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.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here. Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 266. A 12 track virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark. If you make music, or are a label, and would like to be featured, send your file links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I’d love to hear what you’re working on. Please leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps. A gentle, introspective ambient journey through awareness, weightlessness, storms, and quiet reflection. Side A moves from attentive listening and zero-gravity daydreams into open arms and sweltering heat. Side B drifts through afflicted warmth, dawn-to-dusk passage, dramatic storms, blank slates, mirrored reflections, and motivated absence. Overall mood: Contemplative, tender, and atmospheric — balancing soft intimacy with moments of intensity. Ideal for deep listening, meditation, or peaceful solitude. I’ll introduce Side A now and Side B in the intermission. The shows are free for the first week and then go to my very few Mixcloud subscribers who get to enjoy the 1 089 other shows whenever they like. As a subscriber you also get access to my new series Veil Frequencies based on a fictional world I’ve created called The Resonant Veil Enclave. Each episode is around three hours and recorded from one of the floors of the 24 buildings in the veil. You can read about it on my Substack page. Mixcloud subscribers also get the ever expanding version of the upcoming compilation titled Quiet Figures. On this TVCL episode you’ll be aurally pleasured by Japanese sound artist yolabmi rouses us with their soundworld in the track “Awareness” from the album “Internal Resurrection” available via the wonderful Lithuanian label Amulet of Tears. Followed by the collaboration of Tobias Lorsbach aka Logic Moon and JJ Rogalski aka Piscean Daydreams in their deep drone, space ambient track “Life in Zero Gravity” from the album Musica Universalis which you can get through Chitra Records sub label Ambient Cat. Then Paris based Italian modular composer Alessandro De Nicola bathes us in drone in the track titled “Open Arms” from the 27 track double baby pink cassette compilation “Connection: sculpting silence” from 2024 out on Hylé Tapes. The penultimate track of the first side of the virtual cassette is by Danish artist øjeRum (eye space), and their piece titled “Et Pust I Sivet”(A Breath Among the Reeds) from the 2022 album Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers. Available through Amulet of Tears. Finishing off the first half is Cincinnati, Ohio based friend Ed Herbers with a track many of us have felt recently titled “Sweltering” from the third of his four part album series titled “Season Cycle: Summer” from the always brilliant Passed Recordings label. But first, to set the vibe is British producer Ryan Bissett, aka Halftribe, with a gentle, atmospheric invitation into the episode via the track “Listen” from the album “Disappear in Silent Ways” out on Dutch label DRONARIVM. Now settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it. One side flip, just the music.
Welcome to the B side. Six tracks down and six to go. You’ll hear Rick Jones better known as Dark Fidelity Hi Fi in a short colourful cascade in the track “Dawn To Dusk Passenger” from the Limited Edition CD album “Your Skyline Correspondent” and that’s out on Glasgow based super label Bricolage. After that Minneapolis, Minnesota based duo Amy McNally and Matthew Hiram aka Visible Light with their immersive field recordings from El Yunque Bosque Nacional, Puerto Rico and a piece titled “La Tormenta” (The Storm) from the eco-friendly CD EP Sierra de Luquillo: A Living Soundscape. Then Los Angeles, California based friend David Strother brings the track that inspired this episode titled “Tabula Rasa” a short suggestive violin piece from his latest release “A Brilliant Midnight”. Then the penultimate track for today comes in the form of another track from that wonderful Hylé Tapes compilation “Connection: sculpting silence” this time by the amazing modular artist Andrea Cichecki and the bubbling sounds of “Mirrored reflections”. Finishing us off is Québec based artist Mathieu Lamontagne better known as Arbee and the modular based track “Absence motivée” (excused absence) from the album “En vain” (In Vain) out on the ever astounding Ambient Cat label. But first, Anthony Asher-Yates the artist behind Bålsam with a highly personal ambient track titled “Afligido” (Afflicted) from the album “Soñador” (Dreamer), available on a stunning cassette release from DRONARIVM sister label Le Mont Analogue, Enjoy…
Side A 00:00:00 Halftribe – Listen Quiet, attentive ambient with soft layers inviting deep listening. Calm, spacious, and meditative. 00:05:33 yolabmi – Awareness Gentle, mindful ambient with soft focus and a sense of quiet presence. Intimate and reflective. 00:10:04 Logic Moon & Piscean Daydreams – Life in Zero Gravity Weightless, floating ambient with dreamy, gravity-free drift and soft cosmic buoyancy. 00:13:27 Alessandro de Nicola – Open Arms Warm, welcoming ambient with open, embracing textures and emotional generosity. Tender and inviting. 00:19:23 øjeRum – Et Pust I Sivet Delicate, breath-in-the-reeds ambient with soft Danish minimalism and fragile, natural stillness. 00:23:22 Ed Herbers – Sweltering Humid, heat-soaked ambient capturing thick summer air and sticky, immersive warmth. Side B 00:25:03 Bålsam – Afligido Melancholic, afflicted ambient with soft sorrow and balsam-like emotional soothe. Poignant and healing. 00:27:12 Dark Fidelity Hi Fi – Dawn To Dusk Passenger Journeying synth tracing the arc from dawn to dusk with glowing, passenger-like motion. Warm and cinematic. 00:28:23 Visible Light – La Tormenta Dramatic, storm-driven ambient with turbulent energy and Puerto Rican intensity. Powerful and immersive. 00:41:24 David Strother – Tabula Rasa Clean, blank-slate ambient with pure, reset textures and quiet potential. Minimal and open. 00:42:00 Andrea Cichecki – Mirrored reflections Reflective, mirrored ambient with doubling layers and soft, self-regarding beauty. Contemplative and elegant. 00:46:03 Arbee – Absence motivée Motivated absence ambient with deliberate emptiness and French-titled quiet space. Thoughtful and sparse.
Also in the works, the latest compilation titled Quiet Figures which will be released September 26. Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries. Does that trigger a creative thought?
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here. Apologies for the sound quality today. I’m on holidays and find it hard to hard to get a spot quiet enough to record. Anyway… Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 257. A 12 track virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark. If you make music, or are a label, and would like to be featured, send your file links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I’d love to hear what you’re working on. Please leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps. A mystical, elemental, and introspective ambient journey through light, water, time, and deep space. Side A moves from beacon magic and burning waters into glade mornings, rising energy, and druidic sacredness. Side B rolls through time carpets, anchoring resilience, ocean overlooks, deeper dreams, and reduced space walks. Overall mood: Contemplative, wondrous, and atmospheric with a strong sense of vastness and quiet power. Perfect for deep listening, nature connection, or late-night immersion. I’ve gone back to doing more podcast like episodes but I’ll do all the talking now as I put a lot of love into making seamless segued mixes. There is just one break halfway through to give the “virtual cassette” meaning. The shows are free for the first week and then go to my too few subscribers who get to enjoy the 257 episodes plus the 819 other shows whenever they like all for the price of… I actually don’t know what you can buy for €3 anymore. It used to be a coffee. Episode 257 is based on an exclusive soothing drone track “arc gap” by Tallinn, Estonia based “Paul Beaudoin” from the release “signal loss” coming out on Dragon’s Eye Recordings on the 10th of July. On this episode you’ll be aurally pleasured by Italian artist M. Beckmann aka The Volume Settings Folder with his improvised stylings from a release on the one of a kind ambient whitelabrecs label. Rays of light in the form of Bahram Bahrami, Ross Bartlett, and Daniel Field who are Bahrambient, Retland, and Kilometre Club respectively. My Greek mate Substak with a lesson in field recordings from a Sounds for the Soul Records compilation. The only beat driven track of the show from Belgian artist Felix Machtelinckx on celebration of the rising sun with Subexotic Records Finishing the A side is a track from an album based on Risorgimento period samples clipped by Michele Andreotti out on Lᴏɴᴛᴀɴᴏ Series. Side B gives us inner and out space exploration from Oregon based Modular Synth artist Bart Hawkins. A meditative soundscape from Melbourne based friend Willebrant who’s sneaked into the mix twice. Then after the inspired Paul Beaudoin track we drift into a legend of the scene and one I’ve never been able to make contact with. Lee Anthony Norris, here as one of his many alter egos Moss Garden It’s available on lots of places including Fantasy Enhancing, Neotantra and NATURE BLISS. Penultimately from Trittau, Germany is Christian Fiesel with a release on Cyclical Dreams. Ending the show is the drone collaboration of Sunil Kumar Sharma aka Suseti and Karl Willebrant again with a Willebrant self release from last year. But Starting us off Rotterdam based artist Ard Bit is searching for a connection beyond the surface with the track “Fanal Magic” from the album “Juxtaposed”. Out on the Dutch Drunarium sub label Derde. Enjoy…
So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it. One side flip, just the music.
Side A 00:00:00 Ard Bit – Fanal Magic Mystical, beacon-inspired ambient with magical, fanal-like glow and subtle, guiding light. Enchanting and atmospheric. Artist Bio: Ard Bit is an ambient artist creating clear, precise, and unambiguous soundscapes. 00:11:53 The Volume Settings Folder – Burning Waters Pt 1 Intense, fiery aquatic ambient with dramatic, burning waves and emotional depth. Powerful and evocative. Artist Bio: The Volume Settings Folder is an ambient artist exploring elemental forces and emotional intensity through textured soundscapes. 00:17:51 Bahrambient, Retland, Kilometre Club – Rays of Light Luminous, hopeful ambient with glowing rays and soft, radiant textures. Uplifting and serene. Artist Bio: Collaborative ambient project blending light, hope, and gentle electronic warmth. 00:21:16 Substak – Morning in the Glade Gentle, dawn-lit ambient in a woodland glade with fresh, dewy textures. Peaceful and organic. Artist Bio: Substak is an ambient artist creating minimal, poetic works often inspired by haiku and subtle natural phenomena. 00:23:34 Felix Machtelinckx – The Riser Ascending, rising ambient with gradual lift and building, hopeful energy. Dynamic and inspiring. Artist Bio: Felix Machtelinckx is a Belgian ambient artist creating stark, minimal works with organic and skeletal themes. 00:28:49 Michele Andreotti – Luoghi Druidici Mystical, druidic ambient evoking sacred places with ancient, wooded resonance. Ritualistic and solemn. Artist Bio: Michele Andreotti is an ambient artist creating mystical, druidic, and sacred place-inspired works. Side B 00:33:59 Bart Hawkins – Roll Up The Carpet Of Time Time-compressing ambient with rolling, carpet-like textures and a sense of folding history. Expansive and philosophical. Artist Bio: Bart Hawkins is an ambient artist exploring time, history, and expansive conceptual soundscapes. 00:45:03 Willebrant – Keep Steady, anchoring ambient with a sense of holding on and quiet resilience. Grounded and comforting. Artist Bio: Willebrant is an Australian ambient artist known for grand, cinematic works inspired by landscapes and architecture. 00:49:21 Paul Beaudoin – arc gap Precise, gap-focused ambient with arcing electronics and subtle, bridging tension. Clean and thoughtful. Artist Bio: Paul Beaudoin is an ambient artist creating precise, gap-exploring, and electronic works. 00:53:07 Moss Garden – Overlooking Oceans Vast, cliff-top ambient overlooking endless seas with sweeping, panoramic calm. Majestic and serene. Artist Bio: Moss Garden is an ambient artist focused on vast, ocean-overlooking, and panoramic soundscapes. 00:59:18 Christian Fiesel – Deeper Dreamscape Deep, immersive dream ambient with layered, subconscious textures and profound inner exploration. Artist Bio: Christian Fiesel is an ambient artist creating deep, dream-like, and immersive soundscapes. 01:07:23 Suseti/Willebrant – Deep (space walk reduction) Reduced, deep space ambient with weightless drift and reduced, minimalist cosmic beauty. Artist Bio: Suseti & Willebrant collaborate on deep, space-walk-inspired ambient reductions.
Also in the works, the latest compilation titled Quiet Figures which will be released September 26. Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries. Does that trigger a creative thought?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name and link to other work. Tracks due by September 24.
A warm, gentle, and emotionally rich ambient journey through mornings, memories, and cosmic wonder. Side A drifts from intimate closeness and summer radiance into delicate mornings and scattered light. Side B flows through lazy Sundays, recursive feathers, silent hours, heartfelt balm, and ends on an awe-inspiring Earthrise. Overall mood: Serene, nostalgic, and hopeful with a strong sense of warmth and quiet beauty. Perfect for morning listening, deep relaxation, or peaceful reflection. Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here. Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 253. A 12 track virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark. If you make music, or are a label, and would like to be featured, send your file links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I’d love to hear what you’re working on. Please leave a tip and subscribe to the Mixcloud channel every little helps. So settle in, turn it up a bit, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it. One side flip, just the music. Today’s mix is based on the track “Recursive Plumage” by “Dionisaf” from the release “Fractals, Vol. 2” which just dropped on the wonderful Ambient Cat label of which the track by M. Cross Dougherty is also from. also in the mix is mate of the show Ed Herbers with a release on Passed Recordings. The legendary Eluvium is back with a release on Temporary Residence Ltd. Simon Cacheux with a release on Adventurous Music. Aiko Takahashi together with Scattered Light has one out on David Corderos amazing ambient label Noray Records. Foam and Sand have a release on Seil Records Nick May with a self release. Mate of the mine aeon with a track from my latest compilation The Mystery of the Night which you really should have in your collection. Bålsam have one out on the fantastic Dutch label Le Mont Analogue Olio Flux ends with a self release which I’ve been featuring loads on previous episodes. To start us off though is the amazing Mark Barrott with a release on Anjunachill this is Closer, enjoy…
Side A 00:00:00 Mark Barrott – Closer Warm, intimate Balearic ambient drawing the listener closer with soft, inviting textures. Gentle and comforting. Artist Bio: Mark Barrott is a Balearic and ambient producer known for warm, earthy, and sun-drenched soundscapes. 00:05:43 Ed Herbers – Summer Solstice Bright, sun-drenched ambient capturing the longest day with luminous warmth and seasonal radiance. Joyful and expansive. Artist Bio: Ed Herbers is a Cincinnati, Ohio based ambient musician known for seasonal, textural works that capture natural atmospheres and emotional states. 00:08:38 M. Cross Dougherty – Undulated Flowing, wave-like ambient with gentle undulations and soft, rolling motion. Hypnotic and serene. Artist Bio: M. Cross Dougherty is an ambient artist creating flowing, textural works with organic motion. 00:10:22 Eluvium – A.M. Delicate, morning ambient with fragile beauty and quiet, early-light introspection. Tender and hopeful. Artist Bio: Eluvium (Matthew Cooper) is a renowned ambient composer known for delicate, emotionally rich piano and electronic works. 00:12:03 Simon Cacheux – Wasted Melancholic, time-lost ambient with a sense of gentle regret and drifting emptiness. Poignant and atmospheric. Artist Bio: Simon Cacheux is a French ambient artist exploring melancholic and time-lost themes through atmospheric electronics. 00:14:30 Aiko Takahashi & Scattered Light – Cinq Heures Du Matin (16mm Color Film) Dreamy, 5 AM ambient evoking early morning film grain with soft, scattered light and nostalgic warmth. Artist Bio: Aiko Takahashi & Scattered Light collaborate on cinematic, film-inspired ambient works with nostalgic and dreamy qualities. 00:22:30 Foam and Sand – Circle 70 Lush, circular ambient with granular warmth and endless, comforting loops. Radiant and meditative. Artist Bio: Foam and Sand is the ambient project of producer Robin Schut, blending granular synthesis and dreamy textures. Side B 00:27:01 Nick May – Sunday Morning Relaxed, lazy Sunday ambient with warm light and gentle, unhurried calm. Cosy and peaceful. Artist Bio: Nick May is an ambient artist known for gentle, nature-inspired works with warm, organic textures. 00:35:15 Dionisaf – Recursive Plumage Intricate, feather-like ambient with recursive patterns and soft, avian elegance. Detailed and hypnotic. Artist Bio: Dionisaf is an ambient artist creating intricate, recursive, and nature-inspired soundscapes. 00:41:37 aeon – the silent hours Vast, time-stretched ambient capturing the quiet hours with deep, eternal stillness. Profound and serene. Artist Bio: aeon is an ambient artist focused on vast, time-stretched, and silent explorations. 00:45:07 Bålsam – My Heart Tender, heartfelt ambient with warm, balsam-like soothing and emotional openness. Intimate and healing. Artist Bio: Bålsam is an ambient artist creating tender, heart-centered works with warm, soothing qualities. 00:49:50 Olio Flux – Earthrise (Instrumental) Majestic, orbital ambient viewing Earth from space with awe-inspiring wonder and cosmic perspective. Artist Bio: Olio Flux is an ambient project exploring themes of time, change, and cosmic motion through textured electronics.
Also in the works, the latest compilation titled Quiet Figures which will be released September 26. Uncover the narratives whispered by the silent, ever-present figures that shadow us, through compositions that unravel their hidden mysteries. Does that trigger a creative thought?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name and link to other work. Tracks due by September 24.
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
This is Trevor here, on the 17th of January 2026. Bringing you Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library, cassette number 169. Two sides, as ever. A flip in the middle. Twenty names scratched onto the insert in biro that’s starting to fade. We begin Side A, with Lisbon Portugal based JB Kyron and Tony Watts who together call themselves Hidden Horse — Trespass Into The Maze from their forthcoming release Renewer and also on the upcoming vinyl compilation Extracellular — from Buried Treasure. Which, at the moment can only be heard on CD when you purchase a Gig Ticket Promo. A gig featuring some great acts highlighting avant-garde abstraction & hip-swinging electronica which takes place at the Rising Sun Arts Centre, in Reading, on the 28th of February. Tickets are only 6 pounds. A no brainer if you’re in that neck of the woods. Trespass Into The Maze is a slow unfurling of field recordings and distant bells, like walking through fog that remembers your footsteps. So headphones on, let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. Next up is Scottish artist. Veryan — and the remix version of Needles At The Bottom Of The Sea, by Jules Straw aka, Pinklogik. Taken from the three track, name your price, self released, Broken Mirrors EP. Deep sub-aquatic drift, pulses that rise and fall like breath under pressure. Dolphins of Venice — Guldschmitt From Captains of Industry — Mahorka. Golden drones meet faint mechanical clatter, somewhere between Venice canals and abandoned factories. Coming up the channels best friend in the form of Gareth Evans also known as Horrowdwarf or HDRF — here with one of the many great tracks from my own curated 45 track compilation Resonances From The Depths. Gareth is one of those people you’re happy to have on the planet, and deserves at least a plaque for being himself. Layered aquatic melancholy, synths that bubble and subside without ever quite surfacing. HDRF, But Drowning. Now some damp drones from Mosaicist — Unseen For The Day From The Fog Is Lifting — released back in November on Whitelabrecs. Quiet guitar figures dissolve into haze, the sound of light slowly leaving a room. Now another track from that Buried treasure Extracellular compilation from Domotic — Ossature. Originally released on the self released Fourrure Sounds Vol. 2 — Bone-dry textures and soft fur-like pads, intimate and strangely tactile with bonkers bubbling percussive sequences. Next up LA based Steve Pacheco takes us out into the clouds with — Aspen Grove From Islas Calm Cloud — Whitelabrecs. Gentle wind through high branches, sparse piano notes caught in the aspens. Now from Antwerp, Belgium Gregory Geerts also known as, Strangebird~Sounds brings us some Eurorack modular magic with the track — FLUORITE From Minerals Form The Crust Crystalline resonances, mineral shimmer that feels both ancient and newly formed. Released on Audiobulb Records yesterday. Another exclusive track also from Audiobulb records now from idiiom wonderful improvised vocalisations in the title track Neural Network dropping on the 7th of February. Glitching, half-remembered machine dreams, edges that blur between code and consciousness. Finishing off the A side is an artists I played yesterday on the EXPANSIVE WAVES episode. This is applecore — fmbient From Contact At The Deep Bottom — a name your price release that dropped on the 11th of January via the Mahorka label. Warm, lo-fi ambient hum, like a distant server farm breathing in the night.
Side B
Starting of the second half of the show is a release from yesterday from Argentinian synthesist Ulises Labaronnie — Evening thoughts From Cycles De Mémoire — Cyclical Dreams. Reflective, almost elegiac pads that drift through twilight memory. And now Bernard Grancher — with, excuse my French, Sous les flots incertains et la fange du matin, which translates as Under the uncertain floods and the mire of the morning From Astra Lumen Solaria which dropped January 6th on artist curated label Astra Solaria Recordings. Blissful retro synth currents, morning mud, slow and deliberate. Gareth Jones — erSprach From Mortality Tables single — released January 12th on Mortality Tables. Odd sampled fragments, suspended in vast reverb, half incantation. And now the brothers Clive and Mark Ives also known as Woo — Abstract Objects From the album M=C — Self released on the 21st of December. Floating, free-form abstraction, gentle percussion that never quite commits to rhythm.
Some deep drone now from the legends The Black Dog — Sleep Deprivation 44: Frayed Edges Consciousness From The Black Dog Presents Sleep Deprivation Greatest Hits Vol. 3. Exhausted, fraying electronics, the sound of a mind at 4 a.m. still refusing to shut down.
Now a name we’ve all grown up with in Karl Bartos of Kraftwerk fame here with the track Another Reality From the compilation Bureau B 2025 Kosmische pulse, clean and measured, a doorway left ajar to somewhere parallel. We head back to Whitelabrecs and a release that dropped today in the form of the must have compilation Sleeplaboratory6.0 here is French artist Eric Allietta better known as Ancient Astronaut — Lightened. Weightless drift, light slowly returning after long dark. Rutger Zuydervelt — House of Strength From House of Strength — released last November on the amazing Dutch label, Dronarivm. Architectural drones, solid yet permeable, like walking through rooms made of sound. The penultimate piece from the episode is also an exclusive track from Third Kind Records 5 quid subscription service which entitles subscribers to exclusive stuff as well as 50% off merch. Rupert Lally & Nicholas Langley — Acid Pavilions Acid-touched modular wanderings, pavilions erected and dismantled in the same breath. Before the reels slow, a few words. Thanks for staying with it. These tapes aren’t made for playlists or algorithms. They’re made for the hours when the rest of the world has gone quiet. If anything here stayed with you, find the artists, buy the music, keep the small labels breathing. Stream this one on Mixcloud while it lasts, links and credits at trevor.se and in the comments. Say something if the mood takes you. Or say nothing. Both are fine. I was recently back in Dublin for a few days and met with a couple of my closest friends from the past. At the honorary pub session there was excitement about this final act. Who are new to me oddly. Thanks to Garret and Graham for the heads up. This is Thee Oh Sees — Toe Cutter – Thumb Buster From Floating Coffin — Self released Garage-psych motorik churn, the only moment tonight where things get properly physical. Until the next cassette finds its way into the deck—stay resonant. Trevor, signing off.
Virtual mixtapes for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists, two sets. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at Episode 138 of The Virtual Cassette Library. Glare Belonged Reaction is the episodes subtitle, as well as the track you’re hearing in the background and it’s geographical location which I’ve filmed and can be experienced on YouTube. I’m Trevor and I curate these 90-minute genre bending drifts through frequencies from around the globe. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion. Two, 45 minute mixes, 15 tracks per side with a side change in the middle. Picture the listening experience like being at a music festival where the artists play on a rotating stage. Each act is allotted time for their piece and as it ends the next act takes over rotating into view. Styles for this episode range from asmr to techno, from Ambient to world jazz. The musical keys in focus are E major and C sharp minor, D flat minor. This episode contains some household names like Martin Stürtzer, The Black Dog and Neutral Milk Hotel. Some friends of the channel like The Green Kingdom, Ogle and Time Rival as well as some supporting labels like Fonodroom, Altus Music, Mahorka, Projekt Records, Woodford Halse, whitelabres, Cyclical Dreams and Triplicate Records. You are all the soul of this show. If you’d like to be included on future episodes send your art to trevlad@gmail.com. Links to all the tracks are illuminated at trevor.se and marked in each episode’s Mixcloud timeline. Pre-order the 7th TVCL album on Bandcamp. It drops when we hit 16 tracks. Also the first channel compilation with 33 tracks so far will drop on the 8th of November, pre-orders are available. Subscribe and unlock 868 archived shows. Remember, every comment, every like, every follow, subscription and, album purchase keeps the frequencies flowing. So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at the coordinates ///action.scam.running—Episode 129 of The Virtual Cassette Library. A title, a signal, a portal. Also it’s the track you’re hearing in the background. Available for pre-order on Bandcamp, already whispering through YouTube, it sets the tone for what’s to come. These mixes are 90-minute genre bending drifts through curated frequencies—designed for walking meditations, mental meanderings, and quiet communion with the cosmos. No commentary. No interruptions. Just pure sonic immersion. Styles take us through electronica, ambient, berlin school, a dash of global funk, and more. The A side includes releases from some of my favourite labels Kahvi Collective, Adventurous Music, Cyclical Dreams, Batov Records, Mahorka, Home Normal with artist such as The Soviet Space Dog Project, and Buddahat. The B side includes some more great labels like whitelabrecs, Passed Recordings, and le mont analogue. Also two exclusive tracks. One from Australian artist April Emily a.k.a. ff8282 from her upcoming release a thin membrane between her hand. Dropping October 30th on 4000 Records. The other by Lorna Dune from her upcoming release Sequential Dreaming. Dropping October 28th on the always amazing Mystery Circles label. Head’s up! There’s just 22 days left until my first compilation for digital release. Which will be dropped on the 6th of November. Check out the socials if you want to get involved. It’s already got a bunch of fine artists lined up including Oceanographer, Dark Fidelity HiFi, The Gaye Device and many more. 💌 Send your art to trevlad@gmail.com. Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked in each episode’s Mixcloud timeline. 🎶 Pre-order the 7th TVCL album on Bandcamp. It drops when we hit 16 tracks. Subscribe and unlock 857 archived shows. 🧙♂️ Shout out to Nanogod, whose alchemical words add dimension to the Mixcloud timeline. Every comment, every like, every follow, subscription, album purchase keeps the frequencies flowing. 🚀 So now—secure those headphones. Let time dissolve. Let the frequencies claim you.
Trevor here, transmitting from home base Sollentuna, Sweden. This is your gateway to another immersive expedition through sound—Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 093 A 90-minute journey with a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark—perfect for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe. Today’s flight is sponsored by the labels that keep our circuits humming: Moniker Eggplant, Mystery Circles, whitelabrecs, Moolakii Club Audio Interface, Imaginary North, Subexotic Records, Moon Glyph, Castles In Space.
Artists on the show who have sent me material: Gelbart, .
Special thanks to Free Album Codes—always fueling the episodes with Bandcamp gems. 🙏
Also shout outs to, Zander Rume, Otis, Rick Scott Flynn, MoiCFlo, and, Aeon, for the follows, likes and comments.
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Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
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Trevor here, transmitting from home base Sollentuna, Sweden. This is your gateway to another immersive expedition through sound—Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 087. A 90-minute journey with a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark—perfect for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe. Today’s flight is sponsored by the labels that keep our circuits humming: Old Technology, Bathysphere Records, DRONARIVM, Fonodroom, Viaduct Promotions, Mahorka, Four Flies Records, whitelabrecs, Cyclical Dreams, and, Audiobulb.
Sponsoring artist: The Green Kingdom.
Special thanks to Free Album Codes—always fueling the episodes with Bandcamp gems. 🙏
I won’t be commenting between the tracks. You can do that on the time line. Don’t be shy.
💌 Want to be part of the transmission? Send your vibrations to: trevlad@gmail.com Purchase paths are always illuminated at trevor.se and marked at the top of each show.
Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
🌌 Welcome, sonic travellers—Trevor here, transmitting from Malmö, Sweden. This is your gateway to another immersive expedition through sound—Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 082. A 90-minute journey with a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark—perfect for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe. Today’s flight is sponsored by the labels that keep our circuits humming: Astra Solaria Recordings, DRONARIVM, Fonodroom, oscarson, Sonor Music Editions, Waxing Crescent Records, Castles In Space, Mortality Tables, Woodford Halse, Ingrown Records, and, Moniker Eggplant.And the sonic architects: Sankt Otten, Sergio Calzoni of ILUITEQ, and, Anita Tatlow.
Special thanks to Free Album Codes—always fueling the episodes with Bandcamp gems. 🙏
And to the latest followers: Ivan Smith, Belial Pelegrim, Paul Sandham, Ursula’s Cartridges, and, MasefieldLabs.
Big ups to aeon music and Nanogod, aka Otis for being such massive supporters.
I won’t be commenting between the tracks. You can do that on the time line. Don’t be shy. The tracks played are marked with links where you can purchase them at the start of each episode. or on the home page trevor.se🔹 Artists and labels—send your sonic offerings to: trevlad@gmail.com. 🔹
Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
🌌 Welcome, sonic travellers—Trevor here, transmitting from Torrevieja, Spain. This is your gateway to another immersive expedition through sound—Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 080. A 90-minute journey with a metaphysical flip at the halfway mark—perfect for a long walk, a mental wander, or a quiet moment alone with the universe. Today’s flight is sponsored by the labels that keep our circuits humming: Lunar Module, whitelabrecs, Noray Records, Preston Capes, Mortality Tables, Binaural Space, Imaginary North, Cyclical Dreams, Buried Treasure, Batov Records, and, Owl Totem Recordings.
And the sonic architects: Pietro Zollo, Bit Cloudy, and, Phil Dodds.
Special thanks to Free Album Codes—always fueling the episodes with Bandcamp gems. 🙏
This episode includes 3 exclusive tracks that you’ll probably only hear here before they are officially released. The A side opens with a descent beneath the surface—into fractured ground and emotional resonance. From Newcastle’s electronic frontier, Bartholomew brings us “Land Fracture”, a track from his forthcoming album Subterranea, releasing July 25th via Castles In Space very own Lunar Module. Crafted by composer Chris Bartholomew, whose theatrical credits include the Barbican and National Theatre Studio, this piece fuses cinematic storytelling with generative electronics, orchestral textures, and raw sonic abrasion. It’s a meditation on instability—both geological and emotional. 🌀 “Land Fracture” feels like a fault line rendered in sound. Granular textures crackle beneath sweeping harmonic arcs. There’s tension, but also grace. Think Hans Zimmer’s emotional weight, Tim Hecker’s digital erosion, and Ben Frost’s stark minimalism—all refracted through Bartholomew’s unique lens. The album Subterranea was born after a shared bill with Gordon Chapman-Fox of Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan. That performance led to this release on Lunar Module, and it’s already drawing praise from sonic visionaries like Leafcutter John, who described the album as: “Cryogenically frozen Beach Boys slowly melting from the Earth’s final great glacier.” 🎧 “Land Fracture” is just one of eight tracks that explore resilience, collapse, and the beauty found in broken structures. The full album drops July 25th on CD and digital. If you’re near Newcastle, don’t miss the launch party at The Globe on July 24th. 🌌 Let the ground shift. Let the frequencies fracture. This is Bartholomew.
Also on the A side a moment of return, of memory, of warmth wrapped in stillness. This exclusive preview comes from the upcoming album Aunque llegue la mañana by Spanish duo Raúl Cantizano and David Cordero, featuring the haunting voice of Lela Soto. The track is titled “Algo a lo que regresar”—something to return to—and it lives up to its name. It’s a quiet invocation of place and feeling, where Cantizano’s flamenco guitar gently converses with Cordero’s ambient textures. The result is a soundscape that feels both rooted and weightless, like a memory suspended in golden light. 🌀 Lela Soto’s voice drifts in like a breeze through an open window—fragile, soulful, and timeless. Her presence adds a spectral warmth to the minimalist arrangement, grounding the electronics in something deeply human. This is not fusion—it’s communion. Flamenco and ambient don’t clash here; they breathe together. The track is part of a larger work that explores absence, light, and the quiet persistence of hope. 🎧 The full album releases July 18, 2025, via Noray Records, with a limited cassette edition and digital formats available. Until then, this exclusive track offers a glimpse into a world where tradition and experimentation meet in hushed reverence. 🌙 Let this be your anchor. Let it remind you of something worth returning to. ⚡️ The final exclusive of the episode follows directly after this.—a track that doesn’t whisper, it confronts. This is “Trans Kid Karmic Vengeance” by East London’s Bit Cloudy, from the upcoming full-length protest album U.S. Nadir, releasing August 8th, 2025. Known for his work across labels like Castles In Space, Lost Map, and Front and Follow, Bit Cloudy delivers a sonic gut-punch here—an instrumental that seethes with urgency and layered defiance. It’s IDM with teeth. Ambient with a purpose. 🌀 “Trans Kid Karmic Vengeance” is a title that says everything before the first note hits. It’s a rallying cry, a reckoning, and a reclamation. The track itself is a dense weave of distorted textures, and melodic fragments that shimmer like broken glass in sunlight. It’s fierce, but never chaotic—every element is placed with intention. It’s resistance in waveform. A response to cruelty, to erasure, to the systems that fail the most vulnerable. And it’s delivered with a clarity that cuts through the noise. 🎧 Pre-order the full album U.S. Nadir via Bit Cloudy’s Bandcamp Page.
I won’t be commenting between the tracks. You can do that on the time line. Don’t be shy. The tracks played are marked with links where you can purchase them at the start of each episode. or on the home page trevor.se🔹 Artists and labels—send your sonic offerings to: trevlad@gmail.com. 🔹
Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
A 90 minute net radio show with a virtual side change in the middle. Perfect for taking a walk and knowing when you’re halfway so you can head home. Sponsoring labels: Subexotic Records, Woodford Halse, Lunar Module, Cyclical Dreams, Sonor Music Editions, DRONARIVM, Fonodroom, Audiobulb, Moolakii Club Audio Interface, and, Four Flies Records. Sponsoring artists: Fimnur, Gelbart, and, Go Outside. Links in the timeline. Comment your favourites. My latest album here: https://trevlad.bandcamp.com/album/tvcl-01 Artists & labels—send your sonic offerings: trevlad@gmail.com.
Today’s show features an exclusive track, Cut Out Within, from the album, Mostly True by Thought Bubble. An alternative electronic album blending layered synths, live percussion, and left-field vocals. The trio—Chris Cordwell, Nick Raybould, and Peter Gelf—expand on their previous work with themes of drone warfare, chaos and order, and madness. Set for release on June 25, the album will be available in vinyl, CD, cassette, and digital formats via Moolakii Club Audio Interface. The record showcases their experimental approach, merging electronics and live instrumentation into eclectic sonic landscapes.