), offering liminal ambience in “long time ago” from the album Distant Particles, released on the prolific Stockholm label Valley View Records.
But first, the opening track of the cassette: Henrik Meierkord & Suseti with “Hilate”.
Now settle in. Turn it up just a little. Let’s see where the tape takes us.
One side flip. Just the music.
Side B
Welcome back, sonic travellers. Six tracks down. Six still waiting.
You’ll hear one of the strongest supporters of this channel — Gareth Evans, known here as HDRF — with an exclusive track from the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures (out 26 September). His piece is the wonderfully titled “Mr Baines (Is Watching You)”.
Then Scottish modular artist and Dustopian Frequencies curator Everyday Dust offers “Maria” from his latest album The Relic Room.
Next, Chesapeake, Virginia’s Ryan Watts (Akira Film Script), a long-time friend of the library and contributor to The Mystery of the Night. Here he brings the heavily field-recorded “N6-79” from Over Exposure on Driftworks. Shout-out to Andrew Heath for keeping that label so consistently excellent.
Near the end we drift through elemental sensations with Intact Veils (Kraków) and “Image of Water” from the album Saint Imago, released on The Artificial Pine.
And finally, Paul Haslinger and Christian Wittman close the tape with “Elogio de La Sombra” (In Praise of Shadow) from their album Borges — an immersive soundscape into the world of Jorge Luis Borges — on their own label NOION Music.
But first, Raleigh, North Carolina’s Derrick Stembridge, better known as Drifting In Silence and here as Unknowndivide, opens Side B with the drifting drones and IDM glitches of “Ghost” from the album Existence on Labile Records.
Enjoy…
Side A
00:00:00 Henrik Meierkord & Suseti – Hilate
Warm, cello-led ambient with soft Indian-tinged textures and gentle emotional depth. Intimate and luminous.
00:07:15 Ard Bit – Barking Flowers
Surreal, introspective ambient with organic oddity and a sense of quiet surrender. Curious and atmospheric.
00:09:55 zakè, Ossa, ASC – Microlith 1
Delicate, micro-detailed drone ambient with crystalline fragments and patient, drifting beauty. Precise and immersive.
00:10:52 Boards of Canada – Memory Death
Classic BoC nostalgia laced with quiet finality and warped analogue haze. Haunting and bittersweet.
00:13:17 Tomotsugu Nakamura & David Cordero – Ukiyo
Floating, transient ambient (ukiyo = floating world) with soft Japanese-Spanish elegance and gentle suspension.
00:16:22 SanelliX & SpoonBeats – long time ago
Liminal, memory-soaked ambient with distant warmth and soft, half-remembered atmosphere. Melancholic and spacious.
Side B
00:20:05 Unknowndivide – Ghost
Drifting drones with subtle IDM glitches and spectral presence. Ethereal and quietly restless.
00:26:05 HDRF – Mr Baines (Is Watching You)
Warm, slightly watchful ambient with community spirit and gentle narrative intrigue. Comforting yet mysterious.
00:32:39 Everyday Dust – Maria
Modular, relic-like ambient with dusty textures and quiet emotional weight. Atmospheric and intimate.
00:37:08 Akira Film Script – N6-79
Field-recording rich ambient captured with cassette warmth and domestic nostalgia. Personal and comforting.
00:45:02 Intact Veils – Image of Water
Elemental, reflective ambient with fluid, mirrored textures and soft emotional clarity. Serene and contemplative.
00:48:29 Paul Haslinger, Christian Wittman – Elogio de La Sombra
Literary, shadow-praising ambient inspired by Borges — deep, enigmatic, and richly atmospheric. Profound closer.
Also in the works: the next compilation, Quiet Figures, due 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.
All the best,
Trevor
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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