Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 301
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www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-301/
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.
Today, Wednesday the 9th of September 2026 I’m in Dublin Ireland for my parents 65th wedding anniversary celebrations.
A twilight, slightly modular ambient journey through forgotten breath, moon gardens, and new constellations.
Side A opens in Zürich intimate forgetting and Berlin blue hour, then dips through Kansas-Welsh dream remix, coastal winter voices, Portland octophobic pulse, and Ostrava time-observation. Side B lifts into Amsterdam glowing trails, Bristol granular blue, a Home Normal moon garden, Melbourne tribute to Carme, a February ambient waltz, and a Preston snowflake preview.
Overall mood: Melancholic, textural, and quietly luminous — full of exclusive transmissions, tape-like processing, and small rooms opening onto larger weather. Perfect for blue hour, deep listening, or sitting still while the winter mix keeps breathing for you.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies. They also get the ever-growing advance version of the forthcoming compilation Quiet Figures.
The tape unspools its visions.
00:01:16 Ryefield Society – I keep on forgetting to breathe
Exclusive from Imaginary North Transmission 012. Zürich intimate ambient. Melancholic melody, abstract texture, downtempo pulse. Chad Skinner masters. Mitch Burke paints the cover.
00:06:32 Hellbach – Blaue Stunde
Second exclusive from the same Transmission. Berlin atmospheric electronics settle into twilight colour.
00:15:25 millicow – Dream Within A Dream (bleepeater remix)
Kansas City modular spirit meets Welsh harmonic wizardry. Rap, synthwave, metal and poetry translate into psychedelic trance.
00:16:55 Noodle Therapy – The Dip
Brighton’s Dan Porter with Dennis White. Coastal, rural and woodland recordings meet modular discovery. Winter mix. Voices appear and vanish.
00:19:43 CONDITION HUMAN – Octophobic
Charles Terhune’s Portland hard electronica. Rave, acid and techno tendencies. Four lengthy pieces. Michael Southard masters.
00:27:07 blochemy – aure
Third exclusive of the episode. Ostrava synthesizer, guitar, environmental recordings and tape-like processing. Observation of time. Whitelabrecs, 19 September.
The cassette reaches its midpoint and turns.
00:32:12 Frank Pels – New Constellation
Amsterdam Sweelinck graduate. Glowing synth trails and weightless harmony. Infinite Seconds as first ambient release. Dionisaf designs the cover.
00:35:24 Trem 77 – Blue Shines Through (Granular Matter Mix Strings Mix)
Bristol sandpainting audio. Henrik Meierkord’s treated strings. Powdery modulated dust. Travellers between stations.
00:37:38 midorinozu – moon garden
Mike Cottone and Tim Diagram. Blurred electronics and organic texture. Home Normal, Ian Hawgood mastering, 25 September.
00:41:13 Arcane Trickster – Carme
Melbourne psytrance roots into ambient and downtempo. Damiano Verna, Christopher Innes, John Crombie. Immersive Love tribute to 2000s netlabels.
00:48:15 SigEnt – FebAmbWaltz
UK artist with Intellitronic Bubble and Neo Ouija credits. FORM@ first appearance. Eisei Yorimitsu selects.
00:51:44 Pyramid Eyes – Snowflake
Joel Stanier’s Lowness EP. Preston rooms. Stephen James Buckley masters. Preview of the 2 October album.
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 301.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
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