Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 314
Good day, listeners… or should I say, travellers of the tape.
Trevor here. You’ve pressed play on another Virtual Cassette Library. Twelve-track virtual cassettes that flips themselves at the halfway mark.
If you make music, or run a label, and fancy a place in the library, send your links or Bandcamp codes to trevlad@gmail.com. I read every one. Promise.
The shows remain free for the first week, then slip quietly into the hands of my Mixcloud subscribers, who currently have over eleven hundred other episodes waiting for them whenever the mood strikes. Subscribers also receive the expanding series of 3-hour adventures titled Veil Frequencies.
Now imagine each episode as a colossal rotating stage — a great mechanical blooming lotus. You, the audience only ever glimpse a sliver of it at a time. Every artist is allotted the exact time it takes them to perform their piece. Then they rotate out of view, and the next act glides in. The stage spins at whatever speed the track demands.
The names of the artists and labels I’ll mention before each set — or “side,” as the cassette alchemists call them. Six little incantations per set, plus a general mist of what mood to expect.
Now the stage begins to turn.
Roads that remember their own headlights, then loneliness painted in two colours that match the Earth.
Side A drives Mulholland in 1937 with the windows down, borrows names for unknown places the way lungs borrow air, lives in the comma of a virga that never lands, otherizes you into a pleasant hum, steps into a Toronto river that has already left for the lake, and works the grove after hours at the speed of sap.
Side B opens the other six petals: an altostratiform spirit message from Cloud School, Haku drawing a thin white line across Vespera, autumn filing unopened wishes so they can fall unnoticed, a serenade from a field that forgot its stars on purpose, a Brasstown Bridge baptism you did not schedule, and pale blue and white echoing until loneliness looks like a planet.
Overall mood: Contemplative, watery, and quietly migratory — full of Imaginary North hush, Passed Oceans dunkings, and weather that keeps the certificate. Perfect for dusk listening, dry shoes beside the river, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Mood mist: roads that remember their own headlights, places without maps, rain that never quite reaches the ground, a buzz turned into a stranger, water that refuses to be the same twice, a grove that works the field after hours.
00:04:20 Elijah Fox – Mulholland Drive 1937
https://elijahfox1.bandcamp.com/track/mulholland-drive-1937
From the album: Ambient Works for the Highways of Los Angeles. Year: 2025
Mulholland before the billboards learned to talk. 1937 still driving with the windows down, the city below not yet sure it is a city.
00:04:53 Absence – Breathing and Vibrant
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/breathing-and-vibrant
From the album: Names of Unknown Places Label: Imaginary North. Year: 2026
The episode title track of tonight’s weather. Unknown places borrowing names the way lungs borrow air.
00:11:50 Eluvium – Microfauna
https://eluvium.bandcamp.com/track/microfauna
From the album: Virga III. Label: Temporary Residence Ltd. Year: 2026
Microfauna under a virga that never lands. Whole kingdoms living in the comma between cloud and dust.
00:13:57 Tim Story – Otherize
https://curiousmusicia.bandcamp.com/track/otherize
From the album: Buzzle. Label: Curious Music. Year: 2025
Otherize. Buzzle sanding the edges off “you” until “you” becomes a pleasant hum in the next room.
00:16:45 Kilometre Club – This River I Step In Is Not The River I Stand In
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/kilometre-club-this-river-i-step-in-is-not-the-river-i-stand-in
From the compilation album: Lake Effect: Quiet Music From Toronto. Label: Imaginary North. Year: 2026
Heraclitus in Toronto. The river you stepped in has already left for the lake. Quiet music keeping its shoes dry.
00:18:37 Willebrant – Grove
https://willebrant.bandcamp.com/track/grove-4
From the album: Fieldworks. Year: 2025
Grove. Fieldworks filed under trees that do not clock off. The stage turns at the speed of sap.
The lotus folds. The other six petals open.
Mood mist: mid-level cloud sending post, dusk wearing a white mask, autumn keeping the unopened envelopes, a field that sings back, a bridge that dunks you anyway, loneliness painted in two colours that match the Earth.
00:24:14 Towering Vertical – Altostratiform Spirit Message
https://theastralrealms.bandcamp.com/track/side-2b-altostratiform-spirit-message
From the album: Cloud School. Label: Relics of the Eternal City, The Dream Journal Institute. Year: 2025
Cloud School leaving a note on the desk you cannot reach without becoming weather.
00:37:11 The Green Kingdom – Haku
https://whitelabrecs.bandcamp.com/track/haku
From the album: Vespera. Label: whitelabrecs. Year: 2026
Haku. Vespera drawing a thin white line across the evening and calling it a kingdom.
00:39:32 Ed Herbers – Wishes That Never Came True
https://herbers.bandcamp.com/track/wishes-that-never-came-true
From the album: Season Cycle: Autumn. Label: Passed Recordings. Year: 2026
Wishes that never came true, filed under Autumn so they can fall without anyone noticing they were granted.
00:42:41 Vivid Stars Forgotten – Serenade
https://vividstarsforgotten.bandcamp.com/track/serenade
From the album: The Resonant Field. Label: EC Underground. Year: 2026
A serenade from a resonant field. The stars vivid, then forgot on purpose.
00:48:47 New Battalions – Baptism at the Brasstown Bridge
https://passedrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/baptism-at-the-brasstown-bridge
From the compilation album: Passed Oceans. Label: Passed Recordings. Year: 2026
Baptism at the Brasstown Bridge. Passed Oceans offering a dunking you did not schedule. The water keeps the certificate.
00:53:51 Heÿkla – Pale Blue And White
https://driftworks.bandcamp.com/track/pale-blue-and-white
From the album: Echoes of Loneliness. Label: Driftworks. Year: 2026
Loneliness echoing until it looks like a planet seen from too far away. Driftworks closing the spool before the color dries.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 314.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 269
www.mixcloud.com/djsofabed/tvcl-269/
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. Episode 269. 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 quiet, transitional ambient journey through seasonal shifts, emerging light, and peaceful valleys.
Side A drifts between seasons, vast multitudes, falling chimes, and tape endings. Side B settles into valleys of peace, soft flocks, watchful ravens, precise night hours, fleeting warmth, and ends on a lonely dirt road.
Overall mood: Contemplative, gentle, and slightly melancholic — full of soft transitions and quiet spaces. Perfect 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 1 094 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 French composer Thomas Méreur under the name Heÿkla and the soothing drones of the track titled “There Might Be Millions Of Them” from the album “Echoes of Loneliness” out on the Driftworks label.
This is followed by a show exclusive cosmic floating track from maps and diagrams titled “tonal fall-Chime 2.0 [fragmnt]” from the upcoming release “beneath still stars“ dropping August 7 on the handstitched* label.
Then, Bristol’s finest, Jon Worsley, aka, Jilk and the textured atmospherics of the track “End Of Tape” from the album “Tetsuo II” out on Champion of Glasgow label Bricolage.
The penultimate track of the first side of the virtual cassette is by Manchester based artist Barry Smethurst aka Apta and a live take of his track “Emerge” from the 2025 release “Live @ Aviva Studios Manchester. 04/12/25” This track contains the only vocals on this episode, nice one Barry.
Finishing off the first half, friend of the airwaves, Cadis, Spain based, David Cordero and suspended atmospheres in the track titled “Segunda Linea” (Second Line) from the 2025 album “Numen” which means Divine Power in Latin.
But first, to set the vibe is the artist who got himself on this episode a few times by being super prolific, sending me material, and also by doing a collaboration with UK based artist Ian Hawgood, who mastered the previous played track and album. This is the blissful waves of Ian Hawgood & David Cordero in the piece “Between Seasons” from the album “Shifting Times” which is out on Davids’ own label Noray Records.
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 sonic travellers to the B side. Six tracks down and six to go.
You’ll hear the unmistakble sound of Jogging House in his track “Flock” from the 2025 album “Kiosk” out on artist currated super label Seil Records.
This is followed by Michael Cottone better known as The Green Kingdom and the guitar based ambient piece Raven from his stunning new release titled “Vespera” which means Evening in Esperanto. Thats out on a label that’s heavily on rotation here at the enclave. Whitelabrecs.
After that another live take this time by synth wizard Martin Stürtzer in the longest track of the episode clocking in at 21 minutes the space adventure piece “22:27” from the album “Dyson Sphere Beta“. A three hour live improvisation for Martins Birthday stream from 2025.
Then the penultimate track for today comes in the form of another Noray Records release from the compilation album “Aunque llegue la mañana · Refracted” (Even If Morning Comes) where 11 artists reinterprete the album by Raúl Cantizano & David Cordero this is the piece “Fugaz” (Fleeting) by Agustín Mena aka Warmth.
Finishing us off is San Diego, California based Phil Geraldi and the multilinear track “Lifeless Down a Dirt Road” from his vinyl debut album “Rural Deceased Undiscovered” out on Not Not Fun Records.
But first, a track from 2018 by Bali, Indonesia based artist Blank Embrace and the vaporscape tones of the track “Valley of Peace” from the album “Ascension” out on the Kaiseki Digital label.
Enjoy…
Side A
00:00:00 Ian Hawgood & David Cordero – Between Seasons
Liminal, transitional ambient capturing the quiet space between seasons with soft, shifting textures. Poetic and reflective.
00:08:14 Heÿkla – There Might Be Millions Of Them
Expansive, multitude-evoking ambient with a sense of vast numbers and quiet awe. Spacious and contemplative.
00:11:29 maps and diagrams – tonal fall-Chime 2.0 [fragmnt]
Fragmented, chime-driven ambient with tonal falling and delicate, broken-star beauty. Minimal and evocative.
00:15:47 Jilk – End Of Tape
Nostalgic, tape-end ambient with warm analogue hiss and a sense of final, fading moments. Intimate and melancholic.
00:17:22 Apta – Emerge
Gentle, emerging ambient with soft rising layers and a sense of quiet becoming. Hopeful and fluid.
00:24:26 David Cordero – Segunda Linea
Second-line ambient with subtle depth and restrained, emotional undercurrents. Elegant and understated.
Side B
00:29:58 Blank Embrace – Valley of Peace
Serene, valley-deep ambient offering quiet refuge and soft, embracing calm. Peaceful and restorative.
00:37:59 Jogging House – Flock
Warm, flock-like ambient with gentle communal movement and soft, everyday beauty. Comforting and light.
00:40:58 The Green Kingdom – Raven
Dark, avian ambient with raven-black tones and quiet, watchful presence. Atmospheric and grounded.
00:42:50 Martin Stürtzer – 22:27
Time-stamped ambient capturing a precise late-evening hour with deep, nocturnal stillness. Focused and immersive.
01:03:30 Warmth – Fugaz
Fleeting, Spanish-titled ambient with warm, transient glow and soft emotional resonance. Tender and ephemeral.
01:04:50 Phil Geraldi – Lifeless Down a Dirt Road
Stark, rural ambient following a lifeless dirt road with dusty emptiness and quiet desolation. Haunting 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?
Send entries to trevlad@gmail.com
Include artist name, track name and link to other work.
Tracks due by September 24.
All the best,
Trevor
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 243
Based on the track “Humidity” by “Ed Herbers” from the release “Season Cycle: Summer”.
Good day listeners, wherever you are. Trevor here.
Welcome to the Virtual Cassette Library. A 60 minute virtual tape with a metaphysical flip at the half way mark.
A tender, atmospheric, and deeply personal ambient journey through memory, nature, and quiet emotion.
Side A drifts from intimate remembrance and humid atmospheres into seasonal transitions and dawn-lit hope. Side B expands into majestic grandeur, childhood nostalgia, woodland paths, and gentle blue rain.
Overall mood: Introspective, melancholic, and warmly comforting with a strong sense of place and emotional intimacy. Perfect for reflective listening, rainy afternoons, or peaceful unwinding.
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.
Side A
00:00:00 Fallen – Room of Remembrance
Intimate, reflective ambient with soft, memory-laden textures and quiet emotional resonance. Warm and contemplative. Artist Bio: Fallen is Italian-based ambient artist Lorenzo Bracaloni known for deeply personal, melancholic soundscapes often inspired by memory, nature, and emotional landscapes.
Label: FORM@ RECORDS
00:06:39 Foam and Sand – Circle 68 feat. Masha Brodskaya
Lush, circular ambient with vocal warmth and soft granular layers. Dreamy and embracing. Artist Bio: Foam and Sand is the ambient project of producer Robin Schut, blending granular synthesis and dreamy textures with occasional vocal collaborations.
Label: Seil Records
00:10:33 Kasia Gawlik – Echo 2
Delicate, reverberating ambient with gentle echoes and fragile emotional distance. Ethereal and haunting. Artist Bio: Kasia Gawlik is a Polish ambient artist creating fragile, echo-filled soundscapes that explore memory and emotional space.
Label: whitelabrecs
00:16:30 Ed Herbers – Humidity
Muggy, atmospheric ambient capturing thick summer air and subtle, sticky warmth. Immersive and tactile. Artist Bio: Ed Herbers is a UK ambient musician known for seasonal, textural works that capture natural atmospheres and emotional states.
Label: Passed Recordings (release date – 21 June 2026)
00:18:31 Jics – Concetta (In North York At Dawn)
Gentle, dawn-lit ambient with Toronto morning light and quiet, personal intimacy. Serene and hopeful. Artist Bio: Jics is a Toronto-based ambient artist crafting intimate, location-inspired pieces that capture personal moments and urban dawn.
Label: Imaginary North (release date – 19 June 2026)
00:20:33 David Cordero – Nubilus
Cloudy, drifting ambient with soft, nebulous textures and gentle, overcast serenity. Ethereal and meditative.
Artist Bio: David Cordero is a Spanish ambient composer from Cádiz who runs Noray Records. His work often explores delicate, introspective soundscapes blending field recordings and minimal electronics.
Label: Noray Records
Side B
00:23:54 Suncastle – Hilaboa
Bright, solar ambient with uplifting warmth and crystalline, castle-like structures. Radiant and optimistic. Artist Bio: Suncastle is an ambient project focused on luminous, nature-inspired electronic soundscapes.
Label: Triplicate Records
00:28:57 Willebrant – The Grand Gallery
Majestic, spacious ambient evoking grand architectural halls with deep resonance and solemn beauty. Artist Bio: Willebrant is an Australian ambient artist known for grand, cinematic works inspired by landscapes and architecture.
Label: Self released
00:32:58 Akira Film Script – N2-16
Nostalgic, tape-warmed ambient captured in a childhood home with field recordings, cassette hiss, and quiet domestic peace. Deeply personal and comforting. Artist Bio: Akira Film Script is Ryan Watts, an electronic musician creating nostalgic, field-recording-heavy ambient works inspired by childhood homes and personal reflection.
Label: Audiobulb (release date – 10 July 2026)
00:34:22 Heÿkla – Through the Branches
Organic, woodland ambient with dappled light filtering through trees and gentle, natural flow. Artist Bio: Heÿkla is an ambient artist crafting nature-inspired, immersive soundscapes with organic textures.
Label: Driftworks
00:38:11 Intact Veils – Aria
Elegant, veiled ambient with operatic grace and shimmering, airy textures. Beautiful and ethereal. Artist Bio: Intact Veils is a project known for delicate, atmospheric ambient works with a focus on beauty and emotion.
Label: The Artificial Pine
00:40:40 Rhucle – Blue Rain
Soft, melancholic ambient with gentle rainfall and blue-hued emotional wash. Calm and soothing. Artist Bio: Rhucle is a Japanese ambient artist creating soft, rainy, and introspective soundscapes.
Label: Silent Songs
