Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 189
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
03 April 2026
votes.riddle.tuck.
Brams burgers – great burger joint. Now it’s just a coordinate for whatever this episode is.
Hey.
Welcome back… or maybe you just crawled in through a crack in the drywall.
This is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library. Episode one-eight-nine.
We’re still pretending it’s a radio show for the sonically adventurous, but really it’s just me and the frequencies arguing in an empty apartment while the world outside forgets I exist.
Headphones on.
Let time dissolve.
And let the frequencies claim you.
We’re bunching it tonight – four transmissions at a time, like weird little dreams stitched into the set. No schedule. Just the mood and the margins.
FIRST CLUSTER
Four signals crawling out of the high passes and the liberation fronts.
Sonic-Soma – Kinnaur Calling – Cities and Memory, Nepal field recordings turned into sonic soma.
The Music Liberation Front Sweden – Astra Shambotica – Submarine Broadcasting, astral jazz revolution.
Grosso Gadgetto – Quadrata Dodus Act 2 – Bulgarian label Mahorka, who might be the reason for me not doing these episodes for a few days. Keep an eye and ear out for future Planck Tone episodes I may be guesting.
Willebrant – Dell – atmospheric drone from down under. Birds in the rain. A must.
You just survived the first transmission: Sonic-Soma, The Music Liberation Front Sweden, Grosso Gadgetto, and Willebrant.
The space between us is definitely thinner now.
SECOND CLUSTER Brain shells cracking open, hits amended, voids flattered, dust explained. Zerfranzt – Hirnschale – which means skull or, the nicer translation of, Brain case from Kaiseki Digital, who I’ve been playing lately as Free Album Codes has provided me with codes for some early releases from 2018. German synaptic spill. Trevlad – Hits Enjoyable Amended – self-released soundscape from the episode of the same name. A repeat name from the spot where I try and sleep most nights. This one’s from the album TVCL 10 and has nothing to do with the track of the same name from TVCL 09. Puscha – Sycophanatic – NEN, Melbourne cinematic hypnosis. Provided by Fonodroom. Everyday Dust – Without Explanation – Dustopian Frequencies, Scottish drone stories that evaporate.
You just floated through Zerfranzt, Trevlad, Puscha, and Everyday Dust. Halfway mark is creeping up. I’m starting to feel that metaphysical flip? The universe just winked at you and kept walking.
THIRD CLUSTER (pre-B Side)
Edges blurring, bodies floating.
phorme – blur – Kaiseki Digital, Australian meditative haze from NSW. Also from 2018.
Takashi Kusano – Floating – Sounds for the Soul, Japanese levitation.
And then comes the B Side…
phorme and Takashi Kusano just lifted you clean out of gravity.
Now the bench is empty and the cats are from hell.
FOURTH CLUSTER (B Side)
Empty benches, hellcat beats, half-human wires, clinical worms.
Substak – Empty Bench – Daydreamers, Greek meditative park-bench snippet.
Le Morte d’Abby – Nyanko No Jigoku Beat – dark electro from the neon underworld.
Jilk – Half-Human – Bricolage, Glasgow idm hybrid soul.
The Foot & Leg Clinic – Worms 2 – alternative rock diagnosis under fluorescent lights.
You just sat on Substak’s Empty Bench, got bitten by Le Morte d’Abby’s hellcats, glitched with Jilk, and received a full worm examination from The Foot & Leg Clinic.
Your body is now 40% frequency.
FIFTH CLUSTER
Appetizers of life, grace with nothing, tidal animation tags, Nordic sea breath.
The Appetizers – The Life – Italian roots reggae funk from Rome.
Rejoicer – Grace Was Happy (I Found Nothing) – LA epiphany of joyful emptiness. Sounds as if Weather Report did music for film.
Record Of Tides – Yoshimoto Animation Tag – Mahorka hauntological Japanese cels on the tide. Glitchy 8-bit crackles.
Albin – Havet – Paltunes, Swedish sea inhaling your thoughts. Everything Albin Johansson touches glows with a nostalgic warmth I can never get enough of.
You just tasted The Appetizers, let Rejoicer’s Grace smile at nothing, rode Record Of Tides’ animation waves, and sank into Albin’s Havet.
The apartment is underwater now.
FINAL CLUSTER
Rain shelter geometry and half-a-day London melt.
Kikagaku Moyo – Amayadori – Guruguru Brain, psychedelic Tokyo forest clearing.
ff8282 – london / half the day – 4000 Records, fractured electronic daydreams.
You just sheltered with Kikagaku Moyo and melted through half a London day with ff8282.
That’s the whole set.
Thanks for floating here with me.
I hope the journey sends you in the direction of these artists. All the links, and purchase paths are illuminated at trevor.se and marked in the timeline.
If you’re still listening… you’re in the club.
No meetings. No rules. Just dust and frequencies.
Send files, confessions, whatever, to trevlad@gmail.com.
Send stories for Chord Confessions. I’ll read them in my sleep-voice.
See you in the next crack in the drywall.
Cheerio…
END OF BROADCAST Stream free for 7 days on Mixcloud. Background track: Trevlad’s TVCL 11. A sonic 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
Intro – 00:00
Sonic-Soma – Kinnaur calling (Nepal) – 02:09
The Music Liberation Front Sweden – Astra Shambotica – 10:15
Grosso Gadgetto – Quadrata Dodus Act 2 – 14:00
Willebrant – Dell – 22:00
Zerfranzt – Hirnschale – 25:30
Trevlad – Hits Enjoyable Amended – 28:20
Puscha – Sycophanatic – 30:29
Everyday Dust – Without Explanation – 36:15
phorme – blur – 41:00
Takashi Kusano – Floating – 44:54
B Side – 50:45
Substak – Empty Bench – 51:30
Le Morte d’Abby – Nyanko No Jigoku Beat – 53:19
Jilk – Half-Human – 58:10
The Foot & Leg Clinic – Worms 2 – 1:03:29
The Appetizers – The Life – 1:05:55
Rejoicer – Grace Was Happy (I Found Nothing) – 1:09:50
Record Of Tides – Yoshimoto Animation Tag – 1:12:43
Albin – Havet – 1:15:03
Kikagaku Moyo/幾何学模様 – Amayadori – 1:19:45
ff8282 – london / half the day – 1:21:40
Outro – 1:27:39
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Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 188
28 March 2026
hey.
welcome back… or maybe you just crawled in through a crack in the drywall.
this is Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library. episode one-eight-eight.
we’re still pretending it’s a radio show for the sonically adventurous, but really it’s just me and the frequencies arguing in an empty apartment while the city outside forgets we exist.
bags.colder.inched.
a great Thai restaurant, apparently. now it’s a coordinate for whatever this episode is.
twenty artists. no schedule. drops when the mood hits.
labels haunting the margins: Passed Recordings, whitelabrecs, Ingrown, Audiobulb… you know the ones.
braindance, idm, alternative, whatever slips between the cracks like water through broken concrete.
Honolulu to Amsterdam to Prague to Saint Petersburg. the world’s shrinking but the weird pockets are still warm.
send files, confessions, whatever, to trevlad@gmail.com.
send stories for Chord Confessions. that track that ruined you or saved you. i’ll read it in my sleep-voice or you record it yourself. win-win-win.
I’m also doing Trev Tales now—little dreams stitched into the sets. long lucid naps you’re not sure you want to wake up from.
headphones on.
let time dissolve.
and let the frequencies claim you.
First out from the amazing Passed Recordings label stable Cavern Cult – Of Hope (from the album Approach)
This is followed by Russian idm champ NDORFIK – Joensuu from the album NORTHERN CACHE out on Clean Error Records after that some Loneward. but first Of Hope by Offenbach based Cavern Cult.
That was Mike Carss aka Loneward – The Unknowable Realm of Wisdom from the album Paradox of Silken Stars out on Altus Music.
Next up we head back to 2018 The Microgram – No Service from the album Savage Architecture which I received courtesy of Free Album Codes, cheers mate. Out on the Lansing, Michigan based Kaiseki Digital label.
This is followed by another great Passed Recordings release by David Aimone – Curiosità Ajmone and the track TimeDown
After that The Bird’s Companion and Neil McRoberts but first No Service by The Microgram.
You’ve just been listening to The Bird’s Companion and Neil McRoberts – Another Day from a few places, one of them being the compilation This Burnished Land a wonderful NYP release on whitelabrecs.
Coming up some quality indie pop in the form of Saya Gray – LIE DOWN.. from the album SAYA out on Dirty Hit records.
Followed by California beach vibes with Poolside – Looking Backwards out on Counter Records. and then some Black Country, New Road but first LIE DOWN.. by Saya Gray
That was the post-rock stylings of Black Country, New Road – Intro from the album Ants From Up There out on Ninja Tune.
Next up the episodes newest release by Jics. Out on whitelabrecs today March 28th.
Followed by Man as Island – Automaton from the album AN that’s out on Russian label Local Gods and was sent in by NDORFIK who I played earlier. After that the virtual B side flip but first Jics – What Brings You Here from the album New South Wales.
B SIDE
That was Prague based artist Kh3rtis – Still, for a Time from the album In the Wake of Light out on Audionautic Records.
Next up Leslie Lowder aka idiiom – Solitude from the album Neural Network out on the Audiobulb label.
after that Blank Embrace – The Caves from the 2018 release Ascension out on the Kaiseki Digital label.
Then some odd person
You’ve just witnessed odd person – earthquake anxiety – my dismal arcadia available on the outstanding Ingrown Records label. Who is homeless at the moment so any purchases from them could be life saving.
Coming up me, Trevlad – Pipe Fluid Fame which is a location from a Hotel in Dublin where I recorded the visual for the video that goes with this piece. All my track names are geolocations of places that mean something to me personally. I use them for the backgrounds in the intros and outros of the episodes Pipe Fluid Fame is from episode 165 back in January. After that Simon Holmes – Broken (South Sudan) from the compilation A Century of Sounds out on the legendary Cities and Memory label. This is followed by Tomo Katsurada & Misha Panfilov but first myself as Trevlad with Pipe Fluid Fame.
That was Tomo Katsurada & Misha Panfilov – Mostra – Eternal Almost out on the label Future Days Radio run by Tomo himself.
Now the penultimate piece of episode 188 of Trev’s Virtual cassette library is by Wunderfish – Through Painted Figures (Prologue) – the third piece in the show from the Kaiseki Digital label courtesy of the amazing Free album Codes. This one’s from the compilation Bento Box, Vol. 1
We end this adventure with a stunning 8 minute outing by Ben McElroy – Surely There Are Worse Things – from the album Bird-Stone which you could purchase via whitelabrecs.
that’s it for episode 188.
thanks for floating here with me.
if you’re still listening… you’re in the club.
no meetings. no rules. just dust and frequencies.
See you in the next crack in the drywall.
Cheerio…
Virtual mixtape radio for the sonically adventurous. 20 artists. Drops about three times a week. No schedule, just a passion for independent music.
Intro – 00:00
Cavern Cult – Of Hope – 02:15
NDORFIK – Joensuu – 03:40
Loneward – The Unknowable Realm of Wisdom – 07:35
The Microgram – No Service – 14:10
David Aimone – TimeDown – 17:30
The Bird’s Companion and Neil McRoberts – Another Day – 22:45
Saya Gray – LIE DOWN.. – 26:40
Poolside – Looking Backwards – 32:10
Black Country, New Road – Intro – 36:02
Jics – What Brings You Here – 37:00
Man as island – Automaton – 39:15
B Side – 42:10
Kh3rtis – Still, for a Time – 42:40
idiiom – Solitude – 45:50
Blank Embrace – The Caves – 49:40
odd person – earthquake anxiety – 53:47
Trevlad – Pipe Fluid Fame – 56:10
Simon Holmes – Broken (South Sudan) – 59:30
Tomo Katsurada & Misha Panfilov – Mostra – 1:03:47
Wunderfish – Through Painted Figures (Prologue) – 1:07:30
Ben McElroy – Surely There Are Worse Things – 1:12:45
Outro – 1:20:30
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EXPANSIVE WAVES 17
10 October 2025
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Intro – 00:00
*Desprecio Nauseabundo – Self-programming the Mind to Avoid Suffering & Anxiety – 00:55
synkrotron – performance one – 15:54
*Xqui – one enchanted evening – 40:09
Rob Dobson – Europa – 1:26:25
Marek Manowski – Lake III – 1:42:15
Rick Sanders – Ascending – 2:09:35
Saloop – Soft Wool Teased From The Fleece – 2:24:14
S.E.T.I. – Galena – 2:37:42
*tracks are unreleased at the the time of the episode’s publication.
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Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 030
26.04.2025
Trevs Intro – 00:00
A Side –
Albin – 1002 – 03:31
THE GAYE DEVICE – Weightless Dreams – 07:40
Warmfield – Meet You Under the Clock – 12:05
Conflux Coldwell – Turnstone – 15:32
LANGUAGE FIELD – Ghosts Are Petty – 22:0
*Dave Clarkson – The Wonder of Space Dust – 24:48
Patrick R. Pärk – Static Fields, Endless Conversations – 27:44
Dr. Quandary – Bones & Portents feat. TIMESCANNER – 33:30
Ogle – Magma – 36:54
Slobject. – Ricky The Ear – 38:24
Weldroid – Orange Landing – 40:49
Maston – Liaison – 42:48
B Side – 45:43
Christian Kleine – New Young – 47:44
Off Land & Specta Ciera – Passageway – 54:06
The British Stereo Collective – Echoes of Urban Summers Part 2 – 1:03:28
Fflwcs – Gwydion – 1:08:51
Fallen – A Little Evening Poem – 1:09:17
Onepointwo – Bur-frag – 1:15:09
Romano – Hol Kahol – 1:18:08
Ulises Labaronnie – IN (SIDES) Part II – 1:21:28
Trevs Outro – 1:33:13
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 014
06.04.2025
Trevs Intro – 00:00
A Side –
Bomis Prendin – THE DRONES OF ORION – 02:25
Clariloops – Hold – 08:01
Sylvain Carel – The Reckless Lovers – 11:36
Alexis Delozanne – Illusion dOptique – 17:37
MadMenDuo – Sewage River – 21:59
Conflux Coldwell – Flood of 88 – 27:16
Hervé Perez and John Garner – hear the earth speak – 34:24
Slobject. – Jon Bon Jella – 42:01
B Side – 44:55
Flying Tulpa – No Expectations – 45:21
Ghost In The Loop – Drifting Between Memory And Oblivion – ■ ■︎🙵🙵■ ■︎🙵■︎ (Featuring Shipwreck Detective) – 52:13
*Tomo-Nakaguchi – Moon Gazing – 54:15
Ai Yamamoto – Solitude – 58:15
David Cordero & Rhucle – Social Distance – 1:00:30
Ulises Labaronnie – IN (SIDES) Part I – 1:02:07
NUUK – HILL – 1:09:41
Lillies For Ever – Oracle I – 1:12:39
*Ozbolt – Mysteries Of The Fynbos – 1:22:11
*Lullatone – Morning Watering – 1:24:37
Trevs Outro – 1:25:50
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
Mystery Apples 8
28.02.2025
Baïkonour – Hypnagogique – 00:00
La Chooma – Magic Plant – 05:45
Matt Berry – Safer Passage – 05:45
Cosmic Analog Ensemble – La Ligne Claire – 12:31
Mater Suspiria Vision – Das Universum bist Du – 15:14
Sean Ono Lennon, Devon Hoff, Yuka Honda, Michael Leonhart, João Nogueira, Mauro Refosco, Ches Smith, Johnny Mathar – Asterisms – 23:29
BEAK> – Cellophane – 34:21
Heldon – Ouais, marchais, mieux qu’en 68 (Ex- Le voyageur) – 42:02
The Galaxy Electric & Drew Mulholland – Welcome/You Blister My Paint – 46:24
Goat – Dollar Bill – 49:09
Hawksmoor – A Forest In The Sky – 54:56
El Hombre Al Agua – Zaxxon5 – 58:51
The Hologram People – Deep into the Cosmic Ocean – 01:04:38
Red Snapper – Tolminka – 01:06:50
SOMA – Amrta – 01:11:29
Polypores – Live at Castle & Falcon, Birmingham (28.04.24) – 01:15:26
Musette – All We Got Is Uz – 01:20:21
The Qualitons – ⵖⴰⵍⴰⵅⵉⵙ (Galaxis) – 01:24:23
Aldous Harding – Heaven is Empty – 01:32:31
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Snail Garden – 01:35:37
Sedibus – Seti – Pt. 2 – 01:37:28
Fridge Flammers – 71V3 – 01:46:29
Kavus Torabi – Chart the Way – 01:48:26
RETEP FOLO & DOROTHY MOSKOWITZ – Water Streams – 01:51:22
30 Door Key – Mistery & Imagination – 01:54:31
Spooning Details
27.02.2025
arc rae – Odds and Ends – 00:00
Ossa – Polyend44 – 05:38
Beefus B – Aliens Love to Funk Outer Space – 10:14
Veelargo – Smockery – 14:13
Jay Holy – Ice Age – 19:50
Lifting Gear Engineer – Peffermill – 22:55
Zachary Gray – Night Moves – 28:34
Coda Nautica – Disconnection – 31:19
Augen – Mineral Details – 39:23
Absynthie – The Rhythm Of Your Life – 45:27
NYORAI – 再逢 “Saihô” – 49:58
The Metamorph – The Earth Stood Still – 52:57
PROTO DROIDS – ARRIVAL – 54:44
Simon Heartfield – The Book Spirits – 56:13
Howler – Joulukuu – 01:00:07
Lights in Pairs – Business Deals – 01:05:05
4T Thieves – Fragment 2 (Enhanced) – 01:08:30
Bjarni Ben – Bláu Börnin – 01:11:24
Xylander – I don’t wanna learn – 01:12:37
Fridge Flammers – G.P.S. (Global Positional Spooning) – 01:16:30
ThorF – Ísbjörg – 01:20:13
The Tin Box – Luminelle – 01:27:39
The Voice of Saturn – Last Horizon – 01:32:39
Mystery Apples 5
15.02.2025.
Sedibus – Seti – Pt. 1 – 00:00
Forest Swords – Torch – 08:05
Joachim Stiller – Radiophonic Sound Bath #2.2: And To Let The Weather Decide Whether To Wear A Sweater – 09:49
Fatma – The Dirty Beat – 26:26
Dave Bessell – Ariel – 29:38
Polypores – Fabulae – 33:55
30 Door Key – Lucifer In Cefalu – 35:54
Jack Silverman Quartet – Nightfall on the Nile – 37:36
Fridge Flammers – Conga Town – 41:46
Baïkonour – Unreliable Memories Part 1 – 45:39
Glass Beams – Snake Oil – 49:19
Skyjelly – Killer B (Zonevreemd remix) – 53:47
Sababa 5 – Bezani – 59:48
Aldous Harding – Pilot – 01:02:43
OdNu + Ümlaut – Following a Number – 01:05:29
Anna Butterss – Shorn – 01:11:17
BEAK> – Ah Yeh – 01:15:26
El Hombre Al Agua – Three Minute Meditation – 01:20:57
Matt Berry – Telescopic – 01:24:01
Spotify playlist of all the Mystery Apples episodes so far (not all music is on Spotify):
Octagon Avenue
15.02.2025.
Rjania – Chalco – 00:00
Go Outside – Strength / Together – 06:02
THE GAYE DEVICE – The Nacre Octagon – 08:26
Memory Scale – The Armillary Sphere We All Need – 31:11
Leit Motif – Anam Cara – 35:26
Kilometre Club – harmony of sleep – 41:38
Noordic – Silence in Hornocal – 49:31
Leit Motif – Aonaran – 01:04:21
Sulk Rooms – A Dear Friend – 01:12:52
Hipwell + Kasperkiewicz – Laurasia – 01:14:02
autumna – en traversant I’avenue des cerisiers – 01:34:11
aeon & eckofadr – areol-four (Lilac Clouds Version) – 01:36:41
Metric System 1981 – Down To The Sea (Kilometre Club Rework) – 01:40:46
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