Slowly building layers create a sense of quiet ascension and hopeful emergence.
Good day to you listeners, wherever you are. This is Trevor. Welcome once again to one of these spontaneous episodes – music from all over the world, sparked by a single track that appears somewhere inside the set itself. This episode titled Evening Embers Rise is based on the track Rise by The Peace Race, from the album Shelter, which comes out on July 1 via the fantastic Mortality Tables label. All the other tracks happened to just fit the vibe. So settle in, turn it up a bit if you can, and let’s see where it takes us. I hope you enjoy it. If you can subscribe, even if it’s just for the month it would be a great help. Right then… here we go.
00:00:00 haruka nakamura – 彼方 A tender, shimmering piano-led piece from the Twilight era. Delicate melodies drift like distant memories across a soft, glowing haze—intimate, melancholic, and quietly luminous Japanese ambient at its most poetic.
00:03:00 NOT WAVING – Emotion 1.7 Cleanse Cool, immersive electronic ambient from the Futuro project. Clean, spacious synth layers and subtle rhythmic undercurrents create a detached, cleansing atmosphere—minimal yet emotionally resonant.
00:08:52 Hollie Kenniff – Embers Warm, glowing ambient with soft, flickering textures and gentle melodic fragments. Like the last light of a dying fire, it feels comforting, introspective, and healing—perfectly suited to its compilation’s mental health theme.
00:11:18 Rhucle & morimoto naoki – Kubomi Subtle, layered ambient with intimate field recordings and warm tonal washes. “Kubomi” (hollow/depression) evokes quiet introspection and nostalgic reminiscence through delicate, overlapping soundscapes.
00:13:35 Tom Leclerc – Ker Diary #3 Gentle, diary-like ambient improvisation. Soft synths and organic textures unfold with a personal, reflective quality—peaceful and slightly wistful.
00:15:41 Slow Dancing Society – Do You Remember Me Like I Remember You Nostalgic, emotionally charged ambient/post-rock drift. Swelling drones and distant melodic echoes explore memory, longing, and the bittersweet ache of recollection.
00:20:53 theAdelaidean – Deep Dreams at the End of the Earth Vast, cinematic ambient that feels isolated and dreamlike. Deep, resonant tones and airy textures paint a picture of remote, otherworldly solitude.
00:45:14 JICS – monsoon evening Humid, atmospheric ambient capturing the quiet tension and relief of a monsoon night. Warm drones, subtle rain-like textures, and gentle nostalgia blend into a reflective mood.
00:46:28 Oora – Un Giorno Flowing, windswept ambient from Vento (“Wind”). Light, breathy textures and organic movement evoke a single day carried on gentle breezes—ethereal and meditative.
00:51:15 Omni Gardens & Zen Monk Jogen – Lifestyle Slow Motion Laid-back, meditative ambient with slow-evolving tones and a peaceful, almost playful serenity. Perfect “meditation tonality” that invites deep relaxation.
01:10:26 The Peace Race – Rise Uplifting yet restrained ambient/drone work. Slowly building layers create a sense of quiet ascension and hopeful emergence.
01:13:17 Stray Wool – Skins Textural, intimate ambient focused on organic layers and subtle shifts. Feels raw and vulnerable, like shedding old layers in sound form.
01:15:46 Volker Rapp – Out of my Mind Synth-driven, cinematic ambient with a futuristic, slightly dystopian edge (from a Blade Runner 2099 tribute). Immersive and atmospheric.
01:16:25 Richard Norris – Grains Of Light Delicate, shimmering ambient from the Deep Listening series. Tiny grains of glowing sound accumulate into a beautiful, meditative whole—precise and luminous.
01:18:36 Émérance – Dans une telle immobilité Still, contemplative ambient exploring deep immobility. Sparse, resonant tones create a profound sense of presence and quiet suspension.
01:26:59 Loopatronica – Helen Of Four Gates part 1 Long-form, evolving drone/ambient with hypnotic, looping structures. Mythic and immersive, it slowly unfolds like an ancient, unfolding ritual. 01:56:25 Luke Sanger – Snow In Spring https://lukesanger.bandcamp.com/track/snow-in-spring Delicate, wintry ambient with soft melodic touches. Evokes the surprise and beauty of unexpected snow during warmer days—gentle and bittersweet.
01:59:38 Minimal_drone grl – At the Edge Sparse, edge-of-perception drone work. Minimal textures hover at the boundary of sound and silence, creating tension and deep focus.
Welcome, sonic wanderers. You’ve arrived at Episode 141 of The Virtual Cassette Library. Union Nurture Roaring 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 set with a side change half way. 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 ambient to post-rock, from eurorack modular to folk. The musical keys in focus are D sharp E flat and A sharp minor, B flat minor. This episode contains some household names like Roedelius, and Nils Frahm. Some friends of the channel like Claude Lavender, Stone Anthem and Gelbart as well as some supporting labels like 4000 Records, Third Kind Records, Cyclical Dreams, Castles In Space, Mystery Circles and many more. All the artists and labels are the soul of this show.
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🎙️ Trevor’s Virtual Cassette Library 089 📍 Broadcasting from the sonic coastlines of Sollentuna, Sweden 🗓️ 21.07.2025 Trevor here—dialed in and decoding once more. Welcome to a 90-minute metaphysical excursion through the hum and hush of magnetic memory. This is Virtual Cassette Library 089, a portal for wandering minds and quiet hearts. A journey soundtracked by ambient mirages, haunted tones, and frequencies that flicker like candlelight. 🔊 This flight is lovingly supported by Secuencias Temporales, whitelabrecs, and Mahorka—labels that keep our audio blood pumping. 💌 Featured artists sending signals directly: Wodwo, Passepartout Duo, and awakened souls. ✨ Shouts to moiCflo, oceanographer, aeon music, Ingrown Records, Sons of Faust, Frans Kedes, and Fonodroom—thanks for riding the waves with us. 🎁 Eternal gratitude to Free Album Codes—the wellspring of Bandcamp treasure. 🙏 The rest of the show contains: DOOM GONG, Ana Tuirán, deepspace, swanasa, L A N D S R A A D, Hollie Kenniff, Unknown To Known, Darris Hopper, Kevin Paczesny, One Tru Odd with Shentov, E J R M, Ed Herbers, Voltrax, Tom Smith, Violetera, Buried Marie, Nitai Hershkovits with Daniel Dor, and finally, Regenwelt 🎧 No commentary between tracks. The mix is sacred. Share your reflections on the timeline; the tape always listens. 🔗 Want to transmit your own textures? Send your sonic offerings to: trevlad@gmail.com 📌 Purchase links and artist portals live at trevor.se and are always marked at the top of each show.
Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure those headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
🌌 Welcome. I’m Trevor, your host on this sonic voyage, broadcasting from All Tunes On Studios in Sollentuna, Sweden. You’ve arrived at my Virtual Cassette Library—a 90-minute expedition with two sides, punctuated by a virtual transition at the midpoint. Perfect for wandering, reflecting, and knowing just when to turn homeward. 🔮 Today’s journey is partially sponsored by visionary labels: Buried Treasure, whitelabrecs, Projekt Records, Woodford Halse, Frosti, Triplicate Records, Imaginary North, ARCHIVES, Bathysphere Records, Driftworks, Waxing Crescent Records, Downstream Records, Mystery Circles, Four Flies Records, Subexotic Records, and, Adventurous Music.🚀 Our sponsoring artist bringing transmissions to life: Synthetic Villains, and, The Central Office Of Information.
Today’s show features 2 exclusive tracks. On the A side, Henrik Meierkord, and Marco Lucchi, and the track, Drifting Paths, from the album, The Book Of Dreams. Dropping on whitelabrecords on June 21. On the B side we have an exclusive from, Tim Didymus & Foster Neville, with the track, Away, from the album, Ulla, dropping on Subexotic Records on June 13.
Special thanks to the force ensuring chosen frequencies find their way here—✨ Free Album Codes. 🌞 Shoutouts to the passengers shaping today’s odyssey Otis, Aeon Music, Fonodroom, and Oceanographer🌿. for the likes and comments. And welcome new explorer: Daniel Hernandez. You all are legends in my eyes.🌿 The tracks played are marked in the timeline—dive in, comment your favorites and leave your imprint on the mix. 🔹 Artists, experimenters, visionaries—send forth your sonic offerings: trevlad@gmail.com. 🔹
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Now, Prepare for immersion. Secure your headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨
A 90 minute virtual cassette outing with two sides and a side change in the middle. Perfect for taking a walk and knowing when you’re halfway so you can head home.
🌌 Welcome, frequency combers, I’m Trevor, your host for the episode here at Trevlad Sounds, recorded in All Tunes On Studios here in Sollentuna Sweden. —your sonic 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: Cyclical Dreams, Mahorka, Subexotic Records, Wormhole World, DiN, Imaginary North, Four Flies Records, whitelabrecs, and, Lo Recordings. 🚀 The sponsoring artists of today’s transmission: survey channel, and, Anita Tatlow. Also the benevolent forces that ensures chosen frequencies find their way home: ✨ Free Album Codes and fonodroom.
🌌 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, where waveforms ripple like celestial tides, bending time and space in their wake. 🔮 The sacred soundsmith labels guiding today’s transmission are: Imaginary North, Woodford Halse, DRONARIVM, Lo Recordings, Ingrown Records, nexTTime, and, whitelabrecs, And our celestial distributor, Fonodroom, ensuring the echoes resonate far beyond the known horizon. 🎭 The benevolent force that ensures chosen frequencies find their way home: ✨ Free Album Codes The background music is produced by me as I was getting tired of my feathered friends, Welcome to a soundscape that defies language—an auditory passage through the unseen. We are mere surfers atop an infinite wave, spiraling toward the unknown. 🌞 Shoutouts to latest passenger: 🌿itsJoshB 🗣 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. 🔹 Leave your timestamp—become part of the celestial mixtape, an echo stretching beyond time. 🔮 Prepare for immersion. Secure your headphones. Let time dissolve, and let the frequencies claim you. 🚀✨