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 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 322
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 stone cut in a century that has already left, then a MicroKorg noticing the room has changed.
Side A polishes a gemstone that arrived already old, keeps the distant sea far enough that you can hear it and stay dry, leaves an extra chair for two girls and the half that stayed, counts masts the harbour fog is still deciding to show, gathers every last drop, and opens a portal onto a room you have already been in. Side B lets the moon wobble a little more than it meant to show, hums rare earths through a circuit board in a language older than the plug, listens as a Connecticut house stretches fridge and rain into a room you can stand in, counts ninety minutes of air still in the lungs, files a ghost that already knew the address, and lets a stolen memory agree the room has changed.
Overall mood: Contemplative, slightly haunted, and quietly domestic — full of polite distances, home-shelf murmurs, and water that remains generous with the air. Perfect for dusk listening, houses that pay attention, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Mood mist: a stone cut in a century that has already left, a sea kept at a polite distance, two girls and the half that stayed, masts drawn in fog, a drop counted to the end, a portal that remembers you first.
00:02:18 Sophos – From another time
https://cyclicaldreams.bandcamp.com/track/sophos-from-another-time
Album: Gemstones VII [CYD 0166]. Label: Cyclical Dreams
Gemstones VII, the facet that arrived already old. Cyclical Dreams polishing it anyway. Title of the hour.
00:05:15 Ghostloop – The Distant Sea
https://norayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-distant-sea
Album: The Distant Sea. Label: Noray Records
(Exclusive track) Noray keeping the water far enough that you can hear it and still stay dry.
00:09:52 Restive Plaggona – Two Girls (And A Half)
https://dvntt.bandcamp.com/track/two-girls-and-a-half
Album: Leftina / Osha. Label: DVNTT
Leftina, Osha, and the fraction that walked between them. DVNTT leaving the extra chair.
00:12:44 The Earl of Dean – Masts In The Harbour Fog
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/masts-in-the-harbour-fog
Album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings
Passed Oceans counting the spars you can see and the ones the mist is still deciding to show.
00:19:41 Laura Burton – Every Last Drop
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/every-last-drop
Album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings
The ocean asked to be thorough, and she was. Passed Recordings keeping the glass upright.
00:22:01 Portal of Reflections – Memories
https://etherealprojector.bandcamp.com/track/memories
Album: Portal. Label: Ethereal Projector, Ambient Cat
A portal that opens onto a room you have already been in. Ethereal Projector holding the curtain.
Mood mist: a moon wobbling in its library, rare earths singing through a circuit board, a Connecticut house paying attention, ninety minutes of air still in the lungs, a haunt filed under the home label, a MicroKorg noticing the room has changed.
00:24:48 NOUVELLES LECTURES COSMOPOLITES – Libration
https://nouvelleslecturescosmopolites.bandcamp.com/track/libration
Album: Conjonction Astrale.
The small wobble that lets you see a little more of the moon than it meant to show. Conjonction Astrale keeping the book open.
00:30:05 Bit Cloudy – Motherboard Rare Earths Excerpt 1
https://bitcloudy.bandcamp.com/track/motherboard-rare-earths-part-1
Album: Motherboard Rare Earths (For Krankenhaus 2026).
Minerals that learned to compute, scored for Krankenhaus. The board humming in a language older than the plug.
00:33:52 Ümlaut – The House Listens
https://audiobulb.bandcamp.com/
(Exclusive) The house listens. Fridge, sink, kettle, furnace, rain on the glass, the click of a metronome. Audiobulb letting the ordinary stretch until it becomes a room you can stand in.
00:38:13 exquisitecorpse – ninetyminutesfromdrowning
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/ninetyminutesfromdrowning
Album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings
Ninety minutes from drowning. Passed Oceans still counting, still generous with the air.
00:40:29 odd person – absolutely haunted
https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/track/odd-person-absolutely-haunted
Album:Murmurs in the Mist. Label: Trevlad
Murmurs in the mist, on the home shelf. Trevlad filing a ghost that already knew the address.
00:42:39 Sunshine Playroom / Prozapine – Something Odd (is Happening)
https://prozapine.bandcamp.com/track/something-odd-is-happening
Album: Melancholy Melodies & Stolen Memories.
Stolen memories, a MicroKorg, a television from a decade that still thinks it is on. The room agrees.
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 318
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-set 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. Don’t look.
I hope you enjoy the adventure. Mind the flip.
Steps that refuse to announce themselves, then a forest that arrived a year early.
Side A counts silent steps so quietly the floorboards agree not to tell, loses a microlith before you notice, sketches four corners with no furniture, hides a small modernist house in the woodland, skims the surface and refuses the basement, and runs a film that never quite developed. Side B ties up under its own wind at a jetty grown on purpose, sees space invaders double and misses them, builds a reef from harmonics no one may stand on, leaves a green needle that will not say which word it is, threads blood through a low-lit labyrinth, and dates a midnight forest 2025 inside timestreams dated 2026.
Overall mood: Quiet, slightly uncanny, and carefully unfinished — full of small stones, half-cleared paths, and trees that have not been told which year they are in. Perfect for dusk listening, houses hiding in woods, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Mood mist: steps that refuse to announce themselves, stones smaller than a minute, squares that have given up being rooms, a house hiding in trees, land seen only from above, a film that never quite developed.
00:00:00 hershel – 16
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/16
From the album: silent steps for a better way. Label: whitelabrecs
Silent steps for a better way, counted so quietly the floorboards agree not to tell.
00:09:43 zakè, Ossa, ASC – Microlith 5
https://zakedrone.bandcamp.com/track/microlith-5-3
From the album: Microliths and Momentary Drifts.
A stone you could lose in a pocket, drifting for less time than it takes to notice you dropped it.
00:10:36 Nick May – Minimal Squares
https://nickmaymusic.bandcamp.com/track/minimal-squares
From the album: Sketches: Ambient Works.
Sketches that declined to become paintings. Four corners, no furniture, the light doing all the talking.
00:14:08 Enofa – Slate
https://enofa.bandcamp.com/track/slate
From the album: Small Modernist House in Woodland Setting. Label: Subexotic Records
A small modernist house in a woodland setting, roof the colour of an unsent letter, Subexotic leaving the path half-cleared.
00:19:10 Olio Flux – Land, The Surface
https://olioflux.bandcamp.com/track/land-the-surface
From the album: Selected Frequencies.
Selected frequencies skimming the crust and refusing the basement. Everything interesting is happening one millimetre down.
00:23:12 Akira Film Script – Jeno
https://etherealprojector.bandcamp.com/track/jeno
From the album: Holo. Label: Ethereal Projector
A projection that needed a screen. Ethereal Projector running the reel anyway.
Mood mist: a ship coming back under its own wind, a mouse seeing double in orbit, a reef built from harmonics, a needle that may also be a brain, a labyrinth that kept the lights low, a forest that arrived a year early.
00:25:26 Anubis Rude – Homecoming
https://ingrown.bandcamp.com/track/homecoming
From the album: Windjammer. Label: Ingrown Records
Tying up at a jetty Ingrown grew on purpose. The dog on the porch may be a god.
00:29:51 Letters From Mouse – Stereo Vision
https://tripfm.bandcamp.com/track/letters-from-mouse-stereo-vision
From the album: Triplicate Tapes Vol. 2: Space Invaders. Label: TRIP FM, Triplicate Records
Space invaders seen with both eyes, which is how you miss them. Triplicate printing the postcard three times.
00:33:20 Coda Nautica – Coral
https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/track/coral
From the album: Intricate Harmonics 2. Label: Neotantra
Intricate harmonics building a reef no one is allowed to stand on. Neotantra leaving the snorkel by the door.
00:38:31 Time Rival – Green Needle
https://timerival.bandcamp.com/track/green-needle
From the album: stay safe out there.
Stay safe out there — advice from a record that has already left the house. Laurel or yanny. The tape will not say.
00:41:44 Boards of Canada – Blood In The Labyrinth
https://boardsofcanada.bandcamp.com/track/blood-in-the-labyrinth
From the album: Inferno. Label: Warp Records
Inferno filed under Warp, the thread you were told not to look at.
00:46:19 Mark Ellery Griffiths – Midnight Forest (2025)
https://markgriffiths.bandcamp.com/track/midnight-forest-2025
From the album: Timestreams (2026).
Midnight forest, dated 2025, living inside timestreams dated 2026. The trees have not been informed which year they are in. They seem fine.
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 305
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 cliffside, slightly occult ambient journey through spirit bridges, distant evenings, and questions that keep answering themselves.
Side A opens among Provo cliffdwellers and castle waters, then dreams through 808 notebook sequences, sits with Scottish-Swedish darkness, tunes the senses to E.S.P., and holds surface tension across Passed Oceans. Side B begins a mysterious Mechanicus chapter, places the world at your feet for Phantom’s centenary, spices the reel with French library flute and Leipzig afrobeat, flashes a fourteen-second miniature, and ends decaying underwater — however oceanic of you.
Overall mood: Contemplative, faintly eerie, and quietly playful — full of exclusive darkness, compilation water, and short surprises after the flip. Perfect for late listening, sitting with the unexplained, or letting the tape keep asking while the ocean answers.
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.
00:02:21 spaceseer – Cliffdwellers
I start with an apology to the artist EBlo who in the last episode I mixed up with an artist of the same name. EBlo is in fact based in Malmö, Sweden and not the US. Also a shout out to the wonderful aeon who not only is one of my only subscribers but also left a comment on a show a while back and asked me to do an episode of his amazing CAMP radio monthly series Fragments. Opening this episode with a piece from the new compilation album Gemstones VII out on Cyclical Dreams that Record label focused on Berlin School, Ambient, Soundscape, Space Music, Drone, and electronic music. Provo, Utah based spaceseerer who’s described themselves as doom-synth and dark ambient.
00:07:20 Klaus Wolfe – Castle Waters – Spirit Bridge
This is followed by another track from the same Cyclical Dreams compilation. Klaus Wolfe is the only artist that has released work on The Dream Journal Institute label that seems to actually exist anywhere else
00:12:20 Akira Film Script – Dream
from the album Holo which is released on Ethereal Projector which is a sub label of Ambient Cat which in turn is a sub label of Chitra Records or something like that.
Ryan Watts. 808, Bass Station II and 303 from 2018, a daughter’s number sequences in the notebook. Hiroshi Watanabe masters. Meaghan Watts covers.
00:17:11 Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken & Henrik Meierkord – The Evening Seems So Distant
The first exclusive track today comes from this Scottish Swedish collaboration. From the album Darkness Is Just Darkness which will be released on September 22 on the Audiobulb label.
Synths, drones and cello. Spoken passages sit inside the music. Darkness as a state to sit with.
00:22:39 The British Stereo Collective – E.S.P.
The penultimate track of side A and an aboloute legend of the synth world. From the self released album TeleKinesis The trilogy that began with ExoGenesis and continued with ProtoSynthesis now concludes with TeleKinesis: a journey through the mind and the senses; through consciousness and altered states.
00:24:11 Trees Can Talk – Surface Tension
The final track of side A and the longest piece on the episode at 7:51. From that must have new Passed Recording compilation Passed Oceans. Classical instruments, punk years, electronica as therapy. Half of sales to Doctors Without Borders.
After that the cassette reaches its midpoint and flips.
00:31:25 Adeptus Mechanicus – A new mysterious Beginning
We open with annother long track of the episode at 7:42 from two compilation albums recently released. First the whopping 53 track name your price album Summoning 4 out on Hull, UK based Netlabel for sounds of horror, the occult and the unexplained “Dittany of Crete” and also on channel supporting Argentinian label Cyclical Dreams stunning Gemstones VII.
Adeptus Mechanicus is Dutch noise, dark space ambient and sound art.
00:39:06 Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman – I Placed The World At Your Feet #2
The second exclusive track of the episode and a shorter one at 1:42. From the album House with a Curse which releases October 16 on one of our favorite labels Clay Pipe Music. I love when these two get together. Shout out to Tommy for sending me this.
Score for the 1925 Phantom of the Opera centenary. Cinema screenings across the UK and Ireland.
00:40:25 Bolbec – À L’instar Du Flair
And now for something very different with some French floating flute library just to spice it up a bit. From yet another wonderful compilation album on the fantastic Batov Records label titled Around The Sun.
Batov Records celebrates ten years with a landmark compilation
Imaginary soundtrack beside Piccioni and Legrand. DJ Kobayashi selects. November 6.
00:42:44 Sandman Project – Questions Answers
Staying on Batov Records. Leipzig, Germany based afrobeat from the album, Hearts Forever. releases October 23, 2026. Tal Sandman. Desert-rock guitar and brass call-and-response. Golden Rules Studio.
00:47:07 ndrw cnry – Probably should have got the hang of this by now
Now, probably the shortest track I’ve ever had on the show clocking in at just 14 seconds. From the self released album A Certain Distance.
Miniature flashes. Photographs in the download.
00:48:35 Stewart Keller – How Oceanic Of You
This one confused me. I have it in my collection as being titled How Oceanic Of You but on the EP it’s called Ambient Calm. Anyway it’s from SHRIMP GAME: OVERKRILL OST (Contributions). Stewarts individual contributions to the SHRIMP GAME: OVERKRILL OST.
Decaying underwater world. CorrodedParadox artwork.
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 305.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
