Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 315
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.
Moss collecting light before the record exists, then tour days that travel only as far as their own shadow.
Side A gathers moss on a lotus that has not officially opened, parks Sol in the cat’s window, breaks Kerala dawn against industrial dusk, coils organisms above the weather, circumnavigates on a borrowed lighthouse, and smears 1982 until the hair still looks like a forecast. Side B lives in the umbra that remembers what cast it, opens water with no coastline drawn on it, retires speech for the evening, keeps a 2012 hold tone wearing pearls, jams Golden Acres until the punchline clocks out, and packs IDM for a journey only a shadow completes.
Overall mood: Contemplative, prismatic, and quietly migratory — full of exclusive October light, borrowed signals, and harbour lamps left on anyway. Perfect for dusk listening, hold music that never connects, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Shout out to my new subscriber Vivid Stars Forgotten. One more subscriber and we hit the Mixcloud minimum for a payout — the kind that keeps the channel’s lights on after dark. If you’ve been hovering at the door, this is the hour to step in.
Mood mist: moss collecting light before the record exists, a sun parked in the cat’s window, dawn as deconstructed club, organisms coiled above the weather, a borrowed lighthouse for a full orbit, 1982 seen through a lens that will not sharpen.
00:04:33 Ocean Moon & Silver Ley – Gathering Moss
https://oceanmoon.bandcamp.com/album/prismatic-fields
Exclusive track.
From the album: Prismatic Fields. Label: Open Universe. Releases: October 16, 2026
Gathering moss on a lotus that Open Universe has not officially opened yet. Metaphysical pop from a Cornish hill, waiting for October to switch the prisms on.
00:07:15 John Louis Kluck – Sol
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/track/sol
From the album: Ethereal Space. Label: Ambient Cat. Year:2026
https://ambientcat.bandcamp.com/album/ethereal-space
Sol hanging in ethereal space like a coin no one has spent. Ambient Cat leaving the curtains open for people and for the neighbouring households.
00:13:22 Sunken Cages – Kerala
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/track/kerala
From the album: Neram Pularumbol (As The Dawn Breaks. Label: Mahorka. Year: 2026
https://mahorka.bandcamp.com/album/neram-pularumbol-as-the-dawn-breaks
Kerala at the hour the title names — as the dawn breaks. South Indian folk arguing with industrial dusk until neither will admit who started it.
00:16:34 øjeRum – Recurring Dream of Coiled Organisms in the Sky
https://amuletoftears.bandcamp.com/track/recurring-dream-of-coiled-organisms-in-the-sky
From the album: Butterfly Tongues More Ancient Than Flowers. Label: Amulet of Tears. Year: 2022
https://amuletoftears.bandcamp.com/album/butterfly-tongues-more-ancient-than-flowers
A recurring dream of coiled organisms in the sky. Butterfly tongues older than the flowers drink from. The stage turns very slowly here.
00:26:10 Rising Galaxy, Arcane Trickster – Circumnavigation
https://cosmicleaf.bandcamp.com/track/circumnavigation
From the release: Borrowed Signal. Label: Cosmicleaf Records. Year: 2026
https://cosmicleaf.bandcamp.com/album/borrowed-signal
Circumnavigation on a borrowed signal. You complete the circle using someone else’s lighthouse and call it your own weather.
00:32:20 Craig Aalders – Soft Focus ’82
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/craig-aalders-soft-focus-82
From the album: Imaginary North Transmission 012. Label: Imaginary North. Year: 2026
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-north-transmission-012
Soft Focus ’82. The year smeared just enough that the hair still looks like a forecast.
Mood mist: songs that live in the shade, water with no map drawn on it, speech retired for the evening, a hold tone wearing pearls, a jam in the golden acres, tour days that travel only as far as their own shadow.
00:39:59 Hiram – Umbra
https://matthewhiram.bandcamp.com/track/umbra
From the album: Shade Songs. Year: 2026
https://matthewhiram.bandcamp.com/album/shade-songs
Umbra. The part of the shade that still remembers the object that cast it. Shade Songs filing the silhouette under “unfinished business.”
00:46:06 maps and diagrams – open water
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/track/open-water
From the album: returning light. Label: Home Normal. Year: 2026
https://homenormal.bandcamp.com/album/returning-light
Open water. Returning light that forgot to bring the coastline. Home Normal leaving the harbour lights on anyway.
00:51:18 David Cordero – Sin necesidad de palabras
Exclusive track.
From the album: Más allá de las palabras. Label: Noray Records. Year: 2026
https://norayrecords.bandcamp.com/album/m-s-all-de-las-palabras
Without need of words. Beyond them, even. Noray handing you a minute that refuses to be subtitled.
00:52:20 luxury elite – your call is very important to us
https://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/your-call-is-very-important-to-us
From the album: Split LP. Label: Ailanthus Recordings. Year: 2012
https://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/split-lp
Your call is very important to us. 2012 hold music still waiting for an operator who retired to a mall fountain.
00:53:41 Adel Music Club – TDC Jam (Remix)
https://adelmusicclub.bandcamp.com/track/tdc-jam-remix
From the album: Golden Acres. Label: FRBH Recordings. Year: 2026
https://adelmusicclub.bandcamp.com/album/golden-acres
TDC Jam, remixed across Golden Acres until the original punchline clocks out. The lotus spinning at club speed
01:01:57 SURVEY CHANNEL – Tour & Shadow Days
https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/track/tour-shadow-days
From the album: Along the Wind Spear. Label: Triplicate Records. Year: 2020
https://triplicaterecords.bandcamp.com/album/along-the-wind-spear
Tour and shadow days along the wind spear. IDM packed for a journey that only a shadow complets.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 315.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 088
Lunar Remains.
Trevor here—tuning the dial back to presence and possibility. You’ve landed once again on a 90-minute ambient expedition through the ephemeral ether. This is Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 088, your magnetic doorway to sonic immersion, with a metaphysical flip at the midpoint. Perfect for your twilight walks, intentional solitude, or just drifting between seconds.
🔊 Today’s journey is fueled by the circuit-bound labels of Mystery Circles, Mahorka, Subexotic Records, Imaginary North, Four Flies Records, Ingrown Records, and Driftworks. Eternal gratitude to sponsoring artists Hiram and Happy Hearts. And a wave to our newest companion, moiCflo, thank you for riding the resonance with us.
💎 Special thanks as always to Free Album Codes—unlocking the vault with pure Bandcamp magic.
🎛️ Featured sonic architects include: Hyldýpi, Ancient Astronaut, Yin Yang Audio, Bistro Boy, arc rae, James Osland + Francisco Sonur, KILN, MasahiroNARITA, Swansither, Henrik Meierkord, Romolo Grano, Gianni Oddi, odd person, Andrew Tasselmyer, Mentat, Voyage Futur, Patricia Wolf, The Microgram, OdNu, Grosso Gadgetto + Tokee, and Stephen Winfield. Plus a visit from your host, Trevlad.
🔗 Links to purchase and support these artists are planted at the top of this episode and live eternally at trevor.se 💌 Sonic messages always welcome: trevlad@gmail.com
🎧 No voice between tracks. You hold the timeline. Comment freely. Drift deeply.
Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
Intro – 00:00
Hiram – Surfacing – 02:40
Trevlad – Alternate Dimensions – 04:17
Hyldýpi – ((( V O N ))) L E Y S I – 06:53
Ancient Astronaut – Reverie – 15:25
Yin Yang Audio – The Sky in a Dream – 18:25
Bistro Boy – Chapter 01 – 20:09
arc rae – Triple Point – 22:18
James Osland + Francisco Sonur – These Long Roads – 24:58
KILN – Brutalist Desk Object – 27:05
MasahiroNARITA – FF(MN_Mix) – 30:19
Swansither – Monastic Remains – 31:32
Henrik Meierkord – String Drone Adagio III – 36:50
Side B – 47:40
Romolo Grano, Gianni Oddi – Nairobi – 48:26
odd person – earthquake anxiety – 51:33
Andrew Tasselmyer – Jan 24 – 53:29
Happy Hearts – When Winter Comes – 59:30
Mentat – Uranus – 1:02:24
Voyage Futur – Moonrise – 1:06:15
Patricia Wolf – I’ll Take Care of You – 1:10:57
The Microgram – Asystole – 1:12:18
OdNu – Moth Invasion – 1:15:17
Grosso Gadgetto + Tokee – Just passing through – 1:20:01
Stephen Winfield – Indian Summer – 1:25:39
Outro – 1:31:54
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 077
Dream Cabinet.
🌌 Welcome, sonic travellers—Trevor here, transmitting from Torrevieja, Spain. This is your gateway to another immersive expedition through sound—Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 077. 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: Audiobulb, Cyclical Dreams, oscarson, Mahorka, whitelabrecs, and, Downstream Records.
And of course, the sonic architects: Sankt Otten, Anita Tatlow, and, Hiram.
Special thanks to Free Album Codes—always fueling the episodes with Bandcamp gems. 🙏
This episode includes 4 exclusive tracks that you’ll probably only hear here before they are officially released. On the A side we have Jacek Doroszenko & Autistici – Your Modal Realism – Familiarity Folded. A three-part sonic exploration by Autistici, featuring collaborations with Jacek Doroszenko, Russ Young, and Corey Gordon. This release unpacks the intimacy of remix culture—where melodies stretch, fold, and reshape into immersive, ambient architecture. Join the Listening Party 🗓 July 23, 2025 ⏰ 8:00 PM GMT+2 💻 Hosted by Autistici & Audiobulb. Experience the exclusive track “After Water Formed A Shape” now, and prepare for a release that transforms musical boundaries into emotional topographies. Remember this episode will only be available for non subscribers for 7 days.
On the B Side we have the remain 3 exclusives. First the shortest track I’ve ever had on the show clocking in at 9 seconds. Johnny Johnston – HTV Waterfall Ident- Sky : original HTV soundtrack. by Eric Wetherell Issued by Buried Treasure, this atmospheric release presents the eerie and evocative soundtrack to HTV’s 1975 cult sci-fi television series Sky, created by Doctor Who veterans Bob Baker and Dave Martin.
The Vinyl Release: Coming as a transparent ice blue 10″ LP, each copy includes a TV Times postcard and a stunning A3 poster of Sky’s original Look-In magazine cover, illustrated by Arnaldo Putzu.
The exclusive release date for this anticipated work is 1 August. The global release coming on the 5 of August.
Also on the B Side there is another exclusive from the wonderful Audiobulb label, Marc Neys – Behind Door Nr. 5 – Sanctuary. Step inside the silence… Marc Neys invites you into Sanctuary, a meditative sound journey woven from drones, piano fragments, and echoes of the natural world. 🎧 Join the Listening Party – July 4 @ 8PM GMT+2.
The last exclusive is from Matthew Hiram, simply known as Hiram. with the track ‘Seedlight’ is a bonus track on the Solarium Song! It’s available as the B side to the limited “Surfacing” lathe cut release, and it is included with the digital download of the full album with purchase through Bandcamp.
I’ve just, yesterday, released my second album of 17 pieces from my latest 17 shows, the backgrounds from my voiceovers without all this babbling nonsense. If subscribing to support this channel is not your thing then maybe purchasing the album on Bandcamp suits you more. Or do both I’ve provided Bandcamp codes in a subscriber post titled “some-free-bandcamp-codes” on the Mixcloud channel.
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. 🚀✨
🌀 Side A – 00:00
Trevlad – Cosmic River – 05:21
*Jacek Doroszenko & Autistici – Your Modal Realism – 09:08
John Scott Shepherd & Jamie Zarfas – Crystal Space Caverns – 13:24
anthéne – respire – 18:29
Optionica – Disappointed [ENV(itre) Hope RMX] – 22:11
Caught In Joy – The Wind Always Blows Us Forward – 25:45
Chorchill – Tea Bags – 28:47
Substak – Stera – 30:35
Jeff Gburek – Crystal Cabinet – 33:34
The Gaye Device – The Celestial Spectrum – 38:30
rikardfvs – the emptiness inside Salyut 1 – 43:25
🌀 Side B – 49:25
Sankt Otten – Geweint Wird Nur Zum Schluss – 50:08
Savta – desyne (solis) – 59:18
Alexis Delozanne – pm – 1:02:30
*Johnny Johnston – HTV Waterfall Ident – 1:05:38
Bowing – Quiet Ceremony – 1:05:45
Ironic Hill – DOWNER – 1:09:47
Adi Goldstein & Anita Tatlow – νερό – 1:12:27
Henrik Meierkord, Marco Lucchi & Pawel Kobak – Tyngdloshet – 1:14:59
Le Morte d’Abby – Pigmentatious Stratification (chibi mix) – 1:23:27
*Marc Neys – Behind Door Nr. 5 – 1:25:06
The New Emphatic – Running Out of Time – 1:30:06
*Hiram – Seedlight – 1:32:08
Outro – 1:35:06
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
EXPANSIVE WAVES 01
Here’s a not so original idea for a show, but us nerdy radio profiles get a lot of music through our channels. Quite a bit of it is long form which is not so suited for radio shows. It takes up too much time which means they get left unplayed. I know DJ Space Terrapin hosts Continental Drift but why should he have all the fun? Here’s my version. 8 tracks that have to be at least 12 minutes long. For how ever long that takes. In this episode that being over 2 and a half hours.
survey channel – Dirt Bike
synkrotron – Drone Day 2025
Tim Six – Alpine Valley (Night)
John Scott Shepherd & Jamie Zarfas – Zone 4 + 1
Ran Kirlian – Starmaker
*Autistici, Russ Young & Corey Gordon – Observing Hyphae
*Hiram – Slow Growth
Hyldýpi – Þ A K K LÆ T I
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 054
🌌 Welcome, seekers of hidden frequencies—your vessel has arrived at the edge of the cosmic fold. Step beyond perception and surrender to the spiral of auditory prophecies, bending time and space in their wake.
🔮 The sponsoring labels guiding today’s episode are: Imaginary North, Cyclical Dreams, Woodford Halse, Subexotic Records, Binaural Space, Lo Recordings, and, Waxing Crescent Records.
🚀 The sponsoring artists of today’s transmission: Mike Dickinson, ThorF, and, Hiram.
Also the benevolent force that ensures chosen frequencies find their way home: ✨ Free Album Codes
Today’s transmission features 1 exclusive piece from, Tim Didymus & Foster Neville, titled, Hidden, from the album, Ulla, which comes out on the great Subexotic Records label on June 13.
The rest of the show is filled with recent finds and releases.
Welcome to a soundscape that defies language—a passage through the unseen. We, mere surfers atop an infinite wave.
🌞 Shoutouts to passengers: Otis and aeon music. Your relentless listening to the channel makes me worry for your health. Perhaps you have transcended. Perhaps you have become one with the signal itself.🌿.
Links to all the material played are in the timeline where everyone is invited to leave a mark—comment your favorites, etch your presence into the mix.
🔹 Artists, experimenters, visionaries—send forth your sonic offerings: trevlad@gmail.com. 🔹
🔮 Prepare for immersion. Secure your headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
Trevs Intro – 00:00
Alan Graves – Phase Shear – 02:09
JICS – Rainfall In Limerick City: Ten Eight Twenty Four – 03:53
daily rituals – old names, adages, & hands – 06:20
Claude Lavender – Taster’s Choice – 14:53
C418 – Introduction – 16:30
Tsone – Compass North – 19:38
Anantakara – Tipping Point – 24:12
Apta – Jurema – 28:39
Alina Bzhezhinska & Tony Kofi – Anima – Breath – 33:06
Kate Bollinger – To Your Own Devices – 37:45
Mike Dickinson – Full of Stars II – 40:24
Omni Gardens – Autumn Haze – 42:27
B Side – 45:53
ThorF – Haust / Fall – 46:41
Hayden Pedigo – Carthage – Live – 52:46
*Tim Didymus & Foster Neville – Hidden – 59:01
Uncle Fido – They Experience Adventures – 1:02:07
Francis Morning – Ground – 1:03:50
Ghost In The Loop – The Rêve Tape #1 – Partially Restored – 1:06:56
Hiram – Viburnum – 1:09:22
Carlos Ferreira – Utopia (SVLBRD Remix) – 1:11:39
Marcus Farley – Piano Piece 1 – 1:16:13
Lo Five – The Intimacy You So Desire – 1:17:37
Trevs Outro – 1:22:40
*track is yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 029
24.04.2025
Trevs Intro – 00:00
A Side –
Polypores – Mise-En-Abyme – 03:10
Willebrant – Galaxias – 12:44
anthéne & simon mccorry – bell tower – 15:31
*The All Golden – The Second Floor – 23:33
Wil Bolton – Missed – 24:14
*The Bird’s Companion – A Place Outside of Time – 28:50
Goat Lightning – Beauty from the Television – 32:11
Hyldýpi – Öldugangur I – 33:25
B Side – 48:07
Sai³ – Moonlit Woods – 51:14
*Dave Clarkson – Liquorice Pipes – 54:16
David Newlyn – Everything Is Implied – 57:11
Dag Rosenqvist – Linnebråten – 1:00:44
*HERE – Hues Of Amber x Rose – 1:03:38
Slobject. – Now We Are Lost – 1:06:48
David Slowing – Ocean – 1:11:15
*Lullatone – Sun Routine – 1:17:20
NIGHTBABE – Beneath The Stars – 1:19:03
Fflwcs – Leisler – 1:21:03
First Snow of The Year – Hibernation – 1:28:39
*Hiram – Blossom Song – 1:33:22
Trevs Outro – 1:35:07
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 021
14.04.2025
Trevs Intro – 00:00
A Side –
Alexis Delozanne – Poudre a Couleurs – 02:10
The Gaye Device – The Day Before Forever – 06:19
The Eyes and the Mistoids – Smudge – 18:45
Hiram – Solstice Song – 21:14
Kilometre Club – firepits – 28:33
Ai Yamamoto – Blue Ocean – 30:25
Jogging House – Pivot – 34:27
B Side – 46:30
*Dag Rosenqvist – Inlandsmänniskan – 47:36
Exit Chamber – To Surrender The Self – 51:04
*Lullatone – Les Fleurs dans la Nuit – 55:00
Synthetic Villains – Something Like the Sun – 58:32
Hiroshi Ebina – A Green House – 1:01:39
aeon – aurora – 1:04:43
David Cordero & Rhucle – Horizontal Line – 1:08:12
First Snow of The Year – Decembers – 1:10:47
Ed Herbers – Sanctuary – 1:12:15
Trevs Outro – 1:25:15
*tracks are yet to be released at the date of episode recording.
Sunrise Meditations
23.03.2025
Trevors’ Intro – 00:00
- A Side –
Stegonaute – Cretaceous Spleen (Rework) – 01:50
Andrea Cichecki – A Tale Not Everyone Knows – 12:09
Ed Herbers – Sunrise – 18:05
Alexis Delozanne – Shubangi – 24:23
OdNu + Ümlaut – Johatsu – 28:42
Zanthin – Witcher – 34:05
Flying Tulpa – Liminal Space (feat Leif Wyn) – 37:31
Hiram – Sea of Green – 40:46 - B Side –
Kilometre Club – softly into sleep – 46:28
JICS – Rainfall In Limerick City: A Day Beyond – 53:42
Sai³ – [神域] Aetherium – 56:20
Wodwo – Spillikin #5 – 58:49
Erik Wøllo – The Beach – 1:00:08
First Snow of The Year – Lakes Reprise – 1:03:44
Hyldýpi – E N D I R – 1:05:11
Dayin – Meditations on Forgetting – 1:11:59
bios+a+ic – Chimney Rock Is Gone 1 – 1:17:59
Autumna – Lucian – 1:23:18
Philippe Deschamps – Cosmos and Clouds – 1:24:37
Trevors Outro – 1:27:35
Canopy Migration Paths
05.03.2025
Trevors’ Intro – 00:00
Side A – 01:43
Alexis Delozanne – Nom Oublie – 01:51
Natures Revenge – Enlightenment – 05:42
Andrea Cichecki – Choosing Paths – 11:00
Andy Cartwright – Morningness – 14:58
Juan Moreno – Musica De Camara Abstracta Subsonica – 16:46
First Snow of The Year – Icarus II – 21:27
Hiram – Canopy Song – 23:58
JICS – Rainfall In Limerick City: Rainfall In Limerick City – 26:20
Go Outside – Sensational – 28:14
Krakenkraft – Flutokalypse – 30:47
Time Rival – Music for Light Rain – 35:12
Sven Laux – Here and Now – 38:58
Side B – 41:20
alka feat. Nero’s Tongue – drama[mine] – 41:45
Jambe – January Again – 51:07
Ultrachill – LF26 / Wedding Piano – 55:01
Kevin Paczesny – Childhood Beach – 01:02:21
Per Barfot & Songs From Tin Pan Alley – Transcendental Wastelands – 01:06:49
Poloma – Matches – 01:08:38
Ed Herbers – Migration – 01:12:02
Sleep Number – Web of Dreams – 01:15:37
Trevors’ Outro – 01:21:40
Winter Thought Recovery
16.02.2025
yttriphie – siderius – 00:00
HDRF – Teeth of the Wind – 07:51
arc rae – Taiko – 17:57
The New Human / Fragile X – Thought Patterns (Fragile X remix) – 21:20
ThorF – Frontier Pt1 – 29:09
Time Rival – Music for Recovery – 39:44
Hiram – Heartwood – 42:49
Go Outside – Embodiment – 45:02
Asha Patera – The Winter Circle – 49:15
James Murray – Safehaven – 55:00
Trev’s Virtual Cassette Library 329
Fascinate
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 cruise along a signposted road, then a heart lit in a place still waiting for its name.
Side A follows the signs with the construct still standing and happy to drive, keeps the face continuous from one frame to the next, files a polite plea under the smear-test disasters, numbers the first fluid from dust to dawn, lets the shade learn a lyric behind a half-drawn curtain, and fascinates with the fungus that holds the wood together. Side B glows umber between brown and light, posts a New Penzance Island from the film, keeps the last note of a reef in its feathers, chirps a zither small enough for a beak, leans into petrol and jasmine on the same camber, and leaves the light on in a town the map has yet to label.
Overall mood: Slightly luminous, and quietly named — full of half-drawn curtains, open lanes, and places still waiting for their labels. Perfect for dusk drives, roads that know the way, or sitting still while the next spool still waits.
Side A
Mood mist: a cruise along a signposted road, a mask that keeps the face continuous, a helpdesk in the comments, a fluid numbered one, shade singing its own name, wildlife that has decided to fascinate.
00:00:00 BUNKR – Cruisen
https://bunkr-music.bandcamp.com/track/cruisen
Album: Signs. Label: VLSI Records
Signs pointing the way, VLSI keeping the lane. The construct still standing, for now, and happy to drive.
00:07:29 survey channel – Mask of Continuity
https://surveychannel.bandcamp.com/track/mask-of-continuity
Album: Macrozones.
The large rooms where the face stays the same from one frame to the next. The survey already under way.
00:12:25 Daily Mail Comments Section – Hello? Can You Help Me, Please?
https://enofa.bandcamp.com/track/hello-can-you-help-me-please
Album: Now That’s What I Call Smear Test.
Enofa filing the plea under volume one of the polite disasters.
00:14:27 TRAINDEER – Płyn I
https://traindeer.bandcamp.com/track/p-yn-i
Album: From Dust To Dawn.
Fluid, the first of them. From dust to dawn, the deer already on the track.
00:16:50 Hiram – Tsel
https://matthewhiram.bandcamp.com/track/tsel
Album: Shade Songs.
The shadow learning a lyric. Matthew Hiram leaving the curtain half-drawn on purpose.
00:19:28 Polypores – Fascinate
https://auralcanyonmusic.bandcamp.com/track/fascinate
Album: Wildlife. Label: Aural Canyon
The fungus that holds the wood together, and the title of the hour. Look closely. The thread is there.
Side B
Mood mist: an umber that has learned to glow, an island named after a film, a last song from a reef, a zither chirping under the canopy, petrol and jasmine sharing a camber, a heart lit in a place still waiting for its name.
00:25:08 Ocean Moon & Silver Ley – Glowing Umber
(Exclusive track)
Album: Prismatic Fields. Label: Open Universe
https://oceanmoon.bandcamp.com/album/prismatic-fields
The colour between brown and light, happy to be both.
00:27:43 Mensa Group International – New Penzance Island
https://ailanthusrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/new-penzance-island
Album: Split LP. Label: Ailanthus Recordings
The tree of heaven. The island from the film, now with its own postcode.
00:29:02 Coda Nautica – Swan Song
https://neotantra.bandcamp.com/track/swan-song
Album: Intricate Harmonics 2. Label: Neotantra
Neotantra letting the last note keep its feathers.
00:36:01 Beymer – Tsitern (Chirp)
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/tsitern-chirp
Album: Beneath The Trees. Label: Imaginary North
A zither small enough to fit in a beak, and still in tune.
00:37:54 Aidan Baker – Petrol / Jasmine
https://aidanbaker.bandcamp.com/track/petrol-jasmin
Album: Adverse Camber. Label: Broken Spine Productions
The bend that asks you to lean. Broken Spine keeping both scents in the same bottle.
00:43:23 Absence – Glowing Heart
https://imaginarynorth.bandcamp.com/track/glowing-heart
Album: Names of Unknown Places. Label: Imaginary North
The light still on in a town the map has yet to label.
This has been The Virtual Cassette Library, episode 329.
Travel safely between the frequencies.
I’ll meet you on the other side of the next spool.
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